Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-12, 07:08

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And the good laptops also have an option to have a bay battery there, so you can enjoy the best of all worlds. I heard you can use a laptop without the battery. But if you do that, you'll have to have the laptop plugged in to its charger, or it won't operate. And on the taskbar, you will see the …

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-11, 19:12

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I've never (well in the last 10 years) used a laptop for any extended amount of time without wrist pain. I don't always get wrist pain when I use my laptop. But younger people like me don't usually have their body parts affected by being motionless in positional purposes. And the good laptops also …

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-10, 21:35

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Yeah, that is one of the several disadvantages of all laptops, which is regarding your neck, spine, and sometimes wrists. I sometimes get worried that I'm just hurting my neck whenever I use a laptop, but sometimes when I feel that I had my head down on the laptop for long enough, I would either …

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Re: Modern laptops vs. more traditional designs

Posted on 2019-08-09, 14:23

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Let's all please ignore Mr. iPad Man over there; even if he isn't a troll he sure does act like one. Oh, be nice. Intel486dx33 may have said something pointless, but at least he knows what he's talking about. If he's the one you were referring to. Back on topic, laptops have pretty much looked and …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-08-06, 18:53

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Well, last night was the day I finally got down to the last bite of my chocolate vintage computer I got this Easter . That's right! I kept that thing of chocolate since April until now. It's quite surprising that chocolate can last that many months without getting stale :-P Or maybe it's just …

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Re: DosFreak All System Specs 8-5-2019

Posted on 2019-08-06, 18:44

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FIREWALL Yes I was worried that this pfsense wouldn't be powerful enough but for home internet or small business it seems like it would be a pretty good fit. I've only had it for a couple of weeks so still getting the hang of it. First task was to setup the VPN and block all internet access once …

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

Posted on 2019-08-03, 01:29

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You can read what I did today that had to do with modern tech activities here. I accidentally posted that comment in that thread instead of this one. I guess I was just tired and didn't see which thread I was posting in during the time I wrote it. My bad 😖

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-03, 01:20

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Just today I solved a problem with my main desktop, which wouldn't turn on properly. The funny part was that I've been forcing the PC to turn on by removing the front panel and then pressing the power button :-P I then found out that the cause of the problem was that I had the PC plugged in to a …

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

Posted on 2019-07-30, 14:54

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I don't even know who that is, so I dunno. But if I did know about him, then I'd say he probably doesn't have lighting that uses RGB...

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

Posted on 2019-07-29, 15:15

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Oh come on! RGB is the best LED color lighting method most people have ever come across. If some people don't care for RGB, then I guess they'd hate my desk, which does have LED light strip that uses RGB. Or maybe they would like that kind of RGB lighting 😦

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Re: Post your computer area setup

Posted on 2019-07-26, 15:04

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Ikea Galant tables are stronger than expected. Yes, there's an 18U rack with a rackmounted 1500VA UPS in it at one end. :lol: I think there's at least 25 computers in this room. Only around 7 or 8 or so are running at all times though. 12 are hooked up at any given time. You can't see some of them, …

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Re: Thanks for the ride

Posted on 2019-07-25, 15:29

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And yes... I have seen drama here before, and I refuse to get tangeled in a drama, that are a drama over a non excisting drama, that you for some reason percieve to be a drama. And yet there are no drama. Well.... I get angry when someone acuse me of something that are not there. Yeah, I've known a …

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Re: Thanks for the ride

Posted on 2019-07-22, 03:08

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Well, goodbye, I guess. We'll miss you greatly! But who knows? Maybe some time you'll return with some new exclusives on stuff you could be doing in your life. Only the future can tell. But that's your decision, if you want to be here or not. I doubt it'll be goodbye forever, though. Sometimes it's …

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Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)

Posted on 2019-07-05, 23:22

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Holy...that is one of the most disgusting things I've seen in awhile. I thought the whole doughnut eating thing was a joke from all those cop shows. 200.gif They're just assorted donuts and fritters. They're harmless, I think. But they are not good for you if you eat a whole lot of them at once, so …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2019-07-02, 23:44

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Here's mine. no idea why the site rotated them. Click on them and they show uo just fine. Also take over the kitchen table if I'm doing some maintenance or testing. 20190602_101143[1].jpg 20190602_101201[1].jpg 20190602_101211[1].jpg 20190602_101524[1].jpg Thats really comfy, I like those CRTs …

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Re: Raspberry Pi 4 is here!

Posted on 2019-07-02, 23:37

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I have a 1B+, 2B, 3B, and 3B+ in my house. Scali's right on that! You'll have it all after you get a Pi 4 :happy: Anyway, it's great to see that Raspberry finally released a new generation of their line of mini servers (or tiny motherboard-like objects that most people use as servers). They were …

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Re: I got a 90's Pentium II PC working again!

Posted on 2019-07-02, 23:26

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Not so much "evil" as just "really really dumb." IE has always had the worst rendering engine of all the popular browsers. It won (for a while) just by sheer numbers, not for merit of its prowess. The IE6 / IE7 period sucked all the joy out of writing HTML for me. I developed on a Linux box with a …

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Re: I got a 90's Pentium II PC working again!

Posted on 2019-06-28, 20:26

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My MS Office 2000 is still my office software for home. I did all my school work on it, all my university work on it, all my Masters degree work on it, did my CV and job application on it! It is still quite adequate for basic-to-middley complex letters and reports, and the excel is just fine ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-06-27, 19:19

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Some "scrap" today: RTFM EWS64XL ...Running :-) I really like the Warcraft 2 Soundtrack on this card, for me it sounds better than on GUS! Then: Philips CDD3610 - really like the design of that drive :cool: Very nice! Are those things for a vintage computer you want to build, or did you collect …

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Re: DOSBox 0.74-3 has been released

Posted on 2019-06-27, 19:04

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Just 'bout time you guys released a new version of DOSBox. Thanks Qbix! I'll update my DOSBox version when I'm on my main PC. I guess sometimes it can be hard to find time to work on new versions of this stuff.

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