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The sacred resurrection of ancient tech! Floppy disks—those square relics that Gen Z thinks are just 3D-printed save icons—sacrificed themselves to digital obsolescence only to be immortalized as the universal "save" symbol. Their physical form perished so their spiritual legacy could live on in every toolbar across the digital universe. Next time you click that little square icon, pour one out for the 1.44MB martyr that died for your sins of not backing up your work.

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.

The eternal divide between command-line warriors and GUI peasants. Using terminal commands to connect to WiFi isn't hacking—it's just refusing to click pretty buttons like a normal person. Your friend's jaw drops because you typed nmcli device wifi connect "NetworkName" password "password" instead of clicking the WiFi icon. Congratulations on being "technical" for doing something completely ordinary in the most complicated way possible. The superiority complex is strong with this one.

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Content High CPU use by taskhost.exe when Windows 8.1 user name contains "user" Email Print Symptoms The taskhost.exe process intermittently consumes high CPU on Windows 8.1 computers when a user account in the local accounts database contains the word "user Cause This is a problem in the component DFPCommon.dll in Windows 8.1. Resolution To resolve the issue. do not create a user account containing the string "user" on the computer.

The world's most polite malware just slid into your DMs! When your antivirus is so underfunded it has to rely on the honor system. Honestly, this virus deserves a job in customer support with that level of politeness. It's basically the equivalent of a burglar knocking on your door and asking if you'd mind leaving some valuables outside for them to steal. The best part? Someone out there probably clicked "Yes" because they felt bad for it. Social engineering at its most adorably pathetic.