Comment by ksec
4 years ago
I feel like a fool this somehow put a smile on my face :)
And my memory may be hazy, but in those days Windows always crash every few days and we normally "shut down" our computer after usage.
But the most interesting thing is a running Windows 95 in English version. May be screenshot [1] weren't hard to come by. And we are lucky nuke didn't happen in 2020.
[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
How far we have come.
Nowadays I usually let my notebook hibernate (not sleep) for the night and when I return the next morning, I often discover that I forgot to stop my debugger and it is still attached to my running program. Not even a hiccup when resuming.
Heh. In the meantime, here I am having to software-reset my network card after almost every resume. Thankfully, like beer, Linux is the answer to _and the cause of,_ all the world's problems.
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:0b\:00.0/remove # echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/rescan