Re: Apple Silicon computer SSD

Posted on 2023-09-17, 09:53

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That's how you're supposed to use Windows (all of your files in OneDrive), so it isn't much different (except that maybe iCloud actually works - I've never used it, so I don't know). You're limited by your Internet speed, which these corporations don't seem to understand. Yeah, that's how it is at …

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Re: Apple Silicon computer SSD

Posted on 2023-09-16, 18:25

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Are you simply supposed to use a Mac as a content access/processing device, with everything backed up into your icloud account.

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Re: Which old programming languages do you still use/play with today->

Posted on 2023-09-06, 23:34

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I haven't used any of those old basics or VBs for decades, same for Turbo Pascal. I still put them on my retro systems along with some old C compiler and a Prolog interpreter but I seldom program anything at home any more, and when I have I've used Python even on Windows 98. For what it's worth, in …

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Re: Return/refund etiquette on eBay

Posted on 2023-08-19, 12:50

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So recently I've started selling a load of stuff on ebay, been buying stuff for years of course. etc +1 to all of that. Doesn't matter about a no returns policy, that only really covers changes of mind: if it's defective and messaging the seller doesn't satisfy you, open a case with ebay. They …

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Re: Looking to buy a garden strimmer, and weed killer.

Posted on 2023-07-20, 14:38

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I find strimmers very frustrating, so I have two solutions to weeds: 1. Flamethrower - shoots a stream of paraffin across a burning wick (or something like that) - wonderful roar when it heats up and is ready to use. Be careful not to burn your shed or fences down. Sheen x300 for example. 2. Brush …

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Re: Should we start splitting the sub topics into sub..sub topics?

Posted on 2023-07-02, 10:29

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No, not needed.

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Re: Has VOGONS banned me by IP?

Posted on 2023-05-26, 13:01

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Contact an admin by PM as per the terms and conditions page: 8. You won’t try to hack or disrupt the site or its members, or bypass moderation of your account. (If you discover a security problem, please send a private message to a VOGONS administrator straight away. We will fix the problem and give …

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Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2023-05-23, 18:05

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I have old stuff installed but it's not used daily except when there's some particular thing I'm doing. The oldest stuff I have called up recently (last week) would be: AnyDVD - but I couldn't work out how to do what I wanted... (mount an ISO...) CloneCD (or one of the related tools)- to simulate CD …

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Re: Nostalgia for vintage PCs in the future

Posted on 2023-05-09, 18:35

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Pretty much this is how TV and films are already, feels like it's getting more intense - in terms of docu-dramas and so on that on the face of it are dramatisations of real events but in reality are mostly fiction where the writers have imagined what might have happened. Recent-ish things of the …

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Re: Very old time related game review.

Posted on 2023-04-15, 09:14

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Thanks for weaning me off Milliways, the last bit of vogons I regularly visited.

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Re: nostalgia midlife crisis

Posted on 2023-04-13, 11:48

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My kids are around age 25-30, nowadays they either have old consoles or mostly emulators for various Nintedo/Sony/Dreamcast. Some buy or otherwise obtain old PC games on steam or whatever (not gog so much). But they have zero interest in my old computing gear, even when it was stuff they played on …

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Re: my collection now has more 64 bit than 32 bit, yours ?

Posted on 2023-04-11, 16:38

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My main PC is 64 bit. My two old-games PCs are 32 bit. I do have a second 64-bit PC for testing purposes. That's all I have room for.

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Re: The PC parts market is weird sometimes

Posted on 2023-04-09, 10:27

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Some weirdness for sure on ebay. I bid £152 on an item a while ago but it sold for £205. The next day the seller sent me a second chance of £152 (which was my bid). Started at £150. Three others (only one a zero feedback) bid it up to £205.

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Re: How has your interest in vintage computing changed over time?

Posted on 2023-03-27, 23:46

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gerry wrote on 2023-03-27, 14:55: well, it is easier this way so why have all that hardware? inertia

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Re: How has your interest in vintage computing changed over time?

Posted on 2023-03-27, 11:00

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I guess a new Pentium 1 system circa 1994 was the root of my interest. Eventually that led on to spending far too long buying and selling second hand gear to try out different sound and video cards, and after some years of that I cut back: I liked the Windows 98 days best, so that became the focus. …

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Re: Whats the most rare piece of hardware you own?

Posted on 2023-03-08, 00:52

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Rarest I have now is probably a boxed set of Metabyte 3D glasses... think the name was Eye Scream. And a boxed Metabyte Vengeance Banshee. I guess Banshees aren't rare in themselves, but I never came across this brand in the flesh before or since. I have a few Wildcat VP cards (760, 870, 970, 990 …

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Re: Why do we collect things? self-reflection and crisis

Posted on 2023-03-05, 14:11

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yeah, with this sort of thing live for the moment and not too far ahead

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2023-02-19, 00:42

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Swapped my slow old non-turbo petrol Forester for a not-quite-so-old diesel XC70 last year. Loved the Subaru but Volvo is way more comfortable and the engine so much more powerful. But tbh the switch of brand was due to local service availability, multiple Volvo speciallists in town but the nearest …

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Re: John Carmack’s Full Statement On Echo VR’s Planned Closure

Posted on 2023-02-06, 17:53

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Interesting read, thanks for linking, lots sensible advice in there - eg on LAN play/capability; managing EOL games; writing things not to rely on licensed components. Unfortunately not how commercial offerings pan out of course, and big business corporate culture, the need to please the financial …

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Re: Most disappointing games?

Posted on 2023-02-04, 19:20

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If you thought the intro to Half Life was too long, you're either too young to have played it when it came out, or a hipster. I suppose you could also have been a mac only user at the time. Hahaha! I'm over 60, and I've been a PC user since 1986. Too old maybe. .... I'm reminded of the satirical, …

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