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r u ready to WALK posted:I have fond memories of my old computer janitor job when I got a ticket complaining about the network being unusably slow, while troubleshooting I suddenly noticed the network hub collision LED being lit up solid. So you were killing independent thought and the spirit of entrepreneurship is what you're saying.
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r u ready to WALK posted:Turns out twisted pair doesn’t work every well without actually twisting the pairs. 
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q/ne sorry
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dobbymoodge posted:Surely you mean 100BASE-TX? That's when it became ubiquitous. I've at least never encountered a 100BTX adapter or switch that didn't do auto MDI-X (that I know of). Sorry, I meant Auto MDI-X. And my experience with 100Mbit gear - which presumably was 100BASE-TX - was that it definitely wanted crossover cables; it didn't start magically working without them until the gbit gear came in. I don't know if that was a side effect of working with the lowest end trash in people's gaming PCs instead of enterprise gear, though?
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Beve Stuscemi posted:When I started college the entire network was running on hubs, including the dorms, so it was to your benefit to be online when no one else was, because the more people who were on the network, the more collisions happened, and the slower everything went also you got copies of everyone else's packets which was a lot more exciting in the days before ubiquitous encryption
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That too, I definitely sniffed the traffic for SMB shares. Got tons of movies and music at 100mb ethernet speeds that way
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Since not everyone is into networking, that means you effectively had a full wiretap of every single computer on your chunk of the network. Same thing was true of public wifi back in the day, there were programs that would show you every image that was being loaded by anyone in realtime, you could snoop urls and any data being sent in either direction, and there were tools that would let you hijack session cookies to imitate someone logged in to any site they were actively using
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At the last place I worked I kept finding Bay Networks hubs all over the goddamn place. Under desks, behind desks, behind printers, inside a hole cut out of the drywall. Everywhere!
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Feb 13, 2024 18:40
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Ahh, promiscuous mode 
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r u ready to WALK posted:I have fond memories of my old computer janitor job when I got a ticket complaining about the network being unusably slow, while troubleshooting I suddenly noticed the network hub collision LED being lit up solid. I've been known to do the opposite: make custom franken-plugs for existing cat 6 wall wiring, to carry a POTS line on the brown or blue pair, while the orange and green pairs carried the 100base-T network as normal. I was a little worried about interference, particularly when a big powerful RING signal came in, but it never seemed to be a problem. And wiring-chat is reminding me of the most pointless standards war ever: T568A vs. T568B. They're literally identical except for the color.
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Feb 13, 2024 18:47
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Is that a holdover from some sort of garden hose of color coded wire from the telephone days, where you could plausibly split one cable into many connections?
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Finland has sent a memorable yet far from good song to Eurovision again, and somehow this feels like the right thread for it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaIxsEPoS28 My apologies. Also beware flashing images.
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Computer viking posted:Finland has sent a memorable yet far from good song to Eurovision again, and somehow this feels like the right thread for it. 
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The live performance lacks some of the snap of the music video, but to make up for that, it's a symphony in denim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf1NS1vEhSg
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Computer viking posted:Finland has sent a memorable yet far from good song to Eurovision again, and somehow this feels like the right thread for it. holy poo poo yes
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Computer viking posted:Finland has sent a memorable yet far from good song to Eurovision again, and somehow this feels like the right thread for it. What in the actual gently caress was that? I stopped paying attention to Eurovision in the mid 80's, and popular music in general in the mid 90's, so I'm obviously way, way out of touch. But what the gently caress? edit: Do people actually enjoy listening to this? And yes I know, old man yelling at clouds. cdc has a new favorite as of 22:12 on Feb 13, 2024 |
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Admittedly, it sounds more like 1997 than 1995. But yeah, popular music in Europe was like this at the time and a lot of Eurovision is back to leaning on that heritage now that the dubstep fad is mostly over.
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Computer viking posted:The live performance lacks some of the snap of the music video, but to make up for that, it's a symphony in denim. cdc posted:What in the actual gently caress was that? It's very authentic eurodance. Also, here's the official music video, and it's even better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaIxsEPoS28
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cdc posted:What in the actual gently caress was that? I mean, I'm not listening to it again but if you can't find joy in that madness then you might be dead.
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BlankSystemDaemon posted:Why are you mad at someone living their best life? I'm not mad, just really confused. BlankSystemDaemon posted:It's very authentic eurodance. That might the problem. Eurodance in the 90's was the primary reason I turned off my radio back then and never looked back.
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Gromit posted:I mean, I'm not listening to it again but if you can't find joy in that madness then you might be dead. Guess I am. I'll slink away and go back to my usual diet of jazz, prog rock and doom metal.
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In 2001?ish I worked at Best Buy and every 3? months they would get in new cds of store music to push whatever they wanted to sell and the cds were always 5 repeating tracks and I got to hear this like 20 times a day for months. It haunts me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXnpsBBBMo4
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I worked at an "educational" store and there were three big screen TVs at the back that blasted an assortment of Nineties Disney films all day. I've never actually watched any of those movies but the songs are burned into my brain.
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Dick Trauma posted:I worked at an "educational" store and there were three big screen TVs at the back that blasted an assortment of Nineties Disney films all day. I've never actually watched any of those movies but the songs are burned into my brain. My sisters did this to me with the Rent soundtrack.
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Computer viking posted:The live performance lacks some of the snap of the music video, but to make up for that, it's a symphony in denim. Did they seriously censor this man Austin Powers-style during a live performance using smoke, dancers, a clipboard, and audience member heads?? 
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With the networking chat at the top of the page, a fellow network engineer of mine did a conceptual ISP entirely hosted on the cheapest cloud compute infrastructure he could. He did a NOG talk about it, and his final slide was details to connect to it via dial up
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an actual frog posted:Our man says "no rules" but this absolutely does no, rules!
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SubG posted:They must've been SGIs, because fsn was an IRIX-only thing, and there wasn't a SPARC version of IRIX. I'm sure they were, that was thirty years ago and the memory is hazy. EVIL Gibson posted:Does anyone remember the time Ethernet just suddenly got better with cables? Speaking of networking ... my first corporate job was at a two hundred person office that used token ring as their network. Every other day a network loop would go down and I'd be sent to find out who unplugged their computer from the network. They used LANtastic to connect their computers together over it, which actually worked pretty well.
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wa27 posted:Did they seriously censor this man Austin Powers-style during a live performance using smoke, dancers, a clipboard, and audience member heads?? They did for the camera shots but if you look closely you can see he’s wearing very tiny skin-coloured shorts, he wasn’t actually naked. It’s a good effect for sure.
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Speaking of ROM chips, what is the easy way to dump things like BIOS chips and things like the above mentioned PROM? Ideally I'm looking for some manner of USB device that can dump the contents of chips out to a modern computer The EPROM is either a 27c128 or 27c156  Make your own programmer: https://github.com/walhi/arduino_eprom27_programmer Desert Bus posted:Paging Humphreys I've been busy dumping and preserving some other devices lately.
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Can a 20 year old PDA with a built-in GPS still navigate the world? Some say no, but I say yes! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGIbuIbzXWQ Garmin really wanted to put a GPS into anything back in the early aughts. Tried really hard to see if the NavTalk phone beat the Benefon Esc! to market but all the results were inconclusive. kefkafloyd has a new favorite as of 16:58 on Feb 14, 2024 |
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Recapped my SE/30 last night and the sound works on it for the first time in like 5 years https://i.imgur.com/8ZDQf83.mp4
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Humphreys posted:Make your own programmer: I’ll check this out. Thanks!
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Truly, this page is enough for everybody. I do not miss the time on configuring autoexec.bat and command.com and especially not when there's no way in 1994 to figure out how this .batshit insanity works in the first place. My only source of configs were friends and I have no idea how they got theirs either.
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Throwback to when I was lauded a boy wonder computer genius for “fixing” our neighbour’s “broken” laptop by typing “win” in the command prompt. I feel like if i’d known about autoexec.bat I probably would’ve been handed an honorary computer science degree and a lead job at Microsoft.
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Laserjet 4P posted:I do not miss the time on configuring autoexec.bat and command.com and especially not when there's no way in 1994 to figure out how this .batshit insanity works in the first place. My only source of configs were friends and I have no idea how they got theirs either. Memmaker and other tools was a help for sure. Having 5MB RAM over the regular 4 definitely was some nice breathing room and gave enough of a boost to sometimes run 8MB minimum games.
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Laserjet 4P posted:I do not miss the time on configuring autoexec.bat and command.com and especially not when there's no way in 1994 to figure out how this .batshit insanity works in the first place. My only source of configs were friends and I have no idea how they got theirs either. And these skills would degrade quickly from lack of use, as I seem to recall when trying to figure out how I ever got both my mouse and CD-ROM drivers loaded at the same time without having too little memory free to run basically anything else
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Beve Stuscemi posted:Recapped my SE/30 last night and the sound works on it for the first time in like 5 years All these years later and eep still makes me laugh. I don't why. I miss the little whimsical touches of the original Macs and OS.
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