I don't run chrome except as a test browser in a VM. Chrome phones all shit home all the time. It's google's means of grabbing your browsing habits without you having to go to google and run through search for each page. No thanks.
I wasn't joking. I had a scheduled task that would reboot my PCs every 45 days because of this crash bug. At my current job today we reboot workstations after 30+ days of uptime just to make sure that they patch properly each month.
It wasn't Windows XP, but rather Windows 95 that would crash after 49.7 days of continuous usage.
I stand corrected.
Actually, he's wrong, the bug was in NT4 also. There was also a paging counter bug that was a mismatch of a 26 bit number into a 32 bit number that caused all sorts of issues when the 26 bit number rolled over. (might have been 24bit, it's long ago and google wasn't around to index everything back then....)
Considering several competing designs existed back in the early to mid 80s (remember NASP?) and that the only thing keeping that from really going forward was a lack of sufficient jet / SCRAM technology to get the plane to super sonic speeds, it's quite highly possible.
You mean the domestic spying which got its real start when Bush forced telecom companies to install equipment which allowed the government to listen in on every phone call without a warrant?
You might want to roll back that date just a little bit. From the article, the first secret room was built in 2002, but they were already sharing data in 2001. It was already a "rumor" back in the mid 1990s that the internet POPs had monitoring gear in them. Based on the dates in the article, that is likely true, just that it was scaled up as time went on.
If you ever thought email was anything more than a postcard, you're sadly mistaken. That dates back to 1991, when it was generally accepted that all email was effectively postcards and something like PGP provided the security of an envelope. (I date it to 1991, because that's when the first effective "envelope" for email came into being)
For mail comparison, the USPO photographs all mail front and back. They'll even kindly send you a photograph of your mail that's to arrive shortly. The Ben Franklin initiated postal tracking is alive and well and has been supercharged.
Sony (Electronics) has had a long history of being innovative. The problem often has been that they've had a long history towards pushing proprietary formats and devices. Some of those have been successful, many have failed to catch on, and some were spectacular failures (Betamax).
The old Sony, pre 1990s had a long history of being innovative. Sometime around the late 80s, Sony started playing the MBA game - maximize profits with minimal investment. They cashed in on their patent portfolio and fully abused their name as they reset their innovation into how to create adequate hardware as cheaply as possible. The current Sony is no more innovative than a crack-head looking for some way to pay for their next fix.
My understanding is that if they "don't" make a Spiderman movie often enough, the rights will revert to Marvel.
So every few years they dust it off, release some crap that's guaranteed to pay for the movie and a few years of hookers 'n blow, and shelve it until the best-before date again.
No real care given to the character, just making sure they don't lose control of him.
I'd swear they made them with hookers n blow, or at least the results are about what you'd expect if they did. Maybe they should allow the rights to revert to Marvel instead of dragging it through the untalented muck of the last 42 versions.
Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
I saw a headline on some entertainment website, that there are like 150 remakes/reboots in the works at Hollywood, along with a further ~250 sequels.
That's sad on the remakes/reboots/sequels.
The 'found footage' subgenre is essentially a retread of the 'mockumentary' subgenre, now that I think of it.
Found footage isn't a subgenre, it's a "didn't have enough money to pay for actors so I shake the camera enough so you can't focus on the terrible acting" distraction, a la Project Almanac, or likely anything else down recently by Michael Bay.
I stopped watching spiderman because without exception the lead actor always fell short. Or maybe it was the storyline. The frequent reboots also didn't help. I haven't watched any of the last 38 entries in the spiderman series. Just can't raise any interest.
Why bother coming up with movie ideas when you can just keep remaking movies?
That's what the music industry said about 15-20 years ago. We'll manufacture music, and they'll keep coming... except "they" didn't, and revenues fell. When your drop the pretty lip-syncer of the day into a song started becoming obvious to more people, those people stopped listening to the same rehash. Movies Will have the same issue. Some movies just cannot be remade to be better, different, yes, "better", well, that's subjective, but no.
The ordinary Walmart product is pure enough for human consumption, as a tooth powder and stomach remedy. My example is chemical reagent purity.
Yes, but is it pure enough to be injected via an IV? Lots of stuff enters through your mouth, how much of that would kill you if injected? Chemical reagent purity doesn't necessarily meet the same standards as injectable purity.
With Facebook remembering every damned thing about us and reminding us of stuff
There's likely a reason we're not "linked" to someone we should know, and why we don't remember certain things Disclaimer: I have no idea what all FB does these days, I've never participated on FB for anything other than work related purposes. I find their interface to suck horribly, and can't imagine why I'd ever want to expose myself to that on any kind of schedule.
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But he got a participation trophy!
I don't run chrome except as a test browser in a VM. Chrome phones all shit home all the time. It's google's means of grabbing your browsing habits without you having to go to google and run through search for each page. No thanks.
NT4s kernel had at least 1 < 32 bit counter internally.
I wasn't joking. I had a scheduled task that would reboot my PCs every 45 days because of this crash bug. At my current job today we reboot workstations after 30+ days of uptime just to make sure that they patch properly each month.
It wasn't Windows XP, but rather Windows 95 that would crash after 49.7 days of continuous usage.
I stand corrected.
Actually, he's wrong, the bug was in NT4 also. There was also a paging counter bug that was a mismatch of a 26 bit number into a 32 bit number that caused all sorts of issues when the 26 bit number rolled over. (might have been 24bit, it's long ago and google wasn't around to index everything back then....)
But it would BSOD on day 46....
I've got XP machines which run (patched) much longer, no problems.
IIRC, The crash bug was pre-SP1.
IIRC, that was actually a Windows NT4 problem, patched in the late 90s.
I tried it on some of my 2021R2s with no effects.
I see you're on the super duper doubly secret early release program.
They know they are stupid.
Only a wise man realizes he knows little. A fool thinks he knows everything.
Considering several competing designs existed back in the early to mid 80s (remember NASP?) and that the only thing keeping that from really going forward was a lack of sufficient jet / SCRAM technology to get the plane to super sonic speeds, it's quite highly possible.
You mean the domestic spying which got its real start when Bush forced telecom companies to install equipment which allowed the government to listen in on every phone call without a warrant?
You might want to roll back that date just a little bit. From the article, the first secret room was built in 2002, but they were already sharing data in 2001. It was already a "rumor" back in the mid 1990s that the internet POPs had monitoring gear in them. Based on the dates in the article, that is likely true, just that it was scaled up as time went on.
Sounds like Breitbart reporting, allright.
If you ever thought email was anything more than a postcard, you're sadly mistaken. That dates back to 1991, when it was generally accepted that all email was effectively postcards and something like PGP provided the security of an envelope. (I date it to 1991, because that's when the first effective "envelope" for email came into being)
For mail comparison, the USPO photographs all mail front and back. They'll even kindly send you a photograph of your mail that's to arrive shortly. The Ben Franklin initiated postal tracking is alive and well and has been supercharged.
Google went public in August, and gmail existed in April, provided you got an invite. Obviously I never used gmail for much.
Try 2004. It's pretty much when I stopped using gmail for anything other than trash, and started flipping between search engines.
As long as it has "Sony" on it, a whole horde of folks will never touch it.
Sony (Electronics) has had a long history of being innovative. The problem often has been that they've had a long history towards pushing proprietary formats and devices. Some of those have been successful, many have failed to catch on, and some were spectacular failures (Betamax).
The old Sony, pre 1990s had a long history of being innovative. Sometime around the late 80s, Sony started playing the MBA game - maximize profits with minimal investment. They cashed in on their patent portfolio and fully abused their name as they reset their innovation into how to create adequate hardware as cheaply as possible. The current Sony is no more innovative than a crack-head looking for some way to pay for their next fix.
I'm with you. I'm still watching them circling, circling, circling. Shouldn't be long before they go down the drain. Good riddance.
Er, Sony, not Fox. Whatever, you get the gist.
Well, that explains the peculiar lack of creativity in those movies.
My understanding is that if they "don't" make a Spiderman movie often enough, the rights will revert to Marvel.
So every few years they dust it off, release some crap that's guaranteed to pay for the movie and a few years of hookers 'n blow, and shelve it until the best-before date again.
No real care given to the character, just making sure they don't lose control of him.
I'd swear they made them with hookers n blow, or at least the results are about what you'd expect if they did. Maybe they should allow the rights to revert to Marvel instead of dragging it through the untalented muck of the last 42 versions.
Neo: Whoa. Déjà vu.
Neo: A black cat went past us, and then another that looked just like it.
Trinity: How much like it? Was it the same cat?
Neo: It might have been. I'm not sure.
Trinity: A déjà vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens when they change something.
I saw a headline on some entertainment website, that there are like 150 remakes/reboots in the works at Hollywood, along with a further ~250 sequels.
That's sad on the remakes/reboots/sequels.
The 'found footage' subgenre is essentially a retread of the 'mockumentary' subgenre, now that I think of it.
Found footage isn't a subgenre, it's a "didn't have enough money to pay for actors so I shake the camera enough so you can't focus on the terrible acting" distraction, a la Project Almanac, or likely anything else down recently by Michael Bay.
Which is why I stopped watching Spiderman.
I stopped watching spiderman because without exception the lead actor always fell short. Or maybe it was the storyline. The frequent reboots also didn't help. I haven't watched any of the last 38 entries in the spiderman series. Just can't raise any interest.
Why bother coming up with movie ideas when you can just keep remaking movies?
That's what the music industry said about 15-20 years ago. We'll manufacture music, and they'll keep coming... except "they" didn't, and revenues fell. When your drop the pretty lip-syncer of the day into a song started becoming obvious to more people, those people stopped listening to the same rehash. Movies Will have the same issue. Some movies just cannot be remade to be better, different, yes, "better", well, that's subjective, but no.
The ordinary Walmart product is pure enough for human consumption, as a tooth powder and stomach remedy. My example is chemical reagent purity.
Yes, but is it pure enough to be injected via an IV? Lots of stuff enters through your mouth, how much of that would kill you if injected? Chemical reagent purity doesn't necessarily meet the same standards as injectable purity.
With Facebook remembering every damned thing about us and reminding us of stuff
There's likely a reason we're not "linked" to someone we should know, and why we don't remember certain things Disclaimer: I have no idea what all FB does these days, I've never participated on FB for anything other than work related purposes. I find their interface to suck horribly, and can't imagine why I'd ever want to expose myself to that on any kind of schedule.