A lot of the lower parts of the OS are written in C or Assembly (thought that is probably a smaller part). Other parts are in Rust and C#. (which to your point should also be trapping exceptions)

You would hope that things are checked and trapped, but for the level that Crowdstrike is running at, it's one of those "do things are your own risk, you may crash the whole computer". Sounds like someone didn't check something assuming that "there is no way this will never not succeed." Would love to see a post-mortem of the cause.

Love the quote - probably going to go see them this fall since they are coming around!

It's not in that article, but is mentioned in the last paragraph here - https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2023%2F05%2F17...
Spoiler...it was a separate bill he signed.

The onus is upon the government to archive and maintain the communications and documents, not the private company. I'm sure they have something hooked into the twitter API's to gather and archive the tweets already.

I agree about the second part - having dealt with Open Records in the past, if it doesn't exist as a record it can't be FOIA'ed. No document means nothing to tie something to you.

I could see his machine being a bit overworked and perhaps there was something not 100.01% right in the hardware anymore. Maybe it clocked slightly different or something.

But his statement about starting in second gear when a code review says that's not possible makes it really suspect.

Occam's razor in me says - crappy TV in 1980 and a 7 looked like a 1 :)

"C'mon Jim - don't feed me that bull that it can't be done. I was watching CSI last night and they typed "PASSWORD OVERRIDE" in and it let them in the system. Call apple back and have them try that."

What I've determined whenever I look at the reviews of a product on Amazon (or any site) is that no product produced actually works. Every product has the people that received DOA items, or they broke on first use.

Though my favorite is the five-star review I saw for "Box was damaged so I returned it unopened, but what I saw of it, it looked okay"

Our Radio Shack in West Milford NJ had an attached store - Computer Discount of NJ. Hardware, Software and the amazing thing - a software rental club. They were some great guys. I'm sure the idea was basically try-before-you-buy the software, but you could rent some of the games for $3 for 3 days or something like that...just enough time to get fed up or bored with them. Or let CopyIIPC deal with them :)

I rented Winter Sports, got home and it wasn't in there. Went back and they didn't have it. We looked where we parked, and there laying in the snow-melt was the floppy. Took it home, dried it off real good with a hair dryer and amazingly it worked. Don't know for how long after!

That's the biggest problems with shifts in power, especially if parties change every four years. One party spends four years getting something in place, or sets some long term goals, and then next election someone else comes in and changes it all. So they spend all the time and money getting one thing spun up and then it gets canned and they spend the next four years doing something else and it may be canned.

Gotta be a better way.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_bunchy_top_virus

Am trying to remember the beginning days from the 0.98 or so era in 92. Was using 386BSD for a bit then decided to go to Linux (or perhaps I had them both going...had CP/M installed then too.) I think the first was a boot disk and a root filesystem disk. Then there were all the different disk images for GCC, and so on. rawrite it to a disk in dos, tar vfxM in Linux. Token ring at college, so no networking for me :( First real distribution was SLS, followed by Slackware, which was the main one for a while. Used RedHat at workt, and then Debian (about 1998). Since then, it's been Debian. There are a couple things I use uBuntu for, but that's pretty much the same.

Don't care about the free philosophy behind it, and don't really think it's perfect, but it is the one that has felt right. Have touched RedHat and SuSE since then because of things based on it, and still come back to Debian and uBuntu.

Meanwhile I'm sure they have some real pets who are being neglected.

This must be one of those things that I have blocked cause half the mom's I know are obsessed with that crap.

My favorite!

I rested all my hopes and futures on my one hit song "Bootleg Rum and the Red Flag Pirate" Little did I know they were forbidden words.

For everytime I had to call for support, or try to use their itrc, or everytime I had to come up with a model number from a device that had 20 different numbers on it, none of them matching the format they expected, for everytime I had to deal with HPUX...serves them right.

RAM is good - free ram is wasted. However when I leave my machine locked overnight and FF's memory usage goes from 200MB to 1200MB, that's probably bad, unless it's trying to pre-cache the Internet for me. :)