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Mike-o posted:I remember constantly getting kicked off my connection because my aunt was trying to call my mom, she eventually had figured out that if she kept calling it would kill my connection so she could get through. I still get poo poo for this from my mom and aunt to this day. Apparently we had really good phone lines because I was consistently getting 56k versus my friends getting 28.8. Jokes on me though, they both got cable/dsl while I was stuck with dialup until 2005. I miss the dialup tones, don't miss the slow as molasses download speeds. Many years ago, there was a multiline BBS in the town I lived in. It had, I think, 4 lines? I used to have a special dialing list in my terminal program that had the number for BBS user in town I knew that had call waiting. It would ring them then immediately dial the BBS. (Back in the day, a call waiting beep could kill a modem connection.)
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:You're a monster Yeah, kinda. 
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:Georges Méliès made a skin flick called Apres le Bath that involved a woman undressing and being showered with something that's supposed to be water but isn't by her maid. The most interesting part of the film is that because of the tight corset the woman wears, her rear end is almost square-shaped. To tell you what a sexy hot turn on it is and what unspeakable acts happen right before your eyes, it's on YouTube.
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Jul 9, 2015 06:37
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Raygereio posted:I think it's something like sand. Actual clear water would probably have been too hard to see with the camera & lighting techniques from 1897. And that is why the blood in the famous shower scene in Psycho was chocolate syrup.
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Jul 9, 2015 21:49
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Vaxine posted:Want. It's an Android tablet with an emulator.
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Jul 16, 2015 19:28
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Don't worry, man. We've all bought dumb poo poo. It wasn't just you. And I had a modem and a special cable to jack it into the 14.4 cell modem in my old Sprint phone. And there were more Visor goodies on hand too...
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Aug 1, 2015 14:00
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sinking belle posted:I want a phone that won't die on me after four years, fucker. I want more phone.
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Aug 6, 2015 02:56
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WebDog posted:"The LCD screen that burns twice as bright burns half as long" I've... texted things... you people wouldn't believe.
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Aug 6, 2015 03:30
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C.M. Kruger posted:It's a 1960s handheld 2 meter ham radio. Had a grand output of .07 watts from what I can find, which is about twice as powerful as the handie talky used by the US military in WW2, and weighs slightly less. Looks like it's set up so that the 2 meter band is divided up into two sections, and then a tuning knob to set your frequency inside those. Also note that it needs to be manually switched between send and receive. I used to have a 2 metre back about 20 years ago. It was awesome, not only did the local police NOT have encrypted tac channels, but sometimes some people would do DTMF tones over their everyday communications. Also, $5 a month got me outdial access to a phone connected repeater. Suck it, cell phone people!
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Aug 19, 2015 09:31
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Jerry Cotton posted:Call your mum. Don't worry. I'll call his mum.
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Aug 20, 2015 16:27
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Lady Naga posted:She'd probably get really angry at you for misgendering me and hang up <bows graciously at his defeat>
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Aug 20, 2015 16:47
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:That reveal and the public's subsequent reaction were two of the strangest things I've seen happen in telecommunications. Ummmm, yeah. MMS is nothing but a hack utilizing some unused (for anything else) packet space. The only cost for the carrier is routing. Mayostard posted:With a paint job, I bet that wouldn't look out of place in a cyberpunk movie. Yo. Check this out guys, this is insanely great, it's got a 28.8 BPS modem! Active matrix, man. A million psychedelic colors. Man, baby, sweet, ooo!
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Aug 21, 2015 08:17
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JediTalentAgent posted:The closest thing I can think of in the internet age that feels like it's lost to the ages is some of the 2000-era online video/audio that were only available via RealPlayer streaming or something else that would be sort of proprietary and never got archived for the future. You sure it wasn't the KISS FPS?
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Aug 22, 2015 04:26
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KozmoNaut posted:I remember ICQ and how poo poo the official program was. Can you even log on to it anymore, after it was merged with AIM? I used to be 206192. A friend and I used to use it for backchannel chat when I used to run a popular DalNet channel.
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Aug 25, 2015 18:02
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sinking belle posted:Best feelie was the microscopic invasion fleet that came with the HHGTTG game Dear God, I know this is technically  , but I remember cracking several codewheels, so I could put them in text files and several trips to the self-serve copies at the copyshop so I could xerox entire game manuals...
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Sep 1, 2015 02:30
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Slanderer posted:In this thread or another, someone pointed out how some of the colors on certain codebooks were selected in order to make it impossible to make black and white photocopies of them And that is where cracking the codewheels/books/tables into text files comes in. Easy reading, not because you could be the first to upload it to the nearest "interesting" BBS first. Samizdata has a new favorite as of 03:25 on Sep 1, 2015 |
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Fo3 posted:No, mine is a dell vostro. I bought it with a t7100 or t7200, upgraded it to a t7800 in 2001 for $90 with a s/h cpu. I am currently on a Vostro 420 desktop. It's a older Core 2 Quad system, but amazing for it's age.
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Pilsner posted:If I'm not mistaken, it is possible to put the user's data directory on a shared drive of such, but I have a hard time believing it will give anything but trouble. First, I don't think even Microsoft has really bothered making it work well (even with their own apps [that means "applications" btw you noobs]), and second, there's no control over how applications store their data, so you can't be sure that porting the users directory will retain relevant program data. It's a shame, because it also makes doing a data backup and reinstall of Windows a nightmare. It does suck. My Dad borrowed a laptop from work for a conference he had to go to. The loving thing was GPO locked via AD to map the user's document drive to a network share. Really? On a goddamned loaner lappy? (Fixed it, but I am sure the admins were pissed.)
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mystes posted:I don't think properly synchronizing laptops with some sort of shared profile is really a solvable problem with any current operating system, though. It would require either locking users out of desktops until they checked in the changes from the laptop, only allowing the laptop to be used when internet access was available to sync changes (might as well use a remote desktop then), or having a way to merge multiple sets of changes to the registry (on windows) or configuration files (on Linux) which would be hard. Of course, these were the same chappies whose proudly labelled "VPN access" was actually an amazingly bad open source file navigator with only download access. And, really, my whole point was if you have a loaner lappy for a bunch of non-tech academics, do NOT tie it to an Active Directory LAN only setup. It's a bloody LOANER.
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KozmoNaut posted:I miss proper hardware DE-9 RS232 ports. That and proper bidirectional parallel ports.
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Oct 6, 2015 09:41
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W424 posted:C64 is used in chiptunes a lot, it has an analog synth chip. Atari ST's were/are popular midi sequencers. Amiga could be used as a sampler aswel as a sequencer. Yeah, and the Atari ST's had Midi Maze that allowed you to make a pseudonetwork between the MIDI in and out ports on the STs so you could have multiple FPS players without the hassles of split screen.
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Oct 9, 2015 05:32
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Computer viking posted:You might also want to consider the Soviet screw drive vehicles: If you want the hell fined out of you for destroying the road.
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Kaizoku posted:They do and it is, but they also end up parked in rest areas w/o wifi that don't get signals from whatever operator. It's certainly a rapidly changing market, but you also have to consider most of those mags aren't the reason the content is being produced anymore--the porn is being made and primarily offered over the internet, so they just have to take the images they've already produced and plug them into a magazine template they've already produced--the only real costs are printing and distribution, maybe a copywriter (I doubt this is the sole or primary duty of any employee). In addition, they don't all have personal laptops and don't necessarily want to be limited by the size of the screen on their phone. Look, man, static porn imagery is, I don't know, so last 3 am. Why shouldn't I be able to get my porn in motion?
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Wondering at this point if I should post info about my Pandigital Planet. It runs nothing better than Gingerbread and the company went under in 2011. EDIT: Slash is not period.
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah, I live close to the biggest (only?) drive-in in northern Europe, and that's how they do it. 3 screens, 3 FM channels, they play music and upcoming movies when they aren't showing anything. Until your car battery goes dead during a double feature...
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Oct 21, 2015 07:37
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Platystemon posted:Now with cadmium! You want that special, special flavor, you need to make a few sacrifices.
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Oct 28, 2015 09:19
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Lowen SoDium posted:I used to have a game on my old 286 that was a sex board game. 256 color GIFs or it never happened.
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Cat Hatter posted:I'm pretty sure its paying homage to Run Lola Run which came out in '98 so it might be late 90s. No, I remember it about a decade ago. I was still married at that point as I remember discussing it with my ex who worked in grocery at the time.
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Humphreys posted:That's the one! I miss my Platinum. I had a mad set of carts for it, and even a cable to plug it into my Spring flip phone for styling 14.4 internet access on the go! (This was better than a decade ago, mind you.) It also came in handy for reading in bed with a wife that worked morning while I worked nights.
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Dec 12, 2015 06:27
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twistedmentat posted:A friend told me his brother is in a tizzy because his CRT monitor died, and he can't find a new one locally and to get one shipped it would cost nearly as much as a new computer. His brother refuses to get a flat panel one because he believes the response time is too low, and because he is a "Pro gamer" aka Guy who doesn't have a job and plays LoL all the time he needs a CRT monitor. I dunno. I use a 31" Sony Bravia as my main monitor and it seems to do okay.
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Lincoln posted:This has probably been brought up, but does anyone defrag hard drives anymore? I converted to Mac about 6 years ago for professional reasons, so no defragging since then. And SSDs don't get defragged at all, regardless of OS. Do current versions of Windows require defragging? I usually do so at least once a month, or after a lot of OS/Steam game updates.
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ravenkult posted:Nah, they're there so that you have to return them where you got them instead of leaving them in the parking lot. Or taking them home.
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Collateral Damage posted:Convenience? So, what you are saying is that Square needs to make a debit terminal for the carts then?
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Dec 23, 2015 15:49
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Collateral Damage posted:It will be the next hipster/audiophile thing, mark my words. But only if you can get oxygen-free Monster cables the whole way. And magic stones at every junction box along the way to realign the electrons.
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1981 Radio Shack computer catalog.
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Ensign Expendable posted:This reminds me about a feature I miss: putting your Palm into its cradle and syncing all of your content overnight or whenever to read offline. I wish I could do that with the Awful app and then read whatever I cached in the subway, but alas. Heh. Back in the day when I only had a 286 and a 9600 baud modem, I used a DOS menu program to run a task at 3:00 AM, which would then run a script based terminal (RoboTerm) which would log onto my BBSes, upload my responses in QWK packets, download all the new posts (QWK again), then import them all into a database driven QWK reader. I did this since it took FOREVER by hand. Then I could sit down and read and respond at my leisure. I even had internet email via FidoNet and a BBS two states away with a working gateway! (I also used to run a WWIV BBS, with FidoNet hacked in, back in the 2400 baud days.) Samizdata has a new favorite as of 10:09 on Dec 29, 2015 |
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Shifty Pony posted:Natural gas is one of those things you don't realize how awesome it is until you have used it. Hell, a few years back we had a hell of an ice storm where I live. Power was out for days and days. We (my housemates and I) had a LOT of electronics, so I didn't feel comfortable leaving the house and camping out at a friend's like the housemates did. I couldn't use any of the electronics and was living by candlelight, but at least I could cook and take a hot shower...
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Humphreys posted:If you can stick a fridge magnet to your cookware, induction tops will work with your current stuff. ArcMage posted:If it conducts electricity, induction cooktops will work with it. And this is why we talk about a nifty little thing called electromagnetism.
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flosofl posted:Well, that would explain why I couldn't find it. They must not have been able to secure the rights to the original name. Here's a thought. Just spitballing here, but maybe, you know, it's a different show?
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