lol

"farscythe - makin da cawfee!" (farscythe) 01/14/2020 at 23:53 • Filed to: None

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i had no idea windows 10 was this old already

must be about time for windows 11 eh?

i mean...50 years.... are you trying to beat half life 3 for longest time waiting for a seque l?

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 01/15/2020 at 00:22

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Remember back when Gates wanted to do a MAJOR RELEASE CYCLE every year???  That was the original plan with Win 95.

facw > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 01/15/2020 at 00:23

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Apparently mine is even older:

Clearly something isn’t quite working right there... (though maybe the difference in days is due to time zone conversion?)

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > facw 01/15/2020 at 00:25

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O.o lol

apparently its lazy coding left over from y2k...least thats what the missus said... something about kicking the can down the road on the assumption that none of the code would still be in use by 2020

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/15/2020 at 00:27

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i remember them coming quite close to actually doing it too... lot of windows between 95 and 2005

SBA Thanks You For All The Fish > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 01/15/2020 at 00:32

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The test and validation teams must have thrown an absolute fit. Win 96 eventually got out as a Service Pack 1, then SP2, then Win 98, then “SE” to fix all the stuff Win 98 broke.

What a mess.

MrDakka > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 01/15/2020 at 00:38

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You want to talk about old...Firefall.

I’m still salty this game was basically dead on arrival. It could’ve been so good. Was basically like a Tribes MMO.

:(

facw > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 01/15/2020 at 00:39

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1/1/1970 is the start of the Unix Epoch . Basically they counted time as the number of seconds since midnight on that date UTC. So seeing this date means they are getting 0 for the install date (and since I’m UTC -0 5:00, when they correct that date to local time for me, it shows up as being in 1969). Presumably their code that gets the install date is just broken, as opposed to being a Y2K type thing.

There is a Y2K type thing with the epoch, which is that at 0 3:14:08 UTC on 2038-01-19, the standard signed 32-bit integer used to store seconds since the epoch will no longer be big enough to store that number, possibly resulting in all sorts of weird behavior. Luckily, most 64-bit implementations use a 64-bit number for storing time, which allows hundreds of billions of years, though someone will probably have to fix older systems sometime over the next 18 years.

facw > SBA Thanks You For All The Fish 01/15/2020 at 00:43

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Well now we have new Windows 10 releases twice a year. Though Microsoft is clearly struggling with that.  

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > MrDakka 01/15/2020 at 11:11

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i had fun with it for a little while

then i ran out of game...all that was left was grinding for better stuff...or spending real monies on it...sucked...it had potential