@nerdydad said in Windows Console Colour Scheme Changing:

@travisdh1 said in Windows Console Colour Scheme Changing:

They hit it with an ugly stick. I've always had an easier time reading from a darker background.

Oh buddy, that was done long before this when they came out with windows 1.*. 😉

Got that right! 😄

@reid-cooper said in Separation information for HPE Software:

COBOL is still the coolest.

If you a masochist maybe. Yeah, I've seen it just enough to loath having to work with it.... kind of like me a vi 😛

It was all formal, no education.

@coliver said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

@nerdydad said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

@mlnews said in ReactOS 0.4.6 Coming:

ReactOS, the open source recreation of Windows NT

Why? If you haven't moved passed NT by now, its about time to just wipe the slate clean and start all over because the time and money you're going to spend trying to upgrade everything to the latest and greatest is going to be absurd.

All modern Windows systems are built on top of Windows NT. Windows 10 is on NT version 10.

Yep. Kernel changes very little. All the other stuff that you actually interact with changes lots.

It's neat because it is a rare test where basically only the kernel is different. So you really get to see Linux vs. NTKernel rather than artefacts of the entire stack.

@stuartjordan said in Microsoft putting MSPaint out to pasture:

@scottalanmiller lol, this is probably true, I do remember an article about some os code that was leaked a long time ago and they were quite embarrassed with even some of the comments that was left in the code as well.

Ha ha. Yeah stuff like this dating from the Windows 3 era is bound to be atrocious.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/debian-gnu-linux-9-1-stretch-and-debian-8-9-jessie-officially-released-517107.shtml

So it's finally happening? I remember hearing they were going to be changing the license to allow for this sort of thing. All I can say is, that's a lot of licensing money you've been prohibiting.

@scottalanmiller said in IBM z 14 Mainframe Released:

@travisdh1 said in IBM z 14 Mainframe Released:

@mlnews Sometimes you just have to wonder about marketing guys "New secure services with Java". Javascript maybe, but Java? That on top of the whole encryption thing, really people.

I'm sure they're amazing, just wish I had a need for one!

Actually Mainframes run insane amounts of traditional Java. Because Java is what replaced COBOL in financial applications and because mainframes are focused primarily on financial workloads, it's a very big deal there.

Ah. That'd explain it then. I'll grant that I'd rather deal with JAVA than COBOL!

@scottalanmiller said in Remix OS Discontinued:

@stacksofplates said in Remix OS Discontinued:

Wonder if I can install something else on my mini? Or if it's even worth trying...

I bet a normal Linux will work fine.

Idk do you can get in the boot loader or not. It would have to be "rooted"

@mlnews said in Talos II the Most Insane Workstation of All Time:

It doesn't get much more crazy that this thing. With more computing horsepower than a rack full of normal servers, the fully open source (hardware AND software) Talos II workstation sports two IBM Power 9 RISC CPUs.

Can I haz 1?

If you make hardware, you test and sign the driver. Here is the doc:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/install/driver-signing