MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names

Post by zten » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC

grishka wrote: post #149

transitorykris wrote: post #61

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In the mid-90s there was a fun and short period of time where IRC clients like mIRC could be set to auto-receive files through DCC.. and would happily write to names like LPT1 (which of course would just write the data directly to the recipient’s printer)

Also, send a COM1 file containing "+++ATH" to someone you dislike to see them disconnect. I just made this up but it should work, right?

Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 9:35 PM UTC

mkl wrote: post #246

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Probably. I just remember installing from a dozen+ 3.5" floppies onto my pizzabox '386 and breathing a sigh of relief when it booted.

I think I needed 17 floppies ... and I could only scrounge up about 8, so I assumed it wouldn't need the earlier ones again and reused them for later parts. It worked! I didn't use Slackware much though, as I had no way to connect that machine to the internet, so it was really hard to learn how to do stuff.

Post by vmlinuz » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 9:38 PM UTC

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Arch wasn't around in 1998. I'm going to put my money on Slackware.

I used to love slackware, by far the best linux experience. It just worked well.

Post by FirmwareBurner » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

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Thanks, Mormons are some of the most nicest and chill Americans I've met in Europe. Had no idea alcohol is taboo.

They're also good at getting security clearances since they never do anything, so those might've been CIA agents.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Aug 10, 2023, 9:57 PM UTC

fantyoon wrote: post #269

red_hare wrote: post #267

Reminds me of the rumor that the reason it went "Windows 7", "8", "10" and skipped "9" is because the fear of a codebase that went: if(version.StartsWith(“Windows 9”)) { /* 95 and 98 */ ... }

Is the Windows version ever exposed as a string in the Windows API? Seems strange in my mind, but I have no experience with Windows. On the one hand it sounds like something Microsoft would do for backwards compatibility, but on the other hand it seems like a weird API to provide. I found GetVersion[1] but that returns the version as two numbers. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoa...