Author Topic: What did people give you for Christmas? (Read 10632 times)

microsoft windows · « **on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 08:55:04 »

The title says it pretty well. What did people give you today for Christmas?

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #1 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 09:03:02 »

I don't know yet, but I hope it has "IBM" on it.

nmd · « **Reply #2 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 09:04:12 »

Clothes, clothes, clothes, some tiny bottles of Jim Beam, more clothes and movie tickets.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #3 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 09:17:30 »

Jim Bean? Beans come in cans.

nmd · « **Reply #4 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 09:20:28 »

Oops, meant Jim Beam. Obvious I don't drink that much?

keyboardlover · « **Reply #5 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 10:22:29 »

Seeing my sister laughing and joking and acting like her old self in the hospital. That was the best Christmas present I've ever received.

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #6 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 10:39:01 »

Quote from: ripster;268654

EIBM gave me a facepalm.

Nah, I didn't give you anything for christmas, not even a facepalm.

iMav · « **Reply #7 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 10:55:18 »

Quote from: nmd;268646

Clothes, clothes, clothes, some tiny bottles of Jim Beam, more clothes and movie tickets.

If you were my daughter, I'd give you oversized sweaters. I'm just sayin'...

Quote from: EverythingIBM;268689

Nah, I didn't give you anything for christmas, not even a facepalm.

He just gave ME one too!

nmd · « **Reply #8 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 10:58:54 »

Quote from: iMav;268695

If you were my daughter, I'd give you oversized sweaters. I'm just sayin'...

Ew, don't like baggy clothes.

ch_123 · « **Reply #9 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:05:49 »

Got some books and Starcraft 1 between various friends. My parents got me a Leatherman. I got myself a NIB Mac Mini G4, which I picked up for 40 euro.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #10 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:06:55 »

How slow is the Mac Mini?

ch_123 · « **Reply #11 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:12:38 »

A lot less slower since I put a gig of RAM in it.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #12 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:14:08 »

But how bad's the processor? The G4's were pretty lousy. But the 1Ghz ones were better than the 400Mhz ones.

clickclack · « **Reply #13 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:14:09 »

I don't know yet...

but...

Quote from: iMav;268695

If you were my daughter, I'd give you oversized sweaters. I'm just sayin'...
...

This ^ was my X-mas morning LoL!

ch_123 · « **Reply #14 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:27:01 »

Quote from: microsoft windows;268708

But how bad's the processor? The G4's were pretty lousy. But the 1Ghz ones were better than the 400Mhz ones.

It's a 1.5GHz one. About as quick as a 2GHz Pentium 4, meaning that it's sufficiently usable for most things.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #15 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 11:36:08 »

How much cache does it have? One of my laptop's got a Pentium 4 or M (I'll have to take a look) that's 1.4Ghz with 2MB of cache. It runs quite fast.

I know that many of the G4's I've worked with have 1MB of cache, but I'm not sure about some of the later ones.

ch_123 · « **Reply #16 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:05:02 »

512KB according to the system specs.

Again, cache numbers don't mean a huge lot without taking the rest of CPU design into context. My old 2.4GHz Athlon 64 with 512KB of cache could take on a 3.6GHz or 3.8GHz P4 with 2MB cache.

Ekaros · « **Reply #17 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:15:20 »

Some books, some sushi kit and for the tech-savy Shure SRH440 head-phones...

chuckading · « **Reply #18 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:28:17 »

Quote from: Ekaros;268719

Some books, some sushi kit and for the tech-savy Shure SRH440 head-phones...

Nice head-phones, you can use those to listen to Little Orphan Annie's secret message tonight on the radio.

guilleguillaume · « **Reply #19 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:41:16 »

The main gift I received from my aunt and my grandparents are a pair of Headphones: Sennheiser HD-25 1 II Adidas Originals

I have a pair of HD 595 too and I like both but I needed closed headphones, I'm liking it but I have no time to enjoy them this weekend since I work this 2 nights.

I received a Box with a window to put there all my watches too. I will make pictures when possible.

Here it's 20:35!

Computer-Lab in Basement · « **Reply #20 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 12:56:04 »

Quote from: nmd;268696

Ew, don't like baggy clothes.

We can tell from your avatar...

guilleguillaume · « **Reply #21 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 13:14:54 »

Quote from: ripster;268735

HD595's FTW!

My bedroom setup.

Ripster is the Logitech similar to this one?:
http://www.pixmania.com/es/es/6801336/art/creative/tarjeta-de-sonido-sound-b.html

I didn't find any real opinion about that and I will appreciate some advice about it.

If not which AMp and what Logitech product it's that?

I'm thinking about using my HD 595 at the Living Room for music only and use the HD-25 1 II for PC.

ch_123 · « **Reply #22 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 13:17:43 »

I want to know what the OP got for Christmas.

NAVIWORLDINC · « **Reply #23 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 13:30:54 »

Quote from: ripster;268735

HD595's FTW!

Glad you are happy with them, I didn't like them so much after I tested them out...

Anyway, this is what I got...
CR-48 (from Santa @Google)
All else from Regular Santa:
Rosewill RK-9000
Set of Snow Tires and Rims from NTB, Santa even remembered to pre-pay for them to be mounted and balanced. ^_^
Tickets to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra (Tomorrow)
Since I left you (cd)
Plastic Beach (cd)
the moon and antartica (LP)
Two sweaters
Pair of jeans, pair of slacks both black
A few collared shirts
Tabasco sleepwear
a dark green robe (olive?)
box of lemonheads (Candy).

ktkr · « **Reply #24 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 13:35:27 »

Cash. Much more useful than some useless **** I'd never use.

ricercar · « **Reply #25 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 14:10:02 »

A bunch of coal and 16-year Lagavulin single malt. I was very bad this year.

msiegel · « **Reply #26 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 14:34:37 »

Quote from: ricercar;268761

Lagavulin single malt

that's filtered through coal, isn't it?

clickclack · « **Reply #27 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 15:00:44 »

Just found out what I got!
Mooooooola

(we're not a very creative bunch)

db_Iodine · « **Reply #28 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 17:06:00 »

Mostly clothes, some chocolate, and a LG BD570 Blu-ray player.

microsoft windows · « **Reply #29 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 17:13:30 »

Got any discs to play on it?

J888www · « **Reply #30 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 17:43:16 »

I received a big surprise for Xmas......................................and the surprise was "nothing".
What I got for Xmas was a big "headache".
If I ever see Father Xmas, I will.......

Nah, seriously now, I got these two items while I was searching for a keyboard.

MG P-Rocket Cree XP-G R5 Neutral White.

and a Ultrfire SS C3 Cree Q5

.....and Yes, I have now learned to purchase my own pressies, so I will always like them.

I had wanted a McGizmo Haiku Titanium but was toooo afraid that pull that trigger in case I burn a finger Edit:- paw.

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #31 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 19:03:45 »

Okay, what did I get for christmas?

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Like over a hundred 3" floppy disks (including those containers with the semi-transparent brown plastic lids). A bunch of CD ROM drives, floppy drives, DVD drives, various cards... including a nice Creative AWE64 card. Gotta try that one out later, quite anxious actually. Never heard the AWE MIDI EMU canvas before.

Some manuals...

And a bottle of jagermeister...

Ekaros · « **Reply #32 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 19:32:55 »

Quote from: EverythingIBM;268873

Okay, what did I get for christmas?

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Like over a hundred 3" floppy disks (including those containers with the semi-transparent brown plastic lids). A bunch of CD ROM drives, floppy drives, DVD drives, various cards... including a nice Creative AWE64 card. Gotta try that one out later, quite anxious actually. Never heard the AWE MIDI EMU canvas before.

Some manuals...

And a bottle of jagermeister...

You sure some didn't mistake your apartment from garbage dump? I pretty much carried half of that stuff to recyle center or trash...

ch_123 · « **Reply #33 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 19:43:06 »

EIBM and Jagerbombs? I think this would be an amazing sight, one way or another...

Mr. Fish · « **Reply #34 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 20:15:19 »

I think the gift I have gotten the most use out of so far is a bag of chips and a can of Guinness.

But I really did like the floor lamp I got.

I also got a trip to the US, from my mother's parents, I can't wait to go!

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #35 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 21:29:10 »

Quote from: ch_123;268887

EIBM and Jagerbombs? I think this would be an amazing sight, one way or another...

My friends want to see me drunk so bad.

Actually, I probably look a lot different than what you and others think.

Not at all like this:

Sam · « **Reply #36 on:** Sat, 25 December 2010, 22:49:14 »

A Christmas cake is all I got.

db_Iodine · « **Reply #37 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 02:40:59 »

Quote from: microsoft windows;268838

Got any discs to play on it?

I did get Shutter Island and all Star Wars movies on the side. That'll get me started.

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #38 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 03:03:52 »

Okay, finally got around to taking a picture.

I got so many official microsoft disks now.

woody · « **Reply #39 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 04:22:02 »

These are 3.5", not 3" as you wrote.
3" are very odd and rare.

woody · « **Reply #40 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 04:24:11 »

Quote from: Sam;268926

A Christmas cake is all I got.

I had fine dishes, that's more than enough.

Ekaros · « **Reply #41 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 05:27:38 »

I think I throw some part of Win 95 3.5" instalation disc set away... One boring operation to get that one on comp...

nmd · « **Reply #42 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 05:35:48 »

Also ended up getting snow, /cry. I hate snow.

Quote from: EverythingIBM;268919

My friends want to see me drunk so bad.

Same, I dunno why. I get silly as hell.

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #43 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 06:38:58 »

Quote from: woody;268970

These are 3.5", not 3" as you wrote.
3" are very odd and rare.

Yes... I meant 3.5, I was too lazy to put the .5 because I thought people wouldn't make a FUSS about it and KNOW I was referring to 3.5.

Quote from: Ekaros;268976

I think I throw some part of Win 95 3.5" instalation disc set away... One boring operation to get that one on comp...

That's one set I don't have yet, I have like three sets of windows 3.1 installation floppies.

I find the stuff kind of fascinating, and, I enjoy having it around. I don't see a point of throwing it away. It's like a little bit of history. Plus I actually use them for driver disks. If you have old computers, it's imperative to have floppies around.

iMav · « **Reply #44 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 06:56:23 »

Quote from: EverythingIBM;268993

It's like a little bit of history. Plus I actually use them for driver disks. If you have old computers, it's imperative to have floppies around.

To me, keeping floppies around is like keeping 64MB USB sticks around. The technology is new enough that you can still buy it new, but the physical space it takes up in my office is not worth it due to the small amount of data storage.

3.5" floppies aren't old enough to be retro-cool.

ch_123 · « **Reply #45 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 07:19:04 »

Quote from: EverythingIBM;268993

Yes... I meant 3.5, I was too lazy to put the .5 because I thought people wouldn't make a FUSS about it and KNOW I was referring to 3.5.

You could have very easily been talking about any number of 3" floppy disk designs.

nmd · « **Reply #46 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 07:22:09 »

@ch_123

Ok, that's crazy. Never seen a 3" disk and didn't know Nintendo ever got involved in anything that had to do with floppies. Double awesome.

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #47 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 07:34:47 »

Quote from: ch_123;269009

You could have very easily been talking about any number of 3" floppy disk designs.

Show Image

Everyone well knew what I was referring to. If I was referring to 3.0" floppy disks, I would have made an effort to emphasize that fact.
And those are Roland disks, obviously my PC 300 doesn't have a 3.0" floppy drive.

Quote from: iMav;268999

To me, keeping floppies around is like keeping 64MB USB sticks around. The technology is new enough that you can still buy it new, but the physical space it takes up in my office is not worth it due to the small amount of data storage.

3.5" floppies aren't old enough to be retro-cool.

I use a 128 Verbatim jump drive for school work. Nothing wrong with that. A 64 MB stick is actually a lot of memory.

Generally buying 3" floppy disks is a pain. New ones are made cheaply anyhow, bit rot galore.
If you want to keep something, you'll do so. Space is never the issue, it's personal choice.

With that said I do have 5" floppy disks, low density ones too.
But I'm not trying to be retro-cool (all of this old computer stuff I just randomly inherited from various places: in fact, I only really bought my modern computer equipment, with the exception of my dear 6562).

kip69 · « **Reply #48 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 07:46:27 »

Quote from: EverythingIBM;268873

Okay, what did I get for christmas?

HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Like over a hundred 3" floppy disks (including those containers with the semi-transparent brown plastic lids). A bunch of CD ROM drives, floppy drives, DVD drives, various cards... including a nice Creative AWE64 card. Gotta try that one out later, quite anxious actually. Never heard the AWE MIDI EMU canvas before.

Some manuals...

And a bottle of jagermeister...

Get a shot of the Jim Beam from above poster, not quite full. Poor a stream of jagermeister right into the center of the shot = Black Hole. Deadly combo.

I got a reef hook. The cool one with one hand deploy action. Will use it on the very deadly hammer head shark dive I have coming up. Deadly due to currant and water conditions not the sharks.

EverythingIBM · « **Reply #49 on:** Sun, 26 December 2010, 08:01:40 »

Quote from: kip69;269023

Get a shot of the Jim Beam from above poster, not quite full. Poor a stream of jagermeister right into the center of the shot = Black Hole. Deadly combo.

I got a reef hook. The cool one with one hand deploy action. Will use it on the very deadly hammer head shark dive I have coming up. Deadly due to currant and water conditions not the sharks.

Dear family members were actually trying to make me drink some "Jim Beam".

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Author Topic: What did people give you for Christmas? (Read 10632 times)

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