Power Apps: Where Dreams Go To Die Slowly

When your dating life and file system both have compatibility issues. FAT32 is a file system with a 4GB file size limit that most developers have moved on from years ago - just like this guy's dating prospects. Nothing says "I'm still running Windows XP" quite like proudly declaring your love for obsolete storage formats while staring pensively at your multiple monitors.

Content I'M JUST OUTSIDE TOWN, SO I SHOUlD BE THERE IN FIFTEEN MINUTES. ACTUALLY IT'S LOOKING MORE LIKE SIX DAYS. NO, WAIT, THIRTY SECONDS. THE AUTHOR OF THE WINDOWS FILE COPY DIALOG VISITS SOME FRIENDS.

Content Devs can't pull Project. git on Windows machines because a file is named "Aux". What are our options? Create Linux VMs to SSH into Everyone can use WSL Rename the file?

Content How to fix any computer Windows Step I Reboot Did that fix it? No? Proceed to step a Step a Format hard drive, Reinstall Windows Lose all your fies. Quietly weep. Apple Step I Take it to an Apple store Did that fix it? Nor Proceed to step a Step a Buy a new Mac. Overdraw your account Quietly weep. Linux Step h Learn to code in C Recompile the kernel. Build your own microprocessor out of spare silicon you had lying around. Recompile the kernel again: Switch dietros. Recompile the kernel again but this time using a CPU powered by refracted light from Saturn. Grow a giant beard Blame Sun Microsysters. Turn your bedroom into a server closet and spend ten years falling asleep to the sound of whirring fans. Switch distros again. Abandon all hygiene. Write a regular expression that would make other programmers cry blood. Learn to code in Java. Recompile the kernel again (but this time while wearing your lucky socks). Did that fix it? Nor Proceed to step a Step a Revert back to using Windows or a Mac. Quietly weep

Content ferlatte 12 days ago The Second Life updater just downloaded the updater.exe from the website and ran it with no validation. One day, that returned a 404. Cool thing about Win32: if you try to run an EXE, Windows checks to see if it's a valid format (PE). If it's not, it assumes that it's a COM: 16 bit 86 instructions, no header, no validation. The 404 page, when interpreted as 86 bytecode, effectively opened the LPT DOS device and wrote garbage into it. Windows would map that into your actual printer driver in some cases if you had a printer connected directly to your computer. Cheap inkjet printers don't do any validation, so they would freak out, spew paper, and in one case, physically break.

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