threeio

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1. 91.▲
   by threeio 4y ago

   Loved my chumbies... I grabbed a few of the Sony branded ones and they were fantastic for music, Netflix and Chumby flash apps for a long time.
2. 92.▲
   by threeio 4y ago

   aww you make me feel old... webtv was years after I was on the internet. It was a brainchild of Steve Perlman, who had a number of other interesting ventures as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Perlman_(entrepr
3. 93.▲
   by threeio 4y ago

   Good to know SomaFM is still round, its been 20+ years at this point.
4. 94.▲
   by threeio 4y ago

   How dare they call Sbaitso bad AI... ;)
5. 95.▲
   by threeio 4y ago

   oh pink shirt book...
6. 96.▲
   by threeio 4y ago

   My nest screwdrivers (I have two) are my most used tools in the house to this day.
7. 97.▲
   by threeio 4y ago

   So from a hardware perspective I've known the Tidbyt was a stretch (ie: I know I could build it myself for cheaper).. from the software side they've done a great job. I've sold at least 5 of them with people just going "
8. 98.▲
   by threeio 5y ago

   I remember staying at a hotel in the UK that rented internet in 500MB chunks... i figured out that if I tunneled everything via DNS they didn't count the traffic. I wish I had known about Iodine at that point ;)
9. 99.▲
   by threeio 5y ago

   I remember staying at a hotel in the UK that rented internet in 500MB chunks... i figured out that if I tunneled everything via DNS they didn't count the traffic. I wish I had known about Iodine at that point ;)
10. 100.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    I read -every- page of my 512k macintosh owners manual cover to cover until the pages started to fall out.
11. 101.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    Where is the list of dark stations, I could really enjoy that one ;)
12. 102.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    God I miss the BBS days.
13. 103.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    I have two of these, one for Washington DC and Baltimore area and one for SF Bay... absolutely love them, although they drove the framing guy -crazy- because they're slightly smaller at the top than the bottom :) https://map
14. 104.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    Keep circulating the tapes!
15. 105.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    In the 90s Many questionable ISPs would ignore TTL values and thus you would be left with a situation where even with a reduced TTL for a maintenance window, you would still be stuck waiting for DNS caches to expire remotely. Sure some plac
16. 106.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    I remember trying double-dos to do that as well.. DESQview was much better at multiline
17. 107.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    yah faster barcode readers are surprisingly cheap these days...
18. 108.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    Wayne Green (byte's publisher) was an interesting character overall. Not surprising that he would value the cover art as much as he did
19. 109.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    Very much this... two good combos, although the laurel VEC is also fantastic. Get your ticket, its a fantastic experimenters hobby... just ignore the stodgy old man part of it
20. 110.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    Silver and Gold ink Markers - When you purchase a device with a wall wart charger, write the device name on it. Labels peel off, the ink tends to stay forever. Now when I move/pull something out of storage/my bag I know exactly
21. 111.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    I got my wife one of these and was surprised when she was away how well I slept under it
22. 112.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    Very much this.. I don't use it now as much as I used to, but this workflow simplified my life for taxes, record keeping and organization. In my case everything flows to Evernote for simplicity and search-ability, when I'm at my a
23. 113.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    I used to always keep about 100$ in 2$ bills in my travel bag when I traveled often... it was the emergency cash that I'd -never- use unless I was really screwed and needed cash. (Sorry cash only, credit card machine down... Sorry cash
24. 114.▲
    by threeio 5y ago

    I prefer your version :)
25. 115.▲
    by threeio 6y ago

    So much pascal in my youth.. my BBS software was pascal and a mix of assembly.. been a long time.
26. 116.▲
    by threeio 6y ago

    Bob's slack was strong with us all back then.. my 486/40 screamed back then.... oh god I'm old. ;)
27. 117.▲
    by threeio 6y ago

    i remember that feature and dreaming of how awesome it would be... sigh.
28. 118.▲
    by threeio 6y ago

    Still going on... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/pentagon-bal...
29. 119.▲
    by threeio 7y ago

    Or you could use something like Satnogs.org ;)
30. 120.▲
    by threeio 7y ago

    uBitx v1 build.. bought it and never got around to it.. have to build the original before I ponder getting a new version ;) https://www.hfsignals.com/index.php/ubitx-v6/