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BryanFazekas wrote: Today? Laptops come configured with C as the boot disk. AFAIK it's not a requirement under Windows, so it's probably 30+ years of convention.
I believe at one point in time it was possible to install Windows on a hard drive that wasn't necessarily C:...in fact I distinctly remember seeing Windows 2000 installed on a drive E: somewhere - OS files were on E:\Windows, E:\Program Files, etc.
I think this broke a lot of bad assumptions from poorly thought-out apps, and nowadays to avoid that you can ONLY install the OS on drive C:. It's been a while I've seen any option in Windows installers that would leave me to believe you have any sort of choice.
But still, any code I write that needs to know always queries the system even for the most basic things, rather than assuming C: even exists at all.
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BryanFazekas wrote: When CD drives became common, they were always mapped as D -- I have no idea if that was a requirement or just a popular convention.
Just convention. I had a Win98 machine that came with two cd drives (one a burner) and they were on M: and N:
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One of our vendors has a camera calibration program that looks on a floppy drive for the files to do the validation. I got sick of carrying the floppy everywhere and mapped the A: drive to a server and disabled the floppy drive in Device Manager. Looks weird, feels weird, but works.
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Played this game addictively for the last 10 days...
(even started a second playthrough, which I suspect is unusual, this is more of a single playthrough kind of game)
Anyhow, also been surfing the Steam discussion forums about it. There are both lots of people having technical issues, and a lots of people who play happily without issue. I feel sorry for the devs, they must struggle with a strong case of "work on my machine".
Side note, looking at the bugs or bad experiences report, it seems like most of the issues come from Unreal4 if I were to guess, which I find kind of surprising for such a successful engine!
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I started recently with "Resident Evil: Village" - wanted to test my new RTX 3060 and the ray tracing thingy. Boy that game (and the GPU) delivers! Have never seen better graphics/lighting before. And the game is super addictive, although a bit too intense for 40+ toddler like me. Highly recommended!
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Super Lloyd wrote: it seems like most of the issues come from Unreal4
Asmongold (twitch/YT game streamer) has been playing this game lately and loves it. He did show a very weird world rendering bug live on Stream and now that I read your post, I wonder if the bug he had/saw was related to this UE4 bug(s)?
Interesting.
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My nephew finished the game but found that he couldn't save his progress once he completed it. He's playing it on an XBox Series X. He said he googled the issue and stated that others are experiencing the save game issue as well. He's a huge Harry Potter fan (understatement of the decade) and he is pissed due to that bug and he's been talking my ear off about it.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Wordle 612 5/6
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Wordle 612 4/6
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Wordle 612 3/6*
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"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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Wordle 612 5/6
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After two weeks of my second starter not catching anythong I swapped it with the third one. Now that one didn't catch anything. :sad:
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Wordle 612 4/6
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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There is such a word??!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Several Norwegian newspapers reported today that future printings of the children's books by Roald Dahl will be updated to PC language and history. If you're British, you may know books such as Mathilda, The BFG, The Witches, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and a bunch of other ones.
These Norwegian newspaper stories presented lists of the original Roald Dahl wordings together with new PC wordings - but both table columns were translated to Norwegian, probably by the newspaper staff. You can never 100% trust translations, in particular when the PC-ness of language is involved.
Have any of you Brits seen any such translation-to-PC-language table in the news lately? Do you have a URL to an English-language version? (The Norwegian table had almost 50 entries.)
Roald Dahl was never intended to be PC!
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It looks as if I have to follow the link to the Telegraph in order to see the complete list of edits.
The Telegraph makes an offer of 1 month of 'free' access. So they want my email address. I have set up a quite well-working sorting of incoming email into different folders (of which 'spam' is the fastest growing one). So I said 'OK'.
They they want my credit card details to give me this 'free' offer. Sorry, that is going (far) beyond my concept of a 'free' offer.
Has anyone around here given the Telegraph their credit card details, and able to quote that word list? Or would that constitute a law-breaking copyright infringement?
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trønderen wrote: Has anyone around here given the Telegraph their credit card details, and able to quote that word list?
That would not be me. I'm not particularly interested in what is or isn't PC these days. Don't plan to follow any PC crusade and my indignation level is set to mild .
Mircea
modified 21-Feb-23 12:53pm.
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If you are a granddaddy, and dig up the old children's books you read for your kids when you were a daddy, The Child Protection Service may come after you
If I wanted to move to the US of A (I don't!), I would have to leave behind a number of books in my bookshelves, at least one of them aimed at preschoolers. I depends on the state laws, but that preschooler book could in some states earn me six years in prison for just owning.
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trønderen wrote: If I wanted to move to the US of A (I don't!),
I worked for 25 years for a US company, telecommuting when telecommuting was not even a word and resisted my boss's gentle nudges to move to US. It's safe to assume there is no chance for me to move to US
As for grand-kids books, I managed to forever distort their world view with such pernicious stories like Dr. Seuss. My work is done! (evil grin)
Mircea
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