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Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Agile Vector posted:

i remembered earlier that jeff bezos called his mistress his "alive girl" and the implications that brings for his past paramours

that sounds like something nice pete would say

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Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Jonny 290 posted:

i heard rumors there's a yospos dc++ hub in 2021 but nothing confirmed yet. interesting.

thats not what they meant when they said there was a sad chub in yospos

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

dioxazine posted:

well, I just remembered trillian for some reason

digsby was the superior choice

i used that poo poo way longer than i should have

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Progressive JPEG posted:

apple coming to an agreement with cisco over the use of the "iphone" name

wasnt that 'ios'

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Progressive JPEG posted:

3d tvs
no wait curved tvs
how about hdr tvs???

basically the endless attempts at tv gimmicks that die off in a year after hitting the chicken/egg adoption wall

oh and having multiple incompatible versions of each of them whenever an encoding is involved, further reducing addressable market

the amazing article written by nilay's wife, just tearing into him for buying a curved tv

phenomenal reporting imo

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

eschaton posted:

20mA current loop

even as late as the VT240 people still used that poo poo

you can still buy sensors with this output configuration

i guess they have the advantage of only having two terminals for both power and output signal

e: ^^^ lol nice timing

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Wild EEPROM posted:

hirens boot cd

this tho. takes me back. i still use it sometimes. the win10 one isnt as useful but it still exists

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
im using two of those 2001FPs right now

good-rear end tech poo poo i just remembered: the sony CPD-G400. 19", 1600x1200, 85Hz. i was king poo poo when i had two of these in high school. still the nicest monitors ive ever owned.

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

mediaphage posted:

if i could find a gdm-fw900 for not a million dollars i’d go pick it up right now

if you're negotiable on the 'f' part, i have three of them in my garage i need to get rid of

they're the sun version, but i have the 13W3 adapters for them too

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

eschaton posted:

hell yeah a friend has mine now and its still awesome

it’d even do 1880x1440

not at 85Hz, though, and i sure couldnt tolerate the flicker at lower refresh rates for very long

one of mine lost one of the colors and the other one was starting to go out (i think it would pop and go black sometimes? it's been like a decade so i dont remember exactly) and i still regret getting rid of them

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
relatedly, though not as bad, having to check if your reader would do sdhc or sdxc, or if it was just regular sd

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Sweevo posted:

he has a giant ego, can't understand copyright, can barely string a sentence together, doubles down

the "creative commons license" guy

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Sweevo posted:

that was Logansryche (the bitcoin cinema guy), this guy just though everything on the internet was free for him to use

yeah this guy is funny tech poo poo i just remembered, thanks to this thread

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Wild EEPROM posted:

the matrix screensaver

thanks for remembering this. now i remember it too, so i just downloaded it again :allears:

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
i was more of a gamecopyworld guy, myself

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
at one point it certainly was wep only; I had to make a second, insecure wlan for my brother when he wanted to get his DS online. even regular consumer routers were wpa by then

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
soulseek is great, but some stuff is just not on there

as an example, this was recently stuck in my head and i couldnt find it anywhere besides youtube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyK9EoKJb74

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
lol someone downloaded melee beats from me recently, i just noticed

why do i still have that

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

obeyasia posted:

I got a wd raptor hard drive do I could game more better. Raptors was 10,000 rpm when most drives in the early 2000s we're 56 or 7800 rpm (I think). Mine was only 32gb and I could fit windows and doom 3 in it and I was happy.

https://louwrentius.com/an-ode-to-the-10000-rpm-western-digital-velociraptor.html

my current machine originally had 4x 74gb raptors in a raid0 as the boot drive

when it started failing SSDs were cheap enough, though they weren't really faster until nvme came later

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Hed posted:

lol Iomega also started marketing a CD-R / -RW drive Called the “Zip 650” since they were getting their rear end handed to them by the late 90s by cheaper and ubiquitous optical drives.

this is bizarre because they made an actual zip 750

actually, i have an external usb iomega cdrw drive somewhere; i wonder if it's zip branded

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

tk posted:

It was my favorite until I got Crystal Quest.



never played quest, but crystal crazy was a mainstay as a kid

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
the multi-protocol chat program discussion in the apple thread reminded me of digsby

not as popular as trillian or adium, but had a weird homestar lookin blob dude logo so thats a plus

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
oh man i forgot about those things

they had an admin password, and then a super-admin password or something like that (for recovering the admin account? for managing the device instead of just unlocking rights? i dont remember) and we discovered that they were both set to the defaults for some reason. so the computer-y kids logged into these accounts and changed the passwords. apparently they could not be remotely reset either, because the next year i remember some admin or another asking me to unlock the device i had been using the year before lmao

or something like that, this was like fourth or fifth grade

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

holy poo poo that takes me back

🎵 you are an idiot, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... ha ha ha ha ha

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
notch is not a celebrity, he's just rich

who is celebrating that mf

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Shaggar posted:

are you on a crt or something? who cares about vertical space?

i thought you were on the correct side of the 16:10 issue :colbert:

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
when the + operator did something in google. before the dark times. before the empire debut of goop

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

sb hermit posted:

chirp is a necessity for configuration management for these radios

there is no way I'm going to manually reprogram 12 stations if I lose my settings. even just two is a real pain

its necessary just to have working squelch, tbh

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Jonny 290 posted:

i have the cisco PSHH PSSH PSSH AHH AHH AHH AHH music on my new phone line and its sick lmao

theres always the trump card in hold music, if you want to be a jerk

https://soundcloud.com/user-237714155/sales-call-abyss

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

nudgenudgetilt posted:

scsi scanners

LPT port storage devices

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
all that and its an mp3??

tech poo poo i just remembered: opus

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
yeah i know what it is. one neat thing about it being a youtube link is that if you ytdl it with the -x option, you'll get an opus!

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
nah, slim bdrom in fileserver is the pro move

i have a lil supermicro chassis that has 4x 3.5" front trays, a couple front usb and a serial port, and a slim optical spot. its a v minimal friction way to get the bits u already own onto the server thats already hooked up to every screen in the house

a copy from Those Sites will be fine, but not as good as the thing you already have, so why bother?

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

axolotl farmer posted:

what's the recommended software for ripping dvds on Windows nowadays?

I haven't ripped any since 2010 or so, and then it was DVDfab and Handbrake.

if you want a full-quality rip, makemkv

if you want to compress it to something less, you could stick its output into handbrake, or there's probably a more streamlined tool idk

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

echinopsis posted:

forded and shidded

lol. “Come on down to Shid Ford for great deals on F-150”

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

echinopsis posted:

he’s actually an epubifile it’s a subtle difference

:prepop: holy moly

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.
my car's previous owner had no taste at all

Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Gnossiennes posted:

i had a convo a few weeks ago with some people about, weirdly i know, at what age we learned our ssns. most of them didn't learn them until their late teens/early 20s for college and work stuff.

i learned mine because we had to fill in our ssn with those bubbles on standardized tests, so i had mine memorized by around uhhh 3rd grade, and thought that was the normal age for it? but i was the only one in my 30s; everyone else was in their early 20s or early 50s and had no idea what i was talking about :(

as a point of comparison, im in my mid 30s and we didn't use SSNs at all in school

elementary went by an assigned number per class (i remember being #14), then in jr and high we had school-assigned student ID numbers

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Raluek
Nov 3, 2006

WUT.

Jonny 290 posted:

my newest vehicle has a carb heheh

bikes are cheating. they didnt go efi until, what, early 2000s?

my newest car is a '69, though i do have an efi motorcycle (that ive never ridden)

i am usually staggered when someone refers to their 2005 or w/e car as "old" cause thats newer than anyone in my family has (a couple aunts and uncles prob have something newer by now tho). this is the first time ive seen someone do that but like a decade newer, wtc

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