Posts by Anonymous South African Coward

Luxury...

32Gb RAM? 5G modem?

Luxury! In my days we had to make-do with 48/64/128k of RAM, no solid state storage (cassette or floppy disks) and 2400 baud modems... (or acoustic couplers)...

Memory lane

LEO is older than myself, but it is good to see what the pioneers used back then.

And it is interesting.

Big (and old) iron still have a certain attraction and still looks good after all these years.

Only way to neutralize and eject nannybots safely is through the use of a supercharged cattleprod.

<KZERRRRRT>

Operation Up Escalator upshifted several gears, and got an upgrade to tackle the slippery downgrade to destruction

Money spent on the arms race is just wasted...

bleh

time to make like the great Russkie sprinter and buggeroffski ...

Nah, will still either have two partitions or use VMs.

Better safe than sorry.

New method then.

First scan the room for any suspicious cameras.

Mark the spots.

Give them a good treatment of Cap'n Browneye up close and personal before wadding a bit of Prestik on the offending area.

Proudly Fartbook free since 2012...

We run a filezilla ftp server, but it goes into a DMZ.

If they haxx0r it, they'll get nowhere. And there's nothing worth to steal anyway.

Not only this issue, but what about future space missions?

How will they keep track of all those satellites without impacting any future launches into space?

And it may get too crowded to the extend that launching any new missions to Mars or the moon may well be postponed indefinitely as there is no way that a safe launch can be guaranteed due to too many satellites being in the way of the spacecraft.

META = Make Everything Trump Again

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A trip down memory lane.

Once we got ourselves sorted with MS-DOS and managed to get things working, and with Novell Netware drivers consuming as little memory as possible, Windows 3.1/3.11 arrived.

We adjusted to the "new shiny" and life went on.

Then 95 was released. The first iterations was a slow as molasses and took ages to boot. And woe betide you if 95 did a critical disk write and power failure happened.

We got to grips with 95 and sorted things out.

Same with 98. It was a bit better than 95, but had its own quirks.

Then ME arrived. Some say it was buggy, some say it was fine. Whatever. Meh. I did not like it due to the absence of a command-line, especially when you need to aim a well-deserved kick at its gubbins to get some stuck bone loose.

Then WindowsNT4 came. First iteration barfed all over the place, and it took a couple of Service Packs to get it up to standard. NT4 with SP6 was stable and did what you wanted it to do. No extra frills and the such.

Windows2000 took a bit longer than NT to boot, but it got better graphics. To this day I prefer to have a Win2000 VM above an NT4 VM as the UI feels a bit complete.

Windows2000 with SP4 was good, nice and stable.

Then XP came out. Took my first look at it, and was reminded of eyecandy. We used to disable most of the eyecandy to make it perform a bit better.

XP with SP3 was good. It was the last Windows to use a CLI installer (with the exception of 95/98/ME)

Vista - the less said, the better. I had the fortunate opportunity to have 6 Gigabyte laptops with Vista preinstalled - and strangely enough, these was rock-solid. No bluescreens as others reported their Vistas of doing.

Windows 7 then knocked on the door for its turn. I found that on some hardware Win7 outperformed XP. On others XP outperformed WIn7.

The abortion that was WIndows 8 shall be glossed over with Windows 8.1 - but it was to be short-lived when Windows 9... errr... Windows 10 was released.

Most of the issues with Windows 10 have been sorted out by now, yet M$ still insists on releasing "features" and "products" that knocks something silly in Windows 10 and make you lose your files and other whatnots.

Windows 11? Nah, will give it a bit of time and see what happens.

Face it, criticizing the BOFh will result in an ominous hummmmm, followed by a brief >KZERRRT< and a whiff of ozone.

Wasn't NTFS based on OS/2's HPFS?

To boldly go...

...into spaaaaaaace