Intended Audience This post will be relevant to you if you’re looking for a browser for a legacy Windows operating system (OS). While there are many browsers, only the popular browsers, arguably the juggernauts in their time, are covered in this post. Background On reflection, after having built a whole bunch of legacy Windows systems in VMs, …
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DHCP/DNS Server on FreeNAS
Intended Audience This post will be of interest to you if you require more comprehensive and flexible DHCP and local DNS services than might be available through your DSL router, and you have a FreeNAS server on your network. On the network I am working with, there is a Fritz!Box providing a basic DHCP/DNS service to …
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DHCP/DNS Server using DD-WRT
Intended Audience In the post DHCP/DNS Server on FreeNAS, I replaced the basic DHCP/DNS service available through my DSL router with a more advanced DHCP/DNS service using DNSMasq on FreeNAS. In this post, I repeat the exercise, but use DNSMasq on DD-WRT instead to achieve the same objective. For this post, I’ll be working with Fritz!OS …
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Neighbourhood Computer Browsing with Windows 10 and FreeNAS
Intended Audience This guide will be useful to you if you’re working in a predominantly Windows 10 workgroup with some legacy Windows and third-party devices employing SMB1. You have at least one FreeNAS server in the workgroup. Authentication is achieved without the use of a domain controller. In the network I’m referring to in this …
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Building my own PVR: The Hardware
In my previous post, I presented a case for building my own Portable Video Recorder (PVR). The PVR has to meet the following requirements: A single unit to replace what I already have so that I can declutter and recover some space in my hi-fi cabinet; The feel of a bought appliance rather than a …
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Building my own PVR: Why?
Why would anyone in their right mind want to build their own Personal Video Recorder (PVR) when something can be picked up from the local electrical superstore for a couple of hundred bucks? And there’s such a great selection to choose from! For me to begin to answer this, let’s examine the stash of equipment …
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Virtual PC and Windows 95
Having successfully virtualised Windows 95 using VMware Workstation Player (refer here) and Oracle VirtualBox (and here), my attention then turned to Virtual PC. The latest version of Virtual PC (VPC) runs on Windows 7. Hyper-V replaces it in Windows 10. VPC 2007 and VPC 2004 are previous versions of VPC. Referring to the Table of …
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VMware and Windows 95
This is the second in a multipart series on virtualisation software. In an earlier post, I used VirtualBox to create a Windows 95 virtual machine. In this post, I’ll do the same thing, but use VMware instead of VirtualBox. The first challenge for me was to figure out exactly what constituted VMware virtualisation software. I had …
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Stronger Authentication for Windows 95
In a recent post, I suggested that maybe it was time to let go of Windows 95. After all, newer printers don’t support it, Windows Update (WU) no longer works on it, and it has considerable difficulty accessing network shares in a modern network. In another post, I suggested that, at the cost of weakening …
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VirtualBox and Windows 95
In a previous post, I provided an overview of my experience with installing Windows 95 in a VM. I decided to provide further detail in this post not so much to focus on Windows 95, but as a prelude to investigating how well different virtualisation software handled legacy operating systems. The guest OS I used …
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