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Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

So the DirectDraw folks changed the way they queried for driver capabilities. One of the developers went into his boss's office, took a network card, extracted the MAC address, and then smashed the card with a hammer.

that's great

# ? Jun 27, 2015 19:06

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# ? May 14, 2024 04:11

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

So the DirectDraw folks changed the way they queried for driver capabilities. One of the developers went into his boss's office, took a network card, extracted the MAC address, and then smashed the card with a hammer.

lol at this comment from 2004:

quote:

Nobody buys NVidia poo poo anymore, we all moved to ATI for a reason.

NV = the Dead and theyre cheaters (con artists) in order to get that better benchmark.

# ? Jun 27, 2015 20:35

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

So the DirectDraw folks changed the way they queried for driver capabilities. One of the developers went into his boss's office, took a network card, extracted the MAC address, and then smashed the card with a hammer.

Owns

# ? Jun 28, 2015 03:28

Cybernetic Vermin: Apr 18, 2005

the extended-support-contract series is shaping up pretty well:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/05/13/10524731.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/06/25/10623757.aspx

# ? Jun 29, 2015 12:04

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Debrah..

# ? Jun 29, 2015 13:17

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2015/06/25/10623757.aspx

Apple used real music

I'll never forget Bytecry by Weevil or Exodus Honey by Honeycut, etched into my synapses by repeated exposure, fortunately they don't suck

# ? Jun 30, 2015 07:16

Workaday Wizard: Oct 23, 2009; by Pragmatica

eschaton posted:

Apple used real music

I'll never forget Bytecry by Weevil or Exodus Honey by Honeycut, etched into my synapses by repeated exposure, fortunately they don't suck

how empty must your life be to keep a loving database of music used by a commercial company?

# ? Jun 30, 2015 12:29

NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

everybody loves ES Raymond

# ? Jun 30, 2015 13:48

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

NoneMoreNegative posted:

everybody loves ES Raymond

this is unequivocally false

# ? Jun 30, 2015 14:23

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

don't you loving dare poo poo up this thread with racist deformed midget chat!

# ? Jun 30, 2015 15:39

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

please limit discussion of raymonds in this thread to raymond chen of microsoft

# ? Jun 30, 2015 16:47

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

please limit discussion of raymonds in this thread to raymond chen of microsoft

ah jeez, maaah!

# ? Jun 30, 2015 17:11

Dicky B: Mar 23, 2004

old favorite How do I create a topmost window that is never covered by other topmost windows?

# ? Jun 30, 2015 23:59

bobbilljim: May 29, 2013; this christmas feels like the very first christmas to me

maniacdevnull posted:

ah jeez, maaah!

# ? Jul 1, 2015 00:48

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Dicky B posted:

old favorite How do I create a topmost window that is never covered by other topmost windows?

don't let pumpy dumper see this

# ? Jul 1, 2015 01:15

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

today's raymond article is "i'm glad i don't work in computer security"

Each year, 200,000 vulnerability reports are received, and each one is taken seriously, even the bogus-looking ones, because there might be a real issue hiding behind a bogus-looking report.

# ? Jul 6, 2015 17:42

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

First, I fired up charmap and went to character U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN. I double-clicked the character in the grid, thereby copying it invisibly to the Characters to copy box. I then clicked the Copy button to copy the invisible soft hyphen to the clipboard. Then I switched back to my Web browser and pasted the soft hyphen into the long string of a's every six or so characters, to provide a hyphenation point.

# ? Jul 6, 2015 17:46

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

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# ? Jul 6, 2015 18:05

Olivil: Jul 15, 2010; Wow I'd like to be as smart as a computer

youve got the wrong raymond op

# ? Jul 6, 2015 18:56

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

please limit discussion of raymonds in this thread to raymond chen of microsoft

# ? Jul 6, 2015 19:00

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Olivil posted:

youve got the wrong raymond op

nobody loves that raymond except he self

# ? Jul 6, 2015 19:07

maniacdevnull: Apr 18, 2007; FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Olivil posted:

youve got the wrong raymond op

How does he manage to look like one of the photoshops where they swap a adult head on the baby body but irl?

# ? Jul 6, 2015 19:08

Meat Beat Agent: Aug 5, 2007; felonious assault with a sproinging boner

has science gone too far?

# ? Jul 6, 2015 19:35

Jonny 290: May 5, 2005; [ASK] me about OS/2 Warp

p sure he is the grossest person on the planet

# ? Jul 6, 2015 22:09

qntm: Jun 17, 2009

nah let's keep talking about the good raymond

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

First, I fired up charmap and went to character U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN. I double-clicked the character in the grid, thereby copying it invisibly to the Characters to copy box. I then clicked the Copy button to copy the invisible soft hyphen to the clipboard. Then I switched back to my Web browser and pasted the soft hyphen into the long string of a's every six or so characters, to provide a hyphenation point.

like this, this is good and cool

# ? Jul 6, 2015 22:31

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

qntm posted:

nah let's keep talking about the good raymond

like this, this is good and cool

it's cool how you can resize your browser window and his example breaks nicely

# ? Jul 7, 2015 00:19

ymgve: Jan 2, 2004; Offensive Clock

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

here we see the fight for dangerous settings and the phrasing of warnings: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2013/04/16/10411267.aspx

raymond's kinda stupid here because as far as I can tell, the original comment complained about data loss when rebooting the PC after applying windows updates. even with all brakes off during normal operation, i'd expect the operating system to properly flush everything when it knows it's about to reboot

i don't think a separate power supply would even save you, because a drive would probably drop whatever it had in its ram when it gets a reset signal anyway

# ? Jul 7, 2015 01:48

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

today's raymond article is about how to keep meetings on track: From what I could gather, Rumors and gossip was a big hit. Everybody knew to save their rumors and gossip for the end of the meeting, allowing the rest of the meeting to stay on track, and it became the part of the meeting everybody looked forward to.

# ? Jul 7, 2015 14:36

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

today's raymond article is some friggin pro advice for setting up windows: If you spend a lot of time setting up computers, you can use an unattend file to answer all the Setup questions (like "enter your product key") so all you have to do is type "setup /unattend:myconfiguration.xml" and go out to lunch. When you come back, your machine will be installed and ready.

# ? Jul 8, 2015 16:59

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

today's raymond article is some friggin pro advice for setting up windows: If you spend a lot of time setting up computers, you can use an unattend file to answer all the Setup questions (like "enter your product key") so all you have to do is type "setup /unattend:myconfiguration.xml" and go out to lunch. When you come back, your machine will be installed and ready.

that article links to this one about always being called an idiot

# ? Jul 8, 2015 18:07

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Captain Foo posted:

that article links to this one about always being called an idiot

from that link

Raymond Chen posted:

and now since it is exposed in the user interface, you need to write automated tests and add the setting to the test matrices

if the setting exists it should be in the test matrix and have automated tests

you can't leave that only for things exposed in the UI

# ? Jul 8, 2015 18:29

Captain Foo: May 11, 2004; we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

eschaton posted:

from that link

if the setting exists it should be in the test matrix and have automated tests

you can't leave that only for things exposed in the UI

windows

# ? Jul 8, 2015 18:51

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

It's like saying, "I normally toss my garbage on the sidewalk in front of the pet store, and every morning, when they open up, somebody sweeps up the garbage and tosses it into the trash. But the pet store isn't open on Sundays, so on Sundays, the garbage just sits there. How can I get the pet store to open on Sundays, too?"

# ? Jul 15, 2015 15:03

Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

It's like saying, "I normally toss my garbage on the sidewalk in front of the pet store, and every morning, when they open up, somebody sweeps up the garbage and tosses it into the trash. But the pet store isn't open on Sundays, so on Sundays, the garbage just sits there. How can I get the pet store to open on Sundays, too?"

i want to see this portrayed in an episode of Reboot!

# ? Jul 15, 2015 17:15

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

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

i want to see this portrayed in an episode of Reboot!

this but everybody loves raymond

# ? Jul 15, 2015 17:21

A Wheezy Steampunk: Jul 16, 2006; High School Grads Eligible!

today's raymond article comes from my personal experience this morning at work: Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?

# ? Jul 16, 2015 15:18

qirex: Feb 15, 2001

A Wheezy Steampunk posted:

today's raymond article comes from my personal experience this morning at work: Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find, like all right-thinking programs?

Executives with Ideas are a great enemy of usability

# ? Jul 16, 2015 15:59