OLD CS1

I only use Windows where I absolutely have to, and in all other places I use Linux, with the rare time that I need macOS, I have that around too (though I really hate Finder).

Windows is bad from a user point of view for crap like what you mention.  macOS is shit because they kill compatibility randomly, and did things like obsolete all of your 32bit library in one fell swoop...

@leech One of my friends is a Classic Mac collector and fan. Killing compatibility upon OSX 10.4 is what turned him away from Apple.

@SlidellMan Yeah, I wasn't an Apple fan back then, but do have some retro systems.  The first thing they did with the last PPC supported release (10.4.11?) was that they removed the classic mac mode thing, and just kept it as an emulation thing you could install outside of it... Should have been the first sign of nonsense.

When I got a mac from work, I started using a program called Flavour for theming, and then one of the OS upgrades completely broke it, then Flavour2 was promised for a long time.  By the time I realized it'd been released, my OS was upgraded again to completely break it and the author gave up on it.  Guess Apple didn't want people to be able to do theming at all...

I'd basically agree that you leave Rare ones alone, and only replace the more common ones;  But also if it's something you plan on keeping;  Then make it look the way You want it to look...Just know it could be worth less if you decide to sell.

Agree with others, from a collector standpoint, if its a rare expensive game, I think sticking on replacement labels could even devalue it compared to leaving the ripped or missing original labels.  On the other hand, if its like a $5 game, then I don't think replacing the label will impact the $5 people will pay for it one way or the other. 

Bunch of really thoughtful answers.  Thank you!

Sorry to hear it! 

So it hit me, my old Android 7 tablet is in the car running Wiggle, and it is still showing up in my data usage.  I thought to myself, HEY!  Google tracks everything, so how do I do it?  I go to the find my device page and guess what: my account has been deleted.  Even though Google Play on that tablet is not only logged in, the account has (had) a few bucks on it, and it still gives (gave) me pop-ups to set my birth date.  So, yeah, Google told me to get fucked, my account was dormant for too long.

Damn, that would have been sweet.

So if the white lines turn pink,...You might be a spaghetti sauce?

Then think if they got that computer.

@OLD CS1 I had wondered. The only Sun computer I've seen in person was an old SpacStation which looked a lot like a beige pizza box.

@ventrra Yup.  I have seen and used many of those, myself. Rather un-stylish   I still have a SparcStation 20 sitting around here, and an IPX.  Funny little machines.

yea if you have much more than a single car garage, GFL lifting it without the ballast springs and or tearing something up

The busted spring can be seen here, but I only noticed afterward. You can see the pulley track shift, hear all the stress on the door track and the opener motor.  The opener automatically tries to open again after closing from a failed open.

yea don't do that much more it will twist the panels and your in a world of money 

The sad thing that too many stalwart Republicans, particularly those in charge of the party and their advisers, refuse to admit is that it was Bush and his Republican hoard who not only set the foundation for the Democrats (starting with the take-over in 2006) and Obama, but also gave birth to the Tea Party. We have paid for far too much bullshit during the 2000s up to present -- hence, Taxed Enough Already (T.E.A.) Irrespective on your views of social welfare or national defense, the botto...

@Atarifever: When the president has two-thirds of the government in his party, he becomes the leader of the government. The leader of any club, be it political party or sports team, sets the tone of execution entirely. Unfortunately, we have come to a point in our politics where party is first. And that sounds eerily similar to regimes of the past. BOTH parties demonstrate this: starting backward from the recent Florida congressional race in which the NRCC threatened to pull support of Da...

@Hatta: Third party only ensures that the rabble gains and maintains control, because at heart, Conservative and Libertarians have much in common and should band together. Not a third party, but a truly revitalized Republican Party which, at one time in its history, stood for our beliefs. Splintered and fragmented parties now are akin to disjoint and small groups of revolutionaries fighting to retake a country from dictatorship: the smaller and more disjoint they are, the easier they are to...

It's just a sampling of a realtime cloud OS.

And people love it! They are clamoring for more. And they're all jumping in to win10!

Happy to be rid of the old Windows 7 and crap hardware! Kid you not!

'Member when updates meant something gets "improved" instead of gettting slower...

@MrMaddog: Not really. I remember back in the Win95 days getting updates that screwed your machine up. (IE4 and Active Desktop, I'm looking at you!)

Pulling for Tampa Bay if for no other reason other than to have the Capitals crap themselves in the playoffs.

Is it an athletic cup?

I'm a Capitals fan or should I say Chokeitals.

I'm not sure why, but I'm reminded of an interview I once saw with a young game designer who wished he could "play video games with a real joystick, just to see what that was like."  I wanted to say, "You know, you can still do that ..."  It's as if he was wishing for the experience of riding a horse-driven Hansom cab in nineteenth-century London.

my poor attempt at humor aside, im like @GoldLeader- I guess I never thought about it!   ..but now that you've made the observation, i'm going to notice this all the time now.  GEE THANKS CS1

@digdugnate Glad to be of service!

"Halloween" is a.... uh..... never mind.

So is Lethal Weapon, Rocky IV, and The Karate Kid

They just gave the Karate Kid on TV the other day.

Me and my brother and 2 cousins saw it in Canada

when it first came out.  Happy days.

wont catch me on a plane. Anyone remember 9/11??

By law, there has to be a screaming kid in every section of the plane.

Ya gotta go where the work takes you. Personally, I dislike business travel, but I like getting a paycheck.

In Russia, Customs evade YOU!

You guys are damn refreshing... take an aggravating post and make me chuckle. Awesome.

in Mypos....

I feel your pain. I maintained a QuickBooks server for a few years at a previous job. The accountants and bookkeepers who spend all day in it seem to love it, but what a miserable program.

All accounting software is miserable. You should give SAGE a whirl. Then you'd wish QuickBooks was all there was.

I did write a cmd script to set Windows firewall for QB which has made my life easier. Oh, trust me, I also support PeachTree (now Sage.) Both definitely have their own, um, quirks even though they run the same database back-end (Pervasive.)

Cue Match Game "think" music..

It isn't blank anymore now.

It isn't blank anymore now.

@Osgeld: Yeah, I am not a big pop-culture fiend. You might say I live under a rock since I do not watch TV or listen to the radio, nor participate in social media. Plus, when I came up with that today at the office I decided to run it through a Google search to make sure someone else had no claim it, and lo! Seven months (apparently) and no one had posted anything that Google picked up. Well, since Google knows all and sees all, I assumed it is a fairly original way to describe trying...

Huh? I don't get it either.

Have no fear... I shall blog about it sometime this weekend.

Don'tcha hate it when your dog cheats on you?

when our kids were little we called them 'special hugs'. 

Just throw a little peanut butter on your balls; he'll come back around. 

Like for Xucaen.

Like for Xucaen.

Yeah, I caught holy hell for being pro-emulation on #atarist 20 years ago. Now those same people are running FreeMiNT on Macs and even demo crews use laptops at their parties. To me the OS is more important than what brand is on the hardware that the software runs on.

stay safe, old friend.

I am fine out here.  Some surrounding areas, from what I understand, not so much.  I am about to head out shortly to check on a couple of customers.

Here's hoping that it's an uneventful day.

but how many Courics?

..John Holmes?

..Just kidding, congrats

It's a healthy grandbaby boy A big fish, indeed!

Pass. I'll take your word for it!

lol

He was a handsome man for sure. Too bad he couldn't let himself age naturally ... http://topcelebritysurgery.com/burt-reynolds-plastic-surgery/

The only Transformers movie worth watching btw.

Of course. They've conned me into buying it at least four separate times, and I'm sure I'll probably buy it again sometime down the road. 

Hits from the bong.... can I get, a    hitttt

That's a great way to skim passwords

@atari2600land: Well played! In particular since I tend to be pedantic over acronyms, but sometimes I give into popular culture and leave out the periods.

Guy@Work: Hey boss my computer is broken

BOSS: Well Give it to the IT guy

G@A: *Throws IBM PC-XT in sewer*

Well, good luck!

I hear Tahiti is a magical place.

I've hear it's easier to do brain surgery with a spoon

There was this boring guy who left a sponge in my skull. Now I keep hearing the F-U-N song and it's driving me insane!

I fully support the right to:  Open it and try to repair it myself, only usually doing slightly more damage to it, before I take it to someone who can repair it for me...

As someone who uses "retro" or "classic" computer platforms and has been using the same Sony Ericsson phone since 2009, I am fully supportive of my ability, both permissive and practically, to repair my own and others' equipment.  That should not be taken away from us for these ridiculous and nebulous claims, especially by companies under the guise of "protecting their intellectual property."

@OLD CS1: exactly.

Incidentally, for anyone else reading this: the reason why both my wife and I feel as strongly as we do about right to repair has a lot of reasons behind it, but the big one involves John Deere requiring one of their techs to go on-site with a tractor or other agricultural machine after certain parts have been replaced and reactivate it in the field (no pun intended).

Here's the problem: no tech, no start.  Or, the machine will start, but won't perform the functions it was designed for beyond 'drive it to where the tech will look at it' - or it'll be hobbled in some other way that makes it Not Useful or Usable.

This is utter bullshit, because John Deere is now screwing with the food supply.  Everything they're doing to farmers aside (and, believe me, I am not saying that to be dismissive of what they're doing to farmers; but I do want to concentrate on this one giant core issue that affects anyone who eats), the food on your table may not be able to get there if they can't get a tech out in time.

Apologies for reposting this link, but please check it out.  It's not just a code repository; it provides a decent synopsis of the problem as well as external references that go into better depth than I can here.

https://tractorhacking.github.io/