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Buttcoin purse posted: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 The working theory of business-class software is to bend the customer over as far as they will go and use the legal minimum of lube. After all, they're making money with it, they can afford it, gotta pay to play suckers. I have used precisely one piece of business software (excluding Adobe products) that I thought the hassle was worth the price, it was a mailing list generator for newspaper delivery via USPS. It saved us about $75 a week in postage, the company handled all the ever-changing byzantine rules of periodical post so all we had to do was push the button, print labels, and fold and sort papers according to instructions. Nevertheless, when it fell over (which it did, frequently), it was like pulling teeth to get it back up and running. Support was basically a phone call straight to the devs, and our boss was a former DBA so she spoke the same jargon, so when she got involved support went smoothly. We had one rural customer who was a typical old, before we used the software he got his paper at 9:30 am every Thursday rain or shine and that's how he liked it. He was right on the maximum edge for Zone 2 mailing though (ugh, USPS zoning rules) and every few rule changes he'd go from Zone 2 to Zone 4 or something, which meant his paper wasn't delivered until 9:30 am every Friday, which meant that 9:45 am every Thursday we'd get a thirty minute phonecall about forgetting to mail his newspaper, we're doing a terrible job of everything and should be ashamed of ourselves, he's a paying customer, back in his day etc. etc. etc. until his zone changed back in a couple of weeks.
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Interlink Circulation.
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Someone brought up something that I haven't thankfully seen in a long while. Remember Intellitext? The stupid "service" that would inject hyperlinks into the most innocuous of words on any webpage that would go to some shopping site? I think my first ad-block rule was turning that loving thing off.
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Robnoxious posted:Someone brought up something that I haven't thankfully seen in a long while. Oh God yes, I assumed it was still around and just not as common. Is it gone forever??
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Robnoxious posted:Someone brought up something that I haven't thankfully seen in a long while. Wasn't that like a VBulletin thing? I only really remember seeing that on forums and stuff.
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Robnoxious posted:Someone brought up something that I haven't thankfully seen in a long while. oh god this was the worst I can't imagine a world without noscript now
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ishikabibble posted:Wasn't that like a VBulletin thing? I only really remember seeing that on forums and stuff. There were plugins for a bunch of bulletin boards, but it could even be added to a website with a simple JavaScript include, almost everything was done in the client browser. The idea is still going, though even the most basic adblocker will stop it and most sites don’t bother as it nets them very little money.
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Antioch posted:I have, at work, two HASP keys for applications running on VMs.
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Randaconda posted:This is the model of 960 I have, and there's all kinds of room.  But anyway I'm pretty happy with this solution, now that CPUs don't double in performance every 2 years these fleet specials are a great value. mobby_6kl has a new favorite as of 21:14 on Feb 22, 2019 |
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mobby_6kl posted:There's empty space certainly but even the mini GPU covers up a SATA port and a larger one would interfere with RAM and/or the drive cage My first thought was "why are there two beepers  " because I'm just old 
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Jerry Cotton posted:My first thought was "why are there two beepers Beepers?
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Eighty-millimetre fan hubs look like PC internal speakers. That’s my guess.
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Jerry Cotton posted:My first thought was "why are there two beepers That was my first reaction too
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mobby_6kl posted:There's empty space certainly but even the mini GPU covers up a SATA port and a larger one would interfere with RAM and/or the drive cage Jerry Cotton posted:My first thought was "why are there two beepers 
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Buttcoin purse posted:It looks like the hard drives are upside-down just like in the Dell Optiplex 755 I had? I don't understand why that's a thing. Looking at the drive cage and rails, are those spacers to hold laptop drives? I got used to the green rails which only ran down the side, and it was fairly easy to get them in wrong and have the drive upside down, if memory serves.
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I just bought a SONY LaserDisc MDP-605 from Yahoo Japan Auctions for $15 (plus shipping). Whelp back into LD I go!
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Humphreys posted:I just bought a SONY LaserDisc MDP-605 from Yahoo Japan Auctions for $15 (plus shipping). Whelp back into LD I go! This makes me feel ok for wanting a MD player/recorder again. Thanks, enabler.
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is it possible to find a good portable cassette player that isn't either NiB and way too pricy, or a modern piece of junk, or an old one i have to restore? do they still make good ones? maybe NiB is my best option...
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Nobody makes quality cassette players anymore, and they haven't for twenty years. Quality heads, drive gears, mechanisms, etc; nobody does that anymore. Find yoself an Onkyo, Technics, Pioneer from pre-1985. At least, that's what I did.
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I just threw out a Technics 3-head direct drive tape deck where the drive wheel had touched the motor and burned everything  Now I only have 3 working decks left.
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i said portable, do i need to find new in box or what.
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Any walkman on ebay that's more than $90 and isn't a Direct Drive (DD - they split the plastic gears on the metal wheels). Or do you want, like, a boombox? In that case, same advice as above.
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nice, thanks
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bad posts ahead!!! posted:is it possible to find a good portable cassette player that isn't either NiB and way too pricy, or a modern piece of junk, or an old one i have to restore? do they still make good ones? maybe NiB is my best option... Enabling even more - I found a site called 'buyee' that acts as shipping proxy for Japanese auctions. I tested on a few Panasonic 3DOs and came through. Now Eagerly awating the LD to turn up. I used to have the same player and a bunch of discs years ago and yearn for them again for purely nostalgia. EDIT: Turns out the shipping cost of a 20KG Laserdisc player is roughly $300. I have 25 more days to arrange shipping from the buyee warehouse in Japan. If there is a Japanese goon that wants a $15 player. Let me know and they can have it. Humphreys has a new favorite as of 13:51 on Mar 6, 2019 |
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When he was talking about how low resolution it was, I said to myself "320x240" and was still mind blown when he said the resolution.
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19,000 pixels is a hilariously low resolution, even for 1999. I had a WWF-themed webcam at the time that, I think, took higher res photos than that.
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Hell, 19,000 pixels is barely better than the gameboy camera. That's something like 128x128
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SIX photos. Lmao. Imagine the awful realization when you shelled this out for your kid to take pictures at Disney only to find a few pictures of the plane ride home on it.
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an actual frog posted:Hell, 19,000 pixels is barely better than the gameboy camera. That's something like 128x128 The Gameboy came out in 1989 so I am happy to give it a break. Even if you gave it a better camera it couldn't process them. Gameboy max out at 32 kiB of RAM when extended, 8 built-in with another 8 for video.
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I had a Polaroid digital camera at that time that only allowed about 12 photos at regular size. Through some complicated series of buttons, you could make your photos smaller and thus fit a few more on there. I seem to remember it cost $70 or $80. The first digital camera I ever used stored photos on 3.5 floppy disk.
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It's crazy how we accepted poo poo quality products worse than what we already had just because it was new technology.
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Sure, you could take a photo with a regular camera, go get the film processed, then scan in the printed photo at 75dpi (reasonable resolution for a screen), but sometimes the crappy photo off the floppy disk camera is good enough, and it's much more convenient. It's not like someone on dial-up wants to be sending particularly high-resolution photos via email anyway, so I guess it was really a question of what you wanted the photo for - I'd want to scan in a printed photo at 300dpi if I was going to use it in something that was going to be printed again, but if it was just for use on the web, low resolution might be fine. Even 128x128 is still usable for some things when some people's screens are 640x480, and that's the lowest common denominator you're designing your website around!
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Cojawfee posted:It's crazy how we accepted poo poo quality products worse than what we already had just because it was new technology. I'd say less new technology and more it was exciting conceptually. People didn't care about it being new technology so much as divorcing itself from film meant the entire back-end of film photography could just be safely ignored. You didn't have to constantly be buying more film if you want to take photos, and you didn't have to pay and wait to get your photos developed and printed once you took them. They were just there. There's a touching little bit on it in one of The 8-Bit Guy's videos on an old webcam. He mentions he took a lot of photos with it as a pseudo-digital camera that he never would've taken with film, because it was just a lot more convenient than film, even if it's lower quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxQjMlwDA8A My family got our first digital camera in maybe 2001, but I distinctly remember experiencing the same sort of thing. It was just exciting and freeing for them to be able to just take photos and not have to worry about how much money each photo is actually costing between film and print, or needing to put in the hassle of going to a developer and getting them developed and do you really need a print of this? That you have to store and keep?
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Any kid who grew up in the film era probably caught poo poo from their parents for wasting film. You had to make drat sure the shot was good and you actually wanted it before you pressed the button. When I got my first digital camera it was so cool to just take pictures of everything and only keep what you wanted.
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Between 2003 and 2006, a friend and I used to buy disposable cameras and take a lot of pictures of random things we did, then we’d drop them off at the photo lab at walmart for them to get developed. We probably spent more than the cost of a digital camera back then on the disposables and the development. At one point, they started offering CDs loaded with our pictures along with the physical ones. The one CD I somehow still have is from around 2005, judging by the cars we owned at the time playing a prominent role in almost every picture we took.
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ishikabibble posted:There's a touching little bit on it in one of The 8-Bit Guy's videos on an old webcam. He mentions he took a lot of photos with it as a pseudo-digital camera that he never would've taken with film, because it was just a lot more convenient than film, even if it's lower quality. I was big into online auctions in the late 90s/early 00s. I bought a capture card and took screen grabs from an old camcorder's live feed. While the quality was exactly what you're imagining, it was absolutely amazing being able to take a photo and immediately upload it and add it to a listing. It was one of those "this is the future!!!" moments. Besides, with enough light and a tripod the images weren't really that bad.
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Horace posted:I was big into online auctions in the late 90s/early 00s. I bought a capture card and took screen grabs from an old camcorder's live feed. While the quality was exactly what you're imagining, it was absolutely amazing being able to take a photo and immediately upload it and add it to a listing. It was one of those "this is the future!!!" moments. Besides, with enough light and a tripod the images weren't really that bad. Haha that is such a janky solution to your specific need, but it works.
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