[PD] Troubles running Pd on Windows XP Professional

[Roman Haefeli]

On Fre, 2015-06-26 at 19:28 +0200, rolfm at dds.nl wrote:
> hi roman,
> 
> i get the impression there's something wrong with the link you gave
>   for XP in a virtual machine
> ("http://dev.modern.ie/tools/vms/#downloads")
> 
> when i visit this page my browser (firefox) gets blocked:
> when i want to go to another web page (e.g.google) the browser tries  
> forever to connect.
> not even coming back to tell me 'cannot find the server'.
> 
> this happened a few times, also after restart.
> 
> so i get suspicious about this link.
> 
> of course it has nothing to do with Pd, but the link is here in the pd-list.

I do still _believe_ the site is legitimate. The IP and the domain
'modern.ie' are both owned by Microsoft, according to WHOIS. At least
for some parts of the world the site seems to work fine.

Roman