Posts by NorbertP 4 publicly visible posts • joined 7 May 2022
Create a burner MS account, install Windows, create a local user, remove dummy account, PROFIT!
(Ironically their push to passwordless accounts has *forced* me to use local accounts on a few of my headless PCs - Remote Desktop (which doesn't seem to have been updated since NT4) doesn't support logging in to remote machines with an authenticator or PIN, you have to use a password.)
The host hardware doesn't need to support anything; the GoTek connects to the existing floppy connector and emulates the original hardware - as far as the host is concerned it *is* a floppy drive. You put floppy images on your USB stick, SD card, etc., use the buttons on the GoYek to select which image you want, and it behaves as if you had a physical disk in a drive.
"...we sort of see a 20 percent uplift on the value of that customer." Or alternatively you see a 100% drop in the value of that customer; I suspect I am not alone in refusing to buy any HP equipment because of their customer-hostile practices.
*sigh* I remember when HP's products were objects of desire...
"One theory proposed among those commenting on the issue is that the bug could be due to a regular expression, or regex, gone awry as a result of catastrophic backtracking."
When faced with a difficult problem, many programmers think "oh, I'll just use a regular expression". Now they have *two* problems.
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