[The Commander]

Probably won't effect anyone here, but Google Code is going away.

http://google-openso...e-code.html?m=1

[zykov eddy]

Highly recommended for Dookie guy & friends:





"When I look into the mirror, I see a hot piss drinkin' man. And I don't mind what I'm seeing, 'cuz that's just who I am."

[Malgon]

[High Treason]

I think the lathe won.

Supreme Victory!

[ReaperMan]

Should of lost his leg.... then he would of really learned a lesson.

[Gambini]

Apparently he wasnt trying to wrestle the lathe. He was trying to loose the T wrench when the idiot behind him turned on the lathe.

[Kyanos]

Tomorrow is 3/15/15

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[The Commander]

 Malgon, on 13 March 2015 - 07:22 PM, said:

FOLLOWING LINK IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR EVEN AT HOME! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

That guy in the above video is lucky he didn't end up like this guy.
http://www.silencert...pic.php?t=41444

[ReaperMan]

 Gambini, on 13 March 2015 - 11:35 PM, said:

Apparently he wasnt trying to wrestle the lathe. He was trying to loose the T wrench when the idiot behind him turned on the lathe.

I take back what i said then.

[Hank]

 Drek, on 14 March 2015 - 07:39 AM, said:

Tomorrow is 3/15/15

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You mean 15/6/15 (15 June) - 6 6 6, when C-51 may come into effect?

[Gambini]

 Commander Cody, on 14 March 2015 - 08:03 AM, said:

FOLLOWING LINK IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR EVEN AT HOME! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

That guy in the above video is lucky he didn't end up like this guy.
http://www.silencert...pic.php?t=41444

You ruined my day

[Malgon]

 Commander Cody, on 14 March 2015 - 08:03 AM, said:

FOLLOWING LINK IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK OR EVEN AT HOME! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

That guy in the above video is lucky he didn't end up like this guy.
http://www.silencert...pic.php?t=41444

Yeah, that one is extremely nasty. Reading through the thread, it said that it has been used in safety presentations before. I would think that seeing that would really alert you to the fact that operating machinery is no joke, and that safety must be employed at all times. Pretty frightening what can happen.

[Lunick]

[Forge]

I had to see a lovely film for an electronics safety course because of some of the generators I'm qualified to work on (big enough to power up a a couple football stadiums and then some)

Some Idiot was working on a breaker panel and didn't lock out the shut-off. He didn't just cook, he exploded. Crispy pieces flying everywhere. What was left of his head landed on top of the cabinet he was working on. All this was caught on some security camera. (you can probably find it if you really want to see that). Technically it wasn't very gory; big flash, black smoke, pieces of burnt bacon thrown in the air like confetti, but no blood and guts since the gooey parts were pretty much flash-cooked. Looked like more like a star-wars explosion than anything.

[Lunick]

https://www.kickstar...hroom-simulator

Found a game for Dookie

[High Treason]

I do not have enough money in my bank account to pay the electricity bill... My bank account cannot be overdrawn, the account type I set up does not allow this (I don't see any point in owing people money, if I can't afford something I do without).

So how do you think the bank handles the fact I cannot make payment to the electricity company, seeing as it is the electric company I owe money to? The bank handles this by charging me more money for nothing more than greedy capitalist ideas and there is nothing about this in the contract I signed 9 years ago, I have never been sent an updated contract.

Thanks bank, now I have to starve. Fucking assholes.

Somebody is getting a very rude phone call tomorrow I think.


The electric company shouldn't be an issue however, as they actually owe me money because I have been overpaying by a few pounds for a few years - I never corrected this just in case such a circumstance should arise.

[The Commander]

Pretty sure all banks charge a fee if automatic payments can't be made.
Yes it's shit, but in most cases you can get it reversed.

[High Treason]

I think the charge will go away. Yesterday actually turned out to be a pretty good day in the end.

Today, though, I met one of my heroes, the Ensoniq SoundScape. I wish I hadn't; it sucks!

Seems shitty to get rid of it as it is SPEA branded and matches my graphics card, but I might try and find someone who will trade for a PAS16. Actually, the graphics card is a pain in the ass too because it can't use SVGA modes when the CPU is at 40MHz, how the hell they fucked up an ET4000 I will never know.

[Person of Color]

Like 15 years ago I had a Compaq ProLinea 4/33 that had been upgraded to an Intel 486DX2-66. It had an integrated ET4000. That was a great computer, I've been looking for one ever since.

[Lunick]

[HulkNukem]

I always liked the sliding bodies in Doom, especially when they slide up stairs like that.
Realism be damned, its satisfying to blow up a barrel and bodies just slide away

[Hank]

So this is the Stairway to Heaven.

[High Treason]

 Person of Color, on 16 March 2015 - 04:09 PM, said:

Like 15 years ago I had a Compaq ProLinea 4/33 that had been upgraded to an Intel 486DX2-66. It had an integrated ET4000. That was a great computer, I've been looking for one ever since.

I never really mess with OEM or anything with proprietary pieces in it, but I have lenience on Compaq's old stuff because it was solid, we had some (mostly Pentium-based) ProLinea's still in service where I used to work about ten years ago (my city probably still thinks the Pentium 4 is next-gen and the Y2K bug is a real threat) and they were impossible to kill, the Cirrus chips those had on-board though were a pain in the ass, corrupted video regularly happened in Windows 95 at 800x600 for reasons unknown, even replacing the memory chips did not make it go away. I liked working on those because I knew it would always be a long time before anybody asked me to come back to them.

I have other ET4000 cards and they've always been good, the QuickWorks 24i is an ISA one with the V33 processor this new card has, it was used in a 33MHz 486 for years and now runs in my 386 (Well, 486DLC-40), the 486 moved to an STB LightSpeed VLB card, which uses the ET4000/W32p, a card unmatched in performance outside of maybe the S3 Vision or some later Matrox PCI cards. Both of these ones are happy on a 40MHz BUS, one of them can tolerate a 50MHz BUS.

This new PCI one is outstripped by the S3 Trio 64 and even it's own brother on the ISA BUS (The QuickWorks card) which makes no sense to me, I struggle to understand what they did. The only workaround to turn the CPU up is to enable the 1/2 PCI divisor, but that makes performance even worse and negates the point of cranking the CPU up. I wanted to stick with hardware available in 1994, but I might have to break that and go with something from later... Maybe an ET6000 PCI.

The sound card on the other hand, screw it, guess I'll be stuck with FM Synthesis... Could always use an AWE32 I guess. I was going to just throw an SB16 in and disable SB Emulation on the Ensoniq, but when I do that, the SoundScape synthesizer goes nuts and the card stops working properly, possibly DMA problems, but even shoving the cards miles away from one another and double checking the DMA's in use by things like the drive controller doesn't make the problem go away. I can only conclude that the SoundScape is bollocks. Still think I'd rather use a PAS16 if I have to go FM, the FM Synth is the same Yamaha YMF262 Creative used, but they wired it differently and it sounds awesome, I could always figure out a way of getting wavetable synthesis later.

I don't think I'll have a problem getting rid of the SoundScape anyway, people kill to get their hands on them.

[DustFalcon85]

[Lunick]

[Hendricks266]

 Lunick, on 17 March 2015 - 04:42 PM, said:

Upvote for the first time I've seen this gif used with proper context.

[Lunick]

 Hendricks266, on 17 March 2015 - 05:10 PM, said:

Upvote for the first time I've seen this gif used with proper context.

[Fox]

 Hendricks266, on 17 March 2015 - 05:10 PM, said:

Upvote for the first time I've seen this gif used with proper context.

I don't see any cylinder.

[Hendricks266]

[Lunick]

 Fox, on 17 March 2015 - 05:39 PM, said:

I don't see any cylinder.

Do you want to see one?


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