Better, throwing in two of those Celeron 300As into a modded dual socket MB... I remember running one of those OC'd Duron's at 1.1ghz... had a custom shim to better support the cpu cooler with it. IIRC, I ran it with a Voodoo 3 card and maxed out ram. Had 2x IBM Deathstar drives in Raid-0... that was the big mistake, crazy fast, but first drive died, and then the second before I could get an RMA on the first. Only the 3tb Seagate line was worse.
I had an AMD 5x86 @133 that lasted me several years... I had the secondary cache module and 64mb of ram, which was a lot for the time. It wasn't great for gaming, but general productivity software and just simple web browsing it was kind of a beast from the ram/cache performance. The next computer I really remember was an OC'd AMD Duron at 1ghz.
They've really shifted how Outlook works... as well as how the backend is more tuned to the way M365 mail works far more than how it used to work with Exchange, or independently. It's been a slow downslide imo since around 2007 or so.
I know the why, but it's really worse as an experience for most people than the older integrations... but the use of horizontally scalable backends makes for a saner platform at the expense of better UX.
If you're utilizing undocumented APIs that aren't meant for public use, sure... but the core Win32 APIs have been pretty stable for going on 3+ decades now. You can take a lot of win32 apps from the early 90's and they'll run without modification in windows today... though, they'll probably run in Wine and likely a better chance there... but still.
I fully agree with that. Sadly there is always the odd application out there that uses the lower level stuff and is therefore tricky to get to run on Wine. Or more recent Windows versions for that matter.
win32 dates back to 1993. OP doesn't know Windows history. Maintaining backwards compatibility was always a huge priority for Microsoft, even if it couldn't be perfect.
If a program didn't work on a newer version of Windows, there's a good chance it was doing something unsupported.
I think if IOmega had reduced the license costs for the disks, and had disks gotten under the $5 mark, they'd have held on for close to another decade before larger USB drives displaced them.
I worked for IOmega's support call center for about a year when I was younger... mostly in the OS/2 queue which was also 2nd level support. The Jazz drives were much worse in terms of click of death, I always just RMA'd the drive and the cartridges when it happened, as nearly always the drives would damage heads and vice-versa... this was much more rare with the zip drives.
I remember a friend getting together a spare computer around 1996 or so, we managed to get everything needed to boot with just enough zip drivers for the parallel drive on a 3.5" floppy, using the zip drive in place of an hdd that he didn't yet have a spare hdd for. Was definitely interesting at the time.
I also remember first installing NT4 from a zip drive copy. Those later BBS and early internet days are some times I remember very fondly.
Depends on what I'm doing... but I'll often split windows, then stretch them to overlap slightly, or I'll have other windows that are always windowed over the top of others.
If I'm just browsing/chatting, I'll often just have one floating window centered.
It just depends on what I'm doing, how focused I am on task and how much space I really have.
I still haven't bought a Sony labelled product since... though I may or may not have consumed Sony content. They've definitely lost more than they gained.
That's a pretty good sized ego you got yourself there. The number of people that cared about the rootkit in the general populace was insignificant to Sony. Only tech nerds like us even knew about the rootkit or how insane it was to use. Unless you were a huge flagship purchaser of Sony's latest/greatest each year, they don't even notice you when you buy a TV or any other item.
People barely remember the studio getting hacked and releasing a film
They faced multiple lawsuits and had to do product recalls, so clearly they lost something. What exactly did they gain? IIRC you could avoid it by just turning off autoplay in Windows (which any sane person already did, or you could hold shift I think), and they were otherwise valid audio CDs (otherwise they wouldn't work in players), so it did exactly nothing to stop the CDs from being ripped and shared. And back then everyone knew about p2p so it really only took one person ripping it for it to spread. So even ignoring the lawsuits, even one person boycotting them probably makes it a net loss. Actually the development costs probably made it a loss.
Not sure how interpreted what I said as anything other than the implied you. No matter how much money you did or no longer do spend with Sony is not anything they'd notice. The caveat being you were a flagship purchaser from them which I doubt was the case.
You assumed it was a point of ego, even said as much.
I don't have to buy shit from Sony if I don't want to, and you can't make me.
They definitely lost more on potential hardware sales the past few decades than I would have spent on content... even if it's not enough for them to notice.
That is hands down one of my ATF scenes in any movie. Expendables 2 was IMO just about the most "fun" movie I've ever seen as well. It wasn't great cinema, or a specific classic.. but it was fun. I have similar feelings about Gremlins 2 as well. We need more fun movies, but too many people seem to have not been issued a sense of humor these days.
Well, I already don't travel to countries where police are regularly not paid... not to mention countries where people are jailed for memes and what I consider free speech issues... so UK has been out for a few years as far as I'm concerned.
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