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Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-27, 01:54

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Tin foil hat” I read an article about the NSA knew about an exploit in Microsoft for years and never mentioned it so they had back doors to peoples computers. There was a controversy some years ago over OpenBSD. Apparently the FBI was paying developers to put in backdoors. Whether this happened or …

Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-26, 14:26

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A big difference between internet users today and those in the early days of the internet is lack of concern over privacy. When I first got on the internet late 1990s privacy was a huge deal. There was great indignation over the US government's encryption ban and everybody was using PGP to encrypt …

Re: Nostalgia for old Graphics Programs?

Posted on 2024-02-22, 11:00

I found vital imagemagick to convert whatever new format i get from users to a psp7 readable one, specially png with alpha, that psp suffer a lot to read I have a batch script that scans my image library at regular intervals auto-converting all JP2, WEBP and AVIF files to PNG. (It also renames JPE, …

Re: Tell about your country

Posted on 2024-02-21, 04:15

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Joakim wrote on 2024-02-20, 19:21: I speak for the Swedish. Ask me anything. I will answer truly. Fascinated by mooses. Do you see them often? I hear they're a danger to drivers.

Re: Winamp 2.95 plugin support.

Posted on 2024-02-15, 00:56

Is there a list of all Winamp plugins anywhere? ETA: These are the ones I have: File_Writer_output_plugin_v1_11.exe – Output plugin that writes audio to disk. in_mpc_0.99g.zip – Input plugin that allows playback of MPC files. Jump_to_File_Extra_v0_96ff.exe - Jump to File Extra (JTFE) MACDll_399t2. …

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-02-09, 17:05

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There's a conflict of interest between writers of search algorithms and the users. The users search for what they want to see. The writers want to you see what they want you to see, regardless of what you search for. With some of these algorithms we're approaching the situation where the search …

Re: PCI madness

Posted on 2024-01-24, 00:05

lordmogul wrote on 2024-01-23, 10:34: Below that some 9500 GT also came in PCI I also have Jaton 9500 GT, Sparkle 8500 GT and PNY 8400 GS PCI cards. Performance rank is as you would expect. None of them can compete with the Zotac GT 610 PCI, which scores nearly 4x higher in 3D Mark Vantage than the …

Re: PCI madness

Posted on 2024-01-23, 04:31

I have a couple of Zotac GT 610 PCIe x1 cards that I use in situations like this. I also have another pair in conventional PCI, and several 520/610's in x16. The PCI cards have 512 MiB of memory and the others 1024 MiB. Note that memory speed is very important with these cards. The PCI @ 1333 MHz …

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-22, 10:04

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The gun issue is similar to the dangerous dog issue. Certain breeds are notorious for attacking people, especially children. Whenever there's such an attack, you hear calls for such breeds to be banned. This naturally riles up responsible dog owners, who train and socialize their animals correctly, …

Re: 2024 - End of the era of Retro Computing Youtube channels?

Posted on 2024-01-21, 01:14

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I think the point is that 'hard cases make bad law'. When considering the justice of a law you need to consider the average case, not exceptional cases, however sensational and newsworthy they may be. It reminds me of the abortion debate in Ireland. Groups seeking to overturn Ireland's abortion laws …

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