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Jim Silly-Balls posted:a Toshiba T3200SX Jesus  That's amazing! The display is a thing of wonder.
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I had no idea you could connect to AOL chatrooms with a regular IRC client, drat that could've lead to some fun times.
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Apr 24, 2020 22:44
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Givin the side-eye to that SX there Kidding, that thing is baller
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UnkleBoB posted:I just picked up a relic. It was missing the power/AV cords, so I have those on order. Always wanted to try one of these out back in the day, and this one turned up on eBay for cheap because it was missing the cables. Bonus was that the seller was only two blocks from my house. Hey, there's an LGR for that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-c9S3cdAe0
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No idea how common the motors are, tried a few tricks to see if there was a mechanical or electric clutch/brake on it but no luck.peter gabriel posted:Prepare to replace little rubber bands and capacitors! There is one Rubber band and thats the tray loading belt. It's all good unfortunately. Can see no blown caps, but that drive motor even after oiling and some electro clean is hard to turn by hand. Likely culprit. I wish it was just caps and a belt, recapped a FZ-1 3DO last month in about an hour for fun.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I had no idea you could connect to AOL chatrooms with a regular IRC client, drat that could've lead to some fun times. I’m pretty sure that’s why I did it. You could get the active population of an AOL room, with the extra options of a real irc client.
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Apr 25, 2020 15:55
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Hm. Suddenly it makes a whole lot of sense that AOL chatrooms were just reskinned IRC chats with better message spacing. 
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Apr 25, 2020 16:04
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You guys ever mess with AOHell? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOHell My friend had this and would message bomb our other friends, causing their computer to freeze, we'd then get an angry phone call (after we disconnected from the internet), about WTF did you just do to my computer!?!?! Classic pranks.
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Apr 25, 2020 16:16
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One of the 3.x (or was it like 2.7?) versions of AIM had this weird string error where you could IM a PC user something like '&7;xxxx' and it would log them off. It was the one time that being on an older Mac was fun.
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Apr 25, 2020 16:29
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixQE496Pcn8
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Apr 26, 2020 01:35
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I would like to state for the record how shocking it is that I never knew you could join AOL chatrooms from IRC, considering the channels I hung out in, full of people who absolutely should have been passing this information around as though it was top secret information Also how disappointing it is that I did not learn this in time to use it
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Apr 26, 2020 03:51
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Dr. Quarex posted:I would like to state for the record how shocking it is that I never knew you could join AOL chatrooms from IRC, considering the channels I hung out in, full of people who absolutely should have been passing this information around as though it was top secret information Was that an officially supported thing, or one of those weird hacks that kind of sort of worked but only on an older version? Username post combo etc
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Apr 26, 2020 16:17
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I finally tried out my RCA CED player yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOiVxkg8GlQ
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Apr 26, 2020 17:12
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaNDeyYP98A LGR talkin' about Windows Me
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Apr 26, 2020 17:21
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wa27 posted:I finally tried out my RCA CED player yesterday: That rules, I can't believe it works. Also Escape from NY, my friend just watched that for the first time this week, great movie.
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Apr 26, 2020 17:22
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Why do YouTube videos automatically embed for some users but not others? It's been years and I need answers.
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Apr 26, 2020 18:10
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Dip Viscous posted:Why do YouTube videos automatically embed for some users but not others? It's been years and I need answers. If the link is posted with a [url] tag it will just link. If it's posted with a [video] tag it will embed Start a post quoting these users to see.
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If you are using a desktop browser use Command/Control V to paste the link. It will auto parse and embed the Youtube link. If you use right click paste it doesn't. The forums also detects URLs so if it doesn't get embed it treats it like any other link.
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Apr 26, 2020 20:18
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an AOL chatroom posted:Was that an officially supported thing, or one of those weird hacks that kind of sort of worked but only on an older version? A surprising amount of stuff runs on IRC once you strip everything away - Twitch chat rooms are based on IRC, and I remember reading a while ago about the U.S. military using IRC for communications
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Apr 26, 2020 20:24
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The in-game chat of EVE Online was just IRC, with a channel for each system, fleet, corporation, custom channels and so on. At one point some clever folks figured out how to block the client from joining the system channel when entering a system, so they'd be invisible in the system's user list.
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Apr 26, 2020 21:13
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Epsilon Plus posted:A surprising amount of stuff runs on IRC once you strip everything away - Twitch chat rooms are based on IRC, and I remember reading a while ago about the U.S. military using IRC for communications The military does use IRC and the person kept pronouncing it "merc" when I was doing a tour of a school.
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Apr 26, 2020 21:50
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Randaconda posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaNDeyYP98A Watched this earlier, and somehow never knew it was supposed to be pronounced Me not m-e. Wish I never found out tbh. My main memory of the OS was that it had horrible RAM management despite the fact I had a beefy machine at the time. Not sure how I ended up on it and not 2000, but eh.
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Apr 26, 2020 21:57
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Epsilon Plus posted:A surprising amount of stuff runs on IRC once you strip everything away - Twitch chat rooms are based on IRC, and I remember reading a while ago about the U.S. military using IRC for communications And basically everything that isn't IRC uses XMPP - though of course with the nice features (like federation) and the ability to use any XMPP client blocked. There was a short time where you really could join Google chat with a generic client, IIRC.
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Apr 26, 2020 22:09
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Epsilon Plus posted:A surprising amount of stuff runs on IRC once you strip everything away - Twitch chat rooms are based on IRC, and I remember reading a while ago about the U.S. military using IRC for communications As hinted at by another reply, you don't have to strip anything away for the military version, they just use mIRC with some scripts installed if I recall correctly. e: I can't remember if what it was used for included calling in air strikes or fire support, but it was one of those.
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Apr 27, 2020 04:13
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EL BROMANCE posted:Watched this earlier, and somehow never knew it was supposed to be pronounced Me not m-e. Wish I never found out tbh. The worst part of 9x was that it didn't really matter how much memory you had... A stupid design decision meant the OS only allocated a pool of 128KB total for "system resources". This is things like Windows, buttons, fonts, GUI elements, etc... So even though you may have 96MB of RAM.. you could still run out of "resource memory" by just opening 1-2 applications. Some applications where not very well behaved and would sometimes not release these resources (classic memory leak), quickly filling up this tiny little pool of memory. And once this memory filled up, the system was basically hosed. Applications would start not rendering correctly; you would have missing fonts, applications with missing buttons, etc.. A restart was really the only way to fix it.
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Oof. I’m sure glad that code has long since been excised. Ah who am I kidding, there’s probably still chunks of it in the current version.
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oohhboy posted:If you use right click paste it doesn't. Just tested this and can confirm, but LOL what the hell.
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Buttcoin purse posted:As hinted at by another reply, you don't have to strip anything away for the military version, they just use mIRC with some scripts installed if I recall correctly. I was on a tour of a UAV school, so probably the first.
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I've heard that most of the problem with Windows ME was because people were installing it over the top of their existing (probably virus-riddled) 95/98 installation, and that if you did a clean install of ME then it was a lot better. -still not great, but better.
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Did I live in opposite day land and just never experience or am unaware of all these issues with every version of Windows that I've ever used?
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Star Man posted:Did I live in opposite day land and just never experience or am unaware of all these issues with every version of Windows that I've ever used? I never had any problems with Vista. I still sorta miss the glass aero windows. ME was def a step back from 98SE tho
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EL BROMANCE posted:Oof. I’m sure glad that code has long since been excised. Windows NT has a much different memory management system. The concept of GDI resources/objects still exists, however the limits in Windows NT based OSes are considerably higher. Something like 10k per process, instead of being a system wide limit. And even then I believe this only applies to Win32 Forms apps.
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i believe windows ME came with a better/larger set of drivers for sound cards and things. I was actually impressed when I installed it from scratch when it came out and didn't have to hunt down my weird Yamaha sound card's drivers on a disk or online like i did with win98
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The issue with ME was that Microsoft was pushing a new driver model (WDM), and ME was going to be the version to enforce it. 98SE could run both the old (VxD) and new driver models, and thus why everyone still loved it even with ME around because you didn't have to wait for device manufacturers to bring out new drivers to suit Microsoft's new driver model. Hmm, Wikipedia says 98 was the first version to support WDM drivers, but I could've sworn that 98SE was. Anyway, at that time the VxD driver model still ruled the roost as it was compatible to Win 3.1 and 95.
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I believe in some cases, it was better to upgrade rather than a fresh install because ME would let you continue using drivers that you installed on 98 that wouldn't work on a new install. My memory may be wrong. I do remember our nework guy telling us to get hosed when we asked a new ME machine to be added to our Netware network.
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Mr. Fix It posted:I never had any problems with Vista. I still sorta miss the glass aero windows. ME was def a step back from 98SE tho I ran Vista on an underpowered laptop with 1GB of RAM for years and besides the issues that come with being constantly starved for memory, dealing with a slow-rear end 5400rpm laptop drive and an AMD Turion 64 dual-core at a whooping 1,6 GHz, it was surprisingly usable. Got much better with a RAM upgrade to 4GB although it didn't really use much of it because it was a 32-bit installation. So, various little problems and issues here and there, and generally being dog slow for many tasks, but still generally usable and more importantly, very, very stable. I didn't see a single BSOD and very few hard freezes. I've had way more of that with Windows 8 and 10 on my PC than I ever did on that Vista laptop. It still loving works too, somehow, despite being 13 odd years old.
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Mr. Fix It posted:I never had any problems with Vista. I still sorta miss the glass aero windows. ME was def a step back from 98SE tho I never used Windows ME, Vista, 8, or anything older than 3.11.
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I held on to XP for way longer than was prudent. I ran it from basically right when it came out to way into the late windows 7 days
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I still run XP VMs for 'modern' SCADA configuration management. Lol
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Vista got a bad rap because of lovely computers having "Vista Ready" stickers being slapped on them. People would buy lovely computers with 512 MB of RAM because it said it could run Vista and then it ran like poo poo. Upgrade it to 1GB and Vista ran just fine for most people. Microsoft even had to do that "Windows Mojave" ad campaign to convince people Vista wasn't lovely because of cheapskate manufacturers. Vista was great if you had a machine that could handle it.
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