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On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I have to say this. I worked at a computer place in the late 80's. Back |
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> then a 25Mhz CPU was fast as lightening. Hard drives were maybe 100MBs. |
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> Memory, lucky if you have a 1 or 2Mbs. Now look where we are. I'm still |
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> trying to play Steve Jobs and imagine where we will be 20 years from now. |
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I've got a 157MB hard drive at home. My bio-dad gave it to me earlier |
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this week in a stack of hard drives he was getting rid of. |
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As for 80s computers...our first home computer was a Tandy RLX 1000. I |
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convinced my mother to spend our savings on it, as I'd gotten hooked |
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on programming with an Apple ][ at school. Kinda proud of her; she |
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picked up programming quickly, took a few classes, really took to |
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databases, and now she's a manager in the IT department at the local |
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community college. |
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> I'm real bad to download videos. I have been working on NCIS here the past |
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> few weeks. I try to get HD when I can. One day I hope to hook my TV up to |
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> my puter. I have a HDMI connector on the video card and my TV has a couple |
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> on the back of it. I just don't know yet how to make them work or if they |
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> work already. I need to test that one day. |
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It's really, really easy if you've ever done multimon under Linux. A |
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television on that HDMI port will behave pretty much like a DVI |
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monitor. |
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> Anyway, if I get enough stuff |
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> downloaded, I could in theory suspend DirecTv for a month or two. Put the |
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> money on some bills. |
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> Oh, I use downloadhelper to get the videos. It stopped working with |
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> Seamonkey 2.4 so back to using Firefox right now. It keeps crashing tho. |
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> Still scratching my head on that one. ;-) |
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> Hulu works with Linux huh? I got to remember that. I did know that Netflix |
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> didn't tho. I thought about trying it but they went up. |
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Hulu works, Netflix doesn't. Amazon may, but if you have a network |
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glitch and their server doesn't realize you're not pulling data any |
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more, you have to wait a while before you try again. At least, that |
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was my experience with them a bit over a year ago. (Real annoying when |
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you go to show something to a group of friends on a/v night. Kills the |
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mood and flow.) |
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