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  1. alavaz

    Everquest - Coirnav Progression Server

    I was ballin out of control soldering in those chips and selling copied games in high school.
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    Dealing with addiction

    Seems like the easiest route with most addicts is just to replace unhealthy addictions with healthier ones. I honestly don't think you can actually cure addiction in general or at least that's what I've always heard. AA seems to fit that mold. I honestly think I got lucky and didn't get the...
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    Dealing with addiction

    For a solid 5-6 year span I drank basically every night. At first it was beer, then wine and I ended off with soda and Vodka. I never felt that I "over did it," since my average drink count per night was 3-4 glasses of whatever (maybe 4-5 cans when it was beer). I never passed/blacked out or did...
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    Swamp Donkey, Mom of the year.

    Thinking about killing other peoples kids is quite normal.
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    Swamp Donkey, Mom of the year.

    A key factor to being a townie though is that you have to have grown up from a young age in the same town that you eek out a meager existence in as an adult. Nostalgia is a big part of what makes a townie a townie.
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    Swamp Donkey, Mom of the year.

    I'm a parent, I've never thought about killing my kids ever. Even when I desperately want them to shut up my most devious thoughts are usually "Should I give them my phone to play games even though they are being bad and that would send the wrong message." Tyen is being petty, but I'm pretty...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If you don't alt+z before pulling you are weak.
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    Is Rock dying or already dead?

    Steel panther. It's all I need for rock. Trivium is a good in between - maybe too heavy for a traditional rock fan but damn they are good.
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    My first go around with Floyd was nothing but frustration. Then when I started bending strings I realized that having my guitar constantly out of tune was a bigger bitch. So I went back to Floyd 6-7 years ago and learned how to maintain them. I really couldn't imagine owning anything else unless...
  10. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I suppose that was bad form for the guy to start shopping the program around before he's made it. But realistically it's pretty impossible to stop things like that from happening. The code itself shouldn't really be what you are protecting, but rather your data anyway. Unless of course you...
  11. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I don't ever plan on being divorced, but in the off chance it does happen, I don't care I'll meet girls at work. I met my wife and two previous long term relationships on the job and it's all been quality (well I mean, until it wasn't in the case of the former two). I can find another job...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I've never really had a 6th or 7th date. I usually do 2 maybe 3 dates and if it works then I be living with that bitch. If not I be avoiding that bitch. In all seriousness though, I could see her being reasonably annoyed but if she liked you she'd get over it and not just break up with you...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Noodle is like that big gay jock in the late 80s. Fiercely EQphobic on the outside, tries to cover it up by playing WoW at the bleeding edge. Still privately wants EQ in his life so bad.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Updating windows and SQL Server is point and click easy shit. You can still run .net 1.1 apps on modern Windows/SQL. I'd have zero worries about long term support on a .NET app.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Some people have a hard time updating applications to newer versions of the framework and I honestly never understood why (unless of course they don't have the source anymore). You basically open it in Visual Studio, target the new framework, then right click all of the squiggly lines and let it...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm sure it's because they want to put all of their little RNG magics into the looting process (just like everything else) and they couldn't come up with a good way to do it with ML.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Realistically no one in IT are engineers even though we get that title thrown all over the place. Not a single one of us has a PE license. A real test engineer should actually "engineer" the testing environment by writing the code necessary to perform all the unit tests in a specific manner...
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    Must Have Software

    Audacity should fit the bill. Splitting a recording for export as separate tracks - Audacity Development Manual
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    Hearthstone

    I guess I could understand if it's like a play X class card daily. A lot of times though, I get people who will actually be placing cards real slow and deliberately like they haven't even bothered to look at my health and see that they can easily just kill me with what they have out already...
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    Hearthstone

    Why do people insist on playing like their whole friggin hand when they could just go to your face and kill you? Never understood it.
  21. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I inherited an AS/400 a few jobs ago. The OS and FS are weird as fuck compared to anything else out there. Most places really don't have an option of just finding an experienced AS/400 admin though so I think it's pretty common to just throw the new guy at it, give him the IBM support number and...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Mine ran me like $200. $40 per camera (I have 4) and then another $40ish in SD cards that I put in each camera to record. I put them up to watch the kids, not create a police state of marriage. I also don't have them in bedrooms or anything so if my wife was smart she'd kick take me to our room...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    You can probably piece it together and if it's not too mission critical it may be fine. Coding even the simplest of applications can be a big time sink though, especially when it's a side duty. On the flipside, it could be a great learning opportunity.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Yeah I second C# webforms. It will be the easiest to get going on given your server architecture and lack of programming background. Just download VS 2017, install the web dev options then youtube your way to success.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I put stuff on there as a form of cloud storage. I don't have any public repos. If I was looking to break into the field though, I'd keep a few projects going on there for my resume.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I don't think he was saying it's ok to go ahead and drop her with a haymaker, just that the attitude of "women are weak, NEVER EVER hit them," is bullshit.
  27. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Just start learning how to code. Once you think you are decent enough, put some stuff on github. Then apply to jobs and put your github on your resume. I know a lot of managers that will hire based on a good interview and the content of your github. At some point you should probably also learn a...
  28. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Are you 2210? I think there are a few in the SOF community open right now. I'd actually like to be GS but here on Bragg it's pretty pointless applying if you are not former military or a spouse. I can't compete against the preference scores. I hear they are going to open up a new excepted...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I'm 18 months into a reinvestigation and haven't even talked to an investigator. I want this shit wrapped up before I look around again. Now that I bought the house I was renting I'm pretty much committed to working on base for the foreseeable future. I really didn't like the feeling I got...
  30. alavaz

    Everquest - Coirnav Progression Server

    Yeah there has always been a way, virtual machines.
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    The one thing that absolutely will not happen is her coming around to see your side of it and granting you gaming immunity. So you can either try together to both fix it, and yeah that means giving up games while you work on it, or you can let it continue to go to shit and hope that you can get...
  32. alavaz

    The Official Guitar Thread

    Noodleballer with the fancy rig. I almost wonder if a tube amp would be a waste on something like a kemper though. Seems to me you'd want the least amount of sound coloring possible so you can let it do it's thing.
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    It has 1/4" out so you could plug it into a PA or pretty much anything really. If you wanted to use a cab from like a half stack or something though you'd definitely need a power source. Searching around the internets, seems like the gigging crowd tends to like these power amps - GT1000FX-2U...
  34. alavaz

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    He needs more members in his EQ guild and we all know you're a EQ player at heart Noodle.
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    The Official Guitar Thread

    Yeah something like that. I had planned on just plugging it straight to my mixer and then play it through my monitors (basically what I do with my pod right now). I hadn't thought of wanting to travel with it...
  36. alavaz

    The Official Guitar Thread

    Those kempers are awesome. That's what I'm saving for, probably the last amp I'll ever need. As far as what it does, you can basically mic up an amp that you really love the sound of (i.e. MB dual rectifier) and it will profile it and then you can use that profile anytime you want. It then...
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    It was a joke. But yes, you are right there is more than one guild that has sporadic placements on the Vanilla kill list that I know of with no EQ ties so I can't truly say "all" and should ammend that to be "mostly all." Happy?
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    BWL was not an eq guild you are correct. It's short for Black Wing Lair and it was a raid zone in World of Warcraft.
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    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Method has a pretty cool raid history page. Vanilla Raid History of World First Kills - World of Warcraft - Method Vanilla was definitely all mostly EQ guilds - except for that WTF Korea Onyxia first. After that I can't tell. Ensidia was that guild built by a Saudi Prince and the first one...
  40. alavaz

    Smokers / Grills

    I rocked a char-broil (I was naive and it was cheap) for the last 6 years and it finally just completely fell apart in every way possible. Decided I wasn't going to fuck around and just buy a weber. I get to home depot and apparently they don't sell the Spirit 310 I wanted with a side burner. I...