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Re: Can you write protect a USB drive?

Posted on 2015-06-23, 11:42

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There's also such a thing as hardware USB write blockers, used for data forensics. Wiebetech has one starting as low as $199 or so: https://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/usb_writeblocker/ plus others: https://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/usb_writeblocker/ Or the Tableau forensic bridge: …

Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2015-06-23, 11:33

Thanks for your work on this, I can't seem to get dgvoodoo2 working on my amd r9 290. Is there a site where I can download the previous versions of the DGVoodoo2 wrapper so I can do a little troubleshooting to see which revision this bug has started? I've already rolled back to an earlier version …

Re: "Halt and Catch Fire" - AMC - starting June 1

Posted on 2015-06-22, 05:43

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It looks like they are strongly hinting at them developing some soft of Doom or Wolfenstein-like game as well, although I don't know how they are going to deal with the lack of graphical power on those machines unless they take serious liberties. Would an XT be able to do any sort of raycasting FPS …

Re: "Halt and Catch Fire" - AMC - starting June 1

Posted on 2015-06-22, 03:14

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I've not watched the show so I may not be able to judge rightly here The irony is that the premise of the show is the story of the computer age we live in, from a second-stringer computer company in Texas, starting in 1983. Which is a brilliant idea, really, because how many times do people have to …

Re: Microsoft Xiao Na, the flendly spy

Posted on 2015-06-21, 19:22

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DracoNihil wrote: Not even close... I never understand how so many confuse Japanese with Chinese. Japan doesn't use Han characters in everything Damn it, I actually knew it was Chinese too, and wrote the wrong thing. 🙁

Re: Can you write protect a USB drive?

Posted on 2015-06-21, 17:24

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You can try inverting these suggestions to do it programmatically: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/how-to/storage/how … d-card-3456666/ Google turns up some interesting things: https://www.google.com/search?q=write+protect+a+USB+drive%3F

Re: queststudios.com no more?

Posted on 2015-06-21, 17:21

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Great Hierophant covers the situation here: http://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2015/06/t … -200-posts.html If it could at least be temporarily put back online, I would be happy to sic #archiveteam on backing it up to the Internet Archive in full.

Re: Guess the game!!

Posted on 2015-06-19, 18:42

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RadioPoultry wrote: Cool! I remember my brother typing in games for GW-Basic from 3-2-1 Contact magazine. Hey, I did that too with that magazine. Hard to find scans of them, actually - hopefully some website will complete the collection one of these days. 😀

Re: "Halt and Catch Fire" - AMC - starting June 1

Posted on 2015-06-19, 14:33

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Second season is off and running with a bang about three-four weeks ago, I am highly impressed so far! However, I am an "easy sell" for this show... ;) An acquaintance recently described it as "Mad Men with Computers" - truth! :lol: That said, an Internet acquaintance of mine recently played "spot …

Re: need LPT1: support

Posted on 2015-06-18, 15:12

I'm not sure if you know this already, but those are called "dongles", and there are already numerous threads about them. One person even developed a patch that allows the dongle to be dispensed with entirely, if it's a particular type of dongle and the data from the chip inside can be read. …

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