Notices by VWestlife (vwestlife@mastodon.social)

Funny error message from old Intel webcam software. Apparently in 2001 they never thought anyone would have more than 2 GB of RAM in Windows XP, so on my ThinkPad X60 with 4 GB of RAM (3 GB usable by the OS) it wraps around and reports a negative number.

I totally glossed over the fact that a new high-tech product's price was cut in half -- from $3000 to $1500 -- within two years of its introduction, as if that was a normal occurrence in the '90s... which it was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdPk1p71J8A

Techmoan's PSA about handheld microphones. Taken from his most recent Patreon update video. https://www.patreon.com/techmoan

Irn Bru is supposed to taste like rust (yes, really), but to me it just tastes like bubblegum.

"Looking Good While Sitting at Your Desk" -- a 1994 guide to videoconferencing, still applicable today if you make videos/live streams or do Zoom conferences for work: https://web.archive.org/web/19961106014651/http://www.howent.com/lookgood.html

Le mouse did not pass le test.

A song from 1914:

A hi-fi recording from 1932. RCA's then-new ribbon microphones had excellent frequency response on the master recordings, but unfortunately they had to tone it down for consumer release because during the Great Depression, many people were still using crude acoustic phonographs, which had trouble tracking those high frequencies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9d_NsAGyA0

How many damn version numbers does this program have!?

New Wave on old VHS, found at the thrift store today.

MotorWeek was on team Betacam:

Did you know that the first-gen Kodak digital photo printing kiosks ran on a Sun UltraSPARC system? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTkx8CamFbI

@georgetakei *After* Elon went crazy? He's always been crazy!

Remember these Samsung ads from the mid-'90s? Their models were a lot more attractive than their products at the time...

An unexpected bonus use for a record player with 16 RPM speed...

If you use Office 365, beware of this trick Microsoft is pulling to try to force Copilot AI on you and make you pay extra for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYVPThx7yss

More inopportune placement of subject against background.

More broadcasting-related oddware: An ISA card to download data from one of those big satellite dishes to your PC, in 1996.

If you ever wondered why old product ads often had unnecessary quotation marks around their name or slogan, you're not alone: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/161676/have-unnecessary-quotation-marks-evolved

Found at the thrift store today: a Hayes SmartModem power supply with that weird three-pin connector. @themaritimegirl