Dang. I haven’t watched the video yet, but looking at the preview pics - I still have some of those parts. In fact, there is a Microsoft natural keyboard on my desk at home - I have two, one stashed away as a spare. I think I have two or three Sound Blaster cards of the Live and Audigy varieties. There was a case with the strange swing-out feet like that in my garage until I threw it out about a year ago. I think I threw out the 486 that had SmoothWall loaded in the same purge. Good times.
I’m fairly certain I still have a Win98 OSR2 installer CD around somewhere.
I wasn’t. I only deployed Smoothwall a few times. Back when my office only had an ISDN line for internet access, it was sooo nice to have the caching feature. For those PCs that I configured to access through the Smoothwall, it was amazing to see the graphics load all at once, instead of slowly appearing in bands.
I’m not sure whether this should be here or in what made me happy today. I tossed a coin.
Art galleries have been trying to advertise on social media platforms and have been getting a bit frustrated because any time they show anything that might have any human flesh showing, the post gets taken down. This obviously includes many many paintings from some of the greatest painters in history (e.g. Rubens).
One of the art galleries has responded with this video:
Jesus Tiberius Christ.
Nobody knows how to cook anything, so someone made an oven that will do all of the difficult stuff like setting the temperature and determining the length of cook time and then they put a camera in it so you can show your mum what you’re cooking.
Thankfully it’s cheap. It starts at only $600.
Seriously. 64 different programs for bacon? Eat my shorts.
I used SmoothWall circa late 2001 to share our friends’ dial-up internet access across the 4 computers. It was on an old HP Pentium Pro, I think. I spent some time on the forums, but eventually left (and eventually stopped using SW) because the founder/lead was a massive dick.
64 times. Some experiments are worth the effort.