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by jasomill 3d ago
Floppies, superfloppies, removable hard disks (platter-only, as opposed to modern external hard drives that incorporate the entire drive mechanism), magneto-optical disks, rewritable CD/DVD, even today magnetic tape is still used as re
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by jasomill 3d ago
Both of these things are true: commands like diskcopy have special handling to allow the same drive to be used as both source and destination, and the DOS I/O has special handling to request disk changes from A: to B: on single-drive
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by jasomill 3d ago
It does. https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/2d04cacc5322951f187...
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by jasomill 3d ago
This. I'll never begrduge anyone for "selling out" until I'm given a similar opportunity to do so myself. Peter Norton clearly had interests other than running a software company, and I can't say I blame him. Speaki
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by jasomill 3d ago
Fallout 4 parodies the potential legal issue itself in one of its loading screens: Nuka-Cola's signature rocket-shaped bottle replaced the traditional curved bottle when a rival corporation successfully sued for patent infringement.
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by jasomill 4d ago
Maybe not exclusively, but I read it in grade school and was not alone.
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by jasomill 4d ago
"The Terrapin Turtle is designed for installation at no cost by children and elementary school teachers. We feel that military installation cost should be under $10,000/unit." In the '80s, Lego also worked with the MIT
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by jasomill 5d ago
CompuServe was in many ways its own single-source proprietary internet. And CDNs are by nature distributed, even if their ownership is not. Just as it's unreasonable to expect a site operator to maintain their own global network backbo
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by jasomill 5d ago
And they are, in fact, planning to continue to use RHEL and/or AlmaLinux on their desktop and datacenter machines, even going so far as to adapt Fedora's build system to support building Debian packages[1] to leverage their existi
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by jasomill 5d ago
The promise of eSIMs delivered for only $5/month. Honestly, a carrier charge for this feature doesn't sound any less reasonable than a variety of other near-zero marginal cost services providers have offered in the past, but $5 se
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by jasomill 6d ago
Forget YouTube. Google "windows xp source code leaks" and one of the top hits is a six-year old GitHub repo. Which sort of makes sense. I'm not sure technical trade secrets have ever played much of a role in Microsoft's
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by jasomill 6d ago
I imagine he's fine with it in terms of job satisfaction at the very least, as far as I can tell his areas of expertise are shell and related COM internals, and he clearly takes pride in the nuances of cleaning up other peoples' m
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by jasomill 6d ago
Interesting. The simplicity of the build process is inspiring. It literally took me less than five minutes to cobble together a build environment from thin air, cross-compile, and test: 1. Glance at the Makefile, notice that it's a sin
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by jasomill 6d ago
It works pretty well for greenfield projects on .NET, so long as you can live without third-party libraries that don't support AOT. Existing code bases can be a pain, though, especially applications that heavily rely on things like C++
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by jasomill 6d ago
A few years ago I had to use a pair of high-voltage to low-voltage differential SCSI converters to connect an external DEC TK50 tape drive to my PC, because while I had plenty of HD68-to-HD68 cables, and HD68-to-Centronics cables, and a wid
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by jasomill 6d ago
I do this. All my FireWire 400-to-800, 400-to-400, 400-to-dinky little Sony 400, etc. cables were all in one box, the FireWire 800-to-Thunderbolt adapter was in the box with my Thunderbolt cables and adapters, and I still didn't find t
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by jasomill 6d ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists [
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by jasomill 7d ago
Humans do this too.
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by jasomill 8d ago
I tend to think of this a bit differently, and would say that C is a low-level language, independent of implementation architecture, because it provides a small set of primitives with relatively simple behavior. Reason being, I don't s
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by jasomill 8d ago
No, but some are retrocomputing enthusiasts who might occasionally run vintage browsers on non-Y2K compliant systems. The cert in question has a "not before" date in 1998, and Netscape 4.51 hails from around same time. Probably ze
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by jasomill 8d ago
Or better yet, non- integrated and mandatory, and only accessible with the owner's consent or a court order, connected to the rest of the car's electronics through a strictly one-way pipe.
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by jasomill 8d ago
It's hard for me to imagine desktop-class GPU performance on a mobile power/thermal budget. If true, why aren't they marketing it to datacenters?
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by jasomill 8d ago
Not only are the upgrades free, the full license is still only $295 and can be freely migrated between macOS, Linux, and Windows (unless something has changed, serial numbers can be activated on two systems at a time and transferred freely
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by jasomill 8d ago
VMware was also an early leader in desktop PC virtualization. I don't recall anything comparable in the late '90s. Virtual PC existed, but IIRC it was still a Mac-only emulation product. One of the nice things about vSphere in a l
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by jasomill 8d ago
How does this help with hardware vendor lock-in, unless there's a second source for PowerEdges I'm not aware of?
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by jasomill 8d ago
I suspect the bigger problem is simply the fact that VDDK workflows are already defined and integrated into migration software packages. Otherwise, there are other options to copy virtual disks from ESXi hosts to other destinations that pre
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by jasomill 11d ago
I don't think anyone is denying the value of advertising to Google or its advertisers. But with fewer ads influencing their spending, readers might have more disposible income left over to fund content.
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by jasomill 11d ago
Formally, a function f is a relation between sets A and B such that, for all x in A and u , v in B , f ( x ) = u and f ( x ) = v implies u = v . It's just a definition. Authority is, as the parent suggests, any in
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by jasomill 11d ago
That's straight out of Mad Men , a fair point, and applicable to a much wider variety of consumer goods and services than foods and drugs.
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by jasomill 11d ago
Not so much rose-colored glasses, but in comparison to MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows, 32-bit OS/2 was a dream. Native application support was limited, and it was even less of a pure 32-bit OS than Windows 95, but for about a year it was th

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