I can understand keeping an XP machine to use with the old hardware/software that you want to continue using. But for web browsing there are so many other choices, many inexpensive like a Kindle Fire or a used laptop. Windows 7 has been out for so long now that you could probably find a modest Win7 laptop for $100 or so on your local Craigslist (or equiv.). Win7 doesn't need Flash as it can display HTML5 video (unlike XP, as you already know). I guess this is assuming you have WiFi in your house, but if you don't that's an inexpensive router away also. There just isn't any need to go through the self-inflicted pain of web browsing on XP.
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 11:02 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote: > <Rant> > > Something updated on my desktop, (probably a browser update, actually), > without telling me and broke flash player. Which kept hanging every > installed browser. A reinstall of Flash player, and several reboots later, > (and a second reinstall, then a third after the second failed mysteriously), > and everything is working again. Damn I miss the days when I could > understand pretty much everything the box on my desk was doing. > > </rant> > > As a side note, even though I'm running WinXP on this box for compatibility > with a bunch of old software and hardware some of which simply cannot be > replaced, and Microsoft has officially long ago ended support, I /still/ get > OS updates from Microsoft occasionally. > > -- > I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve > immortality through not dying. > -- Woody Allen > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- Life is too short to put up with bad bokeh. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
