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Humphreys posted:Remember Readyboost? Yeah, I remember it, tried to use it to make my in-laws' Vista PC with nowhere near enough RAM slightly less lovely. I don't remember if it made it much better - I certainly didn't do any benchmarks, it was just about how much they complained about it sucking. So how well did the 7 drives work for you? I guess more drives might mean more I/O bandwidth if they're not all on the same internal USB hub? Vanagoon posted:
I managed to get a GT 7*2*0 from the trash at my work #blessed I used to have a Dell Optiplex tower I quite liked, but eventually when I started to learn a bit more about contemporary hardware, I realized it was BTX, not ATX, so I couldn't upgrade the motherboard, or even put the motherboard into another cheap case that actually had some airflow over the hard drives. I guess the box was designed during the brief period where BTX was the way of the future. Maybe I should have kept the system due to it being a tech relic!
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TraderStav posted:Hell, I still listen to Groove Salad. I noticed that they just added a Groove Salad Classic which I guess plays more songs from back in the day? I still send SomaFM a few bucks here and there, but it's blocked at work. The reasoning is baffling: YouTube's fine, but tiny-rear end audio service isn't.  Also, I think their SF10-33 station is a relatively new one and I like it a lot. It's like Space Station, but it's ambient with San Francisco's "public safety radio traffic" mixed in.
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Trabant posted:I still send SomaFM a few bucks here and there, but it's blocked at work. The reasoning is baffling: YouTube's fine, but tiny-rear end audio service isn't. A few years back I was fighting a bout of insomnia and Space Station helped me quite a bit get some sleep. It was just so peaceful and relaxing. Conjured up some decent dreams too if I remember correctly. SomaFM is cool and good. I remember back in college I ran a program that scraped its stream and dumped all the tracks onto my computer just in case it went down. How would I ever guess it’d still be around nearly two decades later.
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Humphreys posted:Remember Readyboost? I see a usb software license down there?
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Trabant posted:I still send SomaFM a few bucks here and there, but it's blocked at work. The reasoning is baffling: YouTube's fine, but tiny-rear end audio service isn't. Work just blocked soma for me too  I could probably bypass it by entering the stream URLs directly in WMP though
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Oh man, I still have a HASP I got in 2007. They phased them out long ago when VMs started being more prevalent and they upped their software game, but I kept the thing because I earned it. Excuse the dog hair, it's been sitting in a drawer for almost a decade.
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I listened to somafm in college as well and can’t believe it’s still around. Good on them! There was also a streaming station that played nothing but Grateful Dead bootlegs 24/7 but I’m pretty sure it’s gone. Deadradio.com or something. This all would have been ‘97 or so. Those streams, in college with a Winamp visualization and a blacklight on... Good times  Thanks for the fun memory tech relics thread!
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Fallom posted:Work just blocked soma for me too I'll try that -- thanks!
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Holy poo poo, this thread. https://twitter.com/JohnFPfaff/status/1096973633736581121
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We regret to inform you the 30-year-old saved game is racist.
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Slippery posted:That's awesome, holy cow Lol. William Gibson: Lordy.
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Gonz posted:Holy poo poo, this thread. This is really cool. It is amazing how resilient 5.25” media is. I have C64 disks that still function after 35 years.
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Vanagoon posted:I took the 8GB DDR3 1333 from my old C2D E8400 PC and put it in this one, hence the 12GB. I'm running an Optiplex 7010 with the i5-3470 as my main dev/gaming pc. For about $150 I got it with 8 gigs for RAM and a 128GB SSD too, added a GTX 1070 and it runs everything flawlessly for under $500 total.
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mobby_6kl posted:Nice. This is probably just me, but I love how heavy they are. Heavier electronics always feel sturdier for some reason.
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Get a late 80s/early 90s IBM computer. Had an IBM PS/2 90 desktop server. Motherfucker was built like a tank.
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Randaconda posted:This is probably just me, but I love how heavy they are. Heavier electronics always feel sturdier for some reason. Heavy is good, heavy is reliable. If it doesn't work you can always hit them with it.
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My cousin got handed down a workspace computer in like 96. Talking DOS and heavy aluminium and clunky red power button. She wanted me to put Windows 95 on it and I tried to explain why that wasn't gonna happen. Her dad was pissed he had to lug that thing around a second time. I've got two project boxes I'll probably never give life to. A late 99 HP box (with the clear plastic CD holder lid) and a sturdy mid 2000s HP case built with some nice grade metal. Thought it'd be totally rad to shitpost on an OldBox with modern components.
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I just remembered I have an old 2007 MacBook stashed away and thought of resurrecting it with a new SSD, boy howdy those things are cheap these days. What version of OS X would you recommend? I'm mostly thinking of using it to dick around and record poo poo in good old GarageBand with my FireWire mixer that doesn't have Win10 drivers.
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Randaconda posted:This is probably just me, but I love how heavy they are. Heavier electronics always feel sturdier for some reason. The Optiplex doesn't feel particularly heavy, certainly not compared to my previous homebuilt tower which is 16 kgs just for the case+PSU https://www.nierle.com/en/article/29450/.html But that said it's pretty solid and I have no complaints about its build quality, there just isn't much space for customization or giant GPUs.
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Optiplexes are business PCs, and are designed to fit into a whole ecosystem built around delivering and servicing business needs. Any Optiplex is designed to have its motherboard successfully replaced in two minutes by the lowest bidder computer janitor in your zip code. You can order 25,000 Optiplexes and have them delivered in a week, and for five years after any Optiplex is built you can get any part on it replaced anywhere on Earth on the next business day by a Dell certified technician.
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mobby_6kl posted:The Optiplex doesn't feel particularly heavy, certainly not compared to my previous homebuilt tower which is 16 kgs just for the case+PSU This is the model of 960 I have, and there's all kinds of room. 
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The Optiplex 990 minitower I got uses a standard ATX power supply and motherboard so if it gets hosed up I can replace parts in it like any PC. There are huge numbers of parts available for them online too so if something like the little USB/headphone board or the Dell specific power button breaks it's NBD. Old Optiplex is the old Beater Toyota of computers. Not fast or sexy but it just keeps getting the job done
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klafbang posted:Get a late 80s/early 90s IBM computer. Had an IBM PS/2 90 desktop server. Motherfucker was built like a tank. PS/2s are pretty expensive on eBay, I've bid on a few but they always go beyond my "how much I'm willing to spend on a novelty" level 
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barbecue at the folks posted:I just remembered I have an old 2007 MacBook stashed away and thought of resurrecting it with a new SSD, boy howdy those things are cheap these days. What version of OS X would you recommend? I'm mostly thinking of using it to dick around and record poo poo in good old GarageBand with my FireWire mixer that doesn't have Win10 drivers. 10.6 always seemed more polished to me than 10.7, but that’s just one anecdote and if I were doing a fresh install, I think I would go with 10.7 for better compatibility.
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Platystemon posted:10.6 always seemed more polished to me than 10.7, but that’s just one anecdote and if I were doing a fresh install, I think I would go with 10.7 for better compatibility. Nah, Snow Leopard was a legit good and stable release, and Lion was a bit poo poo. Other than this, I’d say go with the latest version that supports your Mac. Unless you want some of the old applications (Sherlock, the old dashboard, some discontinued 3rd party application like Camino or OmniWeb), OS X gets better by each release and applications get updated shortly after release to support new versions.
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I've got an old MacBook that can't go past 10.7, so I've been wondering this myself. I think I saw some folks online saying it was all downhill after 10.5. I can't confirm/deny this myself 
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klafbang posted:OS X gets better by each release and applications get updated shortly after release to support new versions. I can only read this as sarcasm.
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Buttcoin purse posted:So how well did the 7 drives work for you? I guess more drives might mean more I/O bandwidth if they're not all on the same internal USB hub? I honestly cannot remember. I think it DID help a bit but that could have been natural variance in my render testing. Mr-Spain posted:I see a usb software license down there? Yup! I think it was AVID Media Composer or 3DSMax.
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I just scored some signed prints for pretty cheap not long ago and now trying to figure out frame sizes. Two I have figured out to be the canadian 'P3' size. The other eludes me at 305mm by 460mm. Any ideas? I have tried out this site: https://papersizes.io/
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Randaconda posted:This is the model of 960 I have, and there's all kinds of room. I have one of these with a Core2Quad for a workbench computer and I love it because it has about 30 USB ports
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I have one of these with a Core2Quad for a workbench computer and I love it because it has about 30 USB ports You're not far off, the 990 I have has ten USB ports, none are USB 3 though. I keep all my input devices plugged into the 4 front ones so if I trip over a cable or somehow otherwise manage to wreck the ports all I'll need to replace is the front panel USB board. I have the computer tucked in behind an old Vizio E321MV TV I use as a monitor, with a second monitor - a Dell e228wfp off to one side. This model of Dell monitor is bad to run hot and die so I being the hack that I am removed the rear cover and drilled a bunch of holes in the back of it, and snapped off every other plastic rail in the top of the monitor. It doesn't get nearly as hot now. I was given the monitor and it kept shutting off, but after i butchered the rear cover it runs reliably now. It's extremely ugly and hosed up looking but it will stay on and not die now:  Had to use a different image host because Imgur is hosed up right now, tried several browsers and it eats poo poo trying to upload my one photo. I did this because it was doing this exact behavior - getting hot and shutting off: https://www.dell.com/community/Monitors/E228WFP-Backlight-Issue-Turns-off-every-5-10-mins-or-less-Group/td-p/3429427 I was given this monitor as the person who gave it to me didn't know how to deal with it's issues. Sometimes you just need a crazy bastard with a drill and a pair of diagonal cutters to make poo poo work.
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GI_Clutch posted:Oh man, I still have a HASP I got in 2007. They phased them out long ago when VMs started being more prevalent and they upped their software game, but I kept the thing because I earned it. Excuse the dog hair, it's been sitting in a drawer for almost a decade. I have, at work, two HASP keys for applications running on VMs. The solution is a 12 port USB -> Network adapter. It has nothing but the two HASP keys plugged in, and requires *constant vigilance* or it will crash and die. I hate that thing with every fiber of my being.
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Turns out the install packages for 10.6. and 10.7. don't have GarageBand on them, I'd have to somehow dig up the original 10.5. install discs that came with the MacBook and those got lost two or three moves ago. I just wanted to record some tunes on ye olde laptop, Apple! 
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I don’t think any of them do. GarageBand was part of iLife. Some machine specific installation disks may have it, but it’s unlikely you’ll find it on a generic OS disk.
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That’s correct. It comes preinstalled on new macs, but is not included in standard OSX/macOS installers.
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Antioch posted:I have, at work, two HASP keys for applications running on VMs. Man, you're allowed to use dongles with a VM? I remember dongles (well, the dongle drivers) which would refuse to operate if you had Remote Desktoped into the machine  I assume the theory was: our software is so loving expensive that it would be worthwhile spreading your development team out across time zones - despite the inefficiencies that would cause in your team - and then have people Remote Desktop into a shared machine to use our software over high-latency intercontinental Internet connections, but we would really prefer that you just bought more licenses, so no Remote Desktop allowed. I just wanted to be able to work from home when I had to work out of hours 
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Thanks for reminding me how much it pisses me off that network licenses are considerably more expensive than a dongle-based model even for the same software (in my sector, anyways). It's dumb. Management never springs for the more expensive network license and some dumb rear end in a top hat inevitably loses the only dongle.
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