Yay, happy hail Satan day everyone. I remember when Intel chickened out and rounded up their 666 megahertz pentium 3 processors to report as being 667 megahertz. Absolute cowards, no wonder China is kicking their ass.
iirc the no windows 9 thing was actually because a lot of software ran a compatibility check like:
<span style="color:#323232;">if windows version = âwindows 9*â then open legacy mode
</span>
This worked for software written for newer windows like xp but still allowing a legacy mode on older windows versions like 95 and 98. Problem was this also put that same software running on windows 9 into legacy mode. So they called it windows 10 to sidestep the compatibility issues.
Itâs great to see to what lengths Microsoft goes to keep backwards compatibility. Compared to how a minor glibc update broke Linux apps without much warning. Without supporting legacy workflows I donât think Microsoft wouldâve had the market share they have today.
I believe thatâs apocryphal⊠Some people came up with that theory on twitter, but AFAIK itâs not been confirmed. It only matters in some edge cases of an edge case.
And letâs be real, if backwards compatibility really mattered, they could have made the API return âNineâ or âIXâ or whatever and used â9â everywhere else in the UI, marketing, packaging, whatever.
The real reason is probably the simplest and stupidest: Microsoftâs marketing department got impatient and went for the big round number because 10>9. Also why NVIDIA went 9xx->10xx->20xx⊠bigger number = better, itâs really that mind-numbingly stupid.
If itâs anything like Korean (and it probably is), itâs specific when you can use each version of the word so itâs not like you could simply swap shi for yon
It kind of makes sense. First Iâve ever heard about Ubuntu Christian Edition as well, but it seems to mostly be set up with filtering in mind, with the DNS tools and such. Add in productivity software aimed at preaching I guess, and you have a âsafeâ OS for kids and the laptop hooked up to the projector at a church.
Six Six Six, The kernel of the beast.
Hell and fire was spawned to be released
Boards blazed and reviewed codes were praised
As they start to try, hands held to the sky
In the night, the coffee is burning hot
The commit has begun, Linus work is done
This canât go on, I must inform the Hurd,
Can this monolith be real, or just some crazy dream?
But I feel drawn towards the GPL-2,
Seem to mesmerize, canât avoid Tivoization!
Iâm coming back, I will return
And Iâll possess your daemons and make your CPU burn
I have ring 0, I have your cores
I have the power to make my evil take its course
Itâs funny because the first time I read it, I thought it was serious and was just written by a tech-illiterate parent. Saying that Comet Cursor and Bonzi Buddy are hacker software kinda gives away that itâs just satire though.
oh I guess thatâs also something that younger people may not know about⊠In the late 1990s / early 2000s, it wasnât uncommon for people to install spyware to get things like custom mouse cursors, emoticons, and purple gorillas that help you navigate the web.
I remember dealing with migrating from LILO to GRUB when I was in high school, maybe 2005ish? Itâs been a while. I remember the migration from ipchains to iptables, too (which is happening again now with the iptables to nftables migration)
I used Ubuntu at the time⊠It was a great distro back then. I only had dial-up so couldnât download large files easily, and Canonical or one of their local partners would mail you a CD for free regardless of where you lived in the world. I think that helped a LOT of people get into Linux.
Similar experiences here. I remember waiting for the free CDs bundles with monthly magzines, and add then Iâd the CD as a mirror in my repos to update my packages lol
I had been trying out Linux and finally decided to install it to my ssd. The timing ended up such that I got the wifi issues on the new install but not my old one, and they basically make the OS unusable. I didnât realise any of this and am new so did heaps of reinstalling and searching trying to figure out what had gone wrong since it was all fine when it was installed on my HDD.
I finally found some forum posts and bug reports about this after wasting a day assuming it was something Iâd done wrong đ.
Gonna stick to lts kernel from now on I think. 6.6.6 seemed pretty fitting to me, even if it was 6.6.5 that actually broke it.
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