Kevin Deldycke - glitcheshttps://kevin.deldycke.com/2012-01-03T12:32:39+01:00 — 🦬🪒🐇🕳 yak-shaving the rabbit holesWindows glitches2012-01-03T12:32:39+01:002012-01-03T12:32:39+01:00Kevin Deldycketag:kevin.deldycke.com,2012-01-03:/2012/01/windows-glitches/<p>Using the holidays to tidy up my archives, I stumble upon old screenshots of Windows glitches I encountered when I was a student. Yes, the base platform at school was Windows, but it was 10 years ago (if this can constitute a valid excuse to not use Linux). Wait. What …</p><p>Using the holidays to tidy up my archives, I stumble upon old screenshots of Windows glitches I encountered when I was a student. Yes, the base platform at school was Windows, but it was 10 years ago (if this can constitute a valid excuse to not use Linux). Wait. What? 10 years ago? How time flies!</p>
<p>Anyway. Without further ado, let’s start this moment of pure nostalgia with a 1.74 Gb floppy disk:</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/2012/SizePB.png"/></p>
<p>This one was produced by repeatedly screenshoting the current screen in a Word document. I found it interesting because of the decaying pink color. I think this degradation was the result of cumulative color dithering or any other image compression artifact:</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/2012/df.png"/></p>
<p>The last ones are not glitches <em>per se</em> but major <span class="caps">UI</span> issues. Here automated system upgrades triggered a modal window you weren’t able to close or dismiss, leaving you with no choice but reboot the machine and lose any unsaved work:</p>
<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/2012/update.png"/></p>
<p><img alt="" src="/uploads/2012/ie1.png"/></p>