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Re:Alt-Enter doesn’t Window DOS graphics in XP, but worked in NT and W...
on Thursday December 08, 2022 @06:20PM (#33915187)
There is a MS13-xxx bulletin that had a bug where full screen DOS was completely broken when /NOEXECUTE=OPTOUT was set in boot.ini
Re:Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04
on Friday August 12, 2022 @07:27PM (#32445177)
That is why I said "without the F1 prefix".
Re:Intel 286 secrets: ICE mode and F1 0F 04
on Friday August 12, 2022 @06:58PM (#32444961)
The fun thing is that 0F 04 (without the F1 prefix) would have been faster than triple fault or reset via the keyboard controller.
Re:OpenSSL Security Advisory
on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @09:35PM (#31995824)
The patents has recently been expired.
Re:Ask HN: Getting HOA to upgrade Ethernet wiring
on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @01:48AM (#31916897)
The difference between Cat5e and Cat5 is very little.
Re:Welcome to the M1 Windows project
on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @11:16PM (#31662778)
The Compaq is IBM PC compatible but uses a different HAL for SMP support. You can see all of them by looking at what NT4 shipped with for example.
Re:DDR5 RAM prices crashed by 20% in May
on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:51PM (#31627546)
DDR5 supports 24Gbit chips, though they are not common yet.
Re:Mercedes shipping mini CDs with its vehicles to fulfill GPL require...
on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:44PM (#31627498)
It also applies only to "“User Product” is either (1) a “consumer product”, which means any tangible personal property which is normally used for personal, family, or household purposes, or (2) anything designed or sold for incorporation into a dwelling."
Re:Show HN: I restored Palm's webOS App Catalog, SDK and online help s...
on Friday June 03, 2022 @02:39PM (#31612070)
I remember when the plug on developer.palm.com was pulled:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135561
Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
on Sunday May 15, 2022 @04:55PM (#31391028)
Intel officially pulled support in 2020-2021.
Re:The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option
on Sunday May 15, 2022 @04:47PM (#31390971)
Intel phased out the UEFI CSM from new platforms in 2020-2021.
Blue Box
Re:Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:36AM (#31119216)
In fact, you can't really run any other legacy option ROMs without legacy VGA support. You can run legacy SAS option ROMs for example and still do UEFI boot because of similar support for Int13, but to even run them require VGA text mode to be working.
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer
on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:59AM (#30425556)
A lot of the difference is in things like keystone jacks and patch panels, as this is where far end crosstalk is most likely.
Re:25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer
on Saturday February 19, 2022 @01:03AM (#30394772)
The differences are minimal. There is a good article on this topic: https://www.flukenetworks.com/knowledge-base/application-or-...
Re:A disquisition into the sadly slovenly takeup of 10GBASE-T (2012)
on Saturday February 12, 2022 @04:37PM (#30316770)
What I also noticed is they made both 1Gbit and 2.5Gbit Ethernet compatible with Category 5 cables from the 1990s. Even the difference between Cat5 and Cat5e are quite minor.
Re:Microsoft's Small Step to Disable Macros Is a Win for Security
on Saturday February 12, 2022 @06:10AM (#30311858)
Side note: Anyone remember when Excel 4.0 macros could not be disabled in Excel?
Re:Office 2000 is good to go
on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @03:15PM (#29245842)
Anyone remember the Access 2003 conversion toolkit? The conversion from Access 97 to Access 2000 was originally designed for developers, not conversions of large number of databases by end users.
Re:YouTube is now building its own video-transcoding chips
on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:36PM (#27045542)
I wonder what the WMF will do when the H.264 patents expire and all these videos needs to be transcoded.
Re:Finding an Easter Egg in Microsoft Bob
on Thursday April 29, 2021 @02:00AM (#26977893)
Because ACER2X.DLL (for Jet 2.x databases which Bob likely used) was removed in Access 2010. (Trivia: reading form, reports, macros, modules etc from Access 2.x databases required another 16-bit program that MS stopped shipping with Access 2003)
Edit: Actually, this also reminds me that I believe a compatibility pack was needed to use Access 2.x databases in VB3 which only supported Access 1.1 databases by default!
Re:Why does trying to break into the NT 3.1 kernel reboot my 486DX4 ma...
on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:11AM (#26913021)
I believe that at the time it would have required 16Mbit DRAM, which was still not common in 1994 outside of workstations and servers. (most of them at the time came in larger "400 mil" packages, as opposed to the "300 mil" packages that would have been common by 1995, and as a side note this is part of why 16MB 30-pin SIMMs was never common as the larger package would make them very tall)
Re:Google is accelerating reopening of offices and putting limits on r...
on Thursday April 01, 2021 @03:47AM (#26657671)
For Amazon it might make more sense as they are a retailer that ships goods.
Re:Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than A...
on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @04:09PM (#26639757)
I wrote about CompatTelRunner because of the CPU time it consumes, which even MS employees like Billy O'Neal complain about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Desktop_Analytics
Re:Calc.exe is now open source; there’s surprising depth in its ancien...
on Friday March 26, 2021 @02:42AM (#26589387)
It was fixed in this update for Windows 3.1, which switched away from floating point: https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/124/Q124345/
Re:Apple’s M1 processor and the full 128-bit integer product
on Thursday March 18, 2021 @04:57AM (#26500739)
I believe that ARMv8 NEON crypto extensions has a special instruction for 64-bit multiply to 128-bit product, which is useful for Monero mining for example.
Re:The geeks who saved Usenet (2002)
on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @10:38PM (#26485873)
Deja was already for sale, and there was "I Dream of Google Usenet" in the Slashdot thread: https://news.slashdot.org/story/00/10/17/0036218/deja-for-sa...
Re:Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:14PM (#26351103)
> Remember that day in 1998 when the world changed because some Stanford project called 'Google' appeared?
You may want to see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Effects_of_the_2007-2008...
Re:“This destroys the RSA cryptosystem”
on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @07:13PM (#26323082)
Re:Nvidia announces mining GPUs, cuts the hash rate of RTX-3060 in half
on Thursday February 18, 2021 @06:12PM (#26187159)
Even back then there was an exception for "blockchain processing".