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Re: Shipping gone wrong, our stories.

Posted on 2022-09-09, 09:38

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I bought an amiga card from someone in Italy (I'm in the UK). Postal service sent it to the USA by mistake, but it came back eventually. Roundabout trip! A card from Russia I bought got delivered and signed for in the wrong town once it got to this country. After six weeks - I'd given up hope - it …

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-05, 09:18

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AD had some "jokes"about dizziness/vertigo, played by Lisa Minelli. I have a dear friend with multiple sclerosis, which for many sufferers destroys their sense of balance, often described as dizziness. There's no cure, it's a slow death, it's not funny. Inevitably AD then seems sour and becomes …

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-04, 14:26

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AD had some "jokes"about dizziness/vertigo, played by Lisa Minelli. I have a dear friend with multiple sclerosis, which for many sufferers destroys their sense of balance, often described as dizziness. There's no cure, it's a slow death, it's not funny. Inevitably AD then seems sour and becomes …

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-08-01, 09:38

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I would imaginr Seinfeld is unanimously considered the king of comedy. But it simply wouldn't be so w/o the laugh track. Anyone disagree? Is that sarcasm? If not then: I disagree, I watched a bit of it years ago, all seemed rather banale and obvious. The fact you need a soundtrack to enhance " …

Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2022-07-31, 14:38

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Yeah (think you mean 754 .... 775/939 would be quite something haha). There was also the Asrock K8 Combo-Z board with 754 and 939 sockets on the board itself. It was a whole socket 939 / chipset on a riser card, you plugged it in and it disabled the Intel socket/ chipset and acted as if it was an …

Re: I will never EVER buy a robot manufactured in China

Posted on 2022-07-23, 08:25

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well, i can say i was bought a robot manufactured in china, a horikawa knock-off, some time in the last 15 years probably. unfortunately it didn't last long, but i loved it all the same. it was cheap, it walked, stopped, doors flipped open, guns blazed and went rat-a-tat while the top half-rotated, …

Re: Retro Facebook groups, what do you think of them?

Posted on 2022-07-21, 12:18

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FB groups often aren't great in my experience though I've not tried anything on retro computing. Some have content you don't get elsewhere that you don't want to miss but others too often have posts you can do without. To some extent is might be the subject matter, but it often FB in general seems …

Re: Which OS has more cheap or free applicationd?

Posted on 2022-07-20, 20:32

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I had a second desktop that had Windows 10 but decided to shift it to linux partly to see how far I could get from Windows given that I have fairly limited (or so I thought) specific needs other than games. Answer: not far. I chose debian because I've used it on and off since potato. The debian box …

Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-18, 17:06

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Hmm, I use a mouse on my Surface Pro without any problems and I almost never use touch. As I recall back in pre-95 days mouse control was pretty awful though. As to the quickest way to find something being search - that's pretty pervasive, isn't it? Sometimes it's easier to google/whatever than look …

Re: Okay, no Covox. Change of plans...

Posted on 2022-07-17, 20:00

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DOS may run but the motherboard almost certainly won't support the kind of low level signal routing that DOS needs to sound cards - there might be recent boards that do, but they tend to be a limited number of very expensive industrial motherboard designs (and although 478 with ISA exist and will …

Re: WinWorldPC and Archive.org

Posted on 2022-07-17, 15:21

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INAL but US copywrite law doesnt work that way, ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law and the owners of a public/private forum must been seen to be active in making sure copywrite laws are not violated by the users or the owners can be held liable for damages. Such is the way of copywrite …

Re: WinWorldPC and Archive.org

Posted on 2022-07-17, 14:28

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Some things aren't black and white, that's been explained plenty. In a way, that's why a lot of the law is case law. Not so much is based on legislation and even where it is, huge amounts of money are spent paying lawyers to argue about what it means. Even having written, explicit laws leaves things …

Re: Reasons to hate modern games

Posted on 2022-07-17, 11:41

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I just downloaded diablo immortal (the "dont you guys have phones" debacle was not an auspicious start of course but i wanted to have a look as it's apparently set between D2 which i loved and D3 which i didnt). ipad pro, fast machine, very capable. took forever downloading all the packs, including …

Re: WinWorldPC and Archive.org

Posted on 2022-07-17, 11:06

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I think the point is that the mods (and maybe more importantly the site owner) need to avoid being liable in any jurisdiction this site may be viewable from. Disclaimers do not always provide legal protection. And really, if you want to find sites where it is ok to shares links to warez etc, then …

Re: Members of Vogons, what shows do you currently watch?

Posted on 2022-07-17, 11:02

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Watched a couple of Cronenberg films lately: The Brood Crash (saw it when it was new, just as good now, and very close to the book as I recall) Probably will re-watch Shivers and Rabid some time, maybe Videodrome. Re-watched Jackie Brown, had forgotten how good it was. Not sure I can sit through …

Re: Cars now have micro-transactions!

Posted on 2022-07-16, 18:43

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Sony mirrorless cameras had downloadable apps - many of which they charge you for, and they cannot be transferred to other cameras. Really annoying to pay £2k for a camera and then find if you want to do say a timelapse you need to pay another £8 for the app for the camera. Even more for some other …

Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-13, 12:58

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I enjoyed the 80s and early 90s but for me the peak was around windows 98 and 2000, DX8. Beyond that something happened but I'm not sure what. Feature bloat and hardware too often not operating as well as expected, or maybe I just got sick of the IT industry's failure to learn to make things "just …

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