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

Posted on 2022-04-08, 17:23

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I found Invicible a while back and enjoyed that. For a gentler take on superhero tropes that as far as I can remember right now you could watch with (not too young) kids, there's Prime's version of The Tick which is also quite funny. edit: If you like The Boys, you may also wanna watch the movies …

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

Posted on 2022-04-08, 16:12

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Re-watching "The Boys" to be ready for season 3 dropping in June... it's the perfect anti-superhero show, don't watch with your kids.

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Re: I have 600+ motherboard manuals from mid to late 90s, anything useful?

Posted on 2022-04-08, 00:56

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Nice, thank you very much. Yes, everyone thought Asus manuals were safely on the german Asus FTP until they weren't, Abit pulled their old stuff without warning, PC Chips (Houston) have been quite hard to find, then Ocean aka Octek went tits up just before the millenium and their stuff is hard to …

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

Posted on 2022-04-06, 22:01

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I've been having a zero energy few days, so watched Clarkson's Farm which was quite enjoyable and interesting.

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

Posted on 2022-04-06, 19:05

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Much like how cylinders in an internal combustion engine are really just a fancy bean tin. If you slap four together maybe... oh wait, you don't play Orks in Warhammer do you? https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Orks#Ork_Technology

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-06, 02:14

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Does it mean it runs them, or does it means it chews them up and spits out the pieces.

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Re: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2022-04-05, 22:45

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It's a case of being preferred for backward compatibility more than anything I think. I guess 9600s are a bit of a bargain considering 9800s die suddenly and 4x00ti cards are getting more expensive. I would say they're best in a "good for 2003" XP system though or something like that. editL oh yah, …

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

Posted on 2022-04-05, 17:06

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darry wrote on 2022-04-05, 15:59: A little while back, my wife and I binge-watched Murder, she wrote. Everybody talks about crossovers like Arrow/Flash and Spiderlatestbrat/Marvel but nobody recalls the greats like MSW and Magnum crossover.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-03, 17:25

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Plugging used drives into it is a bigger risk than having it connect to the internet IMO... unless you unplug all your data first before having run sufficient scans to determine drive isn't full of virii.

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Re: XTIDE card cable?

Posted on 2022-04-03, 03:47

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Some of them it's a plug you can pick out with a pin or tiny screwdriver.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-04-03, 02:55

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Really? I never considered them to be all that rare. I have 3 and just got a 4th one though that 4th is a little on the weird side. It's from an industrial machine and the data cable connector is a little different. They were pretty common, a LOT more common than for instance Voodoo cards. But …

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

Posted on 2022-04-02, 14:29

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I did the heatsink chopping-up thing, once. Never again. Far too much metal dust anxiety and cleanup to be worthwhile. Everything within a 5m radius of the workspace (including own skin + clothes + hair) afterwards has some quantity of microscopic metal shards (aka Magic Shorting & Random Fault …

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

Posted on 2022-04-01, 22:06

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I have finally caught up my CD ripping backlog (I use DBPoweramp). As these CDs are all thrift store purchases and most of them are 30+ years old, I believe that this qualifies as a retro activity . I have ripped over 100 CDs in the last 2 weeks, mostly while watching a movie before going to bed . …

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Re: Strange Socket 7 "mod"

Posted on 2022-04-01, 21:43

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Think there's a mod of that type on m571.com edit: derp, the front door is boarded up, have to sneak in round the side... http://m571.com/m571/m571upgrade.htm editII: and now I'm not seeing what I ws thinking about in a quick scan.... maybe confusing it with the M537 ATA stability mod.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-01, 21:35

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Sleep/Wake/Crash button probably.

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

Posted on 2022-04-01, 21:03

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Ah the simple bliss of right sized heatsinks... that's what made 486 heatsinks hard to find you know, everyone in the very early oughts cutting them up for RAM and MOSFET sinks 🤣

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Re: BeOS

Posted on 2022-04-01, 20:21

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I've been trying to get round to dedicating a system to Haiku exploration, I've got this feeling that it's really going to take off soon, has a lot falling into place whereas linux desktop is falling apart again, and windows 11 is windows 11.

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Re: IBM Thinkpad 380 to the Max.

Posted on 2022-04-01, 18:20

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I'm unsure if they have the same motherboard in the 380s vs the Pentium II class 385 and above, the modules look similar. I have heard of Tillamook modules being interchangable with low end PII in some laptops, but not sure about this one in particular.

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Re: AI run amok? Facebook moderating issues.

Posted on 2022-04-01, 18:16

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Hmmm I wasn't aware that spammers etc could tell who reported them, I had reported a bunch of air duct cleaning spam in some groups. I had some trouble last year come to think of it, after I kept reporting a sponsored advertiser purporting to offer an RV for sale ultra cheap located at "wherever …

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AI run amok? Facebook moderating issues.

Posted on 2022-04-01, 16:32

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Hi Folks, I'm mostly on facebook to keep tabs on the fam, and I use the marketplace a little... but it's seeming of late that the community standards AI bot has gone bonkers, flagging comments it doesn't understand. I got flagged a month ago, apparently the word "kidnap" used in a joke is overly …

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