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wa27: Jan 15, 2007

Sweevo posted:

This Greasemonkey script will add a "Show Your Posts" link to the top and bottom of every page.

code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name        sa_allposts
// @namespace   com.sa
// @include     *forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php*
// @version     1.2
// @grant       none
// ==/UserScript==

var userid = 109191;

var tid = window.location.toString().match(/threadid=(\d+)/)[1];
var bcrumbs = document.getElementsByClassName("breadcrumbs");
for (var i=0; i<bcrumbs.length; i++){
    var link = document.createElement('a');
    link.innerHTML = '<a href="showthread.php?threadid=' + tid + '&userid=' + userid + '">See Your Posts</a>';
    link.style.float = "right";
    bcrumbs[i].appendChild(link);
}

That's fantastic, thank you!

# ? Mar 12, 2021 06:58

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# ? May 25, 2024 04:26

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Mr. Fix It posted:

my icq number was 15115293 but i could not tell you my wife's phone number to save my life.

Oh, you want it?

# ? Mar 12, 2021 07:37

Mr. Fix It: Oct 26, 2000; 💀ayyy💀

3D Megadoodoo posted:

Oh, you want it?

nah, we just use Line (JDM whatsapp)

# ? Mar 12, 2021 08:31

Rappaport: Oct 2, 2013

Pham Nuwen posted:

I graduated over 10 years ago and I can still rattle off my 9-digit student ID number. I don't even remember what we used it for besides registering for classes but by god it still leaps to mind.

I graduated five years ago and same. Though we did use ours for a lot of stuff, some lecturers posted grades semi-publically but identified by ID# only, you had to write your ID# on every god drat exam paper which adds up, etc.

# ? Mar 12, 2021 12:22

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Powered Descent posted:

Thanks for this, it works great. (And it's quite a bit more slick than my method of having the link as a quicksearch bookmark that I type the thread ID into.)

wa27 posted:

That's fantastic, thank you!

I didn't make it myself, it was posted somewhere on the forums a while ago.

# ? Mar 12, 2021 12:26

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

Rappaport posted:

I graduated five years ago and same. Though we did use ours for a lot of stuff, some lecturers posted grades semi-publically but identified by ID# only, you had to write your ID# on every god drat exam paper which adds up, etc.

We got a randomly assigned test-taker number on each exam, IIRC - presumably to make it more anonymous both vs other students and the person doing the grading. No idea what my student id number was, incidentally.

# ? Mar 12, 2021 15:39

Powered Descent: Jul 13, 2008; We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

Pham Nuwen posted:

I graduated over 10 years ago and I can still rattle off my 9-digit student ID number. I don't even remember what we used it for besides registering for classes but by god it still leaps to mind.

My college also used a 9-digit student ID number. Care to guess what they used? (Hint: Every student already had one and I'm sure it made a very convenient primary key for their database table.)

# ? Mar 12, 2021 15:40

madeintaipei: Jul 13, 2012

Powered Descent posted:

My college also used a 9-digit student ID number. Care to guess what they used? (Hint: Every student already had one and I'm sure it made a very convenient primary key for their database table.)

That's an awful idea.

For non-US posters: our ID numbers in the Social Security system are nine digits long. It's something you use fairly often but don't really want floating around.

# ? Mar 12, 2021 16:25

Trabant: Nov 26, 2011; All systems nominal.

It wasn't until the mid-aughts that my school stopped making people's email addresses in the format (initials)(last 4 digits of SSN)@fightingdipshits.edu.

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Anyway, I got a relic and posted it in the purchases thread:

Trabant posted:

I bought an old label maker off eBay:

It's still pretty accurate though:

It doesn't belong in the obsolete tech thread because there's nothing obsolete about it :colbert:

# ? Mar 12, 2021 16:28

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

My high school gave everyone an email address and a default password, so of course we worked out the schema for how the teachers email addresses were written and picked the oldest teacher (thus least likely to ever log in) and et voila we had access to the private teachers network share. Nothing particularly juicy on there, but all the ID card photos were there for the teachers so of course we stole those.

Kinda felt sorry for the miniscule IT department there trying to deal with 1,000 teenagers who were constantly trying to cause trouble on the computers. Still remember the day that knowledge of winpopup.exe spread around...

# ? Mar 12, 2021 16:47

Beve Stuscemi: Jun 6, 2001

6 digit icq number and I still remember it krew :hfive:

406850

# ? Mar 12, 2021 17:05

Data Graham: Dec 28, 2009; 📈📊🍪😋

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

6 digit icq number and I still remember it krew

406850

poo poo, lower than mine

I am bested

# ? Mar 12, 2021 17:05

Pham Nuwen: Oct 30, 2010

Trabant posted:

It wasn't until the mid-aughts that my school stopped making people's email addresses in the format (initials)(last 4 digits of SSN)@fightingdipshits.edu.

I actually think my school did that too up until about when I came in as a freshman. Your student ID was your SSN and your username was (initials)(last 4 of SSN), then they changed it so the student ID was 9 random digits and your username was (initials)(4 random digits).

Of course my SSN and a whole ton of other equally sensitive information was stolen in the OPM breach not too long after I graduated...

# ? Mar 12, 2021 17:55

CaptainSarcastic: Jul 6, 2013

I just checked and I had a 9-digit ICQ number. I was a late adopter, I guess.

# ? Mar 13, 2021 01:38

Pretty good: Apr 16, 2007

EL BROMANCE posted:

My high school gave everyone an email address and a default password, so of course we worked out the schema for how the teachers email addresses were written and picked the oldest teacher (thus least likely to ever log in) and et voila we had access to the private teachers network share. Nothing particularly juicy on there, but all the ID card photos were there for the teachers so of course we stole those.

Kinda felt sorry for the miniscule IT department there trying to deal with 1,000 teenagers who were constantly trying to cause trouble on the computers. Still remember the day that knowledge of winpopup.exe spread around...

I went to a boarding school that disabled web browsing during homework time (7-9PM) and overnight (10PM-9AM), but teachers' accounts had no such restriction, so as long as you had their login details in your browser's proxy settings you were golden. One of my classmates watched our sweet older french teacher slowly peck out her password one day and we were good for late nights spent dicking around online until like three years later when some enterprising young computer toucher found everyone's passwords stored in plaintext and left printed copies of the dump all over school, which prompted mandatory password changes every term from then on.

# ? Mar 13, 2021 03:47

vdarknight: Jul 4, 2007

148068 is my ICQ number. I can still remember the password.
Absolutely none of my contacts are active.

In terms of tech relics, I've put money on a kickstarter for the Spectrum Next - a new old computer. It can even connect to the internet and has more than two colours per square - the future has arrived!

# ? Mar 13, 2021 16:01

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

vdarknight posted:

148068 is my ICQ number. I can still remember the password.
Absolutely none of my contacts are active.

In terms of tech relics, I've put money on a kickstarter for the Spectrum Next - a new old computer. It can even connect to the internet and has more than two colours per square - the future has arrived!

Be sure to post about it when you get it. It was a bit too rich for my liking (and had no real history with speccys) Looks like a well made product.

# ? Mar 15, 2021 11:49

Sweevo: Nov 8, 2007; i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

I ordered one too. I was in two minds about the Kickstarter the first time around and ended up passing on it since previous attempts at new Spectrum hardware just led to a bunch of drama (Vega+), but the Next team delivered with minimal issues, so I signed up to the second Kickstarter as soon as it went live.

One thing I really like about the Spectrum scene is nobody gives a poo poo about original media. Cassettes were so easily copied back in the day, and the scene embraced emulation very early. Everything is dumped and available online with the full blessing of the original publishers. So you never got the problem that plagues other platforms of idiots with too much money hoarding all the rare stuff just so nobody else can have it, and crying about " :qq:

MY INVESTMENT!" when someone else dumps a game they paid three/four figures for.

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# ? Mar 15, 2021 12:21

Plinkey: Aug 4, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Powered Descent posted:

My college also used a 9-digit student ID number. Care to guess what they used? (Hint: Every student already had one and I'm sure it made a very convenient primary key for their database table.)

yeah, my SSN was on every single exam that I took

I dont think they started a studentID thing until after I graduated

# ? Mar 15, 2021 13:28

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

Plinkey posted:

yeah, my SSN was on every single exam that I took

I dont think they started a studentID thing until after I graduated

I think up until about 10 years ago, when you got your driver's license in Kansas, you had the option to use your SSN or a state determined number.

I think you could do the same in Ohio up until recently as well.

# ? Mar 15, 2021 13:37

Gonz: Dec 22, 2009; "Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

# ? Mar 16, 2021 09:42

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Gonz posted:

https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1359855178472697856

LOL I worked for Melbourne House/Beam

# ? Mar 16, 2021 10:29

GrandMaster: Aug 15, 2004; laidback

Kwah is prettttttty prettty good

# ? Mar 18, 2021 11:10

vdarknight: Jul 4, 2007

Humphreys posted:

Be sure to post about it when you get it. It was a bit too rich for my liking (and had no real history with speccys) Looks like a well made product.

Will do. It's kind of dumb as I can already play the games on my pc or my phone, ffs.
But.. I'm a die-hard speccy user (which is bizarre if I think about it, so I don't) and am looking forward to a computer that can do stuff which is already outdated.
Having said that, I'm a big fan of seeing what people can achieve with limited RAM & processor speed - some of the demos are just astonishing to me, knowing what these dead machines could not do, and then they go and do it and then surpass it. Just necromancy as far as I can tell.

# ? Mar 18, 2021 12:43

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

vdarknight posted:

Will do. It's kind of dumb as I can already play the games on my pc or my phone, ffs.
But.. I'm a die-hard speccy user (which is bizarre if I think about it, so I don't) and am looking forward to a computer that can do stuff which is already outdated.
Having said that, I'm a big fan of seeing what people can achieve with limited RAM & processor speed - some of the demos are just astonishing to me, knowing what these dead machines could not do, and then they go and do it and then surpass it. Just necromancy as far as I can tell.

LOL I get ya, I have at last count 8 different PS1s and 6 Xboxes.... I found an Atari 5200 I didn't even know I owned in a cleanup the other week.

# ? Mar 18, 2021 13:43

Admiral Joeslop: Jul 8, 2010

I'm not caught up on the Retro Games thread so I'm dumping this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5UX5xd-lE

# ? Mar 22, 2021 23:36

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Admiral Joeslop posted:

I'm not caught up on the Retro Games thread so I'm dumping this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b5UX5xd-lE

Link me please! I have wonders to share!

# ? Mar 23, 2021 09:56

Admiral Joeslop: Jul 8, 2010

Humphreys posted:

Link me please! I have wonders to share!

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3837622

# ? Mar 23, 2021 12:44

Winty: Sep 22, 2007

This is the first website I ever browsed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEH2fk0ONag

# ? Mar 26, 2021 04:06

longview: Dec 25, 2006; heh.

It took a while to get here but I can now confirm that a Centrecom MX20T AUI adapter (and probably most equivalents) does in fact work with a modern network.

Speed is actually pretty good, peaked at 4 Mbit/s with the Novell Etherport IINL card (with the glorious 64k cache upgrade installed).

# ? Mar 26, 2021 09:07

You Am I: May 20, 2001; Me @ your poasting

Did some work on my old Apple //e Platinum today. Recapped the PSU, tested the DuoDisk drive unit and gave the heads a clean on it (seems to be working fine) and installed a Booti card.

The Booti card allows most disk images for the // series to be run off an USB stick drive. There's some stuff it can't run, but with my lack of knowledge on OSes for the // series, I get confused with ProDOS and DOS 3.3 stuff.

All in all it is all working fine. Happy the Applecolor monitor is working, it is a rare thing in Australia. Even the analogue joystick I got this month works fine with it, even though in one section of the cable it has been cut apart and there's bare wires.

# ? Mar 27, 2021 08:04

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

You Am I posted:

Did some work on my old Apple //e Platinum today. Recapped the PSU, tested the DuoDisk drive unit and gave the heads a clean on it (seems to be working fine) and installed a Booti card.

The Booti card allows most disk images for the // series to be run off an USB stick drive. There's some stuff it can't run, but with my lack of knowledge on OSes for the // series, I get confused with ProDOS and DOS 3.3 stuff.

All in all it is all working fine. Happy the Applecolor monitor is working, it is a rare thing in Australia. Even the analogue joystick I got this month works fine with it, even though in one section of the cable it has been cut apart and there's bare wires.

That's purdy

# ? Mar 27, 2021 14:18

Collateral Damage: Jun 13, 2009

EL BROMANCE posted:

ICQ IDs are permanently etched into our minds.

This is the truth. I need a calendar reminder for my parents' and siblings' birthdays, but I can instantly repeat the ICQ number I haven't used in over a decade.

e: 7 digits, however I don't remember the password and I'm pretty sure whatever email I used to sign up is long defunct.

Collateral Damage has a new favorite as of 17:01 on Mar 27, 2021

# ? Mar 27, 2021 16:55

EL BROMANCE: Jun 10, 2006; COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬

Collateral Damage posted:

This is the truth. I need a calendar reminder for my parents' and siblings' birthdays, but I can instantly repeat the ICQ number I haven't used in over a decade.

e: 7 digits, however I don't remember the password and I'm pretty sure whatever email I used to sign up is long defunct.

They should do their bit and change their birthdays so they happen to be your ICQ ID.

# ? Mar 28, 2021 03:17

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# ? Mar 28, 2021 05:19

Pretty good: Apr 16, 2007

Winty posted:

This is the first website I ever browsed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEH2fk0ONag

Oh god http://www.cowdance.com/ still exists

# ? Mar 28, 2021 05:54

Shai-Hulud: Jul 10, 2008; But it feels so right!; Lipstick Apathy

Collateral Damage posted:

This is the truth. I need a calendar reminder for my parents' and siblings' birthdays, but I can instantly repeat the ICQ number I haven't used in over a decade.

e: 7 digits, however I don't remember the password and I'm pretty sure whatever email I used to sign up is long defunct.

I lost my original ICQ number because they actually didn't require an email address to sign up early on so when i forgot the password there was no way to recover it

# ? Mar 30, 2021 08:14

longview: Dec 25, 2006; heh.

Mac update:
I now have AppleTalk file sharing over Ethernet working!
A huge improvement over FTP for sure.

I tried using netatalk but couldn't get the old 2x version with old school AppleTalk support running on my modern server. Using a Raspberry Pi for that would probably be the sane way to do it.

However, the Classic Mac Networking bible offers another solution, Windows 2000 Advanced Server!
So now I have a nice Hyper-V instance running 2000 server (no internet access), with AppleShare for the Mac and SMB (v1) mounting for the modern computer.
Only catch: the 7.6.1 default install would hang the Mac when accessing the server.
An upgrade to AppleShare Client 3.8.1 (apparently the latest version) sorted that out, and it mounts perfectly now!

Could just be me, but performance seems way better than FTP with Fetch 3, and it can transparently sort out the resource fork stuff (which does make for a messy file view on the Windows side).
I can even run applications directly off the file server, amazing stuff!

# ? Apr 1, 2021 00:49

Computer viking: May 30, 2011; Now with less breakage.

Oh that's neat - from back when MS added weird and unexpected things to win server. (Not that WSL wouldn't sound absolutely crazy even to people who were aware of Interix). For maximum madness you could use one of the weird architectures - I think the betas of 2000 desktop ran on Alpha, though I don't know about Server. I think PowerPC was only supported up to NT4, though, and I don't think the ppc macs had the right platform design to run Windows?

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# ? May 25, 2024 04:26

Humbug Scoolbus: Apr 25, 2008; The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, stern and wild ones, and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.; Clapping Larry

I just wound up with an 020 NeXT Pizzabox mobo. It is going on the wall of my office.

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