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Pulcinella posted:A projector and a document camera were incredibly helpful, but you don’t need a smartboard to do that. I’m impressed some of this poo poo is actually getting thrown away. My first district had a warehouse where old technology would be entombed until the end of time. You see it can be hard to publicaly dispose of things ina school district. Trying to dump some old windows 95 tower PCs? Better do it in the dead of night or someone will complain to the media about how the school district is wasting tax payer money throwing away 25 year old computers. I can imagine, although this varies between districts. The one I worked at had little compunction about tossing poo poo; we just had to make sure we noted the asset number and serial number for records, then we'd send it off to some recycling outfit. (And of course, once it hit the recycling pile, well who's going to give a poo poo if it winds up somewhere else?  )There was one time when I wanted to formally buy something as surplus - it was an old (even for then) InFocus LP1000, with some special short-throw lens, that someone had donated. Between it being a monster-sized projector and it having the short-throw lens that lacked adjustable zoom, nobody wanted it, but it was still too big and prominent to just go to recycling. The IT director had to go through some process which involved having the board of directors sign off on it as an official "surplus" item, which then allowed him to formally sell it to me for  .(I got a lot of use out of it. One of the best value-for-money purchases I ever made. One of my friends has it now, it still functions!) quote:The big textbook companies have even managed to go backwards. In the late 90s/early 2000s textbook companies would produce supplementary software to accompany the textbook. Usually multimedia with videos, pictures, Flash games and interactive experiences, etc. Now they struggle to put a PDF online and fix the errors in the online quiz. (E.g. “Calculate the answer with the correct number of significant figures” but the person writing the quiz for the textbook company got the wrong answer so the quiz marks correct answers as wrong). lol the Flash content At the district I worked at, someone in IT got sold on buying Wyse thin clients and connecting them to Windows terminal servers; this was going to allegedly be a big money saver over buying regular PCs for the school libraries and computer labs. "let's throw 40 Windows desktop sessions onto a two-processor Pentium 3 server blade, what could go wrong?" "oh hey guys the school textbook industry just discovered Flash" "gently caress"
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I had a harrowing thought that one day servers are going to have anime names
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Armitag3 posted:I had a harrowing thought that one day servers are going to have anime names
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ssh into madoka I'd rather not
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obeyasia posted:transferring data between devices with infra red. I had a samsung flipphone in 2007, and for some reason my work laptop had an infrared port on it. was able to get some terrible quality photos out from my phone.
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Armitag3 posted:ssh into madoka all the unix/linux servers in the engineering department were named after star wars planets i remember logging on to both geonosis and kamino at points
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all the infrastructure at the dialup isp was named after disasters we had a wtc.arkansas.net
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it was named after the '95 incident. They didnt change it after 9/11 lol
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how else were they supposed to remember
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the servers at DIKU (comp sci institute at copenhagen university) were named after stuff from norse mythology
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my work computer is named "computer", because somehow that wasn't taken at the dept.
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Armitag3 posted:I had a harrowing thought that one day servers are going to have anime names "going to" 
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The_Franz posted:"going to" Please,.please
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my macbook was named after the katamari damacy creator's games. unfortunately, this had real-world collisions with other people so my macbook kept renaming itself.
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Armitag3 posted:I had a harrowing thought that one day servers are going to have anime names 
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if you ever get an electric bike you gotta get that plate transferred and then do up a custom battery meter with the "stop/slow/normal/racing" thing going on
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Jonny 290 posted:all the infrastructure at the dialup isp was named after disasters legit thought that the disaster was supposed to be Arkansas
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:legit thought that the disaster was supposed to be Arkansas lol
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carry on then posted:all the unix/linux servers in the engineering department were named after star wars planets The computers in the CS lab in college were named after breakfast cereals. capncrunch, booberry, etc.
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:legit thought that the disaster was supposed to be Arkansas i legit worry about my younger brother, who has worked in a stable IT job at the uni for about 15 years now, which is great, but also all their (the state, not my brother) politicial positions have gone from that 60/40 "eh we'e bipartisan but just so happens the R's won last round" poo poo in the 90s/00s to the current "being gay is a capital offense and also we gave the Washington County jail inmates horse dewormer if they get covid" climate * this ACTUALLY HAPPENED https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/washington-county-jail-sued-ivermectin/527-18d006bb-c127-434c-a658-75845ab5ed93
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back in HS my geeky friends and I all got into Palm PDAs people who got into them later had Bluetooth, but I only had Infrared. Remember pointing two devices at each other for an entire class period to transfer a big game or something. Also, IrDA is reminding me of AlphaSmart. Anyone else have these things in school? They were basically portable keyboards with a three line LCD you could use to type up your paper. Then you could hook it up to a computer and it emulated a keyboard and would "type" in what you wrote to a ClarisWorks doc or other word processor so you could transfer it for printing or whatever. Basically a way to let more kids in the class be able to type up their papers without needing more computers. The AlphaSmart 2000 (this was when you would add "2000" to the end of things to show that they were advanced) added IrDA as a transfer option, although I never managed to get it to work
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cheque_some posted:Also, IrDA is reminding me of AlphaSmart. Anyone else have these things in school? They were basically portable keyboards with a three line LCD you could use to type up your paper. Then you could hook it up to a computer and it emulated a keyboard and would "type" in what you wrote to a ClarisWorks doc or other word processor so you could transfer it for printing or whatever. Basically a way to let more kids in the class be able to type up their papers without needing more computers. The AlphaSmart 2000 (this was when you would add "2000" to the end of things to show that they were advanced) added IrDA as a transfer option, although I never managed to get it to work we had them, no irda so it was the serial cable for us.
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Holy poo poo I forgot all about AlphaSmarts. My high school English class had a set of them. We had to use them a few times, and it was the dumbest thing ever. Lmao at trying to write an essay on a screen that only holds 4 lines of text. Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 05:48 on Feb 15, 2022 |
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oh man i forgot about those things they had an admin password, and then a super-admin password or something like that (for recovering the admin account? for managing the device instead of just unlocking rights? i dont remember) and we discovered that they were both set to the defaults for some reason. so the computer-y kids logged into these accounts and changed the passwords. apparently they could not be remotely reset either, because the next year i remember some admin or another asking me to unlock the device i had been using the year before lmao or something like that, this was like fourth or fifth grade
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I had a class with amstrad pcw, electronic typewriters with single line displays and pc with win 3.11. if you didn't get their early enough to get a pcw the next option was the typewriter. word in the win 3.11 era was so buggy and would often explode the formatting leaving the document an incomprehensible mess or save files it couldn't open.
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anyone have to suffer thru one of these ?
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carry on then posted:all the unix/linux servers in the engineering department were named after star wars planets Same here. Real world galaxies and star wars planets. It's a naming convention to help group hardware. Virtual machines are just named for the services they provide.
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Sniep posted:anyone have to suffer thru one of these ? Suffer like g key did
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the NT in windows NT stands for new technology
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Vista stands for Very Intrusive Safety Technology AAAGGGHHHHHH!
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Progressive JPEG posted:premium ringtones i was in germany at the height of that fad and literally every single ad on every tv channel was trying to sell 50 different annoying crazy frog wannabes
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Progressive JPEG posted:premium ringtones premium ringback songs
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Progressive JPEG posted:premium ringtones the itunes ringtone store, where you could pay an extra 99˘ to cut a 30-second chunk from a song you already own to use as a ringtone on your iphone 3g
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the iTunes ringtone store still exists and is the only way to set custom audio ringtones in iOS to this day
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in the era of premium ringtones i was a hipster and/or snob about it and only used MIDI ringtones. sure, phones could play WAV files, but that just sounded like (garbled, noisy) music, not a telephone ringing. i felt that the electronic tones of MIDI files, in addition to being a lot more clear on a tiny phone speaker, were more appropriate for a ringer. i had software to chop up MIDI files and extract certain tracks and configure them for the Nokia synth table and everything. hell, i probably still have MIDIs of the austin powers theme song and stuff sitting deep in an archive folder somewhere.
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tinaun posted:the iTunes ringtone store still exists and is the only way to set custom audio ringtones in iOS to this day no it isn't, there are many tools to convert any audio file for free
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