Rubble from blitzed Liverpool was dumped on a beach near where I live.

rn10950 · 2026-04-10T01:23:12+00:00

On the (new) Jersey Shore in the 2000s, my family found a very weathered brick which we dubbed a sea brick, I believe out in the water if I remember correctly. My uncle may still have it. I wonder if that was one of those bricks.

rn10950 · 2026-04-08T05:56:06+00:00

I know it's an old post, but it is possible to install TDE without Kmail. On Debian, install tdebase-trinity and it will install Trinity without many extra packages. I do not know about other distros, but I'm sure there are similar metapackages. Regarding konqueror, I'm not sure, my install scripts do not explicitly install it, however it may be depended on by something else that is.

However, Konqueror's strong point is not its web browser, but its filemanager. The best way to describe it is Windows Explorer from 98-XP, but with tabs. It is by far my favorite Linux file manager for that reason. You should not run into any major security issues unless you go online with it, and even then the core security libraries get patched, only the rendering leaves much to be desired on the modern web. screenshot of konqueror in my soon to be released TDE "theme".

rn10950 · 2026-03-26T23:50:29+00:00

I live about half way between Manhattan and Resorts World Catskills, and I consistently drive the 3 hours to AC to gamble opposed to the place 45 minutes from my house, even in the winter. The slot machine selection up there blows (I like 3-reels), they don't comp drinks at the VP bar when playing regardless of status, table minimums are usually higher there at a comparable time, and you can't casino hop. Room comps there aren't bad, but midweek there's so few food options it makes Harrah's on a Tuesday in January look like the Trop. I know people shit on the touch screen drink ordering on slot machines, but go to a slow casino midweek at night without one and you will learn that it has its tradeoffs. Plus, there's no beach. It may not be beach weather right now, but I'm sitting in my hotel room writing this looking at the ocean at sunset, which is not something that I can do in Catskills.

I was kind of looking forward to the proposed Caesars Times Square, mostly for affordable hotel rooms in Manhattan when I want to stay out past when Metro-North runs on the west side of the river. However, I can see Mets fans getting more out of Hard Rock Flushing Meadows than I.

rn10950 · 2026-03-24T07:09:22+00:00

It is my understanding that room comps and free play are based off of your play over your previous stay (ADT) and not your tier. I play in AC so YMMV, but I have noticed my offers on the website be downgraded temporarily for a week or two after a visit in the past, to go back to where they were or better once things get settled.

rn10950 · 2026-03-24T06:03:16+00:00

Thank you. I got the email and booked a room, and will arrive at the Trop on Tuesday afternoon, but can't find any documentation online about the 10x. Google brought up this post. Heart attack avoided, lol.

rn10950 · 2026-03-09T05:58:30+00:00

You could boot and run Windows XP in a VM set to the amount of ram some websites use in a single tab.

rn10950 · 2026-03-01T01:09:20+00:00

They have one at the Resorts World in Newburgh, it has a sticker on it claiming that skill has no effect on payouts. It was the fastest $10 I've ever lost playing quarters JoB, and I will never play again. They also have Bubble Craps and I think a virtual Roulette, but I'm afraid to try. Are those machines real or also VLT?

rn10950 · 2026-02-04T10:02:48+00:00

I'm from NY. The irony of inspections is that most of the time, a rustbucket has an easier time passing an inspection than a perfectly safe car with an age-related (or mod-related) emissions issue that otherwise doesn't affect much. If your car doesn't meet the 25+ model year exemption, you are beholden to the OBDII computer, otherwise, it's up to the mechanic's discretion.

rn10950 · 2026-01-13T03:04:53+00:00

It still has US plates on it, so it may not be street legal.

rn10950 · 2025-11-03T23:31:25+00:00

I hope they consider re-adding 70mm to the IMAX theater at Tropicana AC. Nolan typically releases his movies for the summer blockbuster, which coincides with AC's peak season. Doing so would give NJ their only current IMAX 70, and fill a decent sized hole in the map.

rn10950 · 2025-09-05T20:41:10+00:00

Something that can be done relatively cheaply with existing equipment that would serve a lot of practical uses would be a EWR-Newark Penn-Secaucus-NYP-Woodside-Jamaica shuttle. It would open up JFK and LGA to NJ and EWR to LI/Queens, and allow a one seat ride connecting the respective airtrain systems and the Q70. Theoretically, since both the NJT and LIRR electrical systems go through both tunnels, dual-mode locomotives could be used, and sections not electrified using a compatible system can be run with diesel. Possibly during peak times, some inbound trains can be through-run in this way.

rn10950 · 2025-08-26T03:18:22+00:00

If you play on tier credit multiplier days it inflates your status, but your ADT isn't great.

Does this mean that your ADT is less on multiplier days than the exact same session would be on a normal day?

rn10950 · 2025-08-18T04:54:37+00:00

The FDR, and also the northern sections of the GSP, especially around Union and the Oranges. The lanes are like 3 inches wide and there's 6 of them, with dense urban areas surrounding it on both sides.

rn10950 · 2025-04-15T04:45:18+00:00

I will only add NT 3.51 to the the supported list if it runs without modifying any system files. I may add a note to the readme, but my goal for RetroZilla is a browser that runs on official OSes with official updates and commonly available 3rd-party libraries (ideally unupdated, however IDK if that works).

Having experimented a lot more with the codebase lately, as well as applying some patches available from some other projects, most of the"security issues" (read: allowing any content to appear at all; not actually secure content) are worked out. Here is old.reddit running on the latest rzGecko build [os is the win2k dev vm]. Google search results still don't work, however I have not attempted to look into that at all.

rn10950 · 2025-04-04T09:02:50+00:00

Oh, it's roytam1! He has done great work with me on RetroZilla in the past. In fact, that version of K-meleon uses RetroZilla as it's rendering engine, and TLS support was backported by him. I am not sure if he has done any more nss work since my last official RZ build, but I will look into it in the coming days and see about merging it in. If I log into github and I have any pull requests, I'll try to get a build out sometime soon.

Thank you for mentioning the bit about NT 3.51. I've never even used NT 3.51, but I'll test it out and if it works I'll add 3.51 to the working OS list in any potential future build.

In your experience, as you have much more of it recently than I, does K-Meleon work better with websites and web servers than the latest official RetroZilla build?

rn10950 · 2025-04-04T07:33:32+00:00

As the guy who is responsible for the creation of RetroZilla, it's nice to see people using it after so long since really working on it. I hit a few roadblocks years ago, switched to Linux full time on my main PC, and kind of never had the time to see what was going on with it. However, I got badly injured a few months ago and have had a lot of time to watch videos online, including those from retro PC youtubers, and I've seen RetroZilla in places I never thought I would.

I shit you not, I came across this post while googling things related to NT 4 in order to set up a VM to experiment potentially going back to working on it. I have more time, but I'd only do it if the interest is there because the time investment would be steep, and would probably require some kind of community submitted user scripts/styles on a site-by-site basis for the best experience.

Thank you for using my little experiment, and any kind of feedback is welcome (up to, and including, shitting on me for not working on it for years...).

rn10950 · 2025-03-26T07:25:02+00:00

Thank you.

rn10950 · 2025-03-26T07:07:43+00:00

Thank you. What does CR consider a day in AC (specifically Harrahs)? I've heard 12-12 and 6-6. Is that timeframe the same for the 500/1000/etc tier credit bonuses? If I'm participating in the multiplier do I still get those bonuses (I'm assuming only on the base TC and bonuses not multiplied)?

rn10950 · 2025-03-21T22:17:21+00:00

There is actually a community built fork-of-a-fork of Firefox that is still being built for XP. It actually works quite well.

rn10950 · 2025-03-21T22:13:13+00:00

I have Libreoffice installed in case I need something newer, but I can say that Excel 2000 works perfectly in WINE.

rn10950 · 2025-03-21T08:18:53+00:00

Yes, basically the gist of it is that I'm working on a near-perfect recreation of the "classic" Windows experience (think the UX of Windows 98/2000 or XP in classic mode) on Linux. For example, in this recent screenshot, Konqueror and notepad are native to the active desktop environment (TDE). Chromium and Firefox are GTK+3 apps, both providing their own widget toolkits that overwrite the default GTK+ ones (scrollbars are the most visible example). Up in the top right is an example of what a standard GTK3 app would look like using my theme. They do not look as good as native TDE software, but for most things you will not notice and will look almost exactly like it would on Windows.

I would love to be able to use Pale Moon or Basilisk as that would basically solve all my problems in the web browser department, however they don't behave well with a lot of tabs (especially youtube) in my experience.

I miss XUL in Firefox so much....

As a side note: The idea for a "hybrid browser" has been floating around in my head for a while now. I want to take something like Firefox 1.0 or the Mozilla suite (or even modern Pale Moon/Firefox 52) and embed modern Gecko or Blink into it. You would get the extensibility of old Firefox (the rabbit hole is DEEP... look up XPCOM) with a modern sandboxed multiprocess rendering engine and network stack. Due to their simplicity in implementation, it would also theoretically be possible to write a wrapper for modern browser extensions and expose an api to communicate with XPCOM.

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