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 ...
I've never been entirely convinced. He published it in the form of two floppy disks, 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 ...
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 ...
I have noticed that SD cards seem to be the modern equivalent of floppy disks. I’m not sure where to go with this observation, other than that it is an observation. In wearied hope, Ellenor Agnes Bjornsdottir (she) Konrad Dear Kris, thank you for the article and for the initiative...
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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 ...
Current production pipelines have the least WYSIWYG process imaginable: For example, when lighting elements are altered, computers have to parse the data and figure out how to render the changes. Depending on the extent of those edits, this process, sometimes called baking, can take half an ...
My main point is this on why is programming so hard: 30 years ago, all I had to know to create a program was the programming language BASIC and how to structure code into subroutines — which is what we called functions and methods back then. Printing was a bit harder because printer ...