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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 11:46:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   So I've got this fun luggable that I picked up this weekend.

   (sorry this is a very image heavy thread and I'm posting as I take it apart, so I'm going to skip image descriptions after this one)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 11:48:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

     in reply to

     And inside it has this card that I pulled out: A Winnov Videum 4x SDI.

     It's a capture card for SDI video.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 11:48:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     But check out this part. See how the fan cable goes into those cuts inside the PCB?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 11:49:43 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yeah...
     Rather than buy a fan with the correct length cable, they bought a fan with a cable that's too long, and then included a spot on the PCB to wrap it around.

     That's... impressively lazy!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 11:52:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Here's the inside.
     There's a PSU on the bottom left, a 2.5" hard drive on left, the full size motherboard on the back, and that tiny laptop DVD driver in the bottom-right, for some reason.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 11:55:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     And that top card. It's not a video card, it's a Winnov Videum RGB XPress!

     That's a capture card too.

     It doesn't capture DVI, though: it is supposed to have an octopus cable for each of those "DVI" ports.

     BTW you might look at this image and go "foone you're showing us the back of the card, flip it over so we can see the chips"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 11:55:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     NOPE! both sides are basically blank.
     They build this fucker like a sandwich, with the good bits on the inside.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 11:58:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I opened it anyway. The chips are mainly FPGAs and RAM, with a few other scattered about. I might come back and figure out what each of these are later.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:01:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     hard drive is a 500mb Seagate Momentus.

     and I think it may be dead.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:09:55 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Pulled the PSU. It's a Sparkle Power 480w PSU

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:13:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The DVD drive is a Sony DVD/CD rewriter, apparently. An AD-7740H

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:14:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     And we're mostly in!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:15:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     and really, what the fuck is this? Did you run out of the correctly sized fans that day?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:20:17 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm starting to worry that they custom-made this heatsink.
     This thing is very heavy. I don't have a scale nearby or I'd weigh it, but it's the kind of heavy YOU DON'T PUT IN PORTABLE COMPUTERS

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:23:52 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The bracket for the power supply (yes, really) hides another board:

     This DVI to LVDS board.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:33:05 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     They found low-profile RAM, because otherwise it'd run into the PSU

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:33:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     Their LVDS cables were too long (A problem NO ONE HAS EVER HAD BEFORE) so they just bundled them over here

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:36:09 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay, the (broken) display is an LG LP171WU6.

     That's a 17.1"(43cm) laptop display, 1920x1200, LED backlight.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:40:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     The bottom of the device says it came with Windows 7 Pro Embedded, and it was manufactured in March of 2012

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:41:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Lapsus

     @Lapsus I think you're right!

   • Lapsus (lapsus@mastodon.is-a.horse)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:41:07 JST Lapsus

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     @foone I'm reasonably sure that's an old Swiftech MCX478-V cooler, lol

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:41:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • yomimono? more like BAKEMONO 👻

     @yomimono yes!

   • yomimono? more like BAKEMONO 👻 (yomimono@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:41:37 JST yomimono? more like BAKEMONO 👻

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     @foone i’m sorry, is that heatsink just a bunch of headless screws forced into a hunk of copper? autocorrect thought I meant “heartsick”, which is appropriate

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:42:59 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     And let's get back to what this thing is:

     It's a FleXtreme NextDimension, that's what!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:45:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     That's these people:
     https://solutions.nextcomputing.com/

     Apparently they started as Sun workstation supplier for government and military customers, and later started doing high-performance luggables for a variety of markets, including video production. Thus, this thing.
     I can't find this model on their site, but they did a lot of custom things (and this thing is 12 years old: they might have just deleted it from their site )

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:50:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     hard drive is not dead! but annoyingly it's bigger than the spare hard drive I have in my imaging machine, so I can't just copy everything over

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:54:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay so I rapidly found out some info.

     This thing does have data on the hard drive. This used to be used by a church in the bay area, and it's one that boasts on their website that they livestream their services.

     I bet up until relatively recently they were using this machine to do that

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:58:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     relatively recently means "up until march 2020", judging by file dates.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 12:59:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I have their OBS config. I could make PIRATE CHURCH SERMONS!

     especially if they didn't rotate their stream key between now and 2020

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:01:54 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     uh. I think this thing might have been donated from someone who worked at NetApp, and didn't clear the hard drive.

     There's some files from 2016 that are Net App All Hands presentations.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:03:01 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     NetApp Confidential - Restricted Use

     YEAH ABOUT THAT: MAYBE DON'T LEAVE IT ON A HARD DRIVE IN THE GARBAGE

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:03:33 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     fun fact about this:
     in 2016 I was working for Pure Storage, one of NetApp's direct competitors

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:04:27 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I am an expert at industrial espionage but I take the slow route
     I just wait 8 years for your computers to get donated to a church and then thrown out, and then I pick them up and access your presentations that were foolishly left on the hard drive!

     It's the perfect crime!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:07:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     the machine runs IIS for some reason. I don't really feel like looking into what this does, but I think it's some weird SOAP thing

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:09:56 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     yeah this thing has 55 files in the Archive folder, and every one I've checked is an internal confidential NetApp presentation

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:11:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     they're not hiring for any security positions. I checked.

     Not surprised, really.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:15:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh hey there's another folder with another archive but this is the church's livestreams.

     I can pirate the Jesus!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:20:42 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Rot Maetrix

     @DotMaetrix sadly, you can't see the congregation

   • Rot Maetrix (dotmaetrix@chitter.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:20:43 JST Rot Maetrix

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     @foone Splice two recordings together, one with a large congregation and one with a small congregation. Convince viewers the rapture has happened.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:21:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Lewis Cowles

     @lewiscowles1986 a little bit of ASP code

   • Lewis Cowles (lewiscowles1986@phpc.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:21:12 JST Lewis Cowles

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     @foone
     Are they mad enough to have code on it?

     Like here is our proprietary...

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:21:40 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     gaze into the heatsink of insanity

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:24:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Lapsus

     so @Lapsus figured out what heatsink this is. It's an actual product that was sold, not their custom thing (though the fan mount IS custom, they made their own aluminum bracket for it)

     It's a Swiftech MCX478-V (or very similar, since that one is designed for a Pentium 4, and this is a Intel Core (non-duo)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:27:13 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     fun fact about this heatsink:
     They did not, in fact, drill the screw holes at an angle. That was too hard, so they drilled them vertically, and just bent the screws.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:29:37 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh god the church has a link to their sharepoint instance.

     I was a bit iffy when my local church introduced powerpoint in the early 2000s, I think this fancy produced video stuff is extra bad, but Sharepoint? That's one of the layers of hell! It's in the bible*!

     * it's not. I checked.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:31:46 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I WAS gonna email the church and tell them "hey I have 122 livestreams of yours from 2019 to 2020, do you want any of these back?" but no, now that I realize they are CORRUPTED BY THE WORLD I will simply erase all their lost data.

     You had one chance, Bay Area Fancy Church. You lost it when I saw "Sharepoint"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:34:30 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • 10,000 lb weighted blanket

     @violator I think you're right, it's just ribbed for her pleasure, not actually screws

   • 10,000 lb weighted blanket (violator@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:34:31 JST 10,000 lb weighted blanket

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     @foone are they screws proper? at least from one photo angle it looks like it's not a thread but just ridges.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:35:26 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     OKAY. Machine is torn all too pieces, it's dusty as hell, and the display is broken. The hard drive works (at the moment) but if I'm not putting this thing back together, I don't really need the contents for drivers and such. So I think I'm done here for today.

     Thank you for visiting my fun story of a luggable that was used by NetApp and a Specific Bay Area Church, and neither of them understood the risk of throwing away hard drives.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 13:36:14 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     if I ever become a security tech/researcher, which I hope never happens, 90% of what I'll be doing is yelling at organizations that COMPUTERS (AND OTHER THINGS) HAVE HARD DRIVES IN THEM! THEY STORE DATA! THEY KEEP STORING DATA EVEN AFTER YOU PUT THE COMPUTER INTO A TRASH CAN!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 14:13:36 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Paolo Redaelli

     @paoloredaelli PowerPoint for lyrics and announcements on the projector.

     No idea what they use sharepoint for, though

   • Paolo Redaelli (paoloredaelli@mastodon.uno)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 14:13:37 JST Paolo Redaelli

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     @foone
     For heaven's sake, for what do they use PowerPoint and SharePoint in a church?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 14:15:02 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Lewis Cowles

     @lewiscowles1986 whoops. Thanks for pointing out that typo

   • Lewis Cowles (lewiscowles1986@phpc.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 14:15:03 JST Lewis Cowles

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     @foone are you sure this is mb and not GB. Just asking because of multiple live-streams and 500mb not being very large.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 15:48:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Pxl Phile

     @ppxl it's too late, I'm already a pope

   • Pxl Phile (ppxl@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 15:48:50 JST Pxl Phile

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     @foone don't buy in that's how they got everyone. First with communist Jesus then hardcore religiofascists

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 18:42:07 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • groff

     @geoffl good lord

   • groff (geoffl@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 18:42:08 JST groff

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     @foone I bought an Osborne 1 luggage from ebay many years ago. There was a floppy disc in the drive. The computer had apparently been owned by a senior police officer working in south Wales. A text file on the floppy was headed "confidential informants" listed the names and contact details of multiple people, with notes. 😱

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 21:40:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Elton Carvalho

     @eltonfc used for at least a few hundred videos over 4-6 years, so... Doesn't look like it

   • Elton Carvalho (eltonfc@bertha.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 21:40:40 JST Elton Carvalho

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     @foone tell me this is a prototype, please

   • Brad Martin (bmartin427@techhub.social)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 13:59:45 JST Brad Martin

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     @foone I think those are not actually screws? Are the 'threads' actually a spiral, or just circular ribs?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 24-Oct-2024 13:59:45 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Brad Martin

     @bmartin427 I'm not certain, but they might just be ribs