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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I actually kind of didn't believe nvme was real when I first saw it i had only seen nvmes in pictures and thought they were like the size of a candy bar. i knew that they used pci so assumed they stuck upright in a pci slot, 4 inches long or something. i in fact couldn't find the nvme slots on my motherboard for a couple of minutes because they were covered with heat sinks and i wasn't expecting them to be so small. poo poo is crazy
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Fart Sandwiches posted:no-cd cracks. I feel like it's less because of hackers carefully re-shrinkwrapping the games after cracking them and more because of regular shoplifters stealing games from one store and returning them to another.
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i have never used a clicker in my classes and i never will. if i ever had reason to do a real-time quiz like that i would write my own drat software before making students buy that poo poo. they definitely still exist though.
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when i was in college the psyc 101 professor had a racket with his own textbook that came with a cd "study guide" program called ACE-IT. every single question on the exams was taken from the ACE-IT bank so if you just memorized everything in there you were set. to prevent students from sharing the cd it also came with a copy protection floppy disk that had to be inserted whenever the thing was running, and after installing it on one computer it wouldn't work anywhere else. well i poked at it a bit and it was the dumbest copy protection imaginable: the disk had an encrypted file on it that got written with some hardware-specific information during the install process, keying the floppy to your computer, and that was it. if you had a blank floppy and the unmodified file you could just make your own fresh copy protection disks. so i found a friend who hadn't installed it, took the encrypted file, and put it on the campus DC++ with an ISO of the cd and instructions. hell yeah
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Hed posted:lol what loving universities and books used these clickers? all the Gen Ed / large lecture hall style classes at (top 50) university didn’t have them so trying to figure out if I got lucky, timed it right, or it was especially linked to certain subject / publisher in my experience it's linked to the professor's personality. some of them are just Tech Enthusiasts and like stuff like that.
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yep isketch for me too. loved that poo poo sketchful.io is a fairly good replacement
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i still have the isketch opening theme music in my head *highly compressed jaunty guitar music* *isketch logo squashes nonproportionally off to the side*
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Which conference was it where all the CEOs and presenters at the keynote dressed up like hot topic kids and the theme was "sales punks" or "hr punks" or something There was a tweet with pictures but I can't find it
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i remember seeing a guy with the original galaxy note on the bus and being aghast at the size. it looked dumb as poo poo, like he was talking on a paperback book.
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Volmarias posted:I remember dismissing the 7" phablet as a cruel joke they were playing on the world, when now I genuinely wish for a decent 7" tablet as a bedside device after using my Nexus 7 forever. the ~7 inch tablet form factor is really great for flying because it fits perfectly on a kneeboard. you can't see charts squinting at your phone and the 10 inch ipads are too big for a small cockpit imo. in all other situations it's awkward, though. too big to hand-hold and too small for a grandmaputer.
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i also got a free playbook and it was a nice piece of hardware that did absolutely nothing useful. its number one selling point was that it ran !FLASH! and it came out like five months before apple announced that they would never support flash on ios, instantly putting it on death row. i still have it, but it may not work any more because of the bug where if the battery got heavily discharged the charger circuitry would shut down and you could never charge it again.
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gently caress, this would actually be a really good april fool's joke to play on my class. i hope i remember it next year
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Honestly just everything about Windows 95 through XP where they tried to cram web pages everywhere and make every program have a web browser paradigm
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Platystemon posted:and as such it has a short “e” sound Wait, have people been saying "deebian?" lmao if so
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PCjr sidecar posted:sol ah ris is some strong halt and catch fire energy i get inordinately upset when i hear someone say jaw-vah it's loving java
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Probably only about as good as modern airpods or whatever because those giant things were using ancient Bluetooth stack and early power hungry wireless chips.
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Yeah if you've ever been in a cab with a driver who's got a Bluetooth headset and seems to be having a constant bored conversation the whole time, barely acknowledging you when you get in and leave, it's likely his wife on the phone for the aforementioned reason. Idk why it's common but it's a thing
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SO DEMANDING posted:back around 2005 i had a dell 2001fp, and for a brief time was king poo poo of nerd mountain. that was a good-rear end monitor. I got a 20 inch 1680x1050 LCD in 2004 and a couple of my friends gawked and said it was the biggest computer monitor they'd ever seen.
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PCjr sidecar posted:yeah im on a 34” now I think I was most productive on 2x 20” 4:3 a 34" 21:9 is almost exactly the same area and proportions (16" x 12" x 2 versus 31.5" x 13.5") but on a single screen. it's better.
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That's from the x-rays getting shot at your eyes.
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Unfortunately we have that again now with XQD and CFExpress cards, which are mechanically and electrically compatible but use different communication protocols.
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Sweevo posted:his signature enemy the 'manandtaur' is a stolen minotaur image with the forehead replaced with a screaming face lifted from some old game box art, "some old game"???
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Carthag Tuek posted:the 3.5 jack to fake cassette tape adapters were way cooler than the fm ones imo still use one in my car to this day 
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:people who say warez like Juarez I knew a guy in high school who did that. We argued about it a bunch of times. He was also the shroom dealer and at one point the cops came to his house and he freaked out and locked himself in the bathroom and cut his wrists. He lived but I didn't see him much after that.
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i definitely respect the game more if the copy protection makes it subtly unplayable instead of just refusing to launch. there was another RTS, maybe another command and conquer, where if the game detected it was pirated it would just give the enemy a bunch more units and greatly increase their damage. i suppose that could backfire into internet reports of "game sucks, way too hard" but it's definitely more fun as a response. one of the early pirated versions of deus ex did that inadvertently: the crackers accidentally (or maybe intentionally for space) removed one sound file that played near the end of the first level, when you get on the police boat to the mainland, and the trigger to end the level was the successful playing of that file. so the ion storm forums filled up with hundreds of CAN'T GET ON BOAT<???? PLS HELP threads and everyone quickly figured out what was going on e: oh yeah and the old escape velocity games. they were shareware but if you went past the 30 day limit an extremely powerful space pirate, captain hector, would show up and harass you continuously until you registered
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I had heard of party lines but we never had one. we had a party line up at my grandpa's cabin. there was only one other person still on the line (theresa). our ring was two short, hers was one long. if you placed a long-distance call, you'd get an operator asking who was calling so they could bill it properly.
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Jonny 290 posted:12x download time to play time ratio on dialup, iirc? for 128k mp3s well, the most i ever saw from a 56k modem was about 40 kbps down, and ignoring headers and other overhead the 128 kbps mp3 will be...128 kb per second of song. so best case you'd be looking at about 3 minutes of download for every minute of song. 12:1 definitely feels more like the usual though.
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i remember leaving my computer on for an entire weekend to download one 160x120 15fps mpeg of a single simpsons episode. now i see 45gb in the steam downloader and am like, yawn, oh well, guess i'll watch some youtubes for half an hour.
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Volmarias posted:Amusingly, back around 2004-ish my university had a card reader you would swipe your ID card with. Obviously, the results would be done over some special device driver and the contents of the card would be obfu- lol jk no it was just a PS2 output device and the magnetic encoding on the card consisted of your student ID. i mean that's all that credit card magnetic stripes are too. i got a usb card reader a number of years ago to try to put together some sort of student card access control system for the power tools, and our student cards are the same thing. just the person's name and ID number and some checksums.
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Playing Warcraft 2 against my buddy with a direct modem connection. Having to put his actual phone number and the modem init string (AT&F1) into the game
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polyester concept posted:i used this all the time. it just found other mirrors and would do simultaneous downloads of individual chunks and combine them in the end. no idea how it found other mirrors tho I thought about it for a minute and I think I'd do it by sending the URL and a hash of every downloaded file back to a central server. You just collect all the URLs that you've seen linked to that hash and over some period of time boom there's your database. If the file was popular, like a game demo, and you had a big userbase I bet it would happen pretty quickly. Alternately in that era it could have been just a manually updated index that covered the most popular downloads. The internet was a lot smaller back then.
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Jonny 290 posted:and they're some of the hardest things to repair too. a VCR or cassette deck may need a belt kit. stereo might need an electrolytic cap job. CRT? enjoy seeing your life flash before your eyes as you do a high voltage filter cap replacement and attempt to replace a whining flyback transformer. I picked up a Yamaha tape deck from Goodwill recently and when I opened it up to make sure it wasn't full of cockroach eggs I was greeted by this:  Physical separation of circuit modules!! Labels on the board!! Look at all those clearly marked trimpots!! God I miss when all electronics were built this way. You could literally use this board in an electronics 102 course. 
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The_Franz posted:there used to be a couple of places that still rebuilt crt tubes, hawkeye in the us and racs in france, however both closed their doors in the last decade. i think a lot of the equipment wound up at a tv museum somewhere in ohio. the process is neat to see this guy is an rear end in a top hat, lol "so that drill for the glass, is that diamond?" "NO!"  "it's TUNGSTEN!"very cool skill but that's a classic greybeard grognard right there
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i wondered about that too but i'm assuming they just meant convex or perhaps they live inside the tube
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i fixed my tape deck. it was squealing and the recordings were speeding up and slowing down and the left channel was louder than the right on the recorded tape. the squealing was from a dried out bronze bushing on the capstan motor, and a couple of drops of 3-in-1 quieted it down instantly. i ran it for a couple of hours facing upwards to get the oil all nicely distributed. oiled all the other spinning parts too. the weird speed was either because of the capstan bearing, or because the belt that drives the tape counter had completely melted into what looked like black urethane glue and that poo poo was all over the tensioner gearing. i cleaned it all off with windex in an ultrasonic cleaner and put it back together. i replaced the tape counter belt with an elastic band from some green onions. good enough the left channel thing i haven't quite figured out the cause of yet. maybe a dried out capacitor? but i was able to compensate for it by adjusting the left channel recording level trimpot, which is clearly marked on the lovely clear circuit board inside. that'll work for now. now i can record mixtapes of modern music to play on my car tape player for a level of irony most hipsters can't even hope to attain. billie jean x billie eilish Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Oct 18, 2021 |
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My students keep buying the mice that have touch buttons on top instead of real buttons, like the Apple magic mouse or the Microsoft one that folds flat, and it's just so loving terrible for software that uses more than one button
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i've always assumed that any incredible new technology that makes you go "wow, imagine what evil poo poo the NSA could do with this" is something that the NSA has actually had for at least a decade or two. like when the first kinect came out they showed how it could identify individual people by their body proportions, and read your heart rate from across the room by watching your face pulse in infrared. that was 2010 so the NSA was probably doing that in the first clinton administration
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polyester concept posted:aren't most infomercial products really for disabled people but it's a touchy subject to market them directly so they make it look like the products are for anyone No, that's just something people say on Tumblr to show off their virtuousness when you say it's a stupid product. The weird crap you see on infomercials is by and large designed for everyone. If it turns out that the toilet paper on a stick is really useful for people with a deformed arm, great, but that wasn't a specific design driver; someone just thought "hey maybe toilet paper on a stick will sell" and that was that. Similarly, tons of products are designed specifically for people with disabilities and they just sell them as such. Marketing to people with a disability or medical condition isn't touchy; go watch TV a 10 am on a weekday sometime.
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Sagebrush posted:No, that's just something people say on Tumblr to show off their virtuousness when you say it's a stupid product. to expand on this, now that i'm out of class, sometimes the exact opposite is in fact true. maybe the toilet paper on a stick was specifically designed for 600 pound lardasses to be able to reach around and wipe their rear end. however, hyper-obesity -- though it is a disability -- is much more stigmatized than, say, having a congenital arm deformity, or bad arthritis. so they market it for people with arthritis but with a knowing wink that it will sell well among the morbidly obese.
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