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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:one time the navy had a public facing site with no auth that showed the location of all its warships lol it's too late, if there's a list you've been put on it
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:incredibly shamefully i must admit that back in the day i got in online arguments about dvd+r vs dvd-r which one were you for
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:dvd-r i remember specifically seeking out taiyo yuden-branded discs and buying them in spindles of 100. nothing but the finest shiny blank discs for my illicitly collected media!
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Agile Vector posted:i remembered earlier that jeff bezos called his mistress his "alive girl" and the implications that brings for his past paramours 
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Tankakern posted:teams is actively making my life worse lol are there even any non-electron chat services any more?
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2000: lol what kind of sick freak jerks it to cartoons 2020: cartoons are the only ethical source of pornographic stimulation
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Progressive JPEG posted:turns out you can put the toothpaste back in the tube after all so for the longest time, that GIF baffled me, like "why are they so excited about putting toothpaste from one tube in another" and someone here explained that no, that's not what's happening; they're putting something else (dental adhesive? superglue? i cannot recall) into the ex's toothpaste
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I always wanted a beartato drive 
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rubbish: ruh-bish or roo-bish?
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Crime on a Dime posted:installing rootkits for seem to recall there were copy protection schemes that basically rooted your computer too lol
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:do u all remember AMR slots? i never had an AMR card but yeah i remember those doofy little bullshit slots
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i started my terrible addiction to forums at the old annihilated.com Total Annihilation fan forum sometime in 1999 a fellow poster there who went by the username meltdown chatted me up on ICQ and in late 2000 he started sending me links to stuff on the SA forums i registered during one of the early free-reg periods that used to occasionally happen back then. mostly just lurked my first year or two.
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also holy poo poo as of three days ago i've been a member of this place for twenty years
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Silver Alicorn posted:ogg bepis what is jerry cotton's preferred codec
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Fart Sandwiches posted:no-cd cracks. in college I bought hit man 2 (original obv), installed the no cd crack, re-shrink wrapped the box at the suncoast a friend worked at, carefully reapplied the original price sticker, and returned it. speaking of no-cd cracks, those mini ISO images that you'd load in Daemon Tools or Alcohol 120% or w/e that weren't the full disc, just enough data to fool the CD checks
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Mr.Radar posted:You are number 219 in line to download counterstrike1.0beta4.zip the third-party download managers so that you could resume a big download when the dialup connection got interrupted for whatever reason
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Feisty-Cadaver posted:that T9 typing competition where the finalists were like a 12 year old girl and 30-something year old dude. wasn't there a competition between a teen on T9 and some old dude on morse code?
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Raluek posted:the amazing article written by nilay's wife, just tearing into him for buying a curved tv lol that loving response where he defended the purchase with "oh yeah sometimes i just gotta go buy something from walmart, y'know, to keep it real"
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:Yeah it was probably that. the monitor also had to support a higher refresh rate at the selected resolution. usually once you hit the monitors max resolution you were limited to 60hz. if it was a big fancy monitor it could do over 100 at lower resolutions
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Volmarias posted:Did they actually let monitor 2 be a minimap? I sort of remember it being just a second view, which is nice but having a minimap be a Megamap would really be my preferred thing. you could just zoom it out all the way, which would pretty much accomplish the same thing
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Jonny 290 posted:yeah, in the shuttle days it was really common for hams who had both a 430 mhz ham TV setup and a TVRO 8-footer to tune into the shuttle video feeds that nasa would put up on the geosync birds, and then retransmit them to the town on a channel people could tune into on a regular cable tuner. they actually got a waiver on the 'no broadcasting' rule for NASA-originated transmissions just cause everybody loved the shuttle so much do hams still talk to ISS?
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Volmarias posted:The British call it "Zed" hosed up if true
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Captain Foo posted:would not recommend searching for yif gif
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Achmed Jones posted:oooooo look at jonny richfriends over here i remember as a kid getting to play hide and seek in a church because my friend's mom did some bookkeeping for them or something and we were the only ones in there the building was only like 20-30 years old but still something spooky about hiding/wandering in a church w/ most of the lights out
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presnidet beep and jim silly-balsl were childhood friends. another entry in the yospos canon
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Jonny 290 posted:Iron County. i'll investigate. it's a hard sell though, i found out there's just no broadband available in town, lol. people just live off LTE. i'd go insane maybe you could rig up a little tower to stick a microwave dish on?
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Kitfox88 posted:no honest man needs more than four buttons and a wheel Zlodo posted:mmo mouse make no sense, you already have a thing with a shitload of buttons, it's called a loving keyboard i know a dude who uses one of those logitech mice with twelve buttons on the side. he had a massive stroke like ten years ago that left one of his arms basically unusable (the stroke crippled him so severely that his student debt was forgiven) so that mouse basically lets him play MMOs one-handed. that said, yeah granted the vast majority of people don't need a little mini-keyboard on their mouse. but i'm glad they exist for those that do. 
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Jonny 290 posted:oh there were people that did DIY drive windows. 
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eschaton posted:5400 and 7200 RPM i was loving around with a couple old 10Krpm scsi drives a few years ago. threw them into an old case. they started getting slower... and slower... and i was wondering what the hell was happening until i remembered that the little 3.5" drive cage inside the case had the drives right next to each other, like pretty much physical contact. the drives had gotten way too hot lol. like i touched one and it was painfully hot. after i powered off and separated them and let them cool off, they worked fine again but yeah back around 2006-2007 i snagged a couple of used white-label 15Krpm SCA drives off ebay, 36GB and 72GB. system drive, games drive. worked great.
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i remember getting in a little late on cd burning, and paying the premium for a plextor drive when (if i remember right) for a brief period of time they were the only brand offering "burn-proof" burners that wouldn't trash the whole burn if the computer couldn't keep up for whatever reason so no "start the burn and don't touch the mouse and walk away carefully and cross your fingers!" for me! perfect burns every time. 
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Sagebrush posted:the big blue ones? yeah those can gently caress off. they never even seem to lock properly big agreed. they should just do an internal thunderbolt port and run all the case front panel poo poo off a TB cable.
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Jonny 290 posted:and when did we start saving 0.007 per ram socket by only having one end be a latch, and the other's just a plastic hook that doesn't move? I paid a hundred and eighty dollars for that motherboard, what the gently caress lol what the gently caress trash motherboard did you get i got a Gigabyte B550 Aorus Elite last year and it didn't have that poo poo
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DamnGlitch posted:as a Mac kid it was pretty bogus going from daisy chainable scsi to slave/master + 2 mega slow usb1 ports scsi cards were absolutely a thing for PCs, they just cost more.
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did anyone else here ever gently caress around with netbus in their high school computer lab?
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Pulcinella posted:Digital whiteboards were going to revolutionize education. lol i remember having to fight with those when i worked for a school district in the 2000s i remember one support call we had someone whose mouse was somehow "stuck" on a part of the screen. went over and found that they had a smartboard, and there was a chair with a coat draped over it near the smartboard, and the coat was brushing up against the board so as to make the board register constant contact there, hence the mouse pointer being stuck in that location Pulcinella posted:It looks like now-a-days the more “high end” manufacturers like SmartBoard have turned to selling what are effectively 55” android tablets. lol that makes total sense let me guess, there's a whole panoply of lovely overpriced education apps they're pleased to sell for them
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actually the biggest hassle i ever had wasn't with the smartboards themselves, it was when the high school decided to purchase and permanently mount projectors for them in a bunch of classrooms the facilities dept installed the mounts, electrical outlets, and ran the conduit for the VGA cable, but we completely forgot to tell them we needed VGA cables run through them. so i had to go pull VGA cables through the conduits. the conduits were juuuuuust wide enough to accommodate those big blocky square VGA plugs, which meant the cables would usually get stuck at the 90 degree turns in the conduit. i figured out that if - after tying it to the base of the plug - i taped the pull string so that it ran flat along the length of the plug, it usually made it easier to get the cable through. but it was still usually like 20 minutes of grunting and swearing while standing on top of a student desk to pull the drat cable along. kinda curious if they still have projectors in those rooms
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I work in ewaste and boy howdy are those short throw whiteboard projectors showing up in droves. they are almost all universally lovely too. i bet the bulbs are burning out and they don't want to pay for new bulbs
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oh wow, so they weren't even getting used. i guess i'm not too surprised by that, tbh. the smartboard software was always just another program for overworked teachers to try to learn how to use effectively. there were some that loved it and really dove into it, but i think for a lot of teachers they just didn't provide enough benefit to justify the time investment
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