Mike Treit

@sjvn You should be proud 🥹

Should I be horrified or bemused that I still know the fix for this is to put Himem.sys Device=emm386.exe Dos=high,umb into my config.sys, reboot the computer, and then install the game?

Happy International 555 Timer Day!, the 5th of the 5th. The 555 design is 55 years old this year. Salute to the great Hans Camenzind 🫡 Several electronics Youtubers including yours truly will be releasing tribute videos today. I'll release mine at 5:55pm Sydney time.

If you’re not following this guy, you are missing out on immense humor that at this point in time we all need. Remember laughter is medicine so give Shawn a follow.

"Wow! I received an email today from K0AU (ex WB0JBP), who found a QSL card I sent him in 1974 when I was a 16 year old novice. Hard to believe that was 52 years ago (postage was 8 cents then for post cards). I still love Ham Radio now as much as I did in my teenage days! 73’s, Ron/W5WWW (formerly WN3WEE & WA3WEE)"

@kylecordes @Jeremybtc Were you not entertained for your $6? It's a great movie in any case!

@Jeremybtc When I saw the movie I was skeptical of the claim it was all real; it seems surely to have been significantly embellished. But completely fabricated? Ouch. I want a refund of my $6 or whatever a movie ticket cost back then.

A man invented a $2.5 MILLION crime spree, sold it to Hollywood and charged $30,000 per speech to explain how he did it. It was all lies. > Frank Abagnale claimed he spent 5 years as a teenage fugitive. > Impersonating a Pan Am pilot, a Harvard trained doctor and a Louisiana attorney general while forging $2.5 MILLION in bad checks across 26 countries. > Steven Spielberg turned it into a 2002 blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks. > It became one of the highest grossing films of that year. > Broadway turned it into a musical. > The FBI hired him as a consultant. > AARP named him their official Fraud Watch Ambassador. > He charged between $20,000 and $30,000 per speaking engagement for decades telling audiences how he pulled it all off. > For 40 years nobody seriously questioned any of it. > Then in 2020 a journalist named Alan Logan spent three years pulling every public record prison document newspaper archive and court file he could find. > Pan Am's own security department told a journalist as early as 1978 "This never happened. You don't forget $2.5 MILLION in bad checks." > Prison records showed Abagnale was behind bars for most of the years he claimed to be a fugitive. > The Georgia hospital had no record of him. > The Louisiana attorney general's office had no record of him. > His only confirmed crime was check fraud totalling less than $1,500. > Logan's conclusion the entire story was not embellished but fabricated. > Abagnale had not committed the con by impersonating pilots and doctors. > He committed it by convincing Hollywood, the FBI and the entire world that he had. The most valuable skill Frank Abagnale ever had was the ability to make people so entertained by a story that they forgot to verify it. That skill made him MILLIONS legally.

Radio operator training for tanks and ships at sea. Training consisted of copying Morse-Code while in a mobile / moving motion.

Weller Dual Heat Soldering Gun Kit, 1962. I inherited this exact soldering gun. I spent a decade with it close to me to the point I used it daily as a kid. It was heavy but perfectly weighted. A thing of beauty.

@SandyofCthulhu @brockpierson Knights of the Sky was SO good though 🥹

Our bitter enemy at MicroSoft. We were working hard on our OWN WW1 biplane game, and because our f*cking legal department dragged their feet, Sierra licensed the name "Red Baron" first. Dammit. It's obvious that "Red Baron" is the ONLY good name for a WW1 biplane game. We ended up calling ours "Knights of the Sky" Which game was better? Well obviously I want to be loyal to Knights of the Sky, and our game had some great stuff. But Red Baron clearly kicked our ass.

Anyone old enough to have played or remember the game Red Baron by Dynamix/Sierra from 1990? Was an unreal WW1 flight simulator at the time.

@W6KSR @JE4YIZ_User Nice. I just bought an SDR unit and am going to try to figure out how to use it this evening 🙂 73 Mike AE7XI

@MikeTreit @JE4YIZ_User I’ve had mine for a little less than two years and for me it’s the best radio for the money. The tactile controls and straightforward display are just right, and if it’s a contest weekend and I really want spectrum analysis, I just use my @SDRPlay as a panadapter.

FT8用の無線機新調。今どきの最新式じゃないけど…これで十分かも。フニャ電波が届いていましたらよろしくお願いします。

Oh no, they haven't turned propagation on today!! 🥲 #radio #amateurradio #dxing #dx #propagation

Good morning #hamradio! ☕️ #HomebrewDay

@billmceachern @davepl1968 The new Outlook is a cursed abomination that needs to be killed.

@davepl1968 Also, have you seen how much CPU the new WebView based Outlook burns? It makes the fan on my ThinkPad angry!

I worked on the XP run dialog. I'm a grizzled old man now, barely recognizable in the mirror, but even I think 94ms is a long-assed time to wait for a dialog to open.

It really is the funniest scientific study ever lol. Almost because you certainly know the person who submitted it absolutely was searching for a conclusion but the data was simply too stark to twist.

@glcst I've got your back: github.com/Tvde1/GuidRecy…

what if we run out of uuids? I'm concerned.

That reminds me of when I was a TA in Graduate School and I gave a student a D on her research paper. She went and complained to the instructor. The instructor went to the library (this was 1995), pulled all the citations, and proved that not only was her paper incomprehensible but also entirely plagiarized and changed the grade to an F

Still the greatest tweet of all time