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The largest computer webshop in Norway used to run this ad on TV, I desperately want those DIMMs with activity LEDs on them https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWkT4mU6Abo Underbody neons make the computer go faster 
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Never seen those before, but those gigantic heatsinks they put on "performance" RAM these days makes me laugh my rear end off. like  lol  lol  loving 
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If your RAM gets that hot, you are doing something wrong. Also good luck fitting that RAM under any large sized CPU heatsink.
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FilthyImp posted:Hey remember when Web Comix were going to usher in an egalitarian webtop publishing system that would totally undermine the Newspaper Syndicates and open cartooning up to new voices? I hat to break it to you....but those days never ended.
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Weren't webcomics and webtoons sort of a start of the idea we were going to be able to microtransaction everything? Indie creators will be able to sell stuff for a few pennies a view and people will pay it. Then that died, but we gradually bought into mictrotransactions for game DLC and freemium apps and now we're just letting them all Patreon, instead. Also, post-9/11 I remember the "American*" Red, White and Blue, flag-inspired motherboards to show your patriotism. (*Not made in America)
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What year was it roughly 100% of porn was anal? 2005/6.
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Germstore posted:There was always one dick that bragged about having a dedicated phone line. Having two phone lines was the best. What's not the best if when you use that line to call a chick you met online and rack up thirty dollars in long distance charges. My mom called the number, but thankfully she was in school. I told my mom I was direct dialing to play Quake with a friend to avoid lag. She bought it.
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Remember forums? I miss forums. I'm only sorta trying to make a funny here. That period from around 2000-2007 when there were shitloads of vbulletin/phpbb message boards focused on niche interests with maybe 100 regulars at any given time was great fun. A few of the gaming forums I used to frequent had a plugin installed that placed health/experience bars under people's avatars, with values calculated from stuff like their posts per day or time since they joined. One amazing thing I saw happen a few times across multiple communities was bad posters getting sufficiently fed up with being flamed to post dramatic I'm Leaving Forever threads that linked to their own proboards/invisionfree sites. They tended to follow the same format: dozens of subforums full of threads they'd posted all at once over the space of a couple hours, hoping in vain to generate activity and make the boards look populated. And more often than not they had a .tk domain for them  Usually you could tell it was like 11-13 year old kids doing that stuff, I remember at least a couple times it was dudes in their 30s melting down over not having the approval of edgy internet teenagers though Pretty good has a new favorite as of 20:05 on Jul 2, 2016 |
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re: early days of webcomics, I read Ozy and Millie dedicatedly for maybe three years before I found out what a furry was. I remember sending the guy behind it a long rambling email saying he deserved to be in newspapers when I was 12.
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Jul 2, 2016 20:09
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reagan posted:Pharmacies are loving terrible when it comes to computer equipment and software. Hospitals too. To be clear on this lots of hospital equipment are really out of date because those are the only computers have been cleared to handle patient information and other critical resources. there was a story heard from somewhere where a person was trying to replace a piece of equipment for this one device and the manufacture said "did you really try to do everything to fix it?" . This is because they only had such a amount of cleared supplies to repair at that if they ran out they would have to pay millions to actually recertify a whole new device. Every piece needs to be exactly the same. So if you had an geforce 460m gpu in your system and you couldn't find anymore 460ms you couldn't repair it even though there a ton of 470ms. That might be a weird case but just to make it obvious why you can't replace just replace a psu with another psu of a different brand or make. The original psi was put through its paces, not any other.
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In general, the larger and more established the organization, the more of a nightmare their technological infrastructure is. I'm working at a company that's actually very gung-ho about changing everything but they still are relying on systems that are barely functional today. and most of those systems were set up in the last 20 years, not even something like "Joe Manufacturing facility bought some IBMs in 1982 and have kept with it since".
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Jul 2, 2016 20:27
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reagan posted:Pharmacies are loving terrible when it comes to computer equipment and software. Hospitals too. I like to bring this up fairly often, but the LA school district was using a Command Line database up until 2 years ago to manage all the student data. I believe it was commissioned in the 80s and they had like 3 dudes programming fixes and whatnot for it. They moved over to a web-based information management system and it was an unholy clusterfuck -- one school had its entire schedule randomly deleted a day before the school year started. Took the better part of a year to get it to a stable, usable state.
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sinking belle posted:re: early days of webcomics, I read Ozy and Millie dedicatedly for maybe three years before I found out what a furry was. I remember sending the guy behind it a long rambling email saying he deserved to be in newspapers when I was 12. I read superosity daily for a solid decade. Finally stopping around....2010 I think? Also I sent an email to the guy who draws reallifecomics saying I thought his art was bad. He emailed me back within an hour with a super long response defending his art and then later that week he started posting what he called "uber-illustrations" showing off his art. I was delighted. Haha his latest post is from 2015 quote:My most sincere apologies
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Jul 2, 2016 21:37
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Also related: a thing that I absolutely LOVE is finding websites where the most recent post is years old and its always a really pathetic pleading\whining excuse about why posts have been thin lately.....but wait just wait....I've turned a corner in my life and GET READY FOR GREAT THINGS IN THE NEAR FUTURE!!!
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8 track betamax posted:Also related: a thing that I absolutely LOVE is finding websites where the most recent post is years old and its always a really pathetic pleading\whining excuse about why posts have been thin lately.....but wait just wait....I've turned a corner in my life and GET READY FOR GREAT THINGS IN THE NEAR FUTURE!!! we are all sorta waiting for that to be your story
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Jul 2, 2016 21:46
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We had a pretty big snow storm this last winter that closed most of the local schools. So the listing of closings was really long. Scrolling through it one of the districts happened to be closed for a reason I'd never seen before, "computer virus". They're a smaller district and their whole system got taken out by a ransomeware attack. Because everything is done on computers nowadays they had to poo poo down for the day while they brought on contractors to fix it.
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Jul 2, 2016 21:55
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8 track betamax posted:Also related: a thing that I absolutely LOVE is finding websites where the most recent post is years old and its always a really pathetic pleading\whining excuse about why posts have been thin lately.....but wait just wait....I've turned a corner in my life and GET READY FOR GREAT THINGS IN THE NEAR FUTURE!!!
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sinking belle posted:Remember forums? I miss forums. This. I'm nostalgic for this. Also I was that kid. Except I never actually left other forums dramatically, I just wanted to have my own forum, omg this is so cool!!! I remember in 2008 I was one of the regulars in a small gaming forum. We were a tight community with lots of inside jokes and people kinda got to know each other. It was nice. Then the place got popular and had to get all serious with rules and PR poo poo. I just left quietly and I haven't visited since.
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One of my groups of friends met on one board starting in 1999, then shifted off and created a spinoff board in 2002 after a bunch of psychodrama, spun another board off that in 2003, and through most of it all maintained one IRC channel. Then there was a brief time on Facebook, and now we're all on Slack. The telnet BBS crew works in similar ways except for like now we use ssh.
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sinking belle posted:re: early days of webcomics, I read Ozy and Millie dedicatedly for maybe three years before I found out what a furry was. I remember sending the guy behind it a long rambling email saying he deserved to be in newspapers when I was 12. The guy who made Ozy and Millie used to write long rambling essays about how he was so much better than other furry webcomics because they were full of masturbatory material while his was all about humor and good clean fun. Only it turned out that he had a shaving fetish and his annual series of strips where Ozy got shaved bald was actually his jerk-off material. Also he wound up being transgendered and as a woman created a fursona that was an underaged shaved skunk girl. She got a job making comic strips for a newspaper and sure enough she's drawn art of her newspapers character shaved bald because perverts gonna perv.
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I was on one set of forums from 2003-2012, though spent considerably less time after joining SA in 2008. Endee up permanently banned from their political topics forum in the runup to the 2012 election after getting into it with a mod. She was a stupid Christian mom type who got pissed off really easily. Last I checked she gad moved on to tweeting with borderline white-supremecists. The place is largely dead now because of how insular it got later on. In 2009ish one of the regulars flipped out on a newer user because "THIS THREAD IS FOR ME AND MY FRIENDS, YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THEM. GET OUT!" The place was already slowing way down, shot like yhat doomed it. There was dome 13-year-old girl who carried out a sock puppet flame war with herself for a couple of months until an administrator figured out that they posted from the same ip.
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I miss the old Yahoo! News Message Boards. In the halcyon days of the early to mid 2000s they were a place of terrible beauty.
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mobby_6kl posted:This is NYC: lol I wonder how many of these things people could find? To be honest I don't even know if Wingdings is still a thing now that we have Unicode?? EvilGenius posted:Remember completely arbitrary application menus like File, Edit, Properties, Tools and Window, with seemingly random items each? What is the difference between a tool and an edit? If I change a property, am I not making an edit? To a file? With a tool? It seemed to me like lots of software was pretty consistent with what they put in each menu. If you were smart you just looked at what all the other software was doing and copied that to make it easier for your users. If you were crazy you would try and come up with a new paradigm to royally piss off your users. I mean sure, progress is good and everything but it'd be nice if it could be optional instead of forcing people to go through a whole new retraining process. lol G1.Assassin - someone assassinated those PCIe slots. Can I get one with an entire gold skeleton? 
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Buttcoin purse posted:lol I wonder how many of these things people could find? To be honest I don't even know if Wingdings is still a thing now that we have Unicode?? I don't know if it was real or not but in some font, 911 was a plane next to two towers until it was rumored that it was removed.
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Internet books may seem dumb now but 25-30 years ago they made sense. You had to go off the beaten path a little bit to find an actual ISP that wasn't AOL/Compserve, etc, and then to make use of it you often had to know some basic unix, etc.
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TOOT BOOT posted:Internet books may seem dumb now but 25-30 years ago they made sense. You had to go off the beaten path a little bit to find an actual ISP that wasn't AOL/Compserve, etc, and then to make use of it you often had to know some basic unix, etc. 
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This classic example of "lol tech in movies" is in fact an accurate representation https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn It was even made by SGI who made the workstations Jurassic Park and a bunch of other movies used garfield hentai has a new favorite as of 04:20 on Jul 3, 2016 |
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garfield hentai posted:This classic example of "lol tech in movies" is in fact an accurate representation It was never seriously used by anyone.
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It does make sense that Nedry would try to use it seriously though.
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Cojawfee posted:It does make sense that Nedry would try to use it seriously though. Yeah, I guess he does seem the type.
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I remember the book saying that they were using multiple Cray X-MP parallel vector supercomputers, but in the movie they had banks of Connection Machine supercomputers. Once when I was at Epcot center there was an SGI/Cray exhibit and I think they had a J90. One of the computers they made before the T3Ds. It was pretty awesome. If you asked me as a teenager in the 90s what I wanted to do when I grew up i would say "Work for Cray Research." One bit of trivia - I have heard that some of the older Crays like the X-MP and Y-MP had to be connected up to a 400Hz AC power supply, not the normal 50 or 60 hertz main. So if you bought a Cray in addition to drop floor and HVAC requirements you would need to install a bank of motor-generators to make 400hz power. Don't forget some compatible drives from Data General, Ampex, or Bull. Three-Phase has a new favorite as of 04:54 on Jul 3, 2016 |
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My first online experience was with AOL, back in 1997, and I thought it was the internet, until I found I was using their browser more and more to connect to things that started with [url]http://[/url] and http://www. And outside services, like this one, which still exists: It was oddly cozy it was to play Hearts and Spades with a bunch of people all over the world, many of them like over 40! Really old, right! The other thing was how gradually I ditched Yahoo for a search engine/gopher power user scraper called Copernic. You'd enter search terms and it'd fire it off to a bunch of search engines, Excite, AltaVista, newsgroups, Yahoo, etc. and sort the results for you in a nice bunch of rows. At my job at a crappy call center, I was asked to find stuff on the web for folks because Yahoo back then was still hand-edited and plagued by dead links, and the internet was still nerd stuff. "Can you find me a picture for my screensaver?" was a common request, and it was better than working the phones. Anyway this one search engine I'd never heard of kept giving me the best results, every single time. So I ditched Copernic completely and just used it instead. And of course that search engine was Google. Mapquest similarly ruled the roost with their unbelievably lovely and ad-laden product (once projecting Borders Books locations on my directions request to a distant friend's house) until Google ate their lunch with Google Maps. I really don't trust Google these days, but they deserved quite a bit of the love they got for just thinking about what users wanted instead of the "gently caress you, I'm Microsoft" approach.
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Thread title made me think of the time I installed "The Horde". I think that was something dumb like 15 disks. Also the game sucks my poo poo dick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjsDPHHycjI
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OH GOD THE HORDE. I can still hear the echoes of "None shall pass!" in my head.
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Dave_Indeed posted:Thread title made me think of the time I installed "The Horde". I think that was something dumb like 15 disks.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I miss the old Yahoo! News Message Boards. In the halcyon days of the early to mid 2000s they were a place of terrible beauty. I remember Yahoo Personals (Yahoo Dating?) from about 2000 or so. I seem to have a vague recollection of a guy who met a couple of girls through that since it was I think completely free at the time, then they started charging, then they got rid of it. Also, I remember a site called The Complaint Station that was great since it was in that late 90s/early 00 thing where people were posting all sort of product/business complaints and about 1/4th of them seemed to think it was an official line to the companies they were complaining about.
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I grew obsessive over my Windows '95 machine, getting drivers installation just right (had a generic sound card that never worked right) and its miniscule drive space. I actually bought this thing at a CompUSA (in a box!), and it sure appeared to save me SCADS of drive space. It even had this reassuring little sweeping animation as it scooted along, cleaning my hard drive of crud. Which I of course immediately defragmented afterward.
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drunk asian neighbor posted:In addition to chip emulation, transparency layers and music pitch sliding, I also remember proper Mode7 implementation being a huge deal. I also remember when they got Star Ocean and Tales pf Phantasia working, but I can't remember why it was such a big deal. Something to do with the size of the roms maybe?  This son of a bitch right here, the S-DD1, was embedded in Star Ocean and Street Fighter Alpha 2 to handle decompressing the huge amounts of graphics in those games while still fitting in 4mb of ROM. Tales didn't have any special chips, it just had the largest ROM size on the system and did a lot of crazy stuff in software. JediTalentAgent posted:Weren't webcomics and webtoons sort of a start of the idea we were going to be able to microtransaction everything? Indie creators will be able to sell stuff for a few pennies a view and people will pay it. Then that died, but we gradually bought into mictrotransactions for game DLC and freemium apps and now we're just letting them all Patreon, instead.
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Just DELTREE /Y C:\WINDOWS I never got what it was exactly that these tools did, like if I uninstall MS Office and it isn't smart enough to remove everything, how is some other software going to work it out? I know in the registry you can identify references to programs that are no longer there in file associations and stuff but otherwise it's like how is this program going to know whether C:\Program Files\Spreadsheet Tools is left behind from a program I tried to uninstall or it's my secret porn stash or just a QBasic program I wrote myself?
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Scott Kurtz has tried to adopt McCloud's methods such as forming Blank Label and a few others are part of a loose collation of self-publishers/creators that try to generate a franchise from the internet. Patreon replaces many of the webcomics having an exclusive membership that you'd sign up for, so it's a refinement of an old idea. Also quite a few webcomics were rejects from newspapers such as User Friendly or Sinfest. Which of course took the greater freedoms of the internet to gain a wider audience. However as Kurtz has discovered it's very hard to even get into newspapers as he offered PVP for free but on the condition it has no changes made. Only one picked up the offer for a few weeks. Most early webcomics were geek-office friendly and tended to follow the Dilbert pattern and having a focus on the novelty of being online which soon moved into video game commentary such as Penny Arcade and then everything seemed to explode around 2002 with a big manga influence.
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