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duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

horsehoe theory of giving a gently caress

# ? Sep 7, 2017 03:23

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# ? Jun 12, 2024 20:24

PIZZA.BAT: Nov 12, 2016

infernal machines posted:

remember when people were unironically sharing kernel hacks that replaced the boot animation via this handy little utility you run that disables kernel signing and helpfully injects code into the kernel for you?

that was hilarious, especially when they got real loving butthurt over being called out as idiots

hey at least they looked cool while doing it

# ? Sep 7, 2017 03:24

carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

in my day, all the cool kids' pcs started up with a windows xp pirated edition boot screen from wincustomize

# ? Sep 7, 2017 03:52

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

carry on then posted:

in my day, all the cool kids' pcs started up with a windows xp pirated edition boot screen from wincustomize

im having flashbacks to all idiots with "custom" windows xp installations with "improved performance"

# ? Sep 7, 2017 05:13

pram: Jun 10, 2001

TjyvTompa posted:

i must ask, do you seriously think that i wrote this software and try to shill it on yospos of all forums?
it is a free software created by the guys that made Start10 or something, they gave it away for free to help people with the privacy setting when windows 10 was first released, it was obviously used as advertisement for their other products, which cost money

if you go back and read my post that caused all this fuzz i only said that there is a program you can use to enable/disable the different settings that microsoft hid behind registry entries/GPOs
all I wanted to do was to remind people of this piece of software, that you don't even have to install, that makes it easy to disable small stuff, like cortana, instead some people thought they would dunk on a non-regular (lol) calling it crapware, all i wanted to do was to remind people that this software exists

i read yospos daily, i read it for years, i find many people here are extremely knowledgeable and it is interesting to read what they write, then there are those that are here only to bask in the shine of others, this irritates me because i read threads with interesting info but i have to wade through posts that are nothing but "laffo" or stories about the squalor that they live in (seriously?)
i find it detrimental to such a great place that this actually is, for example i asked some work related questions in the bitcoin thread and got awesome responses, it really helped me in my work, as have many other great posts on this forum

im not going to post regarding this any more, i understand that my comments regarding the software "O&O ShutUp10" were unwanted and that it caused a derail that wasn't my intention

nice meltdown et.c.

lol

# ? Sep 7, 2017 05:43

Dodoman: Feb 26, 2009; A moment of laxity
A lifetime of regret; Lipstick Apathy

cinci zoo sniper posted:

im having flashbacks to all idiots with "custom" windows xp installations with "improved performance"

I ran gamerXP for way too long

# ? Sep 7, 2017 05:49

Janitor Prime: Jan 22, 2004; PC LOAD LETTER

What da fuck does that mean; Fun Shoe

TjyvTompa posted:

i must ask, do you seriously think that i wrote this software and try to shill it on yospos of all forums?
it is a free software created by the guys that made Start10 or something, they gave it away for free to help people with the privacy setting when windows 10 was first released, it was obviously used as advertisement for their other products, which cost money

if you go back and read my post that caused all this fuzz i only said that there is a program you can use to enable/disable the different settings that microsoft hid behind registry entries/GPOs
all I wanted to do was to remind people of this piece of software, that you don't even have to install, that makes it easy to disable small stuff, like cortana, instead some people thought they would dunk on a non-regular (lol) calling it crapware, all i wanted to do was to remind people that this software exists

i read yospos daily, i read it for years, i find many people here are extremely knowledgeable and it is interesting to read what they write, then there are those that are here only to bask in the shine of others, this irritates me because i read threads with interesting info but i have to wade through posts that are nothing but "laffo" or stories about the squalor that they live in (seriously?)
i find it detrimental to such a great place that this actually is, for example i asked some work related questions in the bitcoin thread and got awesome responses, it really helped me in my work, as have many other great posts on this forum

im not going to post regarding this any more, i understand that my comments regarding the software "O&O ShutUp10" were unwanted and that it caused a derail that wasn't my intention

nice meltdown et.c.

# ? Sep 7, 2017 06:25

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

cinci zoo sniper posted:

im having flashbacks to all idiots with "custom" windows xp installations with "improved performance"

my install is mad slipstreamed, it's wicked radical

# ? Sep 7, 2017 13:09

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

flakeloaf posted:

my install is mad slipstreamed, it's wicked radical

my favourites will always remain "lightweight distros" with castrated system files that would crash from a faintest breeze or just require you to just install poo poo (or, remember dll downloader sites?) manually

# ? Sep 7, 2017 13:48

kitten emergency: Jan 13, 2008; get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

this is the most yospos poo poo we�ve had in a while

# ? Sep 7, 2017 13:52

Just-In-Timeberlake: Aug 18, 2003

uncurable mlady posted:

this is the most yospos poo poo we�ve had in a while

quote:

This place is not a place of honor�no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here� nothing valued is here. What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

# ? Sep 7, 2017 14:01

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

cinci zoo sniper posted:

my favourites will always remain "lightweight distros" with castrated system files that would crash from a faintest breeze or just require you to just install poo poo (or, remember dll downloader sites?) manually

I recall lots and lots of games in the xp era going "hi this dll do you have it because I didn't bring my own"

# ? Sep 7, 2017 14:01

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

cinci zoo sniper posted:

my favourites will always remain "lightweight distros" with castrated system files that would crash from a faintest breeze or just require you to just install poo poo (or, remember dll downloader sites?) manually

oh! custom config.sys is evolving!

# ? Sep 7, 2017 14:12

Dodoman: Feb 26, 2009; A moment of laxity
A lifetime of regret; Lipstick Apathy

I had a 6200 le I needed all the performance I could get alright

# ? Sep 7, 2017 14:37

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

# ? Sep 7, 2017 16:21

Fiedler: Jun 29, 2002; I, for one, welcome our new mouse overlords.

Skype for Business on macOS? The updater is the least of your worries.

# ? Sep 7, 2017 16:41

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

spog posted:

Skype for Business is now Microsoft Teams!

(gently caress off, you can't use Skype in o365 any more and we don't care if you were in the middle of a conversation with someone yesterday, we're taking SFB away from you right now)

# ? Sep 7, 2017 17:21

Schadenboner: Aug 15, 2011; by Shine

Just-In-Timeberlake posted:

This place is not a place of honor�no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here� nothing valued is here.

What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.

Don't speak about your mother's bedroom like that.

# ? Sep 7, 2017 17:37

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

cinci zoo sniper posted:

im having flashbacks to all idiots with "custom" windows xp installations with "improved performance"

when i lived in japan way back when (this was like 2006-2007 somewhere) i consulted for a company whose owner i was teaching english, because a really stupid amount of stuff he had to work with (especially in terms of documentation) was english-only. among them was the official software used to generate windows xp embedded images, only in english and really not good "english isn't my first language" material. i told him about nlite; he couldn't use it for company purposes because it wasn't a formal supported-by-microsoft thing, but we discovered when you ran nlite on a japanese pc it would display everything bilingually, and well-translated into japanese at that. so he used nlite as a sort of english-to-japanese translator so he would know exactly what the xp embedded image creator's settings did

# ? Sep 8, 2017 12:28

cinci zoo sniper: Mar 15, 2013

that owns

# ? Sep 8, 2017 12:38

infernal machines: Oct 11, 2012; we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

lmao.

i have a build of win 10 home w/creators update for testing. it will not stop reinstalling the f2p shitware games that come pre-loaded. no matter how many times i right-click and chose uninstall, they're right back after the next reboot.

it's great that i no longer have to download some shady bullshit off the internet to wind up with persistent adware that i can never remove.

# ? Sep 9, 2017 21:28

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

let them install, give it a day or so, then uninstall them and see if they come back

# ? Sep 9, 2017 22:28

Scott Forstall: Aug 16, 2003; MMM THAT FAUX LEATHER

lol

# ? Sep 12, 2017 02:46

anthonypants: May 6, 2007; by Nyc_Tattoo; Dinosaur Gum

Scott Forstall posted:

lol

https://twitter.com/thurrott/status/232707991533666304

# ? Sep 12, 2017 02:51

FMguru: Sep 10, 2003; peed on;
sexually

anthonypants posted:

https://twitter.com/thurrott/status/232707991533666304

cool its pissflops

# ? Sep 12, 2017 03:07

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

man my back teeth are floating point

# ? Sep 12, 2017 04:24

Endless Mike: Aug 13, 2003

he tweets about making beefy melts sometimes

# ? Sep 12, 2017 04:29

champagne posting: Apr 5, 2006; YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/907466021065371648

real talk: The person who made powershell should have been tarred and feathered

# ? Sep 12, 2017 15:22

orange sky: May 7, 2007

Boiled Water posted:

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/907466021065371648

real talk: The person who made powershell should have been tarred and feathered

this is a bad opinion

# ? Sep 12, 2017 15:27

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

Boiled Water posted:

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/907466021065371648

real talk: The person who made powershell should have been tarred and feathered

this is a bad opinion

the person awarded in this case otoh seems good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Tour_Chayes

# ? Sep 12, 2017 15:50

univbee: Jun 3, 2004

Boiled Water posted:

real talk: The person who made powershell should have been tarred and feathered

@BoiledWater are you a non-technical fellow or a child? it could be a good fit for you.

# ? Sep 12, 2017 15:53

akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

orange sky posted:

this is a bad opinion

no. powershell is dogshit

# ? Sep 12, 2017 16:22

BangersInMyKnickers: Nov 3, 2004; I have a thing for courageous dongles

powershell powerowns

# ? Sep 12, 2017 16:25

Fiedler: Jun 29, 2002; I, for one, welcome our new mouse overlords.

PowerShell is bad. Other shells are far worse.

# ? Sep 12, 2017 16:28

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

Fiedler posted:

PowerShell is bad. Other shells are far worse.

exactly. and it's only better than other shells because it doesn't run scripts :newlol:

# ? Sep 12, 2017 17:02

Workaday Wizard: Oct 23, 2009; by Pragmatica

i dont use powershell everyday but i have to admit i dont understand the powershell type system. especially when pipes and functions are involved. i just mash until i get something that works.

# ? Sep 12, 2017 17:16

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

if you want to interactively run commands then use a shell
if you want to automate a task then use a programming language

if you try to converge the two you're going to get something that is poo poo at both but then this is the same company that gave us metro

windows does need a shell that isn't a 30 year old fossilized turd like cmd.exe but one thing that shell definitely does not need is a type system

# ? Sep 12, 2017 17:23