“We”—old timers, old heads, just plain old—sometimes refer to ourselves as “fossils,” but we’re not really. Fossils, as far as “we” know, can’t think, change positions, make jokes, whine, or delude ...

While running a program or game on Windows PC, if you get an Initialization Failed error for DirectDraw, here are some working solutions you may follow. Although ...

Event ID 46, Crash dump initialization failed can be seen in the Event Viewer, if your computer has crashed due to a Blue Screen or any other reason and recovered ...

Microsoft Research data scientist Dr. James McCaffrey explains what neural network Glorot initialization is and why it's the default technique for weight initialization. In this article I explain what ...

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded. In the first part of this article, I ...

I've been running a 4 drive RAID 5 array (4x300GB drives) on this hardware controller since March 2006 with no problems. Two nights ago I added a 5th hard drive to the array/logical drive. My array ...

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