Posts by snee

Windows 95 setup was three programs in a trench coat, Microsoft vet reveals

Re: Downhill?

May have to chuck W2K in a VM and see how it looks...

Re: Downhill?

I convinced my pal XP stood for eXtra Pastel

BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

Many thanks to Prof. Kurtz.

BASIC was always a bit more of a struggle for those of us with the Acorn Atom (I see the posts about Jupiter Ace and feel the pain)

Re: Thank you

Ah, the TRS-80 is what first got me into computers - walking down the hallway at school I just happened to glance into a room I was passing and was transfixed at the black and green screens...

Watchdog finds AI tools can be used unlawfully to filter candidates by race, gender

Re: Think different

Blockbuster is;

A) A way of destroying hard drives

B) Store for renting films on video cassettes

NHS to launch 'real-time surveillance system' to prevent future pandemics

Re: "prevent future pandemics"

"We know you can prevent respiratory infections with masks"

This is a joke right?

Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023

Re: XP was great

I stuck with W2K over XP for a long time claiming XP stood for 'Xtra Pastel'. I eventually succumbed though, not long before 7 came along.

Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11

Re: not happening

Been using OpenSuse for a while here, and Kali for my studies.

*Tips hat to 'Anonymous Coward'*

BOFH: There's no 'I' in team, but there's a 'u' in suck

I've so missed BOFH...

Been so long I'd practically forgotten about it...