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*Whew!* Considering our general age-range here (5-year old moderators not-withstanding), I first was worried that you were going to have to have surgery Glyn! ? I wonder how many routings and effects we use only because we think we should even when we don't hear any difference! ?

FWIW - Always remember that most of those extra cores and extra RAM might not be needed or used NOW but, as always happens, programmers will advance their stuff and, then, you'll need it! ?

Nope! Not going to do it. Someone else can post Sister Sledge, but not me! ? Instead, I'm going down THIS rabbit hole! ?

He definitely looks like he's nailed a few mixes! ? The question is, what kind? Poodle/Schnauzer? Dachshund/Pitbull??? ?

Yes. They were ready. Ready to be powerless and waterless. ?

Ironically, the original Hollywood IS in Portland!

Now you can actually create a virtual machine from most PC's then install one of those old operating systems and play those games from that. ?

I mean, c'mon! This was the morning sunrise I used to see from the deck outside my bedroom!

I love this area, but too many of the people are bat-guano crazy! Things have gone downhill a lot since I first moved up here in 2003... I, along with a few friends, have been researching areas in the Pacific Northwest to move to that have the parts we like, but without the lunatics (and their excessive trash, illegal drugs, crime and graffiti). Right now, Sandpoint Idaho is looking really good, plus I've recently found out that there are friends of friends already living there that are completely willing to help answer any questions I have! If I move, it would be my first home not on the Left Coast (Kalifornia, AreWeGone? & Washington).

Definitely! Some of those simple 2D, one screen games were awesome! Crystal Caves, Commander Keen, Joust, all the Mario and similar types... On the flip-side, I eventually want to get into VR game development, but with Myst-like games. Immersive with puzzles and awesome background music.

Ironically, that's one of the main reasons I stopped playing games. Except for an Atari system back in the 70's and a Playstation that was only used to keep my friend's kids busy while we were in the music studio, I never played console games. I only played on PC's and, one of the biggest advantages my friend and I had was our skill with a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball (see below). We would use these at work too (we were both programmers for Verizon Wireless through Accenture) and could zip to any area of the screen in milliseconds!). I still have a few buried in storage...

Now THAT'S my gaming time history! Back when I lived in Irvine Kalifornia, I used to run the second-most popular game servers on the West Coast for Quake, Half-Life and Counterstrike (called "N2O's Gas House"). I had a dedicated T1 line and five separate stations for my friends to use (I lived half-a-mile from work, so we'd all go over to my place at lunch or after work to either play in my music studio or play online games). At one time, there was a database of all Quake 1 players and I was in the top-25 out of over 340,000 (my game name was, like the servers, "N2O" which is the chemical formula for Nitrous Oxide or laughing gas - my tag line that I could spray in-game was "You'll die laughing!"?). We played on two League Republic teams for Counterstrike and, eventually, ended up taking the first and second-place positions before quitting. Being right next to the server REALLY helps your ping! We always had to film our matches for the referees because whiney little punk kids half our age kept thinking we MUST be cheating - LOL! Needless to say, we didn't have to rely on running a communication server when we're all sitting in the same room. One of my friends created a popular set of bots for Quake and I had two Half-Life maps that I made that got a lot of playing time (one called High Dive and another was a very compact version of a 2fort2 map). Those were good times... ?

Reminds me of the time I decided to become an archeologist! My career ended up in ruins...

To be fair, the Coffee House has always been the place where topics go to become buffoonery. That's its purpose! We all need to let off steam (especially now). That said, similar to the lack of a hardware forum like we used to have, it would be really nice to have a separate forum for those trying to find others for real endeavors (e.g., "I need a drummer," "I need a singer," "I need someone for album artwork," "I need someone for liner notes."). This would be similar to those bulletin boards at Guitar Center and, by its very nature, would avoid what happens down here. ?

New Jersey has just legalized weed. (Just sayin'! ? )

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Without even critiquing his singing attempt, whoever that guy is should takes some guitar lessons! He's all over the place! Heck, he's even holding the guitar backwards!

My services aren't (usually) free! Plus I'm swamped due to stuff I haven't posted about...

As a quick follow-up on my prior reply, we usually set up client computers with a smaller SSD for the OS drive (provides speedy boot-up and program launching) then we couple that with a larger spinner drive for bulk storage. Then, if needed, we might add a second SSD for quick-access storage (usually this is video for us, but can obviously apply for audio). We then add back-up services like Carbonite (what I use) or Backblaze (what Dan, my business partner, uses). These provide almost real-time backing up of files. One trick that I do is to use Acronis to make an image of my OS drive then put that on a spinner so Carbonite will back it up.

There's actually a few reasons. Sure, they're a bit more expensive (for the price of a 1TB SSD you might be able to find two 4TB spinners if you look for specials), but they have a few benefits over the spinners: No moving parts! Less chance of something breaking plus it adds to some of the other benefits. Quiet. (No moving parts!) Fast. WAAAY faster than spinners, especially with the newer connection protocols. Doesn't need periodic maintenance. Because all areas can be addressed instantly, there's no need to defragment the drive to improve performance. Also, because there's no moving parts, there's far less chance of errors. Size. SSD's are far smaller (especially the type that look like a stick of gum!). That makes them great for laptops. Durability. Because SSD's have no moving parts (have I mentioned that yet?), they survive a drop much better than a spinner (which is also heavier).

Heh, you're only seeing part of it! The house rule was drinks were free, so don't bring anything over (a case of cheap beer would have never been touched). Instead, there was a tip box on the wall (see below) and anything put into it went directly into buying more (and mostly new types of) booze or the occasional food delivery (I ran a few blind draw tournaments). Because even the nice micro-brew beer on tap (normally around $6 a pint at a bar) only costs about 50 cents a glass, I ended up with over 120 types of liquor! Fun times. ?

Ride > Cars > Drive

Used to hear Daryl Waltrip sing that too often during NASCAR races, but my mind's just trying to imagine how much torque was required to break the axle in that image!!! ?