Originally posted by paulguy

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I've been thinking of a Wine-like system for a long time, that they could use, where all those old insecure, bloaty APIs could be made available for old applications, and allowing them to remove all that crap from the standard windows API. Also, everything within the program would be isolated, and not touch anything on the host system. It'd run in a virtual root with a virtual registry, with a virtual set of services and startup tasks that the program may have set that get "booted up" along with the program. But no hardware would be emulated. It'd have access to the driver interface through the translation layer, just like Wine.

Of course, this would be more work for Microsoft, so they'd rather leave old kludges in to make sure shitty software some IT guy who knows nothing wrote in VB in 1996 works still, whether it means a less secure (and nowadays more complicated) OS or not.

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Originally posted by Metal_Man88

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Yeah, virtualizing XP seems to be the best answer. Continuing to have to support Windows XP after a point will become ludicrous, as much as I like to use it myself.

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Originally posted by Imajin

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Oh god, EZboard... I remember that. They were huge back in the day, or at least it seemed like every site had an EZboard at some time or another.

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The domain name blocking provision, as set forth in SOPA, would effectively censor foreign websites found hosting any amount of pirated content by requiring American ISP's to block access to them. In addition, the provision reportedly could have interfered with the DNSSEC, which helps protect the DNS system from attack.

Rep. Smith stated that the provision would remain tabled until the Congressional Judiciary Committee has had an opportunity to "further examine the issues." The Senate removed similar language from its competing Protect IP Act yesterday.

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Originally posted by Amazing Ampharos

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o_ before a name indicates the simple mode board. Strangely, o_peach.frb is the name of the simple mode Peach's Castle and o_2-07-hidari.frb is quite similar to the normal mode board but apparently unused (with a few differences to cut it down a bit, seems like it would work as a simple mode version of Peach's Castle). It's very strange that peach.frb simply does not exist. There are a great number of unused boards that have previously not been mentioned, including but not limited to a star shaped board, a mushroom shaped board, and a slightly different version of Alefgard (that uses square 0f that isn't used on any normal board).

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