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Everything looks great so far, thanks for all the hard work on the upgrade!
I was afraid with the move we'd get yet another site with a UX update making everything full of whitespace and 1/3 the content you used to see on one screen.
Only issue I noticed is I can no longer access the hidden politics and religion forum.
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4 hours ago, Stephen said:
Wow! What the heck do you have hosted to get that kind of bill?
Around 200 server instances, few hundred TB of data.
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9 hours ago, Albert said:
Yeah, that's not something I could do, either. I mean, for a short while the forum will be on its own up in the cloud, but the store will join it later (although with a different company), and I'll do the same with the main site, which has minimal requirements versus the store and forum. That I might just put in AWS, as I'd like to be able to spool off snapshots for development purposes (as the main site needs a lot of development!) I have used AWS a fair bit in the past professionally, but as it's been a while I know I'll need to relearn quite a bit.
..Al
One big concern with AWS is it can get really expensive quickly. I think my company is up to about $150k/month. I don't think AA needs as much stuff running as I have to deal with though.
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18 hours ago, Prosystemsearch said:
I can't really blame you on the part about not wanting to deal with fully physical hardware management day in and day out. However, nothing says it has to either completely one way or the other! Cloud-based technology, along with e-books, come with their own set of drawbacks. Why not a 50-50 split between both, or maybe alternatively, 75% physical/25% cloud-based?
Well that would all depend on the environment, where in our case having things in 2 places would be pointless and not work.
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On 7/31/2022 at 10:35 PM, eightbit said:
Preordered this....because I think this is an AWESOME G1 mash up!
Damn you for posting that! I did not need to know about it!
Visiting the local V-Stock a couple weeks ago, looks like someone unloaded their collection. I managed to keep my wallet secure. But oh, that boxed Omega Supreme, why must you taunt me?
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My company went from selling on-premise software, to hosting on owned hardware in a local datacenter, and then after that we moved everything to AWS.
I certainly don't miss managing all the physical hardware!
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Haha, dangit - I might have gotten one.
Though I made the joke about wearing one to MGC in 2018 or 19 and I was told if I did I'd be whipped with dead 5200 controllers.
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2 hours ago, Leonard Smith said:
Sure looks opened to me.
Well he did say "the diskettes" - is there tape on the container of them to show they haven't been opened?
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10 hours ago, Keatah said:
Yes all the RC stuff. The COX .049 engines the oily nitro smell. All that. Model rockets and telescopes were hit in my neighborhood. Or just going into the hobbyshop. Everything was packed on the shelves like a warehouse or even more! Each was a great diversion in between videogame sessions.
I miss the local mom & pop hobby shops. We'd buy and build the model rockets, and it's a 50/50 chance it would be destroyed after the first launch - or stuck in a tree if you didn't do it at the large park field! One guy built the fancy Saturn V model. When we launched it, right as the engine ignited, the wind blew the pad over, and we just watched it scrape along the parking lot wrecking the whole thing.
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9 minutes ago, x=usr(1536) said:
I've had excellent results both calling and answering with an Obihai 202 Google Voice appliance over the past several years. They're no longer available and are now selling for stupid money when they do crop up, but the Obihai 2182 handset has pretty much the exact same functionality - it just does it in a phone form factor rather than that of a box.
For anyone wondering, these devices effectively let you turn a Google Voice number into a landline. Apart from the one-time cost of the unit, this makes BBSing over VoIP effectively free if you sign up for a Google Voice number.
So I would plug the computer modem port into the handset port of that Obihai device? (Currently looking at all its ports on the Amazon link), I already have a Google Voice number, so this could be cool to set up. How would auto-dial or answer work? I have some fleeting ambition of maybe doing a CoCo BBS someday, but I know I'm probably not going to really go through the effort of doing it.
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5 minutes ago, Tillek said:
OOMA is a good service for modemers without landlines, though I have to say I've been a bit concerned about some things I'm hearing about a "non residential usage charge", it did work well with my Atari and actual modems. As I posted earlier, most of the Atari BBS's are available through the dial up modem pool through 2600.network
Interesting, several years ago (probably 2017) I tried to call with a modem on my Tandy CoCo 3 connected to my Ooma to call Fozztexx's BBS from the /r/retrobattlestations reddit. I would get a connection, but too much garbage characters in between that I couldn't even create an account or login. Tried all 300/1200/2400 baud, and got too much garbage with all of them. But the modem did manage to make an initial connection.
Haven't tried anything since then, I figured the Ooma line just wasn't good enough.
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45 minutes ago, adam242 said:
Caps Lock, my friend. Please stop yelling.
Maybe he's posting from an old CoCo 2 with just uppercase.
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Put any items in my basement smoking room.
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10 hours ago, ClassicGMR said:
I saw it was available, but that's going a bit too far for the total cost.
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14 hours ago, Crazy Climber said:
Not Crazy about the BB but that Megatron/Baroness set.... yeah, I like it!!
Way cheaper here: https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/196184
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I remember when the BeBox and BeOS was released, and even had it running on my PC for a bit - anyone remember System Commander to have multiple OSes installed? Also had an OS2 Warp Partition.
Back in the day when the PowerPC chips were announced, I thought a new PowerPC based machine with Warp and BeOS could be amazing - but then Microsoft just killed everything by their monopoly, and there weren't really many generic PowerPC machines. And then Apple put them in Macs.
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Cut our DirectTV 6 years ago and switched to antenna. Sad if your landlord won't allow a rooftop - however if you have a deck or outside area, they have to allow you to put one there per FCC rules.
My Boost Mobile is $35 a month, which has 10GB of data - and I'm almost always on WiFi anyway. However you have to buy the phone up front, so if you want a newer model it's a much larger up-front cost, but they have ones that are also in the $40-$100 range as well.
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19 hours ago, OLD CS1 said:
How big was the original? This one stands about 28 inches in robot mode, something like 32 inches as a planet.
Is yours the one that was sold mid or late 2000's or so? Thought it was the same as the one in your picture.
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Kind of regret never getting Unicron when I saw them at Target and Walmart back in the day. Thought it was to big to display properly, I should have tried to figure it out.
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I saw the Lego Optimus after ordering the Robosen. I told my wife "It's the summer of Prime!"
And here he is, with a beer can for scale.
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Hah, actually there was a different post-it note I found, and that account still worked! So never mind.
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@DarkLord Do you purge accounts after a time? I know I've created a few over the years, the last one I have notes for doesn't work. I'd hate to just create another one and keep making a mess of orphaned accounts.
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9 hours ago, vrocko said:
Good grief! 30+? Well did you at least sell them or give them to others so they can enjoy them like the rest of us? Wow I just couldn't imagine having that many but you are the Songbird founder so you probably had access to many and may have used them for development, modding, testing, etc.
He has been a vendor for well over 20 years, so it could have been inventory stock back when they could be had for $30 NIB.
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