Mid-90s was where I began to actually care about the computer I was on, had enough torture from an old C64 at that point to learn not to be indifferent to the machine. Your typical home use desktop computer was around $2000-$3000 from Dell, Packard-Bell, Hewlett Packard or Gateway. Those were the computers like what…

This kind of thing was me for a long time. Still my favorite case to build a modern computer inside of was an Antec case. It was a model you typically saw used by schools around 2000ish. Terrible airflow as-is, but cut the fan grills out, install some thin wire grills and you have a case with really well balanced…

Really the game has ran flawlessly on emulators for a long time now. The speed boost does kill the only real benefit an emulator provided though.

Tell that to a flat earther!

Ah, didn’t know Sharp was Foxconn. When I say electronics specialist shop, I’m talking about a shop that sells electronic circuitry and related tools. In circuitry you have your throwaway brands that are great for prototyping due to low cost. Then you have your high end brands that go into the final versions of your…

Now that you mention it. I can’t think of a single Foxconn product I’ve seen in use in any recent products. I’ve seen their stuff in a lot of turn of the century stuff, mostly circuitry they produced. Don’t even remember seeing any of their products on the shelves of the electronics specialist shop recently.

Honestly a propane torch in the shape of a gun with a built in fire extinguisher sounds like an amazing tool. I love my bottle torch for how useful it is, particularly working on cars but I hate the form factor. Tip at just the right angle and the flame goes out. Most of the time that angle is the angle you need. In…

I dunno. Security should be main tanks. CSRs are more like crowd control.

This really is how messed up it is. The hospital cost of having an abscess lanced by non-specialist out procedure nurses is easily equivalent or higher than the cost of every computer part I’ve ever bought combined. The particular form of abscess I had is extremely painful and if not taken care of will become at…

Clearly a slip up? Did I read it wrong as “F-52s and F-35s”. Notice the “and” between those two. This is a guy that repeatedly does this crap and then tries to defend himself as being right. That’ fucking dangerous considering his position.

For me it was more about being somewhat relatable with a fun twist. I have been in the position before where I was chastised for using careful tricks to pull off things in an online game that normally aren’t possible. I was one of the first people playing a Paladin in EverQuest taking out raid bosses all on my own.…

I have put such error messages into programs I’ve written. Generally a “this should never happen” message really means that. It’s logically impossible if the computer is executing your code properly for that error to be reached. The reason we put in such things is because if for some unforeseeable reason the computer…

If you get any lights or any signs of power. The PSU is probably good. That click the tech heard is very likely a relay in the PSU clicking on, normally you don’t hear them over the fans but they do actually make and audible click if they are close enough to the sides of the PSU casing.

Was a hardcore Mozilla then Firefox fan for a long time but that has recently changed. There was a lot of contributing factors.

A bizarre definition of tolerable. It’s still a spam nightmare, just of a different variety.

There are still plenty of mysteries like this in games that even digging into the games doesn’t churn up much until years later. Things like the GTA UFO, the weird aliens in that popular space exploration game and before we figured out how to get up there the roof of the Nether in Minecraft. The Ancient Cyclops in…

Same game I was going to say. The game was terrible but the spells were so much fun to goof around with that I never even got close to beating the game.

Depends on the card. You have to read the details of the card to determine whether or not they support you intended usage. Features vary not just from brand but also card series.

If you area proficient in electronics work and looking to get into console hacking. It’s well worth the effort. I can compile and run anything I want on my Xbox360 thanks to not being afraid to modify the hardware and experiment. You don’t really need mod chips or anything like that either if your able to read tech…

Her job or not she did it against his wishes. It’s cheating. It’s not like he got with her while she was in the industry, she got in well after they got together. She was with him long enough to know he would be against it and chose to do it anyway. That’s what cheating is, violating the terms of your relationship for…