old computer

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SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

yeah seriously, designing computers to actually be quiet is a recent development

everything used to be noisy. i miss the sound floppy drives would make when you'd boot up a computer

# ¿ Jan 13, 2016 19:19

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 10:44

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

~Coxy posted:

especially the front usb ports at a 45 degree angle

and upside-down, because extra-gently caress-you!

i dont care what anyone says those style of dell towers were loving garbage

# ¿ Jan 31, 2016 04:25

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

Sweevo posted:

i'm still waiting for the update on his new apartment.

he moved out of the one shown because of "constant intrusion of privacy by the landlord" (wanting to do basic maintenance) and bitched and moaned about how long it took him to move all his lovely sci-fi books and pieces of wood using a hand trolley because he cant drive

is this detailed somewhere on his website, or did you actually go spelunking in whatever newsgroups he posts to?

# ¿ Feb 5, 2016 02:48

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

Sweevo posted:

keith's weird failure fascinates me, and i can't really explain why. he's like logansryche in that somehow he manages to do literally everything either wrong or in the most annoying way possible. i was trying to find out why he quit the sc-fi club he mentioned on his website (turns out it was a tantrum over buying cinema tickets) and then i went to the newsgroups and read a bunch of stuff about moving and how hard it was. the full thing is spread over four threads and not really that interesting, but the highlights are:

- was very vague about why he actually moved out, meaning there's obviously more to the story than he's telling
- somehow took an entire month to move the contents of one lovely apartment
- moved an estimated ten tons of books two miles to his new place using a hand trolley, which flipped over/collapsed on the first trip
- insisted on taking every 30 year old wooden plank and piece of cardboard that constituted his crappy homemade bookshelves
- couldn't understand why the landlord wouldn't give him back the security deposit because the apartment was fine - it was repainted only 35 years ago! so he left his disgusting couch and piles of garbage in protest
- lived there 35 years and apparently never once vacuumed

he's moved in with a room-mate who sounds like keith mk2 as well:
- semi-unemployed and spends all day bitching about how he can't get a real job with the programming skills he hasn't used or updated in 20 years
- sits around playing video games all day
- got sued for not paying HOA fees
- responded to suit by ignoring it and playing video games
- tried to hire a nigerian lawyer whose business was conducted via a gmail address and whose office was a starbucks. who eventually refused the case
- decided to let keith represent him. keith spent weeks reading up on the case and applicable statutes and then 10 minutes before the hearing blurted out his strategy to the opposing lawyer, who got him kicked off the case on a technicality leaving the room-mate to represent himself (he got his rear end handed to him)

i'm pretty sure theres some bitcoin drama in that newsgroup too, but i can't find it now

you should post this in that "internet trainwreck" thread in gbs

# ¿ Feb 7, 2016 02:08

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

Citizen Tayne posted:

Old computers sucked and were garbage, sorry. New ones are better in every way.

THIS. IS. YOSPOS!!!! *kicks u into the recycle bin at atomicthumbs' work*

# ¿ Feb 12, 2016 22:45

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

eschaton posted:

i figure others here may appreciate this

man everything to do with lisp machines is just so loving weird

apparently the dod is still paying to support symbolics stuff. i can only begin to imagine what for

# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 02:20

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 10:44

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

eschaton posted:

no, John C. Mallery (CL-HTTP) is rumored to have bought the Symbolics IP at probate when Andrew Topping, the scammer who claimed to own it, died

except supposedly Andrew Topping might not really have acquired it, or acquired it properly, or something so it's potentially in some sort of weird legal limbo

someone needs to buy the Lisp Machine, Inc. assets from the Canadian government, they were seized (after being reincarnated as GigaMos Systems) as a result of the Guy Montpetit scandal

this is seriously at least half of what makes lisp machine stuff so weird, the incredibly hosed up state of all the bits of IP from various companies involved

# ¿ Feb 23, 2016 03:59

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