orbitingpluto

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by orbitingpluto 2y ago
Someone created something. Its value greatly exceeds the perceived "degradation of the environment" of a spelling mistake. Not acknowledging that says more about the pedant than the creator.
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by orbitingpluto 2y ago
If we can all hear the tiny violin, who cares?
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by orbitingpluto 3y ago
Available on Amazon. Usually zero reviews. But there is that screenshot circling around of a 1-star review based on someone attempting to and failing to put out a campfire. If you rely on these and you end up dying, you can make a personal
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by orbitingpluto 4y ago
I was not including SDXC or even SHDC cards, only SD. I am trying to find a maximum capacity SD card to use in a Palm T|X, either 1 or 2 GB. Back when SDHC first came out, I often ran into issues with 2 GB SDHC cards not working on older de
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by orbitingpluto 4y ago
Next up is optical discs and early flash memory variants such as Sony Memory Sticks, MMCs, xDs, and SD cards. When is the last time you used one of these formats?
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by orbitingpluto 5y ago
The media is the message. Criminals don't launder bitcoin at non-profitable nail salons either.
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by orbitingpluto 6y ago
I was staying at a hobby farm and I was on the second floor in the loo when I noticed a shadow from above. It was a peacock looking at me through the skylight. They are evil evil birds.
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by orbitingpluto 6y ago
"The system always works the way a rational human would expect." We all wish, we all wish.
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by orbitingpluto 6y ago
The RIAA will have to create a takedown notice to takedown their takedown notice, invalidating the former takedown notice?
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by orbitingpluto 6y ago
As soon as you start to vary, accidentally or not, the heights of cells, you're in for a bad time. Sorting large datasets with varying cell heights will bog down your system. Force uniform cell height and sorting can easily be twenty t
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by orbitingpluto 6y ago
Windows 10 now being a rolling release is making things even harder. Even if you do learn how to do something, you have no idea how long that method will remain viable or if features will be removed. I find myself relying more and more on P
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by orbitingpluto 6y ago
I remember feeling angry when I learned about the undocumented MBR switch for FDISK. There I was, beginning to learn to spell words with 6 or more letters, thinking I had to use a hex editor to clean up the MBR. All that effort with no guid
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by orbitingpluto 6y ago
This was awhile back and was particularly nasty. No token, no check-ins, it was an unapologetic man-in-the-middle login prompt. Terms of service had wording that made mining all data in your Facebook account sound like the intent.
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by orbitingpluto 6y ago
I used to do this all the time over port 53. My closest coffee shop would allow people to access Wi-Fi only if you gave them full access to your Facebook account. DNS was the only port open to the outside world.
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by orbitingpluto 7y ago
The worn wood in grain elevators can be truly amazing from decades of grain eroding the wood and creating beautiful smooth surfaces. It would be a shame to tear it down without reclaiming it.
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by orbitingpluto 7y ago
Run Spectrum Holobyte's Tetris Classic in DOSBox.
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by orbitingpluto 7y ago
I picked up a 5 1/4" floppy without the sleeve that was on the side of the road 20 years ago, sliced open another disc sleeve that had bad sectors and replaced it with the found disc. I still had a working XT at the time. It had T
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
I had to request refunds on half of the apps that I purchased because they disappeared or completely ceased functioning? I only bought items on the Windows Store because I had a few $25 Windows Store vouchers as well. They stopped selling M
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
All email from Microsoft ends up in my spam folders, regardless of whitelisting. I assume it is bad faith on Google's part.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
As a child, I was extremely uncomfortable with Dr. Huxtable when he was in his office. I would regularly walk away from the show when he was in his at-home office alone with someone. When I later saw Philip Banks in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
So you can run Corel software in it?
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
A decade ago, one client at an old job required ZIPs be 256-bit AES WinZIP encrypted, which at the time meant WinZIP was the only option. The employer was so cheap that they they didn't want to pay for WinZIP, so we'd wait n numbe
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Sorry, my bad for not specifying that. Deaths of journalists are one of those things to always note. Romania =/= Bulgaria
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Well this was certainly an interesting link form the same page: https://www.occrp.org/en/28-ccwatch/cc-watch-indepth/8813-a-... "But the victim of the brutal rape and murder was Bulgarian television jour
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Which happened to coincide with my last decent Skype call.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
A Dell Precision won't have an SSD permanently soldered into place.
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
"And the price difference between different consumer SSD types is minimal." Samsung 860 EVO 2.5" SATA III 2.5in SSD, 250GB $109.99 Samsung 860 EVO M.2 SATA III SSD, 250GB $109.99 Samsung 860 EVO Series mSATA SSD Solid State D
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
That is some serious price gouging on SSD upgrades, +$720 for 1 TB. Best Buy price matched several 1 TB SSDs (WD Blue, SATA, 2.5") for $150 (Canadian) apiece recently. And the price difference between different consumer SSD types is mi
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
Yes, outside wandering has been replaced with, "here's an iPad". But if you're talking about any sort of instruction I'd say the prices have tripled. If you're talking about something like organized hockey? Pri
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by orbitingpluto 8y ago
But then you'd need to include things that they have that we don't. The cost of activities for children has skyrocketed beyond belief compared to 40 years ago.

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