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Well it has a place, I suppose. For me: I wasted a lot of time and effort farting around with config.sys and autoexec.bat getting drivers to load etc. Could I
by gerdesj 8y ago
Well it has a place, I suppose. For me: I wasted a lot of time and effort farting around with config.sys and autoexec.bat getting drivers to load etc.
Could I sue for lifetime wasted?
- mysterydip 8y agoThe worst for me was when you needed an extra 10KB to run a game after removing everything else and it was either no sound or no game
- NegativeLatency 8y agoOne time I accidentally uninstalled the cd rom drivers while trying to clear enough space to play some Star Trek game.
- jaredsohn 8y agoDid you install qemm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM) and use loadhi to try to move software into 'high memory' (where that would only work for some programs)? I spent so many hours of my youth messing with that :) and this is one of those things where built up experience became completely irrelevant over time.
- okcwarrior 8y agoI was telling my coworker the other day to think about how much of our lives we have wasted waiting for status bars to go from 0 to 100%, haha.
- rangibaby 8y agoMessing with SET BLASTER (port 220 IRQ 5 DMA 1) to get sound to work in "Rise of the Triad" was probably the defining moment of my early PC misadventures. That and making a boot disk for Dark Forces, and labelling it "boot dick" by accident (thanks for kicking me in the nuts, mum)
- qwerty456127 8y agoI'd name "Farting around with config.sys and autoexec.bat" among the things I enjoyed the most in my life. That's a pity you can't find a job to be paid for this nowadays...
- jmspring 8y agoOnce you started moving up the chain with Win3, etc, throw in config.ini and program.ini amongst others. So many painful memories or is that nostalgia.
- stordoff 8y agoI still remember copying win.ini (IIRC) to recover a friend's PC where it had somehow gone missing.
- qwerty456127 8y agoBTW I have never actually installed (and never seen installation discs of) Windows before Windows 95 - we just copied it between PCs.
- wirelessest 8y agoAm I misremembering it as progman.ini or are those different files?
- wyoung2 8y ago> So many painful memories or is that nostalgia. The Greek roots of “nostalgia” translate as “the pain of returning home,” so it’s a false dichotomy. :) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nostalgia https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nostalgia
- aasasd 8y agoEh? Ansible and other config tools are a modern iteration of the same. Devops is what you want. And personally, I currently have a bad case of emacs configs.
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