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| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-22, 12:06 in Weird issue with DVD-video ISO and ODD emulators (revision 3)
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Dinosaur
 Post: #41 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
...you've hit the nail in the head! Wow, first time I see a doujin DVD with CSS protection. Aren't you supposed to pay extra for that? And indeed, enabling CSS/CPPM support on CDEmu does allow libdvdcss-enabled players to properly play the disc (just tested with Xine). I guess I'll now need to find a way to make a descrambled version of this ISO, because I can't archive this as-is. This explains why VLC could play the scrambled ISO just fine - it walked the extra mile and pretended to be a DVD drive too, complete with the DRM bits. Awesome, although impractical for my purposes. Also, CDEmu is awesome too~ A pox over Yuuhei Satellite for letting their DVD duplication service infest their discs, and a bigger one over whoever ripped this ISO without taking care of descrambling the disc. UPDATE: This took care of the descrambling bits - it requires libdvdcss and works with both ISO images and real/fake drives, outputting a clean, descrambled ISO that works properly everywhere. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-22, 14:17 in Happy thanksgiving!
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Dinosaur
Post: #42 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
1) I don't live at 'murica, so we don't celebrate your arcane turkey slaughter rituals. 2) Turkey is another of the things hyperinflation took away from us Soviet Venezuelans, so meh. 3) There is a Steam sale right now, so go buy some cheep games instead of slaughtering turkeys! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-23, 23:58 in DIY ATX to AT PSU converter
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Dinosaur
Post: #43 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
So here is another retrocomputing DIY thread, with my usual "doing things the Soviet way" mixed in. As you know, I still run a couple of AT rigs at home (routerbox, 386SX), and while you can still find AT PSUs for sale, they're always heavily used units with prone-to-fail aged capacitors. Even if you find new old stock units, you're risking the same (as it happened to me 6 years ago: units looked spotless, but they were unable to output voltages strong enough to boot a computer... unless if I detached all disk drives, something completely silly). So I turn to the next best thing: ATX PSUs! Thankfully they decided to keep the same voltages there (although the -5V line got deprecated and eventually removed from the standard a few years later), while adding 3.3V (completely useless on all but a few AT systems) and the +5VSB line (which we can safely ignore, or maybe reuse for something else), so it's just matter to take a few old AT plugs (P8/P9) and splice some wires (hey, they even kept the same color code... mostly!). I'm well aware that you can buy premade commercial ATX-to-AT adapters, but as you've guessed, this isn't an option to me (otherwise I wouldn't be writing this thread!). So, here are my questions: 1) Both AT and ATX have a Power Good signal (the only wire where colors differ: on ATX it's gray, while on AT it's orange which may led some to take it as a 3.3V line, which it isn't!). While the ATX PG line is well documented in the standard (including rise/fall times and voltage tolerances), I've been unable to trace any document or specification about its behavior on AT PSUs. Since commercial adapters just tie both PG lines together, is it safe to assume that on its AT counterpart the line works pretty much the same? 2) About that pesky -5V line... do I really, absolutely and under any circumstances need it? As far as I understand it, that line is there solely for ISA cards, and it's actually a vestige from the original IBM PC use of whatever weird ICs their engineers could find back in the late '70s. My routerbox is new enough to actually use a PCI chipset (Intel 430VX/PIIX3), and the ISA slots have been empty since forever, so I MAY stand a chance to simply get away with no -5V line. But on my 386SX the history is different, since it's an all-ISA setup. Here are the cards I would usually have fitted to it: - Adaptec AHA-1542B SCSI HBA - SoundBlaster AWE64 - several hardware modems, from 8-bit 14.4K noname junk all the way up to USRobotics 56K PnP stuff - several NICs, from good ol' Realtek RTL8019A (NE2K clone) to newish 3Com cards - Onboard ISA peripherals (OTI 077 VGA, and whatever chipset Acer made for those extra-late-era 386 boxes: mine was made in early 1993!) I've heard that old SoundBlasters actually make use of the -5V line, but the AWE64 actually was a late era card (1996-97 IIRC). In the unfortunate case I DO need the -5V line, can I just use a 7905 hooked to the -12V line as input? (Assume no access to fancy things like a Negatron) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-25, 23:14 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #44 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Hmmm, why the weird "mmmm d, YYYY" English-locale-specific date format for specifying our birth dates? (In fact the board silently discards input in any other format - it doesn't even bother telling you that You're Doing It Wrong™) Or even better: it would be nice to add a calendar popup there. Users are not supposed to be mucking around when inputting data to date fields! (it reminds me how lovely is when users try to manually edit them on my apps despite locking the fields read-only to force them to use the calendar control to pick a date) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-26, 11:36 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #45 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Posted by Nicholas Steel As an inhabitant from a dd/mm/yyyy zone, I say: fuck you. Posted by creaothceann As an inhabitant from a dd/mm/yyyy zone, I say: YES PLEASE. The one true date format is the one you can properly sort! Also, fuck dd/mm/yyyy too. Posted by Kawa Thankyouverymuch~ ...oh wait, Seamonkey doesn't support date formats because it is still based on Firefox 52, yet Mozilla only implemented those as of Firefox 57. D'OH :/ I still blame Mozilla. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-26, 18:24 in The State of JavaScript 2018
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Dinosaur
Post: #46 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
https://2018.stateofjs.com/ tl;dr: I'm glad I don't do JavaScript. So many frameworks, libraries, ways to abuse tools into undesirable purposes, and so much hipster junk I can't believe people actually get PAID for playing with fire. If that makes me a dinosaur, I would be glad of becoming extinct. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-27, 00:28 in Board feature requests/suggestions
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Dinosaur
Post: #47 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
butbutbut I DO want to get old in Australia first!!! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-27, 13:05 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #48 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Yes, Windows 10 is an unmitigated disaster, a raging dumpster fire, an abomination that will eat your files and rape your cats. And yet... people keep using it because I DON'T KNOW!? Remember the terrible 1809 update? Yes, the one that actually ate your files. The one that MS had to remove from circulation because "deleting user files" is NOT a feature that should have ever left alpha testing. Well, after patching that nasty bug, Microsoft keeps justifying why they should have never ever sacked their QA people: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/18/11/26/2147225/latest-windows-10-update-breaks-windows-media-player-win32-apps-in-general Apparently the last patch (1809v2?) breaks another bunch of applications... including WMP, file associations, and -surprisingly- iCloud. The latter is important, because MS is now blocking those users with iCloud from receiving the buggy update that would disable their software. This is... interesting. Last time I booted my W10 Insider VM, I let it downloading its yearly share of poison. Spent nearly 3 days murdering my CPU and HDD. Rebooted a couple times... and failed to do absolutely anything, aside of installing a couple minor patchers. As for my bare metal setup: I ended reclaiming that spare HDD for much more worthy purposes (downloading anime), and moved it to a even smaller drive. Why I haven't wiped that turd yet?! Once again, why people sticks to Win10!? Aside of hardware compatibility (an artificial restriction), "videogames", and the "new car smell" effect... At this point, Microsoft should split itself in two companies: the Azure-powered, FOSS-embracing, new-and-totally-not-evil Nadella-led Microsoft (the Microsoft I actually like seeing), and the consumer software and devices ol-MS-of-yesteryesterday which we can simply ignore while the Joe Facebooks of the world move away from Real Computers. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-28, 11:22 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #49 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
"app" You mean UWP cellphone junk? An "app" is still a program, albeit a very crippled one. And IIRC you can still sideload UWP "apps" without the need of the Windows Store (dunno how hard it is, and I'm absolutely not interested, but the option is there for internal/developer/testing/enterprise deployments) Also, Mozilla still offers 32-bit Firefox downloads for both Windows and Linux. Dunno about the Mac version (is it an Universal binary?) I will stick to my Win32 programs, because I'm a Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-28, 11:34 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #50 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Cryptojunk is NOT real money, no matter how hard the media wants me to believe. The day I can directly buy food with that shit on the nearest market, I will reconsider. Remember, right now cryptojunk is only good for scammers and speculators, for everybody else you might as well take your money and buy Enron shares, or simply flush it down the nearest toilet :P At least my banknotes have actual value: it seems bolivars of all kind are hot sellers right now... among the worldwide collectors market! Example! Regarding IBM/Red Hat: I'm actually kinda worried for the future of JBoss/WildFly, considering that 1) that's my Java AS of choice right now, and 2) IBM also has its own AS (WebSphere) which outside Big Enterprisey noone uses, despite there being a free tier (Liberty Profile). Will IBM try to merge both? Push WAS aggresively? Kill WAS in favor of JBoss? Both? None? ANYTHING is best than being stuck with Glassfish, that's for sure! Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-28, 12:54 in The State of JavaScript 2018 (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #51 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Every time I hear a NPM-related story, it's always an horror tale (when it's not some hipster crud). I would like to have those guys banned from their mommy-and-daddy modems instead of letting them push another Git commit ever again. How do they even manage to Get Shit Done on that fragile house of cards that they dare to call "foundations"!? My sole experience with NPM: found some JS lib I needed for a very specific purpose (thankfully it didn't came with extra dependencies), but I wanted to have the newest version because reasons, and the only way to get it is from "building from source" (something that doesn't make any sense whatsoever with Javascript stuff, but whatever). This required me to install NPM, clone the Github repo, and do the equivalent of "make". Except that... it tried to download half of the Internet. And it failed with some obscure error because Debian. So I tried to install the latest shiny NPM version following The Official Way... and after downloading the another half of the Internet, it failed with yet another obscure error. It's even worse than Maven, but at least, unlike NPM, Maven CAN GET SHIT DONE! (if you don't deviate from the defaults!) Long short story: I ended rolling my own (IIRC I didn't even needed the entire library, but only a couple functions), and swore to never ever have to deal with NPM again, while keeping 3rd-party Javascript usage as minimal as possible, both to preserve my sanity and to prevent further issues down the road. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-29, 18:49 in MS is about to release a discless Xbone, this time for real!
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Dinosaur
Post: #52 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Not everybody lives in the land of $150 1TB SSDs and unmetered Fast Ethernet pipes, please remember that. We PC gamers are willing to live with dodgy DSL lines and multi-gigabyte downloads because that has always been part of the platform (the "you are on your own" bits). But on consoles that's simply not going to fly that easily. People buy console games expecting to arrive home, insert the disc, open a beer/soda, and start fragging martians or whatever. But apparently it's the "new normal" to expect consoles to work like PCs, down to the pricing models... except that you don't get Steam sales with your console. Also, let's remember the "you don't own your Steam games" bit. The day you get permabanned due to some silly ToS change, or Valve goes tits-up, it's over. The day Nintendo goes under? You will still be able to play your Switch gamecards. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-29, 18:58 in Monocultures in Linux and browsers (formerly "Windows 10")
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Dinosaur
Post: #53 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Hardware compatibility is a double-edged sword even under Windows. If you buy the latest new tech, or consumer-geared stuff like cellphones, chances are you're going to get Windows compatibility only, and that's all. Good luck sync'ing a Windows Phone to your Linux box, or using the video recording capabilities of your fancy new camera (because expensive cameras often require a proprietary driver instead of sticking to UVC drivers, and nobody is going to RE a driver for a camera that costs $2K). If you're buying a GPU, you will usually be fine, but for anything else... sometimes it's Windows or nada. But if you want to stick to your hardware beyond the cold death of the universe and are lucky to get Linux-compatible hardware, well, Linux is the way to go. Good luck running modern Windows versions on old Radeon cards: while on Linux you get limited support, you at least get an accelerated 2D desktop and some support for the 3D bits on Mesa. On Windows 7/8/10? Hope you enjoy VESA, because that's all you going to get with your ancient GPU. Linux is the only OS willing to deal with my old BenQ S2W 3300U scanner that won't work with anything beyond 32-bit Vista (and even there it's still dicey), unless if I pay for some $100 shareware that supposedly works as a "universal driver" (I REFUSE to pay for device drivers of any kind - it's like paying for being able to walk or breath!) Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-29, 23:53 in MS is about to release a discless Xbone, this time for real! (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #54 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Did I forgot to say "there are countries beyond just the United States of America"? ...looks like I did. DSL is still big in Latin America, where things like FTTH are a pipe dream for most (there has been improvements all across the board except for the well-known commie shitholes, but we as a continent are quite far from "livin' the dream", bandwidth-wise) Also, good luck trying to buy that $150 SSD in places like Brazil. Unless that SSD is assembled locally, that will be more like $1500 thanks to wonderful protectionist trade policies. Oh, I forgot that 'murica is about to live that dream too-- best I stop there, as this is not the Politics thread. Suffice to say, Tectoy tried marching down the discless road, but failed miserably: remember the Zeebo? Most likely not, because it went nowhere, even with CHEAP games aimed at a developing economy (it did failed mostly due to poor marketing and cellphone-grade hardware, but the discless factor did nothing to help to grow its already minimal marketshare). Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-30, 15:46 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #55 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
To the buttcoin apologists/defenders: god damn it, you're starting to sound as retarded as the government of our country, which is trying HARD to shove down their shittyass Petro down our throats, despite the fact 1) buttcoins are not suitable for dumpsters like this country, and 2) not even scammers want anything to have with it. Please do reply all of the following questions: - Can I go to the nearest supermarket and buy food/soap/etc with cryptocurrencies? - Can I go to the nearest farmers' market and buy vegetables/fish/eggs with cryptocurrencies? - Can I pay the bus fares with cryptocurrencies? The following are NOT acceptable answers in almost all real world scenarios: - "You can, after you find someone willing to convert your buttcoins into whatever passes as real money in your country" - "You can, they just have to wait several hours/days until the blockchain does its thing" - "You can, just install $APP on the smartphone neither you nor your counterpart have!" - "You can, because reliable Internet connections are ubiquitous" > Yes, Cryptocoin isn't real money, but it is a tradeable asset with value. So are computer parts, but no fish/meat shop will accept hard disk drives or case fans as payments for fish or meat, despite the fact that they're "tradeable assets with value". Selling an used HDD or case fan is very hard at the moment, why it would be better/easier for something with a relatively high barrier of entry as cryptocurrencies? Anyone sane enough will only take cash, bank transfers, or (if they're lucky enough to own/rent a POS terminal) debit/credit cards. Some are adventurous enough to risk their lifes by accepting hard currency (read: USD), but outside the Twittersphere, crypto is (and will remain as) a non-starter. Guys, you won't change my opinion on this: cryptocurrencies are NOT money, they're a scam designed to benefit scammers. They're of no use for me, my family, or any normal citizen. Maybe China should do the world a huge favor by bursting the buttcoin bubble for good. And before you ask: yes, I've met people that has been involved into the crypto craze. A close friend of mine is a buttcoin trader, and while the market has brainwashed him somewhat, he already has enough brains left to tell me that it's a high risk business where you can earn $100 in a day... and lose $400 in the next two hours. Last time I spoke to him, he left the trading market to join a startup... which involves the use of the "blockchain" buzzword. I threw his marketing materials right into my Spam folder. Oh, here is your Buttcoin Fail Of The Day: https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/11/30/011255/floyd-mayweather-dj-khaled-charged-for-illegally-touting-crypto-offerings Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-30, 16:28 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE
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Dinosaur
Post: #56 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
So easy you would get bored? Cute anime girls? ... sounds like my kind of game. I would play it. Too bad about the "PS4 exclusive" part :/ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-11-30, 23:52 in Games You Played Today REVENGEANCE (revision 1)
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Dinosaur
Post: #57 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Oh, nice! Here is it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/658260/BLUE_REFLECTION__BLUE_REFLECTION/ ...wait, i5?! GTX550Ti!? 30GB HDD!?!?!?! $59.99+23.95 on DLCs?!?!?! So much for EASY MODO :/ But hey, nice asscracks~ Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-01, 22:50 in I have yet to have never seen it all. (revision 2)
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Dinosaur
Post: #58 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Speaking about meme money, did I've mentioned banknote collectors around the world are lusting for our "sovereign" memenotes? Collectors are freakin' insane, and here is the proof: International Bank Note Society - Banknote of 2018 - Nominations Several fancy banknotes from real countries with (mostly) real currencies. Canada and some old pretty woman. Mother Russia and its FIFA™®-brand rubles. Even Mexico and Bolivia have decent representations. And... Venezuela's new 100 VES banknotes, which are worth exactly a quarter kilo of nothingness today. Or as I would prefer to call them, the "Gay Zamora" issue. For those not in the know, this Zamora, best known as one of the biggest traitors and murderers in the independence wars era. Naturally the commies have some affinity with him, and now he is on the most colorful banknote ever issued here. There you have, the perfect definition of meme money! No buttcoins were harmed in the making of this idiocy. Banknotes nominated must have been issued to the public (specimens and non-circulating currencies are inelligble) for the first time during the year of the award, and must have artistic merit and/or innovative security features and be in general circulation. Security features? Let me check: lameass security thread first seen in 2007 (recycling is cheap!), no optically variable ink (that costs money!), and the rear side looks like a bad photocopy on a printer with counterfeit toner (once again, why bother splurging on superfluous things like full intaglio print for a piece of paper that will be withdrawn from circulation in less than a year?). So I guess having the rainbow spectrum of colors plastered there now qualifies as "artistic merit". Whatever float your boat, dudes. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-02, 13:57 in I have yet to have never seen it all.
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Dinosaur
Post: #59 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
Posted by DonJon Questions about meme money are ALWAYS relevant, and better than politics (even if the answers DO involve politics by its very nature) :P First things first: here are the design specs for the "colorful" note. About the monkey: that's a brown spider monkey, which is a endangered species (no wonder why I have never seen one... but then I live at the southeast of the country!). I guess its feet are like that. Don't get confused with the crease at the bottom of the note, which is product of the slightly wider than usual security thread. In other unrelated news, here is your daily pile of Node.js fail: https://it.slashdot.org/story/18/12/01/2217231/nodejs-event-stream-hack-reveals-open-source-developer-infrastructure-exploit Why, oh why we still let kids play with webpage scripting languages!? Hell, even Visual Basic was far superior to this nonsense, despite being a subpar language only useful for hobby projects and terrible LoB systems. And yes, I loved Visual Basic 6.0. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
| tomman |
Posted on 18-12-03, 12:46 in Internet numbers bragging thread
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Dinosaur
Post: #60 of 1285 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 17 days Last view: 21 hours |
 Bragging about CANTV is like bragging about your Lada or your Trabant. It's a weird fetish of sorts. Licensed Pirate® since 2006, 100% Buttcoin™-free, enemy of All Things JavaScript™ |
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