CubanMissile posted:

I used to do internet tech support for Cox in Las Vegas. When I moved to Reno I got the same job with Charter and told them "Listen, I don't do television support. I refuse. If the call center expects me to do anything other then transfer the customer to cable tv on a misrouted call tell me now and I just wont take the job. I'm not spending my days listening to old people complain until the end of time that now the picture takes a full second to load when they flip channels now that they have digital cable."

So things went fine for months and I started noticing that more and more cable tv calls were getting routed into my queue. At first I helped them because it was no big deal. Then it started getting worse. I asked a supervisor what was up and she said there was a problem with the phone system and calls weren't being routed properly. A month later still not fixed. I found out from another supervisor that my department was being dissolved and we were being transitioned into cable tv.

I don't like being lied to so I just stopped taking calls. One would come in and I would just hit hold without saying anything until the customer hung up. Spent the day playing emulators on my work PC. Figured that would last until the end of the week when my supervisor would look at my numbers and notice my hold times were the same as my times on a call. Three months later and the only reason I got caught was because one of my coworkers told on me.

Three-Phase posted:

I remember back on my parents old 486 it would count up and write out: "4,000,000 bytes memory OK" on boot

I watched a video on YouTube where a guy boots Debian on a SGI UV-1000 supercomputer.
It actually writes out: "2,148,407,935,424 bytes of system memory tested OK"

Humbug Scoolbus posted:

I loved our big C-Band dish. It came with the house and my dad and I spent a summer getting that thing running in the late-70s. Watching interstitial stuff during commercial breaks could be hilarious on national news feeds.

stevewm posted:

My grandparents also had a C-band dish in the early to mid ninties, but it was only pointed at one satellite, Galaxy 5. They got 24 channels which included most of the major cable networks at the time. All the channels where scrambled. They had a Uniden brand STB with a Video Chipher II+ access card in it. The provider they bought it from marketed it as "wireless cable" at the time.

Fake edit: Found the channel list! http://www.vincor.com/satchart/chart_g5c.html

Veotax posted:

As far as I understand it:

Vanilla Street Fighter 2: original game
Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Same game but faster
Super Street Fighter 2: SF2 with new characters but as slow as the original game
Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Super but faster


I have little interest in fighting games but that's what I've picked-up on over the years, so it's probably not entirely accurate and there are probably even more versions

GI_Clutch posted:

I really like this tweet I just read. But how can I share this with others? I know! I'll take a screenshot, apply a filter to it, then post it on facebook. If only there was an easier way...

Pham Nuwen posted:

The ol' Finnish Bookmark

Metal Geir Skogul posted:

Cojawfee posted:

I don't get it. The image would end up being too shaky to even watch.

big crush on Chad OMG posted:

See also: boats, bicycles, power tools

Gonz posted:

https://twitter.com/CoolBoxArt/status/1072009372505702401

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Just use Waze people. Geeze

CaptainSarcastic posted:

Clearly your house is haunted by 5v ghosts.

Computer viking posted:

Jesus, $79 for a copy of Settlers 3. I'll stop complaining about Switch game prices now.

SCheeseman posted:

Virtua Racing was more technically impressive than any SuperFX game, also better than most of them as a game too. Pretty expensive at the time, though.


Virtua Racing is good

Porfiriato posted:

I found a higher-res version and...maybe?



I was about to tag myself as the Visa with 15 out of 16 digits visible but then I noticed it includes "0123 4567 8900" in the card number. That did make me finally realize that the random dude having a pleasant conversation on the cordless phone is Lee Trevino, lol.

EL BROMANCE posted:

Back only in 2012 we used a piece of software and a TV tuner that would capture the entire band at once and pointed it at towards the city where we were holding Olympics soccer matches at the time. A bit of scrolling around and et voila, we had the control room audio feed coming on. The British team were playing that night and they made no pretense as to the favourites, and a big yell of ‘let’s loving go!’ at kickoff. Was fun hearing the camera changes just before they’d happen on the TV. Amazing it was all out in the clear, although only dorks like us would be looking for stuff like that.


We’re actually having this issue in my workplace with our VOIP phones interfering with the neighboring office somehow. Our provider is blaming the ISP and I’m sure I know who the ISP will blame.

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

Is yours not?

Wizard of the Deep posted:

Semi-related, I bought a couple of these computer tower carts last year for my desktops. They're width/depth (not height) adjustable, add a little bit of clearance off the ground (for airflow), and make moving things around for cleaning/wire rearraigning super easy. They're relatively cheap plastic & metal, but they're also practically invisible under the cases. All in all really happy with them and would buy them again for any new desktop towers I add to my daily use rotation.

an actual frog posted:

we mock his open carry but what if 8bitguy encounters a particularly stubborn, rare computer and needs to pop the case open?

Jim Silly-Balls posted:

I was gonna say, I loved the ads, I liked seeing the new cool stuff that teenage Jim silly-balls could never afford.

lobsterminator posted:

There is a longer time between 2022 and 2000 than 2000 and 1987 (MT-32 release). No wonder they are more expensive now.

But as an old man I feel your pain. Early 2000s feels like yesterday still.

3D Megadoodoo posted:

10/10 would play X-Com Apocalypse and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms Baldur's Gate on, while resting one foot on a half-opened drawer.

flavor.flv posted:

I bet that R2 unit is just screaming the whole time though

Gonz posted:

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rndmnmbr posted:

Flashbacks to the days of manually setting processor affinity because games didn't yet speak multiple cores and would throw all kinds of weird game play errors if you tried to run them on more than one core.

skooma512 posted:

Speaking of tech relics, Mechwarrior 2 goddamn. Great avatar.