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The base of operations and the main screen. Can't add more than two images per post now.
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That's my Lear 45 parked at Guam on my first world tour. I've since been around the planet five times, landed on all seven continents and know where damn near every country is.
I don't game so I just run a basic desktop computer. Ryzen 7 3800x. 32 gigs of DDR4 PC3200, a Samsung 970 Pro M2 at 512 gigs for operating system, 2 Samsung 860 SSD's 1TB each and a 8 gig GTX 1080 video card. 
Fed to my LG 65 inch 4K TV.
Fed to my LG 65 inch 4K TV.
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I don't get it. You don't game, but your computer specs mean you can. You don't even need something like that if you don't game. I bought my parents a Dell Optiplex 780 they use for the Internet and printing and it works flawlessly. I also periodically clone it should they mess the damn thing up somehow. So far in the 10 years or so they've been online that hasn't happened thanks to me locking it down.
I crunch a lot of numbers, we will leave it at that.
That's my Lear 45 parked at Guam on my first world tour. I've since been around the planet five times, landed on all seven continents and know where damn near every country is.
Is that X-Plane or FSX? I’ve flown a lot in X-Plane but haven’t played FS since FS2004.
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It's FSX boxed. I don't do the steamy business of things like so many these days prefer to do. Love ma optical media! I have a Pioneer Blu-ray burner and with it I have burned several gigabytes worth of very important data including a disk with the whole entirely of my 55 GB install of FSX. Then I store my disks in my fireproof safes. LOL My burner can also burn M-Discs and I used that to backup all of Wikipedia, The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, The Bible, several versions of the National Anthem in different formats with lyrics, and I add more stuff of historical significance all the time. It's my wish I'd be buried with my M-Disc/s since I firmly believe that one day my grave will in fact be an archeological find. So I just want that there.
Anyway... Yeah, I played the X-Plane demo but didn't care for it all that much. The night vision overlay was a nice touch though. But it's lacking an ATC system comparable to FSX or FS2004 (for what ever that's worth), the flight dynamics just aren't there and the weather engine. The weather engine I use in FSX now is Active Sky 2016 with the added add-on Active Sky Cloud Art which injects clouds as you fly. It's been pretty decent so far. And now a days you need a third-party weather engine becasue M$ knocked the built-in version offline. And it's like 10x better to use a good, reputable weather engine anyway. I often times get great IMC for CAT III landings and on occasion I've hit a wind sheer and had to throttle up.
I also know damn near what every button and switch does in a 737 and I fly with SIDs and STARS and follow altitude restrictions, etc. I'm willing to bet that I could take off, fly and land the beast if need be. If some rotten A-rab hijackers can fly into some buildings, I can sure as hell fly a 737. I want to save some money and go to Vegas where there's a company that offers full fledged simulators like real pilots use and I'd like to put my skills to the test. I hear the ZIBO mod for X-plane is a pretty decent add-on. And there's a real life pilot out of the UK or Europe that uses the ZIBO mod to make instructional videos. His YouTube username is Flightdeck2Sim. If interested check him out. He runs though it all.
One thing I like about flight simming is not only does it satisfy my technological and scientific curiosity, but it also touches base with the computer realm as well. I have made my own shooting stars and auroras in FSX and I customized the crap out of my close, but not close F-22 (ockpit and what not. Have a lookie
This is near Martha's Vineyard and I was just messing around. The audio for the F-22 there is real jet audio from a Mitsubishi something or other. LOL
Anyway... Yeah, I played the X-Plane demo but didn't care for it all that much. The night vision overlay was a nice touch though. But it's lacking an ATC system comparable to FSX or FS2004 (for what ever that's worth), the flight dynamics just aren't there and the weather engine. The weather engine I use in FSX now is Active Sky 2016 with the added add-on Active Sky Cloud Art which injects clouds as you fly. It's been pretty decent so far. And now a days you need a third-party weather engine becasue M$ knocked the built-in version offline. And it's like 10x better to use a good, reputable weather engine anyway. I often times get great IMC for CAT III landings and on occasion I've hit a wind sheer and had to throttle up.
I also know damn near what every button and switch does in a 737 and I fly with SIDs and STARS and follow altitude restrictions, etc. I'm willing to bet that I could take off, fly and land the beast if need be. If some rotten A-rab hijackers can fly into some buildings, I can sure as hell fly a 737. I want to save some money and go to Vegas where there's a company that offers full fledged simulators like real pilots use and I'd like to put my skills to the test. I hear the ZIBO mod for X-plane is a pretty decent add-on. And there's a real life pilot out of the UK or Europe that uses the ZIBO mod to make instructional videos. His YouTube username is Flightdeck2Sim. If interested check him out. He runs though it all.
One thing I like about flight simming is not only does it satisfy my technological and scientific curiosity, but it also touches base with the computer realm as well. I have made my own shooting stars and auroras in FSX and I customized the crap out of my close, but not close F-22 (ockpit and what not. Have a lookie
This is near Martha's Vineyard and I was just messing around. The audio for the F-22 there is real jet audio from a Mitsubishi something or other. LOL
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Yes, those are my GPWS sounds. LOL
And it goes black because I literally blacked out. I forgot to turn that feature off in the Sim.
And it goes black because I literally blacked out. I forgot to turn that feature off in the Sim.
Who makes a good flight simulator now a days? I do like flying.
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Well, that's a tough question as it all depends on what you're looking for. Currently, the main Sims out there are FSX, FS2004, X-Plane and Lockheed Martin's Prepar3d. Now with Prepar3d the EULA states you need to be a student, etc to use their software, but most have just blatantly ignored that. To make matters worse, a lot of FS add-on developers are or now are coding for P3D instead of FSX or FS2004. P3D is actually based on FSX code and they both look pretty much the same. M$ sold the FSX ESP code to Lockheed. But, P3D is now coded to take advantage of more than 4 GB of RAM and there's some added fluff to their Sim as well.
Microsoft has a new Sim or game (not sure what it will be) in the making that uses their Azure cloud so it's more than likely going to be a subscription service. Looking at it, it looks spectacular, but I'm not sure if this is just a stupid flying game or a Sim like FSX, etc. If it's a Sim I may have to buy the damn thing, but it requires Win 10 and I'm not really prepared to go 10 anytime soon. If I do I want to deploy Pfsense on a nettop and block all of M$'s ASNs and then monitor SNMP from the router and make sure nothing is going in and out of my computer that shouldn't be. If I need M$ for something I'll just fire up my VPN and use that to punch through my firewall. Win 10 is an absolute abomination IMO. And I thought 8 was bad.
Also, I know how to customize the install of a Win 10 deployment so I'll do that before I even install it. And I'll also make sure to use one of those Win 10 privacy tools to mitigate that front when I fire up the VPN so no analytics, etc gets past my own damn computer.
Win 10 turnned YOU into Redmond's little cash cow in typical smartphone fashion. That's their new marketing strategy.
Anyway, here's what this new game or maybe Sim looks like.
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There's also the free, open source Sim called Flightgear. It will also run in Mac. Watch out for the knock offs that charge you that use this open source code. FlightGear Flight Simulator – sophisticated, professional, open-source
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How are you able to see TLS encrypted websites with 98se? In XP you can't even browse a TLS 1.3 website unless you use a specific browser I believe.
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If you're that paranoid about security, you might want to look at Qubes.
www.qubes-os.org
Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system
Qubes is a security-oriented, free and open-source operating system for personal computers that allows you to securely compartmentalize your digital life.
www.qubes-os.org
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Read what the experts say. Experts
Find something compatible. Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) eBay is a great source.
Find something compatible. Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) eBay is a great source.
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I'm really surprised to see you here. I remember way back when TechIMO upgraded vBulletin you said you were going away. Then at Anandtech they went XenForo as well and I haven't heard hide nor hair from you there. Now this website went Xenforo and here you are. LOL
I run a phpBB forum myself and it's pretty damn decent if I don't mind tooting my own horn. Practically all XenForo abilities are there as well. Twitter will parse, YouTube will parse, Soundcloud will parse, you name it. You can select text to quote like here as well. I even added a few more fonts courtesy of Google fonts which will render even if you don't have the font installed on your computer. I also have a wealth of emoticons to chose from. I can add emoticons or fonts withen seconds if need be. I'm up to any suggestions.
I do use CloudFlare, but I don't recall seeing that 'no browser left behind option.' I'll have to look for it and turn it on providing it doesn't break my security I use. Though, I do use a very powerful security script that blocks ancient browsers so if you try to see my site you may get the block and the audio that plays served up from Amazon S3 from Jurassic park saying, "Not ah, ah, you didn't say the magic word. " LOL I host the rendered HTML 5 audio via AWS since doing it this way enables me to keep hotlink protection on.
My site should hand out a TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3 Cert. I don't know if it's browser specific or what. I have no control over how CloudFlare issues the Cert unless I opt for a paid account.
Check out the site here: https://cyberpcforum.com
Right now I had to open a ticket with my host because things have been slow and it isn't CloudFlare. So if the site is slow you'll know why. It's very rare this happens and I've been happy with my host for the last four years.
I run a phpBB forum myself and it's pretty damn decent if I don't mind tooting my own horn.
Practically all XenForo abilities are there as well. Twitter will parse, YouTube will parse, Soundcloud will parse, you name it. You can select text to quote like here as well. I even added a few more fonts courtesy of Google fonts which will render even if you don't have the font installed on your computer. I also have a wealth of emoticons to chose from. I can add emoticons or fonts withen seconds if need be. I'm up to any suggestions. I do use CloudFlare, but I don't recall seeing that 'no browser left behind option.' I'll have to look for it and turn it on providing it doesn't break my security I use. Though, I do use a very powerful security script that blocks ancient browsers so if you try to see my site you may get the block and the audio that plays served up from Amazon S3 from Jurassic park saying, "Not ah, ah, you didn't say the magic word. " LOL I host the rendered HTML 5 audio via AWS since doing it this way enables me to keep hotlink protection on.
My site should hand out a TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3 Cert. I don't know if it's browser specific or what. I have no control over how CloudFlare issues the Cert unless I opt for a paid account.
Check out the site here: https://cyberpcforum.com
Right now I had to open a ticket with my host because things have been slow and it isn't CloudFlare. So if the site is slow you'll know why. It's very rare this happens and I've been happy with my host for the last four years.
Did you land that Lear @ Williams on Antarctica or somewhere else?
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No, I didn't land on all seven continents in the Lear 45. I just went around the world with it once. I started in Colorado and headed East up to Nova Scotia and then to Greenland, Iceland, Scotland, down to London, into Europe, Ukraine, a part of Russia, over the Caspian Sea to some *stans*, India, Nepal, South East Asia, Guam, Wake Island, Midway, Hawaii and then had to cheat with the fuel going from Hawaii to California, From California went to Vegas and back to Colorado. That was one of five trips around the world.
The other trips were all in my F-22 and it is with the F-22 I touched all seven continents. In Antarctica I landed at Mcmurdo. In the F-22 I typically fly at FL500 @ an unrealistic cruise of mach 2.35 which is around 1,500 MPH ground speed. I average about 500 miles per day and this is about an hour with take off, cruise, approach and landing. I can't fly longer than that because it gets awfully boring despite playing Amazon music.
The other trips were all in my F-22 and it is with the F-22 I touched all seven continents. In Antarctica I landed at Mcmurdo. In the F-22 I typically fly at FL500 @ an unrealistic cruise of mach 2.35 which is around 1,500 MPH ground speed. I average about 500 miles per day and this is about an hour with take off, cruise, approach and landing. I can't fly longer than that because it gets awfully boring despite playing Amazon music.
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Thank you poltergeisty for your kindness...... I remember you now on TechIMO,its as ahme isnt it???
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Here is info on cloudfares no browser left behind......
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