Tecnoblog • tecnologia que interessaMicrosoft revela truque do Windows 95 contra arquivos sobrescritos
JdeBPGiven that it is #ChristmasEve, albeit that the original job listing (q.v.) was posted on December the 12th, I would have thought that they could have come up with a more seasonally apt metaphor for a star that designates a goal. (-:
I suspect that #RaymondChen has not been the only one over the years to observe that if one follows a north star one ends up at the North pole, irrespective of the real goal. #Polaris isn't a goal. It's a latitude measuring device. Billions of navigators from history must be rolling in their graves.
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Funny that you should ask. I went to the LinkedIn post, and there's a hyperlink there to the actual job listing on Microsoft's WWW site. It is patently LLM-written. The 'Responsibilities' section shouts that fact the loudest. https://careerhub.microsoft.com/careers/job/1970393556639051 Amusingly, for a job that deals in rewriting things in Rust, actual experience with that language is an optional requirement, whereas >= 6 years experience in Python or JavaScript fulfils the mandatory requirement. Mind you, job listings have been autocompleted using boilerplate, especially by recruitment agencies, for decades. @[email protected] #Microsoft #AI #LLMs #rustlang #BusinessBollocks #LinkedIn
ARGVMI~1.PIFAt #Microsoft in the 2000s, the Recycle Bin wasn't just an icon on the desktop. They had actual recycle bins throughout the campus too.
When it came time to dispose of them, #RaymondChen saw to it that the recycle bins were, themselves, recycled. He tells the story in this installment of #OldNewThing. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121016-00/?p=6323
Shh! 🤫 #Microsoft disavows all knowledge of this top-secret coffee maker.
#RaymondChen declassifies the files in this installment of #OldNewThing. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220426-00/?p=106528
Once upon a time, when AI wasn't a thing and servers didn't usually have high-end GPUs, it was not uncommon for #Windows servers to be inadvertently brought down, not by bugs or hackers but by bored IT workers watching a fancy screen saver.
#RaymondChen at #Microsoft explains in this installment of #OldNewThing. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241224-00/?p=110675
On #Windows NT and its descendants, command prompt windows have scrollback. You can scroll up to see earlier output, up to however many lines you've configured it to keep.
But on pre-NT Windows, this was not the case. An #MSDOS window contained a full-blown virtual machine, akin to DOSBox or QEMU. What you saw was the contents of its virtualized video memory, which cannot scroll.
#RaymondChen at #Microsoft explains in this installment of #OldNewThing. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20241022-00/?p=110401
Some of the first computers to support subroutines didn't have a stack on which to store return addresses and whatnot. How did they do it? The short answer is “with great difficulty.” The long answer is on #OldNewThing, #RaymondChen 's blog.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240401-00/?p=109599
#RaymondChen later discusses the possibility of simply using #MSDOS to draw the graphics in #Windows 95 Setup.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250211-00/?p=110862
This was not done because it would involve developing a whole entire operating system—one that would only run Windows 95 Setup. May as well use the already perfectly serviceable Windows 3.1.
Graphical #Linux installers are the same story: they use Linux GPU drivers and a regular GUI toolkit like GTK for their graphics.
32-bit paged virtual memory was by far the #i386 's best and most important feature.
Exhibit 4294967296: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20120629-00/?p=7253
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The '90s were a wild and wonderful time in #tech and #Microsoft was no exception. At one point, they hatched a project to build a web #browser engine with a non-ASCII name, which somehow spawned branded notepads with an absurdly high price per sheet.
#RaymondChen explains (as much as he can) in this installment of #OldNewThing. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20130430-00/?p=4503
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