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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

yoloer420 posted:

I wrote the proxy code which made that 3G Kindle hack thing work

Edit: I also used that voda trick, do you know me?

Haha - I was probably in the group of idlers, we have definitely talked then for sure (and mad props to you for it!). And as for the Voda stuff....you may well have under a different name if you were Aussie based. I didn't exactly tell many people. You might have found it through ausphreak or some other site about 3 months after I found it. Geez the aussie phreaking scene died after all the kids got lovely with the abloy pro locks. No sense of adventure of the network - just interseted in scamming X1s.

For fun I followed Dick Trauma's idea and just took a pick from under my house at a random angle of the junk I have (and instantly saved quite a few things!):

Think of it as a Where's Wally type thing:

Go to source for huge - I use this piece of poo poo phone:

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Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

You don't know how badly I want to clean up that nasty pile of crap. :catstare:

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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Dick Trauma posted:

You don't know how badly I want to clean up that nasty pile of crap.

It's a half concrete, half dirt floor under the house. I cannot walk upright under there. It's literally poo poo I haven't bother to bring up into the house. Yet.Come over, There's a carton of beer in it for you if you untangle the rest of the maze. That was just one choice angle as there was a NES cartridge facing up.

Humphreys has a new favorite as of 14:36 on Aug 6, 2016

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azurite: Jul 25, 2010; Strange, isn't it?!

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Squish: Nov 22, 2007; Unrelenting.; Lipstick Apathy

woodch posted:

I threw out the old poo poo I was hoarding

This sounds like a very accurate description of what happened when I moved away to work, and I jettisoned a lot of hoarded old gear.

There's more than a bit of regret there: Amongst the discarded was a working Mac SE30, performa 6100/66 WITH the DOS card in, a IBM XT with two working 5.25" drives and a bundle of working dot matrix printers that would have fetched a reasonable price on eBay these days.

I still see those boxes of :10bux:

falling down into the local tip collection. :retrogames:

# ? Aug 6, 2016 15:47

Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

Humphreys posted:

It's a half concrete, half dirt floor under the house. I cannot walk upright under there. It's literally poo poo I haven't bother to bring up into the house. Yet.Come over, There's a carton of beer in it for you if you untangle the rest of the maze. That was just one choice angle as there was a NES cartridge facing up.

Get your garbage bags ready, Humphreys.

Although looking closer those AC plugs appear a bit suspect. Are you some kind of bloody foreigner?

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Star Man: Jun 1, 2008; There's a star maaaaaan
Over the rainbow

Humphreys posted:

My favorite part is the Top Gun cartridge on top of the poo poo heap.

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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Dick Trauma posted:

Get your garbage bags ready, Humphreys.

Although looking closer those AC plugs appear a bit suspect. Are you some kind of bloody foreigner?

poo poo! trap was prematurely sprung! Australian, so all that just is just 240V PAL junk. surprised no goons saw the Jaguar or the 'transvibrator' Rez game box.

EDIT: Or the XBox 360 HDDVD Drive :/

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Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

I can assure you that the last place I would go under someone's house and dig through refuse is Australia.

I WANT TO LIVE

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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Dick Trauma posted:

I can assure you that the last place I would go under someone's house and dig through refuse is Australia.

I WANT TO LIVE

There's a few MVS boards and legit Neo Geo carts down there too

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r u ready to WALK: Sep 29, 2001

Look at all the rust, it should be illegal to treat electronics this poorly :mad:

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Mak0rz: Aug 2, 2008; 😎🐗🚬

Star Man posted:

My favorite part is the Top Gun cartridge on top of the poo poo heap.

Exactly where is belongs.

...unlike that GameCube. How can you just toss your console into a pile like that? I'm having an aneurysm just looking at it and the mess of cables. I always store everything in their original boxes but that kinda became a habit because I used to move around so much during college and grad school.

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Gomi Day: Nov 15, 2007; Trust me, Bill. Large spectacles lend distinction to any countenance, as I have reason to know.; Plaster Town Cop

drunk asian neighbor posted:

Yeah no even their cheap MP3 players were poo poo.

It's kind of sad that MP3 players were killed off by cell phones. Thankfully Sandisk makes exactly what I need: A cheap, tiny MP3 player that takes MicroSD cards. I don't feel like strapping an armband with a $700 cell phone inside to my arm every time I want to listen to music when I go running.

i have the 16gb version of this and it's fantastic.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/walkman/nw-e390-series

plug it in, and it's just another external storage device, drag your music over and go. great sound quality, and the buds it comes with are even pretty good! (though, i use my own over ear headphones, usually)

Bonzo posted:

Dotz for the Amiga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjetL7zOkzA

One of the guys who wrote this runs a computer museum in Southern Ontario http://pcmuseum.ca/

He also has the largest video game collection in Canada.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-tdnHlpCco

i'm totally going here, next time it's open.

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Snow Cone Capone: Jul 31, 2003

Humphreys posted:

Go to source for huge - I use this piece of poo poo phone:

Haha when I worked at Radio Shack my district manager had one of these and he thought he was the hottest poo poo in town

He also got one of those LG Flex phones that are curved like a banana, dude was genuinely convinced his employees would think he was cool

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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

drunk asian neighbor posted:

Haha when I worked at Radio Shack my district manager had one of these and he thought he was the hottest poo poo in town

He also got one of those LG Flex phones that are curved like a banana, dude was genuinely convinced his employees would think he was cool

I've had my poo poo zoom-phone for a few years now and even when I was in sales selling Samsung poo poo , the reps either laughed at it or didn't know it existed.

And for the people in distress about my under house stuff - those are essentially the spare parts department. Except that Top Gun. It deserves to stay there face up as a warning for those who dare dig into it. I saved the Jag, Gamecube, N64 (for the expansion port) and the Super Scope after taking that photo a few hours ago. I might worry about the 32x and the game later.

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Renfield: Feb 29, 2008

Pre-Smartphones... although this was technically a smartphone !

I had this beasty - the Virgin Mobile Lobster 700TV, running on Windows Mobile

That's not a touch screen, but it was online - no Wi-Fi and data was amazingly expensive (in 2006).
I did download an ebook reader, and maps of the town in Canada I went on holiday to.

It had two features I don't think have been in any other handset - a built in DAB-Digital Radio, and TV over DAB.
There where only 4 channels (BBC-1, BBC-2, ITV and Channel-4), and it cost a �5 a month sub after the first free month... but it was TV on your phone !

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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Renfield posted:

Pre-Smartphones... although this was technically a smartphone !

I had this beasty - the Virgin Mobile Lobster 700TV, running on Windows Mobile

That's not a touch screen, but it was online - no Wi-Fi and data was amazingly expensive (in 2006).
I did download an ebook reader, and maps of the town in Canada I went on holiday to.

It had two features I don't think have been in any other handset - a built in DAB-Digital Radio, and TV over DAB.
There where only 4 channels (BBC-1, BBC-2, ITV and Channel-4), and it cost a �5 a month sub after the first free month... but it was TV on your phone !

Wow I have never seen or heard of that one - Very interesting set of features for the time. Gimme!

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Code Jockey: Jan 24, 2006; 69420 basic bytes free

Humphreys posted:

I'm the AE86 drifting the propane tank

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Mak0rz: Aug 2, 2008; 😎🐗🚬

Also digging the Jurassic Park cartridge. Never did make it very far in that game but it's memorable to me because it one of the few SNES games that uses its hi-res mode and Dolby surround sound and has FPS gameplay with :pcgaming:

mouse control! :pcgaming:

E: it's also pretty much as close to an open world game as it gets on that system.

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Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

woodch posted:

I should have snapped some pictures of the basement at the business phone joint I worked at before I left/got laid off. An entire basement nearly filled with 30-plus-year-old phone systems in various states of disassembly/functionality. Shelves and shelves of Lucent/Avaya system components and cabinets, many boxes packed with gross, decommissioned Lucent/Avaya phones, loads of ancient Toshiba gear that NO ONE was ever going to use again. I'm convinced that the building is being physically supported by most of that junk.

There's a pack-rat mentality that seems to be common among people in tech industries. That feeling that somehow, this thing might someday be useful/valuable. I know this because I suffered from it really bad 10-15 years ago. I still do, but nowhere near the insanity of my early hoarding years. A few examples include:

Back around 1995, I happily accepted a Lisa 2/10 system from someone. It was totally FREE! I was working as a technician for one of the few remaining Apple Certified Repair Centers, and I was convinced it'd be great to have around, and that at worst I could totally turn it around make a nice bundle of cash off of it. Some things I learned about the Lisa 2: It's as heavy as a dump truck, draws WAY too much power and generates WAY too much heat, and even modded is limited to software that would run on System 6.0.4 (maybe 6.0.8, but my memory is foggy). It's also super slow. I never did sell it, and nearly blew my back out lugging it to the dumpster.

Later, around 2000, one of our customers was upgrading equipment and had a load of various desktops he was going to throw away. We're talking PCs from 386's on up to early Pentium 166's. I snagged like 4 or 5 of these bad boys, thinking I could network them together and use them for awesomeness. One went to work as a FreeSCO router (remember those?), and that was really all it did--until I realized a real router was cheaper to run, easier to administer, took up less space, and didn't look like I'd gotten it out of a dumpster. The others went unused until I moved, at which point they made great doorstops. Straight into the dumpster after they'd served their purpose.

I had a fully functional G3 Desktop (the original version that looked like a 7200, not the cool blue one) that came free from someone upgrading to a new G4 or something. I had all PCs at home, so I thought it'd be cool to have a Mac in my collection to do Mac stuff with. Turned out that particular G3 was terrible at, well, everything. OS X worked on it, but only barely, and soooooooo slowly. Once it was booted up, programs had to thrash for room to work, and most of the time didn't work at all because the only version of OS X that would successfully load on it was hilariously out of date. It eventually went to dumpster heaven too.

There are so many more examples of my computer pack-ratting, but those are the ones that spring to mind. In '07, I moved out to Arizona, and in the process gave the ol' heave-ho to just about every computer THING I didn't actually need. Not only was it necessary-- I was almost literally going out there with the clothes on my back-- it felt so good to jettison all that baggage that it made me occasionally evaluate the junk I have lying around and get rid of it on a semi-regular basis. I say "semi-regularly" because my pack-rat tendencies run deep (I'm sure my dad has it too--maybe it's genetic?), and I have to consciously fight against it every time I begin to think about saving some bit of technology I've replaced or stopped using.

Writing this now makes me realize I'm overdue for a purge, actually. Maybe when the summer heat backs off a bit, I'll start chucking some of the "interesting-yet-useless" computer stuff that mysteriously accumulates around me.

I have a fully maxed out IIfx, with a Radius Rocket Board, maxed out RAM, and a 2MB Raster Ops Video Card running 8.1along with a IIci with a Daystar 601 PowerPC board. I keep them around because they were dream machines for me on their original release (I also have a Next Cube for the same reason).

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Three-Phase: Aug 5, 2006; by zen death robot

I was reading about the new Nvidia Titan X card. It's $1200 but I think it's more powerful than the Crays made in the early 2000s like the T3Ds. :psyduck:

2016 NVIDIA Titan X Black: 12 GB RAM, 12 Teraflop performance
1999 Cray T3E-1200 (1400 processors): 1 teraflop

I heard they are making a cabinet that can hold a ton of GPUs and have performance in excess of one petaflop.

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barnold: Dec 16, 2011; what do u do when yuo're born to play fps? guess there's nothing left to do but play fps. boom headshot

woodch posted:

decommissioned Lucent/Avaya phones

well hey, now there's a name I like to see in this thread. Lucent/Alcatel had one of their main production facilities in my town. 460,000 square feet with their own access to a train line and microwave testing facility out back. Managed to sneak into the abandoned areas through one of the now-renovated office spaces and found a whole bunch of cool fiber hardware and phone systems. Before it was Lucent, it was AT&T/Bell Labs, and before then it was Western Electric.

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CaptainSarcastic: Jul 6, 2013

Turdsdown Tom posted:

well hey, now there's a name I like to see in this thread. Lucent/Alcatel had one of their main production facilities in my town. 460,000 square feet with their own access to a train line and microwave testing facility out back. Managed to sneak into the abandoned areas through one of the now-renovated office spaces and found a whole bunch of cool fiber hardware and phone systems. Before it was Lucent, it was AT&T/Bell Labs, and before then it was Western Electric.

My favorite case of egregious product placement in a movie was for Lucent in 1997's Air Force One starring Harrison Ford. Every phone in the movie was clearly shown as being Lucent, except for the one cellphone which failed to get a signal. I remember watching it at the time and that was my second favorite thing in the movie, right behind watching Steven Seagal's character get killed off.

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my turn in the barrel: Dec 31, 2007

My old room at my parents place is 15x20 hoarders style stack of old Hi-fi gear, vidya games and computer poo poo. This is a random box of controllers.

I'll try to grab some pics next time I go over there if you guys promise not to throw an intervention.

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TotalLossBrain: Oct 20, 2010; Hier graben!

CaptainSarcastic posted:

My favorite case of egregious product placement in a movie was for Lucent in 1997's Air Force One starring Harrison Ford. Every phone in the movie was clearly shown as being Lucent, except for the one cellphone which failed to get a signal. I remember watching it at the time and that was my second favorite thing in the movie, right behind watching Steven Seagal's character get killed off.

Pretty sure you're mixing "Executive Decision" in with "Airforce One" there.

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Dick Trauma: Nov 30, 2007; God damn it, you've got to be kind.

TotalLossBrain posted:

Pretty sure you're mixing "Executive Decision" in with "Airforce One" there.

I want someone to make that movie.

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woodch: Jun 13, 2000; This'll kill ya!

Pubic Lair posted:

My old room at my parents place is 15x20 hoarders style stack of old Hi-fi gear, vidya games and computer poo poo. This is a random box of controllers.

I'll try to grab some pics next time I go over there if you guys promise not to throw an intervention.

Wow! Not one, but two original Atari 2600 joysticks... With the rubber cover still intact!? That's completely amazing.

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my turn in the barrel: Dec 31, 2007

woodch posted:

Wow! Not one, but two original Atari 2600 joysticks... With the rubber cover still intact!? That's completely amazing.

Nothing else of note in there?

http://www.nbc.com/amazing-stories/video/gather-ye-acorns/2909107

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woodch: Jun 13, 2000; This'll kill ya!

Pubic Lair posted:

Nothing else of note in there?

http://www.nbc.com/amazing-stories/video/gather-ye-acorns/2909107

I'm old, so those were the main things to leap out at me. I do see at least one 7800 controller in there, and some 3rd party sticks.

Believe it or not, even though I was 16-18 years old when the NES was still new, it completely passed me by. By then I was more into computers than consoles, and coveted my Laser 128 more than any other tech I had access to. Between that and teaching myself guitar, the rest of my awake time was spent working or going to high school.

That's not to say that I didn't play Super Mario Bros once in a while, but neither I nor my family ever owned an NES, and I personally didn't own a console of any kind until I bought an original Xbox in 2003 (which I never really used, and eventually just modded to play video files on my TV).

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CaptainSarcastic: Jul 6, 2013

TotalLossBrain posted:

Pretty sure you're mixing "Executive Decision" in with "Airforce One" there.

Oh, that could be true. Well, one of them had the incredibly blatant product placement, but I'll be damned if I am going to rewatch either of them to find out.

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Farmer Crack-Ass: Jan 2, 2001; this is me posting irl

lol Air Force One, the repubs used the theme from that as the music for Trump coming out on stage at the RNC

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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Biting the bullet and bidding on a few Nokia N900s. With the modding community and ability to run a full linux distro and physical keyboard makes it attractive.

Are there any current smartphones with slide out keyboards anymore? The few google results I saw were older devices.

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ishikabibble: Jan 21, 2012

Humphreys posted:

Biting the bullet and bidding on a few Nokia N900s. With the modding community and ability to run a full linux distro and physical keyboard makes it attractive.

Are there any current smartphones with slide out keyboards anymore? The few google results I saw were older devices.

http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2014&idQwerty=1

From >2014. The only slide out keyboard seems to be the Blackberry Priv.

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GutBomb: Jun 15, 2005; Dude?

ishikabibble posted:

http://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?nYearMin=2014&idQwerty=1

From >2014. The only slide out keyboard seems to be the Blackberry Priv.

The blackberry priv really isn't a bad phone for people who prefer physical keyboards. I liked mine a lot but I spend a lot of time in the car commuting and use a magnet mount for my phone and the priv didn't play nice with the magnet mount. The magnet would poo poo the screen off and disable touch (there's an available folding case that has a screen cover that disables the screen when it's closed and it detects this screen cover with a little magnet, so when the phone was attached to the car mount it would get confused and think the screen cover was on)

Content:
Back in the late 90s I thought this phone was the best looking thing ever but never had one myself.

Then I moved to Sweden and got this almost matrix phone

The slider front piece that slid down had the mic and of course it broke so I had to repair it twice during the less then a year I owned that piece of poo poo. Playing snake with the jog wheel was ridiculous.

Then I got this and HOLY poo poo A COLOR SCREEN

That phone was great for the time

Then I moved back to the states and got this

HOLY poo poo A COLOR SCREEN AND A CAMERA. Loved that phone. I had it until I got one of these pieces of poo poo that I can't believe i lusted after for so long and convinced myself was a decent phone

I can't remember what phone I had in between that (I think I had that piece of crap until early 2007 when I got this:

The T-Mobile Dash. The iPhone was announced shortly after I bought it and I had the attitude of "I have msn messenger on my phone and a keyboard. What does this iPhone do that I can't do with my existing phone? I love apple but if they are going to turn into a phone manufacturer Mac OS is really going to suffer and Apple is ultimately going to go down the tubes, the iPhone is such a stupid idea"

Then I used one. I had every iPhone generation on release day (save for the first one which I got a few months later when I accidentally stepped on my t-mobile dash and broke the screen and used that as an excuse to get one) until this came out

The palm pre was SO GOOD

Followed that up with the pre 2 and then hp bought Palm, they continued to develop the pre 3 and right when it was ready for release hp axed it. The phones that were already made were distributed to employees who put them up on eBay and I was lucky enough to get one at a decent price and loved the poo poo out of that phone for as long as I could. Support dwindled, apps started lagging behind, I ended up switching back to the iPhone for the 4s. Switched over to android for a while with a garbage phone the Samsung Galaxy relay

This was only a few years ago but I think it's relevant because this piece of absolute poo poo was so slow and laggy it felt like I was using a Commodore 64.

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Ratjaculation: Aug 3, 2007

interesting post there gutbo ... Zzzz zzzz

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Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

GutBomb posted:

Then I got this and HOLY poo poo A COLOR SCREEN

The Sony Ericsson T68i did have a camera! It was just one of those ones you plug into the phone connector. There was a time when SE tried to use it for a bunch of stuff. Including a little RC car that charged off the phone then was controlled over Bluetooth. I still have that little car around here somewhere.

Nokia also pulled that poo poo with their Pop-port. At least one camera module was released.

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thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

lol Air Force One, the repubs used the theme from that as the music for Trump coming out on stage at the RNC

Air Force One was on TV recently and I watched almost the whole thing. i still love the movie but man the CG effects are funny as hell. that poo poo did not hold up at all. also the screenplay has several moments for the only black actors in the film to run into a situation room or somesuch and give their higher up white man some news (ie. the audience some exposition).

compare to like eg. Jurassic Park which actually still looks good more or less and is phenomenal as the day it came out :colbert:

# ? Aug 8, 2016 01:04

Three-Phase: Aug 5, 2006; by zen death robot

Remember when you had only a certain number of minutes or texts each month and if you went over you had to pay extra money?

I also bought a hard drive today that was in a blister pack. :psyduck:

# ? Aug 8, 2016 01:05

thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

Three-Phase posted:

Remember when you had only a certain number of minutes or texts each month and if you went over you had to pay extra money?

i guess technically i still have a certain number of minutes that i am not supposed to exceed but i have no idea what it is because i use wi-fi calling and barely talk on the phone much anyway because i have no friends.

even when i go out of the country i dont have to worry about texts thanks to t-mobiles awesome international stuff built into all their plans. the minutes rack up outside the US though so wi-fi calling is still the move when possible

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Carrion Luggage: Nov 24, 2006

Three-Phase posted:

Remember when you had only a certain number of minutes or texts each month and if you went over you had to pay extra money?

I also bought a hard drive today that was in a blister pack.

and now thats the way it is with data

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