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The graphical design of his website?
There is no design so there is nothing to judge about.
that's the design - it looks nice and clean, and no extraneous bullshit.
Windows98 Running in the Browser
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#122Awww, "My Briefcase"! I had totally forgotten that was a thing :) What a nice little nostalgia trip.
Omigosh, I really miss the heck out of when Windows had charm, and personality like this. Stuff like Hover! - getting that Weezer music video with the Happy Days set on the Win 95 media edition or whatever...such cool little things that displayed a sense of ‘fun’ about very business-centric software.
My Pentium 100 could play this 320x240 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL1BLzn3qc fullscreen with no choppiness. I had forgotten about this video until I saw it last year...
But Windows had skeumorphisms, even nowadays the screen with everything minimised is called "the desk[ ]top".
But I guess briefcases and recycle bins made things relatable...
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#123To me, still the best UI/UX OS experience. That menu organization is just perfect. Everything is crystal clear about what is selected or not. No idea why the OS moved from this layout.
A lot was got right back them. I use the MATE desktop, which is a very similar paradigm. When I saw this posted, I posted my attempt at running as many version of MS Word. It was fun playing with all the versions of word and seeing their progression. But Word 2000 was probably the pinnacle of UI as well.
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#124Does anybody have a reasonable explanation why windows 10 requires a SSD and so much ram? I wish a kernel engineer could give a good answer to that question. One side of the answer could be that the software that is bigger, but honestly that doesn't explain everything. I wish somebody could confirm Wirth's law is real and that there are valid example of it.
Probably it is being developed on really fast computers and not being optimized or tested on not that fast computers or laptops.
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#125Back when the system settings could be reached with less clicks, were organised in a logical way and didn't use most of the screen as white-space.
You mean before windows tried to be designed as a a tablet OS while being on desktop for 8.0, failed on both as easily predicted, and then refused to admit the mistake ever since beside the one mandatory change of adding a normal start button / menu back? That full screen start view was one hell of an abomination....
There’s always that one %#{£ who says something like:
I actually really liked that.
Edit: took me way too many brain-cycles to work out the emphasis in this comment.
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#126Does anybody have a reasonable explanation why windows 10 requires a SSD and so much ram? I wish a kernel engineer could give a good answer to that question. One side of the answer could be that the software that is bigger, but honestly that doesn't explain everything. I wish somebody could confirm Wirth's law is real and that there are valid example of it.
The same reason Facebook loads multiple MBs of JavaScript code for something that could have been not more than 1 MB. One can't help but wonder about nefarious purposes: either collecting user data or abusing the computing resources. For companies that tend to hire the best and the brightest, the 'software bloat' theory is not compelling.
Curiously, major Linux distributions have also gotten significantly slower compared to early 2000s versions.
I wonder, for a thought experiment, what if companies stopped development on software when it reaches certain stage of maturity, say Windows 2000, providing only necessary security updates or optional visual changes?
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#127Back when the system settings could be reached with less clicks, were organised in a logical way and didn't use most of the screen as white-space.
To me the omnibox is the only way I know how access certain settings. I have no idea where they are located in this maze of categories and subcategories.
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That tablet interface also made it to the server version - which probably had the worst windows interface ever.
Personally I've always been slightly amazed that at no point in time did anyone at Microsoft think that making msn.com the default homepage for servers was a bad idea.
You can bet your pants there were legions hair-triggered to resign over this.
Weak!
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There's ways. Detecting whether tools like VMWare/Virtualbox are installed, whether certain drivers are installed, checking the hardware listings etc. etc. Malware is quite a good study subject about this question. There's a lot of malware that won't run if it's in a virtual machine to avoid researchers from testing it inside one.
Do you have a reference that is runnable in this emulator? (Genuinely curious.)
https://github.com/LordNoteworthy/al-khaser#anti-virtualizat...
https://github.com/AlicanAkyol/sems
(dunno if these would build/run on win98 though)
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#130Here is something that I stumbled upon that I think was a big loss: HTML Help [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help ] It's unfortunate that Microsoft didn't work toward making it an open source standard for documentation. We'd have avoided every other documentation having it's own format, style, etc... Plus you get the whole documentation in a single file, not worrying about broken stuff, missi…
Yeah, we had an intenal kind of wiki with a .chm document, long before wiki was a thing. So easy, a single file, simple.