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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Somebody needs to find whoever was responsible for the original NT task manager and learn a thing or two. That thing was bulletproof. I had servers over the years that were so broken nothing else would run but you hit CTRL-ALT-DEL and tada!

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

David Plummer, he has a YouTube channel "Dave's garage" he has a couple of videos dedicated to Taskmanager and even a look at the source for his first version. That and other cool stuff on windows and other tech.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I love his channel. Very informative and entertaining.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One of his videos about task manager is one of those YouTube videos that just won't go away from being suggested for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, me to, so I decided to finally watch it and decided his channel is pretty interesting. Sure he's pretty 'microsofty' (i.e. not seeing any faults in the company) but other than that he presents his topics well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

TIL... Thanks for the tip. I'm going to search some of that stuff out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/Ve95Nh690l0

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And it's really good, has some fun stories from the early days at Microsoft