I get all my news from spiders.
Apparently there's a troubling fly shortage going on.
And the silk purists are trying to outlaw the use of carbon nanotubes.
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I keep typing ls into the command prompt.
Generally it seems to try to do something then crash the cmd.exe process.
Does it also handle key and mouse inputs to make sure they're interpretted by the right programme in the right context?
I wonder about raspberry pi - it's the image you download that has the known user and password.
It might mean that you can't sell one with a pre-imaged, pre-installed sdcard unless you customised the image.
I use "4cab".
They'll never guess that.
edit - deleting my comment
, i didnt notice which forum.
actual answer is: showerthoughts or something?
oh i was just making a stupid joke about 2KB.
I didn't realise there was an actual other y2k problem.
How did they get to a 32 bit problem within only 2038 years?
Oh is it like 32 bit counter of seconds or some dumb shit like that.
Stupid shortcut data structures.
That said I'd better check the RTC module in my arduino alarm clock.
It's a clock module though so i assume it was designed by someone who gives time enough respect to store the data properly.
That does sound crazy.
I'll not complain so much about the odd bag checking queue and occasional half hearted patdown/grope we get over here any more.
Year 2030 will not start before year 2029 has ended.
I think it's not til year 2048 that we get the actual Y2K bug at which point I'm a bit less sure.
Bilbo Bagshot : I used to know this guy, Minty. He had a dog who he'd train to attack rich people. He was into the whole class-war thing. He called the dog Gramsci after an Italian Marxist. Rumor has it, it could smell wealth from up to 20 feet. The thing is, it all backfired. Minty won 100 grand on a scratchcard and Gramsci bit his knees off.
Tim : That's terrible.
Bilbo Bagshot : Not really. He used the money to buy new knees.
widdows 2000 was the pinnacle for me, beat XP until i wanted to go to 64 bit.
Apart from having 64-bit, XP was a step back; even if I don't count the fucking dog thing.
XP was a fair bit harder to de-bloat than win 2000 and they were hell-bent on forcing internet exploder on the world.
XP was also at a time when Linux was becoming pretty easily usable and mac osx was impressive too - I remember using those imac coloured egg things at university in 2000. They were good apart from the mouse, and ran MS office pretty well.
StarOffice was already better than MS-Word at dealing with .doc format across versions.
and ancient version of Wordperfect were miles better for WP anyway ("reveal codes").
windows XP was already down to gaming, adobe and CAD/other specialist apps, plus maybe MS Excel that just weren't as good or not available on linux.