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.
I’m quite satisfied with performance of my current workstation. [44-thread Broadwell]
paired with 64Gb of RAM, fast NVME and [24Gb EVGA 3090Ti]
shape solid desktop tool. However i’m planning distant upgrade to achieve maximum speed in Windows 7 environment. Just to mark checkbox that it is possible. In 2021 i already tried out modern platform based [around x570 in conjunction with Ryzen 5950X]
. System worked without any problems, thanks to modern [CanonKong Windows 7 drivers]
.
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.
UPDATED ON: 2024-08-04
Finally Nokia PureView 808 set is complete. Red, black and white. Currently i’m not thinking about sale of this treasure chest. But if you are willing to offer good five-digit number amount i may reconsider my statement [or may not]. This will be quite hard decision to accept. Moreover, such bundle in almost like new condition [can’t be bought even on Ebay]
. Anyways, it is surely nice to have set of unique camera-phones in excellent condition, especially if they are not surpassed in daylight resolution even in 2024.
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.
As you may already know i like:
[Black humour]
[Zombie comedy slashers]
[Beavis & Butt-head ]
cartoon Finnish movies [about plain people]
Quite strange concoction? But who really cares? Here is a list of more random films, which are worth to watch. From my point of view of course.
[Home Alone 1]
/ [Home Alone 2: Lost In New York]
[Terminator 1]
/ [Terminator 2]
[Evil Dead 1]
/ [Evil Dead 2]
/ [Evil Dead 3: Army Of Darkness]
[Tucker & Dale vs Evil]
/ [Wild Tales]
[Chronos]
/ [Baraka]
/ [Samsara]
[Office Space]
/ [Human Traffic]
/ [It Crowd]
/ [Idiocracy]
[Johnny Mnemonic]
/ [Nirvana]
/ [Hackers]
/ [Speed]
[Falling Down]
/ [Taxi Blues]
/ [Taxi Driver]
[The Shawshank Redemption]
Films that i like to watch in not so distant future:
Just checked some website statistics and was amazed to see that site visitors are spending around 15 minutes on weighted-average. This is quite an achievement for such small project and it looks like that i’m doing more or less acceptable job in terms of entertaining the actual user base.
Also i find out that spend time is more important than hit rate, because there is a bounce rate characteristics, which describes quantity of people who view only one page before leaving website.
Despite the widespread opinion regarding [Seagal’s]
sanity and his tendency to star in a very low budget trash movies i like couple of his flicks.
[Hard To Kill]
► one of his fist appearances on the screen, a little bit excessively touching, but pretty neat [Under Siege 1]
► simply the best movie to date [Under Siege 2: Dark Territory]
► not so good as first part, but definitely worth to watch HARD TO KILL UNDER SIEGE 1 UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY SPECIAL CATEGORY:
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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Enough of technical computer rant. Here is some pure video art. A short film by [Denis Villeneuve]
.
What i love in these short films is how the essential essence is compactly concentrated in a such small video footage.
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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.
Need a really gooood detective movie? Here is one: [Zodiac]
. No weak acting. No dumb computer visuals. Very long, detailed, quite linear, but solid. Film is watched without any interruptions in one single breath.
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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.
[Bubba Ho-Tep]
is a quite awkward movie, but despite that is worth watching. The main reasons of such conclusion are [Bruce Campbell]
and [Brian Tyler]
. Bruce is surely known for his [Evil Dead]
acting. Brian provided stunning soundtrack, which lifts whole movie to another level.
OFFICIAL TRAILER
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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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As you may already noticed i’m fond of good ol’ black humor, which appears as it happens mostly in zombie genre.
[Juan Of The Dead]
was another unexpected discovery. Story about Cuban slackers running into open revolt of American “dissidents” primarily known as leaving dead zombies. Also i must mark the presence of excellent soundtrack, which significantly improves watching experience.
OFFICIAL TRAILER If you have any suggestions regarding films in black comedy genre i’ve missed and didn’t cover them here, please [drop me a line]
.
Couple of days ago doing generic internet surfing i was smashed in the face with this out of the blue [thing]. Super correct site if you are in a desperate need to prank your non-tech colleagues or friends. Just make sure that computer has recent browser, select the desired prank and hit [F11] key to enter full-screen mode. Funny thing how Windows XP desktop and Windows 7 updating process are ended with:
Sufficient amount of small bloggers/vloggers complain about [shadow-banning problem]
on large platforms lke yt, tik-tok an so on. Some of them are trying to investigate the root cause of the issue, some of them just give up, even such legends as [High Treason]
.
Despite the fact that my yt channel was deleted without any explanations a couple of years ago and yes i run into shadow ban issue on tik-tok, when suddenly all your >200 people auditory just stop leaving comments, drop any activities for a week or so and view counters are showing zero i just don’t think that discussed thing is so important in the end of the day.
It’s been a while since i’ve posted any music. So here is a new gem from my favorite UK band: Ozric Tentacles. ENJOY!
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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]
.
UPDATED ON: 2023-12-17
CURRENTLY TEST IS NOT OPTIMIZED FOR MOBILE VIEW! IMAGE WIDTH >1600px IS RECOMMENDED! ▒ DIRECT COMPARISON In the very beginning of the test I underline the fact that we are comparing only resolution and not the dynamic range. In this category older FSI sensor is an outsider, for sure. Today’s rival is [IPHUCK 15 PRO MAX]
with almost the same sensor size as Nokia. As you may already know Nokia PureView 808 comes with 1/1.