1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Back in my day all we did was netsend bombs and the Excel 97 flight simulator. Guess we were tame


Oh to have had a Linux live USB back then....

 

@Kwikvette

 

I taught programming to sixth graders for a hot minute...they were clueless. I think these days they're either way into computers and can do stuff, or they're just addicted to an iPad.



Fun activity: Ask them what the save icon represents.

 

I’m just putting my 99 on hold and getting the bed professionally repaired. Won’t be able to get over it since I didn’t damage it myself. I’ll prbly get my shell color matched while I’m at it.

My brother hopefully learned a lesson today though. Unfortunate that that girl pulled up so close to him but that’s part of driving. Gotta look behind you before backing up.

 

I know that and have never had to use a floppy haha.

 

Stahp you're making me feel old

One of the kids I asked thought it was an SD card. Pretty good guess, actually.

 

Pretty soon kids wont know what a CD or DVD is.

Or the awesome feeling of walking into class and seeing this and a pile of VHS tapes with it.

 

Ugh my child hood

 

Got a source on the Excel flight sim? That sounds kinda fun, I'm not half bad with vbs haha

 

It was an easter egg actually, just a couple of steps:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM

 

For a few years there, we had Laserdisc players on some of the TV's. What a treat those were! Such high tech! And discs the size of a dinner plate...

 

Shipping a whole bunch of Tacoma parts to the East Coast. Spent today building a crate for it, used two sheets of 4x8 OSB and seven planks of 2x4's.

Ran out of screws, so the the other walls will be going on tomorrow.

 

Thats what i did with mine. Featureless A2 clone complete with carry handle upper. Just change the grip and fake flash hider and im good to go in freedomland.

 

What you described is a ankle bracelet

 

They paying you for those?

 

Does anyone remember the SETI@Home app to combine computer power from across the world?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI@home

SETI@Home searches for possible evidence of radio transmissions from extraterrestrial intelligence using observational data from the Arecibo radio telescope and the Green Bank Telescope.[10] The data is taken "piggyback" or "passively" while the telescope is used for other scientific programs. The data is digitized, stored, and sent to the SETI@home facility. The data are then parsed into small chunks in frequency and time, and analyzed, using software, to search for any signals—that is, variations which cannot be ascribed to noise, and hence contain information. Using distributed computing, SETI@home sends the millions of chunks of data to be analyzed off-site by home computers, and then have those computers report the results. Thus what appears a difficult problem in data analysis is reduced to a reasonable one by aid from a large, Internet-based community of borrowed computer resources.

 

Alright how long has this been here lol.

 

24 hours

 

I did folding@home for a bit. The one that leverages the computing power to computer protein chains in the search for cures to various things.