Why did you start smoking?

I started smoking at 14. It was the USSR then (the picture shows the cigarettes I smoked in the USSR). The tobacco was of good quality, even from Bulgaria. A pack of cigarettes was inexpensive - 40 kopecks (you could return 2 empty beer bottles and buy a pack of cigarettes). I smoked 3-4 a day. Then, in the 90s, cigarettes disappeared (crisis). I entered the university. Then they started bringing in contraband: cigarettes from Turkey, Eastern Europe, Moldova, Romania, etc. We smoked them too. There was a lot of algae. Then everything got better. They started bringing more or less normal cigarettes to Ukraine. My favorite cigarettes were the "West" from the DDR. And after another 7-8 years, cigarettes went up in price, and I quit. But I liked smoking. It somehow calmed me down. Now I don’t smoke at 50.
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USerID said:
I started smoking at 14. It was the USSR then (the picture shows the cigarettes I smoked in the USSR). The tobacco was of good quality, even from Bulgaria. A pack of cigarettes was inexpensive - 40 kopecks (you could return 2 empty beer bottles and buy a pack of cigarettes). I smoked 3-4 a day. Then, in the 90s, cigarettes disappeared (crisis). I entered the university. Then they started bringing in contraband: cigarettes from Turkey, Eastern Europe, Moldova, Romania, etc. We smoked them too. There was a lot of algae. Then everything got better. They started bringing more or less normal cigarettes to Ukraine. My favorite cigarettes were the "West" from the DDR. And after another 7-8 years, cigarettes went up in price, and I quit. But I liked smoking. It somehow calmed me down. Now I don’t smoke at 50.
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You missed Belomorkanal:
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It started shortly after I started using X, and only once. I had set the wrong parameters in xorg.conf, and poof. I had let the smoke out of the monitor. That certainly was not a good day.
 
cy@ said:
It started shortly after I started using X, and only once. I had set the wrong parameters in xorg.conf, and poof. I had let the smoke out of the monitor. That certainly was not a good day.
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Did Musk make you smoke, or MIT's project? ?
 
astyle said:
You missed Belomorkanal:
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These were the hardest cigarettes. They smoked these too. They said that the most hellish cigarettes were "SHAKHTÈRSKIE" (worker with a jackhammer). When the nicotine famine came, we even smoked cigarette butts - we collected them on the streets... yes, yes, there was a severe commodity crisis. But the most hellish imported cigarettes were Bursa and Truva, which I smoked.
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SirDice said:
Forgot to add Option "NoSmoke" on to the Monitor or ServerFlags section?
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I think that's for any electronics.

A coworker of mine at the time had mounted a burnt out IC chip in a picture frame on his office wall. It was a blackened chip with a tiny hole in its centre. I was told he had sent the wrong sequence of commands to it resulting in letting out the smoke from the chip.

The lesson is, once you let the smoke out of the chip it's no good anymore. The magic smoke in our computer chips is in them for a reason.
 
cy@ said:
It started shortly after I started using X, and only once. I had set the wrong parameters in xorg.conf, and poof. I had let the smoke out of the monitor. That certainly was not a good day.
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That's wild! I would have expected the monitor itself to deny the settings if they were coming over the port with out-of-range values (hopefully below the point of failure), but maybe I just take that for granted with LCDs/modern stuff :p

I have a 60Hz HDMI screen and toss on generated modelines for 75Hz most of the time; the most my monitor did when I tried like 80Hz was say input not supported (luckily :p)

Code: 
Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "HDMI-1"
    Modeline "1920x1080_75.00"  167.85  1920 1928 1960 2000  1080 1105 1113 1119 +hsync -vsync
    Modeline "1280x720_75.00"   95.75  1280 1360 1488 1696  720 723 728 755 -hsync +vsync
    Modeline "1024x768_75.00"   82.00  1024 1088 1192 1360  768 771 775 805 -hsync +vsync
    Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080_75.00"
EndSection

astyle said:
Switch to Wayland, then? ;)
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Heh, can still do it there too (at least on Linux with something like video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@80, but not sure what safety-checks might be involved before it's pushed to the screen)
 
Espionage724 said:
That's wild! I would have expected the monitor itself to deny the settings if they were coming over the port with out-of-range values (hopefully below the point of failure), but maybe I just take that for granted with LCDs/modern stuff :p
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Monitors today do have safeguards but that monitor did not. It was an old CRT monitor I had used on MS-DOS, OS/2. I bought it in the mid 1980s.

Espionage724 said:
I have a 60Hz HDMI screen and toss on generated modelines for 75Hz most of the time; the most my monitor did when I tried like 80Hz was say input not supported (luckily :p)

Code: 
Section "Monitor"
    Identifier "HDMI-1"
    Modeline "1920x1080_75.00"  167.85  1920 1928 1960 2000  1080 1105 1113 1119 +hsync -vsync
    Modeline "1280x720_75.00"   95.75  1280 1360 1488 1696  720 723 728 755 -hsync +vsync
    Modeline "1024x768_75.00"   82.00  1024 1088 1192 1360  768 771 775 805 -hsync +vsync
    Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1080_75.00"
EndSection


Heh, can still do it there too (at least on Linux with something like video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@80, but not sure what safety-checks might be involved before it's pushed to the screen)
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Yeah. Today's monitors are pretty solid.
 
I used to vape and smoke when I was 11, because of peer pressure, but my anxiety was too high for all of that ? and I soon stopped after 3 cigarettes and a few hits of a vape. I know not to do that now, and,peer pressure is a b!tch, I will say
 
cy@ said:
A coworker of mine at the time had mounted a burnt out IC chip in a picture frame on his office wall.
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Only electronics people get a special kick out of these.

Years ago, one of my co-worker EEs designed a board, put all the components on, but one of the tantalum capacitors in backwards. Powered it up and the capacitor popped its top with a little flame like a candle. He went around the room excitedly, "Hey, guys! Look at this!"
 
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