Why Linux Sucks- 2020 Version

On 1/6/20 1:07 AM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 23:19, Snit wrote:
On 1/5/20 4:01 PM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 21:15, Snit wrote:
Joel wrote:
David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 20:41, Snit wrote:

I am pretty sure he was kidding.

I was. ;-)

I've enjoyed 'talking' to you, Snit.
You are a breath of fresh air on Usenet!


Snit is a good man, a friend of mine.Â* Those who attack him either
don't understand him, or are simply full of hatred.


I spent years not countering the false accusations of sock usage. I
seriously underestimated the number of people who bought into the
“everyone
is Snit� gag.

'Snit' is a somewhat odd-sounding pseudonym.

Would you care to explain the origin? I'm not demanding, just mildly
interested. It really matters not one jot.

Â*From an old gag when I was in high school and then college in Las
Vegas... stood for "Southern Nevada Institute of Technology".

Now just use it out of habit and to keep a consistent name. You can
find "Snit" being used by me going back to 1994 or so (though with
different emails).

Thank you.

Did you know? .... There is a Shree Narayan Institute of Technology
(SNIT), a college in Khargone, India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snit


I did not know that... and assure you I meant no form of a association
with them. Heck, unless they have been around the since the 1980s maybe
they took MY name. I AM SUING!

--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 06/01/2020 08:34, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 1:07 AM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 23:19, Snit wrote:
On 1/5/20 4:01 PM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 21:15, Snit wrote:
Joel wrote:
David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 20:41, Snit wrote:

I am pretty sure he was kidding.

I was. ;-)

I've enjoyed 'talking' to you, Snit.
You are a breath of fresh air on Usenet!


Snit is a good man, a friend of mine.Â* Those who attack him either
don't understand him, or are simply full of hatred.


I spent years not countering the false accusations of sock usage. I
seriously underestimated the number of people who bought into the
“everyone
is Snit� gag.

'Snit' is a somewhat odd-sounding pseudonym.

Would you care to explain the origin? I'm not demanding, just mildly
interested. It really matters not one jot.

Â*From an old gag when I was in high school and then college in Las
Vegas... stood for "Southern Nevada Institute of Technology".

Now just use it out of habit and to keep a consistent name. You can
find "Snit" being used by me going back to 1994 or so (though with
different emails).

Thank you.

Did you know? .... There is a Shree Narayan Institute of Technology
(SNIT), a college in Khargone, India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snit


I did not know that... and assure you I meant no form of *AN* (a) association
with them. Heck, unless they have been around the since the 1980s maybe
they took MY name. I AM SUING!


Haha! :-D Do you /still/ live in India?

--
David

On 06/01/2020 06.47, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I am here To help muddy the waters.
If a Studebaker auto has a Chevy 283 V8 engine, is it a studebaker or a
Chevy???Â* :-)

Well if you want to put it sort of in terms of the Linux kernel, the
Chevy 283 V8 engine does not cease being a Chevy 283 V8 engine when you
do so.


According to relevant and perhaps pedantic sources, "Linux" is only the
kernel, while the toolset and core libraries are GNU; thus the correct
name of the whole would be "GNU/Linux" or "Linux/GNU" or something of
the sort. But many apply the shorter name "Linux" to the whole in a more
generic way.

I don't take sides, but the thing is arguable.
And knowing all that, Android can be considered as "Linux".

--
Cheers, Carlos.

On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 12:24:18 +0000, David
wrote:

Haha! :-D Do you /still/ live in India?

And so it begins. I was wrong. "Snit" is not playing BD. What
a pity.
PS Note the OT crossposted groups....

---------------
BD: I want people to "get to know me better. I have nothing to
hide".
I'm always here to help, this page was put up at BD's request,
rather, he said "Do it *NOW*!":

http://tekrider.net/pages/david-brooks-stalker.php

64 confirmed #FAKE_NYMS, most used in cybercrimes!
Google "David Brooks Devon"
[]'s


--
Don't be evil - Google 2004
We have a new policy - Google 2012

On 1/5/2020 8:18 PM, Paul wrote:
AnonLinuxUser wrote:
On 1/4/2020 11:51 PM, William Unruh wrote:
On 2020-01-05, AnonLinuxUser wrote:
On 1/3/2020 8:54 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , vallor
wrote:


I have built Preamps and power amps of both types and prefer the
solid
state ones hands down.

i also did long ago. i never much cared for designing analog
circuits.

A good portion of solid state circuits are analog.

a much larger portion of them are digital.


Not in the sense of power amplification.Â* A lot of integrated circuit
designers do the analog work inside the chip that goes out to the power
amps.Â* The power amps are analog and will always be analog.
Just less analog design to do at that point.

Well, class D is sort of digitial (pulse width modulation).


The only thing that would be classed as I know is some IPS units that
put out staircase power for PCs... I don't like them because of the
problems they created for wifes iMac... makes it run funny at times.
Best not to introduce spikes to the iMac.

You're referring to a UPS (uninterruptable power supply).

They come in modified sine and pure sine.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/...fig2_261048059


You will also find a lot of fanciful waveform diagrams,
not all of which are correct.

https://imeon-energy.com.au/wp-conte...-sine-wave.png


*******

Inverters produce square waves (cheap ones, from the past).
And in the dim and distant past, square waves were OK for
a lot of the "naive" loads, like a light bulb perhaps.

*******

Modified sine and square waves were bad for
some of the first Active PFC ATX power supplies.
You could get "coil noise" from the front end,
indicating it wasn't happy or wasn't the right
design for it.

Later, the Active PFC front end was changed (somehow),
to make these supplies less upset by non-sine signals.

The first PFC was designed on an algorithm of
"the current draw waveform should look like the
voltage waveform from the line". This was intended
to reshape the current draw waveform, as well as
bring it into phase with the voltage waveform.

If you were at the campsite, and connected a
desktop PCs to a car battery plus a 200W inverter
(square wave), the desktop PC with APFC would go nuts.
In some cases, the PSU would switch itself off. Or,
it could make "weird noises" in the coils because
of the PFC trying to make a square current waveform,
from a square voltage waveform.

The modern designs must be doing something different.

Summary: If you know a PC has a power supply which
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* is bad for this sort of thing, stick with
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* pure sine UPS boxes.

This one, for example, runs *two minutes* at full power
according to the advert text near the bottom of the
main pane.

So naturally, you're not expecting miracles for $190/$210
or whatever the real price is.

The spec tab gives a different number.

https://www.newegg.com/cyberpower-cp...-133-_-Product


Â*Â*Â* AVR
Â*Â*Â* VA RatingÂ* 1350 VAÂ*Â*Â* WattsÂ* 810 Watts
Â*Â*Â* Full Load: 3 Minutes
Â*Â*Â* Half Load: 9 Minutes
Â*Â*Â* 10.40" x 3.90" x 14.20"
Â*Â*Â* Weight 20.30 lbs.

This one is $369.99. You're paying by the pound. The
formfactor of the battery, may be easier to find a knockoff
battery for it later.

https://www.newegg.com/apc-smc1500c-...=pure+sine+ups


Â*Â*Â* AVR
Â*Â*Â* VA RatingÂ* 1440 VAÂ*Â*Â* WattsÂ* 900 Watts
Â*Â*Â* Full load: 4 Minutes
Â*Â*Â* Half load: 11 Minutes
Â*Â*Â* 8.45" x 6.70" x 17.30"
Â*Â*Â* WeightÂ* 45.00 lbs.

You can test this with 9 x 100W lightbulbs, because the
filaments will be hot during switchover, and there won't
be nearly as large a load surge as with cold light bulbs.
900W of incandescent light bulbs would draw 1800W when cold.

Neither unit mentions switching time, which is likely
to be 8msec to 15msec. These aren't double conversion supplies
with zero switchover. Finding a cooling fan on a UPS, is
a hint it's a double conversion type.

Â*Â* Paul


Well, you definitely did the research. Wife did have a step wave UPS,
and the iMac started doing some strange things, (like emptying trash
that doesn't empty the trash and hang). Got her a pure sine wave UPS
and those problems disappeared. After all, the thin space to park a
power supply has no room for a large caps and noise suppression
inductors. So I believe that the iMac power supply is cheaply designed
to cut corners on the cost and increase profit margins.

In article , AnonLinuxUser
wrote:

Well, you definitely did the research. Wife did have a step wave UPS,
and the iMac started doing some strange things, (like emptying trash
that doesn't empty the trash and hang). Got her a pure sine wave UPS
and those problems disappeared.

unrelated and a coincidence.

imacs or other macs have no issue with stepped sine waves.

After all, the thin space to park a
power supply has no room for a large caps and noise suppression
inductors. So I believe that the iMac power supply is cheaply designed
to cut corners on the cost and increase profit margins.

you believe wrong.

On 1/6/2020 11:08 AM, nospam wrote:
In article , AnonLinuxUser
wrote:

Well, you definitely did the research. Wife did have a step wave UPS,
and the iMac started doing some strange things, (like emptying trash
that doesn't empty the trash and hang). Got her a pure sine wave UPS
and those problems disappeared.

unrelated and a coincidence.


Not a coincidence if you know your electronics well enough.

imacs or other macs have no issue with stepped sine waves.


I sure that this case with her iMac is on the edge with a stepping UPS.

After all, the thin space to park a
power supply has no room for a large caps and noise suppression
inductors. So I believe that the iMac power supply is cheaply designed
to cut corners on the cost and increase profit margins.

you believe wrong.

So you think.
And your credentials are?....

nospam wrote:
In article , AnonLinuxUser
wrote:

Well, you definitely did the research. Wife did have a step wave UPS,
and the iMac started doing some strange things, (like emptying trash
that doesn't empty the trash and hang). Got her a pure sine wave UPS
and those problems disappeared.

unrelated and a coincidence.

imacs or other macs have no issue with stepped sine waves.

After all, the thin space to park a
power supply has no room for a large caps and noise suppression
inductors. So I believe that the iMac power supply is cheaply designed
to cut corners on the cost and increase profit margins.

you believe wrong.

Apple supplies are contracted out, which is a
general industry trend for OEM computers.

There are no Apple branded electrolytic capacitors, or
Apple factories for PSUs. (It says right on the side
of the PSU in my Mac G4, who makes it.) Even the PSU
manufacturers themselves contract PSU designs out! As
do motherboard companies. If a company making $50 PSUs
needs a power supply with a $20 retail price point, they
are buying them from their competitors and rebadging them.

Active PFC power supplies first appeared in Europe,
and were part of some government mandate.

They showed up in North America as a "coincidence" of the
power supply industry trying to unify on a feature set
that would work world-wide. So there would not be double
the SKUs in circulation.

When the Active PFC first showed up, that's the period
(a year or two) during which the differences in application
space were detected. It's possible Europeans don't use
UPS with quite the same gusto we do here.

Practice varies between Europe and NA. In Europe, people
hit the power switch on their PCs at the back, when finished
for the day. You won't find people sleeping their PCs for
example, as the vampire power waste shows up on the power
bill.

People in Europe, at least a few, also use "automatic"
power strips. When the load on the power strip drops
below 15W or so, the power strip uses a relay to
switch off all the sockets. This allows a user who switches
off their PC at the back, to have all the wall warts
de-powered at the same time.

We don't tend to do things the same way in NA.

When the Active PFC power supplies showed up here,
we were "field testing" the units for the industry.
Nobody suspected there was a problem in advance,
of large numbers of crudely made UPS supplies with
"too much harmonic output" or the like. That was
discovered by symptoms.

The problem likely existed in more units than people
know. Only the ones with visible or audible symptoms
got attention.

And customers also remember those brands who aren't
doing any sort of verification. Antec gets their
supplies by the usual batch contract build process.
Normally, if you're doing things that way (like
PCPower used to), when you receive incoming stock,
you do a few tests before unleashing new creations on
the market. Well, Antec released a unit, where the +12V
had some sort of "slow rail rise" issue. The rail edge
rate rose slowly enough, that some VCore circuits on
motherboards would eagerly try to draw VCore current
before the transition was finished. And the inlet
current would exceed some trigger point and the
VCore would shut off on "undervoltage". Preventing
the motherboard from posting. So if you combined
that supply with certain motherboards, the user had
to send the PSU back to the retailer because
"the combination simply does not work". Every time
you turned on the PC, the two units would "fight"
and no POST was the result.

These things happen.

And are a measure of how much integration testing is done.

This is why, for the automobiles we drive, they're tested
from the Arctic to Death Valley, to make sure the car works
in all environments. And the test plan for a car takes at
least a year of not a bit longer, to complete. At least
with cars, where a safety issue could be life threatening,
more testing is done.

Well, power supplies don't receive that sort of
attention to detail. And that's how an issue arose,
and disappeared, as the "customer guinea pigs" reported
in with the reports of noise effects because the
first Active PFC front ends weren't quite fully
baked for the job.

It's just a problem no one thought about at the time,
and that's how it slipped through the cracks.

Today you can buy a UPS unit at a reasonable price to
solve the problem, but it seems the front end
controller in the newer ATX power supplies has been modified
to fix this. Which is of no comfort to people who happened
to have bought product in that roughly two year period.

Paul

On 1/6/20 5:24 AM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 08:34, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 1:07 AM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 23:19, Snit wrote:
On 1/5/20 4:01 PM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 21:15, Snit wrote:
Joel wrote:
David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 20:41, Snit wrote:

I am pretty sure he was kidding.

I was. ;-)

I've enjoyed 'talking' to you, Snit.
You are a breath of fresh air on Usenet!


Snit is a good man, a friend of mine.Â* Those who attack him either
don't understand him, or are simply full of hatred.


I spent years not countering the false accusations of sock usage. I
seriously underestimated the number of people who bought into the
“everyone
is Snit� gag.

'Snit' is a somewhat odd-sounding pseudonym.

Would you care to explain the origin? I'm not demanding, just
mildly interested. It really matters not one jot.

Â*From an old gag when I was in high school and then college in Las
Vegas... stood for "Southern Nevada Institute of Technology".

Now just use it out of habit and to keep a consistent name. You can
find "Snit" being used by me going back to 1994 or so (though with
different emails).

Thank you.

Did you know? .... There is a Shree Narayan Institute of Technology
(SNIT), a college in Khargone, India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snit


I did not know that... and assure you I meant no form of *AN* (a)
association with them. Heck, unless they have been around the since
the 1980s maybe they took MY name. I AM SUING!


Haha! :-DÂ* Do you /still/ live in India?


Hmmm, I live next to an Indian nation... is that close enough?

--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 06/01/2020 19:11, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 5:24 AM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 08:34, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 1:07 AM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 23:19, Snit wrote:
On 1/5/20 4:01 PM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 21:15, Snit wrote:
Joel wrote:
David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 20:41, Snit wrote:

I am pretty sure he was kidding.

I was. ;-)

I've enjoyed 'talking' to you, Snit.
You are a breath of fresh air on Usenet!


Snit is a good man, a friend of mine.Â* Those who attack him either
don't understand him, or are simply full of hatred.


I spent years not countering the false accusations of sock usage. I
seriously underestimated the number of people who bought into the
“everyone
is Snit� gag.

'Snit' is a somewhat odd-sounding pseudonym.

Would you care to explain the origin? I'm not demanding, just
mildly interested. It really matters not one jot.

Â*From an old gag when I was in high school and then college in Las
Vegas... stood for "Southern Nevada Institute of Technology".

Now just use it out of habit and to keep a consistent name. You can
find "Snit" being used by me going back to 1994 or so (though with
different emails).

Thank you.

Did you know? .... There is a Shree Narayan Institute of Technology
(SNIT), a college in Khargone, India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snit


I did not know that... and assure you I meant no form of *AN* (a)
association with them. Heck, unless they have been around the since
the 1980s maybe they took MY name. I AM SUING!


Haha! :-DÂ* Do you /still/ live in India?


Hmmm, I live next to an Indian nation... is that close enough?

Of course! :-)

My son and his family lived in Albuquerque, NM, when he was on
secondment to the US Air Force at Kirtland AFB. When my wife and I
visited, he lent me his 31ft Winnebago Motor Home and we had two weeks
touring around the SW of the USA. We loved it! :-) I was terrified
driving such a monster up the main drag in Las Vegas during the rush
hour, though, but I had to reach a camping area at Circus Circus!

--
David

On 1/6/20 2:00 PM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 19:11, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 5:24 AM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 08:34, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 1:07 AM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 23:19, Snit wrote:
On 1/5/20 4:01 PM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 21:15, Snit wrote:
Joel wrote:
David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 20:41, Snit wrote:

I am pretty sure he was kidding.

I was. ;-)

I've enjoyed 'talking' to you, Snit.
You are a breath of fresh air on Usenet!


Snit is a good man, a friend of mine.Â* Those who attack him either
don't understand him, or are simply full of hatred.


I spent years not countering the false accusations of sock usage. I
seriously underestimated the number of people who bought into
the “everyone
is Snit� gag.

'Snit' is a somewhat odd-sounding pseudonym.

Would you care to explain the origin? I'm not demanding, just
mildly interested. It really matters not one jot.

Â*From an old gag when I was in high school and then college in Las
Vegas... stood for "Southern Nevada Institute of Technology".

Now just use it out of habit and to keep a consistent name. You
can find "Snit" being used by me going back to 1994 or so (though
with different emails).

Thank you.

Did you know? .... There is a Shree Narayan Institute of Technology
(SNIT), a college in Khargone, India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snit


I did not know that... and assure you I meant no form of *AN* (a)
association with them. Heck, unless they have been around the since
the 1980s maybe they took MY name. I AM SUING!


Haha! :-DÂ* Do you /still/ live in India?


Hmmm, I live next to an Indian nation... is that close enough?

Of course! :-)

My son and his family lived in Albuquerque, NM, when he was on
secondment to the US Air Force at Kirtland AFB. When my wife and I
visited, he lent me his 31ft Winnebago Motor Home and we had two weeks
touring around the SW of the USA. We loved it! :-) I was terrified
driving such a monster up the main drag in Las Vegas during the rush
hour, though, but I had to reach a camping area at Circus Circus!


Have a family member who just got an RV trailer and did a tour of all 48
contiguous states. She is in Vegas and did a lot of practice driving
there... yes, it can be a challenge. Not sure she ever was brave enough
to take it up and down the Strip (I assume that is what you mean by the
"main drag".

--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 06/01/2020 21:13, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 2:00 PM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 19:11, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 5:24 AM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 08:34, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 1:07 AM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 23:19, Snit wrote:
On 1/5/20 4:01 PM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 21:15, Snit wrote:
Joel wrote:
David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 20:41, Snit wrote:

I am pretty sure he was kidding.

I was. ;-)

I've enjoyed 'talking' to you, Snit.
You are a breath of fresh air on Usenet!


Snit is a good man, a friend of mine.Â* Those who attack him
either
don't understand him, or are simply full of hatred.


I spent years not countering the false accusations of sock
usage. I
seriously underestimated the number of people who bought into
the “everyone
is Snit� gag.

'Snit' is a somewhat odd-sounding pseudonym.

Would you care to explain the origin? I'm not demanding, just
mildly interested. It really matters not one jot.

Â*From an old gag when I was in high school and then college in
Las Vegas... stood for "Southern Nevada Institute of Technology".

Now just use it out of habit and to keep a consistent name. You
can find "Snit" being used by me going back to 1994 or so (though
with different emails).

Thank you.

Did you know? .... There is a Shree Narayan Institute of
Technology (SNIT), a college in Khargone, India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snit


I did not know that... and assure you I meant no form of *AN* (a)
association with them. Heck, unless they have been around the since
the 1980s maybe they took MY name. I AM SUING!


Haha! :-DÂ* Do you /still/ live in India?


Hmmm, I live next to an Indian nation... is that close enough?

Of course! :-)

My son and his family lived in Albuquerque, NM, when he was on
secondment to the US Air Force at Kirtland AFB. When my wife and I
visited, he lent me his 31ft Winnebago Motor Home and we had two weeks
touring around the SW of the USA. We loved it! :-) I was terrified
driving such a monster up the main drag in Las Vegas during the rush
hour, though, but I had to reach a camping area at Circus Circus!


Have a family member who just got an RV trailer and did a tour of all 48
contiguous states. She is in Vegas and did a lot of practice driving
there... yes, it can be a challenge. Not sure she ever was brave enough
to take it up and down the Strip (I assume that is what you mean by the
"main drag".

That is, indeed, what I meant. :-)

Having lived there, I thought you would have been totally familiar with
such a landmark location:-

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_...as_Nevada.html

Although we had pre-booked for two nights, we didn't like Vegas and
moved on after just a one night stop. Death Valley was much more to our
liking! ;-)

--
David

On 1/6/20 2:24 PM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 21:13, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 2:00 PM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 19:11, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 5:24 AM, David wrote:
On 06/01/2020 08:34, Snit wrote:
On 1/6/20 1:07 AM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 23:19, Snit wrote:
On 1/5/20 4:01 PM, David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 21:15, Snit wrote:
Joel wrote:
David wrote:
On 05/01/2020 20:41, Snit wrote:

I am pretty sure he was kidding.

I was. ;-)

I've enjoyed 'talking' to you, Snit.
You are a breath of fresh air on Usenet!


Snit is a good man, a friend of mine.Â* Those who attack him
either
don't understand him, or are simply full of hatred.


I spent years not countering the false accusations of sock
usage. I
seriously underestimated the number of people who bought into
the “everyone
is Snit� gag.

'Snit' is a somewhat odd-sounding pseudonym.

Would you care to explain the origin? I'm not demanding, just
mildly interested. It really matters not one jot.

Â*From an old gag when I was in high school and then college in
Las Vegas... stood for "Southern Nevada Institute of Technology".

Now just use it out of habit and to keep a consistent name. You
can find "Snit" being used by me going back to 1994 or so
(though with different emails).

Thank you.

Did you know? .... There is a Shree Narayan Institute of
Technology (SNIT), a college in Khargone, India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snit


I did not know that... and assure you I meant no form of *AN* (a)
association with them. Heck, unless they have been around the
since the 1980s maybe they took MY name. I AM SUING!


Haha! :-DÂ* Do you /still/ live in India?


Hmmm, I live next to an Indian nation... is that close enough?

Of course! :-)

My son and his family lived in Albuquerque, NM, when he was on
secondment to the US Air Force at Kirtland AFB. When my wife and I
visited, he lent me his 31ft Winnebago Motor Home and we had two
weeks touring around the SW of the USA. We loved it! :-) I was
terrified driving such a monster up the main drag in Las Vegas during
the rush hour, though, but I had to reach a camping area at Circus
Circus!


Have a family member who just got an RV trailer and did a tour of all
48 contiguous states. She is in Vegas and did a lot of practice
driving there... yes, it can be a challenge. Not sure she ever was
brave enough to take it up and down the Strip (I assume that is what
you mean by the "main drag".

That is, indeed, what I meant. :-)

Having lived there, I thought you would have been totally familiar with
such a landmark location:-

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_...as_Nevada.html


Although we had pre-booked for two nights, we didn't like Vegas and
moved on after just a one night stop. Death Valley was much more to our
liking! ;-)


Been a while since I have been back to Vegas, but I am familiar with the
Strip and Circus Circus. Used to go there as a kid and play the games. I
got quite good at a car race one -- found a way to not exactly cheat but
play focused on things most did not so I won more often than not ... but
they got rid of it. I am guessing I am not the only one who found the
trick.

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Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 1/5/20 1:25 PM, David wrote:
....
That worked fairly well -- though the screen size of the VM was
insanely small. You can adjust that in settings but found that to work
so-so at best. I have two screens and perhaps that confused things?

Anyway, have it running now -- though not as fast as I think it would
under Parallels.

If you want more details I can, perhaps, make a video showing how I do
these things. Want to get back into making YouTube videos anyway.

I appreciate the information. Thank you, Snit.

If you want to practice making a video, I promise that I will watch it!


The video sorta sucks in that I ran into issues and did very little post
processing, but did find that with VirtualBox, as slow as it is, I can
use my mouse-replacement in post production even with it. This is good
-- makes it easier to follow the mouse.

Did edit out some troubleshooting and my waiting... or when I
multitasked and went back to doing Mac stuff. Here it is, for whatever
it is worth:

https://youtu.be/0k6xlEGPJ4I

Enjoy. Or ignore it. Whatever makes you happy.

--
Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They
cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel
somehow superior by attacking the messenger.

They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.

On 06/01/2020 21:43, Snit wrote:
On 1/5/20 1:25 PM, David wrote:
...
That worked fairly well -- though the screen size of the VM was
insanely small. You can adjust that in settings but found that to
work so-so at best. I have two screens and perhaps that confused things?

Anyway, have it running now -- though not as fast as I think it would
under Parallels.

If you want more details I can, perhaps, make a video showing how I
do these things. Want to get back into making YouTube videos anyway.

I appreciate the information. Thank you, Snit.

If you want to practice making a video, I promise that I will watch it!


The video sorta sucks in that I ran into issues and did very little post
processing, but did find that with VirtualBox, as slow as it is, I can
use my mouse-replacement in post production even with it. This is good
-- makes it easier to follow the mouse.

Did edit out some troubleshooting and my waiting... or when I
multitasked and went back to doing Mac stuff. Here it is, for whatever
it is worth:

https://youtu.be/0k6xlEGPJ4I

Enjoy. Or ignore it. Whatever makes you happy.

I'm impressed, John! Very professional. *THANK YOU* :-)

It will take me a while to take it all in, but I have used Mint so that
was familiar. I'll watch again tomorrow.

What I didn't quite understand was why you called the version Mah Tay
instead of M8 (like in bait, for fishing!)

Our fondest memory of visiting Arizona was spending some time he-
https://www.chloridechamber.com

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David