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re: The compatibility constraints of error codes, episode 2
WHY is there a floppy drive and windows 7 on the same computer?????
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re: When you are looking for more information, it helps to say what you need...
@DWalker "Or, we could start with a discussion of how electrons move through semiconductors". You forget to branch your discussion here for PNP / NPN ;)
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re: The compatibility constraints of error codes, episode 2
@Midhat My mother's computer has one, and it is running Windows 7. If the hardware is older and the OS was upgraded, then it may be less likely than you think that a computer running Windows 7 has one....
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re: The compatibility constraints of error codes, episode 2
@Midhat My mother's computer has one, and it is running Windows 7. If the hardware is older and the OS was upgraded, then it may be less likely than you think that a computer running Windows 7 has one....
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@Randon832: Imagine if that actually happened. How would you be able to write programs that call system utilities, particularly in a multilingual environment? Let's say that I have a program that calls...
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In *nix, the start menu items aren't filesystem objects.
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re: The Freudian typo that will not die: Enchanced video quality
I've been mistyping "template" as "tempalte" at least since 1985. It's a hazard of a) working with products that all seem to have templates and b) having fat fingers.
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I’m surprised you didn’t link to blogs.msdn.com/.../71307.aspx
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re: The compatibility constraints of error codes, episode 2
I've seen what icon Windows Vista uses for 5¼'' floppy. It looks identical to the Win95 version (and probably is).
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re: The story of the mysterious WINA20.386 file
> i7 cannot load dos in hma? what a piece of junk. Huh? Why not? To do that you only need a enabled A20 line. Doesn't matter if it was on in the first place. Now running the original IBM PC BIOS on...
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Besides, i7s still have A20M etc via Virtual Legacy Wires.
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[Two words: Copy protection. Here are a few more words: Anti-debugging. Games. (I wouldn't be surprised if there were BIOSes that pulled this trick. Set your DS to F800 and you have access not only to...
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re: The story of the mysterious WINA20.386 file
WP states "Support for the A20 gate was removed in the Nehalem microarchitecture." :(
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re: The story of the mysterious WINA20.386 file
Boring. God, I'm glad we got rid of all that real/protected mode switching and all the crap that comes out of "use real mode"/"use protected mode to have more memory" junk.
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re: The story of the mysterious WINA20.386 file
Ditching all the legacy stuff in your CPU is nice and easy. Then you just have the task of persuading customers to buy your new architecture and software developers to develop it, like Intel did so...
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re: The compatibility constraints of error codes, episode 2
[If a function can fail in more than one way, and both failures apply, which one do you report? Does Java specify that if, say, Access Denied and Invalid Parameter both apply (say because you don't...
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re: Microspeak: fit
Agreed, I hear this use all the time, particularly regarding prospective employees, ie, "I don't think Bob would be a good fit for our company."
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re: Microspeak: fit
The first definition on Google for the noun form is "The particular way in which something, esp. a garment or component, fits around or into something." This really isn't a particular phrase used only...
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