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peanut posted:A long time ago I got a dual serial cable and did just that between my old and new computers. Is it weird and bad??? Yeah, because turbo parallel was the only way to fly...
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peanut posted:A long time ago I got a dual serial cable and did just that between my old and new computers. Is it weird and bad??? Imagine LapLink with a 4TB drive...
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Avenging_Mikon posted:Trigger warning that poo poo. Christ, gave me retail flashbacks. B-but the newer mech keyboards have USB-USB cables.
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Currently in a hotel that has barn door style sliding doors (that are mostly translucent plexi) for the bathroom door in each room. Hope you're ok with anyone else in the room hearing exactly what you're doing in there and seeing the vague shape of you sitting on the shitter.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:B-but the newer mech keyboards have USB-USB cables. That's USB-A to USB-mini-B or USB-micro-B and is 100% the way it's meant to be. Tunicate posted:I just want to transfer my files from one laptop to the other, can't I just hook them up? They did used to sell "PC transfer kits" which were two USB-Ethernet dongles permanently connected with a crossover cable, all moulded in the same colour. That may have lead to (or popularised?) the misconception.
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I've got a USB-A to USB-A cable, and actually have a legitimate use for it. The idiots who designed my gun safe put a USB-A connector on the outside of the safe, so in order to connect to the backup drive inside, I've got to connect a USB-A to USB-A cable from my computer to the back of the safe.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:The idiots who designed my gun safe An extremely troubling phrase
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The Bloop posted:An extremely troubling phrase If this DEFCON talk is to believed, pretty much all gun safes are designed by idiots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yr6ATdaDQ8
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GotLag posted:If this DEFCON talk is to believed, pretty much all gun safes are designed by idiots: Calling the things sold as gun safes "safes" is total marketing wank to begin with........
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GotLag posted:If this DEFCON talk is to believed, pretty much all gun safes are designed by idiots: OMG you can pick a lock. I am shocked! Trigger locks and gun safes are intended to do two things in my opinion. Stop children for accessing a firearm and slowing down an angry gun owner so that they don't shoot their spouse or neighbor "in the heat of the moment". No lock or safe is secure. You are just trying to make the guns somewhat less accessible.
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GotLag posted:If this DEFCON talk is to believed, pretty much all gun safes are designed by idiots: The vast majority of gun safes aren't safes anymore than a locking Jobox on a construction site is a safe. They're (at best, usually) Residential Security Containers, a UL certification which means they're supposed to stand up to someone with a short prybar or hammer for five whole minutes. A rule of thumb is that if the thickness of the steel is expressed in gauge rather than fractions of an inch, you might as well just buy a gang box from Home Depot.
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Indolent Bastard posted:No lock or safe is secure. You are just trying to make the guns somewhat less accessible. It should still take more than poking a paperclip through the gaps in the side of the safe to open it.
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Male/male adapters for Christmas lights? Whatever happened to the proud tradition of hacking off the ends of the cord and half-rear end splicing the ends in the way *you* want them?   
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Whatever happened to the proud tradition of hacking off the ends of the cord and half-rear end splicing the ends in the way *you* want them? I'm going to guess natural selection
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Phanatic posted:The vast majority of gun safes aren't safes anymore than a locking Jobox on a construction site is a safe. They're (at best, usually) Residential Security Containers, a UL certification which means they're supposed to stand up to someone with a short prybar or hammer for five whole minutes. A rule of thumb is that if the thickness of the steel is expressed in gauge rather than fractions of an inch, you might as well just buy a gang box from Home Depot. Yeah that's basically the gist of what firearm storage reviewer people say. Unless you live in an old bank that still has the vault built out, your gun vault will not hold up to repeated attacks. If it's the kind of thing that's going to keep the guys busy for 30 minutes, they're likely to just throw the whole thing in a truck and deal with it later. The advice that makes the most sense to me is: 1. Lock up all your tools. It's super easy to get into garage doors using the pull-cord release and a hanger trick, and if they can get in there and get access to a hammer, chisel, big screwdriver, crowbar, circular saw, or angle grinder you've just made it easy-mode for them to break into your home from an attached garage AND made it easy for them to defeat the security on your gun storage. Thieves don't care if they're wrecking your tools, they'll take a circular saw to your gun cabinet if that's what they can find. 2. The best way to protect your valuables, firearms, and valuable firearms is concealment. A thin steel in-wall locking cabinet that's never seen by thieves is more secure than a 6 foot tall, 900 lb gun safe from Costco.
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Zamboni Apocalypse posted:Male/male adapters for Christmas lights? Whatever happened to the proud tradition of hacking off the ends of the cord and half-rear end splicing the ends in the way *you* want them? Millennials these days are sooo lazy.
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canyoneer posted:.... If it's the kind of thing that's going to keep the guys busy for 30 minutes, they're likely to just throw the whole thing in a truck and deal with it later. Some safes come with hardware to bolt them to the frame of your house for exactly this reason. Thieves aren't going to spend five minutes hacking on poo poo. They want to grab and get out. Well, I'm sure there's been cases where burglars sawed their way into huge rear end safes, but at that level of determination I'd be more worried about them waiting for me to get home and making me open the safe at gunpoint. Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 01:21 on Sep 16, 2017 |
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GotLag posted:If this DEFCON talk is to believed, pretty much all gun safes are designed by idiots: I really like this dude's closing message of "if you don't want your kids doing something stupid with a firearm, you should probably teach them how to handle one safely and appropriately."
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How does one pronounce Jobox? I see them all the time but I'm not involved with construction.Collateral Damage posted:Don't Crappy
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The Twinkie Czar posted:How does one pronounce Jobox? I see them all the time but I'm not involved with construction. I always mentally pronounced it as "Yo' Box". Like, izzat yo' box over there? Yes, that is my box.
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~Coxy posted:That's USB-A to USB-mini-B or USB-micro-B and is 100% the way it's meant to be. Nope. USB-A to USB-A. Coolermaster loves doing that  
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I like the included cock ring.
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I'm the RED arrow keys for EXTREME PACMAN
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Those are red WASD keys, but still, yes.
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Phanatic posted:The vast majority of gun safes aren't safes anymore than a locking Jobox on a construction site is a safe. They're (at best, usually) Residential Security Containers, a UL certification which means they're supposed to stand up to someone with a short prybar or hammer for five whole minutes. A rule of thumb is that if the thickness of the steel is expressed in gauge rather than fractions of an inch, you might as well just buy a gang box from Home Depot. Mine isn't a super-secure safe, but it's still 400lbs empty, wedged into the back of a closet, and bolted to the floor. It's not going to stop a determined thief, but they're likely not getting it out of the house or into it before the police respond to my alarm. Which it did its job the one time we've been broken into.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Nope. USB-A to USB-A. Coolermaster loves doing that I've got one of those 8bitdo NES-style arcade sticks, and that also comes with an A-A cable like that for charging or using as a wired stick. First time I had seen one.
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For whatever stupid reason the Vive also uses A-A on both of its cables. PC <-> Linkbox and Linkbox <-> Headset.
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This fine $50,000 piece of real estate is aggressively ugly AND it will kill you. A blue tarp over the front cliff-I mean, yard sure is welcoming.  Let's have a closer look at those stairs  They turned the living room into a master bedroom I think. It has a private entrance.  The kitchen has seen better days  Yes, they "re-did" the bathroom walls with pallet wood.  Why are there wooden shutters on the inside of the windows?  More "rustic touches"   Amazing death stairs with bonus dude in jorts  The bad paint job, the ugly wood, the curtains...these folks do crappy construction right.  But hey, the furnace, WH and panel box are "newer"  This house must flood badly every time it rains.  Surprisingly the house is not listed as "as-is". Youth Decay fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Sep 16, 2017 |
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^I like the stairs over the stairs. The only A-A USB device I've ever seen was an original 802.11b Linksys wifi adapter, back when they couldn't make them small enough to barely stick out of the port. At the time, I thought it was the strangest cable I've even seen. Still do.
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My laptop's cooling mat gets power from a USB A-A plugged into the laptop, it seems to be a fairly common setup for those.
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The Twinkie Czar posted:How does one pronounce Jobox? I see them all the time but I'm not involved with construction. It's pronounced gangbox. Everything on a jobsite that has stuff in it is pronounced gangbox.
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Metal Geir Skogul posted:Nope. USB-A to USB-A. Coolermaster loves doing that Christ. I've seen some pretty cheap mech kbs with removable cables (for some reason) and they've used micro-B.
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I'm the big jug of Lysol on the dresser with the deer heads.
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Selachian posted:I'm the big jug of Lysol on the dresser with the deer heads. 
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Haifisch posted:Well how do you keep your deer heads clean, smartypants? Air-powered hoses and flesh-eating beetles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_cGLoAgw4
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Youth Decay posted:This fine $50,000 piece of real estate is aggressively ugly AND it will kill you. Someone needs to burn this monstrosity to the ground and salt the earth. I'm the delta between the original price and the asking price. Price History Date Event Price $/sqft 08/07/17 Price change $50,000 +66.7% $31 07/31/17 Price change $30,000 -40.0% $18 06/16/17 Listed for sale $50,000 +285% $31 01/25/16 Sold $13,000 $8
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Someone needs to burn this monstrosity to the ground and salt the earth. I'm the delta between the original price and the asking price. Looking at that bullet heater, I think someone was trying.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Someone needs to burn this monstrosity to the ground and salt the earth. I'm the delta between the original price and the asking price. Based on that and the painting saying "Go Hokies" I'm guessing it's right near the college.
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