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Seat Safety Switch posted:If it still has a black brick power supply, they tend to drift over time and fry chips from overvoltage. The supplies aren't repairable. The old 1702 still holds its own though, decent CRT. You Am I posted:Nice setup there with the 1702 My last Commodore PC (well, other than this thing) was an Amiga 500 w/1084S. I loved that thing. But also probably a lot of whole lot of rose colored glasses going on with that too.
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I have an A1200 hiding in a cupboard at the moment. I need to rebuild its CF Card hard drive, probably do that with WinAUE over the Christmas holidays. It is insane how expensive the A1200 is getting these days, I got mine for under $200 back around 2002, these days in Australia they are $750+ for non accelerator ones.
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Rhyno posted:Why'd you jerks let me buy a house? Painting SUCKS. We warned you, ya goober I'm painting over the holidays in advance of new carpet in January. The internal dread is building.
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Yes, thank you Amazon. Instead of to the apartment, you dropped the package four feet from the sidewalk, outside the front office, at night, literally spotlighted. 
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Just finished chatting with Amazon, they said "we have to investigate with the carrier before we can do anything." I don't know what kind of investigation they need to do other than, "Was it actually delivered here, or did you mysteriously take a photo of it delivered then put it back into your car?" but whatever. Also what kind of quest requires a Daft Punk vinyl, two extension cable adapters, a hairbrush, a fountain pen, and various colors of metallic lipsticks?
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Upon reflection that quest is my life.
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That's some Resident Evil 2 stuff there, you'll need to make your way back through the usual 40 traps and puzzle doors that any standard apartment building has in it to find the last piece to unlock the next gate.
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Queen Combat posted:Also what kind of quest requires a Daft Punk vinyl, two extension cable adapters, a hairbrush, a fountain pen, and various colors of metallic lipsticks?
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Well, that was the most anticlimactic breakup, lol.
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Good job, you did it Garfield!
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Queen Combat posted:Just finished chatting with Amazon, they said "we have to investigate with the carrier before we can do anything." I don't know what kind of investigation they need to do other than, "Was it actually delivered here, or did you mysteriously take a photo of it delivered then put it back into your car?" but whatever. Wait, lipstick comes in metallic? Thats kinda awesome.
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Gingerbread House Music posted:Well, that was the most anticlimactic breakup, lol. Does this mean you’re banging your coworker now?
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Elmnt80 posted:Wait, lipstick comes in metallic? Thats kinda awesome. The next craze will be RGB
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Goober Peas posted:I didn't pay attention to utilities the last time I was in AUS - are those propane tanks? I'm guessing you guys use those like we do Natural Gas?  Its actually a legit track name in one of our National Parks. Apparently there was a legit bootleg wine shanty along the track during the gold rush for people moving between the goldfields north and south of Adelaide. Couldnt pass up the opportunity when we pulled the old signs out to replace them!     Three cattes are definitely a sufficient number of cattes Yep. Theres an extensive natural gas network too, but thats confined to the major cities- I dont even have reticulated potable mains water where I am (40 odd km from the Adelaide CBD) so we're reliant on rainwater collection for the house supply and LPG tanks for gas needs. We only use ours for our stove and oven, so we get... 18 months or so out of a 45kg cylinder. Our neighbour has his stove, oven and instantaneous hot water running on his and he goes through a 45kg cylinder in about 8 weeks, at around $130 a tank! redgubbinz posted:Glad to see I wasn't the only one who got hungry after that AvE video. Unfortunately we dont have squirrels in Australia and Possums... well they're up there with Koalas for bad eating. Koalas allegedly taste so loving terrible that not even the aboriginal tribes used to eat the loving things!
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Ferremit posted:Unfortunately we dont have squirrels in Australia and Possums... well they're up there with Koalas for bad eating. Koalas allegedly taste so loving terrible that not even the aboriginal tribes used to eat the loving things! Emu eggs are wonderful 
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Gingerbread House Music posted:Well, that was the most anticlimactic breakup, lol. So, which poster's floor will you be sleeping on?
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slidebite posted:The old 1702 still holds its own though, decent CRT. My 1702 has seen some pretty good mileage with me, though it's starting to have some odd glitches that I'm not sure how to repair. Still pretty afraid of opening up a CRT.
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Humphreys posted:Emu eggs are wonderful They are!  (one of the Advantages of working in a wildlife park with an emu population they dont want increasing too much!) God drat do you get a lot of egg out of one tho- I filled a coffee mug and a half with that one!
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My grandparents raised emus in KY for a while. Pretty eggs. Mean birds.
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Kazinsal posted:Be careful with the 10 TB ones, some of them use a technique called Shingled Magnetic Recording that basically magnetically overlaps tracks on the hard disk platters so your write speeds can sometimes be kinda low since it has to write overlapping tracks back onto themselves. If that's something that matters to you The majority of stuff I have is audio/video; once it's on the drive, it's staying there. Good to know though. IOwnCalculus posted:The 8TB regularly drops to 130 and the 10tb has hit 160ish recently. Also good to know. I'll keep an eye out for the 8TB to drop. Suburban Dad posted:How do you folks need so much hard drive space? I try not be be a physical or digital hoarder. I think I have maybe 2tb all told, and 1tb is a backup external. Movies. Many of which would be drat near impossible to replace, so I'd like to keep them safely backed up. slidebite posted:I have family in the Caribbean with no natural gas infrastructure and they also have 100+lb propane tanks just like that for their range Hell, the smallish suburb I live in doesn't have gas infrastructure in much of the city. Several large restaurants that I pick up from frequently have massive propane tanks behind them, and even the grills at the cabana in my apartment complex have (typical grill-sized, but locked up in a cage) propane tanks. Electricity is obscenely expensive here too, compared to what I'm used to. Austin itself has pretty cheap power (a friend just sent me a screenshot of her $12 electric bill  ), and most of the other surrounding towns are either on Austin Power, or deregulated (so you choose who bills you). The small towns northwest of Austin (like the one I'm in) are on a co-op.Seat Safety Switch posted:My 1702 has seen some pretty good mileage with me, though it's starting to have some odd glitches that I'm not sure how to repair. Still pretty afraid of opening up a CRT. I opened up a TV when I was... 8? 9? 10? or so once. I was that kid that took apart everything in the house. You can probably guess what the first thing I grabbed was... wanna guess how far away I wound up? Queen Combat posted:Just finished chatting with Amazon, they said "we have to investigate with the carrier before we can do anything." I don't know what kind of investigation they need to do other than, "Was it actually delivered here, or did you mysteriously take a photo of it delivered then put it back into your car?" but whatever. If they actually sent you a picture of it when it was delivered, it was AMZL (Amazon Logistics). They're slowly moving from independent contractors back to 3rd party DSPs (delivery service providers), but either way, that's a strike against whoever dropped it. They all use the same app, which records the exact (well, as exact as consumer devices can get) GPS location where it was marked "delivered". Even if they didn't take that pic, if the tracking starts with TBA, it was AMZL. Even with the DSPs, Amazon will threaten to yank their contract entirely if they refuse to terminate a courier who has a history (and by history, I mean something like 0.5% of deliveries) of fuckups. There's not going to be an "investigation with the courier". They'll pull the GPS coordinates, look at the photo, realize both match as being dropped at the office, and either put a black mark on that courier's record, or deactivate them. (a good thing in that case, the lazy ones make us good ones look bad) It takes about 2 minutes for them to do it. But every form of customer contact is outsourced overseas (hell even their HR is outsourced to India), so... things move a bit slow. And everything is heavily scripted.
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Queen Combat posted:
Gotta keep grinding it for better loot.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Gotta keep grinding it for better loot.
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Hey, totally OT question here but I know we've got a good cross section of people here so hoped someone might be able to help me. It's a MS Outlook question that's been bothering me for years. You know how you start a new email and type in the "TO:" address field, outlook goes through your contacts and gives you auto fill options? For some reason, Outlook mysteriously drops autofilling some names periodically for no reason that I can tell. Even if it's a contact I use with some regularity. I search through the contacts and the contact name is still there, so I am either forced to manually start a new email from the contact page or just find a previous email and do it from there. Any ideas wtf is happening? Drives me up the wall. I believe it's Office 2013.
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slidebite posted:Hey, totally OT question here but I know we've got a good cross section of people here so hoped someone might be able to help me. It's a MS Outlook question that's been bothering me for years. There is a limit on how many names you can autofill: https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2134480-outlook-autocomplete-not-working quote:The problem as initially reported to me was that some autocomplete entries that used to pop up were no longer showing and new entries were not being added. I finally realized the reason this was happening is that by default the autocomplete cache has a limit of 1000 entries and after that apparently it starts dropping email addresses off as you add new ones and sometimes fails to add new ones. This was the problem for both myself and another user who reported the issue.
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Well, that makes sense. I wish it was smart enough to just delete the addresses which have only been used once instead of ones used multiple times. I'll clean them out and start just adding new ones as I use them. Should keep me safe for a couple years. Thanks for that - I haven't found that all the times I checked.
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Also, Outlook 2013 and newer uses an AutoCompleteStream file and not the old style .nk2 file, but I think you can still use nk2 edit to see the entries in that file. You can get it here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_edit.html
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Pedal wasn't returning so I tossed a new master cylinder in the F100. Pedal still doesn't return and the brakes feel worse now  Wife was going to drive it to the airport in a week so at least I have a few days to tinker on it.
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Degraded rubber hose acting like a check valve, maybe?
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Also, Outlook 2013 and newer uses an AutoCompleteStream file and not the old style .nk2 file, but I think you can still use nk2 edit to see the entries in that file. You can get it here: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_edit.html Thanks, I think it is 2013. It is my work PC however that the IT group keeps them pretty locked down so I might not be able to run an .exe on it. Worst case, I'll try to flush it with the link spog gave and just start from scratch.
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slidebite posted:Thanks, I think it is 2013. It is my work PC however that the IT group keeps them pretty locked down so I might not be able to run an .exe on it. Worst case, I'll try to flush it with the link spog gave and just start from scratch. Yeah, I like Outlook a lot, but there are definitely some odd things that it does make you think that it's the 1992 release with more and more bits nailed onto it over the years. That link suggests that recreating your profile might solve it and that could be something your IT dept is happy to do.
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Queen Combat posted:
An awesome night in vegas?
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Ugh. Stopped for Burger Fi after a major craving and it just didn't live up to the expectation. Yuck.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Degraded rubber hose acting like a check valve, maybe? Very possible. Going to let it gravity bleed tomorrow afternoon and do some troubleshooting. At least it's running good now.
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Rhyno posted:Ugh. There is a BurgerFi near where I live, that is also not good. And yet, there's always a crowd there in the evenings.
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