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No clue, a tiny linux install maybe? e: the worst snipe
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an actual frog posted:god that owns so much. Sure it was a disastrous, failed product but just look at it You can sign up for those in the US too, usually for a small fee. They call it "Overdraft protection" or something.
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Aug 23, 2022 15:29
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History Comes Inside! posted:Win 7 was like 10gb installed clean what the gently caress were you even going to put on that if I could pick one up for like sub-$10 I have an old Acer Revo I would love to slap it into for giggles.
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Aug 23, 2022 15:35
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Tech relics: an entire rear end SSD that is 8gb for some reason I vaguely recall that small SSDs were popular upgrades for netbook enthusiasts back in ‘07 or so to make for a somewhat-useful proto-Chromebook.
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Aug 23, 2022 16:28
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Alrighty a little different here, was going to see what my "max effort" 486 build would look like with what I have on hand; Test rig: AMD 5x86 133mhz, ADZ Stepping. No-name SIS PCI mobo. 16mb of 60ns FPM. I can't get it to post at 200mhz, and this mobo isn't the greatest for overclocking so we will test some FSB overclocking. First run; 4x40mhz @ 160Mhz  Second run; 3x50mhz @ 150Mhz  Note the higher memory R/W speeds, goes along with the higher FSB. But the VRAM thoughoput takes a huge hit, likely from the PCI bus getting throttled down for the 50mhz FSB. Doom showed 36.3 FPS for the 40x4 vs 32.5 for the 50x3. Going to tune it a bit and go from there. Next comparo will be Cyrix DX2/66 vs contemporary AMD DX2/66, probably going to see if they will take 80 and see what happens.
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Aug 23, 2022 18:03
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Tech relics: an entire rear end SSD that is 8gb for some reason serial number: ADOLF
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Aug 23, 2022 18:30
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Horace posted:serial number: ADOLF 88 gb drive
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Aug 23, 2022 19:41
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BigFactory posted:88 gb drive Not big enough to be a final solution to my storage problems. I'm sorry
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Aug 24, 2022 08:39
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This dumb drive always tells me I have exactly 14 files but I know I stuffed more in there!
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Aug 24, 2022 14:18
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Neito posted:You can sign up for those in the US too, usually for a small fee. They call it "Overdraft protection" or something. Yeah, I'm in the US and every bank I've ever used has let me choose between overdraft protection or just having the transaction be declined if there aren't enough funds. I still do 99% of my purchases on a credit card because the rewards program is basically free money and there are more protections if a scammer or scummy business tries to pull something lovely.
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Aug 24, 2022 17:26
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Cathoderaydude and CuriousMarc need to do a colab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBpleXMTuz8
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Aug 24, 2022 17:59
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Aug 25, 2022 06:12
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Ooh cool kb+m+vga switcher setup.
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Aug 25, 2022 07:51
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I remember stumbling across a bootleg CD that had a remarkably complete Dark Forces packed in with dozens of other games. The thing was titled Space Games and although I have tried to find out any information about it it is apparently long since a thing of legend. I can still hear the cracktro music.
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Aug 25, 2022 08:38
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The game disk on top of one tower and Linux admin books in the bookshelf tell a story I recognize.
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Aug 25, 2022 10:33
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I owned that monitor in high school. It was pretty good, but I sorta regret spending $80 to ship it cross-country to college given that I picked up two huge Sun CRTs for free within a month or two and never used that monitor again.
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Aug 25, 2022 17:47
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Those AOpen cases were so nice to work on. Rolled edges, well built, always liked doing a build in one of them
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Aug 26, 2022 02:45
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I remember back in the 90s a zip file brute force password cracker could obliterate a 4 digit code in seconds, and 5 was doable but 6 is out of the question if you wanted to use the computer again. Kinda curious if anyone ever updated the tools for modern multi core tech to finally open these files with forgotten passes.
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Aug 26, 2022 02:48
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I have some cryptex (cryptext?) encoded files from the early 2000’s that I have long since forgotten the password to that I’d love to brute force, but I’m not even sure if anyone makes software to do that these days. I’d imagine modern solutions could leverage GPU power and such as well?
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Aug 26, 2022 02:59
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EL BROMANCE posted:I remember back in the 90s a zip file brute force password cracker could obliterate a 4 digit code in seconds, and 5 was doable but 6 is out of the question if you wanted to use the computer again. Kinda curious if anyone ever updated the tools for modern multi core tech to finally open these files with forgotten passes. Jim Silly-Balls posted:I have some cryptex (cryptext?) encoded files from the early 2000’s that I have long since forgotten the password to that I’d love to brute force, but I’m not even sure if anyone makes software to do that these days. Hashcat is your friend.
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I was hopeful but it looks like hashcat might not work on cryptext https://hashcat.net/forum/thread-3902.html
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Aug 26, 2022 03:25
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Yeah, digital forensics can use networked GPU-loaded systems for password attacks. My last work had a bunch of dual-processor units with workstation Nvidia cards just for that purpose (the cards, that is. We used the boxes for other stuff as well). Used the forensic version of the Passware kit mostly.
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Aug 26, 2022 05:23
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From osnews, here's the nerdiest of nerds talking about random dead OSes and hardware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RNbIEJvjUA
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Aug 26, 2022 11:43
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I just received OS upgrades for my Amiga computers. That's good support when a 30+ year old computer still has an actively developed OS.
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Aug 26, 2022 11:49
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Computer viking posted:From osnews, here's the nerdiest of nerds talking about random dead OSes and hardware: You might like the FreeDOS channel. Technically not a relic as it's a project under active development but it really feels like a labor of love.
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Aug 26, 2022 12:38
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lobsterminator posted:I just received OS upgrades for my Amiga computers. That's good support when a 30+ year old computer still has an actively developed OS.
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Aug 26, 2022 12:46
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Computer viking posted:From osnews, here's the nerdiest of nerds talking about random dead OSes and hardware: I say this every time but, RIP BeOS, you were too good and beautiful for this world Also your CEO massively overvalued you in front of Steve Jobs, but that’s another story
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Aug 26, 2022 12:59
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FilthyImp posted:Well, what the gently caress did they patch?! There's actually a lot of small QoL fixes in the UI to make it feel more modern. And they also add native support for large volumes (4GB+), which previously needed a 3rd party driver. And they added scroll wheel support. And native support for handling ADF files (the common Amiga disk image file format). So it's a really nice update for modern users.
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Aug 26, 2022 14:08
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FilthyImp posted:Well, what the gently caress did they patch?! Probably runs the same and now has sponsored content live in the OS!
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I found my old Logitech Dual Optical in a box a while ago and plugged it in for the heck of it and it worked fine, but the rubbery mouse wheel turned all gooey to an unfixable degree. It was crazy how much more responsive and accurate it felt than my old Intellimouse Explorer. I swear this was the last time a mouse upgrade meant anything.
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Aug 26, 2022 17:52
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Happy 40th birthday Commodore 64  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd_yiMhu1DM I've always wondered how US folks remember the 1980s. Everyone remembers the Apple II and Ataris, but Commodores sold millions over there as well, so why is Commodore nostalgia such an Euro thing only? 
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Aug 26, 2022 19:21
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barbecue at the folks posted:Happy 40th birthday Commodore 64 IDK about Atari, but Apple gave sweetheart deals to pretty much every school who wanted it, so "Playing on an Apple ][/Playing on a Mac" is a universal school memory for a lot of people in the generation likely to post on SA.
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Aug 26, 2022 19:26
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I am in the US, and I was born and raised on the C64. We got it from my computer nerd uncle, and my dad and I did a lot of bonding over that thing. Also I never beat Impossible Mission until college l, because kid me could not figure it out and who had manuals or even retail disks at all lmao e. born in 82, for reference
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Aug 26, 2022 19:37
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US, born in 83.. Didn't know anyone who had a Commodore or had I even heard of them until probably sometime in high school. Everyone I knew had either Apple II (all the local school systems used them as well), or DOS machines. And that is what I grew up with. Our schools used Apple II's (with a smattering of DOS/Windows 3.11 machines) all the way until my last year of middle school in the late 90s. By the time I was in high school they had mostly switched to generic white box PCs running Windows NT4.
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Aug 26, 2022 19:53
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I lived in California, so everything was apple when I was a kid. We had a computer lab full of mac's, and at least 2-3 in each classroom in my elementary school.
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It is funny, as the retro computer world definitely seems like its nostalgia hits the hardest in the U.K., but just between me and my two best friends of the era when we were all young kids with 1980s computers we had Commodore, Atari, and Apple represented, and each always claiming his was totally the best, actually, despite what anyone else might think. And secretly I liked all three, which was clearly the right path to take. I mean where I lived anyway Commodore software was easy to find at the time, whereas Apple and Atari were more a crap shoot, so I definitely assumed Commodore was a big deal here too. Might have been more regional than I realized then or now, given the claims that California was heavily Apple which makes sense yet I never considered before
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Aug 26, 2022 20:02
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We also had a ton of Apple systems in my school in rural Washington. My memories are vague but I actually think we had Apple IIgs systems in the elementary school computer lab for a while. My biggest impression was that they seemed slow and felt different from the compact Macs we had in the classrooms... for some reason I think they were netbooted. I think they got a new batch of all new Macs a couple years after I was out of elementary.
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Aug 26, 2022 20:10
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I sing the "keeping up with the commodore" jingle every time I power up my C64.
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https://twitter.com/WindowsDocs/status/1560651634035740673
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Yes but I am 100% sure you would have felt like you could take over the world when you brought that bad boy home
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