Why are the generic version numbers called NTDDI?Raymond Chen Read next January 2, 2009 Why doesn’t Windows 95 format floppy disks smoothly? Raymond Chen January 9, 2009 It’s surprising how suddenly those new skins started pouring in Raymond Chen In my earlier discussion on the variety ...
at a time where floppy disks genuinely were floppy, and his approach was the same as the economists': sit down with a lawyer, get her to explain to you how it was she solved a legal problem, and then try and capture that explanation in a set of rules for a machine to follow. In...
Don’t worry, floppy disks. We found a use for you. Some types of media are not practical or affordable for a typical home computer user looking to back up their data (tape libraries, for example). Some of the technologies were prohibitively expensive back then, but are much more affordab...
And while the irony of the situation is lost on no one, police are as likely to pay as anyone else. A New Hampshire police chief who couldn't bear it got a bright idea: He paid the ransom, got the key, and cancelled payment; but when his department got hit again two days later ...
software company. I managed to drive the company's revenues (pre-internet) strictly due to that 1% to 2% direct mail response. I just had to find the right list. I visited the post office daily, picked up the envelopes containing checks and order forms, and sent out little f...
Windows. Then, somewhere in there should be an item called “boot order” or something similar. In that, you’ll want to make sure that your hard disk is checked before the USB devices if you want to boot normally while that external drive is ...
Unlike rolls of film, the disks or memory cards are reusable and can be recorded over an unlimited number of times. When the camera memory fills, you have to transfer the pictures to your computer before you can take more pictures. If you are using floppy disks then you just put in more...
This particular update came as a nice executable file, called SASEXEC97.EXE. A simple X command is used to run the update. The %INCLUDE file would contain the following source code: options noxwait xsync ; x 'k:\sasadmin\updates\sasexec97.exe' ; This particular setup program from the ...
The next generation of videogames is going to rock your world. And it's all thanks to a piece of software called Unreal 4.
I doubt any of you can play any of the files you made even one or two decades ago, simply because the files are recorded on some medium, like floppy disks or obsolete memory cards, for which you no longer have a player.Black-and-white has already proven itself for over 100 years of...