Tamkis Member Level: 27 Posts: 147/148 EXP: 109573 For next: 6586 Since: 03-12-12 Since last post: 3.2 years Last activity: 3.1 years

Posted on 10-31-18 03:29:31 AM, in it gets worse Link

The scariest thing about the synagogue shooting is that I actually lived in the Squirrel Hill community for about 2 months last summer, so this tragedy hit way too close to home for comfort. I actually passed by this synagogue on my way to the Indie gamedev job during the morning commute, and a few friends of mine are members of the JCCPGH for recreation. Another friend of mine was in the area the day before ; fortunately, she was not there the day of the tragedy. Overall, it's a sad, senseless act of violence, and my heart goes out to the congregation, to the locals, and to everyone involved. I've visited the other Jewish synagogue on Forbes Ave. (and other houses of worship, from many religions and denominations) in Pittsburgh during the Annual 10 Commandment Hikes back in my Scouting days, and the members of the local Jewish community are friendly, welcoming, and wouldn't hurt a fly. I am a very religiously tolerant, open-minded person. But then comes pres. Rump, spewing his rhetoric of hate, division, and discord amongst us, setting the crazier people off, and leading to such tragedies. And of course, Rump goes to the funeral against the wishes of the grieving Jewish community, the victims, even the Pittsburgh mayor, and earns himself a well deserved protest in the process .

Tamkis Member Level: 27 Posts: 148/148 EXP: 109573 For next: 6586 Since: 03-12-12 Since last post: 3.2 years Last activity: 3.1 years

Posted on 02-02-19 07:07:26 AM, in The Athlonic Link

Man, that computer is really similar in specs to the one I use for retro PC gaming. - Asus K8VSE DX mo'bo - AMD Athon 64 3200+ CPU @ 2GHz - 1GB DDR400 RAM - Vintage 40GB IDE HDD - Samsung WriteMaster Lightscribe Super Multi DVD Drive - Sony 52x Ultra Speed CD-ROM Drive - 3.5" Floppy Drive - USB 2.0 ports - RJ45 ethernet - ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Video Card (AGP) - Diamond Xtreme Audio 5.1 Surround sound PCI soundcard (CMI8738 clone, with OPL3 soundblaster support, EAX/XEar, MIDI/Gameport) - Proper drivers to interface with everything for max support Mine has a triple boot with Windows XP and Windows ME (with Win98 Real Mode DOS hack) installed for the ultimate retro PC, so an XP/ME multi boot should definitely be possible on yours if you wish in the future. The setup has the full benefits of being able to play modernish games and applications on the XP partition, Windows 9x games on ME, and DOS games with the real mode dos hack. The multi-boot was somewhat tricky to setup. I remember having to use fdisk to format the drive (with large disk support, for FAT32 partitions with a size between 2-40 GB) to use a large portion of the drive for ME, then run setup.exe on the ME install CD with undocumented /is switch to skip setup's running of scandisk. Without the switch, setup would run scandisk surface test during installation, begin "correcting" false positives on the disk, and not complete installation fully. (False scandisk surface test failures had nothing to do with the HDD's health, but the FAT32 format applied for large disk support; skipping it got the installation to work.) The key to getting the multi-boot setup properly was installing ME first as primary bootable partition (FAT32 with large disk support) then installing Windows XP (NTFS) as secondary, as per this ME/XP dual boot guide. The drive was split in half to 20GB partitions for both OSes. ME can't see the XP partition, but XP can see ME partition. After both partitions were setup, I later on added the Win98 Real Mode DOS hack into the ME partition. I have no experience with getting a Linux partition to cooperate with older Windows-based multi-boot setups, but the pages here have information at least on properly setting up an XP/Ubuntu multiboot.