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for newer Windows versions, Microsoft also offers a PE-like customizable image for validation purposes explicitly: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...

> because this policy only applies for non-security bugfixes, and almost all patches these days claim to just be security fixes, including the one which introduced this bug There's…

The reserved memory would show up as 'dedicated' memory. Shared is just the amount of host memory that can be assigned to graphics resources, which usually equals the system memory…

Notably so, I believe Trillian was a paid product and Meebo was actually treated like a real tech startup. Interesting, indeed, how much the sentiment has shifted over the course o…

Qualcomm actually started offering LTS (long-term support) BSP (board support packages) to device manufacturers for a fee. This is why some vendors like Samsung and Microsoft start…

Many fiber ISPs here in Europe seem to share the backend infrastructure between DSL and FTTH subscribers and that sadly also involves PPPoE encapsulation.

I actually switched away from a UDM after finding out that I could only hit 500 Mbit/s uplink (out of ~930) due to a PPPoE performance bug as there's no hardware offloading and the…

FYI: OpenWRT is just Linux and will run fine on x86 hardware as well.

> I don't have much choice - it's not like there would be five competing apps serving the same purpose (connecting to the people and communities on Facebook). The same legislation …

It was introduced in Vista, deprecated for external use a bit later but the servicing system is still a heavy user of it.

Titanfall did work this way on the EA launcher. There was a tool that it'd run on first launch to decompress the compressed audio files.

Unless it supports the transactional filesystem API, Windows Update won't even work in the first place. ReFS boot in fact is affected by the same issue at this time.

On Windows, I can enumerate a directory that accidentally got millions of files perfectly fine without the system itself breaking and with results being returned incrementally. On …

Fun thing is that laptop OEMs exposing useful 'value-added functionality' (like custom fan control) via pre-defined WMI ACPI callouts is actually the sensible choice to make. I've …

I was personally somewhat hoping the boot-time portion in this article somehow hijacked a UEFI runtime services[1] function called by the OS to draw to the frame buffer set up by t…

Quite a lot of recent console FPS games just let you plug in a USB mouse/keyboard and you get matched with PC players (or other console users who use the same input method) instead…

> talk to a driver (who usually acts annoyed on behalf of the whole bus that you are holding up) It is still an interesting cultural observation that here in NL, even people who ma…

Germany solved that issue by making owning any device capable of receiving internet broadcasts part of the eligibility criteria. By that point they could just as well make it part …

> But they'll have no control over what notifications from web pages you've put on your home screen show. They own the browser. They can theoretically maintain a list of bad origin…

There's a lot of CVE submissions lately that seem badly sourced and derived from 'disagreements' at best. Another recent example is https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=C…

For me, running the iOS 16.3 developer beta seems to have been what made my iPhone 'unique' among the ones tested on that site.

Adding my own n=1 anecdote here - a member contributing to an open source project I'm involved in, who had a few repositories on GH with extensions to that project but no other not…

This mentality is a common one I see when people comment on Windows: people setting an override that isn't actually the intended override to 'fix' an issue without root cause analy…

Using an issue reported (in a Linux compatibility layer, even!) with few to little root cause analysis as evidence a 'networking stack is bonkers' is a bit exaggerated - IPv6 in it…

Ah, the Winamp approach to versioning.