It did, extended memory came about the same time we needed to show down the system

It doesn’t count if what they remember is that 6 business days ago you agreed to 5 business days

Though I usually succeed despite procrastination, I’m pretty sure in most cases things would have gone better with alacrity.

5 days seems pretty reasonable to design and build most stuff. It’s function and system/integrated test that takes time not to say there’s not random bits of work that take months before anything testable can be produced.

*My experience is in giant systems processing mainframe class data. The programmers in my team use COBOL

In money you can work in cents and round fractions to whole cents in someone’s favour depending on policy for example my home accounting program rounds divided amounts up in transfers to the various accounts. It’s pretty good right now with a can’t being such an insignificant value.

Sorry, typo. That was supposed to be “aren’t” I didn’t mean to wish obsolescence on you. Ed. No, I just phrased it confusing

It was the wondrous system “DOS 6.2”

USB killers are a thing. The top three autocomplete for USB killer were …buy, …eBay, and …Amazon

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_killer

Paper on their effectiveness on different hardware: https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/137908/1/WRAP-killing-your-device-via-USB-port-Angelopoulou-2020.pdf

These are moderately easy to make and cheap to buy

The first two returns from Google were sites selling USB killers

Waiting in windows explorer in a shared directory for write access to a document, with “notify” set. It says filename.doc is available, double click it. “Sorry psud, this file is being used by psud. Open read only or notify when this file is free?”

Because of course explorer opens the file read/write to show the preview

Just normally closing any file browser windows usually releases the drive. Windows is usually locking it in an explorer window for “I was in that drive an hour ago, I need it in case my human wants to go back” at least when Linux says no all you need to do is cd out of the drive, and navigate to any other folder in a file browser and then it’ll work

Technology Connections in his recent video (or was it on his second channel?) points or that since dishwashers had only six functions, all of which run when given line voltage, and case running when depowered, anyone with Arduino and some relays could make a new control board for a dishwasher pretty easily, to make programs that way better. Laundry machines are similar but simpler, if they ever get that bad, they’ll be easy to lobotomise

Too many people identified the monitor as the source of their frustration, when really it was the box on which it sat that was to blame

ImageMagik is referenced in the alt text of the original comic Dependency — mobile version

I looked for some troubleshooting for my podcast player, and was really mistrustful of the AI summary, but it was right. But of course the solution was pulled from a forum, so could easily have been from a different product, or an outdated version. The last thing I looked for gave a well out dated answer for fingerprint readers under Linux

Most Linux malware is aimed at servers, that’s where the money is, and where Linux has serious market share

The no holds barred way of getting root on otherwise secure systems

Since it has malware abbreviated in its name I think it’s a joke

To another version full of errors due to the same faults? This is the sort of thing that has people looking for alternatives

I haven’t had teams crash, just behaving badly, not marking chats read, not moving updated chats to the top.

It’s incredible how quick they become when converted to Linux (though I always put light weight Linuxes on old machines, and that may have contributed)