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I needed wanted to play and old CD-ROM from 1998 and another one from 2000.
I have an external CD-ROM player for my laptop, but for some reason it doesn't work anymore.
So I fired up my old desktop that still has a built-in CD-ROM player 
It's continuously rattling, it's slow and I think corona originated on my mouse wheel 
The computer is about 10 years old and I've played games such as Mass Effect 2 and Skyrim on it.
It still has Visual Studio 2015 installed on it.
Judging from my Chrome bookmarks I still used this two years ago.
Yet it feels as if it's been collecting dust for 20 years.
What the hell happened?
At least this old desktop does recognize my external CD player, so that's desktop 1 - 0 laptop 
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Sander Rossel wrote: I think corona originated on my mouse wheel
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i FOUND MY OLD LAPTOP THAT'S BEEN IN STORAGE SINCE 2009. iT WORKS BUT STILL HAS wIN 98, YET I REMEMBERED THE PASSWORD AND FOUND ALL MY VERY OLD PROJECTS STILL INTACT. wHO WOULD'VE GUESSED?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
-- modified 20-Mar-20 11:21am.
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Just a tiny issue with this laptop: the capslock key is inverted.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Simple. Just invert the key board
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Looks like the caps lock key is the wrong way around, though.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What has it been smoking all these years?
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Rip that CD to an ISO while you still can. Then stop worrying about whether you'll be able to read a 20+ year old disc.
I went through the process of copying everything I still had only on discs to a hard drive (now part of my regular backup set) a few years ago. There's no going back. I haven't had the need to touch a CD or DVD since.
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I am in the process of doing the same thing. CDs was essentially completed several years ago, but I was too much of a movie collector during the DVD/BD age. One thing is that you need a subscription with WD to have a new disk delivered every month... Especially newer Blu-rays may up to 50 Gigabytes, and you can fit only 20 of them per TByte of hard disk space. (Luckily, disk is cheap nowadays; the problem is fitting them in your PC cabinet - I don't have a NAS.) My first 64 GB USB stick was bought to hold a single BD movie; I was taking it to a party for watching it with friends.
The other problem is that the DVD/BD manufacturers make new copyright protections all the time. With some of the newer movies I haven't succeeded in e.g. getting the play menu to work properly; I have to drag the correct video file onto the player with the mouse, and I can't play it on a TV set with a USB socket - they require a proper menu structure file for navigating.
Still there are movies I want to see and preserve, so I must buy them on an physical medium - because they are not available for preserving in any other format. Same with music: I do buy CDs when I discover new and exciting music. So I will keep my CD/DVD/BD player in my PC for all foreseeable future.
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Right...I was thinking primarily of software.
Commercial videos on discs, especially blu-rays, are a pain. I haven't ripped my own collection because of the space required, and I only have a few hundreds of them, with blu-rays being a tiny part of that. I'm very much against streaming as my connection barely registers above 5mbps. In my situation, you'd think I'd be all about backing up my purchased media.
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Windows 7 was really good...not surprised it still works. I've had 10 since it was released and consider it to be a worthy successor. (forced updates aside)
A couple of weeks ago a colleague needed a laptop for an assistant...mostly web browsing, document editing, nothing heavy. I dusted off the predecessor of my current laptop. (2015) When I bought that laptop it came with Vista and has been upgraded to 10 pro. It is painfully slow (still using a spinner) but still works fine for the task at hand. When I get it back, it'll likely get an SSD and it should be better than new. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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DD! You're back!
... And you've learned Korean?
... And how to change the CP-message codepage (in the message title, no less)?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 20-Mar-20 9:47am.
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The China Flu strikes again.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
modified 20-Mar-20 14:31pm.
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I think that maybe we should avoid making racist comments in the Lounge.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 20-Mar-20 14:30pm.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I think that maybe we should avoid making racist comments in the Lounge.
That's good advice. I agree 110%.
I'll let everyone else know.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
modified 20-Mar-20 14:31pm.
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But we already know what the "C" in Corona & Covid stands for. 
modified 20-Mar-20 14:31pm.
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Nand32 wrote: we already know what the "C" in Corona & Covid stands for.
"Cr@p! We're all gonna die!"?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 20-Mar-20 14:31pm.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Cr@p! We're all gonna die!"?
 Absolutely.
This way[^]
You should see the full video. 
modified 20-Mar-20 14:32pm.
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I think this[^] might have been the reference (it was what came into my head, but Griff might not be quite such a nutter),
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 20-Mar-20 14:32pm.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Cr@p! We're all gonna die!"
Beat me to it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 20-Mar-20 14:32pm.
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I saw an article today that 1/3 of adults surveyed thought they were going to die from the China Flu.
 
The world has gone mad.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
modified 20-Mar-20 14:30pm.
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Well, not being able to wipe your bottom is social death ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 20-Mar-20 14:30pm.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Cr@p! We're all gonna die!"
In a an informal chat with my boss today, he pointed out that in this country (Norway), every year almost a thousand people die from the regular flu. Corona is not getting really serious until it gets up do that level. We currently have a death count of seven, so for now, we really shouldn't be too munch in a panic.
I agreed, and for the sake of staying calm: This country has around sixty thousand deaths every year, no matter from which angle you see it, and we have no way of preventing that. Deaths from ordinary flu are almost exclusively elderly people. Today, you always die from one thing or another. One out of sixty deaths is from the flu. The flu is just one of many possible ways of dying. Corona is another. Mortality rate is invariably one per person.
My boss was silent for so long that I suspect that he had never before looked at it from that angle.
(You could make another comparison: As long as fewer people are killed by Corona than by car accidents, then it isn't that bad.)
modified 20-Mar-20 14:30pm.
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