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Humphreys posted:This kinda stuff. I could read these stories for days. Here you go: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/tag/history
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There used to be a guy who posted old MS stories in YOSPOS, are you the same guy Keith?The Kins posted:EDIT: Beaten lol That's what happens when you take the time to highlight some of the best content 
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Feb 6, 2016 11:18
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drunk asian neighbor posted:Remember Norton Change Disk? That looks like some sort of lame windows application. Should really be using FAR:  http://www.farmanager.com/
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Feb 9, 2016 15:24
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Gonzo the Eggman posted:Farm anager? Yes to manage my server farm
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Feb 11, 2016 20:06
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My employer paid for WinRar. Tbh it handles archives way better than windows does and obviously supports more formats so I'm quite happy they did.
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Feb 17, 2016 21:31
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^^^ Same ColoradoCleric posted:Well link us to something http://www.farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en
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Feb 18, 2016 16:43
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Makes sense because complete dead silence is rather unnatural and disconcerting, especially when they probably apply some sort of floor filter in order to reduce the bandwidth but ends up cutting out all of the natural noises you'd normally get like breathing, wind/movement and other background noises.
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Feb 24, 2016 18:50
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Police Automaton posted:Blame the NTSC standard and the USA's AC being 60 Hz. It does not really have any bearing on how things are now and is basically a legacy thing. Well, more FPS = better than, and it was a good target when you consider most consoles still struggled to hit 30.
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Mar 18, 2016 15:07
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Holy poo poo, I had this back in the day! Unfortunately it would always crash at some point through the game so I never finished it. I though it was pretty neat.
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Apr 24, 2016 18:41
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Weren't the "brown" complaints more of a mid-2000s thing though? While Quake was indeed very brown, from what I recall this mostly referred to slightly later games where everyone suddenly wanted to make them real and gritty by applying a ton of film grain and usually brown filters.
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Jun 12, 2016 18:19
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Original_Z posted:Wasn't there some really odd controversy after 911 that "NYC" in Wingdings has characters that could be construed as related to the 911 attacks or some bizarre nonsense like that?  And Q93NY, supposedly one of the flight numbers that didn't actually exist: 
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Jul 2, 2016 10:52
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It was basically the wild west. Just like the real one, it was kind of lovely, objectively, but on the other hand everything was new and exciting as everyone was discovering stuff at the same time. Now everything is trivial to find thanks to google so there's no sense of satisfaction from finding something interesting, and all the sites are the same boring web2.0 reactive bullshit anyway.
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Jul 2, 2016 12:40
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:What about things like lpt1 or whatever though? copy readme.txt con What does it do? There's no way for the system to know if you want to output this file to the console, or copy it to the folder with the same name. Exactly same problem with the other names.
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Jul 6, 2016 23:40
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^^^ That's amazing, unsurprisingly I had no idea Quake arcade was a thing. I would've played them too, since my computer at the time couldn't really run Quake at anything approaching usable speeds. On the other hand, this was around the time when internet cafes were becoming a thing here, so maybe they just realized they had no future with those. Not sure what version I tried it first, it was probably the normal 1.0 or whatever by that point. EvilGenius posted:I think the issue with this was that the college didn't have either application (it was a long time ago, my memory is hazy). Chainsaw spat out a .bat or an .exe file that stitched your files back together.  I think that was support from a very early version, though TBH I'm not sure when split archives were implemented and whether it was possible to combine them.
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Jul 7, 2016 15:19
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Humphreys posted:I woudl dearly love a new Android version of of the Nokia N97. Not the N97 mini either, the full size one with the D pad. Really wanted this one back in the day:  Despite some of the rough edges of WM at the time, it was a pretty drat powerful device and even had a 4 row keyboard, none of this 3-row bullshit. For some reason (probably cost), I ended up getting an S730 instead:  It didn't have a touchscreen, but the full numpad on the top place was great for dialing, typing short messages and searching contacts or apps. Still, the lack of touchscreen definitely limited it and I never managed to get GPS to work, which wasn't officially supported but was present on the chip. A few cracks eventually developed in the top cover, but the sliding mechanism still works very smoothly to this day. The keys are pretty firm but easily distinguishable and allowed me to touch-type under the table during class or meetings.
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I'm pretty sure a lot of phones supported working as modems. But speaking of Motorola V-phones, I've had a V50 for a bit: I got it a while after it came out so it was reasonably affordable, but I was still cool as a loving cucumber in school. It's still around somwhere and I should really dig it up and get a new battery for it for when I need a backup to use another sim card. But the coolest one that nobody's had? That had to be the V70: 
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Aug 5, 2016 17:29
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Germstore posted:well there's good javascript and then there's bad javascript 
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Aug 16, 2016 18:39
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^^^ Mortimer posted:how is winrar guy doing
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Aug 24, 2016 17:33
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It just doesn't have the helpful counter like WinZIP used to have 
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Aug 24, 2016 18:07
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I definitely heard the difference between FLAC and 320kbps mp3. The mp3 wasn't worse, per se, but it did sound different enough that I could tell which one was which. Still, a decent quality mp3 is good enough for everything except super-  audiophools so whatever.It's interesting that image compression stagnated so much, relatively speaking. There was jpeg2000... 16 years ago and even that isn't being used.
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Aug 24, 2016 20:05
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The existing N64 emulators are perfectly fine for playing a match of Goldeneye or screwing around in Mario, you loving nerds.
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Sep 9, 2016 15:16
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^^^ A lot of the videos I got from Kazaa were very, very nsfw, either intentionally or not GutBomb posted:It was the combination of the functionality of the BIOS being easily duplicated AND the fact that IBM allowed Microsoft to license DOS to them instead of selling them the rights to DOS. In allowing Microsoft to retain the rights to DOS this created the perfect storm in which manufacturers were able to build machines that were hardware AND software compatible. If DOS had been proprietary to IBM machines it would have been much harder to have the hardware clones be able to run the same software. Clone manufacturers would have had to reverse engineer DOS as well. If DOS had not been available for those clones the computing landscape may be very different and we might all be using Amiga or Apple derivative computers instead of (likely) something derived from that Compaq clone.
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Sep 25, 2016 15:54
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Casimir Radon posted:If VR fails then I can get a headset for cheap later, and I doubt any of that porn is going anywhere. Yeah that's my strategy, the were was just no compelling reason to drop a grand for a set but if people start dumping them for fractions of the price, I'd be all over it.
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Sep 28, 2016 21:36
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WebDog posted:Apple's stuff is pretty constrained in comparison. quote:Tuesday, 7 September 2005, 9:30 AM Pacific It's pretty long, the rest is here: http://daringfireball.net/2005/09/anthropomorphized
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The real tragedy is that they don't make one with a modern trackpoint
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Oct 24, 2016 18:32
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Powered Descent posted:Linux users go in /home, at least by default. We should change the default to /dev/null, instead.
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Feb 25, 2017 15:03
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Regular Nintendo posted:This guy's visit to yospos is easily one of my favorite SA History type things Can you link the thread? That sounds like it'd be an amazing trainwreck 
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Feb 26, 2017 21:04
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jojoinnit posted:Wanted one of these so bad when I was a kid but it wouldn't make sense these days. Phones are powerful enough and I can travel with my Surface if I need an actual computer. Still craving one though.
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Feb 28, 2017 22:26
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Star Man posted:By the time I had a CD burner in 2002, the issue with bad discs and being unable to do anything seemed to be gone. I rarely had any issues with the CDs that I made. I think I had the Yamaha CRW8424S which puts it at around the same time. It wasn't too bad, but I definitely had to be careful and not do anything stupid in parallel, and I've still made my fair share of coasters. Powered Descent posted:I still burn audio CDs to play in my 12 year old car.
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May 30, 2017 18:13
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Jul 28, 2017 20:21
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The Big Word posted:Outside of wayback machine is there anywhere I can flick through galleries of old web design? Reminder that the Space Jam page is still available, mostly unchanged from 1996: https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm
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Oct 19, 2017 10:40
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A Pinball Wizard posted:There were no apps because every time they iterated windows mobile, they completely changed the API and the old apps wouldn't work anymore. Imagine if upgrading your iPhone meant all your apps stopped working and you had to wait for the maker to re-release it. MS did that three times. Plus, there were a ton of apps for Windows Mobile, but nothing for Windows Phone because MS suddenly decided compatibility wasn't important, and we see how well that worked out.
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You can buy retired pc hardware super cheaply form my company but first they insisted on wiping the drive by a third party, understandably, and now thye remove them altogether. If the drive isn't removable (like in a Surface Pro), you're out of luck.
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Nov 28, 2017 12:42
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barbecue at the folks posted:Are shoutcast radios still A Thing? I recently went looking for Monkey Radio to find the original 24/7 chill study beats stream and it had been dead for a decade or so, lol. Luckily someone had made a Spotify playlist with most of the songs, which also tells just how much of even relatively obscure stuff is in Spotify these days.
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KozmoNaut posted:RIP The term is dead but they're still around in the form of various convertible and 2-in-1s like this one  I have one and it's absolutely great for travel. It's not exactly a powerhouse but not almost useless like the netbooks, basically a 12" macbook for $300. Gonz posted:Bootstrapping
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And Excel though with mouse scrolling it's pretty much never needed
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Dec 22, 2018 21:23
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Platystemon posted:When the iPhone was first released, AT&T’s billing system was unprepared for the advent of unlimited data. The_Franz posted:Yep. The whole reason for the seemingly arbitrary 160 character message length limit is because they just packed the SMS data into some unused space in the packets the phone was already receiving anyways.
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Dec 23, 2018 13:29
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evobatman posted:I'm not gonna miss every gadget being piano black and covered in fingerprints after three seconds of use. 
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Vanagoon posted:I took the 8GB DDR3 1333 from my old C2D E8400 PC and put it in this one, hence the 12GB. I'm running an Optiplex 7010 with the i5-3470 as my main dev/gaming pc. For about $150 I got it with 8 gigs for RAM and a 128GB SSD too, added a GTX 1070 and it runs everything flawlessly for under $500 total.
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