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by teel 1y ago
I bought my first sound card SB Pro 2.0 in the early 90s and it came with Dr Sbaitso. We had lots of fun making it say different things, especually in our language (not English). I think it was the first time I heard synthesized text to spe
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by teel 2y ago
My finnish phone number did not work either with web login, although I dont think I ever saved it anywhere back then. But succeeded to login with UID and password that I have luckily been keeping in safe (post-its first in the 90s, keepass
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by teel 2y ago
2558361. Uh-oh. It feels weird how my ICQ UID has stuck to my head although so well. Just tested the online version and it was funny to see the contact names. Too bad the messages were not there. I think I have the db from old old pc somewh
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by teel 3y ago
Funny to see this link here, just after I saw this site yesterday. I was forced to google how to disable custom scrollbars when I was reading the "A simple hash table in C" link from 2 days ago [1]. The site set the scrollbar widt
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by teel 4y ago
First I thought I had clicked something that showed really old postings. I had no idea MythTV would still be around. I never used MythTV though; I used Freevo in the 2000s. Worked quite well once I had it configured. Every once in a while I
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by teel 4y ago
Good memories! Not a small number of hours was spent reading TUTnn.txt files in the 90s. Learned a lot. Another great series at the time was the pcgpe (pc game programmers encyclopedia) which was mentioned in the VGA trainer docs (or was it
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by teel 4y ago
For such case, if I were to use this service I would hope the owner's own dead man's switch has been set up properly.
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by teel 4y ago
The title reminds me of an interesting article about old Soviet and eastern block computers in a Finnish computer magazine Skrolli a few years ago. They have done couple of international editions in English, and this article happens to be i
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by teel 5y ago
The specs are there, under Wiki / Hardware specifications [0] - CPU/Soc: LPC11U6x (NXP ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, running at 48 MHz) - 256kB program memory – 36kB RAM – 4kB EEPROM - 2.0″ Color TFT, max res. 220×176 - 8-bit DAC and
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by teel 5y ago
It is nice to see how replies have persons real name and organization in the header, something you rarely see in internet discussions today (FB being one big exception). Brings back memories of using usenet in the 90s.
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by teel 5y ago
While this seems to be a neat thing, I am just wondering how common nowadays are door locks that actually have a hole through them? Where I come from, those locks could be seen in doors of old cabinets and other furniture. Or perhaps at the
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by teel 5y ago
Heh, thanks for correcting the typo, that saved my Friday afternoon :) I had not heard car videos are so popular nowadays that their download speed can be used as a measure of modernity. But actually, that did not surprise me any more, more
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by teel 5y ago
Reminds me of Finnish "Frankenhornet"; they attached the forward-section of Canadian F-18 to their own damaged F-18. Unfortunately the thing crashed during test flight after the modification.
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by teel 6y ago
Heh, I had forgotten that already. I had so much fun with Dr. Sbaitso in the early 90s when I bought my first sound card, SB Pro 2.0. After all these years I can still remember the introduction lines word-by-word. Scary..
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by teel 6y ago
...but only in Soviet Russia, you insensitive clod!
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by teel 6y ago
This (monitor being removed from the system if I turn it off) must be the most braindead idea I've seen in a while. This is why don't turn off my monitor after work day any more, but leave it on and let it go to power saving sleep
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by teel 7y ago
Thanks! That (simulated device loss followed by all the steps you mentioned) is something I plan to do every now and then but so far I've never gotten around to actually doing it. Encouraged by your post think I'll finally do it (
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by teel 7y ago
May I ask what software you use mostly? I just checked couple of programs I have open on my computer right now and the floppy as save icon is very used still; tortoise svn client, adobe reader, excel, winscp, notepad++, eclipse, all more or
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by teel 7y ago
> and Megadeth.) Laughed at that one.
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by teel 7y ago
Having never heard of OpenShot before, I needed a video video editor, saw OpenShot and downloaded it, managed to cut a short clip, add extra music track, do other small adjustments and export it suitable format rather quickly. Very nice! Mo
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by teel 8y ago
Yes, I like it too. I tried to resize the browser window horizontally and the page neatly splits the content in multiple columns. Very nice.
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by teel 8y ago
I've used the snapshot versions as my primary browser at work and home at least since... (referring again to KeePass, checking creation date of credentials for some vivaldi related thing) ...beginning on April 2016, and for me it has
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by teel 8y ago
It's been there at least 6 months already. I think I started using it around the time it was added. According to my password safe, I put the sync name/password in there on 1st of December last year. EDIT: I want to add that I run
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by teel 8y ago
Vivaldi does have a sync feature! But I don't know if you're aware of that already, and FF/Chrome sync have something special in their Sync that Vivaldi doesn't.
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by teel 9y ago
Off topic, but I am trying to get my head around the photo #14, it's almost like an optical illusion but not quite! Looks almost like a photo that has been mirrored vertically but since the men are in different position, the halves mus
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by teel 9y ago
The Okinawa missiles of October was a story that looked like a close call (to me at least!). It was on HN couple of years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452983
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by teel 10y ago
That is something I've been googling an answer for. In "alarms only" mode the media volume is still not muted, as one would expect from the name. It seems they forgot to make it so, or forgot to describe that mode as "al