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Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (they/them) ko-fi: ko-fi.com/fooneturing

floppy.foone.org/w/Main_PageJoined February 2008

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I really should finish shopping for that oops something went wrong

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I got it working but the signal quality isn't exactly what I'd call great.

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And frequently interrupted for ads telling me to buy a car at FISHER MAZDA

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I like my star trek ANALOG and STANDARD DEFINITION and CRT

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This is the Tumblr post that spurred this thread. Look at that. Even as a couple GIFs, I can tell this show has too many damn pixels.

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Except, of course, for a recent invitation to dinner at the captain’s cabin, for which I have been encouraged by Lieutenant Ortegas to dust off my dress uniform.

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Anyway the important question is: is there a pan and scan cut of Strange New Worlds yet?

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Although I guess with all the new stuff being on Paramount Plus and Netflix and such, it technically HASN'T returned to TV, at least in the US.

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Also I mean it's been "off TV" not "odd TV". Trek is always odd TV.

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I don't want to do that again. I did my time in the 90s!

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Now I can't even mention that new trek exists without people replying with which of the eight or whatever current trek shows are good and which are bad.

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Although I will say the thing I enjoyed most about trek being odd TV for like a decade was that the arguing about which show was better than the others had mostly died down.

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Star Trek was meant to be watched on a late night UHF station on a small CRT in the bedroom, damn it!

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I'm gonna have to dub all the episodes into VHS just to watch them

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I'm thinking of starting watching the new treks but I haven't seen trek since ENT and TV has gone all HD since then. I don't know, it seems wrong

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a thing I think about a lot is security advice that's basically just wrong because it's written with assumptions about corporate behavior that are not reliable.

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obsessed with the floppy using floppies

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I tried calling myself (on my cell phone) and the first time, someone answered in chinese, and the second time, my phone warned me that I'm probably a scammer.

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I realized I can just use a terminal block for now. this works!

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there. much better.

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new cable installed

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so I think I'll get one of these residential telephone jacks and then use it backwards.

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the only problem is that it's got the little spade terminals on both end. I don't actually have a way to plug it in, if I attach this cord.

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see this thread for info:

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I got my new (old) phone cable in! Now I can replace the boring cable.

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Power Source By: Dave Yeakel - OmniTek (2002, Vue D'Esprit)

3d rendering of a column of green pulsing light in the center of a cylindrical room

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yeah these are voicemails. rodney ordered the wrong thing for madison country sheriff's office.

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huh. that's one way to store voicemails. they're emails. they're just emails with attached WAV files.

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DAMN IT DAVID HENIZE YOU LEFT A BUNCH OF VOICE MAILS IN HERE

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awesome, now I can figure out what extension to use to reach Michael Steel if I call them back in 2005

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most of the other wavs are "you've reached the phone of SOMEGUY, sorry for missing your call, please leave a message"

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"You have reached Law Enforcement Supply Miami" GEWT DID YOU BUY THIS FROM THE COP STORE

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hey look a bunch of greetings in WAV form

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oh no the database file is a .mdb does this thing use Microsoft Access!?

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it's got an "InstantOffice Serial Terminal" program installed, which is just a rebranded really old version of Tera Term Pro

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fun fact: you're not my dad, I can change my passwords all I want

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it's always a good sign when you have Administrator, administrator.000, Manager, and VNIAdmin_DoNotDelete accounts

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THE BUSINESS WIZARD!

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and a bunch of jpegs of phones you can tell why

bought this thing

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oh wee, java applets

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