Nah, its not rose tinted glasses. Win2000/Win2003 were amazing. I still run Win2003 because it just workz. GUI is great, it snappy, I have all the tools to tinker here and there.. Leaked SRC code helps tiny bit ;)

Win7 wasnt that bad, you still could set classic GUI. If they only kept it like this and plow money to improve kernel...

Hmm I wonder how stable it is.. It cannot render correctly Window control buttons (Minimize, Maximize, Close). If it fails on such basic task, I wonder where it crashes...

That's a graphics driver problem. Fairly common to see when running Windows 9x/Me under QEMU.

Hah, amazing.. And unresolved for all those years?

There's not a whole lot of interest in making Windows 9x run well on QEMU.

These days especially, it's better to just use 86Box for those operating systems.

We are reaching society shown in "Johny Mnemonic" movie.. So much (useless) information around that people gets overloaded. I barely read anything these days on NH, too much (crap) information. I skim and only read stuff that is very close to my interest.

I used to read a lot more in the past, not the case anymore..

Well, half the articles I see posted now, the author didn't even bother to write themselves, but outsourced to a machine.

I've heard this sentiment: "If you didn't even bother to write it, why should I bother to read it?"

But often there is real value there, and I sometimes force myself to cringe my way through the GPT-isms, to find the gems buried within.

It works exacly as it was designed to work.. GIT as VCS.. Version Control System.. for text code sniplets. It can handle small binary blobs just fine.

If you need (D)VFS aka Distributed Versioned Filesystem, grab right tool. Or write one.

This is exacly way I wrote DOT (Distributed Object Tracker). Its pure DVFS repo manager, to handle binary blobs and that it.. Nothing more.

People complaining about GIT not working well w/ big data just handling GIT wrong. Linus said it from the begining, its NOT tool for such datasets. Just move along.

> The truth is, IPv6 is really 64bit, the other 64bit part is just randomish node address...

So anyway it gives 128bits in total, 64 for network and 64 for node.

But I wish there was a better way to write just the local node part and global part being taken automatically.

10:14:05 up 2336 days, 22:17, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Connections... It was always like this..

Haha, nice, I run something similar.. But more manualy managed and I put those bans pernametly. Currneltly, there are 1360 blocks in drop list and growing. I never really remove them, because even those leased blocks move from one spam/abuse operator to another, so no big loss.

And indeed, if people would fight w/ spam/abuse better and more aggresivly, the problem would be much smaller. I dont care anymore, In my opinion Internet is done. Time to start building overlay networks with services for good guys...

This and great backward compatibility. I still can make app targeting Win2000 and it will run on Win2000 onwards (Win10 and Win11 included.) Unfortunately, its starts to fall apart...

I guess they finally think they captured enough "value" with Windows so there is no need to keep every subsystem maintained. It must be very expensive to keep a 20+ year developer to sit in a basement room writing code for some feature that does not generate much revenue. Sad truth. TBH I'd love to learn those subsystems and do it for free.