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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:jenkem i thought this was funy drug poo poo
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Kitfox88 posted:i thought this was funy drug poo poo its funny poo poo drug
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Captain Foo posted:its funny poo poo drug
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people out in public with bluetooth earpieces what'd they move onto anyway? apple watches?
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airpods?
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AirPods for sure. you can tell an old Bluetooth headset user because they’ll have just one airpod in
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Idk bluetooth headset was 100% something I associated with middle aged dudes who have no need for them but always have them in their ear. I don't feel like that aesthetic is still around. They're more likely to be "loud conversation in public on speakerphone" types when I see them these days.
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Carthag Tuek posted:in my experience, there were two kinds of dudes who had bt earplugs: one was the virgin business guy & the other was the chad manual laborer
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the zalman reserator, a fanless pump/reservoir/radiator for the first wave of "silent" PCs circa 2004: also, xoxide which is where I stole that image from
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"What if a dialysis machine, but computers?"
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a very literal space heater
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eschaton posted:there’s another side to this too yeah i think that is pretty much known.
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Mr.Radar posted:the zalman reserator, a fanless pump/reservoir/radiator for the first wave of "silent" PCs circa 2004: how about a freon fountain? makes a nice decoration ![]()
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Mr.Radar posted:the zalman reserator, a fanless pump/reservoir/radiator for the first wave of "silent" PCs circa 2004: Simply add two or three of these to your PC to have it totally standalone and off-grid ![]()
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carry on then posted:how about a freon fountain? makes a nice decoration Cray always had great aesthetics. I was really disappointed when work bought a SGI that they didn't have any good posters anymore.
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my cousin worked for cray which I always thought would be really cool but it was mostly janitoring big machines that ran databases and other such boring stuff
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Mr.Radar posted:the zalman reserator, a fanless pump/reservoir/radiator for the first wave of "silent" PCs circa 2004: 'bong coolers' ![]() they gave several kids Legionnaires' Disease lmao
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Jonny 290 posted:they gave several kids Legionnaires' Disease lmao ![]()
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what could go wrong with a tube of stagnant water kept at 100f with no disinfectants
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what’s this image of? an RTG for a satellite or lighthouse or something?
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i think it's the former, yes maybe one of these? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_for_Nuclear_Auxiliary_Power e: not a SNAP. it is an RTG though, the one from cassini
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that got me reading about RTGs and led me to an article about plutonium powered pacemakers ![]() quote:When plutonium-238 became available for non-military uses, numerous applications were proposed and tested, including the Cardiac Pacemaker program that began on June 1, 1966, in conjunction with NUMEC.[22] When it was recognized that the heat source would not remain intact through cremation, the program was cancelled because 100% assurance could not be guaranteed that a cremation event would not occur.[citation needed]
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Mr.Radar posted:the zalman reserator, a fanless pump/reservoir/radiator for the first wave of "silent" PCs circa 2004: I kind of miss crazy poo poo like this, and self immolating athlons and fiddling with front side bus settings (to avoid granny clocking) and building a new machine every 18 months. now you just put the parts together into a massive monolith of a case, turn it on and you don't need to touch it for another 8 years ![]()
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:when I started college every single dorm hall and school building was on H U B S hopefully you will remember GeoBoy / NetBoy? having a pew pew style graphical map of what your fellow students were connecting to, color coded for protocol and line thickness for transfer rate.. meant that anything cool that people were on to, you were on to it pretty soon after and no one had a clue how you knew
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Pile Of Garbage posted:i prolly posted it before but when i had dial-up our ISP (iinet) gave you a free unix shell account on their server with like 15MB of home quota thats when you end up trying, instead of loading windsock and typing PPP into your prompt, you see if you can cd /etc and cat passwd. and when you find it is helpfully not shadowed due to 90's you can download it and run Jack the Ripper on the file. What's a dictionary file you says? just type password guesses like "password" manually and see which hashes match and you end up laughing every time you see the local baker or an advertisement for them because you've been using their dialup account since year 9
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Crime on a Dime posted:thats when you end up trying, instead of loading windsock and typing PPP into your prompt, you see if you can cd /etc and cat passwd. and when you find it is helpfully not shadowed due to 90's you can download it and run Jack the Ripper on the file. What's a dictionary file you says? just type password guesses like "password" manually and see which hashes match and you end up laughing every time you see the local baker or an advertisement for them because you've been using their dialup account since year 9 hah poo poo yeah i barely knew what i was doing at the time. also i think each user was in a chroot? i wouldn't be surprised though if it was cooked knowing iinet. last i heard they still stored user passwords with symmetric encryption instead of as hashes so customer service reps could see your password. this is in comparison to telstra where they stored as hashes and it was impossible to view anyone's pwd all you could do is reset. also i think iinet had customer passwords in cleartext in RADIUS logs. telstra had a jank internal java tool to lookup RADIUS logs for users and despite the jank it didnt have passwords.
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Jonny 290 posted:they gave several kids Legionnaires' Disease lmao
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RobobTheGreat posted:this is probably a stupid question, but...how did that happen? my guess is they did not use distilled water and did not ever cycle out old water. there’s gonna be some nasty poo poo living in there. the thing isn’t getting boiling hot, so it’s just a warm stagnant pool. dinguses didn’t understand this danger, and would get nasty water on them. easy enough to ingest if you don’t wash your hands and everything thoroughly after.
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well and there's a fan there recirculating air through it and spitting whatever's in that tube out into the room air. so yeah over time the water got funky and the thing turned into a low yield biological weapon
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PCjr sidecar posted:Cray always had great aesthetics. I was really disappointed when work bought a SGI that they didn't have any good posters anymore. one of my university lecturers had worked on crays in the 80s and had a ton of stories about how hosed up the architecture was and how you had to do all kinds of weird defensive programming tricks to avoid all the edge cases
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Jonny 290 posted:well and there's a fan there recirculating air through it and spitting whatever's in that tube out into the room air. so yeah over time the water got funky and the thing turned into a low yield biological weapon thanks. that would explain it, if the user was breathing the contaminated vapor.
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rochester legionella cloud
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Sweevo posted:one of my university lecturers had worked on crays in the 80s and had a ton of stories about how hosed up the architecture was and how you had to do all kinds of weird defensive programming tricks to avoid all the edge cases
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Sagebrush posted:i think it's the former, yes yep, you nailed it… the Cassini page has a picture similar to the one posted. here’s the main article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPHS-RTG
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Pile Of Garbage posted:also i think iinet had customer passwords in cleartext in RADIUS logs. telstra had a jank internal java tool to lookup RADIUS logs for users and despite the jank it didnt have passwords. i think most 2000's ISPs had these, when i was at Internode we had a shell account on a solaris box that we used to watch radius logs (no clear text passwords though).
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my local dial up isp gave us shell access to check mail and whatnot. I know we were locked into our own little sandbox somehow, I don’t think it was chroot jails because the security that was there seemed pretty flimsy you were able to run executables by calling the shell command (bash, I believe) with the executable as the argument. so every day I would call passwd and change my friends password, requiring him or his parents to call support and get it changed back.
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Presto posted:Yeah, one of my textbooks in college had an essay about Cray weirdness. Like there were numbers that were zero as far as the adder was concerned but not zero to the multiplier. This happens with IEEE floats on modern machines too. If A is much much larger than B, A + B == A, even though B isn't 0.
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Jabor posted:This happens with IEEE floats on modern machines too. If A is much much larger than B, A + B == A, even though B isn't 0.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:that got me reading about RTGs and led me to an article about plutonium powered pacemakers This is actually an extremely cool idea and it's disappointing that it didn't continue, but I guess the proliferation concern of murdering old people for their sweet radioactive parts makes sense, along with the whole incineration thing.
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Volmarias posted:This is actually an extremely cool idea and it's disappointing that it didn't continue, but I guess the proliferation concern of murdering old people for their sweet radioactive parts makes sense, along with the whole incineration thing. the idea that i could get a 100% unironic tattoo over my heart with the THIS IS NOT A PLACE OF HONOR screed because i'm nuclear regulated is pretty cool tho
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