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Humphreys posted:Speaking of wondering what was on HDDs Funny you mention that, I just got a box of floppies from eBay (because in 2022 that’s how you have to get floppies) and this was in it  Fortunately (for the perp who’s evidence was on that disk), the eBay seller had mass degaussed the disks and the data was long gone Beve Stuscemi has a new favorite as of 14:45 on May 29, 2022 |
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May 29, 2022 14:42
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Holy poo poo! I was a bit worried but my statements that he is smarter than his age hold true. Thankfully. Go son go!
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May 29, 2022 14:56
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Sam is a smart motherfucker and knows when he doesn't know something and is not afraid to ask for help. His Patreon posts are always really entertaining.
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May 29, 2022 15:07
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barbecue at the folks posted:Sharopolis has a video up on what was actually possible with the Famicom Basic. Interesting stuff, I don't think I've seen any of this before elsewhere: USB back then was just 1.0 or whatever? 11Mbps, good for keyboards and 16 MB flash drives FireWire is 400mbps, and after USB 2.9 you got FireWire 800 which… yeah basically two FW plugs fused together lol. Stupid fast though.
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May 29, 2022 15:31
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LOL this guy is something else.
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May 29, 2022 16:20
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Absolute legendary clapback
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May 29, 2022 16:37
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In my quest for getting older devices online, I got an old thing. New, and in box. $100 on Ebay. The box itself was a bit sunbleached but it was clear it had not been opened. The seller had packed it in the original box they got from HP from the firesale of these things.  Seeing these with speaker grills that are not cracked. Amazing. I plugged it in, and saw the battery light on the home button turn on. But the power button did nothing. Waited an hour and tried again, nothing. Three hours, nothing. Started looking online and it turns out that if the battery ever goes flat on these things, you will, most likely, need to reformat the battery. You either need to run tpdebrick (which still works!) and once that's done, wait a full 24+ hours for the battery to fully recharge. When the battery charge light goes off, I pushed the button and then it turned on. Nice! Of course, there was one dead pixel, but whatever.   Now the new problem. The Touchpad requires you to turn on Wifi so it can download the terms and conditions from HP... those are long dead. So now, as far as I can tell, I'm SOL. I can't get past this screen. The only thing I can think of doing is setting up a proxy and redirecting those terms and service to my own server to get past it. Eh, once step at a time. edit: Turns out, this is a solved problem. Let's see if this works... Edit 2  It works! Drastic Actions has a new favorite as of 17:49 on May 29, 2022 |
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May 29, 2022 17:21
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F4rt5 posted:USB back then was just 1.0 or whatever? 11Mbps, good for keyboards and 16 MB flash drives There was a very brief period where it made more sense to network my file server to my media machine directly with FW800 than loop them both through gigabit Ethernet. I don't remember how or why. It may have just been that I could get FW800 cards cheaper than gigabit cards, or that the onboard gigabit would die under sustained load. I basically turned the fileserver into an overbuilt DAS.
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May 29, 2022 17:41
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Gravid Topiary posted:except the scat-play guy's hard-drive, i really didn't probe too deeply into that one (it was a Seagate) Still a shittier drive than its contents.
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May 29, 2022 20:11
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evobatman posted:Still a shittier drive than its contents. Scatgate.
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May 29, 2022 20:28
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May 29, 2022 21:10
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Now that was a module with some style through and through e: din’t notice all the other stuff going on at first, wow F4rt5 has a new favorite as of 21:51 on May 29, 2022 |
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May 29, 2022 21:48
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First of May posted:Absolute legendary clapback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWACB04iKT8 Humphreys has a new favorite as of 03:08 on May 31, 2022 |
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May 31, 2022 03:06
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Humphreys posted:Jesus...I'm not spending $100. Oh well, guess I gotta check the pawn shops and get lucky I have a few of these and they work great. Only about 40 dollars shipped. I useSata SSDs in them. https://www.newegg.com/p/1E8-01B5-00001?Description=firewire&cm_re=firewire-_-9SIAKDZJ2F9191-_-Product
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Toupee Groupie posted:I have a few of these and they work great. Only about 40 dollars shipped. I useSata SSDs in them. Looks perfect! I'll try to find one in Australia (you weren't to know)
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Jun 1, 2022 10:28
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Drastic Actions posted:In my quest for getting older devices online, I got an old thing. New, and in box. I completely bought into WebOS and miss it very much.
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Jun 1, 2022 16:30
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I rescued an old GPS rackmount clock from the trash at work and wanted to use it as a desk clock, I got it to lock onto the GPS signal with a generic antenna but  oops i doubt the defunct vendor from 1999 is going to release a fix
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Jun 1, 2022 16:57
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If the company went defunct in 1999, how would it have a bug introduced in 2019?
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Jun 1, 2022 17:09
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Cojawfee posted:If the company went defunct in 1999, how would it have a bug introduced in 2019? It may not have that particular gpsd bug, for instance there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_week_number_rollover I haven't looked into it but I wouldn't be surprised if the gpsd bug was in some way related to that.
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Jun 1, 2022 17:15
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Cojawfee posted:If the company went defunct in 1999, how would it have a bug introduced in 2019? that's why you never gently caress around with abandonware.
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Oh I see now. I guess that was built to handle the first rollover but not any others. After subtracting out the two 1024 week rollovers there have been so far, it's at about 164 weeks which would make it be October 16, 2002 from the August 21, 1999 rollover. But you'd think if they had known about the first rollover, they would have implemented the ability to set a new epoch to handle that bug.
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Jun 1, 2022 17:45
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Drastic Actions posted:In my quest for getting older devices online, I got an old thing. New, and in box. Hah, that brings back some memories. Mostly how HP hosed me on support so badly I haven't bought a single device from them since, and recommended friends and family stay away from them too. I've got grudges older than most of my computers at this point.
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Jun 2, 2022 04:32
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Our whole office got in on those tablets. The local Harvey Norman was fireselling the firesale at $50 each.
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Jun 2, 2022 12:04
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https://www.patreon.com/re_aol Pretty cool. People figured out how to use custom servers for the old aol software They made a win32 aol3 installer too so you don't need to use a vm or anything. Very early stages but fits right in with this thread for sure.
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Jun 3, 2022 00:58
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Did anyone ever make a portable CD player that connected to a mobile phone? I'm not sure why it would exist, but it feels like is should have?
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Blooster posted:https://www.patreon.com/re_aol Wasn't there someone several years back who found a bunch of ancient but still accessible AOL walled garden stuff?
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You may be thinking of the big scrape the Archive Team did of AOL's servers - I can't remember if this was before AOL finally shut down for good or if someone discovered some forgotten database that was still accessible. Either way I wonder if it's possible for the reAOL people were able to integrate that stuff into their software.
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Jun 3, 2022 04:35
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"You've got mail!" but now it's a hundred times per second, every second, overlapping, forever.
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Jun 3, 2022 04:41
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Billy Ray Blowjob posted:Did anyone ever make a portable CD player that connected to a mobile phone? I had a weird combo back in 2002 when I was in the military. A Teac (I think) CD Walkman that actually could burn audio from a Line-in. Paired with my Nokia 5510 that had USB and headphone out means I could technically transfer files from my email account and play them on the MP3 player function of the phone into the CD Walkman.
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Jun 3, 2022 08:47
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brugroffil posted:Wasn't there someone several years back who found a bunch of ancient but still accessible AOL walled garden stuff? Yeah that was because there was some server somewhere still hosting that ancient stuff. When Verizon bought AOL like 2 years ago, they finally pulled the plug (even though much of the walled garden stuff hadn't been updated since the early 2000s) It looks like with Re-AOL they will have a combo of old keyword data and new stuff made by the community. They are also working on Compuserve and Prodigy. https://discord.com/invite/reaol Porfiriato posted:Either way I wonder if it's possible for the reAOL people were able to integrate that stuff into their software. Yep they are! Making "new" content too (updating the news keywords to have up-to-date stuff for example, but old classic stuff like keyword: TOYOTAwould just be whatever it was last before AOL died)
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Oh man, I forgot about "Go to AOL keyword 'cancer' to learn more" on commercials and print ads.
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Jun 5, 2022 22:46
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Cojawfee posted:Oh man, I forgot about "Go to AOL keyword 'cancer' to learn more" on commercials and print ads. It was especially odd getting it when you lived somewhere AOL never had a presence - I grouped it together with "dial 1-800-WORD" as fancy foreign American things.
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Yeah those keywords rarely worked in the UK on AOL.
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Jun 6, 2022 00:58
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Well it wasn't called UKOL
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Jun 6, 2022 01:09
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Genuinely surprised they didn’t try brand it as that, mind.
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Jun 6, 2022 01:10
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I found an old 64 mb flash drive of mine that has some aol .art files on it and I'm really curious what they might be but i can't find a single aol cd to install so i can check. I do have a floppy but I'm pretty sure it was overwritten and i can't find my external floppy drive within my vast hoard of garbage
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Jun 6, 2022 01:21
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As a possible alternative, wikipedia says internet explorer pre June 2006 can open art files.
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Jun 6, 2022 01:30
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This supposedly converts them, but I don't have an .art file to test if it's legitimate. https://www.aconvert.com/image/art-to-tiff/
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I miss the days of old script kiddy AOL client hacks like AOHell and others. Most of their features were childish at best (like flooding some one IMs with down) to completely useless (things that were supposed to give you admin powers or whatever but didn't work) I still think of AOHell everytime I hear Snoop Dogg.
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