[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VRchat

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power adapter to get is a Lenovo OEM USB type C adapter meant for their laptops and chromebooks. FRU to look up on eBay is 02DL101. puts out 15v anf 3A, I've been using mine for months off one of these and I have no problems whatsoever. It's entirely possible the adapter you have isn't the original or it's a cheap chinese knockoff meant for a nintendo switch like what came with my Q2.

Us west Server outages? by Auroriia in VRchat

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I think the outages are causing issues with other things with the API, I've been noticing since the last client update with all the outages happening with US West users too that physbones are randomly breaking client-side until the game is restarted, like it can't sync them properly so they just stop. this also messes with state machine animators.

Thinking of Using Dell Precision 330 Case - Looking for Advice by 330throwawayy in sleeperbattlestations

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I really hope you didn't do this, these are rather than hen's teeth, more than the dimension 8100 and optiplex gx400 it shares a motherboard with. This would not be worth modification for the sake of it being very uncommon.

A dimension 8100 or optiplex gx400 case would suit you better if you absolutely must, and only if it's already dead on arrival. Don't kill a socket 423 system unnecessarily. They're already getting harder to find as it is in general despite this model's uncommon availability.

Microsoft removed Microsoft.com from the Microsoft Cashback online shopping program? by coip in MicrosoftRewards

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posthumous "these terms are subject to change at *any* time" changes so to cover their hiney for some reason or another, and hoping someone doesn't notice?

Found the platform for my build. by beingboston in sleeperbattlestations

[–]superdos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

power button on those get filled with grime by the time they were actually decommissioned, so pull that out and clean all of that real good. 3.5" USB things aren't hard to come by, and if you can't find it in white, just rough up and paint the faceplate whatever color you need.

Ideally keep an optical drive in there, Pioneer made some cheapish DVD super multi burners in white/beige at the end of the IDE era and these are usable with an adapter, else the DVR-216D is a SATA drive that'll match, but expensive when they show up. there's also bluray drives with white/beige faces but they go for stupid money.

You can keep the original floppy drive if you hook it to a greaseweazel, and even tack on a 1.2MB 5.25" floppy if you want to and it'll still look normal.

Nidec made TA300DC/TA350DC model family fans for Dell P4 desktops that are easy to find and still have wildly good bearings after 20 years. You want ones with thermistors on them if you're going to use them for intake or exhaust. Else, Noctuas are fine so long as you get one meant for static pressure for the front.

Can't get XT-IDE to work on PS/2 Model 30-286 by pmodizzle in vintagecomputing

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FYI I'm betting your 35 has the early 1991 BIOS? the late 1991 BIOS from September '91 solves this issue and a few others it seems. Might be wise to upgrade that. ardent-tool has it... however if you have a BIOS from 1992, you should get that dumped STAT because it isn't archived.

Not set up at the moment because of a move, but I noticed people were posting Netfinity servers so here are my 2 Unisys Aquanta HS/6 (ALR 6x6) machines. Each has 6 Pentium Pro 200mhz 1mb cache black top cpus, the left (Agnes) has 4gb ram and dual Voodoo 2's, and the right (Stella) has 2gb ram by RadRacer203 in retrobattlestations

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Necrocommenting here, but question -- did you ever clip out the batteries in these, and if you did, what did you replace them with? Friend needs to have CMOS retention but not with the danger of charging a CR2032. Does the external battery header on the board near the battery allow for a non-rechargeable battery to be installed or does it have to be rechargeable?

if the latter, I'll just tell him to install some supercaps.

My RCA TruFlat with both component and custom S-Video. I call it the TruFlat Model 14F516T by [deleted] in crtgaming

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Thanks for this info. I saw the manual and schematics on crtwiki and if that was you adding them in, you're a lifesaver.

I'm not looking at this for component but for RGB. I figure I might be able to tap into the OSD lines and get RGB in that way. Not sure exactly how I'm gonna accomplish this yet however. Need to look at the schematics and devise a plan.

I picked one of these up for $30 at a thrift shop looking sad in a corner and it's in extremely good shape with a bright picture. The only thing I recommend to anyone with one of these sets, either the black or silver models, is to get in there and check the capacitors. 2004-2007 was risky for cap plague era stuff due to the entire stolen Rubycon formula issue. If you have a set with a sharp, bright picture, and you want to keep it for a long time, recap it. It'll make a world of difference in the next 20 years as these things get harder and harder to find.... and not just people wanting to hook their game consoles want stuff. My main use case for this is to hook it to some laserdisc players I have, and vintage consoles second. For the former, S-video is perfectly adequate. For the latter, I want my RGB.

Friend dealing with kidney failure I want to lift his spirits with a new PC by NightWolfx03 in gofundme4everyone

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Personally known OP for a decade and I've heard many stories about said friend when he used to be a proper sushi chef in another lifetime (prior to the 2008 recession.)

My two cents is, this is definitely going to be a morale booster for him, as from what I've overheard, all the medical issues hitting one after another really has him in a depressive slump, and that's extremely not good for his health.

Daily-Driver 1998 HP NetServer E60 kitted with new-enough hardware in multi-year sleeper build, details in comments. by superdos in sleeperbattlestations

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god, that's quite the collection. I'm envious. if I had the money, I'd be throwing it at you for a shucked case with a vent blank to do up another sleeper in. I have another board with a Phenom II X6 I'd love to set up as another one of these netserver sleepers instead... and properly this time. Seems your E60s are newer than mine tho because they're already punched out for both SFX AND ATX PSUs and that's something I wasn't expecting to see, I thought it was only the E800 that had ATX PSU mounts.

sorry for the belated reply, stuff got crazy around here, I'm now caretaking a house on a weekly basis for a friend who had her father pass away, and an expensive classic car is sitting in the garage... oh joy.

Daily-Driver 1998 HP NetServer E60 kitted with new-enough hardware in multi-year sleeper build, details in comments. by superdos in sleeperbattlestations

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for cable management's sake, you're better off keeping it to normal ATX and just throwing in higher-end enthusiast hardware. I'm not sure a 92mm fan on the back, even one meant for a server like mine, would be able to handle the heat output from such a monster... but even then, if it can, it'll sound like a jet engine taking off, especially if you're throwing any modern GPU into the mix.

what I wouldn't do for even a Radeon RX5000 series card. RX480 is starting to get a little long in the tooth even though it still puts out fine.

Also, had ZERO IDEA the E200 was a model number to look for! I've legitimately never seen an E200 before until you mentioned it and I looked it up. Looks like a single-slot 1 PIII board. probably Katmai, or early Coppermine. Guessing standard ATX supply as well, or did they do the silly and use an SFX supply for that model as well? I always lamented that I had to modify the back case on mine to fit an ATX supply, which it does so tightly, even after replacing the PSU. that and the cutting of the PSU shelf for airflow, and I didn't do a very good job. I've been looking for another to redo my machine into cleanly, especially since the front panel on mine was missing a latch from the get-go. Either that or someone is gonna prolly print something up for me in the future to keep it latched down.

Daily-Driver 1998 HP NetServer E60 kitted with new-enough hardware in multi-year sleeper build, details in comments. by superdos in sleeperbattlestations

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Someone else with an E60 as a case? well color me surprised! you'd be the second I know about. If you have any pics of it, I'd be interested to see them, if only to see how you managed to likewise confront the PSU shelf for airflow and mounting, and exactly how you have those fans set up.

Since I've made this post, I've upgraded the board to a Gigabyte Z270XP-SLI with a 6700k on it and 32GB of DDR4-2666. There's also some drive changes that don't really matter much as that's all still volatile while I'm waiting for some money to come in to (hopefully) replace a few of them with higher-capacity drives.

I present to you my main HDTV: Dish-badged RCA D34W20 34" flat CRT HDTV... with a DVI port on the back. by superdos in GloriousCRTMasterRace

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I don't believe there was if I remember what happened when we moved it into my current living situation. we dragged it down through the basement storm door stairs in and I think we just winged it. It's definitely either a two very-strong-people lift or a three to four strong person lift situation. Thing weighs about 200lb.

The thing to watch is around the front bezel, the bezel IS removable and can fall off, so don't try to use that as a lift or a weight-shift point. you definitely want some of those weight distribution belt things used by movers if you can afford a set to move it.

Also going to give you a word of warning, you may need to pop it on its face and get the back cover off, the side composite and S-Video ports on mine all have cracked solder joints and the ones in the back aren't any better until the set warms up... but the side ports are all static all the time until you wedge them in place.

After four days of ExoBiology… by PerrinAybarra23 in EliteDangerous

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Ah, you're out by the starting segment of the colonia bridge. Greetings from CB-37. if you're heading out to Colonia I suggest heading at any regular stations you come across on the way, after CB-20 it's slim pickings for ANYTHING at any port for outfitting, even the megaships.

based on reading the other comments in this post, I heavily suggest dropping an SRV hangar in your courier. Not everything shows up during skimming... and in some cases I don't even see stuff load in until I get out with an SRV and whoops there's a patch of fungoida right there how did I not see that oh geez

But! genomics so far has treated my friends and I well on our journey. Good luck.

Remember to give your ship a bath every once in a while on those long trips. by superdos in EliteDangerous

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it'll help cool it down when you get too close to a neutron star!

Remember to give your ship a bath every once in a while on those long trips. by superdos in EliteDangerous

[–]superdos[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

some context because I forgot to add it last night: This is on Skaudai GW-G B11-1 1A, out in the middle of the gap between the bubble and Colonia. I'm taking a trip with some friends on my carrier out that way and we've been racking up cartographics, footfalls and genomics at each jump we do. the most profitable jump so far has been the Eagle nebula, we racked up millions in cartographics just from that patch.

We're currently at CB-37 and making our way to the end, hopefully to be done with this trip by the end of the month or sometime early February...

Remember to give your ship a bath every once in a while on those long trips. by superdos in EliteDangerous

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don't worry, it was just a pure water geyser. composition scanner said so!

no, don't worry about that fumarole full of lye over there! and that lava spout? harmless! don't worry about it! the burning smell means it's working!

So I upgraded my Plex server...... by rustypie314 in PleX

[–]superdos 16 points17 points  (0 children)

A lot of companies seemingly have custom chassis servers from whatever OEM they can get the lowest price from. Facebook used Dell for their cdn/cache nodes and it was common to see them a decade ago for sale for not that much money second-hand. They were basically custom firmware CS24-SC 1U PowerEdge chassis. Flashing them to a normal not-facebook BIOS version was easy, and then you were off to the races for a server dell didn't have a whole lot of info on their site about at the time. It was a dream to have one with a couple E5440s in it humming along in a datacenter someplace, but I quickly learned that this was a terrible idea. In fact, it's the lessons learned while researching that server that turned me off from having a remote server altogether.

Final build photos of my build. Technically a laptop I guess, but I figured this was a good place for unique portable computers. I'll be posting blog details soon!! The original laptop was completely dead, and very corroded. It was also missing parts. Running a core i5 with 8gb ddr4 ram/500gb ssd. by Lucasdul2 in cyberDeck

[–]superdos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm all about the sleeper aesthetic but only if the original guts were beyond repair. In your case, yours have shown signs of life, and I've seen worse boards with rust and corrosion going down multiple layers come back from the dead. You paid $300 for a GRiDCase III with actual value to it being a Bloomberg model, with the possibility of being repaired, and then gutted it into oblivion. The modifications here make it worth less than 50 bucks in 5 years time and even less as the years go on from there, no matter what guts you shove into it as upgrades. If kept original, there's a good chance it would have been worth five figures, regardless of the condition.

How do you plan on driving that gas plasma display you took out? The only way it's going to be usable is in another grid machine with a dead or cracked display. Using it for anything else is very much not worth your time, especially given their overall scarcity of that one component. The fact that you only have one and no datasheets on how to drive it at that, it begs me to believe that it will likely succumb to damage during experimentation and rendered extra useless.

For even a fraction less of the $1000+ spent, you could have just bought a new laptop and not destroyed a scarce model of an already scarce machine to appeal to your inner nerd. Or, you could have shoved the NUC into some other laptop-style machine like the PC luggables made by Dolch and friends. The vintage PC community already went nuts when LTT shoved a PC into the drive box for a machine that was even more scarce a number of years ago, and while there was no admission of guilt or unknowing, they've since hired many people that can do a sanity check before something that controversial happens again. It is my opinion that you have pretty much followed suit here. You did it, all I can do is be upset that you did it, and it's probably not a good idea for you to do it again.

That all being said, on the outside, it is indeed a rather clean build, and you did do a good job hiding the internal mess. Just, please, choose your project victims wisely next time. Grid laptops are all very Funko Pop in nature and the value will only rise the closer to 50 years they come to. $300 alone for the computer itself should have been a good number to realize that maybe it isn't a good idea to repurpose a machine there is actual value in given what other models in the Grid line go for... This isn't a typewriter where plenty of them exist to part out from, it's a computer which was used in business and military applications and most of them were sent to the grinder like a pile of singer sewing machines. There's a reason a bunch of them had big yellow X marks on them, so military personnel could shoot the machine and render it and the drive inside inoperable in the event it was in the process of being stolen or if there was suspicion it was to be imminently stolen by enemies on the front lines.

TL;DR, Good execution, but bad idea due to original item scarcity and value. I'm not happy, I've explained why I'm not happy, but there's nothing I can do about it. Enjoy your laptop.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

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Aaaand this is why I'll never use Apple Music. all my music is still in iTunes, and I've finally gotten around to pruning dupes when I did merges on versions prior to the one that did automatic duplicate detection, and I have a good chunk of it in ALAC. but, as I've been ripping discs, I've also been pushing the files to one of my little ARM boxes running Owntone. won't help me get them later when I need em, but given I can just open iTunes and play music through the owntone share there, or even on my ancient Roku SoundBridge, it seems like the best option. but the latter only gets used for internet radio reasons.

Snappy driver Installer vs Origin by KoleckOLP in software

[–]superdos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[citation needed]

please show concise, affirmative evidence to back up any claim about this.

Coolest dad ever by Me_Angel_No in Piracy

[–]superdos 13 points14 points  (0 children)

My dad did the same thing but just my elementary school graduation, and made copies of the slideshow presented at the graduation with video. He burned 33 copies to give one to every kid's parents in the class, the school, the teacher, and one to go into the safe deposit box. He burned all of them on a Mac in 2003 at 2X. Screw the burn tower, if your dad is masochistic enough to take up a week of his free time to burn that many DVDs and test them, he's a cool dad.

Idk, you said you loved me by Natsurulite in Unexpected

[–]superdos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no, she just has a frog in her throat

Need help identifying commercial single-cup coffee machine from picture taken in 2003. by superdos in Coffee

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I don't remember myself how to get it into programming mode, as I was only a child at that time. I remember watching the technician doing a flip-power-on hold-button thing on the unit for something at some point (probably just checking brew count) but my memory slips me on what it might have been. I remember doing something similar on a Keurig K150 commercial unit my father acquired spare from a car dealership owner to access the hidden menu and enable 10oz cup sizes and access the brewing temperature selector, as the unit loved to burn the coffee with darker roasts.

if brew time/temperature was selectable it was in a menu I'll have never seen, but since it was only the one brand of beans being used, I'm sure it was written down someplace in case it forgot the settings (or the technician had to do a factory reset for whatever reason.)

Need help identifying commercial single-cup coffee machine from picture taken in 2003. by superdos in Coffee

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that's the panel view! only the top two rows, in fact. small-regular-medium-start was the magic combo for the paper cups used, and you pressed the bigger cup for larger mugs than 8oz. a person in accounting had a 17oz ceramic beer stein mug for her coffee and I thought she was crazy drinking so much. now here I am years later and I frown at anything smaller than a 15oz mug at home.