"The tools and tricks that let Ars Technica function without a physical office" - Looking at the “future of work” with a team that’s been living it for two decades: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/no-office-no-problem-how-ars-technicas-remote-workers-work/
@00dani it must.
#til among the many simple things you could do in outlook express that you can't do in the #windows 10 mail app is forward a message as an attachment. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/apps_windows_10-outlook_mail/windows-10-mail-forward-as-attachment/e9a87269-c211-413e-b293-128f6ea8225b
i just turned on a customer's laptop for the first time in months. the battery was completely drained, so i had to find & plug in their charger. after the laptop powered on, windows immediately logged off & shut down.
why?
because the laptop lid was closed right after the owner clicked on shutdown. windows stopped the shutdown & went into sleep mode instead, so it didn't finish shutting down until today, & it stayed in sleep mode until it drained the battery.
default windows behavior.
oh, btw, why i was hired to replace the battery: in the 100, the ram doubles as semi-permanent storage like a disk drive, & the ni-cad battery is what preserves it when it's turned off. when it fails, a symptom is random memory corruption even after a cold start.
i repaired vintage computers before, but up to now they were all mine, so it wasn't really a profession. now, after thorough testing of the Model T in my care, i can at last call myself a PROFESSIONAL vintage computer repair tech. *level-up.wav*
An open letter/petition to the Internet Society CEO, setting out the case for blocking the sale of the .org TLD to a private capital firm:
They introduced it with a Macromedia Flash Player animation channeling School House Rock. The original has been lost to time because Flash is dying & the server with the loading content is long since dead, but not before being captured & uploaded to YouTube. It was called "Get Perpendicular": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_PyKuI7II
In 2005, Hitachi claimed advancing hard disk storage density with what it called Perpendicular Magnetic Recording in its Deskstar line and embedded Microdrive: https://web.archive.org/web/20110711171907/https://www1.hitachigst.com/hdd/research/recording_head/pr/index.html
But that's only the context for what I wanted to share.
fragile modern tech [-]
How did we arrive in the timeline where a pocket computer a million times more powerful than the first supercomputers is simultaneously the single slipperiest personal possession AND the single most fragile personal possession?
Guess what just broke, how it broke, & what parts suffered the most damage.
@Chipper hey there! glad to see you made it!
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