Just goes to show that Rust isn't a panacea for out of bounds memory access!

Nope, you can write shit code in any language

Perhaps for you. It is impossible for me to write shit code.

Or any code, for that matter. :^)

Love Win2k, the best version of windows, clean, reliable and powerful.

Wish it was still in support

I remember that Windows 2000 was originally planned to be marketed as the replacement for Windows 98 or 98 SE. The big deal being that it would have been the first mainstream/low-end version of Windows to be based on NT (rather than ancient DOS-based underpinnings) but they couldn't get the driver compatibility issues et al sorted out in time.

Which would explain why "Windows 2000" had a consumer-style name and *sounded* like it should be the successor to Windows 98. It'd also explain why MS felt the need to bother releasing the short-lived and much-maligned (and still DOS-based) Windows ME- because it was a "Plan B" stop-gap.

Of course, they finally got the problems solved and successfully moved to the NT-based Windows XP, which was basically Windows 2000 with better compatibility and a skeumorphic consumer-"friendly" user interface slapped on.

I overwrote plan B with plan A... ME was crap, and preinstalled on the computer I purchased via the Dutch PC Prive program.

I do wonder what the driver issues were. I used Win2k as my primary desktop from shortly after launch until well after WinXP showed up. To about 2006 or so, I think. I'm both a techie and a gamer, and the only driver issues were some lack of availability at the launch date. It all cleared up within a few months and was sorted out before WinXP launched. MS could have easily pushed Win2k as an end user solution, but someone wanted to play with the crayons and produce XP instead. When I did move to XP, I used a theme to make it more Win2k-like.

Many people saw it that way. It was during my era of computer guru to friends and family. I personally needed a new system and it was pre-installed with 98 and a free upgrade to ME coupon which I used at the time of system purchase. I had maxed out the memory on the new system to 2 gb via a pair of 1 gb modules if my memory serves me correctly. I think ME's bad rep has a lot to do with the fact that win9x has a memory management issue that only gets worse with more. 2gb seemed to be out of reach for it, first witnessed by me with ME, but persisted when I reinstalled 98, and even tried 95 just to confirm. All failed with 2gb installed. ME and 98 ran with 1gb installed, 95 was a bit unstable. I installed win2k on that one and used it until 2010 before I got my first laptop with win7 and used that for about 12 years. No more windows for me after that.

I "upgraded" a number of F&F's new win2k and winME systems to win98se when they ran into various compatibility(2k) and reliability(ME) issues. Those purchasing win2k systems stated they thought it was the next version to win98. Most of them had early win98 releases so win98se was still an upgrade in the end. I cautioned all to avoid winME like the plague.

My last win only app was MS Money 2k. I kept it going in a vm of win2k. I found win2k being 32bit NT and used in classic GUI theme mode was the best in a vm for speed and compatibility. If win2k could not run something, win7 32bit was my next choice, 64it if it was required. I eventually replaced my needed functionality of MS Money 2k with a LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet. I should have done that long ago. Ironically, I started keeping my books in an AppleWorks database on an Apple //c before going to MS Money.

I cannot recall ever seeing winME in a public BORK situation. Maybe it never could stay running long enough to be deployed.

In installed Win2000 in a VM a few years ago for snicks and grins, it installed in about 20 seconds, took some time to get networking going. I gave up trying to find a browser, and shortly after my homelab was decommissioned, and it ended there.

my favorite Windows OS. That was when you could install it on every machine you owned

I would press the "OK" button just for the hell of it.

What could possibly go wrong?

From the picture, and contrarily to the statements in the articles, it doesn't look like a touchscreen at all, the controls are the buttons around the sides of the screen, "graphically" linked to the on-screen text bubbles. Quite a common setup in Europe for older ticket booth and ATMs. Much more robust than touchscreens, and usable outdoors under the rain.

Same here. I've never been afraid to push the button.

I wonder if that's why I was never allowed to go on the Iron Mountain tours with the CO back when I had a clearance that allowed it. Shame, that. I would have enjoyed seeing that one research section where they were doing all the... well, best not discuss that, but what the commander told us when he returned was downright fascinating.

You know what sux0rs is when your computer-controlled device crashes and shuts off the active control abruptly, whether you were ready or not. Like let’s for instance consider the possibility that you were allowing a computerized artificial intelligence system to operate your vehicle in “frenzied” mode, and a rogue laser signal disrupted the visual cortex in an unexpected fashion exactly when you were adjacent to a cliff, and your multi-brain control apparatus took a quick vote, and the majority decision sent you & jalopy over the edge, and you couldn’t react faster than the control apparatus operating at 3.6 billion cycles per second? And yet that’s what you agreed to be when you chose to drive that day? The control apparatus asked “are you ready to take control even I fling us off a cliff at any given instant, defined as any 3.6-billionth of a second interval, you promise your physical reactions are faster than that?” and like any typical ignorant person, you agreed, because you blew $99 for this month’s access to the “full drunk driving” tech that “helps” you get home past dead-person’s abyss each day, even if you are loaded on Nyquil + vodka.

Sounds as if there's a writer inside you that's raring to come out and compete against AI slop.

THAT is coming. One day, soon after cars are mostly autonomous, crims will start breaking into transportation network. All cars will be ordered to accelerate WOT for 15 seconds, then turn hard into oncoming traffic at 7:46AM on a Tuesday. Imagine the carnage, and emergency services will NOT be able to cope.