• (disco) in reply to ChrisH
    ChrisH:
    I put my TEMP on a RAM disk. Reboot, poof, temp files gone.
    spadgas:
    I used to do that. Until some b*st*rd installer put all its files in temp and rebooted the PC and splat...

    That's not usual when an installer needs to reboot in the middle of things. That's why I only delete "older" files (looking at both modified and create dates)

    edit: fuck :disco::horse: Nested quotes used to work...

  • (disco) in reply to lcrawford
    lcrawford:
    Why didn't he just reboothadn't it crashed regularly?

    FTFW

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    You Linux folks are like North Korean refugees coming to America. "But I thought you were a desolated wasteland ruled over by lizard people, where common folk was forced into slave labor to live for another day?"

    http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zS29HOwsh6M/SetW0nL0C0I/AAAAAAAABAY/ehyC1-QJvwA/s400/your-mouse-has-moved.png

  • (disco) in reply to tenshino
    tenshino:
    what on earth are you going to do with 64 megs of RAM?

    Play Age Of Mythology on recommended settings :<!---->) unlike my old family computer which had 32megs and occasionally lagged when playing the game. (And AoE3 was unplayable - I played it anyway ofc)

  • (disco)

    Now, if M$ did not had the 49 days bug fixed in later version of Windows, that wouldn't have been a problem.

    Fix a bug, get new bugs.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla
    boomzilla:
    As mentioned, if you don't know, then it doesn't matter and the system will do the right thingbe Doing It Right™.

    FTFY

    For example, the system of 2016-02-01's TDWTF entry.

  • (disco) in reply to another_sam
    another_sam:
    lcrawford:
    Why didn't he just reboothadn't it crashed regularly?

    FTFW

    Because Windows has advanced a good way. It no longer crashes ifwhen something goes fatally wrong but tries to recover as best as possible.

  • (disco) in reply to PWolff

    +1, I was actually playing and recording a game when my display driver crashed... Windows informed me that it crashed and it had automatically restarted it. The game kept running fine and the recording was okay. Cool stuff.

  • (disco) in reply to LB_
    LB_:
    I was actually playing and recording a game when my display driver crashed... Windows informed me that it crashed and it had automatically restarted it.

    The display driver watchdog has been around for quite a while, I think... I remember having to increase the time limit some years back when I was grinding my GPU down with CUDA coding.

  • (disco)

    If you thought that was bad, I know of a production server whose DEFAULT hive is 1,199,046,656 bytes. Fortunately the Samsung printer driver which caused the problem bloated NTUSER.DAT first, so I started getting messages about being unable to load the administrator's profile before messages about being unable to start up, and the errant software has now been excised from the system. (I wish I knew how to remotely shrink the DEFAULT hive of a server; dealing with the NTUSER.DAT problem remotely was bad enough.)

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    You Linux folks are like North Korean refugees coming to America. "But I thought you were a desolated wasteland ruled over by lizard people, where common folk was forced into slave labor to live for another day?"

    You Windows folks are bragging stability when you can go a month without rebooting.

    Us Linux users find it unstable when we need to reboot more than once every other year :stuck_out_tongue:

  • (disco) in reply to TimeBandit
    TimeBandit:
    Us Linux users find it unstable when we need to reboot more than once every other year :stuck_out_tongue:

    Well of course, that's about as fast as the Linux ecosystem evolves :trolleybus:

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj

    Since Windows 10 just came out, and Ubuntu is already at 15.10, it's hard to agree with you :trollface:

  • (disco) in reply to TimeBandit
    TimeBandit:
    Since Windows 10 just came out, and Ubuntu is already at 15.10, it's hard to agree with you :trollface:

    Well I'm on Windows 98, so you can stick that 15 up yours :tram:

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    Well I'm on Windows 98, so you can stick that 15 up yours :tram:

    unless i very much misremember didn't the ubuntu versions start out as short hand for 20xx (that is 15.04 was the April, 2015 release, 14.10 was the October 2014 release, etc) ?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    ...yes?

    Now provide a snappy comeback.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    Now provide a snappy comeback.

    so your 98 stands for 1998, where ubuntu's 15 stands for 2015.

    check and mate.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    check and mate.

    At least Windows won't have to halt development once the alphabet runs out!

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    You Linux folks are like North Korean refugees coming to America. "But I thought you were a desolated wasteland ruled over by lizard people, where common folk was forced into slave labor to live for another day?"

    So Linux folks are mostly correct?

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    At least Windows won't have to halt development once the alphabet runs out!

    they already solved that one, they restart at A and don't repeat a name (pick a different adjective/animal pair)

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    So you're saying we're heading for a Y3K?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    they restart at A

    Because nothing important changed anyway?

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    At least Windows won't have to halt development once the alphabet runs out!

    Since it's Windows X, they have only Y and Z left :wink:

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    The display driver watchdog has been around for quite a while, I think...

    Vista. It's one of the improvements they had to make compatibility-killing changes to the driver ABI for.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    unless i very much misremember didn't the ubuntu versions start out as short hand for 20xx (that is 15.04 was the April, 2015 release, 14.10 was the October 2014 release, etc) ?

    It's called a "joke". Keep at it. You might start recognizing more of these "jokes" around here!

  • (disco) in reply to blakeyrat
    blakeyrat:
    You might start recognizing more of these "jokes" around here!

    I'll remember that for when people actually start making jokes, instead of complaining about things they're not willing to put any effort into changing

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    Because nothing important changed anyway?

    better than redmond winding the clock all the way back to 7 from 98.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    better than redmond winding the clock all the way back to 7 from 98.

    It was so awesome it overflowed their version counter.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    It was so awesome it overflowed their version counter.

    their version counter only went up to 100? i don't call that any sort of proper version counter.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    You know, following your own logic, Windows 7 was released two years late (2009) while Windows 10 was delayed by five.

    "Vista" seemed to exist in an alternate timeline where numbers do not exist, so we can just forget it ever existed.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    their version counter only went up to 100?

    What? No, it was an int. How else do you explain Windows 2000?

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    Why do you keep asking me for my help and advice accalia, then refusing to take it! OMG! So annoying! You're just BEGGING me for help ALL THE TIME.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    How else do you explain Windows 2000?

    Satanic sabatage

  • (disco) in reply to blakeyrat
    blakeyrat:
    Why do you keep asking me for my help and advice accalia, then refusing to take it! OMG! So annoying! You're just BEGGING me for help ALL THE TIME.

    i'm sorry, was that a question or a statement? because your words and your punctuation don't add up.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    i'm sorry, was that a question or a statement? because your words and your punctuation don't add up.

    Mmmm... neat on dickwedeery, but a little too cliched <!--inb4 "e acute you idiot"-->on pedantry. 7/10, keep it up and you may get a badge someday.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    keep it up and you may get a badge someday.

    Badges?

    BADGES?!

    [image]

    @ACCALIA DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!

  • (disco) in reply to TimeBandit

    Got a Windows 10 laptop and a Windows 8.1 media center PC. Can't remember the last time I rebooted either.

    On my work PC, I had made a change to the registry that prevented it from auto-rebooting after getting updates, and I would "delay" the reboot for weeks or longer. Finally, the admins across the street caught on and changed GP so that I am no longer allowed to modify the registry on my machine.

  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    It was so awesome it overflowed their version counter

    Like the uptime timer in your Windows 98 ?

  • (disco) in reply to TimeBandit
    TimeBandit:
    Maciejasjmj:
    At least Windows won't have to halt development once the alphabet runs out!

    Since it's WindowsMac OS X, they have only Y and Z left :wink:

    <empty/>
  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    Maciejasjmj:
    keep it up and you may get a badge someday.

    Badgers?

    BADGERS?!

    @ACCALIA DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGERS!

    Fixed that for ya.

  • (disco) in reply to tenshino
    tenshino:
    Got a Windows 10 laptop and a Windows 8.1 media center PC. Can't remember the last time I rebooted either.

    That's the first sign of Alzheimer :wink:

  • (disco) in reply to accalia

    What do you get when you cross the day of the Lord with sabotage?

    accalia:
    sabatage
    :rimshot:
  • (disco) in reply to Maciejasjmj
    Maciejasjmj:
    accalia:
    check and mate.

    At least Windows won't have to halt development once the alphabet runs out!

    Actually I'm looking forward to the emoji releases.

  • (disco) in reply to boomzilla

    Even :man_in_business_suit_levitating:?

  • (disco) in reply to RaceProUK

    I can't see how that's sillier than Xenial Xerus.

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54

  • (disco) in reply to accalia
    accalia:
    i havent seen the disk queue length go below 20 all day.

    Did you ever identify what processes/services might have been causing this?

    tenshino:
    I still remember upgrading my Pentium 90mhz with 64 megs of RAM. My buddy was like "what on earth are you going to do with 64 megs of RAM?"

    "Launch Netscape faster, of course." :wink:

    I had a Packard Bell in 1994, 8MB RAM, 420MB HDD, Pentium 60 (the toaster oven model with the floating point problem, yes). Playing Star Control 3 would stress it after about 20 minutes. Upgraded RAM to 24MB - no more problems. Also, booting to the pre-installed Win 3.11 OS: 15 seconds. "Upgraded" later to Windows 95 - would take over 5 minutes, and that on an OS-only install.

  • (disco) in reply to redwizard
    redwizard:
    Upgraded

    Should totally go out and try loading Windows 10 to downgrade it back to a more reasonable level... :trolleybus:

  • (disco) in reply to TimeBandit
    TimeBandit:
    Maciejasjmj:
    It was so awesome it overflowed their version counter

    Like the uptime timer in your Windows 98 ?

    :rofl:

    On a different note, this reminds me of my old Netware 4.11 server with "Days Up: 1018" (yes, nearly 3 years) which we had to kill because a power down was required to upgrade the NIC from 10Mbps to 100Mbps. This was 1997.

  • (disco) in reply to redwizard
    redwizard:
    1997

    Here's a :wtf: for you all:

    Read in a classified ad in that year: "Network Administrator wanted...requirements: minimum 5 years experience in Windows 95..."

    Even my then-fiancee was laughing at that one!

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