I might be placing this in the wrong section, oh well 
We have all probably seen this message in windows more then once so I ask the question:
So what illegal operation did this program perform?
Heavens knows. More M$ BS
Have you ever looked at the error log details. Complete balderdash - about as much use as a chocolate fire guard.
And TBH I couldnāt give a monkeys any more.
The topic is meant to be humorous
I know now, ā The poll wasnāt there when I replied. Or I didnāt see it.
Iām afraid Iām rather boring and stopped being amused by windows long ago. As for making fun of it, wellā¦ itās old hat and honestly, in any real democracy āMicrosoftā would be declared illegal by virtue of itās monopolyā¦ But that aināt going to happen, cus we donāt live in a democracy. Giant Corp. are the Puppet Masters of this world. Letās not even get started on all the āOwnershipā issue and āDRMā.
Vendor Lock In = Evil Empire
Microsoft always makes love. You always feel the love from behind when using Windows.lol!:messed:
I doubt the āillegal operationā would be speeding. 
Maybe more like driving too slow in the passing lane rotfl!
killall -TERM Windows
On 2009-11-09, TaraIkeda <TaraIkeda@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> - Racketeering
ā¦ at the very least, if itās a Microsoft application.
ā
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked
something.
On Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:06:01 +0000, microchip8 wrote:
> killall -TERM Windows
Reminds me of something a good friend (whom in retrospect I havenāt heard
from recentlyā¦) used to do with Windows 3.x; he renamed win.com to
lose.com.
So when he wanted to run Windows, heād type āloseā at the DOS prompt.
And Windows would appear. 
(He was a Desqview fan IIRC)
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator
On 2009-11-10, Jim Henderson <hendersj@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Reminds me of something a good friend (whom in retrospect I havenāt heard
> from recentlyā¦) used to do with Windows 3.x; he renamed win.com to
> lose.com.
>
> So when he wanted to run Windows, heād type āloseā at the DOS prompt.
>
> And Windows would appear.
>
> (He was a Desqview fan IIRC)
Desqviewā¦ whereās the time goneā¦
You make me feel young again. 
ā
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked
something.
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:00:04 +0000, Rikishi42 wrote:
>> (He was a Desqview fan IIRC)
>
> Desqviewā¦ whereās the time goneā¦
>
> You make me feel young again.
LOL, that would make two of us - and Iām used to being the youngster.
I might even have a set of diskettes down in the basement somewhere.
Jim
ā
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator
Making love to a Porcupine (Florida) rotfl!
How about Murder, for causing one to go insane and killing themselves as a result and/or others. Maybe on a mass level.
Diskettes eh! I still have Phimon Tapes from 1974, 8" Shuggart Floppies 1975, 5.25" Diskettes still in use:P, 3.5" also still in use:P, and an old 1TB mainframe drum drive form the 1960ās still going strong with Mandrake Linux 9.1 on it. And yes they are all in the basement.rotfl!
and an old 1TB mainframe drum drive form the 1960ās still going strong with Mandrake Linux 9.1 on it.
No error here? Really? What application or file system could even handle that much storage space at the time? Can you give us some details about that drive?
No big mystery here. The drive itself is nothing more than a ferite lined barrel made of steal lined with copper sleeve with the ferite coating applied. I think there is a insulative bond agent between the ferrite and copper but not too sure.
The barrel measures 25 inches high, and 18 inches across. There is a solid base at the bottom of the barrel with a roller bearing. The top of the barrel has a similar end plate with bearing that allows a solid steal rod 50 inches in length and .5 inch to pass through the entire barrel to the bottom plate and secure to a upper suspended structure.Now the hard part is the outer hollow tube which has a lot going on. It is grooved surface used to move the outer shaft up and down (it simulates tracks on a harddisk). A pancake stepping motor both rotates the shaft at 1200 rpm and moves the shaft up and down at 175 steps per second.
At the bottom of the Outer sleeve is plate that doesnāt quite make it to the bottom of the barrel and has a 1/16th inch clearance from the barrel. There a rather large record playback head set on opposing edges that come about 1/32nd of an inch from the barrel edge. Above the barrel assembly are two rods that keep the information pickups block from spinning as the outer sleeve rotates. This information pickup block is mounted to the top of the sleeve. It comes all comes apart so you can clean and re-apply graphite grease to the rod through the sleeve. Then there is a cover over the top that seals it all. On the outside of the unit is a power supply with switch to supply power for spinning the inner assembly. A simple transistor circuit provides the step up step down voltage. Lower and Upper contact switches signal fulltop and fullbottom travel.
Control consists of a normally high value for both fullup and full down which signal low at either extreme. An index sensor identifies the start of rotation marker. Three wires control the step up and step down and 6 wires come out with data.
I had the original IBM assembly language driver source code so I manually typed it in for creation of an x86 assembly language program for formating, reading, writing to the drive. As for connecting the drive to a PC, I made a custom PC simple control interface. bits 0, 1 and 2 of port 0x661 tell the computer top and bottom of travel and of course the index marker. Which if you recall would occur 1200 times per second. A simple ADC trick streams the data to and from the heads. The hard part of the whole thing was getting Linux to use the alternate driver. What I eventually had to do was have the local LUG compile it as plug-able device driver and I donāt know exactly what the guy did to achieve it. I just know that I canāt loose the ddi.so.1 library or all stops. Thusly, my Mandrake Boot and root live on a real harddrive. /root /home /usr are stored on the drum drive which is partitioned as 5 200GB partitions. /home actual uses 3 partitions.
I mentioned I still use 5,25 inch floppies. Well, the floppy contains DOS 3.1 and the Program rewritten for x86 to partition
the drum drive. This was key to getting the drive so that it could be used.
I just re read your post and I guess I answered you wrong. Drum Drives were used on Mainframes starting back in 1961 onward to allow unattended storage of large volumes of data. Itās the constraints of PCās that or more appropriately what Microsoft decided the limits would be that has restricted us. My old Z-80 could control 256 i/o and was limited in storage potential by the amount of recording surface. On a Disk, as you move closer to the center there is a marked decrease in recording surface. If a Disk was say 18" at the outer edge instead of 5 inch and the tracks don;t decrease ever then the recording surface can be a higher ratio. Change the number of tracks from say 80 for a 5 inch disk to 1200 for the drum drive and that really boosts the storage.
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:26:02 +0000, techwiz03 wrote:
> hendersj;2063282 Wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:00:04 +0000, Rikishi42 wrote:
>>
>> >> (He was a Desqview fan IIRC)
>> >
>> > Desqviewā¦ whereās the time goneā¦
>> >
>> > You make me feel young again.
>>
>> LOL, that would make two of us - and Iām used to being the youngster.
>>
>>
>> I might even have a set of diskettes down in the basement somewhere.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
>> ā
>> Jim Henderson
>> openSUSE Forums Moderator
>
> Diskettes eh! I still have Phimon Tapes from 1974, 8" Shuggart Floppies
> 1975, 5.25" Diskettes still in use:P, 3.5" also still in use:P, and an
> old 1TB mainframe drum drive form the 1960ās still going strong with
> Mandrake Linux 9.1 on it. And yes they are all in the basement.rotfl!
I might have some old cassette tapes with software programs on them; have
used 8" floppies and can remember loading reels for a PDP system back in
about 1981-82 (and using a teletype terminal my father brought home from
work a few times).
Jim
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:26:02 +0000, techwiz03 wrote:
> Drum Drives
> were used on Mainframes starting back in 1961 onward to allow unattended
> storage of large volumes of data.
But 1 TB of storage? I think thatās what vodoo was referring to - I
donāt recall hearing about storage capacities like that in the 60ās -
that wouldāve been a room full of those storage devices, at least.
Jim
ā
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Moderator