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Flipperwaldt posted:Germany had a similar thing going with someone else owing the rights to the name gmail somehow. I think the US did too. it was owned by Garfield (the cat)
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Keiya posted:Gopher In case you're still using Gopher, and you need to use a proxy to access it, Mac OS X 10.9 has you covered:
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Collateral Damage posted:I still remember my Fidonet point number. 1:381/95 (tho that wasn't a point, it was my BBS) fake edit: just googled my old node #, actually found a few posts from nearly 20 years ago along with quote:--- Telegard v3.02/mL That goes back a little bit..
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cowtown posted:In case you're still using Gopher, and you need to use a proxy to access it, Mac OS X 10.9 has you covered: I'm not surprised, the current web browser with the best built-in Gopher support (not counting Lynx, which will probably keep being maintained until the sun runs out) is Omniweb for OS X. They implemented it as an April Fools joke, and just kept it because it's so easy to maintain. Of course, Mozilla doesn't think so; they removed their default implementation because of a bug in Safari's handling of URLs. Meh, the Overbite extension has nicer handling anyway.
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# ? May 20, 2014 07:29 |
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Kramdar posted:I'm digging this up from a couple pages, but the D2 formats was still being used at CBS Television for broadcasting the standard definition versions of their shows. That was up until 2005, the last time I worked on a CBS show. I'm sure they are still using it, or were until 2010-ish. They used the D5 format for broadcasting the HD version at the time too. That tape was smaller, but looked way more delicate than a D2. I work for the NFL, and for some reason we still use D3 and D5 tapes. They're an absolute bitch because they do not cooperate with our video management software that we use with Final Cut. We have to go through tapes by hand when the computer will normally scroll through and capture footage automatically. They're the worst. gently caress I HATE D3s
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Leninboarrir posted:I work for the NFL, and for some reason we still use D3 and D5 tapes. They're an absolute bitch because they do not cooperate with our video management software that we use with Final Cut. We have to go through tapes by hand when the computer will normally scroll through and capture footage automatically. They're the worst. NFL Films still has an army of worker bees loading, shooting and processing 16mm reels at every game. I don't think the NFL cares about your convenience. (I work for rightsholders)
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Leninboarrir posted:I work for the NFL, and for some reason we still use D3 and D5 tapes. They're an absolute bitch because they do not cooperate with our video management software that we use with Final Cut. We have to go through tapes by hand when the computer will normally scroll through and capture footage automatically. They're the worst. I was still working with MinDVs last year. Those were fun to batch encode with timecodes skipped during a project restoration.
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# ? May 22, 2014 09:04 |
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I got caught out with DV the other day. After scouring through cables and closets to find a mac that still had FW400, the drat tape would skip and stop capture. We contemplated the feasibility of a composite to HDMI to feed into a Ninja.
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WebDog posted:I got caught out with DV the other day. After scouring through cables and closets to find a mac that still had FW400, the drat tape would skip and stop capture. I at least had the luxury of an AVID Mojo so could just capture without timecode rubbish via HD-SDI. So the only issue then was subclipping it correctly and import into sequence. Still a huge pain in the rear end considering I used to just batch digitize while going on lunch, or a really good way to ease through an afternoon: "I'm supervising the Deck doing capturing in case it stops" *returns to game on phone*
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eddiewalker posted:NFL Films still has an army of worker bees loading, shooting and processing 16mm reels at every game. I don't think the NFL cares about your convenience. (I work for rightsholders) On that note, rumor has it that next season will be their last shooting film.
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Leninboarrir posted:On that note, rumor has it that next season will be their last shooting film.
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# ? May 22, 2014 20:27 |
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Turns out the out networking equipment I planned to get from my parents' house while visiting this weekend is more obsolete than I thought and definitely fits here since most people I met never heard of it. Back in 2003 I got my first computer that was mine and mine alone. At the time there was only one other computer in the house and running ethernet from opposite corners of the house on two different floors wasn't an option. I suggested getting a wireless adapter and a wirless networking card and being done with it! My parents said no, fearing the internet would be stolen by neighbors and unscrupulous people parked outside or something. Looking into alternatives, we eventually found something called Homeplug Homeplug used Powerline Networking, an ethernet cable ran from our router and plugged into one of them, which then plugged into a regular electrical socket. Another one in my bedroom went from another socket to my PC, giving me that glorious 1 megabit DSL (that they're still on today ) in my room. It was a really neat solution, worked great, and was decently priced. I think each one was $50, which wasn't too bad vs. a wirless router and a network card to connect to it back then. It had a few downsides, which at the time weren't really a big deal for a small home network on cheap DSL. It couldn't be on a powerstrip, as they would interfere with the signal. It was limited to 14 megabits, when a regular ethernet solution would be 100 megabits. (Apparently later models did get up to 100 mbit, which is what I thought they always were and hence why I was going to snag them on this trip.) Wireless didn't have these limitations and you know, was wireless, but using regular electrical systems for networking still seems really cool to me today. Alas that 14 megabit cap ruined my plan to clear up some clutter by moving my current cable modem into another room and using them to connect my desktop to it. Oh, and 5 months after I got my computer my father got a PDA and bought a wireless router so he could have internet access on it
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# ? May 24, 2014 01:59 |
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Powerline ethernet is still very much a thing. Linksys still uses the Homeplug brand, even. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00D4SOF3S/ref=cm_sw_r_udp_awd_Ih.Ftb1NDTEGQ
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They're not super popular though because lovely old wiring and lovely new wiring isn't stable enough to actually route well. It doesn't help that if something big kicks on and causes a quick dip or surge it'll knock your internet out until it stabilizes again.
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# ? May 24, 2014 02:15 |
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Homeplug is actually a standard. The newest ones do up to 500 Mbps (theoretically) but all that bandwidth is shared for all the devices you have, similar to WiFi. They also have some issues getting decent bandwidth out of larger houses. But I have a few coworkers who use them with some success.
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I think one advantage of powerline networking is supposedly that even if you don't get anywhere near the stated bandwidth or the average throughput you got from wifi, it can be more consistent which is important for streaming video.
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I've got a 500 megabit powerline setup because I didn't want to run cat5 between floors of my house - it rules. Fast enough for gaming/whatever, and considerably stronger than the wifi signal is upstairs. Took like 2 mins to set up too. My house is reasonably new-ish though [2006] e. still want to wire up the house at some point but we moved the PCs upstairs, network equipment's in the garage, and I was impatient [and the wife hated the like 100' cat5 running from my switch in the garage up through the stairs into the upstairs office...]
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# ? May 24, 2014 06:10 |
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Is there a Homeplug type device for phone lines? It'd be handy as hell routing phones added to a VOIP as you can't use the old wall jacks and rather keep the phones where they are.
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# ? May 24, 2014 06:21 |
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First, might I present: The iOmega HitZip... this was my personal first mp3 player.. it was god awful. and: The Samsung juke, during the heyday of when cellphones were trying to be as small as possible. let us not forget: The N-Gage! a lovely failed attempt at gaming and cellphone usage, If they had seen what the future held for gaming on cellphones, they would have poo poo themselves and given up before this abomination was ever created.
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WebDog posted:Is there a Homeplug type device for phone lines? It'd be handy as hell routing phones added to a VOIP as you can't use the old wall jacks and rather keep the phones where they are. I have a pair of non-express PCI cards that say 3Com Homeconnect on them. They're rated for 10M networking and were awesome in 1999. I wouldn't be surprised if you can't find them anymore.
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# ? May 24, 2014 07:37 |
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WebDog posted:Is there a Homeplug type device for phone lines? Given the thread that we're in, I'll assume you want to connect old Macs together and therefore I recommend Farallon PhoneNet: Supporting a blistering theoretical maximum of 230 kbit/s, it can co-exist with your telephone wiring so long as you only have one line, since it uses the two wires that are unused with a single-line setup.
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Well what I actually meant was something that could help extend a phone plugged into a router that didn't involve laying cable through the whole house as I wouldn't have a convenient phone jack to use. That or I'm seriously behind the times with understanding how VOIP works and how the hell I can patch in two phone lines, one dedicated to the alarm... Oh look! Data serial splitters!...how quaint.
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WebDog posted:Is there a Homeplug type device for phone lines? It'd be handy as hell routing phones added to a VOIP as you can't use the old wall jacks and rather keep the phones where they are. WebDog posted:Well what I actually meant was something that could help extend a phone plugged into a router that didn't involve laying cable through the whole house as I wouldn't have a convenient phone jack to use. Powerline phone adapters do exist, but they frequently have issues and are very susceptible to interference. I don't know your telephone wiring situation, but you can probably reuse your existing wiring and jacks. If you aren't using DSL, you can disconnect the phone company wires where they come into your home, freeing up the phone jacks in your home for your own use. You could then plug your voip box into an existing phone jack, and all the other phone jacks in your home should have access to that voip line. But even if you are using DSL, you probably still have an unused pair of wires running to each phone jack. Telephone lines only need 1 pair of wires, but it's almost always the case that the phone jacks in your home are wired with 2 pair, so that they can support a second phone line without running new cables. If you unscrew a phone jack wall plate, you can look and see what wires you have. In the US, Line 1 is generally red and green, and line 2 is yellow and black. If DSL is coming in on red and green, you could rewire your jacks to use the yellow and black for your VOIP phone line.
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# ? May 24, 2014 11:12 |
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Well going back onto obsolete, in Australia we still are connected by copper that's getting so old that lines break in a stiff breeze. Australia being a mix of city and bush we have some interesting issues that afflict our phones lines, such as routinely flooded pits and the fact chief telco have gone to the effort to have sub-contracted bee removalists. Which is impressive since being sold by the gov they've relied heavily on cost cutting and contractors pretty much poke at the problem with a stick until it gets the barest signal, then leave. A nice little gallery here. BogDew has a new favorite as of 11:29 on May 24, 2014 |
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eddiewalker posted:Powerline ethernet is still very much a thing. Linksys still uses the Homeplug brand, even. Yep, I just installed a pair in my condo, for streaming movies to my Apple TV from the den Works great, fast, and setup took all of 30 seconds Miles better and easier than running Cat5 across floors and through walls, or relying on wireless signals
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WebDog posted:Well going back onto obsolete, in Australia we still are connected by copper that's getting so old that lines break in a stiff breeze. Waited 10 months for internet access at my brand new house because of Telstra's bullshit. Had landline, and spotty 4G. 10 months . poo poo got real with my complaint when I was doing a photo-op with some construction big-wigs, and there was the federal Communications Minister, local member, state member, state manager of Telstra....plus 3 news channels...once "Any more questions?" was asked I busted out and verbally raped them .
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Sorry to flog the horse some more, but homeplug stuff can be great. I installed it for some friends with a mega thick walled, no wifi penetration home, and the think I'm a wizard now.
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I tried two different EoP systems and both resulted in very loud audible high pitch squealing noises on an audio amplifier on the same house circuit. It wasn't one of those things like where only some people can hear a CRT whining at line frequency, this was very loud audio interference that would change as the units sent and received data. The system worked great otherwise. It was a fairly old amp, it may have not have been designed very well for that particular type of interference. Obsolete technology: Component Hi-Fi
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Dracothegoth posted:First, might I present: Did this have the same deal as the big boy drives where a bad disk would ruin a drive and vice versa?
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Ron Burgundy posted:Component Hi-Fi. There's also a bit of a retro after-market with hooking up ipods into these things as you can't really go wrong with all the dial VU meters flicking away. But audiophiles feel they have a bit of a case to prove with so many people just using iTunes on a laptop, piping out 192kbs over tinny speakers, so naturally are going to go balls out insane with gold plated cables and hand carved wood speakers till they get something like this. For instance a modern Yamaha A-S3000 looks pretty much like what they made back in the 70's with the minimalistic brushed aluminum and chunky dials and switches. Is still in stereo. And costs $8000. And now for something obsolete... Just before the HDVD/Blu-Ray wars there was another small war. 1999 saw the rise of two competing audio formats; SA-CD vs DVD-A. Set to be the "next-gen" of the humble CD, both formats were primed take advantage of 5.1 systems. Early on many released discs were of entire classical suites, able to be heard in one massive go vs being spread out across disks. In fact the classical music market made the most of the format, a good share of SA-CDs released were of classical music. SA-CD also attracted artists like Pink Floyd who re-mastered Dark Side of the Moon into a 5.1 mix; which admittedly is very cool to hear, for instance one part they originally recorded by running in circles around a mic stand finally got the proper aural effect by moving through your speakers. The high tide was around 2004 where things like the Lord of the Rings Complete Soundtracks were released in 5.1 and some artists like Sting experimented with recording on SA-CD. The format was being paired up in the stores as a limited edition, you'd buy the regular CD version, or pick up a twin set with the DVD added. But by 2008 the novelty had worn off as people were in no rush to buy 5.1 systems just to crank out the entire works of Genesis as the whole format was struggling to shake off it's reputation as treats for audiophiles and completionists. Also to add a damning blow, research proved there was no actual difference in sound quality between a SA-CD, DVD-A and a regular CD. In fact in order to fit all channels into a disc the sampling rate had to be dropped from 192khz (in stereo) to 92khz. BogDew has a new favorite as of 02:58 on May 25, 2014 |
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We used to have an old 70s-era stereo that I'm pretty sure included the schematics in the owners manual in case you ever had to get something repaired or replaced.
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WebDog posted:For instance a modern Yamaha A-S3000 looks pretty much like what they made back in the 70's with the minimalistic brushed aluminum and chunky dials and switches. Is still in stereo. And costs $8000. I'm no audiophile and can't imagine paying that much money for stereo equipment, but I have to admit that is a gorgeous piece of design.
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# ? May 25, 2014 02:52 |
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WebDog posted:Still pretty sought after by audiophiles and people upgrading their stereos from the 70's and wanting something that kinda matches. Yes you can still get Radio/Amp/CD/Turner combos, still in stereo. Just don't put your old Marantz on the same circuit as your EoP connectors like I did or you will be listening to the Packet Symphony in E minor all day. I think it's my turntables subtle way of telling me it hates Pandora.
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# ? May 25, 2014 03:50 |
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My not-boyfriend works as an audio-visual installer/tech for rich people and got to hook up a laserdisc player to Wilson speakers (which look like Daleks) and run the whole thing through an amp with visible tubes. For one of the seven rooms with audio in this particular mansion. Even the lights are controlled via iPhone This is the future! All his customers love super audio CDs. I think first gen ps3s play them? It's pretty great sounding admittedly. Apparently laserdisc players have great audio too.
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Dracothegoth posted:
I have one of these. Well, had. I don't use it anymore. I actually found it the other day when looking for my spare phone charger. I even still have the little earbuds that came with it, the phone is so small it uses 1/16 in. headphones.
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Shugojin posted:Did this have the same deal as the big boy drives where a bad disk would ruin a drive and vice versa?
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There were many, many ways a Zip could die.quote:In rare cases, a Zip cartridge with disk edge damage could rip off the heads in a Zip drive. The damaged disks could go on to damage the heads of any other drive they were used in.
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Trilineatus posted:My not-boyfriend Are you fishing for a derail here or? Seems like 'friend' would have worked fine Disclaimer: let's not derail anyway
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Zereth posted:Did anybody ever figure out exactly what was going on with that? Dirty or damaged disks could misalign the head which would then damage the disk which would then damage the head of any drive it was used in and so on. It was an Errorboros. Keep in mind that this didn't stop Iomega from calling a followup product the Clik! drive.
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The Clik! (or PocketZip) really sunk fast as it lined up with notable lawsuits that gave it the most unappealing branding. It was meant to be a medium density format meant for smaller things like cameras or your laptop's slot drive, but another major disadvantage was the disks were flimsy metal and easily bent. Also right on the horizon were flash drives and SD cards.
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