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by mrbill 10y ago
I loved my TI-34 as well, recently bought one off eBay for old times sake.
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by mrbill 10y ago
I was working a laaate shift (datacenter migration) at work one night and came back to my desk around 4am.. my screens were straight up dark burnt orange. I thought something was broken, was checking cables, rebooted, etc, until I realized
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by mrbill 10y ago
Those were hard as heck to track down in the US. I ended up importing one from Mexico. Even the "we sell everything known to man related to phones" shops on Harwin Rd. here in Houston had never heard of it. Had to laugh when I re
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by mrbill 10y ago
Any chance of offering a "test drive" purchase, so I can check out the product before committing to a subscription?
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by mrbill 10y ago
When my mother bought a new 55" TV a couple of years ago, she didn't even know it was a smart TV (Android 4.4-based) until I came to visit and pointed it out. She just ignores and never uses any of the smart features.
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by mrbill 10y ago
I'm not sure about the current quality of their products, but I bought a refurbished Dyson "Animal" vacuum (the purple and grey one) in 2003. We'd killed a couple of other vacuums previously (when you shave a St Bernard
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by mrbill 10y ago
Another vote for webstaurant.com, I buy all my cheap flatware there in bulk.
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by mrbill 10y ago
I've had to replace the motor/regulator for my driver's side power window twice now ('05 Mitsu Galant). Fortunately it's just a $75-100 part and less than an hour of work.
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by mrbill 10y ago
That's what I do. I bought the "dumbest" TV I could find; I just want a display with speakers and HDMI inputs. Give me something I can plug the latest smart streaming box into and change that box as needed.
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by mrbill 10y ago
I remember our first VCR in the 80s being a Goldstar. I believe that LG at one point stood for "Lucky Goldstar" as they eventually changed company name and branding. Ah, from Wikipedia: "GoldStar merged with Lucky Chemical an
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by mrbill 10y ago
When we moved into this house, the wife made noises about replacing the "ancient" oven [0]. I asked "Has the technique of cooking food with heat, changed drastically since the 70s?" We left it in. When I went to colleg
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by mrbill 10y ago
It's really weird seeing F&P as an appliance maker, they also make (or did, the design keeps getting sold off to various companies) the CPAP mask I wear every night.
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by mrbill 10y ago
When we moved into this house 12 years ago, I got the cheapest, simplest, most "mechanical" washer and dryer set that Lowe's offered (I think it's branded GE). Haven't had a single problem other than the light insid
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by mrbill 10y ago
Does this version still require a tiny slice of every data-storage drive be used as swap? I've got hardware built up but am still debating NAS4FREE vs FreeNAS.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Sounds similar to yourmechanic.com, which I've used a couple of years ago - although you have to schedule an appointment, versus 3-hour service. Had them replace my alternator (I'd had AAA tow the car back to my driveway) and the
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by mrbill 10y ago
It's missing a bit about how the job is in a city that you last lived in three employers ago. I'm continually having to tell cold-contact recruiters that I don't live in Austin anymore, having moved to Houston twelve years ag
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by mrbill 10y ago
I saw a lot of this when GPUs were being used to mine bitcoin/altcoin.
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by mrbill 10y ago
I'm glad to no longer be in the ISP business (I did my years in the trenches, '95-02), but I sure enjoy trading "war stories" with other folks who started out their careers in a similar manner. Makes me wonder just how m
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by mrbill 10y ago
I was about to say, there's a PDF out there (I did the scanning from my physical copy, after we got permission). Thanks for digging it up! Edit: Wow, I dug up my original files and realized I did this almost ten years ago: http:&#x2F
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by mrbill 10y ago
Not by a long shot! Put in there by the friend who threw together a working system for me from the ones he had lying around. A lot of those original sub-gigabyte drives in the slabs eventually went out with bad bearings (oh my the screechi
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by mrbill 10y ago
UnixWorld asked on it's April 1993 cover: "Does Steve Jobs have a future in software?" https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbill/29870210 One of my prized possessions is my NeXT Cube[1], finally acquired
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by mrbill 10y ago
>They're authorized to give the exam for commercial radiotelegraph operator. This gets you a real, but not very useful license. This brings back memories. I was a board op (and then later on, full DJ) at a 100kW country radio stati
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by mrbill 10y ago
Maybe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W4cfIyNvts ?
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by mrbill 10y ago
Looking at the "List of Known ITS Systems", one of them is listed with the owner as Dave McGuire. Dave's a friend of mine, and it lives at his Large Scale Systems Museum. There's a pic here: http://q7.neurotic
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by mrbill 10y ago
They built one for Austrian govt. trials. http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/08/25/thumb-safety-g...
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by mrbill 10y ago
I'm a fi user and I can make/receive calls and send/get texts via Hangouts on both my phone and on the web/desktop.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Don't forget that Rolex made a quartz watch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Oysterquartz
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by mrbill 10y ago
I own an Omega Seamaster (James Bond Special Edition) - the last thing given to me by my wife before she passed away... However, my dream is to one day be able to afford a used stainless-steel Rolex Sea-Dweller or Submariner.
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by mrbill 10y ago
Evernote clipper (or "save this page as a note") is the only thing keeping me on that platform.
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by mrbill 10y ago
> Hipchat was acquired and now it lives on and nicely integrates with nearly all Atlassian products Except for when you run into a bug that requires disabling of the Hipchat integration with Confluence... You'd think a company could

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