Software: On & Off the Web
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Or sucking the poor critters up into huge freezer trawlers? Certainly a possibility if we are far enough down into the atmosphere where liquids occur, and in a nicely positioned de-pressurized giant super-dome so that things aren’t completely squinched by the overpowering gravity. A construct something akin in magnitude though complete opposite in composition and behaviour to the Red Spot of Jupiter. 😛
Edit:, Hmmmm, might be possible for enough in air to be pumped into the atmosphere of the dome to increase its buoyancy – not sure.
Good news that WebCrawler is still alive, providing a snappy response to queries. Made a personal copy of the front page of Aliweb, the Web’s oldest search engine, because of the sheer age of the category items. The site is © 2009, however the search index was modified much earlier, not long after 9/11 probably, thus most of the links are either re-directs or down the gurgler. And – er – believe it or not, Cagles is still going strong. 🙂
The mystery of the original gaming zone before MS took over continues, posted here on it – could it be some of Sierra’s content might have been borrowed by certain parties?The skiff looks nice for half-baked, the skiff’s scullion will be ensuring the fish will be fully baked. 🙂
🙂 Ah, the Wayback face of Microsoft (long loading):
After setting up a Windows 3.11 VM, came across Basil’s WordPress website Blog. Posting a comment first got a nonce bounce, following posts never got through, so saving the comments here:Thanks for posting this very well presented walkthrough.
Tony’s VMWare site now here, (file link working):
http://web.archive.org/web/20200123030303/https://vmware0.tripod.com/
In my case, set up this in VirtualBox version 7.16 (recent):
https://archive.org/details/CE55E93BC43C767067BD371EFB97259FE20BC97FB09055AF7BCFD3BA374B1824
Could never get the network going, the ipconfig on the VM was never anything like that on the host. Then this came up in Google, fantastic, will try sometime.
The March of Progress: VirtualBox now requires VT-x/AMD-V enabled in the BIOS/UEFI, despite it being disabled by default in the GUI.It’s wonderful! I’ve been playing it off and on on Linux and Windows for years 🙂
It also has a hidden sandbox mode that lets you remove most of the limitations. I forget the key combination, though.
It’s definitely taking time to relearn it and not go too fast at the beginning but I’m getting better. I don’t really care about the scoring, I just like building things up. Will need to look at the more advanced settings in case I can remove some of it. Once I get the hang of it again, I’ll be flipping it over to more realism by adjusting the map settings and other things. 🙂
It also has a lot of add-ons to give it a regional feel. By default, it is mostly inspired by the UK but you can do Australia, Japan, and more by using the right content packs 🙂
Cool! What are you using it for?
Ah, okay. Sounds good 🙂
Don’t forget about WinDbg! Pretty helpful to track down driver issues. And it’s also helpful to turn off the automatic restart on STOP errors so that you can better see what’s going on. Of course, Windows has become much more resilient in recent years so, fortunately, BSoDs don’t happen as much as they used to 🙂
And that led me to Detours, which led me to this cool list of projects and papers: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/search/?facet%5Btax%5D%5Bmsr-content-type%5D%5B%5D=msr-project&q=
Most of the recent stuff is AI-related but they’re playing with bringing TypeScript to embedded devices: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/devicescript/
It’s interesting. TypeScript is a lot more readable than JS but never really took off. Sort of like the D programming language, Go, and Dart.
Cloudflare are being a little more aggressive with the smaller browsers – Pale Moon, Blizzard, Opera, CF maintain it can be modified in the client site settings. Unfortunately many Webmasters are strapped for “time and resources” these days. Pity.
Thanks, no reason why minGW shouldn’t be installed here, just got to keep tabs on the sheer volume of general content before the file system and memory start to get a bit janky. 😛
Having a look at X64dbg, terrific but documentation could do with a boost. Thing to do might be to pop a coin in the slot accompanied by a polite clearing of the throat. 🙂
Cool, well then an opportunity to try UpperLowerProper for a blast on Linux?
Edit: Finally succumbed to MS 2FA on the account due to frets from MS, did not happen without a little pain. Weird thing too, signing out of the MS account now only works per tab – are they giving up on the vagaries of Chrome’s caching soo soon? 😛
Edit: Great pdf tomes of programming here, after looking through that list, feel very unread. 😛Google disabled new posts last year, which is a shame but I guess they were tired of hosting forums. I should catch up on C++20 and C++23 at some point. There have been quite a few changes. That said, I don’t like the new import feature as it makes it harder to tell where stuff is coming from. Do like the looks of the new std::println() function, though. Much cleaner than std::cout << “Stuff” << std::endl
Yep, most archives use a form of *nix for their setup as Windows has lower limitations and is much slower when accessing larger data blocks. No experience with ReFS but it looks like a good option for Windows over NTFS. From the looks of it, it’s still very much a work in progress.
Presumably, AndalayBay has a backup of at least some of the files as she’s reuploaded some but I don’t know how much she kept.
Those have been superseded by the UMP. The UMP team went through all of those and cherrypicked the changes that were appropriate and discarded the rest. 🙂 It’s possible there have been other community efforts since Jac passed but I haven’t heard of any.
And make sure you grab OpenMW! Still need to get it installed over here at some point but they fix a lot of engine bugs in addition to recreating things so the Morrowind Code Patch is now obsolete.
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