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DrBouvenstein posted:No one ever remembers Scour. I remember when Scour was good, when it had the cube logo. I remember using it at college and downloading a large file off via P2P, from somebody to whom I had a ping time of 11ms. It blew my mind to watch the progress bar fill up so quickly. I remember the disappointment of launching it one morning and seeing the message that it had been shut down.
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How have neither of you posted in this thread yet?
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Gives a whole new meaning to "Cal Sag" (locals will get that).
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My previous car was a 1996 Accord, and the stock stereo eventually died. I picked up a nice aftermarket stereo on Craigslist for $40, and got my mechanic to install it while some other work was getting done, and I was happy. Eventually my car got stolen. It was found a couple of weeks later, and the stereo was gone. I got my car cleaned out and fixed up, picked up another stereo off Craigslist for $40, got it installed and went about my life. A little over a year later, the car got stolen again. It was also found several days later, and of course the stereo was gone. Only this time they had the courtesy to cut off the catalytic converter, so I got a fat check and put it towards a new car, one with the stock radio built into the dash.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Do your arms have RFID chips? That's a bad joke. For everyone else, this is what he means (the inside is foil): 
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atomicthumbs posted:Jesus christ don't recommend people try to type on these things, that's horribly cruel My mother used to be an extremely loud, hammers of hell typer. I got her one of those and she used it for a few years, now she has a typical consumer grade keyboard and types at a normal noise level. So it's good for something.
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Sappo569 posted:Linksys E1000 Might be even better with dd-wrt running on it.
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Code Jockey posted:
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FFS just donate it to a church or library. They'd be thrilled to have it.
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I took an easy summer job waiting tables in 2001, from a community newspaper classified ad.
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Fo3 posted:No, mine is a dell vostro...Main problem with the laptop was it shipped with vista, and has no drivers for winxp or win7, that's the main reason why I am using a linux distro on it. There's gotta be Windows 7 drivers for whatever model of Vostro you have. Where are you looking for drivers?
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Phanatic posted:Lots of places aren't entirely metric. Get into a car in the UK, and you'll see miles on the speedometer, miles on the speed limit signs and distance markers in miles. Beer's still sold in pints. A Canadian football field is still 110 yards long. 110 yards is 100.6 metres 
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:Any of those could be replaced by a JVC Kaboom! Box. I had one and it was an amazing piece. Oh wow. I have one of these, but I only use it a few times a year.
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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've got a flat screen Viewsonic CRT 22" that I haven't used in years, but if this guy is in Chicagoland I'd be happy to have him re-home it!
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KozmoNaut posted:
I saw a guy on the train this morning with headphones that had faux wood panels on them.
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Humphreys posted:What was the largest CRT TV? Whatever it is - using it and doing what you did should be in the world strongman competition Here's a candidate: Hitachi 65f710a, at abotu 309 pounds.
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Any love for the Datadesk SmartBoard?
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 That's what I use to clean the glass when I replace window stickers.
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Obsolete technology and video card chat: Here's the video card in my old desktop, which I haven't touched in years: And for the record, here's the board I'm using it in: 
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That's a Tyan Thunder K8W with a pair of dual-core Opterons and 16GB of Registered+ECC RAM. The video card is an ATi FireGL X1 256, an AGP Pro 50 card. Going to replace it with a simpler nVidia AGP card (6000 or 7000 series), I don't game so don't need the GPU performance, just need driver support for hardware acceleration for streaming video in Windows 7 and up.
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I used Scour while it was awesome, it was mindblowing watching the progress bar slide to the right so fast on my college's T1. After it got shut down I switched to WinMX, but when the RIAA lawsuits began I got scared straight shortly after that and gave up P2P.
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I still have my 19" 1280x1024 LCD from 2005 and I can't wait to use it (set to a 4:3 ratio of course) with one of those new Nintendo Minis coming out next month.
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Elliotw2 posted:What are you waiting for? The iPad (and preusmably iPhone) works with a Lighting to USB converter connected to a USB to PS2 converter connected to an IBM Model M. I have to try this! I have a Model M, while my dad has an iPad and my mom has an iPhone.
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Dioneer? Probably from this shop:
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My favorite DRM flop was when Sony introduced "copy-proof" CDs with a ring on the bottom. You could copy them after drawing over the ring with a Sharpie.
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3 years sounds like a pretty drat old Chromebook.
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Mistayke posted:My job gave me a ThinkPad T520 eight years ago. Six years ago. Release date was 2/2011 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad_T_Series)
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All you need to fix the clock error is a simple CR2032 battery, you can get them off the shelf at a drug store. You could probably set that thing up as a simple emulation PC or DOS gaming PC.
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True, although Micro Center doesn't have stores in every state. My local Walgreens has a 2-pack for 5 or 6 bucks.
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repeating posted:To add another to the pile. Esp. being a phone company end-user support person: Voicemail. A home user at my company was asked by her supervisor to get a phone with a blinking light to indicate new voicemail. Plenty of those on the market, only catch is that they only blink for a new message in the phone's built-in voicemail box. Couldn't get one that would indicate a new message in her Xfinity voicemails.
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Are they any good?
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The original Smart phone
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Mr.Radar posted:Earlier today I discovered that someone had uploaded the whole series of the 90s Are You Afraid of the Dark? horror anthology show to the Internet Archive so I've been rewatching some of the episodes I vaguely remembered. One of them is "The Tale of the Phone Police". While watching the episode I couldn't help but think how many of the plot points in it wouldn't make sense to younger people today. PHONE COPS 
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(instead of the usual 7). A kid today might know what a phone book was but even if they did they would probably be equally confused by a 7-digit number as they would by a 6-digit one since in the cell phone age you'll pretty much always need to specify the area code when you give out a phone number.
. Of course, a young person today probably wouldn't fully get the horror implications of someone or something being able to call you wherever you were even when you weren't at home.
. The friend leaves and goes back to the main character's house to get help from the main character's parents. When he gets there the main character's sister doesn't recognize him or remember having a brother, and when the friend tries to prove the brother existed by showing the sister the main character's bedroom he finds it's now a sewing room with no trace of the main character.
to have gotten the new phone book out so quickly). He goes to the phone company and calls the main character on a payphone in the lobby. The main character lets it ring (as he and the friend had previously discussed as part of the escape plan) and the friend uses the loud ringer to locate where the phone police were holding the main character in the building. Of course, the concept of a phone just ringing without going to voicemail is pretty strange today.
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My favorite audiophile story is a group of them listening to a new, high-tech speaker wire and commenting how good it sounds, then finding out it was just a straightened wire hanger.
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Monday will be 1 week since their last post.
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JazzmasterCurious posted:Nah, it went away with 3G - it was regular old GSM that had this problem. Takkata takkata takkata takkata WRAAAAA GSM in 2G mode.
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Floppy or hard?
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SEARS SEARS SEARS SEARS SEARS SEA S SEARS SEARS SEARS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yamOer6lsjo
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