Thread: The odd story of how Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound

The odd story of how Brian Eno composed the Windows 95 startup sound (theindustryobserver.thebrag.com)

L 27 pts 1 comments by inactive-user Dec 14, 2019 arthistoricalwindows Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Asteroid Triumph: NASA’s History-Making OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Robert Goddard Memorial Trophy (scitechdaily.com)

SCI 0 pts 0 comments by Rob Gutro and Rani Gran, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Apr 5, 2024 SpaceAsteroidNASANASA Goddard Space Flight CenterOSIRIS-REx Science / Math / Physics thread

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team received the prestigious Goddard Memorial Trophy for its historic mission of collecting and returning an asteroid sample, aiding scientific research on the solar system’s origins. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx team was selected as the winner of the National Space Club and Foun...

EvenOdd in Agda, Idris, Haskell, Scala (brianmckenna.org)

L 4 pts 0 comments by puffnfresh Jan 24, 2014 haskellscala Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

The Inside Story Behind MS08-067 (blogs.technet.com)

L 8 pts 0 comments by calvin Sep 28, 2015 reversingsecuritywindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy thread

Lenovo shipping Ultrabooks that prevent installation of Linux (reddit.com)

L 22 pts 12 comments by mjturner Sep 21, 2016 hardwarelinuxwindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

TL;DR - Lenovo is shipping some new models with Windows 10 Signature Edition installed. It has Intel Rapid Storage Technology enabled so Linux cannot access the SSD. Disabling RST is not supported by the shipping BIOS.

Lenovo denies claims it plotted with Microsoft to block Linux installs (theregister.co.uk)

L 0 pts 0 comments by voidzero Sep 22, 2016 hardwarelinuxwindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

DEBAT. Brian Eno i Evgeny Morozov Una conversa sobre tecnologia i democràcia (VO En) (vimeo.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by inactive-user Feb 28, 2017 personvideo Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Talk is in English and switches over from the 2 minute mark

Tree view check boxes: A sordid history (blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by calvin Dec 4, 2017 windows Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The Inside Story Behind MS08-067 (blogs.technet.microsoft.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by timetoplatypus Jan 6, 2018 reversingsecuritywindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy thread

The Story of Windows: Windows 3.0 Takes Off (community.windows.com)

L 2 pts 3 comments by chadski Feb 13, 2018 historicalwindows Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) (youtube.com)

~ 7 pts 0 comments by unknown May 31, 2018 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998) (itprotoday.com)

L 10 pts 0 comments by calvin Jun 23, 2018 historicalwindows Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton gives the inside story on #DeleteFacebook and why he left $850 million behind (forbes.com)

~ 20 pts 5 comments by unknown Sep 26, 2018 ~tech Productivity / Career / Business Internet / Digital Culture thread

WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook (forbes.com)

L 0 pts 0 comments by zge Sep 27, 2018 practicesprivacy Security / Privacy Productivity / Career / Business thread

"Brian Eno's ideas have unexpected resonance for architecture" (dezeen.com)

~ 5 pts 0 comments by unknown Nov 10, 2018 ~design Design / UX / Visualization thread

War Story – The Mystery Of The Very Long GC Pauses in .NET Windows Service (tooslowexception.com)

L 5 pts 1 comments by calvin Dec 21, 2018 debuggingdotnetperformancewindows Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

How a big enough news story — like impeachment — could warp the polls (fivethirtyeight.com)

~ 12 pts 3 comments by unknown Oct 1, 2019 ~society Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to crash your system (blog.tetrane.com)

L 4 pts 0 comments by calvin Nov 17, 2019 reversingsecuritywindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy thread

The lost history of PReP: Windows NT 3.5x and the RS/6000 40p (virtuallyfun.com)

L 8 pts 3 comments by calvin Aug 2, 2020 hardwarehistoricalwindows Maker / DIY / Hardware Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

From Xenogears to Xenoblade: The history of Monolith Soft (kotaku.com)

~ 5 pts 1 comments by unknown Nov 26, 2020 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

When Pushing is Not Enough, A Git Story (tech.lightspeedhq.com)

L 10 pts 3 comments by gabe Feb 3, 2021 practicesvcs Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread

The Secret History of Windows Bluescreens (youtube.com)

L 3 pts 1 comments by lorddimwit Feb 9, 2021 osdevvideowindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Windows CE History: A Diminutive Stage for Microsoft’s Grand Ambitions (30pin.com)

L 10 pts 1 comments by calvin Feb 10, 2021 historicalmobilewindows Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

I/O Rings – When One I/O Operation is Not Enough (windows-internals.com)

L 2 pts 2 comments by calvin May 25, 2021 apiwindows Programming (General) thread

Quake renaissance: A short history of twenty-five years of Quake modding (rockpapershotgun.com)

~ 6 pts 1 comments by unknown Aug 23, 2021 ~games Gaming / Retro Computing Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The inside story of the outside investigation of SoftRAM 95 (devblogs.microsoft.com)

L 22 pts 3 comments by calvin Nov 11, 2021 historicalreversingwindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Filling in some gaps in the story of Space Cadet Pinball on 64-bit Windows (devblogs.microsoft.com)

L 20 pts 6 comments by calvin Jan 7, 2022 historicalwindows Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story (1998) (itprotoday.com)

L 20 pts 4 comments by calvin Mar 6, 2022 historicalosdevwindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Unveiled: First immersive Roddenberry Archive experiences, multi-year roadmap to preserve history of the ‘Star Trek’ universe (deadline.com)

~ 5 pts 0 comments by unknown Aug 27, 2022 ~arts Design / UX / Visualization Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

How Brian Eno created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (reverbmachine.com)

~ 3 pts 1 comments by unknown Oct 12, 2022 ~music Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread