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OK, since y'all insist I'll start. I fuckin' love Google. Damn, all their shit is free too! The Google search engine (which I recommended even back in the 90's when I was in IT) is nothing but brilliant at this point. Now I just ask a question and the AI in that bitch is so amazing even I'm impressed. It's even prefilling what it thinks I want to say and more times than not, it's right. I'm like, fucker, how did you know that that's what I was looking for?

Next we have Google Youtube, what else can I say? This beauty has every decent music video available & for free. A lot of other interesting content. If you want to binge watch fatal car accidents, guess what, they have it there for you. How cool is that?

You can set up your own site there and upload your own videos. You can also monetize it, how cool is that? I helped out a church with that not too long ago.

OK, I have some other companies I absolutely love (for some reason practically all of them are US based) but I'm really curious about what companies you guys like.

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Next one on my list, good 'ol USA Amazon. I really don't give a fuck about that douche Jeff Bezos nor should I, but Amazon is completely awesome.

They have the best prices, biggest selection, almost anything you can imagine, & all delivered to your doorstep with no taxes. I have it linked to my Amex Card and since I use that for everything there's always bonus points for me to buy more shit on Amazon, seemingly for free.

It just takes a few clicks, since it saves virtually everything, including your orders & favorites. Actually I set a bunch of lists for stuff I tend to reorder, like herbal teas, dog food & whatnot.

It must really be a godsend for people like Quint & WTC who aren't very close to large stores. The funny thing is my wife gets mad at me when I just order stuff on Amazon. She's like "no, we need to go to the store". For what, a smaller selection and higher prices, not to mention the time and cost of using a vehicle to get there?

I think it's cute though, she likes to go out shopping, you know women.

Anyway, Amazon completely rox. Good for them.
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Mindgeek.
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BigRedRetard wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 10:13 pmMicrosoft
Absolutely. If no one else said it that was the next one on my list. Windows 10 is a bargain and is completely invincible, now providing free updates/improvements as good as they are? Get out. The whole world relies on their software, and a lot of these commie douchebag countries like China doesn't even pay for it. Microsoft Office and all the their products like Access are great.

Once again, another American company that totally kicks azz. God bless America.
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FreakShowFanatic wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 10:20 pm
BigRedRetard wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 10:13 pmMicrosoft
Absolutely. If no one else said it that was the next one on my list. Windows 10 is a bargain and is completely invincible, now providing free updates/improvements as good as they are? Get out. The whole world relies on their software, and a lot of these commie douchebag countries like China doesn't even pay for it. Microsoft Office and all the their products like Access are great.

Once again, another American company that totally kicks azz. God bless America.
Fuckin' China just relies on us and doesn't even give us credit for what we do. The fuckin' mooch idiots. Those ugly slant eyed crooked ignorant fucks need to learn to STFU if you ask me. Whatever, my vote is to bomb these ignorant fucks out of existence with nuclear weapons 'cause truth be told I really don't like them either. Think about it China. I think I have payed enough in taxes for this to happen.
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Block Buster. It's gonna be big
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PornHub.
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BigRedRetard wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 10:58 pm
Stapes wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 10:56 pm Block Buster. It's gonna be big
I miss video stores!
My favorite was by the OB diner. Still have my membership card...lol
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Reservoir Dog wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 10:58 pm PornHub.
Nice. IDK, lobstertube ain't half bad either.
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BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 12:49 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 3:21 amSUN (UNIX)
Oracle?
Oracle acquired them.
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BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 2:04 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 1:59 pm
BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 12:49 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 3:21 amSUN (UNIX)
Oracle?
Oracle acquired them.
10 years ago. Does Oracle still support Solaris? I loved Solaris back in the day.
Honestly I'm not sure.

I do know I still have a copy of Solaris 6 around here somewhere.

ETA: Just checked and you can download 11.4 so they must.
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megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 2:06 pm
BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 2:04 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 1:59 pm
BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 12:49 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 3:21 amSUN (UNIX)
Oracle?
Oracle acquired them.
10 years ago. Does Oracle still support Solaris? I loved Solaris back in the day.
Honestly I'm not sure.

I do know I still have a copy of Solaris 6 around here somewhere.

ETA: Just checked and you can download 11.4 so they must.
You can certainly still d/l the VirtualBox image of it. I might be wrong, haven't dealt with Solaris in a long time, but Solaris/X86 is really picky on what real hardware it runs with. Drivers are a huge issue. So the VB image is about the only way to go. I dealt with much more SCO and AIX in the day, they were much more prevalent for medical applications than Solaris ever was.

I think a whole lot better of Microsoft since Nadella took over from that sweaty fat piece of shit Ballmer. Maybe still don't trust them 100%, but I kind of like the direction they're going with open-source software.

By the way, IBM OS/2 v4 Warp still remains my favorite OS of all time. And still around, too!
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peterosehaircut wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 3:12 am Jim Beam
Back in the day my mother would always get her Christmas presents to me from there. I particularly liked their leather hiking boots.

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Biker wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 9:06 pm
FreakShowFanatic wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 9:05 pm
peterosehaircut wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 3:12 am Jim Beam
Back in the day my mother would always get her Christmas presents to me from there. I particularly liked their leather hiking boots.

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QillerDaemon wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 3:26 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 2:06 pm
BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 2:04 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 1:59 pm
BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 12:49 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 3:21 amSUN (UNIX)
Oracle?
Oracle acquired them.
10 years ago. Does Oracle still support Solaris? I loved Solaris back in the day.
Honestly I'm not sure.

I do know I still have a copy of Solaris 6 around here somewhere.

ETA: Just checked and you can download 11.4 so they must.
You can certainly still d/l the VirtualBox image of it. I might be wrong, haven't dealt with Solaris in a long time, but Solaris/X86 is really picky on what real hardware it runs with. Drivers are a huge issue. So the VB image is about the only way to go. I dealt with much more SCO and AIX in the day, they were much more prevalent for medical applications than Solaris ever was.

I think a whole lot better of Microsoft since Nadella took over from that sweaty fat piece of shit Ballmer. Maybe still don't trust them 100%, but I kind of like the direction they're going with open-source software.

By the way, IBM OS/2 v4 Warp still remains my favorite OS of all time. And still around, too!
I used to have a dual 286 board that fit in a regular motherboard slot that I could run it on inside of WIN98. But it has been awhile since I've dealt with it.

I could make/run a router with 2 floppy disks.

I've run VB for some older OS's. I may have to revisit it to see how much I've forgotten. 8-)
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BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 10:33 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 9:54 pm
QillerDaemon wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 3:26 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 2:06 pm
BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 2:04 pm
megman wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 1:59 pm
Oracle acquired them.
10 years ago. Does Oracle still support Solaris? I loved Solaris back in the day.
Honestly I'm not sure.

I do know I still have a copy of Solaris 6 around here somewhere.

ETA: Just checked and you can download 11.4 so they must.
You can certainly still d/l the VirtualBox image of it. I might be wrong, haven't dealt with Solaris in a long time, but Solaris/X86 is really picky on what real hardware it runs with. Drivers are a huge issue. So the VB image is about the only way to go. I dealt with much more SCO and AIX in the day, they were much more prevalent for medical applications than Solaris ever was.

I think a whole lot better of Microsoft since Nadella took over from that sweaty fat piece of shit Ballmer. Maybe still don't trust them 100%, but I kind of like the direction they're going with open-source software.

By the way, IBM OS/2 v4 Warp still remains my favorite OS of all time. And still around, too!
I used to have a dual 286 board that fit in a regular motherboard slot that I could run it on inside of WIN98. But it has been awhile since I've dealt with it.

I could make/run a router with 2 floppy disks.

I've run VB for some older OS's. I may have to revisit it to see how much I've forgotten. 8-)
Routing with linux was big back in the day. You only needed a single floppy and 2 NICs.
Ya. But the 2 floppies I was using were in a dual 5 1/4" drive hooked up to my Commadore 64. 8-)
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I always had fun sitting around a coffee shop with my laptop open to this site: https://hackertyper.net/

Occasionally I would stop typing, look around suspiciously and then go back to typing. 8-)
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BigRedRetard wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 10:33 pm Routing with linux was big back in the day. You only needed a single floppy and 2 NICs.
My old LUG used to assist with the original open-source Smoothwall firewall/router project 20-something years ago. Then out of the blue, the developers decided to go commercial with it and blocked us freebies out. IPCop was forked off and we assisted with that project for a while. Then again poof! it went commercial and we were locked out of that, too. My part in it was trying to use OpenBSD instead of RedHat as the base OS for what we thought was better security. Both projects are still up on SourceForge but are basically abandoned at this point.

Man, the days when you could run a Linux system on a single floppy (3.5" disk, of course), those are long gone. :(
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Glock.
Perfect design and functionality.
Great service which is never needed. Almost all repair/upgrades can be done by a guy with a $20 all in one tool.
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I had a Supersport laptop, I think it was from 1987.

It had a lead acid battery. It was running DBaseIII, a monochrome screen, a 20mb hardrive and a 1400baud modem built in. It was the second model made for the IRS. I could rule the world with it. :lol:
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Tragic wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:36 pm Glock.
Perfect design and functionality.
Great service which is never needed. Almost all repair/upgrades can be done by a guy with a $20 all in one tool.
Glock fans vs Ruger fans: a senseless war of words over handguns.

But I have seven Rugers and love every one of them.
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QillerDaemon wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2020 1:08 pm
Tragic wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:36 pm Glock.
Perfect design and functionality.
Great service which is never needed. Almost all repair/upgrades can be done by a guy with a $20 all in one tool.
Glock fans vs Ruger fans: a senseless war of words over handguns.

But I have seven Rugers and love every one of them.
Are your Rugers all revolvers? I think Ruger semiautomatics feel slide heavy. I do like their revolvers.
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