What's so fantastic about Windows 95? - Page 8

Wudang · 5th July 2012, 01:47 AM

Originally Posted by megaresp

Americans also incorrectly refer to the hash symbol (#) as the pound sign. As all truly civilised people know the correct symbol for pound is: £

When I worked for IBM we had a visit from the IBM National Language Support Center of Competence guys from Toronto (I think). The lead guy kept insisting that brits called "#" the pound sign. That filled us with confidence.

Wudang · 5th July 2012, 01:49 AM

Well I take back some of my negative comments about the PC. It's user interface has finally come of age - check it out!! http://www.commandtechnology.com/

commandlinegamer · 14th November 2012, 01:15 AM

A new "web site" has been published (at my count that makes 437 "pages" now on the "web") with some tips for this "operating system":

http://windows95tips.tumblr.com/

Earthborn · 14th November 2012, 10:28 AM

For those interested in US politics, check out Bob Dole's slick new website.

Apathia · 14th November 2012, 07:49 PM

And did you know that you can customize your Windows 95 Desktop to an elegance and beauty Windows 8 is incapable?

uk_dave · 15th November 2012, 05:40 AM

Windows 8? Isn't that pre-world war 1?

Moon-Spinner · 16th November 2012, 11:49 AM

Originally Posted by Earthborn

For those interested in US politics, check out Bob Dole's slick new website.

I remember Bob Dole gave the URL of his web site at the end of one of the debates with Clinton, I never visited the site until NOW!

(Great, maybe this will help me decide who to vote for...)

sopclod · 18th November 2012, 06:55 PM

I didn't read the entire thread so forgive me if this has already been mentioned but...

I remember being stunned that pressing the power button on my PC didn't turn it off anymore. WTF??

Wudang · 19th November 2012, 04:27 AM

Originally Posted by sopclod

I didn't read the entire thread so forgive me if this has already been mentioned but...

I remember being stunned that pressing the power button on my PC didn't turn it off anymore. WTF??

They started making them out of poor quality stuff. Just hold it down for a few seconds and it works. Or you may have a sturdier rocker switch on the back that will work.

Soapy Sam · 19th November 2012, 07:28 AM

Originally Posted by sopclod

I didn't read the entire thread so forgive me if this has already been mentioned but...

I remember being stunned that pressing the power button on my PC didn't turn it off anymore. WTF??

Why would you expect the START button to stop it?
I think you lack intuition.

Wudang · 19th November 2012, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by Soapy Sam

I think you lack intuition.

Is it on the install disc or do I have to buy it in the shops?

Christian Klippel · 20th November 2012, 05:21 AM

Originally Posted by Wudang

Is it on the install disc or do I have to buy it in the shops?

If you want it, you need to switch to the Amiga computer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(Amiga)

Greetings,

Chris

Wudang · 20th November 2012, 09:41 AM

Originally Posted by Christian Klippel

If you want it, you need to switch to the Amiga computer:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(Amiga)

Greetings,

Chris

<sneer> I prefer my Atari STFM, thank you.

sopclod · 20th November 2012, 07:05 PM

Originally Posted by Wudang

They started making them out of poor quality stuff. Just hold it down for a few seconds and it works. Or you may have a sturdier rocker switch on the back that will work.

I'm talking about push buttons. Rather than just look it up I swear that on my DOS based PC pressing the power button turned it off immediately, while the five second thing came with Windows 95. The problem is I had no idea about that until years later.

In fact even today if you are in the BIOS or some other non-Windows state pressing the power button turns the PC off immediately.

Christian Klippel · 21st November 2012, 04:46 AM

Originally Posted by sopclod

I'm talking about push buttons. Rather than just look it up I swear that on my DOS based PC pressing the power button turned it off immediately, while the five second thing came with Windows 95. The problem is I had no idea about that until years later.

In fact even today if you are in the BIOS or some other non-Windows state pressing the power button turns the PC off immediately.

That's because nowdays the power-button is more of a "soft button". The OS can switch off the computer. The BIOS handles the power button, passing it through the OS if wanted.

Normally, only pressing it once "normally" will put the computer into deep sleep, from which it can wake up faster than what a regular boot would take. Plus, it restores the state of the machine, that is, everything is back to the state it was in when you pressed the button.

It _can_ be configured so that a single push will turn it off, in that case the OS will shut down in a clean way and then switch off the machine.

It's generally a bad idea to simply switch of the computer without having it properly shut down first. It likely leads to data corruption on the harddrives.

Greetings,

Chris

Furi · 24th November 2012, 05:31 AM

LOL I have just put a nasty message on my Web page in white text for insulting all of you Internet Explorer lusers that can't read my black background page formatted for netscape.

Anyone know where I can get a spare caddy for my CD Rom, Also I have another IDE port on my sound card, Can't wait to fire that up.

My Vesa Card won't run some software, so I will be updating my machine I think I have the perfect Games Machine sorted but a little help would be nice.

Looking at
7Bay Tower (7 5.25 bays and 8 3.5 Internal) 4 floppy drives
Full Form AT gigabyte board (512k Cache)
one of those 686 200s Hah intel will never catch up, Cyrix is the future
6-8 Mb of EDO ram Depends on the price it is so variable
An 80Mb Western Digital Hard Disk + 2 20Mb SCSIs external
A Millenium Graphics card on PCI with a Voodoo2 accelerator
A 16b Yamaha SoundForce card (With Game port)
And a new 33.6 k modem, I might get one of the new Windows Modems when they come out soon)

gonna get me one of those funky rounded split keyboard things and a force feedback mouse as well,

Any suggestions but I think the above will beat the pants off my Amiga 4000/40, (I mean it is 5x slower, so I'll have to sell that first to get the above power house)

*Sobs uncontrollably at the memory

*

Soapy Sam · 26th November 2012, 05:51 AM

Four floppies! Don't be ridiculous.
What would anyone need with so much data?

Furi · 26th November 2012, 11:41 AM

Originally Posted by Soapy Sam

Four floppies! Don't be ridiculous.
What would anyone need with so much data?

: Distribution

:

Christian Klippel · 26th November 2012, 03:26 PM

Originally Posted by Soapy Sam

Four floppies! Don't be ridiculous.
What would anyone need with so much data?

Well, i have heard that soon we will have those new floppies that can hold as much data as 60 or 70 of these old floppies! Hmm, what was their name again... ZupDrive? ZapDrive? Something along those lines. Ah, right, ZipDrive!

That's definitely the future. Instead of those chunky hard disk drives we can then use these new floppies.

Greetings,

Chris

Wudang · 26th November 2012, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by Furi

: Distribution

:

Yeah, forget this web browser rubbish. Get a newsreader fired up and check out the alt.binaries.pictures groups.

Ocelot · 26th November 2012, 03:43 PM

Originally Posted by Christian Klippel

Well, i have heard that soon we will have those new floppies that can hold as much data as 60 or 70 of these old floppies! Hmm, what was their name again... ZupDrive? ZapDrive? Something along those lines. Ah, right, ZipDrive!

That's definitely the future. Instead of those chunky hard disk drives we can then use these new floppies.

Greetings,

Chris

A friend of a friend has one of those CD writers. He says I can borrow it if I get a SCSI card to plug it in to.

It can write a music CD in a quarter of the time it take to play one and you can also store data on them.

Wudang · 26th November 2012, 03:49 PM

Originally Posted by Ocelot

A friend of a friend has one of those CD writers. He says I can borrow it if I get a SCSI card to plug it in to.

If you need help with the SCSI a pal of mine has a goat that's pretty ill that he was planning to get rid of.

Ocelot · 26th November 2012, 04:56 PM

Is it self terminating? I got blood all over my shirt the last time I played with SCSI

Rrose Selavy · 27th November 2012, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by Wudang

Yeah, forget this web browser rubbish. Get a newsreader fired up and check out the alt.binaries.pictures groups.

Careful though. I spent nearly an hour downloading a pic of a "naked female"
but when it was decoded and appeared it was a chimpanzee and wasn't even female.
I felt so cheated.

-

xterra · 30th November 2012, 01:23 PM

I don't understand what you people mean by "downloading a picture," or "windows," or "blue screen."

The North Star computer that I have been using has a great keyboard, and all the characters that I type appear immediately on the screen, following a little "greater than" sign, like this:

>

I can type there, and when I press <Enter>, the computer does what I tell it to do ... most of the time. Unless I tell it the wrong thing. Then it types back at me, with something like "That is an improper instruction." *

If I use the PDP-8 and I want to save the session, I merely tear the paper off the roll on the teletype machine and I've got it. "Voyla!" as I heard someone say recently.

What more do I need?

^*How did the computer hear what I was saying? I thought I just muttered that imprecation.

Checkmite · 30th November 2012, 02:27 PM

Just downloaded the newest WinNuke. It's great - really simplified, you just type in their IP address and click "Nuke". Awesome! I got it, my ICMP bomber, port listener, and NukeNabber all on a floppy so I can use them on any computer at school I happen to be on. NukeNabber is so sick - I had my friend try to nuke me and it caught it, no problem. And I got all of them hidden on the disk in like a nest of folders arranged like a number pad, that in order to get to them you've got to go through the right "code number". I'm so awesome, I'm like unstoppable now.

Ocelot · 30th November 2012, 03:33 PM

That's evil. I hope you catch a macro virus

Wudang · 3rd December 2012, 07:50 AM

Just don't open any emails with the title "Good times!". Email all your friends to warn them. It wipes all your data, sets your PC on fire and gives you STDs.

TjW · 3rd December 2012, 08:19 AM

Well, that's just silly. PCs are an ISA bus, not STD.

bigred · 8th December 2012, 08:56 AM

Originally Posted by Wudang

I already have OS/2.

Enjoy your new-fangled crapola. I'm stickin w/DOS. Forces tight programming.

GUIs are for wimps and people too dum to handle a real OS.

CORed · 18th December 2012, 12:26 AM

Originally Posted by Christian Klippel

That's because nowdays the power-button is more of a "soft button". The OS can switch off the computer. The BIOS handles the power button, passing it through the OS if wanted.

Normally, only pressing it once "normally" will put the computer into deep sleep, from which it can wake up faster than what a regular boot would take. Plus, it restores the state of the machine, that is, everything is back to the state it was in when you pressed the button.

It _can_ be configured so that a single push will turn it off, in that case the OS will shut down in a clean way and then switch off the machine.

It's generally a bad idea to simply switch of the computer without having it properly shut down first. It likely leads to data corruption on the harddrives.

Greetings,

Chris

On the old AT PC's, the power button was a hardware switch on the 110V hot lead to the power supply. If you opened the case with the PC plugged in, the terminals on that switch would give you a nice jolt of 110V AC if you were careless enough to touch them. If you ran Windows 95 on such a machine, whe you shut down the OS, instead of powering off the computer, it would display a screen that said, "It is now safe to turn off your computer".

5th July 2012, 01:47 AM	#281
Wudang BOFH Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sheffield Posts: 8,242	Originally Posted by megaresp Americans also incorrectly refer to the hash symbol (#) as the pound sign. As all truly civilised people know the correct symbol for pound is: £ When I worked for IBM we had a visit from the IBM National Language Support Center of Competence guys from Toronto (I think). The lead guy kept insisting that brits called "#" the pound sign. That filled us with confidence.
	__________________ Aphorism: Subjects most likely to be declared inappropriate for humor are the ones most in need of it. -epepke

5th July 2012, 01:49 AM	#282
Wudang BOFH Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sheffield Posts: 8,242	Well I take back some of my negative comments about the PC. It's user interface has finally come of age - check it out!! http://www.commandtechnology.com/
	__________________ Aphorism: Subjects most likely to be declared inappropriate for humor are the ones most in need of it. -epepke

14th November 2012, 01:15 AM	#283
commandlinegamer Philosopher Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Mazes of Menace Posts: 5,889	A new "web site" has been published (at my count that makes 437 "pages" now on the "web") with some tips for this "operating system": http://windows95tips.tumblr.com/
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14th November 2012, 10:28 AM	#284
Earthborn Terrestrial Intelligence Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Terra Firma Posts: 5,646	For those interested in US politics, check out Bob Dole's slick new website.
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14th November 2012, 07:49 PM	#285
Apathia Master Poster Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Tempe, AZ Posts: 2,936	And did you know that you can customize your Windows 95 Desktop to an elegance and beauty Windows 8 is incapable?
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15th November 2012, 05:40 AM	#286
uk_dave Philosopher Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 7,866	Windows 8? Isn't that pre-world war 1?
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16th November 2012, 11:49 AM	#287
Moon-Spinner Graduate Poster Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Within a star too far to dream of Posts: 1,483	Originally Posted by Earthborn For those interested in US politics, check out Bob Dole's slick new website. I remember Bob Dole gave the URL of his web site at the end of one of the debates with Clinton, I never visited the site until NOW! (Great, maybe this will help me decide who to vote for...)

18th November 2012, 06:55 PM	#288
sopclod New Blood Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 23	I didn't read the entire thread so forgive me if this has already been mentioned but... I remember being stunned that pressing the power button on my PC didn't turn it off anymore. WTF??
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19th November 2012, 04:27 AM	#289
Wudang BOFH Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sheffield Posts: 8,242	Originally Posted by sopclod I didn't read the entire thread so forgive me if this has already been mentioned but... I remember being stunned that pressing the power button on my PC didn't turn it off anymore. WTF?? They started making them out of poor quality stuff. Just hold it down for a few seconds and it works. Or you may have a sturdier rocker switch on the back that will work.
	__________________ Aphorism: Subjects most likely to be declared inappropriate for humor are the ones most in need of it. -epepke

19th November 2012, 07:28 AM	#290
Soapy Sam NLH Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 25,885	Originally Posted by sopclod I didn't read the entire thread so forgive me if this has already been mentioned but... I remember being stunned that pressing the power button on my PC didn't turn it off anymore. WTF?? Why would you expect the START button to stop it? I think you lack intuition.
Soapy Sam NLH Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 25,885

19th November 2012, 07:33 AM	#291
Wudang BOFH Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sheffield Posts: 8,242	Originally Posted by Soapy Sam I think you lack intuition. Is it on the install disc or do I have to buy it in the shops?
	__________________ Aphorism: Subjects most likely to be declared inappropriate for humor are the ones most in need of it. -epepke

20th November 2012, 05:21 AM	#292
Christian Klippel Graduate Poster Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ruhr Area in Germany Posts: 1,918	Originally Posted by Wudang Is it on the install disc or do I have to buy it in the shops? If you want it, you need to switch to the Amiga computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(Amiga) Greetings, Chris
	__________________ Humber-physics 101: The treadmill has no ground equivalent. This means that the belt is not the road, but the Earth. ... That means the belt is also a privileged and unique perspective. If not then the treadmill collapses to the real world equivalent of a real treadmill, with different objects at different velocities in the same frame. Either way, no motion.

20th November 2012, 09:41 AM	#293
Wudang BOFH Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sheffield Posts: 8,242	Originally Posted by Christian Klippel If you want it, you need to switch to the Amiga computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuition_(Amiga) Greetings, Chris <sneer> I prefer my Atari STFM, thank you.
	__________________ Aphorism: Subjects most likely to be declared inappropriate for humor are the ones most in need of it. -epepke

20th November 2012, 07:05 PM	#294
sopclod New Blood Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 23	Originally Posted by Wudang They started making them out of poor quality stuff. Just hold it down for a few seconds and it works. Or you may have a sturdier rocker switch on the back that will work. I'm talking about push buttons. Rather than just look it up I swear that on my DOS based PC pressing the power button turned it off immediately, while the five second thing came with Windows 95. The problem is I had no idea about that until years later. In fact even today if you are in the BIOS or some other non-Windows state pressing the power button turns the PC off immediately.
sopclod New Blood Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 23

21st November 2012, 04:46 AM	#295
Christian Klippel Graduate Poster Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ruhr Area in Germany Posts: 1,918	Originally Posted by sopclod I'm talking about push buttons. Rather than just look it up I swear that on my DOS based PC pressing the power button turned it off immediately, while the five second thing came with Windows 95. The problem is I had no idea about that until years later. In fact even today if you are in the BIOS or some other non-Windows state pressing the power button turns the PC off immediately. That's because nowdays the power-button is more of a "soft button". The OS can switch off the computer. The BIOS handles the power button, passing it through the OS if wanted. Normally, only pressing it once "normally" will put the computer into deep sleep, from which it can wake up faster than what a regular boot would take. Plus, it restores the state of the machine, that is, everything is back to the state it was in when you pressed the button. It _can_ be configured so that a single push will turn it off, in that case the OS will shut down in a clean way and then switch off the machine. It's generally a bad idea to simply switch of the computer without having it properly shut down first. It likely leads to data corruption on the harddrives. Greetings, Chris
	__________________ Humber-physics 101: The treadmill has no ground equivalent. This means that the belt is not the road, but the Earth. ... That means the belt is also a privileged and unique perspective. If not then the treadmill collapses to the real world equivalent of a real treadmill, with different objects at different velocities in the same frame. Either way, no motion.

24th November 2012, 05:31 AM	#296
Furi Felix Sapiens Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Living life in the bus lane Posts: 2,006	LOL I have just put a nasty message on my Web page in white text for insulting all of you Internet Explorer lusers that can't read my black background page formatted for netscape. Anyone know where I can get a spare caddy for my CD Rom, Also I have another IDE port on my sound card, Can't wait to fire that up. My Vesa Card won't run some software, so I will be updating my machine I think I have the perfect Games Machine sorted but a little help would be nice. Looking at 7Bay Tower (7 5.25 bays and 8 3.5 Internal) 4 floppy drives Full Form AT gigabyte board (512k Cache) one of those 686 200s Hah intel will never catch up, Cyrix is the future 6-8 Mb of EDO ram Depends on the price it is so variable An 80Mb Western Digital Hard Disk + 2 20Mb SCSIs external A Millenium Graphics card on PCI with a Voodoo2 accelerator A 16b Yamaha SoundForce card (With Game port) And a new 33.6 k modem, I might get one of the new Windows Modems when they come out soon) gonna get me one of those funky rounded split keyboard things and a force feedback mouse as well, Any suggestions but I think the above will beat the pants off my Amiga 4000/40, (I mean it is 5x slower, so I'll have to sell that first to get the above power house) Sobs uncontrollably at the memory
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26th November 2012, 05:51 AM	#297
Soapy Sam NLH Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 25,885	Four floppies! Don't be ridiculous. What would anyone need with so much data?
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26th November 2012, 11:41 AM	#298
Furi Felix Sapiens Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Living life in the bus lane Posts: 2,006	Yarr Originally Posted by Soapy Sam Four floppies! Don't be ridiculous. What would anyone need with so much data? : Distribution :
	__________________ =^..^= Felix Sapiens,Drink Beer! It is big, and it is clever, There’s a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets The chances of anything coming from mars are a million to one they say.

26th November 2012, 03:26 PM	#299
Christian Klippel Graduate Poster Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ruhr Area in Germany Posts: 1,918	Originally Posted by Soapy Sam Four floppies! Don't be ridiculous. What would anyone need with so much data? Well, i have heard that soon we will have those new floppies that can hold as much data as 60 or 70 of these old floppies! Hmm, what was their name again... ZupDrive? ZapDrive? Something along those lines. Ah, right, ZipDrive! That's definitely the future. Instead of those chunky hard disk drives we can then use these new floppies. Greetings, Chris
	__________________ Humber-physics 101: The treadmill has no ground equivalent. This means that the belt is not the road, but the Earth. ... That means the belt is also a privileged and unique perspective. If not then the treadmill collapses to the real world equivalent of a real treadmill, with different objects at different velocities in the same frame. Either way, no motion.

26th November 2012, 03:32 PM	#300
Wudang BOFH Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sheffield Posts: 8,242	Originally Posted by Furi : Distribution : Yeah, forget this web browser rubbish. Get a newsreader fired up and check out the alt.binaries.pictures groups.
	__________________ Aphorism: Subjects most likely to be declared inappropriate for humor are the ones most in need of it. -epepke

26th November 2012, 03:43 PM	#301
Ocelot Illuminator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: London Posts: 3,016	Originally Posted by Christian Klippel Well, i have heard that soon we will have those new floppies that can hold as much data as 60 or 70 of these old floppies! Hmm, what was their name again... ZupDrive? ZapDrive? Something along those lines. Ah, right, ZipDrive! That's definitely the future. Instead of those chunky hard disk drives we can then use these new floppies. Greetings, Chris A friend of a friend has one of those CD writers. He says I can borrow it if I get a SCSI card to plug it in to. It can write a music CD in a quarter of the time it take to play one and you can also store data on them.
	__________________ EDL = English Disco Lovers

26th November 2012, 03:49 PM	#302
Wudang BOFH Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sheffield Posts: 8,242	Originally Posted by Ocelot A friend of a friend has one of those CD writers. He says I can borrow it if I get a SCSI card to plug it in to. If you need help with the SCSI a pal of mine has a goat that's pretty ill that he was planning to get rid of.
	__________________ Aphorism: Subjects most likely to be declared inappropriate for humor are the ones most in need of it. -epepke

26th November 2012, 04:56 PM	#303
Ocelot Illuminator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: London Posts: 3,016	Is it self terminating? I got blood all over my shirt the last time I played with SCSI
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27th November 2012, 11:44 AM	#304
Rrose Selavy Stranded in Sub-Atomica Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: UK Posts: 2,915	Originally Posted by Wudang Yeah, forget this web browser rubbish. Get a newsreader fired up and check out the alt.binaries.pictures groups. Careful though. I spent nearly an hour downloading a pic of a "naked female" but when it was decoded and appeared it was a chimpanzee and wasn't even female. I felt so cheated. -

30th November 2012, 01:23 PM	#305
xterra Muse Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: On the outskirts of Nowhere; the middle was too crowded Posts: 619	I don't understand what you people mean by "downloading a picture," or "windows," or "blue screen." The North Star computer that I have been using has a great keyboard, and all the characters that I type appear immediately on the screen, following a little "greater than" sign, like this: > I can type there, and when I press <Enter>, the computer does what I tell it to do ... most of the time. Unless I tell it the wrong thing. Then it types back at me, with something like "That is an improper instruction." * If I use the PDP-8 and I want to save the session, I merely tear the paper off the roll on the teletype machine and I've got it. "Voyla!" as I heard someone say recently. What more do I need? ^*How did the computer hear what I was saying? I thought I just muttered that imprecation.
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30th November 2012, 02:27 PM	#306
Checkmite Skepticifimisticalationist Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Third in line Posts: 14,878	Just downloaded the newest WinNuke. It's great - really simplified, you just type in their IP address and click "Nuke". Awesome! I got it, my ICMP bomber, port listener, and NukeNabber all on a floppy so I can use them on any computer at school I happen to be on. NukeNabber is so sick - I had my friend try to nuke me and it caught it, no problem. And I got all of them hidden on the disk in like a nest of folders arranged like a number pad, that in order to get to them you've got to go through the right "code number". I'm so awesome, I'm like unstoppable now.

30th November 2012, 03:33 PM	#307
Ocelot Illuminator Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: London Posts: 3,016	That's evil. I hope you catch a macro virus
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3rd December 2012, 07:50 AM	#308
Wudang BOFH Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Sheffield Posts: 8,242	Just don't open any emails with the title "Good times!". Email all your friends to warn them. It wipes all your data, sets your PC on fire and gives you STDs.
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3rd December 2012, 08:19 AM	#309
TjW Philosopher Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: up in the air Posts: 9,969	Well, that's just silly. PCs are an ISA bus, not STD.
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8th December 2012, 08:56 AM	#310
bigred Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: USA Posts: 12,525	Originally Posted by Wudang I already have OS/2. Enjoy your new-fangled crapola. I'm stickin w/DOS. Forces tight programming. GUIs are for wimps and people too dum to handle a real OS.

18th December 2012, 12:26 AM	#311
CORed Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 4,281	Originally Posted by Christian Klippel That's because nowdays the power-button is more of a "soft button". The OS can switch off the computer. The BIOS handles the power button, passing it through the OS if wanted. Normally, only pressing it once "normally" will put the computer into deep sleep, from which it can wake up faster than what a regular boot would take. Plus, it restores the state of the machine, that is, everything is back to the state it was in when you pressed the button. It _can_ be configured so that a single push will turn it off, in that case the OS will shut down in a clean way and then switch off the machine. It's generally a bad idea to simply switch of the computer without having it properly shut down first. It likely leads to data corruption on the harddrives. Greetings, Chris On the old AT PC's, the power button was a hardware switch on the 110V hot lead to the power supply. If you opened the case with the PC plugged in, the terminals on that switch would give you a nice jolt of 110V AC if you were careless enough to touch them. If you ran Windows 95 on such a machine, whe you shut down the OS, instead of powering off the computer, it would display a screen that said, "It is now safe to turn off your computer".
CORed Illuminator Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 4,281	Last edited by CORed; 18th December 2012 at 12:32 AM.