HAPPY BIRTHDAY Sailor Steve!

[Aktungbby]

68!:k_confused: :Kaleun_Party: As a recent 67 year-old in my own right ...You've my complete ....empathy! :Kaleun_Salute:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/Old_guitarist_chicago.jpg/300px-Old_guitarist_chicago.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_guitarist_chicago.jpg)< Picasso's Old Guitarist:arrgh!:https://media.istockphoto.com/photos/birthday-cake-with-burning-candle-number-68-picture-id535720127

[Eichhörnchen]

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MANY HAPPY RETURNS!

[Reece]

Happy Birthday Steve, have a nice day.:yep:

Cheers.:woot:

[Commander Wallace]

:Kaleun_Party: :Kaleun_Cheers:Happy Birthday Steve and many more. Enjoy your day. :Kaleun_Cheers: :Kaleun_Party:

[Rhodes]

Muitos Parabéns (Happy Birthday)! :Kaleun_Cheers::Kaleun_Salute::woot:

[u crank]

Happy Birthday Steve. Have a good day. :woot::woot::woot:

[Jimbuna]

Happy birthday. Don't be sad you're a year older. Keep your chin up…if you can! Well, you know what I mean.
You can't pick your family, but you can pick your age. Happy 29th birthday, right?
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I'll be in the usual place where we can talk if you're up early enough.

[August]

Happy Birthday :woot:

[Skybird]

Leave some beer for the guests! :03:

[Rockstar]

High in the mountains of Utah, OH yah. :03:

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What ever you do today, don't let this happen to you.

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[Catfish]

Happy Birthday, Sailor Steve! :sunny::up:

:salute:

[Schroeder]

Have a good one.:salute:

[Mr Quatro]

Happy Birthday Steve ... :up: did you ever think you would make this far?


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Little People was formed by Fisher-Price in the early '50s for kids ranging from 6 months to 3 years.
The first Little People toy, "Looky Fire Truck," was introduced in 1950, and it sold so well the company
introduced the "Super-Jet" and "Racing Rowboat."

[THEBERBSTER]

Happy Birthday Steve :Kaleun_Salute: have a good one. :Kaleun_Cheers: :Kaleun_Party:

[Onkel Neal]

Happy birthday, ol' Subsim buddy!
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[mapuc]

HAPPY Birthday
:Kaleun_Cheers::Kaleun_Applaud::Kaleun_Cheers:

[Sailor Steve]

Well, I tried to avoid it, but here it is. I suppose I could have erased the date from my profile, but that would be cheating.

@Aktungbby: The Picasso picture is quite appropriate. I may not look like that but I sure feel it.

Thanks all.

[fireftr18]

Happy Birthday Steve!
:Kaleun_Salute: :Kaleun_Cheers: :Kaleun_Party:

[HW3]

Happy Birthday Steve!
:Kaleun_Party:

[aanker]

Happy birthday Sailor Steve, hope it was a good one!

[Sailor Steve]

Well, now that it's almost over I can talk about my entertaining (?) day.

A couple of weeks ago I ordered a new computer, pretty much the one I've always wanted. It's a desktop PC, in a tower, and it has the latest, greatest components. I admit it's near the bottom of the latest, greatest, but it's still far beyond anything I've ever owned before. It arrived last Saturday, and '100 Years' has kept me so busy I didn't have time to even plug it in. When I finally did it refused to talk to the monitor. It turned out that it has two HDMI ports. One connects to the onboard graphics and the other, which I didn't notice at first, goes straight into the super-duper (bottom of the line) graphics card. Once I had the cable in the right port everything worked perfectly.

Friday I copied everything off the main drive of the older laptop onto my 3-TB hard drive, and yesterday I started copying everything onto the new PC. this morning I took a break and treated myself to a steak lunch at Sizzler. Then some more work. Then a nap. Tomorrow I have some last downloading to do, then wipe the old PC clean and scrub the desk and floor. Then everything will be set to go.

Then my sister called me, and that's always fun. A good day, if not exactly an exciting one.

[HW3]

Congratulations on the new PC Steve!
:Kaleun_Thumbs_Up:

[Mr Quatro]

Well, now that it's almost over I can talk about my entertaining (?) day.

A couple of weeks ago I ordered a new computer, pretty much the one I've always wanted. It's a desktop PC, in a tower, and it has the latest, greatest components. I admit it's near the bottom of the latest, greatest, but it's still far beyond anything I've ever owned before. It arrived last Saturday, and '100 Years' has kept me so busy I didn't have time to even plug it in. When I finally did it refused to talk to the monitor. It turned out that it has two HDMI ports. One connects to the onboard graphics and the other, which I didn't notice at first, goes straight into the super-duper (bottom of the line) graphics card. Once I had the cable in the right port everything worked perfectly.

Friday I copied everything off the main drive of the older laptop onto my 3-TB hard drive, and yesterday I started copying everything onto the new PC. this morning I took a break and treated myself to a steak lunch at Sizzler. Then some more work. Then a nap. Tomorrow I have some last downloading to do, then wipe the old PC clean and scrub the desk and floor. Then everything will be set to go.

Then my sister called me, and that's always fun. A good day, if not exactly an exciting one.

That's good Steve I hope you didn't scrub the old one too fast ... You should've left it alone for a back up

What OS are you using ... I've heard nightmares about OS10 :o

[Eichhörnchen]

I have so many games I can play now on my newish gaming rig, that the real difficulty I face in deciding what to play next means I ultimately end up doing nothing. I understand that this is known in psychology as "the paradox of choice"

[Catfish]

Nice to hear you had a good day !
OT 1: So your computer works, this is fine. Visited a friend yesterday who has the latest super duper overprized computer with Win 10.
Ran fine for a few days, now you cannot log in "...group policy client cannot be loaded..." after entering the (right) password, or right Pin alternatively (you can switch between - what the f..ormidable for?). No repair, no starting in "degraded" mode (lol), no set back to former saving point works. After trying for thee hours i had to leave him in his misery. Seems a new install is mandatory. B.t.w. it would not even get you to the login screen if it was not connected to the WLAN/Internet. Thanks MS for this wonderful stuff lol
I wonder why my Win10 still works, after two years. There are the strangest of messages appearing now and then but MS keeps telling those are not bugs but "features", in their help forum pages. Ah.


OT 2: @Eichhörnchen did you download the free Rise of Flight now, so we can finally have a scrap in the skies over Verdun? :D

[Eichhörnchen]

Not yet... I haven't been able to make a decision on that yet. I don't know that my internet connection would survive such an encounter anyway :D

Is it still the case that I should disable Windows UAC before installing RoF? And it's about 8G, right? Only it took me over 24 hours to download "Stalker-Clear Sky" a couple of weeks ago and that was only 3.87G

[Rockstar]

So no twerking? That's good.

[Sailor Steve]

That's good Steve I hope you didn't scrub the old one too fast ... You should've left it alone for a back up[quote]
I have left it alone. I'm just about to plug it back in, as there are a couple of things more I need to put onto the new one. Ultimately I want to give it to somebody else, as it was given to me. Of course there's always the chance that no matter how long I wait the new one will decide to die the day after. :yep:

[quote]What OS are you using ... I've heard nightmares about OS10 :o
It's Windows 10. I didn't have a lot of choice. It has some small quirks I don't like, but I'll learn to live with them.

I have so many games I can play now on my newish gaming rig, that the real difficulty I face in deciding what to play next means I ultimately end up doing nothing. I understand that this is known in psychology as "the paradox of choice"
I only plan to have a small handful of historically-based games, mostly ship and flight sims. This is partly because I want to keep them on the SSD for faster play, but mainly because I'm just not interested in that many games.

OT 1: So your computer works, this is fine. Visited a friend yesterday who has the latest super duper overprized computer with Win 10...Seems a new install is mandatory.
I had that happen with my laptop. In my case it was my own fault for downloading something from the wrong place. Still a pain though.

MS keeps telling those are not bugs but "features", in their help forum pages. Ah.
Of course. MS is never wrong. MS makes no mistakes. I had that happen with a very fun suite of Solitaire games. After some time I began to notice that the cards were always dealt in ways that were definitely not random. When I wrote to talk to them about it the reply was "Our program has more than a million possible combinations and there's no way that can happen! You just got unlucky!" Well, thousands upon thousands of games later it still deals two identical cards in a row every single hand. But of course they are never wrong.

OT 2: @Eichhörnchen did you download the free Rise of Flight now, so we can finally have a scrap in the skies over Verdun? :D
I've looked at a lot of videos of ROF, and it is beautiful. I notice that the "free" version only comes with three planes. They have a great many for purchase, and that's where they make their money (that, and having to buy certain gauges). I'm still interested, but I'm going to buy Wings Over Flanders Fields Ultimate Edition first. It has no multiplayer, but it has a campaign system that is said to be second only to the one in Falcon 4. You can participate as early in the war as January 1915, flying Morane Parasols with no machine guns yet (the observer has a rifle). That really appeals to me.

[Gerald]

HAPPY Birthday Steve.:up:

[Eichhörnchen]

Without trawling back through what was said in a past thread, I'm pretty sure I discovered that I would not, for some reason, be able to have WoFF... and I decided that since I would far rather have it than RoF, I would do without either. I seem to remember that the landscape and aircraft looked much better in the former but that you have to play it via an online host?

Could be wrong about that last bit, but maybe now I'll take another look... I do also have a freeware DVD copy of RoF that came with PC Pilot but the whole thing falls on its arse every time I try to activate it. If the same thing happens after taking three days to download....

[Garion]

Happy Birfday, have a great tme :)

Cheers
Gary

[Catfish]

Do not want to steal this thread, so we can keep discussing it in the appropriate sub forum at http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=216

Only thing to say is that RoF is free and comes with three planes, and you can choose whether yoou buy stuff or let it be. RoF also has "special sales" all the time, with often reduced prices for whole bundles of planes.
The free planes are the Spad XIII, Albatros D.Va and the Nieuport 17.
Flying and especially landing the N17 is nothing for the faint-hearted, in RoF.

You have to create an account at the RoF central server once, yes. You can play offline though in campaigns, without being online. If you want to play online against other 'live' players, you certainly have to be online :03:
The thing is when you ever played it you will be disappointed by other graphics, flight and damage models.
You can also buy planes as a gift, for other players and friends. It is easy, already did it.

And yes i do like WOFF, and the single campaign is the best i ever experienced in any war game, bar none. Not because the flight and damage model is so sophisticated (it is in comparison to a lot of other older simes, but not compared to RoF), but because there is so much historical knowledge regarding WW1 packed into it. While RoF is not wrong in its campaigns, it just is not as historically versatile.
WOFF is the product of almost 20 years research of WW1 enthusiasts, and no 10-man-team can beat it in 2 or 3 years.

Last not least: WOFF uses ye olde Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator III engine, and while the WOFF team did a hell of a job, it sometimes shows. No mouse movement looking around, only arrow keys or the joystick's coolie hat. And WOFF is hell to setup until it runs properly, at least for me. A week is nothing, for that. It also is only able to use one processor, so you better have 4 GHz + one, because even with 8 or more processor kernels, WOFF will only use one. And this means it may suddenly stutter, in bigger dogfights.
Flying against real players is impossible with WOFF, but there is a coop mode, together against enemy AI.

Tough choice, but.. RoF is free. And if you can fly a plane in RoF it is not far to the real thing.

Get both! :yep

[Skybird]

Steve,

if I were you I would make it a habit to check at least once per week a Windows blog like this one:

https://www.askwoody.com/

Or any similiar, there are quite some Windows-critical blogs and sites.

It will keep you on your guard regarding some bad stuff happening due top Micorsoft's wisdom. Delay updates for as long as possible, which is 4-5 weeks usually, and make mental notes of the problems and dangers listed in blogs like this. This blog may be mostly of interest for professional IT people and company admins and the like, but private users like you and me can get a hint of what mess is going on in the background, and it keeps me discouraged from trying foolish experiments and giving up my reservations about MS - they do not deserve this trust of mine anymore.

When it comes to enforced updates "as a service", the parole can only be: delay, delay, delay. Stay maximum defensively when using Windows. Keep its settings as tight and paranoid as you can afford.

Even when you use all Windows 10 Pro or Enterprise options to tighten the privacy and telemetry settings, you nevertheless have several hundred variables being constantly telephoned home to mama, almost two thousand, I seem to recall. For the most, these are not documented anywhwere, and for that they are harmless and only exist to improve Windows - ROFL! - you only have Microsoft's word. And they showed so often in past years that their word is worth NOTHING, and that they consider your property (and your rights over it) to be theirs.

Stay maximum conservative.

And do not fall for the hype about "patching" Meltdown and Spectre. So far, not a single "in the wild" incident has been reported, but the tweaks and cures released by Intel and also Microsoft have caused plenty of havoc: for a threat that so far only is a proof-of-concept ( in many demionstrations) and is extremely difficult to turn into a real menace. Block according patches as best as you can. At least do not allow to get talked into using them voluntarily - sooner or later Microsoft will enforce them on you anyway. But you must not agree to be beta prey walking early to the butcher. Delay, delay, delay.

[Skybird]

And while I am at it:

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3232632/microsoft-windows/how-to-block-windows-10-spring-update-from-installing.html