Posts Tagged ‘system resources’
How to shoot yourself in the foot
|Assembler: You shoot yourself in the foot.Ada: The Department of Defense shoots you in the foot after offering you a blindfold and a last cigarrette.BASIC (interpreted): You shoot yourself in the foot with a water pistol until your leg is waterlogged and rots off.BASIC (compiled): You shoot yourself in the foot with a BB using [...]
Husband 1.0
|Last year a friend of mine upgraded from BoyFriend 1.0 to Husband 1.0 and found that it’s a memory hog, leaving very little system resources available for other applications.She is now noticing that Husband 1.0 is also spawning Child Processors which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in [...]
Is Windows a Virus?
Is Windows a Virus?No, Windows is not a virus. Here’s what viruses (viri?) do:1. They replicate quickly — okay, Windows does that.2. Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so — okay, Windows does that.3. Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk — [...]
The Borg versus Microsoft
|Picard “Mr. LaForge, have you had any success with your attempts at finding a weakness in the Borg? And Mr. Data, have you been able to access their command pathways?”Geordi “Yes, Captain. In fact, we found the answer by searching through our archives on late Twentieth-century computing technology.”Geordi presses a key, and a logo appears [...]