Things you hear about computing... Please share your experiences...

J.Hilk

Also always funny, people thinking they accidentally deleted a program by moving the desktop link into the garbage bin.

On windows obviously, on Mac, you actually delete programs that way😅

aha_1980

@JonB said in Things you hear about computing... Please share your experiences...:

Funnily enough, as you might have expected given the RAM one, at https://downloadmorecores.com/ ! I have added just the 4-cores one to my machine, and it's much faster now!

Fraud! This is no cross-platform CPU core, but Windows-only. It's absolutely useless for my Linux computer.

JonB

@aha_1980
No, actually the cores are (of course) cross-platform, it's the fact that that site only provides a .msi installer that is Windows only. If you have Linux then you must run Wine and from there you can install via the .msi to increase the CPUs available to your Linux.

aha_1980

@JonB Thanks, indeed that worked like a charm. I installed it two times, now I have 16 virtual cores added :D

fcarney

@Kent-Dorfman said in Things you hear about computing... Please share your experiences...:

Nicklaus Wirth is a Quiche Eater.

Real Programmers don't bring brown bag lunches to work. If the vending machine sells it, they eat it. If the vending machine doesn't sell it, they don't eat it. Vending machines don't sell quiche.

from:
Real Programmers

Kent-Dorfman

@fcarney Actually, real programmers don't work during daylight hours, so lunch is irrelevant.

fcarney

Here is another one:
Black Computers are Faster
Back in the 90s newer computers, especially Dells, were all black. So someone wrote an email about the physics of why black computers are faster.
I am not sure if this is the original, but it is funny.

Kent-Dorfman

@fcarney said in Things you hear about computing... Please share your experiences...:

Black Computers are Faster

Of course...Black is the fastest color for motorcycles too.

mzimmers

@kshegunov said in Things you hear about computing... Please share your experiences...:

My favourite is: "The computer's wrong" (in regards to computation)

In all fairness your first point, has some basis in fact.
As one N. Wirth stated: 'Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.'

Or, as someone else put it so well: "what Santa Clara giveth, Redmond taketh away."

Of course, this isn't directly applicable to the Linux folks in the audience, but I'm sure they have a parallel experience...

Jungkang65

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