spongeb00b

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by spongeb00b 7y ago
Reuse one of the 18ths
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
The problem wasn’t cold weather, this was the middle of summer! They were just stuck on too hard. At that age I didn’t know any better, and my dad who was the one encouraging me to gun it was never that mechanically minded. Over 10 years la
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
You seem to be getting down voted but this is important. Unless the company is paying staff to be available and on call over the weekend people have lives to be getting on with and wouldn’t be able to respond to an issue as quickly than dur
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
I left my first car parked on my sloped drive for 2 weeks while on holiday. When trying to drive it for the first time I found the handbrake seized on. My dad was all “give it more gas” to try and free it while reversing down the drive. Su
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
This is absolutely amazing. When I first saw Piper I assumed they were cutting real video of the water and beach is was just so realistic.
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
For anyone having to deal with this on Microsoft Word on the Mac it can be disabled through Word’s preferences.
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
Is eBay affected by this, or is an auction site clearly not the seller in this situation?
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
The images are very similar to Simon Stålenhag paintings.
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
It might also be reading the PS/2 keyboard input.
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
There’s 2 WW2 XT class midget submarines in Aberlady Bay in Scotland. They were used for target practise and you can walk out to them at low tide. http://coastkid.blogspot.com/2012/01/ww2-xt-class-submarine-...
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
I’ve not heard of this one before. Wouldn’t it cause serious problems for accessibility?
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
Taking out the tracking code snippet increases your Google PageSpeed score. Which makes sense, but I was always amused that Google basically was taking points says for using their analytics in your site.
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
eBay is full of Soviet new-old stock Nixie tubes. In the future it could be obsolete Chinese LEDs that everyone’s buying up to make “retro” digital clocks from.
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
An interesting machine. Dave Jones of eevblog did a great tear down of one https://youtu.be/W40qGkp-mEU
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by spongeb00b 7y ago
It almost reads like a Trump quote.
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
Electric buses seem to be fairly common in UK city centres. I first saw one in London about 4 years ago - it was surreal when walking past a typical red double decker at a bus stop and it just glided away with the faintest whirr. I’m all fo
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
I’ve visited the rebuilt Colossus at TNMOC a couple times now. I think the usually turn it on at noon, I like to get there just before and stand there in silence looking up at it, and then listening to the thrum, ker-chunk and whir at it co
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
In the early days of Apple when they first started shipping computers to Japan they were getting transported in refrigerated trucks. The transport company saw the logo and just assumed it was fruit. I’ve lost the source for this, I believe
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
I know it’s not quite the original, but SimCity 3000 (what I grew up on) was available a couple years back on iOS but now sadly gone.
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
It’s built on Retro68, a gcc based cross-compiler for building classic Mac apps on modern machines: https://github.com/autc04/Retro68
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
I wouldn’t want to even say “designed” as much as grown organically around us over a few hundred years.
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
Late to the game, but I recently started listening to The Dollop where 2 comedians tell stories from American history to each other. I wasn’t sure how much I was going to enjoy it and the hosts may not be to everyone’s taste but the stories
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
I can remember something similar about the same time being shown on BBCs Tomorrows World. Back then the idea of 3D TV was that you could change the perspective of what you were seeing by moving your head. From memory I think the screen had
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
Brilliant timing - I visited the National Museum of Computing (the computer museum that’s next to the actual Bletchley Park house) 2 weeks ago as Ruth Bourne was giving a talk while stood at the reconstructed Bombe. It was incredible to hea
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
Had to browse in landscape - the images went off the right side of the screen but the page won’t allow you to zoom out or scroll horizontally.
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
The Apple Lisa was kind of half way in this direction. The Lisa ROM contained the matrix layout for each keyboard language, but it was the keyboard itself that would return both the scancode and the fixed language of the keyboard being used
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by spongeb00b 8y ago
No one mentioned This Old Tony yet? Great explanations and tutorials for those like me aspiring to be a machinist while learning a variety of metalworking techniques and with good humour. https://www.youtube.com/user/fe
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by spongeb00b 9y ago
Not aware of any companies, but I do have have several Macs old and new - would be very happy help if you’re just looking to get the code copied out of the cards.
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by spongeb00b 9y ago
Have you looked into any of the classic Mac emulators like Mini vMac or Basilisk II? You could run the original stack and get at the code from there.
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by spongeb00b 9y ago
That or your Peril Sensitive Sunglasses

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