Windows NT used to give you a whole bunch of details when it hit a BSoD - NT4 bluescreens were wildly informative, but to the average user, completely useless. It was just a bunch of numbers that had no meaning to them or provide them with any pointer to what the problem was. It didn't help that many drivers adopted the 8.3 naming convention making it even more obscure.

Also completely useless because the screenful of information was there but you couldn't do anything with it - you couldn't print it or anything. Windows 2000 simplified it a lot but was still mostly useless - now instead of a screenful, it just showed the stop code with parameters and the module that triggered it. But again, mostly useless information.

The information was contained in the kernel core dumps = the critical bits in the minidumps that it creates that could be loaded into a debugger, or a full dump file. These were much more useful because you could do a post-mortem examination using a debugger with full symbols. (The data for the dump files was written to the swapfile - since the BSoD meant the kernel could not be trusted you couldn't trust the filesystem or disk block driver stack to be working, so the BSoD code would write the core dump to the known blocks of swapfile using direct disk access - it's why there are "text mode" drivers). The next reboot when the kernel starts and initializes the filesystem, before it starts swapfile it checks the swapfile for the dump and if it's there copies it to a new file.

But there were a lot of stop codes that were completely odd but the cause was hardware. There was one that basically said you had bad RAM, another one that would tell you your CPU was overheating. a third that would happen if your disk was dying, and some of the odder ones caused when your GPU was dying and causing PCI bus errors.

It was straightaway - if you see this error, replace RAM. If you see this error, check the heatsink. This error means your disk is dying. You never saw the errors for anything else.

The only way for me to pay local taxes is via check. They might accept a post office money order but I never tried.

Hmm, two decades ago perhaps. We must be getting old because it doesn't seem like that long ago.

It's more like "dictionary entry of the year". Some things where the two words have to be used together for a specific meaning have dictionary entries, such as speed bump, for example.

Then everyone will start using it as an excuse to attack other people. Especially the cops - they hate being filmed. They will claim it was "aggressive" and justified violence.

A guy called Graham Linehan was just convicted of smashing a girl's phone, when she filled an interaction where she asked him why he called her a "groomer" on twitter, and worse. It was the right judgement, he had no need to do it, and mere annoyance can't be enough or everyone will be smashing stuff they dislike.

If there were better APIs they could do that. An API for sensors, with a maximum safe limit supplied for each one. When a BSOD happens, it could do a little memory test on the affected area.

You guys have absolutely deranged yourself on trans stuff. You think it was important in your political success, but you will find out that it was absolutely unimportant to most people, who care much more about the economy. Lots of them believed that their economic woes could be blamed on the Democrats and that Trump would fix them. And now a substantial proportion is finding that the grass turns out to be shittier on the other side, and are moving away from Trump and the Republicans.

I bought an HDTV too early and it quickly became obsolete because it didn't support 720p only 480p and 1080i. That's what happens when you buy technology, someone doesn't bother supporting it because it's too much of a pain, there is too little money to make, and ultimately they know that people are just going to buy new hardware when their old hardware stops working.

TFA doesn't mention this; but if PN junctions in this new material have the same 300mV forward voltage drop that regular germanium diodes and transistors have, then that will contribute a bit to the speed. I think it should also reduce power consumption by a non-trivial amount - perhaps by a factor of two when compared with regular silicon junctions.

Not so much 'Kraft durch Freude' as 'Grift through Fraud'.
He'd probably struggle with the joy part anyway.

It adds price because Intel forced an artificial market segmentation down everyone's throats.

Early onset Alzheimerâ(TM)s? The man is pushing eighty.

Fronto-temporal dementia would be my guess.

No worries!

My MIL had Alzheimer’s, so I had to find out about it quickly. I happen to have a pal who is an incredibly senior dementia physician in the NHS, and he was helpfully blunt with me in managing expectations. She ended up dying of oral cancer, and probably the AD was helpful in that it took the edge of what was happening for her.

Will it be cash or a participation trophy like his FIFA medal?

Gotta distract from Epstein or how we drop bombs on fishing boats over alleged drugs and then pardon a convicted drug kingpin.