@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@NattNatt said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@scottalanmiller said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Kelly Good luck with that.

Thanks. The primary threat to this plan (other than my age and level exercise) is a three year old bundle of energy who has two settings: off and high. Luckily she will sometimes sit in my lap and "help" me play games sometimes.

I kept an old keyboard for just this reason! Nephew on my lap, give him the old keyboard, he hits keys and obviously helps me play games. keeps him happy and occupied :')

This works until they realize the keyboard is not actually hooked up to anything, lol.

He's not reached that level of awareness yet...

Ubi30's November game is out now - Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon - an amazing game if you've never played it!! Showing the less serious side of Ubi by taking the mick out of themselves a bit...

@dafyre said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Humble has Dirt 3 available for free for a day or two...

https://www.humblebundle.com/store/dirt-3-complete-edition-free-game?linkID=&mcID=102:581135b76c8766b602f68233:ot:56e85ed0733462ca89a03701:1&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2016_11_10_Birthday_Sale&utm_content=Banner

damn it, I just came here to post that :')

@nadnerB said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

This is what carrying concealed really means:

Australian police find loaded gun in biker's bottom
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-37946055

Well, if you're going to do something, don't do it half arsed.

That was bad.....

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Used to love doing BBQ's when it was snowing where I used to live - a foot of snow was perfect - can throw all the beer into the snow to keep that at the perfect temperature, matched with amazing hot food...winning!

@thanksajdotcom said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

I'm sure there's a video for this somewhere...rule 43 after all...

Happy Turkey day 'Mericuh

The Autumn Sale between the Halloween sale and the Christmas sale?

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Had a 2:30am out of hours call this morning...and currently 18:20 and still in the office doing a server rebuild, just got bought pizza though, so there's that.....

gods speed

Cheers dude, was back in at 6:50am this morning to finish it, I'm nearly done now!! Ready for their 10am delivery now....

Probably be Mark Owen from Take That

@JaredBusch said in Weekend Plans:

@Dashrender said in Weekend Plans:

did you get that crap snow?

We got a dusting.

Ended up with only about 7-8 inches.

Promised 10 inches, end up with 7-8?

The jokes make themselves....

@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Russia bath lotion kills 41 drinkers in Irkutsk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38363441

The issue here is people are consuming things which are clearly not meant for consumption!

The issue here is they removed them from the shelves and didn't let natural selection continue down it's course....

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

That was so fast!

That's what she said.

@brianlittlejohn said in Happy Birthday Thread:

@Minion-Queen said in Happy Birthday Thread:

It's gonna be above single digits here so this is much preferable. and I get to go to BJ's Brew house for dinner

I love BJ's Brewhouse!

....twitch must.....resist......

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Fixing backups. Woooo!

Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

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Definitely not J-Pop.

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@NattNatt said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing backups. Woooo!

Also - I'm after putting a VM Host on my machine at home to mess about with - I have 10 pro but it's an upgrade so Hyper-V doesn't work because MS is dumb. Debating whether to do a repair install of Win 10 to see if that fixes the issue, or to use a free hypervisor...opinions?

Depends on your requirements. VirtualBox works just fine in most cases and even better than Hyper-V when it comes to things like USB pass-through. Never measured it, but I think the overall I/O performace and latency of Hyper-V on Win8/8.1/10 is just "smoother" (faster, low lag) compared to the same workload running in VirtualBox. Probably because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor while VirtualBox is a type 2. But again: You probably won't notice that in most cases.

Just to spin up VM's for messing about/testing stuff mainly - partly to teach myself more stuff, partly because I get bored easily...So will be wanting to run Linux VMs as well as Microsoft VMs

VirtualBox should do, really. Big plus is pass-through. With VirtualBox, you are able to just pass through a USB thumb drive and you will have full access to it, including things like partition tables. I'm using this whenever I need to do something complex to partitions on disks, sticks and SD cards: Fire up a Linux-VM, attach the storage device, start parted / gparted / fdisk / sfdisk / whatever, modify partitions and finally just detach the device. Works very well.

Cheers dude, will get that setup when I get home later!

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Slipknot kinda day.