Grabthar

joined 2 years ago
[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Aware, and I fully agree. I am just adding to the point that not only does it fail to address the safety issue, but the massive uptick in tickets generated by this solution will inevitably spill over into an already overwhelmed court system, which will cost us economically and socially.

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Nobody drives 90 in Ottawa. Especially not on the 417.

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Then you tick the court date box and mail it back to them. Then two or three years later, you get a court date, so you dust off your form letter charter 11b challenge, send it off to all relevant parties, head down to the Winchester and wait for all of this to blow over.

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I think you are right. I keep finding different ways they did it, so sounds like the 1800s was a busy period in the development of mirror technology!

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Pretty sure they just poured silver nitrate over glass. You can still buy kits to do that to re-silver old mirrors for the original look. From what I can find, the layered ones were older, and they used tin and mercury which made breaking a mirror a rather unlucky event.

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 71 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop fucking cats.

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I loved having hundreds of c64 games with no manuals. So with this one, we thought you needed to fly the plane out the only visible door in the hangar, which was the one the pilot comes in through, and it was barely bigger than the plane. Seemed impossible to line up. Not like you could look things up back then, and if you were lucky enough to know some friends who played it, they'd often have the same issue. Can't get out of the bloody hangar. Then one day, one of my brothers puts his feet up on the computer desk and kicks the F7 key on the bottom right of the keyboard while I'm flying the plane around the hangar, and the wall opens up. Well, shit. From there, it was pretty fun to make the Zaxxon-like run to the Kremlin and then pick it apart with your RPGs. Lots of good memories of this one.

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck yeah, Night City here we come!

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, Jaffa jokes

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Cool, I've wanted an OS ROM chip since the early nineties, and often wondered why nobody seemed to be doing it. Guess they were all along!

You technically didn't have to park the old MFM and RLL drives, but if you didn't, then you just had the drive heads resting on the platters after you shut them down. Then if you bumped or moved the PC at that time, it could scratch the disk like a record. If you never tried to move it, there probably wasn't much risk.

From the sound of it, the HDD in your Tandy probably would have been an MFM or RLL drive, and depending on the drive model, it either autoparked the drive heads or didn't. As a PC clone running MS-DOS, the command was probably supported, but maybe not needed. Or you may have just been the equivalent of one of those rebels who held down the power button every time they wanted to shut down the PC and always got away with it!

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

This taught me many lessons in life, but the one I carry in my heart to this day is piracy.

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