Resolving IRQ conflicts on ISA devices
Somewhat relatedly, I still have the MSDN Windows 2000 license key memorized.
Needless to say, I have not had to install Windows 2000 on anything for quite some time.
Cool, I had a Win98 one memorized for years but it’s gone now.
And of course there’s…
95 is easy, you can use all zeroes or all ones and it would pass the algorithm check and let you install. There was no online check requirement, unlike XP.
98 you could do 12345-12345-12345-12345-12345 or some similar variant as I recall, so I never bothered knowing an “actual” key for those.
XP and above could be trivially bypassed with software, so the whole thing was moot after that. Silly technology.
Lol : )
How many simultaneous ISA devices are we talking here?
Are you also adept in SCSI-fu?
I can vomit on command at most times without sticking a finger down my throat etc. I feel like that scientifically inaccurate dinosaur from the original Jurassic Park.
Sex.
I use it once every fifteen years.
I’m top notch at oral and love to do it, but I married a woman who doesn’t like it ten years ago. So much waste.
At first I was stunned, but then I realized I’ve had my dick sucked so much I don’t care for it as much as actually fucking. I did not know that about myself.
Congrats
walking into a room and forgetting why I entered
I use that skill every single day
I am reasonably acrobatic. I only get to use it when people are drunk and get the sudden urge to watch someone do a backflip.
Much lower level, but I’m over 50 and can do a great cartwheel. Was at a concert and these little kids were sitting in a line, one by one doing a cartwheel, I came and joined their line and when my turn came did the cartwheel they were just delighted, it was so cute.
Not otherwise acrobatic, a one trick pony. But it has very occasionally been a good trick.
Yeah, kids losing their mind (in a good way) is quite wholesome.
I’m very good at remembering people’s birthdays. I stopped “using” it cause I think it creeps people out a bit, but at least with people I like it’s always nice to remember to congratulate them without relying on social media.
I’m shit with names though.
I know kung fu (wing chun). I am however years out of practice, and also glad its not something i use very often.
Back in the 80s I knew Wang Chung.
I know how to do home canning, and making sure it’s safe. I just don’t get to do it often because it’s energy intensive on the me so it’s something I do about twice a year.
Unscrambling mixed-up words. I can usually do 5-letter ones on sight, 6-letters might take a minute, or at least a few seconds. Recently while watching Young Sheldon I was surprised to see a closeup of a Jumble that Meemaw was working on - which I’m still not sure was real because one of the words was POINT, which can also be PINTO. The Jumble people are usually careful to avoid words with multiple solutions, because certain letters in each word become the source for a longer final jumble, so having them unambiguously in the correct positions matters.
I haven’t flown a plane in years.
What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
I am able to recite toy commercials and obscure TV theme songs from 90s kids shows with surprising accuracy, many decades past consuming them - Crossfire, Creepy Crawlers, James Bond Jr. Denver the Last Dinosaur… I’m your guy. I don’t watch these things deliberately to learn them and haven’t seen them since organically seeing during childhood, they just start playing in my head on the smallest triggers, music and lyrics, verbatim.
This is what the inside of my head is like, all the time
I remember about 80% you tell me about you (if I’m listening) I won’t tell you what I know about you in order to not creep you out.
I can hear high frequencies that supposedly only kids and teens still can. The most recent time it was ‘useful’ was (spoilers) a magic show in Vegas a few years ago.
Otherwise my hearing is terrible.
Do you hear bats?
I don’t think I could hear bats as a kid. I also didn’t see bats often but when I did I didn’t hear them
No, I have a pretty normal human range, just for a much younger human than I am.
(if it’s super loud I could reach 22khz, but that was a few years ago that I checked it)
Ability to kill 7 different ways with a fruit loop
