Re: Your first Digital (or film )) ) Camera...

Posted on 2016-08-08, 23:36

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by smeezekitty

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First digital camera was a Sony Mavica FD7. It was given to me for free back in 2000-2001. I really loved it too, but the floppy drive (or controller) wouldn't properly format disks, so random pictures could not be read by the computer. A few months ago I ended up buying two of them that are fully …

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Re: Bernard Sumner LSD

Posted on 2016-01-11, 00:04

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It would be neat if it was. But no. The date of birth is different

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-01-09, 01:04

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by smeezekitty

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Yesterday and today my buddy and I setup five PCs in a LAN for Red Alert 2 tomorrow. Also test played. Dumped the IBM NetVista. Found a thrift store with piles of Pentium 4s, 3s, 2s and even a 386. Only bought a LCD. you suck. you left a 386 at a thrift store? SHAME. I wouldn't expect anything else …

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Re: Core2 / AMD Phenom board legacy support (floppy, serial, parallel, etc.)

Posted on 2016-01-09, 00:58

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by smeezekitty

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I was more looking for a Core 2 Quad or AMD Phenom X3/X4. I guess the old Athlon64 X2 is less advanced than those, but this one is super cheap & available now. I need to get this rig built, tired of waiting around. As suggested, look for an Asrock board. My G41M-S3 runs a C2Q and it has a floppy …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2016-01-07, 00:37

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by smeezekitty

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Where does one get a mono VGA monitor?

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Re: Lowest system you tried for everyday main PC

Posted on 2015-10-03, 16:51

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by smeezekitty

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leileilol wrote: I don't know. DSL, supposedly one of the lightest Linux distros with a WM, was very unusuably slow on the 486 I had. X11 is a pig. Command line Linux works fine on old PCs but that's about it

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-09-27, 10:37

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by smeezekitty

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Caluser2000 wrote: IMAG0226.JPG Just playing around with bootable CDs using PLOP boot manager on my 386. I have never gotten any boot managers to work with bootable CDs on my 486 box

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Re: More thoughts on digital copyright laws

Posted on 2015-09-24, 03:48

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by smeezekitty

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People have asked me on more than one occasion if they could make a sequel to PixelShips. The answer is the same every time, "I'm not OK with you making a sequel to my game, but there's nothing stopping you from making a game LIKE PixelShips with your own ship designs and everything. Plus, by doing …

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Re: Stories of unloved computers getting a second chance

Posted on 2015-09-24, 02:43

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by smeezekitty

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Windows XP... XP + a 266MHZ P-II + 32MB of RAM = slooooooooooooooow. How? WIndows XP won't even install with less than 64 MB of RAM (and it's completely unusable with that)

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Re: What can dot matrix printers print?

Posted on 2015-09-19, 07:33

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by smeezekitty

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Why are you using a generic driver? Most dot matrix printers will print full graphics (pictures) albeit very slowly and loudly

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Re: Clean Up Your Restore Points! :O

Posted on 2015-09-18, 05:15

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by smeezekitty

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You can reduce the maximum size of system restore points. I personally find hibernation to be extremely useful and worth the disk space

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Re: IE6 can no longer load google.com or yahoo.com

Posted on 2015-09-13, 17:09

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by smeezekitty

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Not too surprised. Although Google has had a history of working with very old browsers for the longest time. Maybe plain Google still does. But a lot of the services already declare even IE9 as outdated. Which means that anyone on Vista has to use a third-party browser. I'm on Vista now. But I …

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Re: Problem with d-sub and dvi videocard connectors

Posted on 2015-09-13, 17:07

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by smeezekitty

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alexanrs wrote: Could the solder joints of the connector be broken, and when you hold the wire in position they make contact? Try diagnosing it with magnifying lenses. Or just reflow them with a soldering iron

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-09-12, 21:55

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by smeezekitty

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tincup wrote: ...and closing in on a cool half-million posts - sorry no pic! Huh? 9000 posts

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Re: IE6 can no longer load google.com or yahoo.com

Posted on 2015-09-12, 16:16

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by smeezekitty

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Not too surprised. Although Google has had a history of working with very old browsers for the longest time. Nice that bing works for now. My browser of choice for old machines is Opera 9.6

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Re: Desoldering capacitors on motherboard

Posted on 2015-09-11, 03:06

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by smeezekitty

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Make sure you tin the iron with fresh solder. Also, buy some desoldering wick. It can work magic for that

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Re: Hidden Power in AMDs 486DX4 SV8B WB

Posted on 2015-09-09, 20:24

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by smeezekitty

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tried some Tests, looks like the Core is really the same like the 5x86, but amd disabled half of 16kb. but makes no big difference at all. Core works at 3x50 and 4x40Mhz well, no issues, crashes etc. i did some mpeg encoding on the CPU under Linux and it was running ~ 30-40 hours for a videocd. …

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Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer

Posted on 2015-09-09, 00:23

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by smeezekitty

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... a chill went up my spine and I figured I had just binned 5 years worth of photos and documents, that he now will never see again. I couldn't tell him, I didn't have it in me. I simply installed XP and told him I needed to get a few more drivers from my own PC and would bring them tomorrow. When …

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Re: Building a 486 with modern parts (ATX case, ATX PSU, CF card, GOTEK FDD, New buttons)

Posted on 2015-09-08, 18:33

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by smeezekitty

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No need to defrag solid state storage. The seek time is 1mS or less

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Re: Dumb things you've done (or have seen someone else do) on a computer

Posted on 2015-09-08, 03:12

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by smeezekitty

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I have a lot of stuff on my desktop but they are mostly shortcuts.

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