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Comment Re:I miss the BSOD (Score 1) 169

by jones_supa (#47832515) Attached to: Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen

Yes, old BSOD was great tool for the IT crowd. The Windows 8.1 gives now just a page with awfully large text saying something like "sorry, something was wrong, we're rebooting." Good luck with finding the reason for the crash and most importantly, fixing the problem. This dumbing down of software is just disgusting.

Check out Minidump files. There's a good amount of information stored about the cause of a BSOD.

Even the Visual Studio 2013 is designed for the tablet users, I wonder why they still support programming at all, as it is is assumed to be too hard for their customers.

Visual Studio 2013 is a normal desktop application just like the previous versions of Visual Studio.

Comment Re:Amiga (Score 1) 169

by jones_supa (#47832475) Attached to: Steve Ballmer Authored the Windows 3.1 Ctrl-Alt-Del Screen

I'd like to have the *option* to continue to save my work even if there was a chance of data corruption. For example, take the common NT blue screen IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL. That fact that my buggy network driver tried to access paged memory in the wrong sequence is miles away from catastrophic.

Believe or not, but such situation is actually catastrophic. A network driver might feel like a small component of your system, but as it happens to be tightly integrated into kernel space and when it does something illegal, there's a real risk of data corruption or other system misbehavior.

Actually, with NT6, display drivers were moved into userspace, so if a display driver crashes, one just gets a blank screen for a couple of seconds, and after that a system tray popup informing about the driver restart.

Submission + - Steve Ballmer Wrote the Text for Blue Screen of Death 1

Submitted by jones_supa
jones_supa writes: Neowin reports that Microsoft's former CEO, Steve Ballmer, is actually credited with writing the original Blue Screen of Death text for Windows 3.1. In a new MSDN's The Old New Thing blog post penned a few days back, Ballmer is given credit for rewriting the text that appears on the infamous BSOD that we all know and love.

During this time period, Steve Ballmer was head of the Systems Division, and he paid a visit to the Windows team to see what they were up to, as is the wont of many executives. When they showed him the Ctrl+Alt+Del feature, he nodded thoughtfully and added, "This is nice, but I don't like the text of the message. It doesn't sound right to me."

Ballmer went back to his office, changed the text and e-mailed it back to the team a few days later; the rest is history. Steve's idea for what the screen should say was so good that the text went directly into Windows very close to its original form.

Submission + - Picking up extra cash with small programming jobs

Submitted by KingOfBLASH
KingOfBLASH writes: I'm between jobs right now, and while I'm not a professional programmer, at prior jobs I used to write VBA macros, SQL, and powershell scripts from time to time, and I know my way around python (I learned it for fun)

Is it possible to turn these skills into cash? It'd be crazy for someone to hire me as a full fledged developer, but I imagine there must be a ton of businesses with small projects. And while I've seen a few web sites out there, they appear to be filled with low paying jobs and a lot of people living in countries with low costs of living.

Comment Re:I'm starting to wonder... (Score 1) 182

by jones_supa (#47823505) Attached to: Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge With Liquid Nitrogen

I don't mean to sound morbid here, I am just starting to think that this whole thing is pretty darn pointless, If you want to donate money to ALS, do it... but this ice bucket challenge thing is turning into a competition of who can one-up who in how they go about it, and I think it's now only a matter of time before somebody gets seriously hurt or killed.

Actually this is the perfect way to collect donations for a good cause: create a silly meme and create a culture of making a donation when doing it. People love this kind of shit.

Submission + - Millions of IPv4 Addresses Reclaimed - IPv4 is not dead ! (yet). (enterprisenetworkingplanet.com)

Submitted by darthcamaro
darthcamaro writes: Back in 2011, IANA said it had allocated its last /8 block of freely available IPv4 address space. As it turns out, here we are in 2014 and IANA has now reclaimed several million IPv4 addresses that it is now giving to regional internet registries. While that means that unallocated IPv4 space is still available, don't get your hopes up that it's limitless, ARIN only has just over one million IPv4 addresses left for the Americas.

Submission + - Linus Torvalds on insults: Respect should be earned (themukt.com) 1

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes: During DebConf 2014 an attendee asked Linus about his ‘insults’ mentioning one of the episodes involving Kay Sievers of systemd where Linus said, “Who the f*ck does idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?” Unlike commercial companies where a boss can fire an employee for messing things up, Linus doesn’t have that luxury. It’s an open source project; he can’t fire people. One of the ways Linus can express his frustration when some top developer breaks something is through harsh words on mailing lists, which he says is kind of hyperbole and joke. Linus also said that he is abrasive and he likes arguements.

The attendee then said he was not talking about Linus being abrasive but about respecting orthers.

There was a loud applause. Linus said, “I don’t respect people unless I think they deserve the respect. There are people who think that respect is something that should be given, and I happen to be one of the people who is perfectly happy saying no respect should be earned. And without being earned, you don’t get it. It’s really that simple.”

Submission + - âFakeâ(TM) cellphone towers discovered in U.S. (welivesecurity.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Seventeen mysterious cellphone towers have been found in America which look like ordinary towers, and can only be identified by a heavily customized handset built for Android security â" but have a much more malicious purpose, according to Popular Science.

The fake âtowersâ(TM) â" computers which wirelessly attack cellphones via the âoebasebandâ chips built to allow them to communicate with their networks, can eavesdrop and even install spyware, ESD claims. They are a known technology — but the surprise is that they are in active use.

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