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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1004/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Yeah, my parents will only live in a one-storey house, and I've only been in apartments after leaving their house. The last time I lived somewhere with stairs was 1994. There are stairs leading to my apartment, but not IN the apartment, so they don't count. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1005/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
How old is it?
My Linux machine has a reset button but still a soft power button, but it isn't working right now. It needs a new power supply, the one part that's the biggest pain in the neck to replace (other than maybe the motherboard). |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1006/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
I'm always too hot in the summer (my ideal temperature seems to be around 16C, whereas most people are comfortable at 20-22C), so I wear shorts and sandals as soon as I can. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1007/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Yeah, I guess people preferred the convenience of a computer that turns off automatically after shutdown once popular OSes evolved to the point where shutdown takes a while. (In DOS, you can just cut power at the prompt, and Windows 3.1 shus down pretty quickly.) |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1008/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
I used to not know how to pronounce Japanese words, so I just applied English pronunciation rules like "an E at the end is silent and makes the vowel long". So I rhymed anime with time, pronounced kitsune as kit-soon, etc. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1009/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
I had that in 2004-2005, and it was awesome, but if you like newer games you'll want a Windows computer or spend a lot of time finagling to get them to work. I mostly play older games on emulators (NES/SNES/C64 etc. and DOSbox), but occasionally I'll play a more recent (but still old) strategy game like Civilization III or Age of Empires. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1012/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
On the subject of languages, I thought all of Canada spoke French...I was surprised when I went to Ontario in 1993 and saw and heard mostly English. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1015/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Well, there are a lot of FF fans at Acmlm's, so maybe one of them left a little...reference to this board in some random piece of software. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1016/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Posted by NightKev There is one...try clicking on "View sent" when you are in your inbox. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1019/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Yeah, most of my Linux experience is from a version of Red Hat so ancient that dinosaurs probably used it, or at least cavemen. Every time I try to install anything, I got "Failed dependencies". Then when I tried to install the dependency, I got "Failed dependeicnes" again, and so on. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1021/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Oddly, enough, the Commodores didn't use ASCII. They used PETSCII and Screen codes.
PETSCII is ASCII-based but has several differences, the biggest one being that the uppercase and lowercase letters were reversed, so lowercase was 65-90 and uppercase was 97-122. Some other symbols were different, such as \ was a British pound and ^ was an up arrow. 0-31 and 128-159 were control codes radically different from those in standard ASCII. Backspace was 20, for instance. Codes 160-191 were graphics symbols like line-drawing characters and such, and 192-255 were just repeats of various lower characters. Screen codes were used by the video chip and some word processors. Reverse video characters had their own set of Screen codes which were 128-255, and all the printable characters are crammed into 0-127 with no control codes. The lowercase alphabet is codes 1-26 and uppercase is 65-90. Not only that, the Commodores had two character sets, and both PETSCII and Screen codes could be referring to either set, plus you could make custom character sets in RAM. One set is as described above and the other only has uppercase letters and additional graphics characters including card suits. Basically, if there were two ways of doing anything, IBM and clones did it one way and Commodore was the exact opposite. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1022/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Also, 6502 derivative CPUs had a binary-coded decimal "mode" you could set, so the special BCD arithmetic was automatically handled by the CPU, you'd just have to remember to set the mode properly when doing math on BCD-encoded bytes.
That wouldn't explain Pokémon though as the Game Boys used a Z80, unlike the NES and SNES. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1027/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
851. I'm also getting kinda ticked off at Katelyn's girlfriend not registering.
852. People who assume that because I'm girly I must also be gay. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1028/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Me, I'm always staring at Trapster's avatar... |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1029/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
854. Trying to cultivate a girly image with more body hair than Chewbacca and facial hair that grows like kudzu. Any wannabe manly men whose body/facial hair just won't grow, I'd gladly trade ya... |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1032/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
I'm like that as well...my AIM buddy list only has five people on it! Most people apparently have hundreds...(then again, I clean it up every so often and have changed AIM names a few times, so it's not like I still have people on from January 2003 when I first got AIM). I have started several boards but none of them ever got very active, the only thing anyone seems to be interested in is hacking them. I get the feeling that I'm generally ignored at places, but at least that's better than being hated.
Right now, this is the only board I post at. For a while in early 2005 I was at like 6 boards. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1033/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Well, one's grades are often more important than adding a feature to a message board system. Me, I tend to procrastinate essays to post at Acmlm's, but it hasn't really impacted my grades. What does impact them is focusing hard on studying for one class so much that I neglect another class. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1036/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
*waves hand* There is no forum 99. These aren't the threads you're looking for. You may go about your business. Move along. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1038/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
Hey, I've joined forums for social reasons. Sometimes I register or stay at a board because of the people and have absolutely no interest whatsoever in the subject of the board, only posting in the "general discussion" type forums. |
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Gone Level: 88 Posts: 1046/1881 EXP: 6466570 Next: 184094 Since: 02-20-07 Last post: 6155 days Last view: 6145 days |
No, haven't had that, but I never spent the night in a hospital except when I was very young. The last couple of times it was the emergency room, once when I passed out at school and they tested my blood sugar, and another time I fell off a swing which broke and hit my head and had to get a cat scan. |
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