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by dvtv75 9y ago
Thanks, this is exactly why I did open this thread. The AmigaOS part particularly piques my interest: I used 1.2 and 1.3 on A500s, and 2.x on an A2000, I never used 3.x.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Before you do that, remember that they choose your retirement home. My father deliberately didn't take those sort of photos for exactly this reason: he knew my mother would use them to humiliate my brother and I as we got older.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Some decades ago, friends of mine ran an ISP that resold bandwidth from another business. They used a leased line to the business, and every Friday evening at about 7.30 their connection dropped out. It turned out that the cleaners at the
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by dvtv75 9y ago
The best advice we can provide is only what works for us. Your best bet is to find an experienced counselor who knows what to look for. As much as I wish I could help you, I can't: your reasons for drinking are yours alone, and your
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Mine was a "gift" from my mother's physically abusive boyfriend, who would haul me around by my ears when I was five or six. I have three high pitched tones in my right ear, two in my left. If you're familiar with the h
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I didn't even realize it was abnormal until now (although I note there's some debate as to whether it is or not). My mother has this, too, and wears blue tinted lenses to filter it out.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Thanks! I found this site a year or so back, but lost it in a browser crash (of sorts). Haven't been able to find it until now, so you're a (figurative) life saver!
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I'm not very clear on this, are you suggesting that we shouldn't look where we're capable of looking because we can't look where we aren't? (Sorry, my disability sometimes makes it a little difficult to understand w
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by dvtv75 9y ago
When I was in my first year of Computer Science (17 years ago), I had this CodeWarrior error that still makes me chuckle. I think I had a comment, assignment, and a System.out.println(); It wouldn't compile, had an error every single
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by dvtv75 9y ago
It's not always that simple - in Dunedin, NZ, burn time can be under ten minutes. It's quite similar in Australia, too.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
One of the houses I lived in had a really strong lock on the front door. The lock wasn't really the problem, though: the door is made up of four float glass panels. Of course, even if it was a solid wood door, there's another pr
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by dvtv75 9y ago
If you have the cash, then start investing in research, perhaps? Although I really don't know if that will speed things up any.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
It's interesting that you say this. I'm watching the first season of Stranger Things just now, and am finding myself longing for my home of the early 1980s, without computers, just a radio and TV, and my bike. I'm also findi
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I had an admittedly very old ATI card that I was using in my Linux box while saving my pennies for a newer Nvidia card. I had to give up on it and use an equally old iMac (2008-ish) because the ATI card was locking up my desktop with ring
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I seem to recall that certain types of plastic that are regarded as biodegradable will only biodegrade in particular conditions, such as with heat or UV exposure. I've no citation for this, it's only a vague memory from something
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I had the problem of needing Facebook. I found I was checking it every few minutes, sometimes as often as twice a minute, so I decided that I was going to demonstrate some self-control: I closed my account. You're absolutely right - a
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by dvtv75 9y ago
It is, in my experience, absolutely correct. About a decade back, I applied for a job in Dunedin. The manager of it met me, read my resume and loved it - I had plenty of experience where the other applicant he was interviewing didn't
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Agreed - that last bit's the key: if you have a good workplace, and people like being there, then it's a lot less likely that they'll jump ship. If you have a poor workplace, then it doesn't matter if you have overquali
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Just about the time I graduated (BS, not MD), the hospitals in Dunedin NZ had junior doctors on shifts of that long as a bare minimum, and they were on call for 72 hours following their shifts. They were supposed to get a few days off after
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Some of what I've written here might seem to be the "It's not so bad..." sort of stupidity that abounds. ("It's not so bad, you don't live in a third world country. That's worse than everything you&
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by dvtv75 9y ago
New Zealand is one. A few years ago, a friend took me to a firing range near Dunedin, and I watched someone fit a suppressor to an AR15 style weapon. New Zealand firearms regulations are incredibly tight. I never verified this, but I'
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by dvtv75 9y ago
There's nothing quite as jarring as having a pleasant piece of music turned up, only to have some off-key and out-of-time bell ding because an email arrived. Want to let me know there's a new email? Put a little envelope on the
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I had to laugh - I'm using Ubuntu, and every time I want to listen to music (or watch a video, or play a game) I have to pulseaudio -k, because for some reason it boots up with some horrid 8-bit 22khz distortion over it all.
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by dvtv75 9y ago
"Even the largest tsunami ever wouldn't make it past the Appalacan Mountains" I've read that the impactor that created the Chicxulub caused a megatsunami that washed over the Rocky Mountains, although I can't find t
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I suggest you discuss this directly with archaeological faculty at a university, rather than making claims about dynamite - e.g. those who used dynamite were treasure hunters, for example, not archaeologists. Modern archaeologists do share
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Very much this. We're not called "creatures of habit" for nothing: regular hours of sleep, varying by about 15 minutes at either (or both) ends, regular meal times, differing types of exercise at regular times, all this cont
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by dvtv75 9y ago
I can believe this. I used to work in "the Warehouse" (store name, rather than what it was). We were told that if there was a fire, particularly in the areas containing mostly plastic, we were to get out as fast as possible, no
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by dvtv75 9y ago
A friend of mine used to work in the newspaper industry, and told me that (in New Zealand, anyway) "pupil" refers to high school or lower, and "student" refers to tertiary education. Not sure if that applies elsewhere in
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Out of the blue, I was once expected to set up a recording studio and learn the electrical engineering side of things 'along the way! You've got the afternoon, in addition to your normal duties.' My background is in CS, not
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by dvtv75 9y ago
Does Windows NT 4.0 Workstation count? Technically, I don't run it, my work does. They still use it for a few reasons, but mostly cost: it has one job to do, which it does well enough, it's there, and a new system would need som

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