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None of the photos in this set are labeled or dated but they would have been taken some time in the mid to late 1960s. I'm not sure if these were all taken at the same event or not but at least the second one appears to have been taken at Easter. If you look closely, you can see Easter eggs and a chocolate bunny near the center of the table behind the candles. For more info and photos from this set, see https://hive.blog/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-ebay-set-1-02e25a5c656dc

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Pi is digital currency that operates on a "proof of click" concept. To mine Pi you simply use the Pi app on your phone and press a button every 24 hours. As time goes on, the mining rate goes down. The Pi network is still under development and has not gone live yet so Pi is not yet tradeable. However, in the last day or so, Pi has shown up on a couple of exchanges and the price has skyrocketed to well over $300 and as I write this is sitting at $283. So how can this be if Pi isn't even tradeable? Read more: https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@darth-azrael/pi-skyrockets-to-usd330-or Pi is a new digital currency developed by Stanford PhDs, with over 35 million members worldwide. To claim your Pi, follow this link https://minepi.com/DarthAzrael and use my username (DarthAzrael) as your invitation code.

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In my mind, Street Fighter II was the last really hugely popular arcade game. Sales numbers would seem to back that up as Street Fighter II was behind only Space Invaders and Pac-Man in terms of number of machines sold. Mortal Kombat and Mortal Kombat II are also high on the list but by comparison, the original Street Fighter II sold 60,000 machines (Street Fighter II Championship Edition sold even more at 140,000 machines). By comparison, the Mortal Kombat machines only sold in the range of 20,000 to 30,000 units. Read more: https://hive.blog/hive-140217/@darth-azrael/super-street-fighter-ii-super

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Edge was more or less the U.K.'s version of Next Generation and in fact they shared content. It covered what were considered "next generation" systems at the time. In 1996 that included the PlayStation, Sega Saturn, the PC, arcade games and the brand new Nintendo 64. The August 1996 issue includes: Read more: https://hive.blog/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/edge-august-1996

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Random Usenet post of the day: --- Subject: Re: BE6II+IBM-30Mb problem From: "Gordoaus" <gordoaus@iprimus.com.au> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 00:59:39 +1000 Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit Organization: CWO Customer - reports relating to abuse should be sent to abuse@cwo.net.au References: <7AXK6.28$LJ6.1961@castor.casema.net> Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit:134753 I am using a BE-6II mobo with a 30 GB IBM-DTLA 307030-ATA 100 with 4g partitions from C-I and the remainder for the swap file, your drive being a 30 GB IBM-DTLA 305030-ATA 100, I am not sure what the difference is between the two but IBM site would have the info. However when I tried to do the same with a Seagate ST320423A ata66 it always showed extended partition errors on the Highpoint controller but not on the IDE0 or IDE1. I transferred the Seagate to an Abit BX-133 RAID mobo with the same results. Two identical Seagate hard disks would not work correctly in RAID0 either. There are zero errors if primary partition is used and no extended partitions. Yet to try two IBM hard disks on the RAID0 setup. Perhaps Highpoint controllers don't like some brands of hard disks. Intel ATA-100 does not produce the same errors. My findings. Dax "Frans" <imagemaker@wanadoo.ned> wrote in message news:7AXK6.28$LJ6.1961@castor.casema.net... > My system is a BE6II with the I440BX-RV bios, a Piii500, 256 Mb ram, a > HPT330-ATA66 1.22 driver and with the previous IBM-DJNA 351520-ATA 66 it > worked neat. > Lately I had some problems, because on the HDD one of the 3 partitions > was filled. > So this week I bought this 30 GB IBM-DTLA 305030-ATA 100 to replace the > 16 GAB. > With Fdisk I divided it into again 3 parts, formatted and installed it > as slave, copied all files and folders to the new HDD. > Very in-stable. Often I had to reset, than the scandisk found only drive > C, not the D and E, than the SCSI UW wasn't available (my temp-drive), > than reverse, only the SCSI was there... > > From this group I learned there should be some utils on the IBM-site. I > erased the whole disk and while trying to format, DOS told me there was > only 8.4Gb formatting... > So from IBM I downloaded the partition manager, divided the hdd into C: > 8.4Gb and two others of 11.2Gb > It's still unstable. > > Noticed on the HPT driver site there was a 1.25 or 1.28 available, but > also it's written that the proper driver is at the main-board site. Abit > has newer BIOS updates, but no indication that those would fix the > HDD-capacity over the 8.4 Gb. > > What's wisdom? > Should I upgrade the BIOS? > Should I divide the disk into 4 parts, smaller than 8.4 GB? > Or do what was suggested here, use it as a plain IDE-drive on ATA 33? > Did buy the BE6II because of the 66 option... :-(( > > Any suggestions? > > Frans > --- > Spamblock: change .ned into .nl for e-mail purposes > > --- https://www.megalextoria.com/usenet_archive/alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit/msg55884.html

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Today we would seem to have a cat themed set of pictures. The first three feature a cat scaling a Christmas tree. The tree is fortunately not yet decorated. I suppose these photos could have been taken either before Christmas while in the process of decorating for Christmas or after when undecorating. However, since these were processed in December 1968 they were probably taken around that time so I tend to think it was in the decorating phase. For more info and slides from this set, see https://hive.blog/photography/@darth-azrael/vintage-photos-ebay-set-1-15b1a103b1ce3

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Random Usenet post of the day: --- Subject: Fedora 3: Orinoco Gold card not working -- beginner From: "J-miami" <josh@thesouthbeachhostel.com> Date: 9 Mar 2005 22:38:19 -0800 Complaints-to: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.3.255.238; posting-account=-zJkaQ0AAAAz-UZarfpuUaEo2-915igG Newsgroups: alt.linux Organization: http://groups.google.com User-agent: G2/0.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com alt.linux:5941 Hi, I just installed Fedora 3 on my laptop. I'm new to Linux and don't know how to get my Orinoco Gold card to work. It worked fine with Knoppix. The light on the card flickers briefly but then goes out and there are no beeps. I have a book SAMS Fedora 3 but haven't been able to figure it out. It says, "... troubleshooting problems with PCMCIA cards can be difficult..." I tried $ dmesg and this looks like the relevant section: orinoco 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski @gnu.org>, et al) orinoco_cs 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <pro ski@gnu.org>, et al) divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048 eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:A9:F3:5D eth1: Station name "HERMES I" eth1: ready eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts i2c /dev entries driver lp: driver loaded but no devices found SELinux: initialized (dev sda2, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev sda4, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=1fc28100) divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1 orinoco 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski @gnu.org>, et al) orinoco_cs 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <pro ski@gnu.org>, et al) divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048 eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:A9:F3:5D eth1: Station name "HERMES I" eth1: ready eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=1dd807c0) divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1 orinoco 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski @gnu.org>, et al) orinoco_cs 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <pro ski@gnu.org>, et al) divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048 eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:A9:F3:5D eth1: Station name "HERMES I" eth1: ready eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f orinoco_lock() called with hw_unavailable (dev=1dd80140) divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1 orinoco 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <proski @gnu.org>, et al) orinoco_cs 0.13e (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Pavel Roskin <pro ski@gnu.org>, et al) divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0048 eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.72 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth1: MAC address 00:02:2D:A9:F3:5D eth1: Station name "HERMES I" eth1: ready eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 5.0, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f It's a Toshiba Satellite Pro with Centrino (which didn't work either but I didn't expect it to since it doesn't work with Knoppix). Any suggestions? Thanks... --- https://www.megalextoria.com/usenet_archive/alt.linux/msg14904.html

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As most people reading this probably know, fiat money is money created by government fiat and is not backed by anything other than individuals' faith in that government. This is in contrast to currency backed by a commodity, traditionally gold. With fiat currency, government does not need more gold (or any other commodity) to print more paper money. So how does the government create money? It turns out there are many ways that this happens though none are quite so simple as just printing it. The linked article goes over a few of them. Read more: https://hive.blog/hive-167922/@darth-azrael/how-does-the-federal-reserve

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The One is a U.K. games magazine that was published in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It covered mainly computer games, primarily the Atar ST, Amiga and PC though which machines exactly varied over the years. By 1992, it was mainly an Amiga games magazine. The March 1992 issue includes: Read more: https://hive.blog/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/the-one-march-1992

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From the program: Q & A with two of Star Trek’s most recognized characters Levar Burton and Brent Spiner moderated by Dino Leto. Brent Spiner, of course, played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Levar Burton played Geordi La Forge. See the video here: https://hive.blog/hive-181335/@darth-azrael/ugunakgq

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Random Usenet post of the day: --- Subject: Re: Forged mail addresses From: "S.t.A.n.L.e.E" <LostRune+NGs@UofR.SlamSpam.net> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:09:48 -0400 Cancel-lock: sha1:soL6IQXZfBOi1T/JNHMeeVJ16uM= In-reply-to: <fg8ko8$age$1@aioe.org> Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime.misc References: <1193429143.640925.75820@q5g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <4722686a$0$9539$4c368faf@roadrunner.com> <fftq5d$4am$1@aioe.org> <1193506335.576063.194400@v29g2000prd.googlegroups.com> <fg0da6$pvo$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <fg1gav$86f$1@theodyn.ncf.ca> <fg28ks$e59$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <281020071310545534%invid@localnet.com> <fg2hea$pr5$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <fg2rm3$dsu$1@aioe.org> <fg356j$mda$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <fg35d5$8ng$1@aioe.org> <fg385m$qff$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <fg3bkpUi2dL1@news.in-ulm.de> <fg4qog$3lq$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <fg577l$tqt$1@aioe.org> <fg5f8i$4qp$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <fg5jt8$3r5$1@aioe.org> <fg67pt$8m5$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <q98etdpaa8hz.1mbw2ygan7ebk.dlg@40tude.net> <fg8io3$lct$1@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <13ifledpj0bc31d@corp.supernews.com> <fg8ko8$age$1@aioe.org> Xref: g2news2.google.com rec.arts.anime.misc:11860 Tue, 30 Oct 2007 9:11pm-0400, Blade <kumonryuu@hotmail.com>: > > "elsie" <lcubbison@earthlink.net> wrote in message > 13ifledpj0bc31d@corp.supernews.com">news:13ifledpj0bc31d@corp.supernews.com... > > > So how did you keep from having to get it? I'm looking at needing to get a > > new desktop for my home computer, but Vista is one of the things keeping > > me from doing it. (That and the money I spent on dental work this fall, > > which was worth a computer and a half.) > > Don't you have your XP discs from your last computer? If you're really > determined to avoid Vista, delete it as soon as you get the computer and > install XP instead. > Don't forget to let Microsoft know that you're changing computers though, if it's an activated XP version. Your old XP disc's serial will have to be transferred to the new computer's motherboard's serial. > > Also, you can still buy computers from some places with > XP installed. > Some shops would even sell "vanilla" (no OS) computers, and you'd just have to buy OEM versions of XP, which only cost half as much as boxed versions. Though Microsoft no longer wants to give computer-makers licenses for XP in favor of Vista, some computer-makers insisted and got XP licenses due to consumer demands. XP already has 5+ years of fine-tuning behind it (relatively long lifespan for an OS, due to Vista's delays), so it'll also take years of fine-tuning for Vista to catch up, most importantly in the business world. Laters. =) Stan -- _______ ________ _______ ____ ___ ___ ______ ______ | __|__ __| _ | \ | | | | _____| _____| |__ | | | | _ | |\ | |___| ____|| ____| |_______| |__| |__| |__|___| \ ___|_______|______|______| __| | ( ) / _ | |/ LostRune+sig [at] UofR [dot] net | ( _| | http://www.uofr.net/~lostrune/ \ ______| _______ ____ ___ / \ / \ | _ | \ | | / \/ \| _ | |\ | /___/\/\___|__| |__|___| \ ___| --- https://www.megalextoria.com/usenet_archive/rec.arts.anime.misc/msg225339.html

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One Laptop per Child was a non-profit initiative designed to provide laptops to students without computers. The initial goal was to produce usable laptops for $100 each, though they ended up being closer to $180 by the time they shipped. The first result of this effort was the OLPC XO-1. It was designed to be very low power so that the battery could theoretically be easily charged with a solar panel or hand crank. However, they ended up shipping with a standard power supply. Released in 2007 the XO-1 had the following specs: Read more: https://hive.blog/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/digital-archaeology-olpc-xo-1

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Transactor was a long running technical Commodore magazine that mostly covered Commodore's various 8-bit computers. It was published all the way from 1978 to 1989. There was also a spin-off in 1988 titled Transactor for the Amiga. As you probably guessed, it's basically the same kind of thing but for the Amiga. The July 1989 issue of Transactor for the Amiga includes the following: Read more: https://hive.blog/retrocomputing/@darth-azrael/transactor-for-the-amiga-july

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The Itchy and Scratchy Game is a video game based on a fictitious show within the Simpson's. It's basically a demented Tom & Jerry. The premise is Itchy the Mouse and Scratchy the Cat trying to kill each other in the most violent ways imaginable. The game takes the form a typical side-scrolling platform action game. You play the role of Itchy has he attempts to torture and kill Scratchy. Read more: https://blurt.blog/retrogaming/@darth-azrael/the-itchy-and-scratchy-game

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Soinc Spinball was a spin-off (no pun intended?) of the regular Sonic series on the Genesis. It was released late in 1993 between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3 and featured Sonic as the ball in a pinball themed game. This game was mainly developed as a stop gap to have a Sonic game available for the holidays since Sonic 3 was not going to be completed in time. Read more: https://hive.blog/hive-140217/@darth-azrael/sonic-spinball-sega-genesis-1993