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by DHowett 5y ago
There are machines that keep track of chassis intrusion and measure it into a PCR, making the hardware replacement part of the attack less feasible; I’ll grant that your “evil maid” could also pass off a completely separate device as being
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by DHowett 5y ago
I'm struggling to figure out exactly which directory structure Windows has changed every major release -- are you referring to when "Documents and Settings" was renamed to "Users" with the release of Windows Vista i
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by DHowett 5y ago
“ghost” is GitHub’s deleted user placeholder, not somebody affiliated with Ghostery.
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by DHowett 5y ago
Whoops! Yes, thanks.
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by DHowett 5y ago
Excel 98 had an Easter egg which was like Magic Carpet! If I recall correctly, you fly over a twisted purple and orange landscape while an obelisk emits the credits. 95 had the “Hall of Tortured Souls”—a 2.5D first-person walker—which was m
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by DHowett 5y ago
For what it’s worth, OpenConsole is conhost, and any improvements we make there go right back into Windows. We’ll probably[1] never get rid of conhost; the worst we’ll do is make it possible to update it without updating Windows so that f
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by DHowett 5y ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation! That makes sense.
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by DHowett 5y ago
> Wholly dependent on Microsoft. Not wholly, surely? As an OEM, Apple would need to provide drivers. Given that their system isn’t an off-the-shelf SBBR/ServerReady ARM64 device, that’s going to be a not-insignificant amount of work
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by DHowett 5y ago
Ah! I've been informed that the console host and renderer that support Nano Server (10.0.14393 or so) are quite unlike the version I'm familiar with. Nano Server uses bgfxcon exclusively, as well as some magic in a "console k
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by DHowett 5y ago
Trivia time! The windows console host (conhost) provides the “UI” for nano server. Even on desktop Windows, it’s built with support for running without a window manager. The rendering engine is named “wddmcon” and it lives in our repositor
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by DHowett 5y ago
> I wonder if it would be possible ... Check out the VTM project[1]! It feels like that's the direction they're heading. No direct affiliation; they've filed some bugs on Windows Terminal, however. :) [1] https:/&#x2
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by DHowett 5y ago
As the guy responsible for that comment (and the dev lead for the team! Hi!) I can say it haunts me pretty much weekly. My parenthetical-laden snarky sense of humor, my use of italics to indicate speech-like emphasis and pretty much everyth
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by DHowett 5y ago
“At this point the only implemented event is world load.” Are you certain about your assertion? Can you link to the document where you found it?
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by DHowett 5y ago
Huh. For me, on build 22000.65, that’s a normal full-sized slider. I’ll file a bug just in case it’s not already known.
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by DHowett 5y ago
> if one uses Windows Terminal. This is also true of the Windows Console as of Windows 10. Any VT100 (also VT220, VT4xx, VT5xx, xterm ...) support we add to Terminal eventually flows out to the console host integrated into Windows. :)
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by DHowett 5y ago
> A recent example that boiled my blood is that the new Windows Terminal emulates the incorrect "Clear-Host" behaviour of ancient Linux terminals. Hi! I run the team who made this decision, and I flatly reject the characterizat
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by DHowett 6y ago
Your comment is based on the premise that there is, in common use, a directory called “-rf” but not one called “/rf”? Why would the former be any less likely than the latter?
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by DHowett 6y ago
Sorry, I had my Microsoft-colored glasses on. We use WinRT almost exclusively to refer to the new COM-based API surface that “modern” applications use. I see now that I’ve misunderstood you :) Back when VT parsing was implemented, it was an
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by DHowett 6y ago
"still requires a special WinRT call in order to enable them" Which WinRT call would that be? Hi, owner of the Windows Console here. Enabling VT control sequences is a matter of setting the ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING mode
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by DHowett 6y ago
You can get a package manager, yes, but you do not get an entire repository of prebuilt packages. I suspect that the author selected Debian for its packages , not its package manager.
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by DHowett 6y ago
Haiku has a clever solution to the problems presented by vector images at smaller sizes: Haiku Vector Icon Format (HVIF)¹². HVIF supports only basic shapes with integer coordinates (by default) and detail reduction. Each shape is tagged wit
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by DHowett 6y ago
> feature parity Like PDF support?
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by DHowett 6y ago
I’m very happy with my U-NAS enclosure (NSC-400; 4 hotswap bays), and they do have 8-bay enclosures. https://www.u-nas.com/xcart/cart.php?target=product&product_...
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by DHowett 6y ago
LKML post: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2911ac5cd20b46e397be506268718d7... Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24170001
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by DHowett 6y ago
Unfortunately, we’ve got a couple dependencies on platform features that first shipped in 1903. Whether we can divest ourselves of those dependencies has been the topic of significant discussion recently! No promises, but we’ll do what we c
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by DHowett 6y ago
My team shipped the next generation (after ANSI.SYS) of VT support with the first release of Windows 10 back in 2015. We keep adding things to it, trying to make sure we stay compatible with Xterm. It really is a different landscape now :)
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by DHowett 6y ago
Alright, with fresh eyes: When the console host (just C:\windows\system32\conhost.exe, not the new Terminal) exits it emits the following information for processes that had connected to it: * How many ANSI/VT sequences they used * How
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by DHowett 6y ago
Now that I'm at my desk, I'll have a look. Thanks for the disclaimer :)
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by DHowett 6y ago
I dunno. The name "_rguiTimesApiUsed" (and that it's a "uint32") suggests that it's a count of times an API was used, not the raw data that went through that API. EDIT: I put together a list of what happens in
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by DHowett 6y ago
I'm just gonna recycle the bits I've posted here before about this exact file :) [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22331345 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19322398 , https:&#x2F

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