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Joe_Cool
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  1. I am typing this from my 2009 Win7 PC I use for older Windows games...

    Huh?

  2. Yep, most film (also photo) attracts dust like a magnet. Kodak made a Static Eliminator to mitigate that with high voltage to an extent:

    https://mcnygenealogy.com/book/kodak/static-eliminator.pdf

  3. The cool thing with KeePass is that each client is also a local backup. It's pretty neat.
  4. There is an even quicker way from the monitor:

    6 CTRL+P

    Will instantly divert output to slot 6. (and boot the disk if there is hardware there)

  5. Yeah. It was neat. But it rebooted in under a second so a complete crash was no biggie.

    RAM wasn't even cleared so usually no (or limited) data loss.

    I thought it was PR#6 (redirect output) to boot from the disk controller in slot 6. I wonder what redirecting input would do.

  6. It was always awkward to do low level disk stuff by basically "remoting" into the drive to execute code.

      OPEN 1,8,15,"N:NEWDISK,01":CLOSE 1
    
    was always a weird way to format a floppy...
  7. And if something didn't work he included a complete debugger inside "Apple II Machine Language Monitor" in ROM so you could always just disassemble and poke at things, pipe disassembly to the printer, read memory, change code, add own macros to CTRL+Y and rerun stuff. All that without extra software or a massive pile of printed assembly.

    from BASIC:

      CALL -151 (short for CALL 65385, but BASIC can't handle unsigned INT so that wouldn't work)  
      F666G  
    
    and the machine is your playground.
  8. Renaming anything (without a manifest) setup.exe will cause Windows to ask for UAC elevation. The user cannot opt-out. There are a few other hard coded strings like "install" that cause this AFAIR. You can also use its_a_setup_mr_bond.exe for example.
  9. AMD even had two of them. Their own: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_%C3%89lan and based on the Cyrix x586 after they acquired them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geode_(processor)

    They weren't even that bad considering the little power they needed.

  10. I'm weird. I'm still using the RoR Plugins for NetBeans. It still works pretty great (including haml and coffee autocomplete and code highlighting) for maintaining some legacy apps if you don't intend to reinstall it from scratch (which is a nightmare).
  11. It also has pretty neat support for emailing patches. And it's practically impossible to lose data as long as any single dev still has an intact .git directory.

    Nobody is preventing the devs from just setting up a second "upstream" and pushing to both github and gitlab (for example) or any other service at the same time.

  12. Yeah. At least you got a good MSDN CD in 1999 with tons of example code and all the info you'd want on Windows.

    Now we get: {{ Fill in the Description }}

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/storageb...

  13. Oh, thanks for the info.
  14. Yeah I messed with that. Sidechannel DLLs for RDP aren't fun. XFreeRDP actually also supports that on Linux.

    I used it for signalling phone calls from the client to an RDP RemoteApp and initiating calls from the RemoteApp.

    I would decline that project if I was asked today.

  15. You could try Barrier (formerly Synergy) for input and clipboard. I found that it's really good latency-wise on 100MBit+ LAN.
  16. For my personal stuff I also included a Nepenthes tarpit. Works great and slows the bots down while feeding them garbage. Not my fault when they consume stuff robots.txt says they shouldn't.

    I'm just not sure if legal would love me doing that on our corporate servers...

  17. I completely dumped the windows search and only use voidtool's Everything when I am on a Windows box.

    It can search multiple indexed NTFS drives in miliseconds. Indexing is usually a few seconds since it works directly on the NTFS structures. (and it integrates with Total Commander)

  18. Sadly under the horizon for me. But it's raining anyways.

    Better luck next time to anyone around here and happy eclipse to the people that can enjoy it.

  19. That's something I'd use a canvas or even a SVG for. SVG FFT Analyzer sound like a fun project.

    Oh, looks like I'm way late: https://cprimozic.net/blog/building-a-signal-analyzer-with-m...

  20. Not only a "data center". Nokia has LTE 4G connectivity for moon local data onboard the lander/hopper Grace.

    It's supposed to be able to travel/hop up to 100m high with a range of 25km from Athena to dive into ditches with shadow areas. Quite an interesting mission.

    Landing is scheduled for March 6.

  21. I think they also sold HA-SMR (host aware SMR, a mix of drive managed and host managed) drives to datacenters but I couldn't find any recent news so I guess those aren't that common.
  22. I also received recertified (sold as such and with proper labels and warranty) WD drives and more concerning:

    4 fake WD drives that had failed SMART long self test with surface read anomalies and looked very banged up and used (scratches, stripped mounting holes). The SMART attributes had been reflashed to look brand new and the drives cleaned with isopropyl alcohol or something similar and relabeled with not too bad looking fake labels using OEM or old serial numbers. The antistatic bags were also not genuine WD. The disks contained a test pattern unlike brand new WD disk which usually only have 00s.

    This is not a new thing. I think I bought them off Amazon marketplace in 2023. Returns for full refund were not an issue however once I sent photos and SMART errors.

  23. I'd just use an old game (for a really hard test). Like Quake maybe: https://github.com/Jason2Brownlee/QuakeOfficialArchive Or the server for easy mode.

    Let us know how it went. ;)

  24. You can disable the journal. It should(! haven't checked !) not touch the recovery information then. You also need this when you have a decade of version difference and an error on mount: `mount -oro,noload`
  25. If you had stuff that often crashed there was a write-through mode so it only did read caching. In one of the later versions it also trapped CTRL-ALT-DEL and did a sync before rebooting. It also did a sync each time command.com displayed a prompt. Really some neat coding for its time.
  26. When I got my fancy 1.6 GB harddisk I used `subst R: .\cd` to run my games needing the CD in the drive from a directory on the harddrive instead. Boy did load times improve a ton.
  27. Yes, you can download on both the mobile app and the desktop program.
  28. I can still save multireddits. Did they remove that on new.reddit.com ? Try https://old.reddit.com/r/multihub/

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