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Indeed - I can remember the look of my father when I bought a second hard drive and installed it as the main, and had to move a jumper on the former main to make it as slave drive. I think he was a bit nervous, the thingies were quite expensive back then, and there was no tutorial youtube videos to back me up that I was not doing voodoo. (only a BBS text file with instructions, but that would have taken too long an explanation).
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Those were the days...then I got a cold shower when I tried to revive an SGI O2...PROMs. Firmwares, bootloaders...
Then I achieved Nirvana when I realized the games I compiled for the Nintendo DSi were compiled with the OS in them (Or rather the game was the operating system)
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Really ? I did not know this about the Nintendo OS. "The game was the operating system" : this opens up so many possbilities *stars in the eyes*
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I recall a Dave Barry article on the lack of Mac games and his two favorite PC games: "autoexec.bat" and "config.sys".
"Macs are wuss-o-rama computers you just plug in and use."
Wish I could find that old article.
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How many people remember the days of repeatedly testing and tweaking your compiles to get everything to run in 320k of RAM or less?
Loading page files into extended RAM was allowed, but we wouldn't send anything out the door that took more than 320k to load.
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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That is why the compiler/linker supported “overlays”.
Predecessor to DLL swapping to let the core of your program sit in 200KB and swap in other chunks to the left over 120 KB. Thank you linker!
Of course your fixed/static/data segment memory could still not exceed 64 KB, ever!
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I've been using Edge because theoretically the memory footprint is smaller than Chrome, but whatever...and of course the default search engine is Bing.
> 50% of the time I get garbage results.
I just now asked "what is an address half code" as I see it in some public voter data I'm working with. Bing gives me shyte answers. Open up Google and I get reasonable explanations in the first couple of links returned by the search engine.
When Microsoft says: Quote: Keeping Bing as your default search engine provides an enhanced search experience in the new Microsoft Edge
they lie! They LIE!
Just changed the default search engine in Edge. Bye-bye Bing!
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Meh. I installed Edge when it RTMed and never bothered changing the default search engine. I still find what I'm after without going to Google 95+% of the time.
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Same! 
But.. they are after Marc! 
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You talking about Bings that go thump in the night?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I've used Bing once.
Got a new tablet with Bing as default search engine.
I was playing Final Fantasy VI and needed some help with a boss or something.
I searched for "ffvi [boss name]" and I got no relevant pages 
FFVI is one of the most popular games ever AND IT FOUND NOTHING RELEVANT! 
Google gave me tons of relevant pages.
Needless to say I've never used Bing since.
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And when was that?
A tablet with Bing as the default search engine? A few years at least.
Give it another go. It's not as bad as people seem to remember it.
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dandy72 wrote: And when was that?
Come to think of it, that was 2014 already 
dandy72 wrote: It's not as bad as people seem to remember it.
This thread proves you wrong 
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Sander Rossel wrote: This thread proves you wrong
They're all just naysayers who last tried Bing in 2014 like you have. 
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Remember, Bing Is Not Google.
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Can I tag on this question only because we are talking about search engines.
I switched to Firefox with DuckDuckGo about a month ago. Seemed OK the duck yields less precise results when searching for Net.VB code questions.
The REAL BIG irritation I am seeing is Japanese characters in the Search Text Box.
I have Firefox set to clear history whrn I close the application.
I do not use book marks I wrote a small Net.VB application to open favorite websites.
I have tried to clear cache and site data but it still happens at times.
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I understand. I use DuckDuckGo and BraveSearch as my primary search engines,
because BING Might Lie, but Google Misdirects!
And we have to start somewhere to de-throne them.
I also realize why they gave up on their old Motto: "Don't Be Evil"... They just couldn't help it!
Sometimes, about 10% or so, I am forced to check Google. For both of my parents Obituaries, Google found them.
Others did not.
That said, I don't use bing. I was never a fan, and jumping off of Google to Land on MSFT feels like cutting of my nose
to spite my face.
As I hear Windows 11 is going to CONSIDER Ads playing in File Explorer... OMG, say it isn't so!
Starting to really pickup linux these days! LOL
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From next room, herself asked, "Where's my mapped drive?"
I asked, "are you in File Explorer?"
"Yes"
"Do you see _This PC_?...Do you see the little greater-than sign so you can click to expand the item?"
"No. I don't see any greater-than signs..."
I'm forced to get up.
"Oh, for Fox sake! 🦊🦊 You have to float into that region now because they disappear!!"
UI elements that disappear are so stupid.  Please change the world and make all the disappearing UI elements disappear permanently!!
This is definitely me today[^].
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I don't have disappearing greater than signs - mine are fully visible.
Win 11 21H2, 22000.556
The Win 10 Windows Explorer was better though ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: I don't have disappearing greater than signs - mine are fully visible.
Win 11 21H2, 22000.556
That's really interesting. thanks for posting that.
Some of these _features_ are crazy because a thing is a certain way and then suddenly it is different (continuous updates) and you don't even know when it changed.
It's basically like always having the rug pulled out from underneath you.
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I never noticed this before, but they also disappear on my machine (Windows 11). Stupid indeed.
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Thank you for sharing that you hadn't noticed that before either.
This continuous update thing is just absolutely mind-boggling at times.
If normal physics worked like Windows updates, farm animals would regularly appear on your desk & disappear, I guess. 
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that's funny! points to you sir!
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Yeah that's me today also. Spent most of the day trying to get binding to work in an WPF UserControl because the ignorant ComboBox won't revert to the original value when bound to a DataView and RejectChanges issued. Argggggggggg
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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I'm running Windows 10.
The '>'s are visible if your cursor is over the pane containing the directory tree, fading out when you move off.
Basically a case of
"Pick a number between 1 and 10"
"7"
"Wrong, the answer is 'B'"
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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