UPDATED ON: 2024-09-06
Here is a collection of plugins for VS Code, which can improve coding workflow dramatically. Currently i’m using [Codium]
, it is an open-source fork of VS Code, that is why provided links are heading to [non-ms marketplace]
.
BENEFITS:
performance optimized telemetry can be completely turned off no network connections to servers of evil corpo can be executed on Windows 7 machine [v1.87] FAVORITE PLUGINS:
UPDATED ON: 2024-12-28 !!!!Post will be updated in the future, so be on the edge!!!! Here is a comprehensive list of the most trusted ban-overriding solutions to date to circumvent network censorship. For those of you who are suffering from obsolete freedom violators. All mentioned software are compatible with Windows 7 and Android 8. Linux users will surely find what they are looking for without my help.
Take a note that there are a zillion network configurations out there, so just because something works for me doesn’t mean it will work for everyone else.
Short answer will be: NONE OF THEM. But if you are not satisfied with that and interested in topic: read below. In this quick blip-note i’ll explain my subjective opinion regarding big corpos and their influence on technology in general. Let’s start from the barebone roots of the problem. There are two people who brought home computing to masses. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Who are they?
First one cheaply bought DOS operating system from [Gary Kildall]
and resold it to IBM for a waaaay bigger money.
It looks like [Hugo dropped]
Windows 7 support. Version 0.121 was a last one to execute without any problems. All subsequent updates 0.121.1 or later throw following crash upon execution.
To celebrate anniversary i’ve rebuilded site via latest available version.
DOWNLOAD LAST HUGO FOR WINDOWS 7
Upcoming updates and site refactoring will be done manually, without Hugo framework. See you around!
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As a hardcore user of [dual-panel orthodox file manager]
i always suffered because of sucky look of default console fonts. Native preloaded font list has quite scarce selection, if you ask me. To fix such disappointment you’ll need:
install desired fonts by means of windows control panel copy EXACT FONT NAME fonts section in control panel paste it into registry key into following branch HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont note that every new subsequent font should be added by a key with added one zero to registry key name reboot computer to apply & enjoy!
UPDATED ON: 2025-03-28 You can safely replace 2024 with 2026 without fear of not being current. VERSION: 1.2
First of all, short congrats regarding happy New Year! It looks like that we made another one.
In this long read you will find subjective rant towards to “obsolete” Windows 7 and comparisons with “modern” windows 10/11. This rant is the longest post i ever done on the pages of current website.
It’s been a while since i’ve posted any benchmarks, so filling the gap to satisfy your nerd cravings. Today we’ll cover the most extreme compression utilities and find out which one is the best.
If [Winrar]
and [7-Zip]
don’t need any introduction, here’s a list of things that are obviously little known to most people:
[WinRK]
► lost compression gem [Cmix]
► 32Gb RAM is recommended [Bsc]
► CUDA enabled compressor [Paq8px]
► highly-advanced command line achiever [Zpaq]
► another highly-advanced command line achiever File D3DX9_40.
So you have tweaked every possible thing and want to squeeze more performance from your workstation?
I’ll tell you how to do this if you have plenty of spare RAM and don’t know what to do with all those memory chips. Placing swap file and temporary folder into RAM is a quite good decision after all. Ram disk is already old idea to improve speed of disk input/output operations. Some time ago even [GPURamDrive]
was introduced to masses, although it doesn’t receive popularity because of slow speed in comparison to generic DDR3/4 memory.
Vegas video montage software is widely known as pretty glitchy application especially if we are speaking about latest versions. Newest Vegas 21 Pro is no exception. I run into problems almost instantly. Right after i’ve decided to render video clip. Upon export attempt application showed me error:
0x80131501 How typical! To fix things up i just took DLL library [RenderAsDialog.dll, which is responsible for export dialog] from previous Vegas Pro 18 [sub-version 284 to be precise] and substituted original file with above mentioned.
UPDATED ON: 2023-11-29
First of all, make sure that firewall is TURNED ON and remote connections are TURNED OFF.
As for me, i’m using [Outpost Firewall]
.
THAN BLOCK THAT UGLY PORT 3389! 3389 This port is used by [RDP protocol]
. Take a note that 80% of external intrusions are using RDP interface to hack into your system.
Next step will be to disable insecure SMB protocols, by means of command line with elevated admin privileges.
Ass a die-hard Windows 7 addict i’m surely know all inside-outs of the system. That is why today i’d like to share some hotkeys knowledge with all of you. Keyboard shortcuts are one of the most important things in professional workflow. Some of hotkeys are quite generic and you can find them in official manual, but other are rather obscure and can be completely unknown. Hope that everyone of you’ll find something useful here.
Recently i was asked for a simple & free way of transcribing audio speech into plain text. Problem was solved via Python library called [Vosk]
. It is a speech recognition toolkit working in offline environment.
To make things happen do the following:
[Install vosk]
pip install vosk [Download speech model]
of required language, larger libraries bring just marginal improvement over the smaller ones despite the fact that they are over 40 times bigger in a size.
Aside from [Github certificate issue]
, Python also showed me some teeth regarding certificate stuff. How quaint! I think that such things comes from the fact that i’m using “obsolete” Windows 7. But we don’t choose the easy way out, don’t we? I’m using [hacked Python 3.11.1]
.
After trying to install Python external module:
pip install vosk system showed me this:
WARNING: Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None, status=None)) after connection broken by 'SSLError(SSLCertVerificationErro
r(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed: self signed certificate in certificate chain (_ssl.
Scavenging github for required information i’ve stumbled upon shocking screenshot, [showing the most recent chrome 121]
executed on good ol’ Windows XP. HOW COOL IS THAT?
SOME TOPIC RELATED LINKS: [Supermium]
by win32ss [Chrome Crack]
by Blaukovitch
Taking into account such news we can consider that Windows 7 is in even safer position in terms of future web browsing ability.
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Following instructions successfully tested with [Geforce RTX 3090Ti]
on recent [474.66 driver]
[October 2023]. In newer operating systems things could be entirely different.
It’s been a fair amount of time since I’ve written about privacy related stuff. In early days ~2017 nvidia was not so obsessed with telemetry. Everything you should do to block their efforts is to run [Disable Nvidia Telemetry]
.
As time goes on things changed dramatically.
Surfing web regarding Windows 7 news i’ve stumbled upon [MDGX]
site. This chaotic gold mine of various knowledge, especially regarding vintage operating systems! Immediately bookmarked it and will surely study in a closer inspection later on. Huge section [dedicated to Windows 7 tweaks]
and [plain text file]
is also available. Hope that you’ll find something previously unknown.
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UPDATED ON: 2023-11-04
Nothing complex here, at least at this time. Here i’ll accumulate performance related information.
░▒▓ LAZY LOADING OF IMAGES ▓▒░ Just implemented lazy loading at my main index page. Concept is pretty simple you are loading images only when they appearing in the viewport of the browser. All you need to do is just to apply loading=“lazy” to the classes of loaded images.
<img loading="lazy" src="/img/demo./png" alt="Picture"> In my case it was like this:
So, you want to be a hip and would like to have the feature of SVG preview in file explorer like in fancy windows 11 of friend of yours? It is surely possible, even on such old crone like Windows 7!
[SVG See]
is an excellent application, which bring such functionality to our crony operating system.
If you are for some reason don’t observe SVG previews in explorer there are a couple of things that you could try to fix things up:
For me things never work as they should. Github is not an exception. After my first try to submit things to repo i run into:
... Author identity unknown. *** Please tell me who you are. PROBLEM CAN BE SOLVED BY THESE COMMANDS:
git config --global user.email "YOUR_EMAIL" git config --global user.name "YOUR_LOGIN" After that certificate issue occurred:
... self-signed certificate in certificate chain and another error right after the previous one:
UPDATED ON: 2024-04-05
All keyboard hacks and tweaks will be posted here. Stay tuned for more goodies!
THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS LITTLE ACCUMULATION IS TO REMOVE MOUSE FROM CODING WORKFLOW. Remember to separate rules with comas. Like this:
[
{
"key": "alt+numpad_subtract",
"command": "workbench.action.decreaseViewSize"
},
{
"key": "alt+numpad_add",
"command": "workbench.action.increaseViewSize"
},
{
"key": "ctrl+shift+b",
"command": "workbench.action.toggleActivityBarVisibility"
}
] Last rule-set do not contain coma symbol in the end.
UPDATED ON: 2024-04-03 Page will be updated in the future, so check back later on
Here are some handy online tools and various mandatory links for front end developer. This is a fine selection from me, which i accumulated during last month of web investigations. Hope that you will find in this list what you are looking for. If you have suggestions or any commentaries to following breakdown, [drop me a line]
please.
If you are really serious about webdev and care about loading times of your projects you should take a look on following image optimizers.
[Pinga]
► excellent PNG/JPG compressor
[Gif Optimizer]
► solid GIF optimizer, animated GIF are supported also
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UPDATED ON: 2024-06-26 VirtualBox 7 can be [freely used on Windows 7]
machines!
For virtual emulation in most cases i use VMWare Workstation 15.5.7 dated back to 2020, which works awesomely fine. Recently i run into VirtualBox on my primary job and have to run Linux Debian on Windows 7 Enterprise.
As per official Oracle documentation all [6.x VirtualBox releases]
are compatible with Windows 7. Unfortunately it is not so true.
Surfing through meaningless tier lists on YT dedicated to various Unix graphical user interfaces by home-made experts without even showing them in a proper way and doin’ subjective ratings, i’ve stumbled upon on “obsolete” [CDE]
environment and was interested in it’s 90’ish looks, despite the fact that “expert” narrated that it is in a “yuck” category and not worth even touching.
After jogging through comments i’ve noticed that some wise man mentioned about modern reincarnation of CDE project named [nsCDE]
.
A couple of weeks ago i run into problem related to out-of sync time clock. Tried almost all imaginable solutions, like time service restarting, checking that internet time-sync option is turned on and so on and so forth. Of course to no avail at all. How typical! My Windows 7 installation dates back to early 2019 and i’ve plethora of software installed, and more over system is heavily customized so plain reinstall of operating system is not an option in my case.
UPDATED ON: 2024-09-05
I’m currently on Firefox 115 ESR and not using chrome at all, but this is neat news for sure. So, in addition to [Supermium]
chrome fork, we have official version also.
This is a work of Russian hackers.
Preface words from original Github page [English spelling is original]:
Dirty corporations and Hindu-managers are trying to deprive the any users of all the benefits that were created by technically more advanced people than them.
![ACTUAL SERVICES TO BYPASS ISP RESTRICTIONS [2025]](/img/dpi.png)
![BENCHMARK OF EXTREME COMPRESSION TOOLS [2023]](/img/compression/header.png)
