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What was the name of that blog post from the old Windows dev? He had some interesting articles like how setting the datetime in the clock fubar'd older windows filesystem items or something?
The Old New Thing by Raymond Chen https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
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Yep. It's because Active Desktop was essentially running an instance of Internet Explorer rendering to your desktop, of course it's slow and memory intensive. Disabling Active Desktop and the fancy views on the left pane of Windows Explorer made Windows 98 change from quite slow to super responsive.
Didn't Active Desktop let you set a webpage as your wallpaper? Crazy times.
Hands up all the people that used computers before desktop pictures were a thing and still set the desktop to a solid colour because “it will draw faster and use less memory.”
I remember when I was a child, crashing my father's Windows 3 computer because I set all the desktop icons to animated GIFs!
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The opposite happens in CMD on Windows, at least in the past. Applications that wrote a lot to the logscreen were slowed down by it. While writing to stdout is buffered, it seems that the rendering itself runs in the same thread as the application. Making a selection freezes the terminal and this stops the rendering, allowing the application to run much faster. Removing the selection (by pressing escape) rerendered t…
Back in the day making a selection would actually freeze the process in some cases.
Hands up all the people that used computers before desktop pictures were a thing and still set the desktop to a solid colour because “it will draw faster and use less memory.”
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The term expert is used frequently in US government settings, per the US Office of Personnel Management: https://www.opm.gov/frequently-asked-questions/assessment-po... Anyone above the lowest pay grades gets categorized as some type of "expert". As the gov tries to justify higher pay to keep up with inflation and compete with private job markets, more people become categorized as "experts" to fill higher pay grades.…
Anyone above the lowest pay grades gets categorized as some type of "expert". I've read that at the F.B.I., anyone not pushing a broom gets the title "agent."
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The opposite happens in CMD on Windows, at least in the past. Applications that wrote a lot to the logscreen were slowed down by it. While writing to stdout is buffered, it seems that the rendering itself runs in the same thread as the application. Making a selection freezes the terminal and this stops the rendering, allowing the application to run much faster. Removing the selection (by pressing escape) rerendered t…
Back in the day making a selection would actually freeze the process in some cases.
This reminds me of how in Windows 95, installers would complete quicker if you constantly moved the mouse, but would take longer if it was still.
The opposite happens in CMD on Windows, at least in the past. Applications that wrote a lot to the logscreen were slowed down by it. While writing to stdout is buffered, it seems that the rendering itself runs in the same thread as the application. Making a selection freezes the terminal and this stops the rendering, allowing the application to run much faster. Removing the selection (by pressing escape) rerendered t…
Probably some feature that John requested because he couldn't read some output quickly enough. I don't understand how this can be the default behavior.
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Back in the day making a selection would actually freeze the process in some cases.
To this day I still attempt never to click inside a running cmd / powershell console. Too many times script execution has been halted by this. It is probably something that has been fixed long time ago but I am still a bit paranoid about it.
I think it was called something like quick edit or similar.
(2009)