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Plane-posting as we sit at the gate. They say there's some problem with paperwork. We'll see if it's that, or a case of "woops forgot this plane needs a total overhaul, good luck!" like the last time Southwest "delayed" my flight.
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Geirskogul posted:Speaking of peeps what happened to West Saab Story: Kindle Edition? Oh lord Megatokyo forums. I never posted there but I used to hang out on IRC with a lot of MTF posters and ex-posters like STL and Uller. I know at least one of them posts here too. edit: oh lord there's almost nobody in the channel any more Pham Nuwen fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Sep 2, 2015 |
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some texas redneck posted:Not all accident shows up on Carfax. install gentoo
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So it looks like I get to play some command prompt shenanigans and see how much more I can break it. At this point, worst case, I reinstall on top of the existing OS and do it as an "upgrade".
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Super Aggro Crag posted:I just ate some fully dressed chips. Super weird. What about Zesty Mordant?
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I had a recent (2015?) Kia Rio GDI as a rental for the last few days and I kind of liked it. I'd consider a 6 speed manual one for myself.
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mafoose posted:My $300 shitbox 323 is up to $480 including registration. I spent $40 and all day making a side exit exhaust for it to be emissions tested. Turns out since the car was purchased in October, I have to go through emissions again in one month... My $1100 shitbox apparently has two catalytic converters, one front and one rear, with a total replacement cost of $575 including labor. Gonna check Rockauto again because fuuuuuck thaaaaat.
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InitialDave posted:Do you actually need them? Well it doesn't pass smog, CO and hydrocarbons through the roof which apparently generally means carb, O2 sensor, or cat. I replaced my O2 sensor and will do the free retest soon to see if that helped. Carb appears to be mostly computer-tuned besides an idle adjustment screw. Otherwise I'm asking around for a less scrupulous emissions testing place.
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I had a reasonably productive afternoon working on the pickup. With the help of a big-rear end wrench as a prybar and my wife tightening down the sliding bolt, I finally got the alternator tensioned enough that my belt stopped squealing. It had been really bad yesterday because the rain caused it to make noise whenever I started from a stop, not just when I turned on the truck. Tracked down what seems to be the problem with the turn signals. When you push the handle to turn, it is meant to send ignition-switched power to the flasher, then route the flasher's signal out again toward the bulb. If you turn on the hazards, it takes fused battery power, sends it to the flasher, and sends that back out to both bulbs. The problem I'm having is that when signaling a turn, it's not connecting the ignition-switched power to the flasher module... no continuity between the pins. I see a connection between the flasher's signal return pin and the appropriate bulb pin, but not between power and the flasher. If I hit the hazard switch, I see a connection from battery power pin to flasher pin, because hazards work. I also discovered that the hose for the warm air intake was totally hosed on both ends, but it was that expanding drier-hose style so I just cut off the ends, stretched it, and clamped it back on. Then I grabbed the can of black semi-gloss and went over the bumpers, which appear to have been previously rattlecanned and were looking pretty faded. Looks good now; no pictures since it was getting dark. Then my wife and I went for African food, jerked chicken and injera with lentils, chicken, and collard greens  Good start to the 3 day weekend. Tomorrow, I'll try to teach myself how to hand-cut mortise and tenon joints so I can build our dining room table.
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Half-assed $20 bedliner job turned out decent: Masking and painting the tops of the bed really finished off the look. Little bit of seepage under the tape but I'm happy enough with how it turned out.
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mariooncrack posted:I did my first oil change yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=535Zy_rf4NU
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Mooseykins posted:You know how we all bitch about BMW drivers, but when we drive one we drive the same way? Vans are the same. The second you start them up you're automatically in oval office mode and it can't be switched off with the engine running. So do you do all your posting from inside the van or... 
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CommieGIR posted:http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html Beats PuTTY, although that's a pretty low bar. Too much decoration around the terminal IMO tho, menu bars and status lines and such. My ideal is just xterm running in a tiling window manager.
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This is the greatest terminal emulator ever for SSH. Ever.
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leica posted:gently caress pit bull owners they suck, and that's every pit bull owner's response after it mauls a child. They have that reputation for a reason, don't tell me how your pit bull is the nicest pit bull ever gently caress your god drat pit bull. He was making a joke about dog people.
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Raluek posted:You can't guess by the AR15 bolt face in his avatar? I thought that would be a dead giveaway what his conservative-leaning main issue might be. Guns own tho I'm finally out of California so I really should go shooting more. Hell, maybe I can even buy another pistol. Gotta tell the ATF I've moved, though, update my C&R license. China, IL is pretty goddamn awesome, and I'm depressed that I've almost finished the third season.
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Raluek posted:I'm not disputing that Sure! I just wanted to say guns are super cool. I typed up a political thing but I'd rather tell you about pizzas and cats since that annoys SAC so much. I don't have a cat but I do have a frozen pizza in the freezer...
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Sep 23, 2015 20:35
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CommieGIR posted:
I preferred to look on it as a tribute to 2001... But it was definitely heavily loving influenced.
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Sep 23, 2015 20:58
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Oh my god Rhyno look at the reviews for this place: Old West Comics and Games http://maps.google.com/?cid=16499544654449433639&hl=en&gl=us "Female"
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CommieGIR posted:As someone who is in the military and loves firearms: If the Government decided to come take your firearms, they would. They'd win. The second amendment is not going to stop that. We do not live in the age of Napoleonic tactics where anybody can go raise a small revolutionary group and expect to fight their government. Tell that to the Viet Cong, Hamas, ISIS, and the Taliban. Asymmetric Warfare is a thing and it's pretty shameful that someone in the military isn't familiar with it.
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Sep 23, 2015 21:36
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1500quidporsche posted:As somebody who inherited his grandfather's old hunting rifle but generally has zero interest in guns can somebody explain the motivation behind having something more substantive like a handgun or semi automatic weapon? I can't really comprehend any real world situation where you could use those and you can always rent them at those firing ranges. Primarily, you can't rent either out at the old gravel quarry where no old farts bitch at you for shooting too fast. Theoretically you could carry it for self defense in the case of a pistol but there's so many restrictions I never bothered.
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Sep 23, 2015 21:48
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Everyone shut the gently caress up with your political bullshit there are more important things afoot. The turtle in our back yard came back... To keep the dog from eating it I grabbed it and put it in a Tupperware storage box, now do I take it to the park by the river or keep it in an aquarium?
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scuz posted:Is it a BIG tortoise? It's like 5" long and has red dots all over its legs. It's going to town on a piece of lettuce ATM
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scuz posted:Bawwww. Snap some photos and release it into the wild. Sounds like a snapper, but I'm not a tortuga specialist. http://i.imgur.com/dIc40V2.jpg That's more or less our plan too, wife wants to see it when she gets home then we'll probably take it down by the Rio Grande and let it go. She thought the dog ate it weeks ago but I guess that was just some old turtle shell.
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scuz posted:The last project I had in the works got sold and I ran out of money. New job, though, so that means bus every day and maybe sell my shitbox to fund a fun summer-only whip. Buy an old British sports car and post in our thread... Or buy a Datsun 1600 and do the same, it's close enough.
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scuz posted:MGs pop-up on my local craigslist but they're all convertibles, and I hate those. Datsuns, however, look like a lot of fun! Old convertibles own, it's just a folding frame so it's not like it'll gently caress up that badly. The Datsun seems cool too tho.
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After an hour in the box the turtle decided to take a poo poo, hail Satan
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I wish Mr. Regular wasn't gonna ruin the Falcon by replacing the I6 with a V8  Nothing against the V8, it's just that every loving car at every loving meet is some old guy so proud that he--get this!--swapped the lame old flathead 6 for a SBC!
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Enourmo posted:At least he's using a SBF. v I saw your sneaky edit, motherfucker.
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Or I could really get a politics shitstorm going with "Hey guys I love SystemD!!! What about you?????" Choke on Poettering's nasty dick.
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Geoj posted:Anymore its as much for technical accomplishment as anything else, distributed computing has largely eclipsed individual supercomputing (and FWIW most new "supercomputers" are largely just a distributed computing setup with everything in the same datacenter.) I'm sure there's some things that need a shitload of raw processing power and can't be split up into smaller pieces of data to be processed by someone's home PC's spare CPU cycles or offloaded onto multiple purpose-built machines, but the need for a single god-tier supercomputer isn't nearly what it was 15-20 years ago. This is impressive in how assured yet absolutely wrong you are.
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Oh hey the forums aren't hosed anymore!
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I finally got around to watching the final episode of Top Gear last night and goddamn. That was maybe one of the best episodes I'd seen in a long time, maybe the best they ever did. For starters, leaving aside Jeremy's grumbling at the very beginning, they all seemed to be genuinely enjoying it. The two "films" were in the style I loved best: buy cheap old vehicles and go do stupid poo poo with them, breaking down from time to time. The classic sports car thing was great, although I swear for their "buy an old car" episodes they go out of their way to find something that'll break down constantly. I was honestly shocked that Hammond came in last on the race at the end, given that he had the best vehicle in the best shape and had more experience driving offroad (of course the outcome may have been pre-decided) And, best of all, they didn't have a "star in a reasonably priced car" segment! Shame it took them until the last episode to drop that bit. they also didn't have the bit with the newest supercar or whatever at the very beginning, with the wanky "intern just got his hands on After Affects" videography. Other people probably liked that part, though
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leica posted:Can someone explain to me what the gently caress the point of mass archiving threads is? lotta really good cuck jokes in newGBS, wouldn't want those to disappear.
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CommieGIR posted:2 years with my M6800, still love it and have next day warranty till 2017 The Thinkpad x61 I use when I need a laptop at work is almost 8 years old and going strong.
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CommieGIR posted:Python. Python is forever. 
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I went and dug through a warehouse full of old camera crap on Saturday and now I've got the black lung. Some sort of loving cough down in my lungs.
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Well the Mazda pickup is smoking like crazy now, didn't even go away like it usually does after I warmed it up and drove down the block. Some of the plugs look oily. I tested compression and it was 120 all around with one at 140ish. I'm thinking it has to be valve seals, a project I didn't want to do but at least it should be cheap?
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