methods of study, from least virtuous to most: llm -> stack overflow -> google -> your boss's msdn subscription -> stolen msdn subscription -> dumbass fucking around -> hex editing
November 11, 2026 at 6:39 AM
methods of study, from least virtuous to most: llm -> stack overflow -> google -> your boss's msdn subscription -> stolen msdn subscription -> dumbass fucking around -> hex editing
Еволюцията на това как уча нови работни неща ми през годините:
- 2005-2007 - да инсталирам MSDN библиотеките от тези 3 диска, за да прочета документацията и да видя примерите
- 2007-2010 - да видя какво пише в google, форумите и мейлинг листите
- 2005-2007 - да инсталирам MSDN библиотеките от тези 3 диска, за да прочета документацията и да видя примерите
- 2007-2010 - да видя какво пише в google, форумите и мейлинг листите
November 11, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Еволюцията на това как уча нови работни неща ми през годините:
- 2005-2007 - да инсталирам MSDN библиотеките от тези 3 диска, за да прочета документацията и да видя примерите
- 2007-2010 - да видя какво пише в google, форумите и мейлинг листите
- 2005-2007 - да инсталирам MSDN библиотеките от тези 3 диска, за да прочета документацията и да видя примерите
- 2007-2010 - да видя какво пише в google, форумите и мейлинг листите
I think I have my MSDN discs somewhere from 2000~2004. They used to send them on CD then finally on DVD. Was a bit of a wild time.
November 7, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I think I have my MSDN discs somewhere from 2000~2004. They used to send them on CD then finally on DVD. Was a bit of a wild time.
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@sq317 おー、MSDN継続されてますかー。既に相当軽いWin8.1ですが、さらに軽くなるらしいので、期待しているリリースでし〜。
https://x.com/i/status/451931581783875584
@sq317 おー、MSDN継続されてますかー。既に相当軽いWin8.1ですが、さらに軽くなるらしいので、期待しているリリースでし〜。
https://x.com/i/status/451931581783875584
November 10, 2026 at 9:32 AM
[2014/04/04 21:04のX投稿より転載]
@sq317 おー、MSDN継続されてますかー。既に相当軽いWin8.1ですが、さらに軽くなるらしいので、期待しているリリースでし〜。
https://x.com/i/status/451931581783875584
@sq317 おー、MSDN継続されてますかー。既に相当軽いWin8.1ですが、さらに軽くなるらしいので、期待しているリリースでし〜。
https://x.com/i/status/451931581783875584
truuue
bing used to be like. oddly the worst at finding anything on the msdn forums lmao
bing used to be like. oddly the worst at finding anything on the msdn forums lmao
November 4, 2026 at 2:03 AM
truuue
bing used to be like. oddly the worst at finding anything on the msdn forums lmao
bing used to be like. oddly the worst at finding anything on the msdn forums lmao
MSDN from before CDs.
We had this collection on disc, good old Action Pack times. We used it to build the game board of "Mensch ärgere dich nicht" so we could play it with bottles as a drinking game...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch_...
We had this collection on disc, good old Action Pack times. We used it to build the game board of "Mensch ärgere dich nicht" so we could play it with bottles as a drinking game...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch_...
Mensch ärgere Dich nicht - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
MSDN from before CDs.
We had this collection on disc, good old Action Pack times. We used it to build the game board of "Mensch ärgere dich nicht" so we could play it with bottles as a drinking game...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch_...
We had this collection on disc, good old Action Pack times. We used it to build the game board of "Mensch ärgere dich nicht" so we could play it with bottles as a drinking game...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch_...
Well thank goodness for an MSDN subscription allowing downloads of legacy OS images.
This appears to have worked.
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:e:\sources\sxs
Also. FUCK YOU MICROSOFT.
This appears to have worked.
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:e:\sources\sxs
Also. FUCK YOU MICROSOFT.
November 2, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Well thank goodness for an MSDN subscription allowing downloads of legacy OS images.
This appears to have worked.
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:e:\sources\sxs
Also. FUCK YOU MICROSOFT.
This appears to have worked.
DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All /LimitAccess /Source:e:\sources\sxs
Also. FUCK YOU MICROSOFT.
ブログ更新：おまえらそんなに旧バージョンの Windowsや Officeを今更ダウンロードしたいなら年間 77万の Visual Studio Enterpriseに契約しろや！というお話
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おまえらそんなに旧バージョンの Windowsや Officeを今更ダウンロードしたいなら年間 77万の Visual Studio Enterpriseに契約しろや！というお話 – シン・ひよりんだいとぅきおちゃんぎんらんど
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October 28, 2026 at 4:59 AM
ブログ更新：おまえらそんなに旧バージョンの Windowsや Officeを今更ダウンロードしたいなら年間 77万の Visual Studio Enterpriseに契約しろや！というお話
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封存25年重见天日！网友捡到数百张微软MSDN老碟：内含XP早期测试盘
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封存25年重见天日！网友捡到数百张微软MSDN老碟：内含XP早期测试盘
快科技10月26日消息，近日一位Reddit网友发帖爆料：他在一个免费物品箱中捡到了数百张微软MSDN订阅光盘，其中竟包含5张Windows XP的前身测试版。据了解，这批光盘的时间跨度集中在2000年全年及
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October 26, 2026 at 2:20 PM
封存25年重见天日！网友捡到数百张微软MSDN老碟：内含XP早期测试盘
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And it can be worst! The MSDN docs of System.Text.Json also shows you the prompt required to get the lines described before...
m'estic pixant ambb el MSDN i la neccesitat de posar Copilot als docs
October 22, 2026 at 3:37 PM
And it can be worst! The MSDN docs of System.Text.Json also shows you the prompt required to get the lines described before...
Copy and paste it from MSDN CDs or Stack Overflow like we did 😭😭😭😭
This resonates though I’m still challenged by how people will now develop the judgment most of us gained by typing the code, evolving it and dealing with incidents at 2:00 am.
nobody should type code by hand anymore. here's what's left.
Josh Wulf and I talked loop engineering for four episodes. The models stopped being the constraint a long time ago; what's left is vision, verification and agency. Delete your skill packs, put the who...
ghuntley.com
October 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Copy and paste it from MSDN CDs or Stack Overflow like we did 😭😭😭😭
A funny article I found today while researching today for interfacing with an old API using SignalR 2
October 6, 2026 at 11:28 PM
A funny article I found today while researching today for interfacing with an old API using SignalR 2
It was one of the first that I was learning at home with before I got my first job. A friend of mine was at uni and he lent me his MSDN CDs and I just so desperately wanted to build things. Fun times :D
October 5, 2026 at 3:57 PM
It was one of the first that I was learning at home with before I got my first job. A friend of mine was at uni and he lent me his MSDN CDs and I just so desperately wanted to build things. Fun times :D
Remember Microsoft’s quarterly MSDN CD shipments? 💿📦
Back when documentation needed shelf space and “Insert Disc 2” was part of the job. 😂
Glad updates no longer arrive by mail! Who still has their collection?
#MSDN #dotnet #SoftwareEngineering #MVPBuzz
Back when documentation needed shelf space and “Insert Disc 2” was part of the job. 😂
Glad updates no longer arrive by mail! Who still has their collection?
#MSDN #dotnet #SoftwareEngineering #MVPBuzz
October 2, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Remember Microsoft’s quarterly MSDN CD shipments? 💿📦
Back when documentation needed shelf space and “Insert Disc 2” was part of the job. 😂
Glad updates no longer arrive by mail! Who still has their collection?
#MSDN #dotnet #SoftwareEngineering #MVPBuzz
Back when documentation needed shelf space and “Insert Disc 2” was part of the job. 😂
Glad updates no longer arrive by mail! Who still has their collection?
#MSDN #dotnet #SoftwareEngineering #MVPBuzz
So you can't just go to Azure and create a Win 11 VM for a bit of light testing unless you have a license or subscribe to MSDN--what the shit is that? Why not just bake the cost into hourly? So stupid.
October 3, 2026 at 3:41 AM
So you can't just go to Azure and create a Win 11 VM for a bit of light testing unless you have a license or subscribe to MSDN--what the shit is that? Why not just bake the cost into hourly? So stupid.
The appearance of being more open to contributions was there, but no processes or capacity set up to deal with any incoming PRs. Reminds me of when I built the first feedback input box on MSDN. I asked my boss how the feedback would get from the db to the author and they had zero plans for that.
September 24, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The appearance of being more open to contributions was there, but no processes or capacity set up to deal with any incoming PRs. Reminds me of when I built the first feedback input box on MSDN. I asked my boss how the feedback would get from the db to the author and they had zero plans for that.
I just uploaded several MSDN Events developer resource DVDs from 2004-2005 to the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/@wal...
September 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM
I just uploaded several MSDN Events developer resource DVDs from 2004-2005 to the Internet Archive. archive.org/details/@wal...
Наскоро ми се наложи да инсталирам заради един счетоводен ажур който работи само под дос и не тръгва на по нов уин. Тука може да си изъеглиш исота с ключове archive.org/details/wind...
Windows XP Original (x86-x64) MSDN ISO Files - SP0-SP1-SP2-SP3 - (EN-DE-RU-TR) : Original Files Uploader : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Windows XP Original 32/64bit MSDN ISO Files SP0, SP1, SP2, SP3 - (English, German, Russian,...
archive.org
September 21, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Наскоро ми се наложи да инсталирам заради един счетоводен ажур който работи само под дос и не тръгва на по нов уин. Тука може да си изъеглиш исота с ключове archive.org/details/wind...
when microsoft gives you like 82 keys to install various versions of windows from a msdn subscription you get through work, windows is free for everyone you have ever met
September 19, 2026 at 8:00 AM
when microsoft gives you like 82 keys to install various versions of windows from a msdn subscription you get through work, windows is free for everyone you have ever met
Curious that demo sites for tutorials by Claude often pick Pacific Northwest outdoor gear. I wonder if there could be a statistical reason weighting that direction? Could it be it ingested the mountain of 30+ years of Microsoft MSDN and related docs and tutorial content? 😏
September 14, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Curious that demo sites for tutorials by Claude often pick Pacific Northwest outdoor gear. I wonder if there could be a statistical reason weighting that direction? Could it be it ingested the mountain of 30+ years of Microsoft MSDN and related docs and tutorial content? 😏
Nice I recovered several more episodes of .NET Show from MSDN discs, here is Ep. 35 Brad Abrams, Anders Hejlsberg @ahejlsberg.bsky.social , Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social talking about Managed Code in 2003 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP-G...
The .NET Show - Ep. 35: Managed Code - Brad Abrams, Anders Hejlsberg, Chris Sells - 2003/08
YouTube video by WalkingCat
www.youtube.com
September 13, 2026 at 8:34 AM
Nice I recovered several more episodes of .NET Show from MSDN discs, here is Ep. 35 Brad Abrams, Anders Hejlsberg @ahejlsberg.bsky.social , Chris Sells @csells.bsky.social talking about Managed Code in 2003 www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP-G...
"Every article I published made me easier to interview and harder to hire. I handed the market a searchable index of my knowledge, and a nontrivial share of it came back as an attack surface."
My gods, that's depressing.
galratner.substack.com/p/why-i-dont...
My gods, that's depressing.
galratner.substack.com/p/why-i-dont...
Why I Don’t Publish Technical Articles Anymore
How I found out that being quoted on MSDN doesn't equal paying your rent.
galratner.substack.com
September 11, 2026 at 7:19 PM
"Every article I published made me easier to interview and harder to hire. I handed the market a searchable index of my knowledge, and a nontrivial share of it came back as an attack surface."
My gods, that's depressing.
galratner.substack.com/p/why-i-dont...
My gods, that's depressing.
galratner.substack.com/p/why-i-dont...
The MSDN Azure briar patch is the worst.
September 10, 2026 at 9:45 PM
The MSDN Azure briar patch is the worst.
m'estic pixant ambb el MSDN i la neccesitat de posar Copilot als docs
September 2, 2026 at 10:57 AM
m'estic pixant ambb el MSDN i la neccesitat de posar Copilot als docs