Re: Fedex charges to ship lasers in CDROMS. Is this a scam?

Posted on 2021-12-09, 16:38

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RandomStranger wrote on 2021-12-09, 09:43: The FDA does have import codes for optical drives. A bizzare mix of ionising and non-ionising radiation sources in that list. From particle accelerators to Discmans. I hope they have restrictions on shipping Dihydrogen Monoxide.

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Re: No space in your room to store old PC?

Posted on 2021-12-08, 20:54

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Old style pizza box cases (like the original PC) 19" racks This is exactly the route I've gone down. Horizontal desktop cases seem to have died out at the turn of the century, only lingering on in the home theatre realm - so most will be silver or black, not beige. 19" racks and shelves are …

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Re: MS encourages emulation

Posted on 2021-11-18, 16:41

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Whatever happened to Public Domain laws, and how long does it take for video games to fall into the Public Domain? Longer than any of us will live. Even if there aren't any further retroactive extensions to copyright terms, functionally there isn't a public domain anymore from the point of view of …

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Re: GTA Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is not very good

Posted on 2021-11-13, 17:09

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Standards are slipping at Rockstar https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/11/13/0135237/rockstar-pulls-grand-theft-auto-definitive-edition-after-unintentionally-including-files Between the easy money of GTA Online, re-releasing their old titles, the departures of Dan Houser and Lazlow; I remain …

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Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-12, 20:50

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Jasin Natael wrote on 2021-11-12, 20:19: At least these machines will be responsilby recycled. Everyone's latched onto recycling, forgetting the saying goes: reduce, reuse, recycle - in decreasing order of effectiveness. Reducing consumption is very threatening to the current organisation of the …

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Re: New processors for old sockets.

Posted on 2021-11-09, 22:22

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I, too, would love to see something like this happen. But as said above, there's a huge leap from gathering old discrete chips to make new sound or graphics cards to fabricating your own microprocessors. If CPU microbreweries were viable, global production might not be a mess right now. Speaking of …

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Re: How over powered are modern PCs?

Posted on 2021-11-09, 21:06

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one must not underestimate the ability of modern ultra-bloated JavaScript to bring powerful computers to their knees I ended up retiring my old Core2 Quad when simply opening Twitter used to freeze the system for ten seconds. A site designed around the almost utilitarian concept of displaying …

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Re: Video Card upgrade for Dell Dimension 4400?

Posted on 2021-10-30, 19:27

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gryffinwings wrote on 2021-10-30, 15:53: also the slot on this one is only up to AGP 4x from the information I have seen. Wikipedia concurs in this handy list of the product line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Dimension

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Re: Interview with "last XP fan"

Posted on 2021-10-26, 21:13

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cyclone3d wrote on 2021-10-25, 20:07: Oh, it's fun sticking a non-patched XP machine directly on the internet and watching it get overrun by malware within a matter of minutes. Imagine a server farm of unpatched XP machines exposed to the internet. A gigantic digital mousetrap to keep the …

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Re: would OEM cds that say for (certain pc only) on the certificate work on any pc?

Posted on 2021-10-24, 15:41

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The Windows 98 CD-ROM that came with my Aptiva at the time refuses to install on my Compaq Deskpro, so there's clearly some kind of hardware check going on (BIOS?).

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Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos

Posted on 2021-10-22, 15:17

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I seem to only see Dawn box art for the lower spec budget cards produced after the FX series was over the hill. It could be confirmation bias that the only examples still in boxes are the crappy ones. Can anyone confirm if the box for an FX 5950 Ultra ever relied so heavily on the... charm of the …

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Re: Right to repair discussion (split from What retro activity did you get up to today?)

Posted on 2021-10-19, 21:40

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Shreddoc wrote on 2021-10-19, 20:42: You'll all be sorry when the Cylons arrive! 😉 I've been looking for a label for my disdain for the nightmare that is the modern pervasive internet and then I recalled how the Galactica wasn't networked. Adamaism.

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Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos

Posted on 2021-10-08, 17:07

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https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/10/18/boob-raider I was just thinking this morning that someone would mention Tomb Raider sooner or later. At the very least, Lara Croft as a character did more than just prance around seductively on a branch. I wonder just how much of the inception and …

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Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos

Posted on 2021-10-07, 20:02

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PixelPipes showed it, while commenting that it was a bit controversial. Original Dawn demo is controversial only due to nude patch. Even if the nude patch hadn't existed, the whole tech demo itself was a pretty blatant example of 'sex sells'. I was way out of the loop with PCs at the time, but I …

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Re: One year anniversary of NVIDIA "cancelling" their old tech demos

Posted on 2021-10-06, 16:40

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ZellSF wrote on 2021-10-06, 16:29: saying this is part of living in an "Orwellian novel" There is certainly a perception that those demos, as inconvenient details from the past, have been sent down the memory hole. That is Orwellian, even if right now we're not figuratively living in East Germany.

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Re: PSA: Facebook, WhatsApp down for everybody, potential DNS issue.

Posted on 2021-10-04, 21:01

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keenmaster486 wrote on 2021-10-04, 19:59: Lol. I hear they can't get into their buildings because their smart door locks rely on Facebook services to function. Internet of Things down bad tremendously once again I can't get Facebook back online without Dennis Nedry.

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Re: Importing to UK from EU after brexSh*t

Posted on 2021-09-28, 21:15

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And why does china get a free pass? Surely it should be the same for every country. A global flood of dirt-cheap consumer products made in China helps mask the fact that wages in the developed world have stagnated for over three decades. If certain unnamed objectionable regimes of the 20th century …

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Re: Can it be done?! Should it be done?!

Posted on 2021-09-23, 22:20

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We now live in a time of retro consoles and such, where customized hardware is used to replicate (and improve) upon old gaming systems and the experience of playing old games. On the PC side, we really don't seem to have anything for classic x86 From the perspective of the PC as another gaming …

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Re: "Square peg in a round hole" Socket 370 heatsink

Posted on 2021-09-07, 20:45

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That looks an awful lot like the heatsink in my Deskpro EN SFF - see Ancient Electronics' photos https://ancientelectronics.wordpress.com/2014 … ll-form-factor/

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-08-14, 21:51

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Old_Jelly wrote on 2021-08-14, 08:01: Got the final piece for my Pentium 3 pc yesterday. I'm quiet happy with how everything came together. […] Show full quote Got the final piece for my Pentium 3 pc yesterday. I'm quiet happy with how everything came together. Antec PlusView 1000 AMG 1.jpg 2.jpg …

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