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I remember living in a town when I was twelve or so (say, 1993ish?) and for local calls we didn't even have to enter the prefix, just the final four digits. The joys of living in a backwater Oklahoma town of 800 people served solely by a two-county telephone cooperative, I guess.
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For all that the Model M was everywhere and every computer shipped with one, they're awfully rare and expensive these days. I mean, come on. Will nobody part with one for $20? I can't justify paying more than that for a keyboard, no matter how good it is. (RIP box of Model M keyboards I bought at a school sale, had I but known how hard you were to come by I might not have given you away to everyone I knew.)
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Johnny Aztec posted:Okay, then I guess he can sit an wallow in self pity over not having a model M. Rather than try to do something about it. Yeah, sure, whatever. You think I'm just whining and haven't been actively looking for several years now? Working Model M keyboards sell for $50-$70 on ebay, and everyone (including e-waste collection facilities and thrift stores) know it, and if they're not just sticking it in ebay themselves then they're asking that $50-$70 price anyways. Which is bullshit for a keyboard, I don't care how fancy it is or how much I want one.
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DrBouvenstein posted:And I imagine there's got to be some hentai out there that uses what could be described as a multiple-angle creature. The many-angled ones live at the bottom of her Mandelbrot set. 
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I used to know a guy who would happily take any free giant CRTs he could get. He was an amateur flintknapper, and thought the front glass out of the tube was the best glass for decorative arrowheads. I warned him that he was dealing with leaded glass, but he shrugged it off. I did commission a handful of glass arrowheads from him once for a Mother's Day present, but I provided him with some thick-bottomed blue glass drinking tumblers for those. Giving my mother chipped leaded glass would have been sending the wrong message. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 09:29 on Mar 9, 2016 |
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Collateral Damage posted:something like electrically activated primers Remington came out with the EtronX primer in 2000. The rifles that fired them were about twice as expensive as their otherwise-identical percussion primer guns, the ammunition and primers themselves were more expensive, and there was no improvement whatsoever in performance (except in cold weather, the battery liked to crap out). The sole positive was that the gun could be turned off and made unfireable with a key instead of a clunky trigger lock. The whole system was withdrawn from market and scrapped in 2003.
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Really, a lot of the problem with education in the US is that we push every single student into a college preparatory program, even those who would not benefit from doing so, and then have to slow down the pace of education so that the slowest learners can keep up, and test the poo poo out of students to make sure the slowest learners are learning stuff they don't need. All because college is the One True Way™. We would do so much better by letting our students choose to take a vocational or college prep path somewhere around the freshman year. Don't neglect basic education, and let students change paths if the other catches their interest, or at least let the voc-ed students take college prep courses if they want to. But let the kids who need them to go on to college have the faster-paced STEM courses that expect you to want and enjoy learning the material. Let the other kids benefit by being able to come out of school as an apprentice electrician, or plumber, or welder, or mechanic, or whatever. Of course, this tied back into the fact that Americans look down on skilled blue-collar jobs because college is the One True Way™, ignoring the fact that we need a hell of a lot more plumbers than we need engineering students.
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Collateral Damage posted:obsolete and failed: "convenience fees".. "Convenience fees" are usually the fees collected on the transaction by the payment card processor. Which sucks for the payer, but look at it from the payee's perspective: somebody has to eat the cost, and why should it be us when the customer could use a virtually universally available tried-and-true payment method that has no fees whatsoever? If the customer wants to take the expensive route for their own convenience, then they can eat the fees. And as far as paying anything to the government, often enough there's a law dictating that $100 shall be collected for each X, and that's does not mean $100 - the payment processor fee. Plus the fact that sometimes the payment system was mandated but not funded, and it has to be paid for somehow. And the United States banking system, ahahaha... the only way you're going to get banks to universally interact well with each other is to regulate the poo poo out of them, and in the US, banks have spent the past twenty-five years ripping apart every banking regulation they can get their lobbyists to grab. I still get paid with a paper check, because my employer can't direct deposit from the business' credit union account to my Wells Fargo account, mostly I think because Wells Fargo is going "gently caress credit unions".
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It's easier in the civilized world because they can mandate laws at the federal level that are immediately implemented. In the US, most things federally mandated have to be implemented by state law, giving the lobbyists another chance to gently caress it up - and if you think the government is corrupt on a federal level, just wait until you get a taste of what goes on at the state level. e. According to a former boss who once worked with the Texas legislature, their sessions are nothing but a giant party full of booze, drugs, and hookers, with the state legislators basically doing nothing but sitting around with their pockets open, waiting for a lobbyist to insert a wad of money along with a pre-canned opinion to be regurgitated. The only legislators who are in any way proactive are the religious fundamental nutjobs praying for a speedy apocalypse (and if you think they aren't partying along with the rest, then buddy, you've never seen a Baptist cut loose on the weekends.) rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 23:55 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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Nutsngum posted:So the USA is basically the very worst of obsolete and failed technology? State-level elected government sure is. Truth be told, though, the government of the United States and all states and territories thereof is not and has never been designed to function in a superb manner. It's explicitly designed so that, no matter what retarded fuckmonkey gets elected to whatever position and how much damage they try to do while in office, the system continues to function. No one person alone can cripple the basic function of the government, and coalitions of various actively malicious jackholes would take a tremendous amount of time, money, and effort to do so. You might look at recent events and declare it a failed state, and while there are certainly some huge problems and a growing disconnect between citizens and the government, it hasn't failed yet. The basic mandates of the Constitution are still covered: establish justice (ie. law continued to be enforced, if sometimes poorly), insure domestic tranquility (we haven't broken out into Mad Max style anarchy yet), provide for the common defense (the military might be a bloated, bureaucratic hellhole, but we can still stomp a hole in anyone who challenges us on our own turf) promote the general welfare (people generally have jobs and can contribute to the economy, retirees still get their social security checks, medical care is available to anyone who needs it even if it will bankrupt you, etc.) and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity (we're still free to consume the media we want, generate and freely express opinions of our own, buy what we can afford, go where we want to go, and do as we please, so long as we're not breaking the law or hurting someone else). The government needs to be fixed, not thrown away and replaced with something entirely different. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 23:48 on Jul 13, 2016 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:People don't like faxes because of all the loving spam. People don't like faxes because it's still physical media, when there's this perfectly fine technology that does the same damned thing from the comfort of your desk, without having to spend money on paper and ink. And if you are digitally faxing and digitally receiving on both ends of the fax line, you're basically just emailing the document so why not drop the POTS line middleman? People, businesses, and government institutions that require hard copy are obsolete and failed technology.
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Iron Crowned posted:The nearest one to me though is a Hustler store. That place creeps me out because it's really nice and clean and well maintained with helpful staff. Porn stores are supposed to be dimly lit with handmade shelving and carpet that is the wrong color dammit! The secret of the nice adult stores is that they're specifically seeking female clientele, and actively avoid anything that would cause creeps to hang around. The nice one near me has parking in the rear, in a huge open parking lot that's well lit and security cameras everywhere. Video selection tends towards female-friendly and camp gay, large lingerie section, huge selection of toys, and a relatively large all-female staff that's friendly and chatty with women and keeps a wary eye on men. And a female security officer at the door. It's so intensely female-friendly that it makes me feel like a creep for being there the two times I've gone (for Christmas presents).
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I figure the reason the nice one near me keeps their eyes on the guys, is because the other three in town are exactly the type of run-down creepshows that everyone avoids, and every so often one of their regular customers winds up in the nice store with the wrong expectations. That, and I probably don't look all that above the board when I haven't shaven or put my hair up.
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There is absolutely nothing I miss about CRTs, other than being able to push a button and hear it go "bwong".
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Samizdata posted:Then after the sale came the parasitic polymorphic Romance cancer. Last 5 or so times I have been in, I haven't bought a thing. This has always been my problem with used book stores. Three rooms of Harlequin romances, two shelves of poo poo I actually want to read. If I ran one, I would likely have a trade-in policy like most of the ones I grew up around, but unlike them it would be a No Romance Novels Allowed as those would just be going in a recycling bin out back and not actually being put on shelves. Samizdata posted:Crap. ZERO friendly local game stores in town that aren't MtG, MtG, MtG... Yeah. I mean, I get it, being a FLGS is fulfilling an incredibly niche role and if they want to stay in business then they have to push something that provides a regular revenue stream, and CCGs are it and Magic is the king of those. But man, it would be nice if you could walk into one on a Friday or Saturday evening and instead of Friday Night Magic and Pokemon tournaments it was Friday night pick-up single-shot RPG night. Just grab some underused system or setting, make a folder full of premade characters to choose from, and let your customers sit down and play a game. I don't like MtG. Not only is it expensive, but also no one seems to play it the way I like - zero stakes, all cards allowed in any number, 3-6 person games, just having fun. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 09:42 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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Powered Descent posted:There was a small used bookstore in my town many years ago, which had the same ratio: a small but good science fiction section (the part that kept me coming back) and many many shelves of interchangeable bodice-ripper romances. Once I struck up a conversation with the woman at the counter, who as it turned out was the owner, and I asked about it. She said that the romance section keeps a lot of used bookshops in business for a simple reason: people sell the romance novels back to her. Her explanation was something like: "Those Asimov and Heinlein novels you're buying? I'm never going to see those again, because sci-fi people keep their books forever. I actually have to order replacements by mail to keep up my stock, and I make next to no profit. Romance fans treat their stuff as disposable and will dump their last ten books back on me for a quarter a pop while they're buying their next set of ten for four bucks each. I have romance novels here that have circulated more than most books at the library."  I see her point. It's not the way I want it to be as a customer, I want to see room after room of sci-fi and fantasy and good stuff in general... but like a number of things I don't like, it is what it is and for a drat good reason.
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I always had a thought of running a convenience store. But gently caress Coca-Cola and Pepsi and Frito-Lay and Nestle and Hershey and Jack Links etc. etc. It was all going to be local specialties, little brands that no one ever heard of, small batch everything, all the weird and odd and unusual and cool snack food and drink that I could lay my hands on. You wouln't get what you were expecting to get, coming into my store would be a culinary adventure every time. My brother pointed out the obvious: there's a reason why all the big brands have all the space, and that's because people all want basically the same thing. And if they're feeling adventurous and have some spare change they might pick up some crab chips or a flavor or two of Jones Soda, but 99% of the time they're going to want the same Doritos and Pepsi that they always get and are familiar with, because when money is involved then risk aversion will win over novelty. And I have to admit that he's right - I spent eight years total in convenience stores, and watched a million unique products fail and be forgotten because it wasn't something our customers were already familiar with. Same with your FLGS: 80% of your customers are going to want the latest MtG expansions. Same with your used bookstore: 80% of your customers are going to want trashy romance novels. Same with anything. As someone wanting something out of the usual, even in a product category as niche as tabletop roleplaying and CCGs, then I'm automatically looking for the long tail product and I'm not the core customer that brick-and-mortar retail is looking for - the kind who will make regular repeat purchases of the same damned thing. The only way to make a go of strictly long-tail products is to be Amazon and have minimal retail overhead and vast customer coverage - and even Amazon likely does most of it's business with the regular repeating purchase customer. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 10:44 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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Volcott posted:We're all going to be chauffeured around by google in 20 years anyway. And if you try to take manual control like Will Smith did that one time your insurance immediately doubles. quote:While it may seem harsh that the 31st-century equivalent of "Driving Under the Influence" carries with it the death penalty, this is due to an inherent inequivalency between MOUI (Manual Operation Under the Influence) and DUI.
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Volcott posted:Ay that from schlock mercenary? Yes. And I recall that quoted passage being a lot funnier when I first read it... holy poo poo, sixteen years ago. No wonder. 21-year old me found it funny, 37-year old me just finds it kinda mean-spirited.
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carry on then posted:Well, there was Windows Vista Capable or something where they meant "maybe, slowly, with all the features turned off." Vista Ready meant "Can this computer that can only just comfortably run XP, run our newest OS with literally ten times the minimum hardware requirements? Uhh... Yes?" just so manufacturers didn't have to scrap their bottom-dollar budget PC lineup for the next year. And honestly, if Microsoft had insisted that no, this really is the minimum system requirements, congrats about your midrange lineup suddenly becoming your bottom-dollar budget lineup and sorry about all the computers we just made you scrap, Windows Vista would be fondly remembered as a solid and respectable OS instead of the flaming dumpster fire it's remembered as now. After all, Windows 7 is literally Vista with a new taskbar and UAC turned down to tolerable levels out of the box.
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Enourmo posted:I never, ever had any real issues with Vista once I got UAC sorted. This was my experience too. Vista was good once you made a few minor tweaks. Heck, you probably wouldn't have to tweak UAC if you installed it today, most programs these days respect limited user accounts and don't default to requiring local admin. e. Windows 10 is pretty solid too once you find and turn off all the telemetry crap. That and actually find the real control panel, although they should eventually get everything rolled into Settings. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 07:38 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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There is literally zero way to transfer money from the credit union one of my jobs uses and my bank in less than two weeks. The credit union will not do electronic transfers except to one of their own customer's accounts, full stop. And they only serve people living in one of three specific towns, none of which I live in. They will happily cut my boss a cashiers check or money order, but my bank will not credit my account until the check clears, which has to be done by mail, and apparently the credit union likes to sit on their mail inbox for days at a time. And nothing under the sun will convince my bank to trust the credit union and go ahead with funding the deposit, despite the fact that every single check I deposit has eventually cleared with no hassle. Something something they don't share networks or technology or standards or something like that, it has to be done by mail, seven to ten business days, like it or lump it . I'd switch banks, but I was told by other banks that they just wouldn't accept a paper check from the credit union without a way to electronically verify funds. My boss would switch, but there is literally no other bank or credit union in the podunk town she runs her business in. (How the gently caress this credit union can get away with being this backwards and useless in TYOOL 2018 is beyond me.) e. I should add: there are other banks a quick drive away, but the previous owner of her business pissed off every single one of them by writing hot payroll checks and they've all blacklisted the business, despite being under new ownership and fully solvent for the past ten years. One bank recommended that we change the business name, but that's hard as gently caress to do when the business is a newspaper and there are legal agreements tied to the name. Being the newspaper of record for three cities and a whole county is big money in legal advertising for a weekly paper, and if we change the name then we're not the newspaper of record, the money would dry up until the next election cycle, and that would sink us in a hurry. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 01:31 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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It's 100% that no place will try it because that will make them look more expensive than their competitors and that would damage their sales by a fraction of a percent and we just can't be having that sort of thing.  It would take a law to make it happen and the government of the US is corporate owned so good loving luck.
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People in Europe also don't realize that in a lot of ways the US is not one nation, but fifty of them, and some of those fifty hate some of the rest and act like children about it - refer to the 10th amendment, "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The US really, truly, has a much weaker national government than most European countries, by design, because it was assembled out of multiple de facto sovereign nations, and some of those nations - Rhode Island, I'm looking at you - wouldn't join the rest until federal rights were restricted in favor of states rights (and we basically had to twist Rhode Island's arm until they gave in.) Expecting, say, stores with locations in California and in Delaware (7.5% plus local tax, and 0% with local tax prohibited, respectively) to charge identical after-tax prices is roughly the same thing as expecting stores with locations in England and Switzerland (20% VAT and 8% VAT, respectively) to charge identical after-tax prices. It's not going to happen because the only reasonable way to make it work like it does in Europe is to get California and Delaware to share the same tax rate, and both are completely independent taxing authorities that have no reason to cooperate like that. Now imagine trying the same between, say, Massachusetts and South Carolina, two states with massive cultural differences and a history of bad blood (American Civil War, anyone?) And the national government will absolutely not get involved in sales tax, because it's not a power specifically vested to them - see the 10th amendment, above - and since sales tax stays in the state it's collected in, it doesn't fall under the Commerce Clause or various other laws regulating interstate commerce either. (Hey, congrats, you got me to do some actual research for my shitpost  )
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Also, we're a nation founded by a bunch of chronic non-joiners who wanted freedom from the social and economic stratification of Europe, we're just about 110 years after the last glorious gasp of chronic non-joinery (settlement of the Old West, where if you didn't want to get with the game around you then it was trivial to pack up and go somewhere where you could dictate the rules of the game), and we have a culture that still glorifies chronic non-joinery and hasn't come to terms with the fact that chronic non-joinery isn't an option anymore, neither in our own country nor on the global stage - when society demands you play nice with others, then you either play nice, run away, or get crushed, and there's no more room on this planet to run away, and Americans are having trouble accepting that fact. e. this isn't D&D, I'll shut up now.
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You are unless you're expecting corporations to never advertise based on price again and/or give up potentially 7.5%+ of their margins for the sake of customer convenience. Frankly, getting Delaware and California to agree on matching tax rates would be easier, along with getting that Sisyphean boulder to balance on it's hill, snuffing out the sun, and making people stop shitposting on the internet. e. I recognize the irony in that last statement.
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The_Franz posted:XP was when they pushed the NT kernel to home users so everything needed new drivers. Most of the shitbox e-machines computers people had back then were filled with no-name expansion cards that often didn't have NT compatible drivers, so naturally many people's reaction to it was "THIS PIECE OF poo poo DOESN'T WORK I'M GOING BACK TO WIN98!" Same when Vista came out. It was a fine OS, we still love it's second edition (7). But it really needed 1gb of ram and pretty much required a second to be smooth. But it came bundled on department store shitboxes, at a time when the bottom-dollar shitbox had just switched the default minimum from 256mb to 512mb of ram, and Microsoft was all "uhh, yeah, sure that'll work" instead of sticking to their guns and forcing shitbox manufacturers to add the extra ram.
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To be fair to Sony, there was a time when having an unbeatable music DRM/having the dominant music format that was also unpirateable would have been a license to print money. Companies really wanted a way to stop or crowd out piracy, and would have drowned the first success in money, and by god Sony threw everything at the wall to see what would stick. Apple eventually sidestepped the issue, not by better DRM, but by essentially making music too cheap to pirate.
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But I thought the point of audiophile woo was playing your mint first pressing record you bought for $$$ off ebay over your snake oil system. Because nothing says audiophile woo more than hundreds of thousands of dollars of high signal quality equipment plus even more in mystical rocks being used to play low-fidelity music sources. For the "warmth".
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Yeah, if you think I'm driving two hours to the nearest Costco for a week's worth of supplies you have some seriously skewed priorities. Own a deep-freeze, buy meat/ice cream/frozen/pasta/dry goods/canned stuff in bulk to save money. Make weekly trips to the nearest supermarket for fruit and veg/dairy/other perishables. Actually eat your leftovers the next day instead of leaving it at the back of the fridge to achieve sentience. Clean your loving fridge occasionally.
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The chicken grinder is loving monstrous, but the captive bolt gun is safe and humane. Unless you're uncomfortable with the fact that the meat in your freezer used to be a living animal. I mean, they used to beat cattle in the head with a sledgehammer before the captive bolt gun. You have to kill them somehow if you expect to get a steak at the other end.
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If you're really jonesing for Mechwarrior, Mechwarrior 2 runs perfectly in MechVM
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I had a 22" CRT I bought from a Goodwill for nearly a decade before I had maxed the alignment screws and it was too fuzzy to see anymore. Don't remember the brand, though. Going from it to an 18" widescreen lcd was jarring, though. Currently rocking a 27" AOC, but I'm very tempted to get a 40" or so 4k lcd television - I'm nearly 40 and my eyes are getting bad.
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I chucked our imprinter at work last year. Not only do all our local banks issue debit cards without raised letters, but our pinpads store card info for batch processing if the internet is out. And if power is out, I'm not selling you poo poo until it comes back on. As far as I'm concerned, an imprinter is just a way for someone to steal card numbers these days, so in the trash it went.
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I remember salvaging an AWE32 with a pair of 32mb 30-pin SIMMs once. Things were like two inches tall. I never could find another pair, though, so I could see if I could get a 386 with 128mb memory.
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I remember also getting excited about building my first computer with one gb of ram, in 2007. One gigabyte! Untold riches! I also remember upping that to three gb inside of a month. What was a dream in 2000 was, sadly, not sufficient for 2007 standards.
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The first computer I ever had was my stepdads Tandy 1000 EX. I don't remember much beyond playing a lot of Defender and messing around with a drawing program. We wound up selling it to help pay for some unexpected medical bills. We bought a Packard Bell 486 DX/2 in '95, which I used and abused heavily. Somewhere I came up with a Pentium Overdrive processor and upgraded it to 24mb of ram, probably from my friend who had all kinds of computer stuff laying around. Lots of Doom, Quake, and Warcraft II was played on that machine. I'm not sure what happened to it. My own personal first PC I got my senior year, it was a Pentium 133, 32mb of ram. It was given to me after I helped a family friend pick out a new computer and helped him set it up. I dropped out of college and went to work for my grandfather in '01. He was a metal scrapper (back before that was a synonym for meth tweaker). One day, while hauling a load of #1 steel scrap, we discovered Texas Tech had disposed of a big load of old computer equipment at the junkyard, so we traded out a pile of that for some of the steel load. Out of that I salvaged a Pentium 3-450, 128mb of PC-100 ram, an Intel i-740 graphics card, the aforementioned AWE32, etc. The first ebay purchase I ever made was a working motherboard to tie it all together. Later I upgraded to 384mb of ram and an original Geforce DDR, and I also kept feeding my ever-growing need for drive space for  . There was also a bunch of other stuff I salvaged out of that, like one of the fabled Celeron 300's that could be OCed to 450mhz, stuff like that.I think it was '05, my friend with all the computer stuff laughed at my rig, and gave me his old janky overclocking rig. It was a Duron 1100 (originally a Duron 600 OCed to 1100 but he wouldn't part with the rig until he replaced it with an actual 1100, he said it was too flakey), 512mb of ram, Geforce 3, etc. Around this time I also updated to Windows XP, after using a TechNet copy of Windows 2000 he had given me back when it was hot new stuff. In '07 I bit the bullet and bought an actual new system with new hardware. And here I am today, no longer playing swap meet parts hoarder but buying new.
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Chairman Mao posted:I remember using ddwrt on an old piece of poo poo router to turn it into a bridge because I was too broke to afford a wireless card. It actually worked completely fine. Same. It's now serving as a wireless repeater to get wifi out to the garage. Although I'd have to replace it if my internet got any faster, half-duplex 802.11G plus overhead is slower than Christmas. There's just something unbreakable about a 12 year old WRT54G and DD-WRT. rndmnmbr has a new favorite as of 04:09 on Aug 9, 2019 |
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poo poo, if I didn't already have a pile of old hardware ready for the scrap bin, I'd almost take that offer on the Raptors. Gotta stop my hoarding instincts...
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Pham Nuwen posted:The only thing I'd change would be to add A/C... wonder what that costs. Theoretically, you should already have the compressor bracket on the engine, with an idler gear bolted in, and the knockouts in place to route lines. In reality, OTOH, I hope you feel like completely dismantling the dash to install a different HVAC system. You'll also probably have to reroute a ton of stuff under the hood to get the evaporator and it's housing in, plus pull the radiator to get the condenser in, plus (maybe, not familiar with Fords of that era) get the ECU flashed to support it. Also you'll have to pull your parts out of a junkyard from a matching make/model truck, except the compressor and dryer, both of which should be bought new. Then spend a weekend chasing leaks. As far as paying someone else to do it, you'll get laughed at by most shops, and the tiny handful who would touch it would likely want more than the truck is worth to do it. So, in short, a good project for a serious home mechanic to learn on, but don't do it to your daily driver.
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