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Encarta 95 came with this dope 3D trivia game called Mind Maze.  When I was 12, I figured out that the questions were all in plaintext files stored alongside the game engine. I switched out the questions with different ones about some book we had to read for english class, and turned it in as my final project on that segment.
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Using a save game editor to clone items in Diablo. Stay awhile and listen.
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Anybody remember the shitshow that was DVD+R vs DVD-R vs DVD+/-RW?
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Wish there was an app that would delete U2 irl
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Gentle Autist posted:U2 are a fine band with some good songs this isn't the wrong opinions thread
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Holy poo poo I forgot all about AlphaSmarts. My high school English class had a set of them. We had to use them a few times, and it was the dumbest thing ever. Lmao at trying to write an essay on a screen that only holds 4 lines of text. Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Feb 15, 2022 |
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my phone's ringtone is vvvffft vvvfft vvvfft just lol if your ringtone does anything other than tickle your leg
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or "machine-learning", especially if it really means "somebody did a linear regression in excel once"
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Captain Foo posted:tripod.com but enough about my personal modeling site,
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Carthag Tuek posted:i really dont like how smug that loving gnu looks This is a right opinion I would love to wear GNU shirts and poo poo, except for that loving gnu looks like if  and  hosed in the 70s.I can practically hear it say "m'lady" every time I see it. It even has a literal neckbeard. The GNU gnu is even worse than Tux in terms of mascots, and that's really saying something. Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Mar 25, 2022 |
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HELLOMYNAMEIS___ posted:What's wrong with Tux? I mean, I just ordered this tshirt: That one's OK. The classic Tux has moobs and a gut though: 
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Mr. Nice! posted:see e.g. gnu/linux Ehh I've gotta give that one to Gnu actually, especially at the time the rant was written. Gnu provided basically the entire command-line userland - all the way down to /bin/sh and /bin/ls. Linux was only a hobby kernel without it, with no way to -use- that kernel to do anything. Gnu provided Linux's bash, coreutils, gcc, grep, sed, awk, find, make, binutils, gdb, autotools, etc. For the first 20 years of Linux's life or so, there was literally no way to even compile it without using gcc. We lump it together and call it all "Linux" even though that's only the name of the actual kernel itself. I'd be salty about it too if I was Richard Gnu Plus Stall Man Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 08:27 on Mar 27, 2022 |
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Sweevo posted:those are all programs that run on the OS - the OS called linux What you think of as Windows is the probably the desktop UI, file explorer, browser, control panel, etc. None of that is the kernel. MS swapped out the kernel a couple of times and nobody gave a poo poo. The kernel (currently called "NT") isn't what anybody means when they talk about Windows. Also nobody would know what you meant if you told them your computer ran Mach (the macos kernel). Before it kind of became a generic word, Linux was only the name of the kernel - not the name of anything user would interact with. GNU provided all the rest of it back in the early days. Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Mar 27, 2022 |
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Sagebrush posted:and yet gnu without a kernel is nonfunctional, prompting the development of linux, with people calling the resulting product "linux" since that was the key differentiating feature. yep, for sure - it's 100% understandable. Also all modern distros ship a ton of non-gnu software but they all come with Linux. I'm just sayin that I get why the stall man is salty about it.
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psiox posted:walk up to the club like walk up to the club like "what up? I got a big soc" I'm just pumped, bought this chip at the thrift shop
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mystes posted:Wasn't that not actually true? It's half-right. FB's DNS resolver got all hosed up and stopped publishing BGP updates. This also broke their Active Directory authentication which meant doors, computer access, and even access to FB's internal communication tools. So apparently the SREs were using linkedin and poo poo to message each other. Pushing the BGP update would have been easy to do manually, except nobody could log into the right servers because of the AD issue. Also their VPN was busted because their DNS records all got unpublished from the internet. Nobody could physically get to the right servers because door access was also tied into AD. This was also during COVID times, so employees were all scattered to the four winds and FB's offices were empty. I think it took them awhile to get ahold of somebody who had physical keys to the right server room, and then a while longer to unfuck everything. Poopernickel fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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For quite a while, you could also get an oreilly ebook for free/cheap if you'd already bought a physical copy from anywhere. The proof they wanted? The ISBN, which is easy to look up for any book.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:lo if you don’t collect them weird rear end oreilly animals like Pokémon I ball them weird rear end oreilly animals just like pokemon,
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Good Bags and Shitsuck 5000 Don't sign your posts
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yeah, kern all over my typeface
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The rad background music for keygen programs.
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 When I was 10, my parents upgraded from a 286 with EGA and a monochrome monitor to a shiny Gateway 2000 with Windows 95 and a Pentium. Changed my life forever 
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First thing I bought for that computer: a copy of X-Wing and this: 
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the 90s were a magical decade
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mediaphage posted:one of the carmen sandiego games came with a copy of the world almanac and the copy protection was you had to enter the page headings from a random page it picked in order to play the game this poo poo was _everywhere_ in the early 90s Other ones I remember: - Simcity required to you enter words from pages of the manual - Kings Quest 6 had a puzzle that you could only solve if you had the manual
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