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this talk of hard drives reminded me of "short stroking" HDDs which is where you allocate a partition that only uses the outer tracks of the disk to maximize performance and minimize seek times.
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I remember that Fun fact, WD did that on purpose with a model once I had ordered some 500gb WD Green drives for the comp shop and got a batch of them formatted to 808.8 GB i went what did a bit of searching and basically 8 is a lucky number in China so they short stroked a bunch of 1T drives in the firmware for a chinese new year celebration product. Then just sold the leftovers at 500gb pricing. lol anyways on computer building, it's funny how 20 years ago my video card was the size of a pack of cigarettes and my hard drives took up a bread loaf's worth of space. this new machine will have a video card the size of a cat and a 1TB drive the size of a stick of gum
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808, not solid state.
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BLOBby Newmark posted:808, not solid state. 
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I'm short stroking right now
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I think the new nvidia 3d nuclear gamer X founders edition takes something nuts like 4 pci slots up because it's so god drat big I mean I thought my 1070ti was big but this poo poo is insane And then you've got the xbox x which I assume is essentially just a gpu in a box now
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I think the new nvidia 3d nuclear gamer X founders edition takes something nuts like 4 pci slots up because it's so god drat big 
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I'm short stroking right now
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I think the new nvidia 3d nuclear gamer X founders edition takes something nuts like 4 pci slots up because it's so god drat big  gpu and tons of room for cooling
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ftp sites that would make you click 300 ads deep to retrieve some arcane word in the 3rd paragraph of the final ad to use as a password to get access to the site
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quote:If you are affiliated with any government, anti-piracy group or any other related group, or were formally a worker of one you CANNOT enter this web site, cannot access any of its files and you cannot view any of the HTML files. If you enter this site you are not agreeing to these terms and you are violating code 431.322.12 of the Internet Privacy Act signed by Bill Clinton in 1995 and that means that you CANNOT threaten our ISP(s) or any person(s) or company storing these files, and cannot prosecute any person(s) affiliated with this page which includes family, friends or individuals who run or enter this web site.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:ftp sites that would make you click 300 ads deep to retrieve some arcane word in the 3rd paragraph of the final ad to use as a password to get access to the site and then the password didn't work because the web of nested angelfire/geocities sites everything was spread across had changed six times since the instructions were written
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Sweevo posted:and then the password didn't work because the web of nested angelfire/geocities sites everything was spread across had changed six times since the instructions were written sign my guestbook
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Fart Sandwiches posted:sign my guestbook join my webring
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view my livejournal
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this site uses frames and so is best viewed in internet explorer 2
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guest books and web rings were great and losing them is the surest sign of the deterioration of the web as a place of individual expression and collaborative organization.
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around 1998/99 there was a kid who had every single nes/snes/master system/megadrive/n64 rom spread out over dozens of free hosting sites, all fully indexed, searchable, and downloadable with one click. then one day it all disappeared and was replaced with his lovely personal homepage - just a small photo of the kid, a list of bands he liked, and an invitation to sign his guestbook. within 24 hours the guestbook was 200 pages long and every post was an expletive/slur/threat filled all-caps rant about WHERE ARE THE loving ROMS YOU LITTLE F*G? PUT THE loving ROMS BACK YOU PATHETIC LITTLE gently caress OR I'M GOING TO FIND YOU AND CUT YOU. I AM MAFIA SO BELIEVE ME I WILL DO IT!
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Sweevo posted:around 1998/99 there was a kid who had every single nes/snes/master system/megadrive/n64 rom spread out over dozens of free hosting sites, all fully indexed, searchable, and downloadable with one click. then one day it all disappeared and was replaced with his lovely personal homepage - just a small photo of the kid, a list of bands he liked, and an invitation to sign his guestbook. so did he put the roms back or did the mafia cut him 
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mafia: known retro gaming heads and rom-needers
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3D Megadoodoo posted:so did he put the roms back or did the mafia cut him he probably works for an insurance company or something
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Suspicious posted:view my livejournal an old roommate found my livejournal from way back and it is deeply shameful emoposting. please don’t view my livejournal
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Jonny 290 posted:WD Green drives
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WD has a panoply of stupid color-coded hard drives you don't want. I just heard of WD purple "surveillance" drives the other day
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Clark Nova posted:WD has a panoply of stupid color-coded hard drives you don't want. I just heard of WD purple "surveillance" drives the other day for the dvr suckers who are just now realizing everyone stopped making vcrs a few years ago.
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eschaton posted:Maxtor Plextor
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Friend of mine was celebrating a raise this week by ordering out from Seattle's second-best pizzeria e: whoops meant to put this in the 'posest images thread El Mero Mero fucked around with this message at 09:10 on Nov 11, 2020 |
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El Mero Mero posted:Friend of mine was celebrating a raise this week by ordering out from Seattle's second-best pizzeria I'm concerned about what kind of sauce-spray you'd get from a celling fan/pizza impact?
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that bit in iron man 2 when Tony Stank, a billionaire who has invented AI, has to phone up larry elison to use the oracle cloud for some calcs
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