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> I don't think software was ever particularly reliable Agreed - but software was also markedly less user-hostile and performance-wasteful: though that was due
by DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
> I don't think software was ever particularly reliable
Agreed - but software was also markedly less user-hostile and performance-wasteful: though that was due to limitations of the time: e.g. you can't spy on users or require phone-home DRM without a good internet connection (not that DRM dongles were much better).
If there's one good thing that might come from the trend towards computers locking users out of kernel-mode it's that games and media systems will stop being able to install their own rootkits.
- RantyDave 5y agoDRM dongles were horrible bastards. I remember working with an expensive piece of audio post production software that held it's license and the license for all the plugins on this stupendously delicate USB thing. People plugged them into the front of their Macs and snapped them off so often.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y ago> People plugged them into the front of their Macs and snapped them off so often. I winced