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Lowen SoDium posted:Tip of the Day: Your ex-coworker has kept at it!
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Pham Nuwen posted:I graduated over 10 years ago and I can still rattle off my 9-digit student ID number. I don't even remember what we used it for besides registering for classes but by god it still leaps to mind. I graduated five years ago and same. Though we did use ours for a lot of stuff, some lecturers posted grades semi-publically but identified by ID# only, you had to write your ID# on every god drat exam paper which adds up, etc.
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Sorry if this is the wrong thread, but I have a small, very vague ancient tech question that I'm not sure where exactly to ask. So, here goes. I have a really old, cheapo poo poo stereo set that was bought originally by my parents sometime when I was a pre-teen (I'm late 30's now), and I have been using it as my computer speakers because I'm a cheap SOB who never got around to replacing it. Anyway, it's been having some issues with growing frequency lately, and I was sort of curious what specifically is dying here. The speakers sometimes start making a sort of crackling, staticy noise, and it's kind of irritating if I want to watch teevee or something and actually make out what people are saying. The back of the set has these dingy, tiny roundish holes, with mechanical locking systems on them, where the (extremely flimsy-looking) speaker cables are just shoved in. I figured out when the problem was starting that the sound artefact disappears if I unlock the speaker plug things, clean the (open wiring) cable ends a bit, and replace them in the sockets. The speaker cables themselves are just drilled into the wooden speaker boxes, so I can't go poking around at that end without some serious dedication. I have not brought any new electrical devices to my place for a long-rear end time, so I'm still guessing something is wrong with the machine itself. Should I try, uh, deskinning the cables for a couple cm and cut the tips, since the ends look very frayed? I can try to provide pictures later if none of this makes sense.
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Not even near the top of the list of awful things about war, but relevant to this thread I think, a retro computer museum in Ukraine likely has been destroyed.quote:Russia's War In Ukraine Results In Bombing of Retro Computer Museum
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flavor.flv posted:How the hell can you people remember cd keys I couldn't even memorize the noclip code from doom IDDQD IDKFA DNKROZ I also remember my student ID number even though I haven't needed it for quite a few years.
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The top right book...Shelf? Nook? Also contains, among others, Asimov's Naked Sun, Clarke's Childhood's End and Bradbury's Illustrated Man. And a bunch of books which I'm assuming are popular space science stuff. This is a good nostalgia image 
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I can hear everything happening in that avatar every time I see it. A+, wonderful tech relic
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I don't think I'd like a book printed on plastic, even though Babylon 5 does feature a lot of cool alien documents on transparent plastic foils.
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We'd probably be better off in many ways by first trying to recycle the literal islands of plastic waste polluting the oceans and killing countless wildlife. But  , so maybe your tree oil plastic start-up will make billions!
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Desert Bus posted:I think if we cut down all the trees and use big machines to grind them to dust and use other machines to force out the oil... ? Saruman, your plans will end poorly for you 
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Props for the E-rotic tape, that sure was an era!
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Mario teaches cargo cult typing
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Trabant posted:^ right down to the incessant hiss-buzz in the background! Mikko 3:16 says I just nokia'd your rear end?
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How about pirating music on old pictures of people's skeletons?Gizmodo posted:Exposed, developed, and then discarded, X-ray film sheets were consistent with the target. The celluloid plates coated with light-sensitive emulsion on one or both sides were thick and durable enough to scratch grooves of dance music, popular songs, speeches by politicians, and pretty much everything that came from radio speakers. Then the thick radiographs were cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter, sometimes with uneven brims, and given labels and holes in the middle. These 78 rpm, normal furrow (i.e. non-LP) discs contain about two to three minutes of voice or music recordings, says Hajdú.  Of course x-ray film as an imaging technique is also a tech relic these days  , but I'm sure there's fights over image fidelity among radiographers of all generations.
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The Something Awful Forums > Main > Post Your Favorite: Carefully Curated > Tech Relics: it smells of what I'm hoping is just urine
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What problem is this thing solving?
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dobbymoodge posted:Amputation That's pretty cool, though as noted above, you'd think speech-to-text these days would be a better alternative. But back then? Nifty.
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Computer viking posted:Depends on what you are doing - there are enough technical tasks where you're either typing things speech to text doesn't handle at all (programming being an obvious example), or using a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Fair enough!
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3D Megadoodoo posted:FYI because you seem clueless: COMPUTERS loving SUCK. Imagine hating women this much
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I guess the lemming is riding the rainbow ( ), but it looks more like they're falling 
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