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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!!! ?

I've played darts for over 40 years, are there any other kinds of flooring? ?

My NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 is long in the tooth and starting to cause me issues. The current state of GPU's thanks to crypto-mining is making me nervous should my card finally die!

C'mon guys! It can't hurt to ask! ? (Besides, there are at least two "Craig's" that come down here that have produced things similar to what he wants. Just think about all the other names that might have! ?)

How do you still have these "resources?" Don't you know Larry??! ???????????

My last house had a nice basement (the only time I have ever had one), so I turned it into the best, small English pub-style bar in the area! (The guy at the dartboard is prior-World Champion Bob Anderson! The other guy ran a dart league about 150 miles away and lost a lot of money to me and Bob that night. LOL! ?)

Just wondering if anyone else has gotten this Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW thingy? I don't wanna be the first and get stuck with something I didn't pay for! ?

Apple-polly-lodgies! ? That I did! 'Tis what I get for not watching TV anymore... ?

Not hard to see why their supporters would be faceless cowards! ? Heck, I bet that drink is decaffeinated.

I recall being in Manchester near Halloween... I went into a costume store and asked a girl for help. She said "We don't carry Liverpool kit here, you'll have to go somewhere else." To which I replied, "I'm sorry, but you misunderstood me. I said I want to be a Count!" ? And, to get this thread back on track...

Is this their team logo?

1. Bob is Notes. Notes is Bob! 2. thru 5. These are STILL facilitated through The Bouy, LTD. ? (Proper Endorsements Needlessly Interests Strummy!)