Story gains traction on Lobsters with 73 points
2 Oct 30 9:01 PM · 13d ago · 2 posts · 2 sources · development 2 of 2
The story climbs discussion rankings on the Lobsters developer community, generating 10 comments and high engagement.
Raymond Chen Windows developer, The Old New Thing blogger
The whole story posts the bright band is this development · numbered dots are the others · click one to jump
What people said 11 voices · verbatim
-
> “the person who normally draws stuff is hung.” are we seriously not doing phrasing anymore?! :D
-
The Old New Thing continues to deliver https:// devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewt hing/20261029-00/?p=112808/
-
> If you hold a PC’s power button for 12 seconds, it will turn off at the hardware level without notifying the operating system. […] After eight seconds of the power button being held down, the Windows kernel realizes that the user is trying to do a force-power-off of the system, […] What? *12 seconds?* That’s just wrong. I’ve seen it done with…
-
When using minimalist window managers on Unix, I have also at least once been confused as to whether the system had booted or not.
-
This is the very reason why i3lock doesn’t default to turning the screen black :) (In the early days of i3lock, black and white were easily available in the X11 wire protocol, so i3lock defaulted to an all-white screen. Later, we changed it to a shade of grey for ergonomics.)
-
ACPI / UEFI spec is 4 seconds: https://uefi.org/htmlspecs/ACPI_Spec_6_4_html/04_ACPI_Hardware_Specification/ACPI_Hardware_Specification.html > Power Button Override > User sequence (press the power button for 4 seconds) to turn off a hung system.
-
When trying out an earlier version of @abnercoimbre 's terminal awhile back, I found a slider for entire window opacity. Dragging it around, I found it would let you make the window 100% transparent. I let go, and promptly discovered that windows decides that if a pixel on a window is entirely transparent, it isn't part of the window anymore. So I…
-
Yeah, stipple background should always be preferred as default to the solid black but alas…
-
Lol.. TIL.. Back in college3, I was so annoyed by i3lock behaviour that I installed xscreensaver just to avoid seeing all white screen.
-
I did something similarly stupid when I got my first cell phone. I set the language to some non-English, non-Latin character language thinking it would be cool. When I hit save it took me to the home screen, and I realized I didn't know the correct order of button presses to get back to the Language Select screen. Took me ages of trial and error…
-
Yes I remember playing with keyboard layouts in ratpoison and more than once being trapped with nothing but black..How do you press ctrl-t with a russian keyboard 😅
All 2 developments of Raymond Chen shares Windows 3.1 support tale: customer sets… →
Hacker NewsMastodonLobsters