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Apple, start your photocopiers and you'll see why 2024 won't be like 2007[1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control

Do you remember if the textbook was orange (possibly with a two-tone cover design)? I had a really good textbook in college that had a... 4? CD set (with the big jewel case) that h…

Contrasting seemingly all the other responses to this, I use it the same way you do (only opening it when needed) and I'm fine with the delay: even at its slowest rebuilding the in…

I always liked the cases where people have broken open ROMs only to find that the compilation process stuffed a bunch of directory and filenames in the silicon. It's funny to think…

In Windows when you set a wallpaper it (sometimes) silently transcodes the one you selected into a new, smaller version. It doesn't always, there's a heuristic, but it's assumed it…

Do things like the upgradable firmware and integrated text editor live in a path that's separate from the 8KB of data? If not I'd fear it would die before the actual storage did. I…

Or more broadly, don't do something unbidden on my behalf then complain when it doesn't work. I swear 75% of the times I've daydreamed about a return to a single-tasking OS like DO…

Yeah, people frequently trot out the Sim City classic example, but the fact is that games in particular have borne the brunt of Windows API changes. If it didn't happen we'd have n…

I don't know if anything's changed but for a long time a lot of Word's formatting was impacted by the printer you had installed and/or selected. So it was pretty easy to run into s…

>mService always immediately returns the “drive ready” code I've read enough of these emulation / reverse engineering blogs to know this will inevitably come back to haunt them.

Decades late, but they could have told you to use Special: Eject Disk if dragging to the trash was too much for you. Then you'd have to grapple with what to do now that the physica…

Absolutely this. My parents would take an impromptu vacation toward the tail end of winter and every time they basically just told the school 'we're leaving, give him the homework …

COBOL was actually in the CS curriculum for my university, a fact that several of my friends brought up when the 'COVID is prompting a real need for COBOL programmers in light of t…

Yep, you still see it come up nowadays with people running it under virtualization. https://www.os2museum.com/wp/those-win9x-crashes-on-fast-mac...

Something I haven't seen discussed very widely: it feels like there's not only a balance needed in determine what to log vs what not to log, but also logging in a way that isn't a …

That feeling of absolute dread, thinking 'my parents are gonna kill me when they realize I killed the family computer' did a lot to prepare me for the white-knuckle experience of t…

Somewhat surprised that you could even use threads in System 6. I know in the 7 era you'd find applications that shipped with the Thread Manager[1], I'm guessing this individual mu…

Try tap+holding the "+ Save" button. If you just tap it the video goes to Watch Later but if you tap+hold it should show you a list of your playlists. That said, the behavior's rea…

I'm not terribly familiar with Apple ][s either but given the surrounding context it sounds like there was a computer and fixed disk that was sent to a junk sorting center. It was …

I was gonna say, from context it was clear it's some sorta container but I'd never heard it used that way.

I'm sure they'll treat the matter very seriously and profess that steps are being taken to prevent it happening again.

Funny to think that the issue here is just a relative of the 'no-preserve-root' feature rm (now) has: it's easy to let the user use the same actions equally on the branches of a hi…

Raymond Chen talked about how periodically the devs were tasked with getting a handful of software purchased at CompUSA or w/e out of a grocery cart, opening them up, installing th…

I worked on an app once that used two different, equally ancient libraries to a) generate thumbnails and b) create a png from a pdf. While modifying part of this process I started …

No disrespect but your experience with foobar seems like the inverse of how it works? It definitely has a Library function, but my workflow for using foobar for years now is: - Ins…