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Reminiscing about the late 2000's
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2024-08-29 at 12:06 AM UTCI miss neckbeards arguing with 13 year old girls on YouTube about what "real vampires" look like.
Also my oversized flannel shirtjacket with the hood.
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2024-08-29 at 12:08 AM UTCNah fuck that. I was in prison then.
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2024-08-29 at 12:09 AM UTCOh and sliding phones. I hate flip phones but I would love a basic up sliding phone. But back then the one to have was the side sliding one.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-08-29 at 12:09 AM UTC
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2024-08-29 at 12:12 AM UTCFuck that.
Obama really screwed my early adult life.
Hard screwed.
Graduate and there was $4 gas and $6 minimum wage.
Couldn't find a job to work more than 20-30 hours a week so they could refuse to pay benefits.
The only time I had any fun was getting fucked up on heroin.
Everything sucked soooo bad that doing hard drugs and possibly dying well... at least it would be an out. -
2024-08-29 at 12:25 AM UTC
Originally posted by Fonaplats Fuck that.
Obama really screwed my early adult life.
Hard screwed.
Graduate and there was $4 gas and $6 minimum wage.
Couldn't find a job to work more than 20-30 hours a week so they could refuse to pay benefits.
The only time I had any fun was getting fucked up on heroin.
Everything sucked soooo bad that doing hard drugs and possibly dying well… at least it would be an out.
Yes Obama! And silly black people thinking he gave a shit about them.
You can't blame them though. Most of the January 6 rioters are probably being released right about now with time served just in time to do it all over again. -
2024-08-29 at 12:32 AM UTCAhh, the good old days of fax machines. It's pretty funny how the windows 2000 fax API was completely open and programmable, and also free. It was more than possible to make your windows 2000 machine act a fax server that forwards telephone connections into a system that sends every fax to your email.
Nowadays setting up such a system on Windows with free software is impossible and the underlying API's and inner workings of software and hardware have been changed to instead favor third party licensed development that is not free and in 99% of cases is offered at the highest premium possible in annual packages to large corporations. It's just assumed that anyone else can just plug in a telephone line and have zero problems, even though 24 years ago it was already possible to send a fax completely digitally. But now it's impossible unless you pay money? What the fuck?.gif)
To send a fax from within a program, you have to choose one of the two client APIs: COM Automation or the standard C API. Each has its advantages. For the sake of simplicity I will use COM Automation in the first example. The C version of the Fax API enables you to do a lot more. You can remotely configure the fax service and attached devices (ports), verify user access rights to a particular port, enumerate queued fax jobs, and trace job status using window messages or completion ports. You will see all of this in my MFC sample described later in this article.
To implement fax sending in Visual Basic®, create an instance of the FaxServer object. Once you have this object instantiated, call the Connect method, specifying the fax server name. This can be a local machine or one on the network. As soon as you connect, create a FaxDoc object by calling FaxServer's CreateDoc function with the file to be sent as an argument. With FaxDoc, you must at least specify recipient information (fax number and name). For the full list of FaxDoc properties, see Figure 5. If everything went OK up to this point, you can simply call the Send method and your program will now be sending faxes. When finished, call FaxServer's Disconnect method, and set your FaxDoc and FaxServer objects to Nothing.
Now you may be wondering how to convert files to the TIFF G3 format in order to send them. Well, you don't have to do the conversion because FaxServer will do it for you, provided that the file type is registered on the fax server and you are sending a file that is accessible to the fax service. You might have already figured out that the fax service will simply send a Print command to the application that is the default editor for the file being transmitted, and the file will be printed on the fax printer. That's the magic.
Figure 6 shows my sample Visual Basic procedure, which has been tested and developed using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Microsoft® Word 2000. Initially I tried to develop a macro that sends the currently active document as a fax, but unfortunately whenever I called FaxDoc's Send method in the macro, the application hung. After giving this some thought, I found the reason for this behavior. The macro tried to send the document, then fax server tried to print it using Word while Word was trying to execute the macro. As a result, Word did not process any messages. Deadlock. The code works, however, in any Visual Basic-compatible environment, including Visual Basic-based programs, provided that the macro is run within an environment different than the editor for the document being sent. -
2024-08-29 at 12:35 AM UTC
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood Ahh, the good old days of fax machines. It's pretty funny how the windows 2000 fax API was completely open and programmable, and also free. It was more than possible to make your windows 2000 machine act a fax server that forwards telephone connections into a system that sends every fax to your email.
Nowadays setting up such a system on Windows with free software is impossible and the underlying API's and inner workings of software and hardware have been changed to instead favor third party licensed development that is not free and in 99% of cases is offered at the highest premium possible in annual packages to large corporations. It's just assumed that anyone else can just plug in a telephone line and have zero problems, even though 24 years ago it was already possible to send a fax completely digitally. But now it's impossible unless you pay money? What the fuck?
I think needing a computer to look at the actual internet made life better. And the internet was better.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-08-29 at 12:58 AM UTC
Originally posted by Cowboy2013 I think needing a computer to look at the actual internet made life better. And the internet was better.
No actually computers were worse because people were still tied to the ultimate cuck peripheral, The Mouse. The invention of "THE COMPUTER MOUSE" came as a shock to the market and was seen as useless as snapchat face enhancements today. Why would anyone ever need such a useless thing when 100% of computers can be used perfectly fine without a mouse?
The market created a "problem" that could only be "solved" by having a mouse. They started developing software that would only work if you bought a mouse, if you didn't have a mouse how would you do 3D gaming? Or complex art?
The truth is those things never required a mouse. Fast forward to 2024 and 90% of internet users today are not using a mouse, a growing number of youth have existed without ever touching a mouse and only using ipads. Teenagers in the 90's and early 2000s were not interested in computer technology and programming, or the internet, people were more interested in sports but eventually the "nerds inherited the world"
The reality is that are ipad zoomers coding python programs on their tablet right now and they will go on to be the titans of the future. -
2024-08-29 at 5:20 AM UTC
Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood No actually computers were worse because people were still tied to the ultimate cuck peripheral, The Mouse. The invention of "THE COMPUTER MOUSE" came as a shock to the market and was seen as useless as snapchat face enhancements today. Why would anyone ever need such a useless thing when 100% of computers can be used perfectly fine without a mouse?
The market created a "problem" that could only be "solved" by having a mouse. They started developing software that would only work if you bought a mouse, if you didn't have a mouse how would you do 3D gaming? Or complex art?
The truth is those things never required a mouse. Fast forward to 2024 and 90% of internet users today are not using a mouse, a growing number of youth have existed without ever touching a mouse and only using ipads. Teenagers in the 90's and early 2000s were not interested in computer technology and programming, or the internet, people were more interested in sports but eventually the "nerds inherited the world"
The reality is that are ipad zoomers coding python programs on their tablet right now and they will go on to be the titans of the future.
The computer mouse was a mistake, and everytime I have a zoomer trying to touch a computer monitor (and I see it all the time) I feel that we should have stopped with keyboards and made people adjust.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-08-29 at 7:53 AM UTCAh yes,
the joys of ecstasy tablet for £2
8 cans of lager for £5
20 cigarettes for under £10
And getting a job for one month, getting the first pay check and then disappearing for the next two.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-08-29 at 9:30 AM UTCDo you miss this way of writing too? xD
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2024-08-29 at 7:54 PM UTCSSDD
I was still sitting at this same desk trolling on DH instead of NIS. -
2024-08-29 at 8:48 PM UTCMySpace.
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2024-08-29 at 9:39 PM UTCahh yes back when you could look at lolicon without people getting on a moral grandstand about how you're a bad person. Times was more simple I tell you what.
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2024-08-29 at 10 PM UTCI miss when bath salts and k2 were less understood and you were able to make vast profits by giving people drugs they had no way to find/identify and you knew a great deal more about the price, source, pharmacology, and biological affects of than medical personal.
You were able to do both good thigns and make lots of profit and do bad things and no one understood how u were able to do that. It truly was a unique time to be alive and involved in such substances as the synthetic cannabinoids, analogue stimulatns and of course the hallucinogens. -
2024-08-29 at 10:01 PM UTCalso I got laid a lot back then by people who were way more attractive than I'd fuck after that point
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2024-08-29 at 11:34 PM UTC
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2024-08-29 at 11:46 PM UTC^ brainwashed sheep gotta moral grandstand to blend in with the herd
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2024-08-29 at 11:51 PM UTC
