KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

jenkem

Kitfox88 posted:

i thought this was funy drug poo poo

Captain Foo posted:

its funny poo poo drug

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

eschaton posted:

there’s another side to this too

back in the day the NSA had to approve any product containing encryption for export, especially if you wanted to ship something better than DES

I know of a product that shipped 1024-bit RSA in 1992 and received virtually immediate approval from the NSA to do so

think about the implications of that

Mr.Radar posted:

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

Mr.Radar posted:

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

carry on then posted:

how about a freon fountain? makes a nice decoration

Mr.Radar posted:

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

Jonny 290 posted:

they gave several kids Legionnaires' Disease lmao

NoneMoreNegative posted:

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]

As of 2007, there were nine living people with nuclear powered pacemakers, of 139 original recipients.[23] When these individuals die, the pacemaker is supposed to be removed and shipped to Los Alamos where the plutonium will be recovered.[24]

In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine discussing a woman who received a Numec NU-5 decades ago that is continuously operating, despite an original $5,000 price tag equivalent to $23,000 in 2007 dollars, the follow-up costs have been about $19,000 compared with $55,000 for a battery-powered pacemaker.[23]

An other nuclear powered pacemaker was the Medtronics “Laurens-Alcatel Model 9000”.[25] Approximately 1600 nuclear powered cardiac pacemakers and/or battery assemblies have been located across the United States which are eligible for recovery by the Off-Site Source Recovery Project (OSRP) Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).[26]

Mr.Radar posted:

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

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

when I started college every single dorm hall and school building was on H U B S

loving HUBS, not switches.

so I’m sure it was collision central, but you could see every single computer on campus. I had a program that would just scan every IP in a block for open SMB shares and return the findings

I got so much music, software and movies that way. it also had the added advantage of on Napster, peers that were on campus would show up with a ping time of 1, so if
you saw one of those in your Napster searches, you went for it.

this was also peak edgelord time at the height of BMEZine and rotten.com and whatnot so I also inadvertently stumbled on a lot of really gross hosed up poo poo

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

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

Jonny 290 posted:

they gave several kids Legionnaires' Disease lmao

RobobTheGreat posted:

this is probably a stupid question, but...how did that happen?

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.

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

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

Sagebrush posted:

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

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.

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.

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.

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

that got me reading about RTGs and led me to an article about plutonium powered pacemakers

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.