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  1. Phuqu, Michael!

  2. Put the hammer down and give 'em hell.

    1. onemoretime

      onemoretime

      Gotta love Jerry Reed.

    2. accousticguitar

      accousticguitar

      East bound and down, loaded up and truckin

  3. Apparently, performing server necromancy is one of my specialties.

    1. digdugnate

      digdugnate

      been there, just on the netops/datacomm side of things.

  4. If I didn't need the work I wouldn't be here, I'd be back home on the Last Frontier.

  5. If I didn't need the work I wouldn't be here, I'd be back home on the Last Frontier.

  6. Am I the only one who gets a little excited watching the Munch-Man demo get a new high score?

    1. jaybird3rd

      jaybird3rd

      Munchman is so much fun! One of my favorites for the 99/4A. Have you tried Munchman II?

    2. save2600

      save2600

      Both games are great! Especially love the early version where you're eating dots instead of laying a chain - though have to admit, laying the chain comes easier to me. Can see what's left to finish better.

    3. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

      Oh, yeah. I saved up a week's-worth of lawn mowing to buy Munchman II, Beyond Parsec, and Midnight Mason. MMII was a quick favorite.

  7. Resoldering some stuff tonight? No flux given!

    1. SlidellMan

      SlidellMan

      Is it true that you should heat the work first before the solder?

    2. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

      Not sure what you mean, but I have two bits of advice both taught and learned. You want to touch the pad, not the component if you can avoid it, but you can also touch the solder. If everything is clean then it will flow and stick where it is supposed to. Heating a board before working can help with stubborn solder joints on large grounding planes or particularly wide paths which act as heat-sinks making it damn near impossible to flow the solder. I have never done this and it would seem to m...

  8. That sadness when your formerly-cherry condition Peripheral Expansion Box is scratched to hell and back while installing new hardware :(

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    2. digdugnate

      digdugnate

      it gives it character!

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      It's just some battle scars...

    4. BuckoBrand

      BuckoBrand

      Battle scars that it earned rightfully after doing many things for the benefit of other people. :)

  9. What up, Knights?!

    1. Joe C.

      Joe C.

      Down 1-3?

    2. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

      At least they went down fighting!

    3. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

      At least they went down fighting!

  10. Don't worry, Canada. We'll take care of the Cup for another year.

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    2. cybercylon

      cybercylon

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

    3. NE146

      NE146

      Is it an athletic cup?

    4. Atarian7

      Atarian7

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

  11. Thanks to Windows 10, a computer's sole purpose for existence is to update itself.

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    2. Keatah

      Keatah

      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!

    3. MrMaddog

      MrMaddog

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

    4. DZ-Jay

      DZ-Jay

      @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!)

  12. If you want to buy something from me, don't ask me to evade your country's customs.

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    2. CyranoJ

      CyranoJ

      In Russia, Customs evade YOU!

    3. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

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

    4. digdugnate

      digdugnate

      in Mypos....

  13. Congratulations to our 2018 4k Short'n'Sweet Game Compo winners, and special thanks to all participants for their superb entries. Well done, fellas!

  14. I cannot believe I am only just now discovering the incredible power of "mailutil"

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    2. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

      No no, from the imap c-client toolkit. Old but still incredibly useful.

    3. GoldLeader

      GoldLeader

      Just a joke ;) I figured Mail Utility might be the full portmanteau...

    4. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

      For real, though. I feel like less of a *nix admin for never having exploited this little program's potential. It's like that little tool you have sitting there on the bench, never really needing it until one day you pick it up and realize how awesome it is and how much easier it could have made chores past.

  15. I have reverse-engineered Microsoft: Microsoft has engineers and marketers and not a single usability analyst.

  16. Secret to fewer clogs: correlated timing of drop and flush.

    1. Flojomojo
    2. Skippy B. Coyote

      Skippy B. Coyote

      ^ Sweet mother of Nolan Bushnell, it's been a long time since I laughed that hard at something on buzzfeed! I'm seriously all teared up from laughing over here! XD

  17. Think what you will, but stumbling across Burt Reynold's "Playgirl" spread helps make me feel better about my own physique.

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    2. Spriggy

      Spriggy

      Pass. I'll take your word for it!

    3. Atarian7
    4. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

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

  18. I got nothing.

    1. jaybird3rd

      jaybird3rd

      Yeah, I felt the same way after watching the new "Star Wars" movie.

    2. Random Terrain
  19. FSU: Independence Bowl; UCF: Peach Bowl; UF: Bowl of Tears

    1. jeremiahjt

      jeremiahjt

      No Miami? Or South Florida? Or Florida International? Or Florida Atlantic?

    2. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

      Nah, they got bowls, and we have at least a LITTLE love for them :)

    3. jeremiahjt

      jeremiahjt

      I know, I was saying you could make it look even worse for the Gators. Throw in West Florida or whoever lost to Texas A&M-Commerce in the Division II title game.

  20. I shall be one of many to do so and thus blend in with the crowd, my uniqueness and individuality mooted: Merry Christmas fellow AA'ians!

  21. If YouTube started tracking and penalizing for when videos get muted, do you think people would stop putting annoying soundtracks on their videos?

    1. Keatah

      Keatah

      They might. Most of the time they just don't know any better.

       

    2. carlsson

      carlsson

      Oh, you're not referring to copyright infringement, but perfectly legal backgrounds that are aesthetically awful and people choose to mute the sound before YouTube has removed it themselves.

    3. save2600

      save2600

      I noticed recently that ALL vids I've been looking at lately are muted. Requester in upper left asks to unmute... and it's not a prefs thing as I don't have a YT account.

  22. If you must use the restroom while eating hot wings, remember to wash your hands before unpacking equipment.

    1. GoldLeader
    2. phoenixdownita

      phoenixdownita

      hot wings plate = 8US$

      Scratching your nuts in agony for 20 mins because you forgot to wash your hands = priceless

      If you are a lady and also end up needing to scratch your crotch area please contact me and tell me what you did to get into that state.

    3. TheTIGuy

      TheTIGuy

      There is something wrong with you, phoenix.

  23. Nostalgia and love are largely indistinquishable from each other in terms of both emotion and expense.

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    2. WIZZARD77

      WIZZARD77

      It's the pursuit of love that costs alot. Once you find it the little things mean more than the expensive stuff.

    3. Random Terrain

      Random Terrain

      But an Atari won't touch your winky. She will do it for dinner and a movie or cash or fixing her car or cleaning out her gutters.

    4. TheTIGuy
  24. For Halloween I dressed up like an IT guy. Fooled everyone.

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    2. Flojomojo

      Flojomojo

      That's a great way to skim passwords

    3. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

      @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.

    4. TheTIGuy

      TheTIGuy

      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!

  25. Supporting QuickBooks can be like drinking a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, but without the fun...

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    2. jaybird3rd

      jaybird3rd

      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.

    3. Tickled_Pink

      Tickled_Pink

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

    4. OLD CS1

      OLD CS1

      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.)

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