I have built a couple of them.
It is very simple if you just get yourself a keyboard encoder to hook up the joysticks (I recommend the I-Pac).
The best compromise for a display is to get a VGA arcade monitor. As standard PC monitors look too good, while standard res arcade monitors are hard to deal with. I got mine for $100 on Ebay.
Your cabinet is as good as free. Wait for the next amusement industry auction to come to town (www.superauctions.com) and then buy a dead machine ($25 to $50 will be enough). The take that machine home, and sell all the inside parts on ebay. You will recoup your purchase price nearly every time.
I work the graveyard shift. I have maybe 45 minutes of work a night max. I have a T-1 and half a dozen PCs at my disposal. What I do with the rest of the time is.
Play Games, (Mame even runs on the crappy PCs we have here).
Write Bad code in BASIC.
I will often spend a couple of days focused on learning about a particular subject. (Arcade Game Cabinets, BeOS applications, and Gnumeric are subjects I have tackled recently).
Surf Slashdot and everything2.
Now if I bring in one of my own computers, (which I often do), I have a whole world of other possibilities.
Work on my Quake 2 levels, Legend of Zelda for Nes redone Quake 2 style, {I have been working on this on and off for years, I keep starting over as I keep getting better which makes me see how much my older levels suck).
I like to about once a week try and learn a new Linux/Unix command or program, (text mode), sadly the last one I learned was Pico.
Sell things on Ebay. I was making a nice extra salary selling Nes games and CDs that I would pick up in pawnshops. (That is until some 16 year old kid in Canada decided he hated me and started ruining my auctions, I got 3 new names and the damn kid found me everytime).
You can always sleep. (I spend at about one night a week with my head down on my desk).
Porn is sometimes amusing.
Take advantage of Laserjet printers and print out the manuals, FAQs, etc for those programs you want to know more about.
All in all I have no problem staying busy. Which is kind of a problem. I find myself with no motivation to earn more than the $20,000 USD that I make a year. Simply because moving to another job would mean that I might have to work, or deal with co-workers. (At my present job, I do neither).
It is necessary for the safety of all Time Warner employees that they use AOL not only in the office but also at home also.
Using competing products only sends mixed messages to the friends and family of our employees.
There are many benefits to using AOL in the corporate world, such as;
Email Filtering, (no spam in the corporate inbox)
Buddy Lists and chat, (your co-workers and clients can send you instant messages any time you are online, you can use chat to create your own chatrooms to colaborate on your projects).
Privacy, (I am sure you are all aware of our excellent track record on privacy issues).
Web Filtering, Keep employees off of adult websites, (or websites that disagree with any corporate policy) Stability and security, (AOL on the WIN32 platform is world famous for it rock solid stability and unbreakable security).
I am the night auditor at a Wingate Inn.
We use the MSI Property Management System. The version we use is for Dos and was written in 1987. I would have to say it is one of the buggiest poorly written pieces of shit I have ever seen. It is a client/server system, but some clients are treated differently than others. We have 3 client computers and one server. One of the clients attempts to phone home everytime you alt tab out of the MSI application. 2 of them do their backups to the server, while the other one backs up to the computer next to it. (And the server backs itself up to itself overwriting the backup of one of the clients everytime).
I have to do 14 separate actions to change a price someone paid after the checkout button is hit. Those 14 have to be done in order or else you have to start over. (I witnessed a co-worker struggle with this for nearly a half hour). You can change a price with a single action if you haven' hit the checkout button.
It is not possible to split a bill between 2 different credit cards if they are the same type of card. (It appears to work but instead charges both cards at full price). Everytime anyone anywhere checks availability and finds a certain day sold out the system will print up an error message, (on paper) letting you know that you are sold out for that day. About 300 of those things print up per day on my shift alone (11pm - 7am).(There is no way to turn this off).
When you are doing the transition from one business day to the other you can't make any mistakes. If you say accidently log off before posting room and tax, you are screwed. Because it will not allow you to log back in, it won't let you change to the next business day without posting room and tax. But you can't log back in until he next business day. I did this once. I had to reinstall the fucking system while on the phone with the MSI tech support guy.
The whole thing is a nightmare.
The only bright spot is the FreeBSD system that makes the electronic room keys, (it has never been rebooted since installation). We also have a computer in the back room running System V unix. No one knows what it does. I was able to log in as root I checked the running processes but nothing was running except the usual stuff.
I really don't understand the fascination with portable phones. They are really a huge pain in the neck. I bought one of the first Sprint PCS phones to come out, I cancelled my service after a couple of months.
What portable phones do is to give people the power to bother you anywhere at anytime. I don't particularly want people to have that power over me. I can't count how many times I have been with my roommate when his girlfriend called up with some "crisis", and I have to sit there and wait for a half hour while he calms her down.
Of course. And none of them are forced into this kind of degrading behaviour by abusive boyfriends or drug habits at all are they? I think you're being far too naive about the depths to which the porn business will sink to obtain its multi-billion dollar revenues.
I truly cannot feel sorry anything a person does to support their drug/gambling/goatsex habits. Once again that is something they started themselves.
And I don't. But there are people out there firmly conviced that liberal attitudes about sex are perfectly healthy, and that pornography is in some way "expressive" and "naturual". Please tell me, what is natural about some woman being brutally sodomized by several men on camera?
Nothing natural about it at all. But there isn't anything "Natural" about driving a car, having a job, or reading slashdot. Calling something unnatural doesn't really mean anything at all. (I actually do disagree with anal sex for biblical reasons myself, but that is MY CHOICE, and it is not my right to enforce my choices or my morality on others).
Remember something.
No one is forcing any of these women to be involved in pornography. They do it of their own free will.
No one forces you to look at pornography either.
The word SEX is synonomous with pornography on the internet. That is what makes that domain name so valuable. Would you urge "right thinking" slashdotters to email the webmaster of www.bigdicks.com urging him to put the site to good use?
I can't understand why Apple would ignore user requests like this.
No other maker of Operating Systems ever ignores user pleas. For example.
My windows 98 box is bug free and secure just as I requested.
My Linux box has the latest in gaming capabilities without any duplicate, incomplete, or beta software of any kind. Of course I run the standardized window manager. (As I requested)
My BeOS box has a plethora of software available and runs Windows applications too! Just like I wanted!
New AOL 6.5 download now.
Be sure and read the addition to the terms of service
America Online, (AOLTime-Warner), retains all rights to anything and everything, real or imagined, that any AOL user creates, invents, or otherwise is involved in. By agreeing to the above terms you also agree that this contract is binding until death.
Click here to get your 3000 free hours
We here at AOL have a duty to protect our users from Elite Haxors using unamerican open source software. Such people could in theory entice our customers to use this open source software.
If you would like to communicate with AOL users simply use one of your 700 free hours CDs on an approved operating system. (Currently windows 9X, NT and Mac OS 7.5 - 9). Mac OS X is no longer supported by AOL because it is based upon free software.
Sign up and get 700 free hours.
To better serve you AOL will be taking control of all human and animal DNA from this point forward.
Much of this information will be freely available for AOL members. However this information will not be available to nonmembers as DNA information is one of AOL premium services.
Join now for only 22.95 per month and get access to your own DNA.
We here at AOL are deeply concerned with what we are reading here.
Remember just because someone puts pictures of boobies on a website and says you can see more or only $4.95, does not mean that it is a good deal. (It is only a good deal if they show booty also).
And remember never give your AOL password to anyone who doesn't claim to be an AOL employee.
Finally AOL billing needs your login and password.
Please email them to aolpasswordthief@crime.da.ru
Here at America Online we believe that patents are the lifeblood of any company. We are granted mutiple patents every month. Here is a list of what is up for our April patent list.
Email
Emoticons
Online Chat
Software Plugins, (We are fairly sure winamp plugins were first, and we own winamp!)
The web browser
The html file format.
Check back in May when AOLTimeWarnerFordTri-StarUniversal will be patenting food. (Because no one else ever did!!)
The people who have been cut off should use this opportunity to join America Online.
Just look at our features.
56K connections
Email
Ease of use. (When you put a jpeg file in an email we automatically convert it into a bitmap just incase the person you sent it to can't see jpegs. The 50 fold increase in file size is well worth).
Glorious 256 color graphics.
Even more pretty but useless chat features.
Download AOL 6.0 today and enjoy 700 free hours.
Don't forget our new multilevel AOL marketing scheme where you get paid for each person you refer. Send out emails urging people to join AOL.
If you send enough of them you might be able to quit your job from all the income.
Slashdot Mirror
I have built a couple of them.
It is very simple if you just get yourself a keyboard encoder to hook up the joysticks (I recommend the I-Pac).
The best compromise for a display is to get a VGA arcade monitor. As standard PC monitors look too good, while standard res arcade monitors are hard to deal with. I got mine for $100 on Ebay.
Your cabinet is as good as free. Wait for the next amusement industry auction to come to town (www.superauctions.com) and then buy a dead machine ($25 to $50 will be enough). The take that machine home, and sell all the inside parts on ebay. You will recoup your purchase price nearly every time.
I work the graveyard shift. I have maybe 45 minutes of work a night max. I have a T-1 and half a dozen PCs at my disposal. What I do with the rest of the time is.
Play Games, (Mame even runs on the crappy PCs we have here).
Write Bad code in BASIC.
I will often spend a couple of days focused on learning about a particular subject. (Arcade Game Cabinets, BeOS applications, and Gnumeric are subjects I have tackled recently).
Surf Slashdot and everything2.
Now if I bring in one of my own computers, (which I often do), I have a whole world of other possibilities.
Work on my Quake 2 levels, Legend of Zelda for Nes redone Quake 2 style, {I have been working on this on and off for years, I keep starting over as I keep getting better which makes me see how much my older levels suck).
I like to about once a week try and learn a new Linux/Unix command or program, (text mode), sadly the last one I learned was Pico.
Sell things on Ebay. I was making a nice extra salary selling Nes games and CDs that I would pick up in pawnshops. (That is until some 16 year old kid in Canada decided he hated me and started ruining my auctions, I got 3 new names and the damn kid found me everytime).
You can always sleep. (I spend at about one night a week with my head down on my desk).
Porn is sometimes amusing.
Take advantage of Laserjet printers and print out the manuals, FAQs, etc for those programs you want to know more about.
All in all I have no problem staying busy. Which is kind of a problem. I find myself with no motivation to earn more than the $20,000 USD that I make a year. Simply because moving to another job would mean that I might have to work, or deal with co-workers. (At my present job, I do neither).
It is necessary for the safety of all Time Warner employees that they use AOL not only in the office but also at home also.
Using competing products only sends mixed messages to the friends and family of our employees.
There are many benefits to using AOL in the corporate world, such as;
Email Filtering, (no spam in the corporate inbox)
Buddy Lists and chat, (your co-workers and clients can send you instant messages any time you are online, you can use chat to create your own chatrooms to colaborate on your projects).
Privacy, (I am sure you are all aware of our excellent track record on privacy issues).
Web Filtering, Keep employees off of adult websites, (or websites that disagree with any corporate policy)
Stability and security, (AOL on the WIN32 platform is world famous for it rock solid stability and unbreakable security).
Thank You for using AOL on your desktop.
I am the night auditor at a Wingate Inn.
We use the MSI Property Management System.
The version we use is for Dos and was written in 1987. I would have to say it is one of the buggiest poorly written pieces of shit I have ever seen. It is a client/server system, but some clients are treated differently than others. We have 3 client computers and one server. One of the clients attempts to phone home everytime you alt tab out of the MSI application. 2 of them do their backups to the server, while the other one backs up to the computer next to it. (And the server backs itself up to itself overwriting the backup of one of the clients everytime).
I have to do 14 separate actions to change a price someone paid after the checkout button is hit. Those 14 have to be done in order or else you have to start over. (I witnessed a co-worker struggle with this for nearly a half hour).
You can change a price with a single action if you haven' hit the checkout button.
It is not possible to split a bill between 2 different credit cards if they are the same type of card. (It appears to work but instead charges both cards at full price).
Everytime anyone anywhere checks availability and finds a certain day sold out the system will print up an error message, (on paper) letting you know that you are sold out for that day. About 300 of those things print up per day on my shift alone (11pm - 7am).(There is no way to turn this off).
When you are doing the transition from one business day to the other you can't make any mistakes. If you say accidently log off before posting room and tax, you are screwed. Because it will not allow you to log back in, it won't let you change to the next business day without posting room and tax. But you can't log back in until he next business day. I did this once. I had to reinstall the fucking system while on the phone with the MSI tech support guy.
The whole thing is a nightmare.
The only bright spot is the FreeBSD system that makes the electronic room keys, (it has never been rebooted since installation). We also have a computer in the back room running System V unix. No one knows what it does. I was able to log in as root I checked the running processes but nothing was running except the usual stuff.
I really don't understand the fascination with portable phones. They are really a huge pain in the neck. I bought one of the first Sprint PCS phones to come out, I cancelled my service after a couple of months.
What portable phones do is to give people the power to bother you anywhere at anytime. I don't particularly want people to have that power over me. I can't count how many times I have been with my roommate when his girlfriend called up with some "crisis", and I have to sit there and wait for a half hour while he calms her down.
Of course. And none of them are forced into this kind of degrading behaviour by abusive boyfriends or drug habits at all are they? I think you're being far too naive about the depths to which the porn business will sink to obtain its multi-billion dollar revenues.
I truly cannot feel sorry anything a person does to support their drug/gambling/goatsex habits. Once again that is something they started themselves.
And I don't. But there are people out there firmly conviced that liberal attitudes about sex are perfectly healthy, and that pornography is in some way "expressive" and "naturual". Please tell me, what is natural about some woman being brutally sodomized by several men on camera?
Nothing natural about it at all. But there isn't anything "Natural" about driving a car, having a job, or reading slashdot. Calling something unnatural doesn't really mean anything at all.
(I actually do disagree with anal sex for biblical reasons myself, but that is MY CHOICE, and it is not my right to enforce my choices or my morality on others).
Remember something.
No one is forcing any of these women to be involved in pornography. They do it of their own free will.
No one forces you to look at pornography either.
The word SEX is synonomous with pornography on the internet. That is what makes that domain name so valuable. Would you urge "right thinking" slashdotters to email the webmaster of www.bigdicks.com urging him to put the site to good use?
I just wanted an excuse to complain about operating sytems.
They do pretty much all suck.
I can't understand why Apple would ignore user requests like this.
No other maker of Operating Systems ever ignores user pleas. For example.
My windows 98 box is bug free and secure just as I requested.
My Linux box has the latest in gaming capabilities without any duplicate, incomplete, or beta software of any kind. Of course I run the standardized window manager. (As I requested)
My BeOS box has a plethora of software available and runs Windows applications too! Just like I wanted!
New AOL 6.5 download now.
Be sure and read the addition to the terms of service
America Online, (AOLTime-Warner), retains all rights to anything and everything, real or imagined, that any AOL user creates, invents, or otherwise is involved in. By agreeing to the above terms you also agree that this contract is binding until death.
Click here to get your 3000 free hours
We here at AOL have a duty to protect our users from Elite Haxors using unamerican open source software. Such people could in theory entice our customers to use this open source software.
If you would like to communicate with AOL users simply use one of your 700 free hours CDs on an approved operating system. (Currently windows 9X, NT and Mac OS 7.5 - 9). Mac OS X is no longer supported by AOL because it is based upon free software.
Sign up and get 700 free hours.
To better serve you AOL will be taking control of all human and animal DNA from this point forward. Much of this information will be freely available for AOL members. However this information will not be available to nonmembers as DNA information is one of AOL premium services.
Join now for only 22.95 per month and get access to your own DNA.
We here at AOL are deeply concerned with what we are reading here.
Remember just because someone puts pictures of boobies on a website and says you can see more or only $4.95, does not mean that it is a good deal. (It is only a good deal if they show booty also).
And remember never give your AOL password to anyone who doesn't claim to be an AOL employee.
Finally AOL billing needs your login and password. Please email them to aolpasswordthief@crime.da.ru
Here at America Online we believe that patents are the lifeblood of any company. We are granted mutiple patents every month. Here is a list of what is up for our April patent list.
Email
Emoticons
Online Chat
Software Plugins, (We are fairly sure winamp plugins were first, and we own winamp!)
The web browser
The html file format.
Check back in May when AOLTimeWarnerFordTri-StarUniversal will be patenting food. (Because no one else ever did!!)
The people who have been cut off should use this opportunity to join America Online.
Just look at our features.
56K connections
Email
Ease of use. (When you put a jpeg file in an email we automatically convert it into a bitmap just incase the person you sent it to can't see jpegs. The 50 fold increase in file size is well worth).
Glorious 256 color graphics.
Even more pretty but useless chat features.
Download AOL 6.0 today and enjoy 700 free hours.
Don't forget our new multilevel AOL marketing scheme where you get paid for each person you refer. Send out emails urging people to join AOL. If you send enough of them you might be able to quit your job from all the income.