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  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    In other news I've learned the display on the Presario is actually one of those funky Hitachi High Performance Addressing things, a...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    Right, I'm not saying there wasn't technical merit to either one: - MCA was kind of brilliant especially for its proto-PnP arrangement...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    sed, have you ever actually used OS/2? It really was a great idea for its time, especially if you were looking at it versus Windows 3.1...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    I've seen some ridiculous uptime figures and heard stories of Deskpro ENs in particular living through stuff they really had no business...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread Something Random.
    Man, I don't think anything Compaq made deserved a decent reputation even into the mid-90s when 486s started to become mainstream. I...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread Something Random.
    I got friend pricing on a heavily modified original Xbox. It's been flashed with Cerbios, he left a header so I could easily reflash...
  • Mercutio
    ~$10/month to get a Fax-enabled number from these guys. This is pretty reasonable. Efax wants $25/month so screw that. Apparently most...
  • Mercutio
    Email. Faxing is just a print driver on everything made this millennium. There are services like eFax if you don't feel like using a...
  • Santilli
    What do folks use for sending faxes, and receiving them, on 11???
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread CURRENT GAME THREAD.
    I wouldn't be so sure of safety in European ownership. Visa/MC are worldwide entities, and Collective Shout has been able to affect...
  • mubs
    mubs replied to the thread Something Random.
    Amen. I think I'm the oldest here.
  • mubs
    Body is a semi pro - full-frame D700. Lenses are pro grade. I can try and sell them to camera rental places. Will have to take what they...
  • Chewy509
    Chewy509 reacted to Handruin's post in the thread Site outage 7.27.25 with Like Like.
    Hey, sorry everyone for the outage today. Our hosting provide Linode (now Akamai) had a large outage today in the US-EAST (Newark)...
  • Mercutio
    Mercutio replied to the thread CURRENT GAME THREAD.
    Give GoG some credit. They're the people who let you keep installation media for your purchases and install them anywhere you want...
  • sedrosken
    sedrosken replied to the thread CURRENT GAME THREAD.
    It's worth noting that Steam and itch.io didn't do this on a whim -- they were pressured to by Visa and MasterCard, who in turn was...
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