...before Linux 7 takes over Linux XP in number of users?

The community college I'm attending a class in online uses Proctorio. The rules say that we shouldn't wear headphones during the tests because we could be getting answers through the headset.

I'm taking a foreign language class, and part of the tests involves listening to spoken words. I don't own computer speakers, so how am I supposed to follow that rule? I'd have to buy speakers for just Proctorio.

You can always make your own custom Secure Boot key database and sign whatever you want.

It's even easier on millions of Dell and Alienware computers that used the test key as their production Platform Key. You can just use the leaked private key to modify the keys without being easily detectable.

Knowingly.

Microkernel architectures still always involve doing a full context switch when moving between processes. All the registers need to be reloaded, importantly including the entire page table. The page table flush is particularly painful.

There's always "powershell.exe -command ..." to get PowerShell to download an .exe from a web server and run it.

"PC" meant "primary cassette", the main paper tray of HP printers of the time. Other paper trays connected would say other things there when out of paper. "Letter" is the paper size.

They really should use quantum-resistant algorithms alongside a traditional algorithm for now so that you have to crack both. Quantum algorithms are very new compared to our old favorites. One of the NIST finalists for quantum-resistant crypto was cracked using classical computing near the end of the standardization process, highlighting the danger of relying on these alone.

Wake me when I can factor 1024-bit RSA keys. The Nintendo DSi and I have unfinished business.

I'm a pessimist, so I'm guessing--with no evidence--that we will find out that keeping N qubits coherent requires energy exponential in N, meaning that quantum computers are mostly useless.

...and it hasn't bothered me much.

Capcom's Zelda games--Minish Cap and the two Oracles--did mix up the formula a bit though.

Could the midday solar power glut be used to spin up flywheels, then be used with generators to provide the late afternoon air conditioning power?

The ARM64 version of Windows 11 has emulators for both x86-32 and x86-64 applications, and it works for most programs.

Getting a player's game process to execute arbitrary code is "hacking the two players' computers directly", so their statement is BS.

It's pretty easy to compress:

Integral from -1 to 1 of (1/sqrt(1 - x^2)) dx.

0.121121112111121111121111112... is irrational, but I can tell you with just some quick calculations that the 150,000,000,000,000th digit is 1. (The 150,000,007,349,285th digit is the next 2.)