Updated 11/30/2020 for 8GB versus 16GB questions. See end of review for the updates. submitted by SeaRefractor to mac [link] [comments] Before I delve into the actual M1 MacBook Air review, just some background. I've worked in the PC industry from the early 80's. I remember the 1985 Apple vs Microsoft lawsuit related to the Apples significant anger over Windows. I could go into great detail on all the changes that have occurred since then, but outside supporting company Apple users on the network environments over the years, I'd largely continue my primary focus for the desktop realm on the PC. Besides a formal job as a network engineer for several world wide organizations, I had a strong hobbyist passion for photography and eventually videography. Fortunately there's a very good non-linear video editing solution from BlackMagic called DaVinci Resolve. As BlackMagic is a hardware vendor of mid range to high range videography hardware, DaVinci Resolve was released with both a free version as well as the paid studio version. Purchase of their cameras would come with a studio activation key. With a significant number of production feature length films created by DaVinci Resolve along with sales of special control surfaces for the environment, it was beneficial to provide a free version to wet the appetite of the newly introduced video enthusiast. This resulted in my putting together a fairly powerful PC at the time to edit, what was astounding at the time, 1080P workflow. Regrettably I'd sized the VRAM in my graphics card less than I'd need to be able to use for a 4K workflow and beyond. With the purchase and use of a Panasonic Lumix GH5, V-LogL license and related gear, I'd frequently need to send my footage to friends with newer systems to process. Finally had enough to start looking at putting together a new workstation and the resulting costs. With kids still in high school and learning to drive, I didn't have a budget I'd prefer for a PC workstation that could extend to 6K if I use anamorphic lenses on the GH5 (couldn't afford both an expensive anamorphic lens and new workstation). Fast forward to November 2020 and the release of the Apple M1 silicon. This arrived at the time that I had started my planning. Fortunately while researching DaVinci Resolve hardware requirements, I began to see a number of new M1 videos showing the use of DaVinci Resolve with a base model M1 Mac mini with 8GB of ram. It was working timelines including those with Red 8K Raw exports and other workflows that would result in out of GPU memory errors if I'd even attempted it on my own workstation. And for $699 USD? What magic is that and my skepticism was so high and I also had the hurdle of not being an Apple user. Time to actually try it out however before I'd commit to the eventual budget damage of a higher-end PC workstation for 4K and 6K workflows without compromise. The Model of Apple M1 MacBook Air is the 8 core CPU/ 8 core GPU with 8GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. Figured that to ensure best performance, without committing to a more expensive 16GB model, the one with the 8 core GPU was a good selection. Packaging experience: Most of the PC packaging may have pretty packaging, it also has a large amount of specifications and other details to impart to the perspective purchaser. Apple, expecting you to already know this detail from their presentations and likely the press releases of the new product, has a much more simplified packaging experience. Also seems that the iPhone packaging helped with the design decision as there is a simple elegance. https://preview.redd.it/q19lj0szyt161.jpg?width=5184&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7b3baf400b5475c7fe8ffd58d488070caa1c917 Opening the packaging reveals the beautiful (Gold in this case) MacBook Air and associated accessories included, charging cable and charger. https://preview.redd.it/np2dm2u5zt161.jpg?width=5184&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83cc0faea7398ead4d0b66c6a2397b48f20881ac This minimalist packaging design struck me as I'm used to an almost overwhelming amount of detail and hype on PC laptop packaging. Also the internals is usually less eco friendly styrofoam that still looks very utilitarian. The 100% recyclables that are also elegant in their design is a refreshing packing experience. Start up: Oh my, simply lifting the lid started the setup experience and I was welcomed with the Macintosh sound I remember from 1985. Too cool! But more importantly, the process from start to completion was extremely easy and also extremely fast. On new Windows 10 workstations, there's this very long start up process for the first time that always seems to be longer than necessary, although future starts of the Windows 10 workstations are pretty quick with the use of SSD drives these days. There's a rice or some other type of paper protection on the display, once you peel it off the True Tone display is like \"BAM\". I've used a number of Lenovo and Dell laptops over the years. The keyboard on the new M1 MacBook Air is extremely comfortable to use and has surprisingly crisp and responsive keys. I was worried about the mushy experience you'd encounter on non-Apple products, but after using the keyboard for several days, I can clearly state that fear was unfounded with the M1 Air. Now on to install my applications. I have cloud subscriptions to a number of products, from Microsoft Office 365, Adobe Creative Cloud and more. Most of these applications at this time are not Native or "Universal" applications, meaning coded specifically for the Intel based Macs. While I knew that Rosetta 2 translation was available for the new "ARM" based architecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture for those that like to dive into the details of the ARM architecture world), I was not expecting the performance I encountered. After all, while not a Mac user previously, I remember the frustration from those that moved from PowerPC based Macs to Intel Macs and the translation performance hit. Rosetta 2 apparently does the translation before you start using the application, this is why it'll bounce longer on startup, but once running will frequently run faster than the same application on an equivalent Intel based MacBook. That's pretty astounding, I'd never experienced a translation that wasn't at best hopefully only slightly slower than the prior environment. On to some native application testing. BlackMagic released the beta DaVinci Resolve 17.1, be sure if you are also trying it to ensure it's the one specifically for the M1. The normal download page doesn't link to the M1 Apple Silicon version, you need to search for the latest beta release for the M1 from the support page instead. I use the Studio edition, so here's the details during the install. What's really incredible to me is how self-contained the actual application is. On my PC, it would take significantly longer to install than the Mac and massive number of .dll and other filetypes would be installed. I'd tested installing benchmark apps and removing them to see that it's a single file drag to the trashcan. That's quite a difference for a PC user. DaVinci Resolve 17.1 beta 2 for Apple Silicon Performance in the primary reason I was testing out the M1 MacBook Air, a full 4K timeline with titles, music and color grading. On my older workstation I'd have to perform a 1080P timeline, even though the media used was 4K 10-Bit 4-2-2 HLG from my Panasonic GH5. With the 8G RAM, I was able to do the full 4K timeline with no reduction in quality. Not only that, no proxy (older system was 1/2 resolution proxy) nor optimized media and I was able to work with the 4K timeline with no stuttering. Unlike other videos I want to be clear that I was not editing in ProRes. I then color graded with the well known Leeming LUT for GH5 and HLG. Still totally smooth. Next I wanted to process some images and put them into the video as well. Just to see if the memory efficiency was hype, I loaded Adobe Lightroom Classic at the same time! This application is still Intel x86 and Rosetta 2 installed it self prior to the application running. While the 4k Timeline was running without stutter I was able to apply a series of processing to the photo and even export it. Check it out! DaVinci Resolve 17.1 M1 edition playing timeline (see red play) with multiple 4K 10-bit 4-2-2 HLG clips along with me editing a high resolution photo in Lightroom Classic Oh my word!!! I cannot do this without stuttering individually on my PC workstation with an i7-6700, 32GB RAM and an Nvidia 1050 with 4GB VRAM. Let that resonate for a minute or two... A MacBook Air with only 8GB of memory does it with no hesitation with a memory amount that would prevent the related applications from both loading let alone work well on my PC if I didn't have 32GB of RAM. In my testing, I completely lost my mind! For decades I'd been a staunch PC or nothing enthusiast and if this is the state of the Apple universe with the new Apple Silicon I'm now a strong convert. One concern was left. A number of tech reviewers said that the MacBook Pro would be the better choice because of the fan and that there was a lot of concerns about the Air thermal throttling, especially based on the history of the Air series. As a non-Mac user, I'd not been aware of that concern and jumped into the completely silent Air. Apparently if you run Cinebench R23 and use a very long (throttle test), you can see that it does throttle somewhat. But interestingly the throttle is less than you'd expect and it seems that it's able to damp the thermals quick enough you start to see that the performance shouldn't drop too much further. In fact testing that was primarily GPU rather than CPU related didn't appear to trigger throttling in my experience. I certainly didn't experience it while working with DaVinci Resolve for several hours as I tried a number of the different functions as well as exploring Mac and PC version differences (not many, it's primarily Windows versus osX differences). In summary, once DaVinci Resolve 17.1 moves out of beta, I'll be using this new Apple M1 MacBook Air as my primary workstation for 4K and higher editing workflows. I'm also excited to see the eventual "Universal" versions of my other applications and what additional performance I'll possibly see once those applications are native to the M1 rather than Rosetta 2 translated. If you also happened to be a former PC user that was encouraged by the new M1 series of computers, I'd love to hear about your own experiences in the thread below. As for those that have a problem deciding on the memory capacity and have the extra budget available, by all means purchase the 16GB versions of the M1 architecture. I'm sure that will help ensure even greater longevity for the platform. As for myself, I figure when the 8GB no longer meets my workflow needs, the next couple of M series processor revisions will have been released by then and I can get the next inexpensive model to upgrade to. 8GB ram testing and thoughts on capacity regarding DaVinci Resolve 17.1 beta for Apple Silicon. Several have asked me since I originally posted this review my thoughts on 8GB vs 16GB versions of the Apple M1 MacBook Air. Here's some testing that I performed to see what may be an answer to that question. And the answer will also have the "it depends" viewpoint on it. First off, I'd been using 4K 10-bit 4-2-2 HLG clips that I color grade with the Leeming LUT for Panasonic GH5 HLG (seems to have less noise to me than the V-Log L, but that's a conversation for a different thread). In addition, I have Titles and Fusion features throughout. What's interesting is that during my testing, I don't have any slow downs in the timeline playback or when moving around the Cut work page. I did open the Activity Monitor to see what's happening and as you can see, DaVinci Resolve is using more memory than the laptop has installed physically. The M1 system is able to very quickly and deftly handle this so that I don't actually notice any performance degradation. Also memory pressure during this process is good in the "green" so to speak. However, this may be an area that for those that do much more professional projects than I with longer timelines may want to look at the 16GB model. I personally believe the 8GB can handle it fine, but the question is with swap writes to the built-in SSD frequently, how soon could one reach the drives TBW (terabytes written) rating? Once you reach that, eventually the drive will fail as TLC (likely if it's Western Digital SSD chips as shown in the iFixit Teardown of both an M1 MacBook Air and an M1 MacBook Pro) and other NAND based SSD technologies can only write to a cell a set number of times before it fails (although current tech is 3000 times or more per cell). SSD makers allow for additional "reserve" cells that are than mapped in to replace failed cells. TBW rating also goes up as the storage space increases, specifically because there's even greater number of reserve cells available. This could be the argument to purchase a 16GB model if you frequently will be doing video editing and have a possible concern about longevity. That said, swap space has been happening on Mac and PC systems with SSD for some time and not too much has been said about related failures. A 16GB would certainly page less as the ~10MB utilization of DR with this much going on would fit entirely in the physical RAM. Activity Monitor with DaVinci Resolve using color grading and fusion Besides my own testing, there's a brand new Youtube from "Learn Color Grading" from Filmsimplified.com that tests DR 17.1 with content all the way up to 12K in a 4K timeline using BlackMagics highest resolution camera. Spoilers - it works on both https://youtu.be/TrlpuvHg_Ig So in summary for the 8GB versus 16GB question? I believe for many content creators, a MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM will be enough for most of your normal VLOG activities and an amazingly low price. However if one is wanting to ensure the longevity for their purchase, then 16GB will help ensure less swap activities to the SSD drive. Also 16GB should be selected if using DaVinci Resolve 17.1 beta for very large projects. The conclusion here would be, if you can afford the additional $200 and willing to wait for the product to be shipped to you, get the 16GB editions of either version. For everyone else, getting the 8GB will save you $200 that you can use for must need accessories or AppleCare+. Finally, I had mentioned some bench marks. There are a number of reviews that already show this, but I ran multiple times and captured images of the results. The ones I post below are not technically "average" but the result that I would see the most frequently when I'd run it multiple times and compare (may be less than others and if so that's a measurement of the heat impact for me). Both scores and the version of Geekbench Single-Core comparison Multi-Core Comparison Overall, the 8GB M1 MacBook Air is doing very well for me. I feel comfortable from a Adobe Creative Cloud (Photography edition) and DaVinci Resolve 17.1 beta user with a standard 4K timeline not worried about SSD longevity recommending an 8GB edition. For all others that worry about SSD longevity or must squeeze every bit of performance out of a native M1 NLE video editor, get the 16GB. |
We bet almost everyone thought about creating their YouTube channel at least once in a lifetime. Especially entrepreneurs, businesses and aspiring bloggers are concerned about it quite a lot. submitted by ImaginaryConclusion4 to 4kdownloadapps [link] [comments] How to launch a YouTube channel right and avoid common pitfalls we’ll reveal in this peace. Naturally, launching a YouTube channel is just a starting point. To make your channel thrive, you need to optimise it, track the performance, promote it and make it grow. https://preview.redd.it/ilm7r6f8j6061.jpg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56f437c1dfbb3a52d9fd890fdccef64f5afbc3b3 Launching a YouTube channel: perksMarketers and businesses use videos and YouTube as a way to reach their audiences and increase brand awareness. Bloggers entertain, sometimes educate their followers and make a living out of it.All in all, launching a YouTube channel has quite a lot of advantages, here are some to name:
Launching a YouTube channel: a step-by-step guide
https://preview.redd.it/uh488w3aj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=13ad0410b9c202763a0d2d6d07fd91852403e1e5 Then click ‘Create account’. https://preview.redd.it/6boxzwdbj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=0d5d1f7bb6d1695380cba8eb6a3e4940a2262186 You can use any email address, not necessarily Google’s. So if you don’t have a Google account yet, you won't be asked to create one. Use your real phone number or the one you have access to any time: you might be asked to send confirmation codes. Thus you’ll be sure no one will break into your account and your channel. Agree with the terms of use and privacy, and then press ‘Next’ to proceed.
https://preview.redd.it/qbt2t3edj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=ce472d66442301c56d810831e7c39a47522ed4f2 You will be asked to create a channel, enter your name and upload a profile picture from your Google account or select a custom name. Pick what you wish by pressing ‘Select’. https://preview.redd.it/7el5axgfj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=e9b060bd10f0e73b434a7d5b433daeb60d579b17 Then enter your channel’s name, upload a profile picture, type a channel description and add links to your social media if you have any. Press ‘Save and Continue’ to proceed. https://preview.redd.it/pt13g45hj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=d888eddf283b2dcc3a01e75ed47f4670e4dc255c If you struggle with creating a channel’s name, here are some hacks for you to help:
If you want to change your channel pfp (profile picture), you can do it anytime you want just by hovering the cursor over the pfp icon, pressing the camera icon and uploading an image from your device. YouTube has a customisation studio where you can update and change the look of your channel whatever you want. To do so, find the ‘Customize channel’ button. You will be redirected to the Studio. https://preview.redd.it/t64vgnkjj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=7683a33d5e5b76628ee667d14b67e866ca64a633 There you can add a banner image that will be placed across the top of your channel like this: https://preview.redd.it/bavnh8rkj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=9af696cb555d4cff9f73b83e44af120fca873a84 Or change your profile picture, add a watermark that will appear in each of your videos, change your channel layout, edit description, links, and contact info. In the Studio, you’re able to add subtitles , choose tracks from the audio library, track channel analytics and, most importantly, apply for the monetisation program offered by YouTube. https://preview.redd.it/u5n8kbxpj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c5ee5b03961b95e2cae28d60d801762913608ea
You can do so right from the main page of the channel by pressing on the ‘Upload video’ in the middle of the page. https://preview.redd.it/bixtdobvj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b045a449f0d395260983b8af7f98e358c0e3d32 Then choose a file from your computer and add information about it - title, description, thumbnail, click if the video can be watched by kids, add tags, set up automatic subtitles, recording date and video location, choose category, manage comments and choose who can find your videos (all users, nobody or people you give the link to). https://preview.redd.it/66p4nmewj6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=ee0a2d6285f9c289628898c0b5145f5385d9d6dc You can also schedule the video to go live when you want or set it as an Instant Premier so that all your viewers can watch it all together at the same time and communicate with each other in the chat. Once you’ve set up all the necessary settings, press ‘Save’. Congrats! Your first video is now uploaded to the channel. How to make a Youtube channel privateIf you want to limit the access to your videos, you can make your channel private or available to only those who have the special link.This will be useful for entrepreneurs who want to open videos to only those clients who paid for this, bought an online class and so on. So, you can restrict the access to some videos the following way:
https://preview.redd.it/pxqzhqg7k6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=be5ad71fc353f2a5014fbe76085b0b0b594b7bdf https://preview.redd.it/zu37xw9ak6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=e80dc0f26811ccd5faa4c741c73410636648de54 Another way to do so is to click on the word ‘Private’, ‘Unlisted’ or ‘Public’ next to the video, click on it and choose from the option from the list. https://preview.redd.it/ksohuq6bk6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=6f5fa6366a98da5f4c3d3183530c7aeb10b63855 Apply the same to all videos you want to hide from the public. YouTube Channel StatisticsAs you grow your YouTube channel and fill it with videos, you will be able to track your channel’s performance. These insights will help you understand which videos work and which don’t and create better content.To find your channel stats, you need to go to the Studio and find the tab ‘Analytics’. This tab will provide you with the following information:
https://preview.redd.it/8z880uhck6061.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=291deceddfffc58c158fc1a11705cef654819cd1 How to create another YouTube channelYou want to differentiate your channels and decided to create another channel for vlogs, streams or tutorials? You can easily create the second channel. And no, you won’t need to create another YouTube account for that.To start another channel, take these steps:
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(THIS IS A PCVR AND QUEST PIRACY GUIDE) submitted by imlife1102 to QuestPiracy [link] [comments] So you wanna sail the seven seas of virtual reality? Last Edited: 15/01/2021 ^ I think i've accomplished this mission now :] This guide shows you how to download and sideload pirated games on the Oculus Quest 1/Q2 as well as the best place to find pirated games for PCVR headsets or Quests connected through Oculus Link or any other wireless streaming solution. Just to reiterate and stress this, DO NOT PUBLICLY POST LINKS TO PIRACY DOWNLOADS. BY DOING THIS YOU ARE RISKING THE SUBREDDIT AND ENTIRE PIRACY MIRRORS TO BE DELETED. I'm thankfully able to circumvent these rules by not providing *direct* links to downloads, but just pointing people to where they can access these downloads by themselves :) I am not affiliated with any of the hosts of these links. Just someone in the community who knows the ins and outs trying to point noobies in the right direction and to (hopefully) slow down the subreddit becoming nothing but a cesspit of people asking the same question over and over. This also means don't come to me for help, I don't run any of this stuff. Either leave your problem in the comments for help or ask the Discord. AND I DO NOT ANSWER DIRECT MESSAGES QUEST 2 USERS: Not all Quest 1 games currently work with the Quest 2, please take a look at this spreadsheet before installing any games. if you're here looking for a cracked version of Virtual Desktop, there isn't one. VD is uncrackable as far as I know. If you want a PCVR streamer for Quest, here is a free alternative. WILL I BE BANNED FOR PIRATING GAMES? As it stands right now, you won't be banned for pirating games. As of right now, Facebook has never issued any form of punishment to anyone for piracy. If you feel weary when it comes to pirating games, you can take some precautions just to be safe. "LVL 0: Do nothing, play cracked games online and offline LVL 1: Play cracked games only when your wifi is turned off (still not safer since oculus sends logs) LVL 2: Spoof games as random packagenames and only play with wifi off (safer, but still not 100% safe) LVL 3: Play with wifi on but block all oculus and facebook domains through pihole or your router (even safer, still SOME game developers will see your ip trying to connect to their servers, using a fake dns does work) LVL 4: Block quest external access to internet from your routepihole (only allowing stuff vd and file transfer between devices on LAN)" - Zale Anderson, VRP Discord PLEASE READ THIS GUIDE CAREFULLY TO NOT MAKE ANY MISTAKES Also, if you're manually sideloading, DON'T USE SIDEQUEST. THEY HAVE AN APK BLACKLIST AND WILL NOT LET YOU SIDELOAD PIRATED GAMES. YOU CAN USE AN OLDER VERSION OF SIDEQUEST TO SIDELOAD BLACKLISTED APKS THAT CAN BE OBTAINED THROUGH RCLONE BROWSER, WHICH IS MENTIONED LATER IN THIS GUIDE YOU WILL NEED: Oculus ADB Drivers An Oculus developer account with the Quest in developer mode (Tutorial) EDIT: I've heard about recently that you now need a Credit Card to get a developer account for verification purposes. I don't know any way around this so I apologise if you can't make a developer account for this. A Telegram Account (requires phone number, if you don't have one that's on you) EDIT: you can use various websites that provide free phone numbers online, namely TextNow (US only but VPNs work) and FreePhoneNum. thanks to u/FlowV4 on this post for reminding me that these apps existed lol Any device capable of sideloading to an Oculus Quest/Quest 2 (this guide will be directed to Windows 10 users as that's the main use case here, if you use something else then I think there are downloads on the Telegram for other operating systems. Keep reading to know how to get to the Telegram) A USB Type C cable routing from your PC to the quest (to sideload games to the headset) A Discord Account (NOT A BRAND NEW ACCOUNT: using a new account will get you instantly banned from the VRP Discord. This is a measure to prevent raiding/bots. I do not know how old your account has to be to join and I apologise for being unable to figure it out. I'd give it 14-30 days maybe.) Step 1: Join the VRP Discord server. The invite link is a PINNED POST on this subreddit. When in the Discord server, head over to the #rules channel, read the rules and react to the bottom message to gain access to the rest of the server you may use the #vrp-updates channel in the server to be notified when new games are added or games are updated on the download mirrors. Step 2: Go to the #faq channel, scroll to the top and JOIN THE TELEGRAM (Telegram link is underneath " How to sideload with AndroidSideloader: " section. You'll have to download the Telegram application on your PC and make an account to get into the VRP Telegram. Step 3: If you needed to download Telegram, revisit the Telegram link in the VRP Discord and using your account you just made/logged into, join the VRP Telegram chat. At the top of the Telegram interface you should be able to access the pinned message. So at this point there are multiple methods here for quest piracy. I'm going to go through them here. ROOKIE'S SIDELOADER VRP EDITION (AUTOMATIC SIDELOADING, HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR NOOBIES) On the Telegram's pinned message is an exe file for the Rookie's Sideloader VRP Edition installer. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND USING THIS TO PIRATE GAMES. It's a simple application that when downloaded and installed (IF WINDOWS/YOUR BROWSER SAYS IT'S A VIRUS, THIS IS A FALSE POSITIVE AND MEANS YOU NEED TO UPDATE YOUR VIRUS DATABASES TO STOP IT FROM APPEARING OR JUST ADD IT TO YOUR EXCEPTIONS.) and when launched, you can connect your quest to your PC, Select from a huge drop down menu of games and easily, with a couple of clicks, automagically download and sideload games to your quest. If you get Rookie's Sideloader VRP and are prompted with an update on launch, accept the update and it'll be downloaded and launched on your PC. Games on the list are automatically added and updated at the rate they're cracked by the pirates. RCLONE BROWSER (MANUAL SIDELOADING, RECOMMENDED IF USING ANY OTHER SIDELOADING METHOD, ALSO FOR PCVGEARVR GAMES) On the pinned messages list, find the rclone browser part and click the link corresponding to the operating system you're on and (for Windows) you'll be redirected to a message containing a RAR file. Download that file, extract it and run RcloneBrowser.exe. You'll then be presented with 2 or 3 VRP mirrors, double click one of them and you'll be able to access and download APKs and OBBs under the Quest Games folder for manual sideloading, if thats your thing. If the UI for rclone browser is confusing to you, refer to this short tutorial video. (when the game you chose is showing as running, wait until it says finished before sideloading) WHITE WHIDOW SIDELOADER - NEWER, PRE-ALPHA ALTERNATIVE TO ROOKIE'S FOR MAC, LINUX AND WINDOWS all info regarding WWS can be found here. includes download and installation guide EXTRA, LIKELY NECESSARY INFORMATION To manually sideload, use sidequest or rookies sideloader to access the quests file system and drag the "com.xxx.xxx" folder to the directory Android/obb then sideload the apk using the sideloading method of your choice. Not all games need obb files so they won't come with them. To access sideloaded applications, go to your Quest's library screen, on the top right select the drop down menu that says "All", scroll down and select Unknown Sources. From there you can access your sideloaded games and apps UPDATING QUEST GAMES To update your pirated Quest games, while keeping the current version of the game installed, download and sideload the new version of the game using your preferred method and your save data should stay intact with the new update installed OTHER rclone browser also provides downloads for other tools and options regarding your Quest and games. This includes: App launchers spoofed as legit apps that can be launched from your regular library screen, eliminating the need to go to unknown sources Method(s) to disable Telemetry tracking Alternate sideloading methods such as older versions of sidequest that allow blacklisted apks, total commander for local sideloading and rookies sideloader vrp edition. All the old Quest firmware versions and methods to downgrade Previous versions of games DLC for games Modded/maxed out save files for games GEARVR AND PC TETHERED VR Rclone browser also provides downloads for GearVR and PCVR games. The GearVR games should sideload fine onto a Quest but there is no guarantee that they will fully function. However I don't know how to play GearVR games on a PC using a PCVR headset THE PCVR GAMES ARE TO BE DOWNLOADED AND PLAYED ON A PC WITH A PCVR TETHERED HEADSET OR A QUEST CONNECTED TO A PC WITH OCULUS LINK/VIRTUAL DESKTOP/ALVR. YOU CANNOT SIDELOAD PCVR GAMES ONTO A QUEST 1 OR 2 AND PLAY THEM STANDALONE. To play pirated PCVR games, download one using any of the rclone mirrors. Some may be packaged into repacked installers to make downloads smaller, so follow any instructions that are (hopefully) provided alongside the repack files. PLAYING WITH STEAMVR In my experience, the easiest way to run these games is through SteamVR, being only a Quest owner i've found running games through the Oculus PC app with Link very unreliable due to their software just being a MASSIVE processing power hog so only use Oculus Link if you have no other way or you think your PC is beefy enough for it. More on this a little bit down the line. So, if you're on an Oculus headset (Quest with Link^, Rift) enable unknown sources in the settings for the Oculus PC software so you can run SteamVR. Find the executable (.exe) for the game you've just downloaded and installed/extracted (you may have to look around in the game directory depending on what game) and add it as a Non-Steam game shortcut within Steam. Then go to properties for the shortcut you have just created within Steam and enable "Include in VR Library" Then when running SteamVR on launch you'll be presented with your VR library where your shortcuts should appear and you can just launch the games from there and enjoy. ^If you do Quest PCVR exclusively on Virtual Desktop, you do not need the Oculus software at all (correct me if i'm wrong) POSSIBLE SETUP IMPROVEMENTS (IN MY EXPERIENCE) Here i'm just gonna dump a few things that have enhanced my PCVR experience on a Quest over time in hopes that it'll help out others. I play games on a budget ass rig (i5-4590s, 8gb ram, gtx 1650) so running the Oculus app and playing with Oculus Link is a MASSIVE MASSIVE hit on performance in games. So if you're able to, use Virtual Desktop instead of Oculus Link as long as you've got a nice connection (preferrably ethernet) and at the cost of a bit of pixelation in display or some higher latency, you will run games WAAAY smoother. I am incredibly below spec for Half-Life: Alyx but by running it with Virtual Desktop and not the Oculus app bloating up my CPU power it sat at more than playable fps (50-72fps) for me at all times on low fidelity. Along with that, close anything else you have running in the background like any web browser or Discord. Sure VD is $25/£20, but its worth it not only for the experience improvements but for supporting the developer because this guy is doing a better job than Facebook when it comes to this stuff. This post will be updated for general improvements (i suck at writing guides) and if any changes come along to the process. I hope this helps those who want to try before they buy or the many clueless people who just want free games on their shiny new VR headsets. But remember, please support developers and their work by buying their games on legit marketplaces, maybe wait for a sale or something and buy their games if you enjoy them. They absolutely slave away to bring us these incredible experiences and we are responsible for making sure they can afford a tin of sardines to ration for the week and maybe buy more models off the asset store for their next game I know this is coming from the redditor who just taught you how to pirate every single VR game but i still like to support developers by buying their games if i enjoy them and it goes way further than you think when you buy a game. Except for Bethesda and Rockstar, please pirate their games to your hearts content as they are shitty companies releasing low effort VR ports for a quick buck from the small but growing amount of VR enthusiasts and gamers. Thanks for reading and enjoy! |
I'd also suggest seeking out some practice exams (Meyers, Messer, or Dion) to drill on. Those practice exams (in particular Dion) always seem to structure questions the same as CompTIA, and that's a big help. CompTIA likes to throw curve balls in the way they ask questions, so seeing those a few times before you sit for the actual exam can be helpful. Main thing with CompTIA is to read the question, read it again, and read it again before answering.
Dear Community, submitted by XMG_gg to XMG_gg [link] [comments] today we announced SCHENKER VISION 15, a brand-new laptop that is the second project in our collaboration with the SPG division in Intel. A new vision Press Links:
Reviews:NotebookcheckGolem to be continued... I already took some teaser pictures out here in Taipei, Taiwan Mainboard + Thermals with Core i7-1165G7 All real-life pictures:
Product Highlights
BenchmarksA full review embargo will be lifted on December 4, 2020. But we can already share some of our internal testing with the i7-1165G7 in our samples:
Our role in the 'WITH INTEL' partnershipWe have already demonstrated with XMG FUSION 15 that we can be an equal partner to a giant such as Intel. Intel's reference design for the QC71 gaming laptop was sold world-wide through various brands, but no partner like XMG brought so much support and after-sales firmware fine-tuning to the table.Over the lifetime of XMG FUSION 15 we were always first to release countless BIOS updates, including the major feature upgrade in June 2020 which delivered highly sought-after premium updates to all existing customer, based on the feedback we have received from our community over the months. Up until now, XMG FUSION 15 is still one of our gaming and content creation bestsellers and we plan to continue to support it well into 2021 because it is still a unique combination of form factor, battery life and performance that is still absolutely unparalleled in this industry. With SCHENKER VISION 15, we plan to repeat this success. We have had countless meetings with Intel since the launch of FUSION 15 to help them shape their roadmap, to deliver customer feedback and help fine-tune the hardware and software solutions of the next generation. We have started testing samples of SCHENKER VISION 15 already months ago and have been instrumental in helping Intel to test their product outside of the lab in a real-life environment, with diverse usage scenarios and with a keen eye on fine-tuning and the quality of user experience. Already in our hands this product has gone through numerous firmware updates and we are looking forward to further fine-tune it ahead of the first consumer-ready shipment in January 2021. Current List of Feature RequestsWe already have a list of talking points with Intel to make sure that this product will go the last mile and reach 100% perfection. For the sake of tracking our progress with Intel, we will share some of the items here.[Last Update: November 19, 2020]
If you have a feature request, no matter how unique or obvious it is, please let us know in the comments below. Pre-Order, SKUs and Shipping ScheduleWe will open pre-orders on December 4, 2020. The first shipments should become available in the middle of January 2021 according to Intel's current build-plan. We will go for i7-1165G7 and 16GB only - there won't be any Core i5 or 8GB configuration from us.We commited to All Silver, and All with Touch display. A 'Midnight Black' edition might be planned for later in Q1 2021. FAQ - Frequently Asked QuestionsQ: How does Intel Tiger Lake keep up with AMD's and Apple's latest CPU offerings? A: Not too bad, I would say. The i7-1165G7 in VISION 15 beats AMD's 4000U series in Single Core performance and reaches ~75% of the result of the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U in Cinebench R20 Multi, despite having only half as many cores. In Cinebench R23 Multi 10min Loop, the i7-1165G7 reaches ~77% of the result of Apple's M1 in the actively cooled MacBook Pro M1 - although it remains to be seen how these two competitors fare in the skin temperature vs. fan noise department. With a 15.6" housing and the very efficient cooling solution, we expect VISION 15 to be ahead of the 13" MacBook Pro in that regard. But a CPU is not only about raw multi-core performance - it is also about the platform it is enabling. There is much to be said about the list of little-known features that Intel supports in Tiger Lake, but the key difference makers are PCI-Express 4.0 for outstanding SSD speed and Thunderbolt 4 for unparalleled connectivity. AMD still has no answer for Thunderbolt (and no USB 4.0 implementation either) and Apple's USB 4.0 implementation on the M1 silicon is reported to lack support for eGPUs. Other notable features in Tiger Lake compared to Intel's predecessors include:
Q: How does the cooling and audio system of VISION 15 work exactly? A: It's pretty simple. As you can see in the picture above, the it has a dual-fan cooling solution with one heatpipe for each fan. Now the base unit of the laptop has a mesh above the keyboard. This serves a double function as a kind of speaker mesh and air inlet. Despite the speakers being on the outer bottom edges of the chassis, the unibody is built in a way that it transports the sound very well to that mesh so that the sound feels like it's coming from the screen. The result is a very crisp audio volume - without having to fiddle with any 3rd party audio enhancement apps. Q: How does the system behave while on-battery? A: It is part of Intel's Project Evo design guidelines that a system must not throttle too much when running on battery. In VISION 15 this is implemented perfectly, where neither CPU nor iGPU are performing below 95% of the 'plugged-in' performance on a full battery. This number might slightly go down when you battery approaches the lower levels, but you'll be able to work on VISION 15 with full power for a pretty long time overall. Your system will be fully responsive - no matter if plugged-in or on battery. Q: Does VISION 15 support display output with VESA Adaptive Sync? A: After already having pioneered NVIDIA G-SYNC in XMG PRO and ULTRA series in recent years, supporting the more open Adaptive Sync standard in as many models as possible is one of our design goals for 2021. Intel Tiger Lake is the first mainstream CPU platform in which Intel’s iGPU is supposed to support Adaptive Sync according to Intel’s marketing claims. We tested it on our upcoming XMG CORE 14 with i7-1165G7 and GTX 1650. VRR ouput worked fine*** via Thunderbolt 4 (aka USB-C/DP) with external monitors as long as those are marketed either with “AMD FreeSync” or with “G-SYNC compatile”. Essentially, those are monitors that implement the VESA Adaptive Sync industry standard. However, monitors that implement the proprietary method of NVIDIA G-SYNC (with the built-in G-SYNC module) are not able to support VRR from the iGPU in our tests. * Curiously, with current Windows and driver, VRR only worked for content that was rendered on the NVIDIA dGPU even though it is indeed displayed through the iGPU framebuffer. This chart is just FYI, based on XMG CORE 14. Please note that VISION 15 does not have a dGPU and is not planned to be upgraded with a dGPU either. Now, VISION 15 does not have an NVIDIA dGPU so we need to get it to work on iGPU instead. According to our contacts in Intel, the lack of VRR on iGPU is due to missing Windows Update. According to Intel, everything already works fine on the “Windows 10 Iron” Build 21H1 19624.200504 (or later) which is currently only available for members of the Windows 10 Insider program. We will try to find out when this patch is supposed to hit the mainstream Windows Update cycles. However, we don’t assume that proprietary NVIDIA G-SYNC panels will be able to be supported – same like AMD desktop graphics cards can’t support AMD FreeSync on those proprietary NVIDIA G-SYNC panels. Meanwhile, VRR is called ‘Adaptive Sync’ in the Intel Graphics Command Center and is enabled by default. Q: Will it be possible to apply Undervolting (Voltage Offset) on the CPU or iGPU? A: We currently see no avenue to apply undervolting on any of the Tiger Lake systems we are launching. We have discussed the matter with the author of a popular free tool for Undervolting and tried a few unreleased Beta-versions and we are pretty confident in saying that Voltage Offset was still possible in Ice Lake but is currently hard-disabled in hardware for Tiger Lake. We have discussed this with our contacts in Intel and we'll make sure to send any feedback and concerns upstream to Intel. Apart from Plundervolt which is discussed in this thread, another reason to disable Voltage Offset might be the relocation of the voltage regulators (CPU FIVR, PCH FIVR) in the new architecture. We have reasons to believe that this have has strongly reduced the gains you can make with voltage offset. In other words: the system might already be working at peak efficiency by default. This might warrant further discussion in the future, perhaps when Intel is launching their Tiger Lake "H" series designs (still under NDA). If you have any unique insight on this topic, feel free to share your information in the comments below or via PM. What we can confirm is that the lowest Idle power consumption of TGL-UP3 has been greatly reduced compared to previous generations. It's now between 3 and 6W in all of the Tiger Lake systems we're currently launching where their Comet Lake (CML) predecessors were usually more like in the 10W ballpark. Q: Does the Touch Screen support pen/stylus input? A: It's a capacitive touch screen, so any capacitive pen should work. Pressure detection should be compatible with Bluetooth-connected pens that support Windows Ink, but we haven't tested this yet. Coming soon. Q: Does the screen rotate when opened by 180°? Does it support tablet mode? A: The image on the screen does not automatically rotate. However, you can enable convenient keyboards shortcuts (Ctrl+Alt+Arrow Keys) in Intel Graphics Command Center (screenshot). Tablet Mode can be manually activated in Windows settings. This modifies task-switching behavior and adds an icon for the touch keyboard to the systray. However, even in Tablet Mode the screen will not automatically rotate. Due to the fact that this laptop only has a 180° hinge (not 360°), it is not meant to be used as a hand-held tablet or convertible. Q: Any plans for a 4K resolution screen? A: No plans right now. SCHENKER VISION 15 is fixed to deliver a very specific Full-HD Touch Displays with very high brightness and low weight and power consumption. There will be only that one panel - so there isn't going to be a panel lottery like with other brands. We do understand the demand for higher resolutions and we are seeking to be part of the push for high-DPI panels in appropriate form factors in the future. When we picked the new family name for this product, we thought of VISION to be not only our most forward-looking series in the SCHENKER portfolio but also to include products that have stunning visuals. I can already say that 2021 is going to be an exciting year on that front. Q: How repair-friendly is VISION 15? A: VISION 15 has seven (7) Torx T6 screws in the bottom cover. The choice for T6 is final as it provides more torque, leading to stronger build-quality without risking wear and tear (i.e. stripped screwheads). We are currently debating whether we should include a free Torx T6 screwdriver with every sold VISION 15. But you can also get them in any PC-centric screwdriver set. Once you remove the 7 screws, the bottom lid opens very easily. You have access to the Battery, Wi-Fi module and the PCI-Express SSD. At that point you can also clean the fans and heatsinks with canned air. Removing the mainboard will be very easy as well, requiring you to remove the SSD, Wi-Fi module, 5 ribbon cables and 7 additional screws. The mainboard comes out with the fans and heatsinks still attached as one solid unit. The LPDDR4x memory is famously soldered on-board. That's why we opt to not offer any configurations below 16GB at launch. LPDDR4x is highly efficient and only available in BGA form. The efficiency helps with thermals and battery life, so it's actually a worthwhile trade-off. Our cooperation with Intel on XMG FUSION 15 has convinced us that Intel is extremely efficient in their internal RMA handling. We will be able to buy spare parts directly from Intel's factory, but every barebone (minus SSD) will be able to be replaced in Intel's logistics hubs in Europe with zero turnover (Advanced Warranty Replacement, AWR) and very little communication overhead. Having such a strong partner in the back makes it even easier for us to offer our 48h warranty service to end-customers. Q: How is the keyboard layout going to look like? What function keys do you have? A: An overview over the German keyboard can be found here. We will offer 25 different keyboard layout at launch - a list can be found here. VISION 15 continues our recent tradition to offer FnLock - so you can chose between having Fn functions or F keys as the primary input for the top row. Intel also implemented PageUp/Down/Home/End functions on the cursor keys which is something we have done on many of our recent models as well. Full list:
We are looking forward to your feedback! // Tom |
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What is a typical day in your life like? | I get up at 4:30. I watch some YouTube, do some email, work on my writing or similar. I head to the gym at 7, shower and start my day around 8. I work in my home office or shop/lab, code and work on stuff, throughout the day. I could be busy all the way through to 8-9PM if I'm wrapped up in something, but not usually that busy. |
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You get up at 4:30 AM? Wow. Have you always been a morning person? Are other people on your team morning people so you decided to start early? I’m asking this because it seems like a lot of successful people wake up very early and work out before starting their workday. | No, I never was until my neck injury. While recovering I couldn't sleep more than about 4-5 hours max and just got into the habit. Since it was so productive for me, I just kept it up! |
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Thanks for sharing. I wish you good health. | Thanks! |
Did you create Robocopy, or know who did? I use that very regularly and much more efficient than using the GUI. | The secret dirt is that Robocopy was first written by MS colleague Kevin Allen, and he started sharing copies around in 1994ish. From there, and after many iterations and heavy-duty real-world feedback, robocopy ended up in the Windows Resource Kit, and then later merged into the core Windows package. In the beginning, Kevin was a very experienced programmer, but new to the Win32 API; so robocopy was one of his projects to educate himself about Windows programming. Later on, ITG used robocopy to routinely transfer many gigabytes of data around MS global offices, every night; it became very robust and battle-hardened. It is a long time now since Kevin was involved in the robocopy source code at all; it is maintained by the Windows team. |
Did you create Microsoft Clippy? Will Clippy ever make a come back? | Noooo... but I was around at the time. We have Clippy now in the form of Siri and Google Assistant and Cortana, but there's no picture. That's all it was though, an early digital assistant. |
I read on a Microsoft devblog that when windows got ported to 64bit pinball 3d was not ported because of bugs and the developers not being able to understand the code/not having enough time. It's a shame, because it was such an awesome game and I spent many hours playing it as a kid. Was the code messy due to being ported from Sam and do you think it could have been ported given enough time and expertise? | Basically what I did when I ported it was to maintain the central code "logic" loop of the game unchanged so that it would play just as it did on other platforms, and then "hooked" functionality coming out of it and going into it. So I rewrote the drawing code that did the actual drawing, but not he original code that wanted to do the drawing, if that makes sense. I changed the how, not why. |
That meant, though, that at the very core of the game was a big bunch of code that we didn't touch or monkey with, because it 'just worked'. Apparently sometime after Vista, in 64-bit, there was a collision detection bug in Pinball. | |
From what I read, Raymond Chen looked at it and got the general idea of what was wrong but didn't want to touch the fragile old code. Raymond's one of the best debuggers I've met, so it wasn't a question of expertise but of time and resources. | |
Anyone on the team could have trivially fixed it I'm sure, but it sounds like no one "owned" the game anymore after I left, and it was more than just a random little bug to fix, it would have required a dev to be assigned to it, and there likely was no one free. | |
What is your favourite colour please? | Well, I have four cars with blue interiors and I'm wearing a blue shirt and a blue watch and blue jeans. So probably blue. |
If my son expresses interest in serious computer programming, where is a good place to start? C for Dummies? (I'm joking and I know terribly little about the topic, only enough to know backend is where it's at) | Python, then Javascript. Build a website! |
Hi! Just wanted to say, I still use MS-DOS regularly, on many of my older machines in my collection. Also Win3.x, Win9x etc How do you feel about computers becoming extremely dependent on 'cloud' services? I can still set up an old machine, install an old OS, install old software and have it all up and running within an hour or so, while modern software essentially requires cloud services for literally everything. What happens to that software once some random person out there decides that they don't want to support it anymore? Those cloud services go away? Are you concerned that future generations will not be able to experience anything from this era of computing? Considering computers were designed to be able to continually run the same software over and over as necessary, how can that apply if the bulk of this is lost when the cloud disappears? Or maybe this isn't a concern at all, and I'm just crazy...? | I already have hardware that refused to work because the cloud service that backs it has been abandoned or the company has gone out of business. |
I worry that things become dependent on externals that aren't reliable long term, and I know what you mean... but fortunately Windows, once activated, runs perfectly well offline forever, really. | |
I'm a fresh graduate with some experience and reading the knowledge you all have in the comments has made me feel very inferior. I only started coding in my university and I don't do it in my past time. Am I doing something wrong? I do enjoy programming but I try to keep a work life balance. Is that a thing in software development? Also did you ever approve a pull request by Bill? | No, as long as you DO enjoy it when you're doing it, you're fine. There's an entire "spectrum" of people in the world and some of us have "special interests" with which we're a little obsessed, and tend to "hyperfocus". I'm one of those people but it's by no means the only way to do it! |
I knew many great programmers who (a) didn't program in their spare time at home and (b) didn't continue to program recreationally after leaving it as a job. | |
If you can work regular 40 hours a week as a productive programmer, you'll be set! | |
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Thank you so much for this! Are there any tips you'd like to give to fresh graduates like me? | If you get a job at a large company like Microsoft, and decide you're not happy, try moving INTERNALLY before looking for another job. You could work for 5 different companies over your career and they could all be Google, for example. Culture goes through and through, but every team has its own. |
the following is a later reply | If you can put in a 35-40 hour week of solid work, you'll be fine. There are three buckets: the obsessives, like myself, who work as much as they can. Then the solid pros, who can turn out a ton of quality stuff in 40 hours. And then you have the slackers who surf Facebook at work and read reddit when they should be coding. As long as you're not in that group you're fine, and a balance is important. It is indeed a thing the successful people achieve it. It's not about how much code you write, it's about how much MORE time you spend coding than you want to, and that should be zero! |
Lots of people are in careers they don't practice in their free time, in fact most. So it's a bonus if you're that way, but most people are NOT, so don't despair! You're normal! | |
If you're still answering, how much of the original Task Manager still lives in the modern Task Manager? Anyway, thanks for the AMA! You're a legend! | I don't know for sure, but from looking at the app, and not the code, I'd expect about 60-70% of it? |
Hopefully you’re still taking questions. I get a lot of crap by my peers about command line. Power shell is badass but I’m a cmd guy myself. I know we can do pretty much everything that cmd does in powershell and more, but idk. I like what I like, you know? Where do you stand on this? | Honestly I'd be a CMD guy as well, but I'm really starting to lean towards using bash under WSL. |
Have you ever looked the help for SET and FOR under CMD? It's where we put every piece of extra functionality, since you can't add keywords that might collide with people's script names, etc... | |
I didn’t use windows after windows 7 for about 5 years. Back in august 2019 I finally rebuilt and upgraded my old PC and installed windows 10. The task manager in windows 10 is so amazing and powerful. I would imagine it’s something you wanted to implement in the 90s but didn’t have the tools or time. Right? | Indeed, I'm a big fan of the current task manager and what they've done with it! I wish there was a Dark mode, I wish it handled file lock tracking, and I've always got wish lists, but they've done a great job with it! |
CIA_grade_LSD: Why does the file transfer time remaining progress bar start at like 15 hours and then drop to two minutes and then stick at 99% for five minutes? (An exaggeration I admit. I know you and your colleagues do your best, but I am curious why this hasnt gotten much more accurate over the years.) androidethic: Yes, we need a justification as to why the windows file operation estimations are so random/inaccurate! | They're the worst estimate out there, except for all the others. |
Mac is just as bad. It's a hard problem. I worked on it briefly, and to help solve it I kept track of the average time it had taken for a whole range of operations, like creating, moving, deleting, renaming a file, or moving a block of N bytes, etc. Then multiply by the number of those operations that remain. But even that can be wildly off in degenerate cases. | |
Do you ever get laid? | Not since your Mom kicked me out. |
Why has windows task manager never had a true force quit? | End Process is a true force quit. |
What was your team's opinion on linux at the time? And what's yours opinion too? | I like it a lot, I was an early adopter back in 1993-1994 and tried to contribute some code for parsing IIDs, though I don't know if it's still in there. I hope it is, becaue then I'd have code in Windows, Mac Office, and Linux. I'd be everywhere :-) |
Now that we have WSL 2, though, I do most of my Linux work under Windows! | |
How much of the original DOS code is still in modern OSs? | None whatsoever. In fact, the only commonality at all would likely be the PGM header on disk still traces its original layout to MS-DOS. |
But rest assured there's NO code from MS-DOS inside NT, for example. It was a complete clean-slate design. | |
Was it you responsible for the atrocious naming conventions in WIN32? | Your username is dhbt12 :-) |
What current developments in the world of operating systems are you watching with eager anticipation? File systems and LLVM seem to be the rage right now, at least from where I sit. | Containers are cool to me, like Docker! That's really the biggest development of recent years I think! |
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* What's your compensation? | - Zero, since I'm retired and there's no pension. |
* Have you met Bill Gates? | - Yes, a number of times. When I was first hired he had me and a few other recent hires over to his house for burgers and beer and it was quite nice! |
What's your opinion of free and open-source software? Broad, I know. I saw your response about WinRAR saying you like to license your software, but do you hold a similar sentiment in tossing a coin to the devs of foss software you might use? | I love it, I just don't have any illusions that making a piece of code open-source somehow leads to higher quality. It makes it more available to me, which is great, but in reality, on a typical project there are going to be 1-5 people who really look at the code and then a dozen the sort of know it to make changes, and then consumers of the code who just call it. I don't see that those 1-5 people are any brighter than the people who'd be responsible for a product in a proprietary environment. |
Now at a certain scale, like the Linux kernel maybe, you've got enough eyeballs looking at it that it makes a difference... that I could see! | |
What's the idea behind SYSKEY? | As I understand it, its function is to encrypt something called the SAM (Security Account Manager) database. This database stores hashes of user passwords, and is used to authenticate users when they supply their password. |
Hey Dave, what do you think the future of the windows OS will be? Is a cloud-based OS possible, potentially limiting computer hardware? | As a total guess, I imagine our experience will eventually be just a UI device locally and everything else happens in the cloud on server hardware. So as you say, at some point your client hardware is "good enough" and then companies compete on the merits of their back-end services. |
Do you know Mike Toutonghi? , he used to work at Microsoft, now he started a new blockchain project called The Verus project. | By name and email but not well enough to recognize him at the mall today, I'd say! |
If you had to redo windows, what would you most like to change? What do you regret most? What do you like most? | The Format dialog needs to be redone! And Task Manager is likely my favorite... |
Android or iPhone? Beer or wine? Ginger or Mary Ann? | iPhone. Beer. Can't it be both? It's an island, after all. |
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I figured the iPhone since you have Mac's in the lab. I figured beer also since you can't shift a 4 speed with a glass off wine between your legs. Nice garage BTW. However i wasnt ready for both, it's an island after all. Touche. I tired to compile my first bit of code from GitHub today. I failed miserably. It would install but wouldn't run. I'll keep at it. | Make sure you're in a clean empty folder. Try the code from Episode 11, I just used it so I know that works! Clone it and build it in PlatformIO with no changes, and that'll tell you if your dev environment is set up and working properly. |
I cant connect to my cloud, can you download it for me? | I'd love to, but I'm out of paper. Can you fax me some? |
What amazes you the most when you compare technology from the 90's to now? | GPUs! |
Is it wrong of me to only ever end task manager with itself? | Software Seppuku. |
Probably too many comments and very late to the game, but here it goes! I teach Comp Sci at an international school. Would you be willing to give a small webinar talk to my students? They would just be so happy to hear from you as would I! Anyway, regardless, thanks for the many, many hours of enjoyment! | Maybe after Covid, but I'm not a big fan of Zoom lectures! I just did one for the U of R, though, and if you check my channel there are two that I have done for the University of Regina that you might find useful for your students... |
You can email me at [email protected] with info about the school and what topic you would like, etc, and I can see if it's a good fit for schedule and topic! | |
What computers do you personally at home? Windows? Linux? Mac? | All three! |
Why are processes able to hang to the point that task manager is unable to kill them? | At that point there must be kernel corruption or something going on in a driver or well below the surface, I guess. If TM can't kill it, no one can, and it's truly hung. |
Did you ever meet the genius who wrote the Space Cadet Pinball theme song? | No, who wrote it? Matt Ridgeway? |
Hi Dave, loved the videos on task manager Do you have any thoughts on modern C / C++ replacements like Zig and Rust (respectively)? | I think its cool if memory access is indeed provably safe but you get code nearly as optimal as C, but I've got to learn more about them! |
Did you like the windows phone? | Never had one, started after I left, but I heard nice things about the very last one before it went away... |
Hi Dave, Why doesn’t File Explorer automatically refresh to show new files in a folder, such as downloads? Seems such an obvious glitch! Also, how do I get the login screen on Windows 10? I push space, esc, mouse clicks, enters... and nothing happens. Then poof, it shows up. Why is this so unresponsive? | It does. |
In fact I know it does, because I have a patent on some of it! | |
Not sure why yours wound't be working, your system might have a third party piece of software that has broken File System Change notifications. | |
Was the time on Microsoft fun? | It really was. I miss the people and the environment, and I especially miss lunch! |
i’ve found 15+ 0-days in the shell32 API when doing a vuln analysis of explorer.exe. You can read my work at https://hyp3ri0n-ng.github.io! What’s it like to write really buggy code :P? | I sense that high school was hard for you socially. |
I’m sure I remember owning the pinball game as a separate standalone title before it was in windows? Can you explain the deal with that? Or am I misremembering | Plus Pack! |
You're a legend, can't believe I missed this. I'll post this here, if you don't answer it I'll have a good copy/paste for later. What are your thoughts on the sethc.exe / accessibility exploit? It's worked as far back as XP, and still works today in Windows 10, last time I checked. Windows Server 2003 and 2008 as well. Is checking the integrity of OS files before they're executed just not a priority? | https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/222193/description-of-the-windows-file-protection-feature |
Why ctl+alt+delete? | An IBM engineer (David Bradley, I think) picked that combination to serve as a hardware reset. You can't fake it, you can't get around it. The PC knows it's really C_A_D when you do it. |
Why that particular combination, you'd have to ask him! | |
What's the furthest you've gotten into a project that ended up not panning out? Was it something you really wanted to get working or were you relieved to move on? I'm a student studying engineering right now and reading these answers is extremely motivational; your passion for computers is awesome! Thanks for doing this. | I spent about a year on an early prototype of Media Center that I was attached to but got killed. They did do a Media Center later, of course, but I had started 2-3 years ahead, but couldn't get funding. |
Why has the Windows she'll been so bad for so long? | I don't know, but I'll see you in he'll. |
Do you still work at Microsoft? Do you still use only Microsoft stuff? | No retired in 2003. I use a lot of MS stuff, but my main laptop is a MacBook and I use a Mac for video. |
Do you own any Apple products or use them for work? | I own all the Apple products except the new headphones, pretty much! I'm retired now though! |
Is the workculture of Microsoft at the time very different than now? How much does Bill Gates' leadership impact the company? What changes had his departure bring? | It is indeed very different under Satya than Bill, and the changes are widespread. But I left before Satya started, so I'm not really qualified to speak on them! |
What are your thoughts on the age old trick of "Opening Task Manager to stop programs from freezing or being slow", is there some merit to doing that or is it just a simple coincidence? | Total coincidence, honest! Task Manager, at that level, is just a windows app with a message pump. It's existence doesn't do anything that solitaire or paint would not also! |
No, but there's a great meme with the Star Wars general about how apps work better with Task Manager open because "fear will keep them in line". | |
It's purely psychological, though. TM doesn't do anything by running the calc or paint wouldn't also provide! | |
Did you work on Windows ME? If so.. What the hell happened to that OS that made it so terrible? I had kernal errors every week. | Nope! My work on the shell would have been backported to it, but I didn't work directly on 98 or M3, other than they used our NT version of the shell code by then I think. |
Did you make any contingency for when Task Manager stops responding? | Yes, lots! Check the video the "Secret Life of Task Manager" for more dirt, but there are MANY things it does to help prevent you ever being stuck with no task manager: |
https://youtu.be/f8VBOiPV-_M | |
If not asked yet If this is correct, as posted in Regina awhile ago iirc I saw a post saying you’re from Regina, Canada Is that true? If so that’s awesome to hear that someone from my local area made one of my favourite no internet game and the basic fundamentals of the most used OS for computers | Yes indeed, that's me! |
Why is the documentation for WPA so bad and scarce? I have to refer to Bruce Dawson's years old blog to decipher some of the columns names. Are there any plans to add a comprehensive manual for it? | Windows Product Activation? Columns? Sorry, are you using WPA for something else? |
Can I intern for you? | If you know how to write a Material-themed admin-style Dashboard in React, can consume a REST api in doing so, and have some experience with iPhone apps an Unity, then maybe yes! |
I was actually looking for an intern this past summer to write a phone and web app... | |
how did you assured code quality and readability? did you use static analyzers/ unit tests or what? | Check out the "Secret History of Task Manager" video for a description of "NTStress" and how we nightly tested, but there were professional testers, every line of code was code-reviewed, and so on. |
My understanding is it's quite different now, though! | |
When you say you worked on Windows activation, was it for more than a day? | That's an odd question. Can I ask why you think it might have just been for a day? Clue me in to what you're hinting at and I'll fill you in on the rest! |
Why do I need to press 3 buttons and 1 click to open task manager? | Because you choose to fail! |
You can do it with two clicks or one simultaneous multikey press! | |
Do you think WPA was a success? | I think so! It helped stem casual piracy, wasn't "cracked" for at least 18 months after we released it, and didn't unduly inconvenience users too often, I hope. |
We were really aiming for the 95% case. Trying to catch the 95% of piracy that is people sharing keys, reusing their own keys on too many machines, getting keys off the web, that sort of thing. I think it accomplished that. | |
How did you feel about windows 8? | Same way you do. |
Who invented the blue screen of death? | John Vert. He said: |
"Back in 1991 I wrote the original code for Windows NT 3.1 that put the video screen back into text mode and the routines to put text on it (and a truly gnarly bit of code it was!). I used the white on blue colors for two reasons. | |
* The MIPS workstations we were using for the MIPS port had firmware that presented a boot option screen in white on blue, so it made sense that the bugcheck screen would match. | |
* I (and many others) were using SlickEdit as our text editor and at the time its default color scheme was also white on blue. | |
I believe Mark Lucovsky wrote the original code that dumped a bunch of text to the screen. This was a bugcode and a stack dump, resulting in a bunch of useless hex numbers which product support would occasionally dutifully transcribe from the customers and include in the bug report. | |
There was no "typesetting" as we used standard VGA text mode on PCs. | |
I don't know the history of the Win3.1/Win9x blue screens, I think the fact they were the same color is just coincidence." | |
But can you make sick stick figure death match animations in QBASIC? | No, but I do a mean Bill the Cat ascii art! |
How could you? | Sometimes you just gotta say WTF. |
https://youtu.be/a0p7rJsYisw | |
What are you working on these days? | Mostly on programming tutorials and nostalgic "Windows War Stories" on my youtube channel: |
http://www.youtube.com/c/davesgarage | |
[removed] | That's me! Went to Miller high, worked at ISM and SaskTel during college, etc! |
Here is my question. Im a cuban teenager (17) and my dream is work is be a developer. What kind of mini works i can do for learn programation before University? | Do as many little program tasks as you can, and make sure you complete them, and SAVE them for the future so you can look back! |
Try writing a little program to convert back and forth between roman numbers and regular numbers. Or fund the next highest multiple of 32, or count the number of it bits set in a byte. Or the real difference in seconds between two dates, that sort of thing. Real problems that you have to solve will help a great deal as they act as sort of a "forcing function" to make you get to the very end. | |
Do you like macaroni & cheese? | Kraft Dinner all the way. And I eat with little packets of designer ketchup. |
Wait...you didn't built paint? I'm out. | Nope, sorry. But I owned calc for a while, back when we were adding infinite precision math to it! |
Hi, If Microsoft wanted to, they could make it impossible to activate a pirated copy of windows using 3rd party software. So why aren't they making it impossible? | Not sure what you meant by 3rd party software. Are you saying Windows can actually be activated even if pirated? That'd be news to me, but anything's possible. |
What was the criteria for “tilt” on space cadet pinball? I played that game for hours as a kid. | Spacebar would add a little "action" to the table, if I recall, and you could strike a balance of adding so much so often... but too much (ie: smash space too much) and it'll tilt. |
Did you ever have to interview anybody at Microsoft? If so, what types of questions would you ask back then? What was your interview like going into Microsoft? | Oh yeah, I've interviewed dozens or hundreds I'd bet. I'd like to ask "calibrating questons" like "Give me a funtion that takes a number and returns the next highest multiple of 32" or "count the number of bits that are set in it" to see how their basic coding skills were. |
Then I usually liked to give a problem I was working on to see what it'd be like to actually work with the person. | |
I interviewed three times, once as an intern, once as full time, and then once to move to the Shell group. Each as an all-day affair, and very arduous. You have 2-3 hour long interviews in the AM, then a lunch interview, then 2-3 more hour long interviews in the PM, then a supper thing, etc... it's a long day! | |
ImRandyRU: What have you done for me lately? Edit: it was a joke... dabigchina: NT is the foundation that all modern windows OS's build on, so a lot. Zeusifer: I guarantee some of OP's code still exists in Windows 10. | Most of it, to be honest. As a guess I'd say 75% still there. |
Hey man, I had a wicked dump this morning and now my toilet is blocked. Any idea's? | More roughage in your diet. |
It was so satisfying to push the 3x5 disks into the slot and have the button pop out, and make a vroom vroom sound. Ah, the old days. What's your favorite MS-Dos game from the 90s? | I actually came to the PC after MS-DOS, so I wasn't a DOS gamer... I suppose in those days it was primarily C64 and Amiga games. I do remember being fond of Sim City, like everyone, but also of a game called "Seven Cities of Gold"... |
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