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What the hell?!? I don’t remember this at all! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1csOOMXANI
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You Am I posted:I still hum the MovieLand jingle "MovieLand has the movies you want to see! MovieLand! We'll entertain you!" and how long as that mob been out of business. I think they were dead before VHS was. MovieLand, I’d almost forgotten that place existed. When I was a kid our usual video rental of choice was an independently owned place a bit further out in the suburbs called “Video 2000” that had an awe inspiring selection of PlayStation games and Star Trek tapes. They hung on into the DVD era, then sold out to some chain like Video Ezy or Blockbuster, I don’t remember which one exactly, before disappearing entirely. I think there’s a Salvos store on that site now.
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Nov 14, 2020 12:22
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Dr. Quarex posted:Social Security Numbers were treated about as seriously as the tickets you get at the deli counter until the late 1990s, so there is a very real chance that you have the first seven digits of Lee Trevino's actual number right there. When I had a month-long stint at McDonald's, the sign-in to clock in and use the register used the furst three numbers of your social security number as your password. Turna out nearly all of us were born in the same state and had the same password.
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Nov 14, 2020 12:44
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Armacham posted:Ball is in the parking lot. Would you like to play again? It is very funny to me that millions more people remember the Simpsons parody than remember the actual game:  It was endorsed by the U.S. National Video Game Team and everything!
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Nov 14, 2020 15:16
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Gonz posted:What the hell?!? I don’t remember this at all! I had a model that came out maybe a year after this, after they abandoned the corner thing. Mine looked like a normal PC case but with the same design motif, as if they just got a strongman to push the two drive units together. It was fun seeing Navigator again, as I hadn’t seen that since the first 10 minutes of owning the system. I also had the 17” monitor which felt loving gigantic and an overkill at the time. The remote control though? Not going to lie, I *loved* that thing. The controller part of that one looks like nasty plastic where mine was rubber and nice to use. I used it constantly. As a further push into multimedia I remember the monitor sat on a base thing with push buttons for various functions that were almost entirely useless. Kinda like the things you’d see on fn+F-keys the last decade. It was super expensive and the hardware was pretty custom (the case in particular) but I have such fond memories of it.
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RandomFerret posted:It is very funny to me that millions more people remember the Simpsons parody than remember the actual game: I had it as a kid, and loved it and still do to this day 
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Nov 14, 2020 21:13
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Hell yeah I was just rearranging my retro stuff today and was reminded I have this. Came across it at a thrift store and bought it literally because of that simpsons episode too
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Nov 15, 2020 00:35
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Many Bothans died to bring us this pic of 8Bit Guy's Parents.
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my turn in the barrel posted:Many Bothans died to bring us this pic of 8Bit Guy's Parents. Needs more gun
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my turn in the barrel posted:Many Bothans died to bring us this pic of 8Bit Guy's Parents. Open carry in the streets Concealed carry in your mom
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Nov 15, 2020 11:49
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Honestly what most concerns me there is they've plugged in a monitor but not any power
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MMMM delicious BoomBoxes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTq4-fHFSk8
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my turn in the barrel posted:Many Bothans died to bring us this pic of 8Bit Guy's Parents. I didn’t come here to be doxxed !!
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Nov 15, 2020 13:19
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I compute in a big bed with my wife.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:I compute in a big bed with my wife. I too compute in a big bed with your wife.
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I don't compute in bed with his wife. I have sex with her instead.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I don't compute in bed with his wife. I have sex with the computer instead. Fixed
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rndmnmbr posted:I too compute in a big bed with your wife. Stop hogging the keyboard TIA.
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Cojawfee posted:Reminds me of when my family decided to get an intercom. We started testing it out and then it turned out that the next door neighbors had one on the same frequency. My Dad always had a scanner of some sort when I was growing up. One of which was a digitally programmable model and could pick up any frequency from 20Mhz to almost 1Ghz. You could also imput ranges to scan through. I spent many hours scanning though many frequencies to see what I found. This was also during the time cordless phones where becoming popular. A quick scan between 40-50Mhz would usually pick up several phone calls (though only one sided, each side of the conversation was on a different frequency.) When phones started to move to 900mhz, you could still find conversations by scanning 902-928Mhz. In the early 2000s, some scanner manufactuers started software locking out the frequency bands used by cordless phones, intercoms and baby monitors. It was a little late though, 900mhz/1.9Ghz phones dominated the market by then, and many where digital or using analog scrambling of some sort.
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Baby monitors were on the same band. My walkie talkies were also on that band. I had more fun trying to find a signal to intercept. It seems like I usually had only one working battery at a time, so its all I could do.
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stevewm posted:My Dad always had a scanner of some sort when I was growing up. One of which was a digitally programmable model and could pick up any frequency from 20Mhz to almost 1Ghz. You could also imput ranges to scan through. I spent many hours scanning though many frequencies to see what I found. I have, on FLAC on this very hard drive, cordless phone conversations from our neighborhood circa 1995-1996. My dad and a friend of his, both of whom had to monitor police scanners, and they would record, edit down, and trade tapes back and forth of the drama from one another's neighborhood.
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Those Motorola Startac phones (from the early 90s) had a test mode that was easy enough to activate: just short a special connection near the battery with a bit of tinfoil. Once in test mode, a couple of magic key presses would let you scan channels and listen to any conversation in your local cell. Nothing was encrypted, but it was hard to follow conversations because most would only last a few seconds before being bounced to another cell tower or channel. Seems crazy in this day and age that anyone could just listen to cell conversations.
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minato posted:Seems crazy in this day and age that anyone could just listen to cell conversations. In the early days of analog service where AMPS was being used, you could easily pick up cell phone conversations with a scanner. Assuming you had a scanner made prior to the FCC requiring manufacturers lock those frequencies out. I never found any at home, though I would occasionally find one when I took my dad's scanner on camping trips.
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Nov 17, 2020 03:00
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In the 80s my Mom lived in a townhouse where the phone wiring was bad enough that we could sometimes hear the neighbors landline conversations bleeding over into ours. It could be spooky.
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Back only in 2012 we used a piece of software and a TV tuner that would capture the entire band at once and pointed it at towards the city where we were holding Olympics soccer matches at the time. A bit of scrolling around and et voila, we had the control room audio feed coming on. The British team were playing that night and they made no pretense as to the favourites, and a big yell of ‘let’s loving go!’ at kickoff. Was fun hearing the camera changes just before they’d happen on the TV. Amazing it was all out in the clear, although only dorks like us would be looking for stuff like that.CaptainSarcastic posted:In the 80s my Mom lived in a townhouse where the phone wiring was bad enough that we could sometimes hear the neighbors landline conversations bleeding over into ours. It could be spooky. We’re actually having this issue in my workplace with our VOIP phones interfering with the neighboring office somehow. Our provider is blaming the ISP and I’m sure I know who the ISP will blame.
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EL BROMANCE posted:We’re actually having this issue in my workplace with our VOIP phones interfering with the neighboring office somehow. Our provider is blaming the ISP and I’m sure I know who the ISP will blame. That's seriously weird - I wouldn't think VOIP could do that unless it was making use of existing POTS wiring in the building somehow, like an internal switchboard.
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The VOIP guy mentioned something that could be the cause and I’d never even heard of it, I’ll have to get the details off my boss and look them up. But yes, incredibly weird - I don’t even know if the people next door (a salon) are using POTS or have a VOIP solution themselves. Only seems to happen on one phone as it was news to me the other day. I believe all the offices connect through one central place but my boss told them they needed to get that out of our area before we moved in so who knows how it all works now. Badly, I expect. The guy who did our setup seriously over complicated things too as I think he was just trying to get some hardware off his hands he got lumped with, for example we have a 24 port managed switch with like 4 things connected to it. Ridiculous. And I had to fix half of it to get everything up and running, and networking is not my speciality.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Back only in 2012 we used a piece of software and a TV tuner that would capture the entire band at once and pointed it at towards the city where we were holding Olympics soccer matches at the time. A bit of scrolling around and et voila, we had the control room audio feed coming on. The British team were playing that night and they made no pretense as to the favourites, and a big yell of ‘let’s loving go!’ at kickoff. Was fun hearing the camera changes just before they’d happen on the TV. Amazing it was all out in the clear, although only dorks like us would be looking for stuff like that. When I was a kid in the 90s we had one of those enourmous satellite dishes where you had to tune into different satellites with dope names like GALAXY 9. My dad subscribed to this guidebook that told you which satellite and channel to turn to to get different raw feeds of sporting events and news stations. You would get to hear and see what the announcers were doing during the commercial breaks. It was pretty cool.
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Hell yes, analog satellite was so much fun. My dad worked as an engineer and managed to get someone to build us a 1m+ dish and tripod for the back yard with a couple of mounts, and through the power of my BBC Micro B I wrote some software to turn it via a motor. I’m still super impressed they managed to nail the measurements for the LNB to focus as well as it did, it’s a shame we had a lot of trees around but finding out what other birds were out there was a blast. Used to watch Mexican wrestling on a Sunday night on Galavision, and also hope that the movies the German channels were showing were subbed so we could still watch them. Watching ‘Enter the Dragon’ that way was badass, especially as the UK version was cut (not that my 10 year old self knew about that at the time). I also liked that they used to bounce around The Simpsons across the US on wild feeds that weren’t protected so the scene would release them a day early, and Monday Night Raw feeds would include a bunch of rehearsals and dark matches too. I kinda wanted to get back in it and get a Dreambox about 10-15 years ago, but I guess IPTV phased that out. It’s fun there’s still some hackery out there that takes place even with everything being digital and encrypted. People have worked out the algorithms they use for the backends of the big sports online packages, and running those feeds gets you similar ‘off air’ stuff like back in the day sometimes. It’s not dead yet!
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EL BROMANCE posted:I also liked that they used to bounce around The Simpsons across the US on wild feeds that weren’t protected so the scene would release them a day early, and Monday Night Raw feeds would include a bunch of rehearsals and dark matches too. e. Like, for my less Online friends and family it still comes across as arcane dark arts poo poo when I can take five minutes or less to dig up a direct download of whatever movie or TV show they wanna watch that's not on Netflix etc, but I'm sure I'm one among millions capable of doing that, whereas the pool of people with that kind of knowhow must have been vanishingly small ~25 years ago. Genuine hidden knowledge. Pretty good has a new favorite as of 07:50 on Nov 17, 2020 |
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It's crazy how much stuff used to just be out in the open and the only barrier to entry was know what equipment to buy.
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I could clone CDMA poo poo when they fell back to the AMPS network when required. Oki FTW.
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EL BROMANCE posted:I kinda wanted to get back in it and get a Dreambox about 10-15 years ago, but I guess IPTV phased that out.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Numerous brands of clones are still around. I bought a Linux satellite receiver a few weeks ago with enigma 2. Updated to the newest open source firmware that was a couple of days old at the time. Works with the dreamdroid android app. Neat poo poo. I am kinda interested in this... Now are we talking IRDETO etc cracked or just FTA satellite.
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Humphreys posted:I am kinda interested in this... Now are we talking IRDETO etc cracked or just FTA satellite. Now I don't doubt that if any cracking is taking place, a general-purpose computer like these linux boxes is what will be used. I just wouldn't know where to start. Like I pick up on keywords without knowing what they are exactly, like softcam, softcam keys, card sharing and such, but there seems hassle involved and linux command line poo poo and downloading from shady sites and manually keeping things up to date and all of that I'm not into at all. There's a number of up to date software packages, openATV and OpenPLi being the biggest I know of. Both have lists of supported brands and models of receivers. Then there are a lot of plugins for added functionality. I haven't really looked into those, beyond a thing that does youtube, apparently. Nothing is properly documented. It's a major rabbit hole.
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Flipperwaldt posted:Honestly I'm just coming from a cheap and basic appliance type receiver, I'm not at all experienced with the depths of this. My only interest really is watching FTA channels and I'm marvelling at novelties like recording and media playback from network shares and the streaming of what's on to computers in the local network. Thanks for that. I really want to get back into it for all the hacky goodness. (my and my old boss used to cardshare over a decade ago - I paid through the nose for ISDN as dialup wasnt fast enough for the datastream of the card). Currently I'm big on private pirate IPTV packages and of course my manual Plex server  and multi-channel live TV ripping.
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Humphreys posted:Thanks for that. I really want to get back into it for all the hacky goodness. (my and my old boss used to cardshare over a decade ago - I paid through the nose for ISDN as dialup wasnt fast enough for the datastream of the card). If time does not fool you, man, I feel sorry for you being on ISDN ten years after it was pretty much a relic 
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