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axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

PCjr sidecar posted:

funny tech poo poo u just remember

caring a lot about ripping software

reripping several times from cd
1. cd to a pirated fraunhaufer encoder
2. cd to lame
3 cd to a lossless format

cbr vs vbr

setting up EAC with LAME and getting ID3 tags from Freedb :fyadride:

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axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

remember padus discjuggler, the disc burning program no one heard of until around 1999 for reasons

for a while it was the only straighforward way to burn pirated Dreamcast games?

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme


  1. I will shoot any person engaging in arson or other life-threatening behavior, issuing a warning to cease first if safety permits.
  2. Blacks and other minorities are otherwise safe from my gun; they have a legitimate grievance in the matter of this murder, and what they’re doing to their own neighborhoods and lives will be punishment enough for the utter folly of their means of expression once the dust settles.
  3. White rioters, on the other hand, will be presumed to be Antifa Communists attempting to manipulate this tragedy for Communist political ends; them I consider “enemies-general of all mankind, to be dealt with as wolves are” and will shoot immediately, without mercy or warning.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
60-70 wolves are shot illegaly each year in Sweden. that from a wolf population of about 400 :(

STG : skjut, tig, gräv (shoot, shuddup, dig)- motto of terrified hunters in Swedn

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
look at this scrub who didn't know how to get a keygen for GetRight :yosbutt:

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

could have been Slack if they had known what to do with it

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

every once in a while i randomly remember CDRWin

yo

got chipped PSX and RGB cables?

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Penguissimo posted:

he still beat the gnu hurd to market

also, re: thread title: the gnu hurd

was Gnu/Hurd ever on it’s way to become a real OS? did they just give up when Linux actually worked?

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
I was on firefly.com in 1996-97. they had a good music recommendation system and forums and were really ahead of their time as a social network. then they tried to write new code to replace their old /cgi-bin based site and the site got too slow to use and everyone left and then Microsoft bought them.

remember Microsoft Passport? that was a remnant from purchasing firefly.com

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:

i had some .viv video files


what a poo poo format, no rewind or fast forward lol

the format for pirating animes before goddamn RealPlayer

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

3D Megadoodoo posted:

I can find NOTHING on the internet about a Commodore 64 using the Datasette motor for sound effects now, but I'm sure I didn't just make it up myself :(

there were demos that used the Amiga disk drive to play music

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
they should use Linux on submarines to make them undetectable by sonar

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
wasn't there a Walmart free dialup thing? something with a blue lightbulb? used that in the US in '00

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Oh I thought games used S3M :mmmhmm:

Unreal Tournament 99 did

or .xm och .it or something like that

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Jonny 290 posted:

nanaca crash for us. i still dont even know what anime it's based on.

woah haven't looked at that one for a long time

runs in a flash emulator now

https://megami.starcreator.com/nanaca-crash/

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:

also, the practice of downloading warez through irc bots

/msg Xx-W4r3zB0T_420-xX xdcc send #69

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
this is lenslok DRM. the game came with a little plastic lens thing that you held up to the screen and was supposed to descramble a warped code. it did not work very well.

it was used on a few C64 and ZX Spectrum games.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
Kings Quest III made you type out several verses of incantations from the manual.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
if you tried to reg GetRight (lol) with a key from an old keygen, it would tell you 'That feature isn't available in the cracked version'.

be sure to use the latest keygen when pirating software, kids!

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Crazy Achmed posted:

what did registering getright unlock, anyway? the shareware version basically did everything i wanted back in the day on my slow, unreliable dialup connection

can't remember, but probably something with retrying ftp servers on a timer, like try to reconnect every three minutes.

it was a thing for semi-public pirate ftps that you were only allowed to try a connection every couple of minutes or your IP would be banned.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
I have never seen an actual C-16 or +4. I spent a lot of time looking at computers in the late 80s.

I read magazines about computers from the UK, Your Sinclair, Sinclair User, and sometimes Crash! and Zzap64. verrry few games were ported to the C-16 or +4, fewer than was ported to Atari 8-bit or Apple II.

what were their reason for existing at all?

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Jim Silly-Balls posted:


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 :cry:

there was one image sharing site that was mostly memes and funny pics you could find by incrementing the number in the URL, but if you happened on a 404 you got a gory autopsy pic instead top view of a human skull with the brain removed :barf:

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Wild EEPROM posted:

three buttoned mice like what did the middle button even do

create a twm window

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Sweevo posted:

who actually is the audience for U2? because i've never met a single person who gave the tiniest poo poo about them

pseudointellectual gen X:ers who appreciate the 'deep' lyrics and 'intricate' harmonies :jerkbag:

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

yippee cahier posted:

he can’t handle seeing people with masks. the silver lining is that enough people wear masks in walmart in florida to freak him out. he really did seem to be doing great — moved out, bought a car, went swimming in deep blue water, etc. and hope this doesn’t set him back too far.

i kick him a few bucks on patreon now, and get updates on the game he’s making:


Nick Smith is sick of Florida and is in the process of moving to Oregon. He has routes prepared where he can camp out or sleep at friends’ since he can’t stay in motels for reasons.

He just hopes that mask go away or that he can find a job where he won’t have to wear one or be around masked people.

He’s staying sane a safe as good as he can. :unsmith:

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

obeyasia posted:

transferring data between devices with infra red.

my first work phone was a palm sometehing (treo?) but it had windows mobile on it. it was a $500 hunk of poo poo of course.

I had a samsung flipphone in 2007, and for some reason my work laptop had an infrared port on it. was able to get some terrible quality photos out from my phone.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
my folks had this indestructible Danish vacuum cleaner that looked liked something out of the Gernsback Continuum

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
the horrific sight of underwear :eek:

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
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.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

NoneMoreNegative posted:

All I wanted was an ESC Key

MOM! I'M NOT ON GNU/LINUX!

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Armauk posted:

I've never understood people's desire to work in academia when there are many this hoops to jump through. Is a tenured position *that* good?

scientific reasearch is actually really great, it's just that everything else about academia sucks so much. the kick of actually discovering something new, or analyzing data that no one has ever looked at before is highly addictive.


I got a PhD, did a postdoc for three years and then realized that I was burnt out, very depressed, very lonely and needed to get out.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

rotor posted:

i beg to differ



bottom tier low effort Shrek cosplay

*turns monitor on*

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

eschaton posted:

half-width MIDI synthesizer boxes for playing video game background music

like the Roland SoundCanvas SC-55

it made SQ3 sound great for the three people who had one. to me it sounded awesome on a regular AdLib card.

https://youtu.be/arOgwo9ZWZI

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
iPhone 5/SE was the perfect phone form factor.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
in the early 00s I used to get the latest Simpsons and Futurama eps off IRC. Sometimes they appeared there before they were aired because a release group got it off a wildfeed, a satellite feed that the network used to send stuff out to the local station a day or so before it aired.

also release groups and the ’scene’ lol

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
when I was a students in the 90s, all the computer labs had Apple Laser writers. those things were indestructable and withstood a lot of abuse from dumb undergrads accidentaly printing the entire internet.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

Powerful Two-Hander posted:

which metal is it that makes everything taste like garlic? some gallium compound maybe?

e: I think I've got this way wrong. might be thinking of something involving arsenic

Tellurium. inhaling the vapor turns it into an organic compound that gives you garlic breath.

wiki posted:

Humans exposed to as little as 0.01 mg/m3 or less in air exude a foul garlic-like odor known as "tellurium breath".[53][86] This is caused by the body converting tellurium from any oxidation state to dimethyl telluride, (CH3)2Te. This is a volatile compound with a pungent garlic-like smell. Even though the metabolic pathways of tellurium are not known, it is generally assumed that they resemble those of the more extensively studied selenium because the final methylated metabolic products of the two elements are similar

Tellurium is in the same period as sulfur and selenium, all known for forming very stinky compounds.

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme

CainFortea posted:

remember having to deal with IRQ conflicts?

That sucked.

I had all these custom autoexec.bat and config.sys set up for different games, and a bunch of other .bat scripts to change it back to dad's work setup after I finished gaming.

DOS with mouse and SoundBlaster was a chore. looking at YOU, Wing Commander :argh:

axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
textfiles.com has a huge collection of shovelware disc images on two different sites. the crappy shareware games I played in the dying days of DOS are probably around somewhere there.

http://cd.textfiles.com/directory.html
http://discmaster.textfiles.com/cd-rom/

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axolotl farmer
May 17, 2007

Now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme
with W98 there was a lot of reinstalls. you had the Zonealarm installer on a different drive/partition, and installed the OS with the ethernet cable unplugged.

install ZA, then plug in the cable and install updates. so many portscanners and xploits.

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