You and me both brother... When I saw that article that's the first thing I said... 20 years? F*** I feel old :(

Sorry bro, my GPU doesn't support text acceleration. No sale here...

That's it! Those things were great!

* What's the best tool to wind back up chewed-up cassette tapes?
>>> By hand, Pen cap. Fast way, one of those electric stick screwdrivers with a pen cap shoved over the phillips bit.

* How long do you boil your hot dogs on the stove?
>>> Until the beer foam is gone

* How many stamps have you licked in one sitting?
>>> Not sure, how many did it used to take before you got that taste in your mouth and had to rinse it out?

* Which joystick was the best?
>>> Cant remember the name, had a metal shaft and a plastic ball at the end with a really short throw, was great for those olympics games where you'd have to go side to side to run. Think it was a tac something.

I hated 1200 baud modems when they first came out, 300 baud was pretty good for reading text at full transmission speed (600 probably would have been perfect), 1200 it was too fast and you had to start putting screen breaks in to pause the scroll.

Nobody is buying them because nobody makes them in decent sizes :( I'd buy a pair of 27-28" wuxga's today if I could find some with decent specs from a good manufacturer (those oddball korean ones you can only get on ebay don't count).

I'm still using a 26" viewsonic wuxga as my primary, 10 years ago I was on uxga crt's, and from there went wuxga to keep my vertical-ness. Now the biggest wuxga new I see around is a 24", so to keep 1600 vertical minimum (without turning it sideways shaddup about that already) I either have to move up to wqxga and squint or sit closer because high dpi scaling is still lacking in os's or go to a smaller display.

Having played Planetside 1 from beta (sill have cd's!) and for a few years after launch, a lot of the people I used to play that with were pretty excited about planetside 2, until we actually got to play it. The summary about it was pretty much this:
Everything you hated about planetside 1? We took it out.
Everything you liked about planetside 1? We dropped most of that too!
Things you thought were missing from Planetside 1? We put some of those in.

This one feels like pretty much a large map rip-off of all the other fps's out on the scene now, and I've taken to calling it Planetfieldfall2: modern agenda.

Graphics are pretty good, maps are still huge, but all the things that would make us get 20-30 people together to storm around and kick some butt together are gone. Thanks for nothing and you won't be getting any cash from me.

This comment is meant to be read on a future display. It is only 1 line high. If this text takes more than one line of text on your display you need to upgrade. I have no doubt that this will be modded up in the future when users realize my forward thinking capacity. Let's hear it for product teams that believe that displays are only useful for watching movies and we don't need vertical resolution.

Bump for bookcat. A few years back I started using it, I was getting into a situation where I had purchased a couple of books I already owned and wanted to start keeping track of them all. Started with a spreadsheet for simple search. Got tired of maintaining it, then transitioned to this.

Process for physical books is now:
          Buy book
          When it arrives, scan the barcode with an android phone, put the book away.
          Import the isbn into Bookcat, then bookcat downloads the cover/metadata etc for it
          Update location field, any other metrics you want to keep, price paid, condition for used etc.

Then you've got a nice searchable index. It's made for small libraries so it does have the loan & check in/check out functionality as well, and I think it's like $40?

Yeah that's what I use, it's dirt cheap and you can just buy a roll and cut the lengths you need. My home office desk I screwed some longer strips to the back underside of the desk so everything stays up high, out of the way and out of sight, then it's easy enough to redo since you're working with velcro. Being able to get behind the desk I highly recommend as well.

For Wall warts, I use these guys ( http://www.cablestogo.com/product_list.asp?cat_id=1020 ), power squid type power strips, you can attach them high underneath your desk then coil up the excess cable length near them so you don't have hanging wires. Additionally then you dont have to worry about them blocking recepticles on your good power strips (I'm still an isobar fan for those http://www.tripplite.com/en/products/product-series.cfm?txtSeriesID=825 )

Also dont be afraid of physical separation, I have my cable modem, firewall, and a switch on one side of the room on a cabinet where printer, mfd etc are, along with a small nas, then gig isl's over to the other side of the room where workstations on the desk are plugged in.

I'm also a big fan of synergy ( http://synergy-foss.org/ ) as a software keyboard/mouse for machines vs having use physical keyboards or physical kvm's for multiples, and you still get the separated video output for each which is nice.

Every once and a while you need to go through the stuff you've got cabled up, getting rid of things you don't use all the time, or can consolidate (that's probably an annual or bi-annual job though lol). I did that earlier this year and it actually helped quite a bit.
 

AOL's 3 remaining customers are going to use a new application to aggregate their mail from services that already provide more functionality than AOL does in an attempt to show relevant value and usefulness. One of the 3 customers, known simply as "granma" was quoted as saying "Now I don't have to remember all those complicated things like gee mails and yahooie for when I need to tell my grandson that the guv'ment is going to start charging for email, or if I forward this message bill gates is going to give me a dollar!".

Cool story, would read again, +1, +like & stuff. Need's more bitcoin.

Agreed. Last title I picked up from them I think I paid like $50 for it, messed around with it for like a week. Then removed it and their stupid drm launcher/rootkit.

Publishers can quote piracy all they want but I think crap content is a bigger detriment to their financial base and word about that gets around just as quick as draconian drm.

Honestly, if there was a mechanism in place to get a refund on some of the garbage software I've bought over the years I think there's only a hand full of stuff I would actually keep.

I didn't read all the responses but from my dealing with the FBI cyber crimes division they won't even look at it unless there's $10k USD or more in loss/damages.

What I do (when I'm bored :P ) is just take the logs, pull the source address, punch it through arin and see who owns the netblock, then file a abuse/fraud ticket through whoever owns the netblock (including providing the logs). That seems to work pretty well for us based companies. I was really impressed with the amazon cloud guys and how fast they shut down a compromised vm after I sent them the info. Regional/smaller ISP's are usually pretty good, larger ones it can be hit or miss.

Dealing with offshore addresses is more problematic, due to inconsistent controls, communications barriers etc. For addresses like that if it's not a country I'm going to be travelling to or do business with I'll just acl the whole block (sometimes the whole country) at my perimeter.

Aside from that, nonstandard ports, knocking, vpn are all good ways to deal with this kind of thing. I'm guessing you're at least not leaving all your personally critical data there, and that you do at least have some isolation.

This pretty much sums it up. Earlier this year I broke my slide out keyboard smartphone. I went to the shop to see what they had, and it was either get the same one I bought a year ago or buy the new model. New model had a faster processor, better radio, more memory etc. Yeah it's bigger and it doesn't have a slide out keyboard, but I bought it anyway because I didn't want to buy the slower one even though the faster phone didn't have some of the features I wanted and I didn't like that it's larger.

It seems like you get 3 options when you go with a carrier and narrow it down to a specific manufacturer. The budget model that has pretty much nothing, the older version that's ok, but you know there's something better or the shiny new one that's not really what you want but it's the only option left.

The display annoyances trend is getting worse though I'm dreading when I have to replace my desktop displays again because the industry seems to think that the only thing people do with computers is watch movies on them so all the displays have to be widescreen and 1080p is fine, so you don't need a lot of vertical resolution. I'm tired of the arguments there too, no I don't want to turn it sideways because then it's to narrow and too tall.

I want a phone, not a tablet.

I want my vertical pixels back.

I'll add a gripe #3 just because... Blue LED's, enough said. Shuji Nakamura, it's your fault.

My dog would go nuts over this, he'd never get tired of chasing a flying cat around the yard. I want one just to see how he'd react to it.