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doctorfrog posted:I remember one of these crawlers I used at a job around 2000, and discovered that our IT guys had a ton of music and videos being openly shared with folder labels and text files accompanying them that basically said, “Share but don’t tell the suits!” Same! Our campus IT department at least had them under a passworded share, but I worked in the campus IT department so it didn’t matter. Eventually over a summer they upgraded the networking to switching and routing and you couldn’t just troll my network places but you could still access stuff by IP so what started happening was everyone who shared stuff had a text file of all the IP’s they knew of so we could all still share.  early 2000’a networking was awesome. Also I ran a counterstrike server for campus wide LAN play and a Direct Connect server after Napster got blocked (I was also banned by Metallica from Napster)
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The pro move was running Windows NT for Alpha
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To be fair, pre-X macOS was garbage. E: holy poo poo, I found it, the most 90’s tech article https://www.itprotoday.com/windows-8/windows-nt-powerpc-no-more Beve Stuscemi has a new favorite as of 03:07 on Dec 1, 2018 |
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I worked with a guy who preached the megahertz myth right up until the death of the last G5, and he was also very sure that thunderbolt would be the dominant form factor over USB3. He believed it to the point we had a wager going with money on it. He got fired before the time was up on the wager. He was pretty great.
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Dec 1, 2018 04:13
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I’m sort of surprised the actual is that high
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My favorite non-x86 line is still the Sun Sparc systems. They were so good and a pleasure to use. Too bad they never took off
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LMAO Sony just literally sold everyone a Raspberry Pi
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Behold, the best thing about the Playstation Classic: Tim Rogers review of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYtDSEXPeaw
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Dec 4, 2018 19:53
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Seeing Motocross Madness reminded me how much I loved all of the "* Madness" series. Midtown Madness 1 and 2 were great fun. I remember playing Monster Truck Madness online against other people in the MSN Gaming Zone or whatever it was called. THAT reminded me that I also owned a paid copy of Kali (http://www.kali.net/) that I would use to play Duke Nukem against other idiots on dial up over a faked IPX connection across the planet. It sucked but its all I had.
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Dec 5, 2018 15:38
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Old Sun hardware was great, I wish it was still around in some form
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Dec 5, 2018 16:54
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TotalLossBrain posted:Check in about 5 billion years. He’s talking about the computer, fyi
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Dec 6, 2018 01:09
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My pint is that the sun computer will last 5 billion years. drat goons.
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The hilarious part is the the snes classic runs PlayStation games better than the PlayStation classic
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Pham Nuwen posted:Looks like John Romero made you his bitch. Suck it down. 
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Here is a shameful tech relic of my own. When I got my first computer (a baller Gateway 2000 Pentium 75) I didn’t understand how the directory structure and hard drive worked, but I loved playing doom. I knew how to install doom, because it tells you in the manual, so for like the first month in order to play doom I would dutifully navigate to the CDROM drive and install doom, re-set up the sound and all that just to play it. Realizing I could just run it from the hard drive was 
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Dec 26, 2018 15:53
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I used to do dial up support in the early 2000’s, precisely when the only people with dial up were old people and people who live in the boonies. It was as bad as you imagine. I went round and round with a lady for 3 days trying to get her dial up working. Finally she has the thought to tell me that her computer was in a flood the day before her dial up quit working 
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Dec 28, 2018 20:26
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Barudak posted:Why is everything, including the camera itself, spinning constantly. Its like a visual whirligig ride Im sorry you were never into the demoscene
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Nerd. Release the photos you cowards
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We had a black and white tv that was older than me that lived far into the late 90’s. It was our primary tv in the early and mid 80’s, relegated to spare when we got a color tv in the early 90’s and finally died in the late 90’s two weeks after my parents finally let me move it into my room  I had two whole glorious weeks of watching Conan and letterman in black and white while I went to bed.
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Just use Waze people. Geeze
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Rand McNally 4 life
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You Am I posted:
"Riva 128 GLQuake" is an aesthetic that is permanently burned into my mind
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Randaconda posted:This is the model of 960 I have, and there's all kinds of room. I have one of these with a Core2Quad for a workbench computer and I love it because it has about 30 USB ports
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Feb 18, 2019 20:42
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Any kid who grew up in the film era probably caught poo poo from their parents for wasting film. You had to make drat sure the shot was good and you actually wanted it before you pressed the button. When I got my first digital camera it was so cool to just take pictures of everything and only keep what you wanted.
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I used to use notepad++ for everything but I switched to Sublime Text recently
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Nano supremacy
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Can you still get and run the space cadet pinball that came with Windows 98 (I think) and use it on Windows 10? Or is it locked in Windows legacy hell? I really miss that game
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Mak0rz posted:My MS Office gripe right now is that it produces a mouse input polling bug when you try to drag its windows around, causing sluggish movement Ugh I get this too and its super obnoxious. Seems to be new for Office 365
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Vanagoon posted:Someone is way too into DOS and it's many variations: I imaged my OG DOS 6.22 disks because I figured they'd be hard to come by someday. Still have those images somewhere. DOS is cool and good and deserves to be archived properly, IMO
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Please do not crosspost from your livejournal
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best space slight sim is still the one buried inside excel 95
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Mar 27, 2019 16:09
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barbecue at the folks posted:gently caress you for reminding me that Windows XP used to require third party software to get Wi-Fi working, now I have flashbacks to how muchly that sucked. I switched to a new MacBook (Intel OS X 10.5) in 2007 and I remember being blown away by how simple poo poo like connecting to a wireless network... just happened? USB things just worked? For a while OS X really was a whole different world from Windows, slick, fast, and carefree. Its crazy how fast this stuff changes. A decade ago I would never have recommended anyone buy a non-mac laptop. The clunky, bad PC designs combined with the death throes of Vista were just horrible. Nowadays Windows 10 and OSX are pretty much on par for everything and PC manufacturers are finally taking cues from apple and not designing horrendous blobs of poo poo. A Surface pro running Windows 10 is basically the ideal general purpose computer, and I'll fight anyone over it
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Chairman Mao posted:
Sorry about your obviously ridiculously edgy edge case, I guess 
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Maybe im just a pleb but Win10 never gets in my way when im using it, which is pretty much my benchmark for an OS not being a POS Also I'm very happy that Windows 10 carries on the fine Windows tradition of "something loud, unexpected and unskippable will definitely happen during the OS install" with the Cortana screen
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Chairman Mao posted:I don’t know what your standards for usability are but you deserve better. My standards are "it doesnt actively and regularly bother me" which windows 10 does not. OSX doesnt either, so its a wash for me
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I get the gripe about windows 10 settings, as its stradding the line between an OSX-like control panel and the old XP/Vista/7 control pane. I find that between hitting the start key and just typing what I want, or right clicking on the start menu and picking the big hitters, I get where I need to go pretty fast
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barbecue at the folks posted:I believe it's a holdover from the good old days when teenage nerds like us could define their entire identity through the OS they used. Micro$oft Winblows, am I right? I think you mean MiKKKro$haft The Fool posted:I wish BeOS survived. BeOS was really, really good. I wish it were mroe than a pet project these days 
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Powered Descent posted:There's always Haiku. (Unless that's already the pet project you're talking about, of course.) It is, but I was reading and realized haiku had a recent release. The first one since like 2012, so that’s something
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I also appreciate windows 10’s ability to randomize MAC addresses to get around hotel WiFi fuckery
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