> Say i open a folder with 50 files and i want to filter them quickly, i go to the upper right corner of the window and click the little spotlight icon, then at first the OS default is to search your -entire- computer
Go to Finder settings, click on advanced, and change the option 'When performing a search' to just current folder.
I can't remember if that's the default or not, but it's easily fixed.
But this is someone saying they are "an old developer" and blogging about running an OS on old kit, in some depth, discussing what adapters they are using...
And there is no kit. No CPU, no motherboard, nothing. It's all a total fantasy. They are running a PC emulator on an M1 Mac, as far as I can see.
The author, downthread, says they were practising tech blogging.
This is the feedback!
Write about the real stuff you are using. Don't make stuff up -- EVER. No fantasy, no wishlists, no daydreaming. Use real kit, and if you can't, don't pretend.
If you are using an emulator, describe it. Show it. Say how you built it, show what options you picked, what you built it with, and how, and why.
Because this person made a bunch of stuff up, without making it clear they were making it up, and then they got the stuff they made up wrong. Even the facts and claims about the contemporary tools are wrong.
I have no clue about main loops in the Win32 API and I don't care, but I can't trust that that's right either when the rest of the post can't distinguish between a PIC and PCI, and can't count SIMM slots, and doesn't seem to know about the bits I do know.
It it the same issue as this famous Mastodon post from the end of last year:
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He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
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This is a blog post about software development in early MS 32-bit tools. I know nothing about that.
But the blog post talks at length about 1990s hardware, something I know a lot about, and about 1990s MS operating systems, something else I know a lot about...
And that stuff is all wrong.
So it makes me not trust the bits of it that are about the stuff I don't know about, and since that is the core subject of the post, that matters.
Someone was trying to show off their knowledge, and it didn't work, and I am calling it out.
To add insult to injury he runs the PC emulator on an ... Apple. It's like putting Dracula in a Church.
But I get what you say and agree with you that it's a pointless dribble. Shows all those pictures of motherboard and CPU and Sound Blaster cards and to what purpose? It's a darn emulator! They could show the picture of an alien's butt and would make more sense, at least it would be clear it's all imagined.
Yeah and you can find the OP on LinkedIn, given the crap he posted here I wouldn't expect he'd have the brains to hide his true identity when he makes a fool of himself.
I worked at Sun for a period on Sun Grid. There were two offerings - one aimed at B2B and one that was public-facing. The latter was launched as network.com, and essentially offered the ability to submit a job and only pay for the processing power used, hence Scott McNealy's "$1 per CPU per hour!" utility computing promotion.
The B2B side (which is the implementation I worked on) was quite a bit different, with customers uploading a 'golden image' into a node which would then be used to pre-provision a pod of servers (i.e 512 x v20z) on demand.
There's certainly an argument that Sun were first to tout cloud IaaS, but what was missing was a decent API to all this.
I haven't ever noticed a productivity hit from alt-tabbing.
Many of the devs I work with use Spaces and the three-finger slide to move between apps. However this doesn't work if you're not using the trackpad or Magic Mouse.
Additionally, since I'm usually just moving between a few apps (VSCode, terminal, browser, Teams) it's usually pretty easy to just alt-tab or alt-tab-tab with no loss of context.
Huh - I'm on a weedy ThinkPad X1 Nano with a i5-1130G7 on Debian / testing and it's playing fine under Chrome, barely touching 10% of one processor core.
I would say so yes, given he's in the Guinness Book of Records for one of the highest attended free concerts of all time (Moscow, 1997 with ~3.5 million people). He's also in 4th and 8th place, with 2.5 million in Paris in 1990 and Houston TX in 1986 with 1.3 million people respectively.
Was extra special as one songs was composed for and was intended to be performed live from the space station by one of the Challenger astronauts[1] who died a few months earlier.
I was a young kid here in Norway at the time, but I recall very well the concert being covered by news here. His music was on the radio as well, so he was definitely well known outside of France I'd say.
Go to Finder settings, click on advanced, and change the option 'When performing a search' to just current folder.
I can't remember if that's the default or not, but it's easily fixed.