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Soldierhorn

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  1. What do you think of the Amazon Fire DVR? worth it? You will save enough to pay for everything in about 2 or 3 months. I have saved so much money in the last 11 years cutting the cord that I enjoy testing a few products every year.
  2. Is the wife a keeper?
  3. Yeah, I loaded the IPTV on both the FireStick and Firebox. Actually, come to think of it, I loaded a media player on Fire stick&box and then linked the player to the IPTV service with my login info. Once it is set up, it works great. I only searched and saved a few channels from the IPTV within the player because that is all I needed: LHN, ESPN channels, Fox channels such as FOX News, and FOX sports channels, etc. $5 a month t is well worth it to me but I could see wifey and kiddies not liking the convenience of traditional point and click tv, OTOH, the technology is moving this direction anyway. There are literally hundreds of sports channels on kodi add-on channels. You would have to go through those and save the ones you like or add more. Edited to add: like several people have said, there several reasons to cut the cord but convenience is generally not one of them. In the free market, convenience comes at a premium... and it should.
  4. Oh, I forgot to add.... Another reason I boxed up the Tivo was that I wanted it to stream/record to other TVs. At the time, each Tivo mini vox (?) required an additional service charge. That pissed me off and I boxed up the whole thing and bought a Channel Master DVR+.
  5. Yea the benefit of the ota/apps with the roamio is no monthly subscription like you need with the bolt I'll try it again but I couldnt get it to pull any channels without a subscription. It's worth the effort because the Tivo channel menu and recording is still top notch compared to others. what I dont like about Tivo and Channel Master is that both use recording coding (proprietary?) that is not readable by other devices. It would be nice to record stuff, like a game, and then take the hard drive into my office and play it while I'm working.
  6. Did that 11 years ago to TWC and LOVED every minute of it. I still use TWC/Spectrum internet service since they are the best in my area but once Grande gets here, I will drop Spectrum in a heartbeat
  7. yeah, I'm not a computer geek but I dont think I've never seen a XP - 64 bit system. It seems like overkill for a XP OS
  8. hhhmmm Interesting. The CD doesnt say 64 bit and I would think if it were 64 bit, the label would say it... but I cant say for sure. The label does say XP Pro SP2 2002. I've only recently (last 5 yrs or so) gone to 64bit with my computers so I'm almost certain that I didnt have a 64 bit computer in the early to mid 2000s. Even this tower computer was Win7 32 bit up until I put Win 10 on it. And, I only changed to Win 10 because I found the Win 7-32 had too many unnecessary limitations such as RAM limited to 4gb (maybe 8, cant remember.) and no USB 3, IIRC, Win7-64 expanded RAM to 16gb but still no usb3 which was becoming a problem. I liked Win 7 but the limitations were becoming a problem. Once I went to Win10 I could expand capabilities to what the motherboard could put out - very nice and worth the change.
  9. I'm not an electrician so this is kind of talking out my butt. I could be wrong but I've done a lot of stuff like this my whole life - but, then again, my family has some redneck blood. LOL Several things to consider. If you use the correct gauge of wire AND it is insulated, generally it does not require a conduit (tube). If the wires are not insulted (free standing), then it's a good idea to have a conduit; not just for code but it makes individual wires easier to run, esp through the horizontal studs. the most important thing is whether the gauge of wire is sufficient for distance and amperage (there are charts for this). I dont think signal cables require any conduit (tube), however, it does make them easier to run if they have a gutter or tube to follow You mentioned running something to a "cable box". Yes, HDMI is better but, IMO, not so much so as to have to rewire everything and COAX cabling is still a very good signal carrier and much easier to work with. I cut the cord 11 years ago. I just put an antenna in the attic and spliced into the existing coax cabling in the attic. I just connect my tv devices to the coax in the wall just as before - looks clean and without wires dangling around.
  10. I have two cables that came in the mail this week that I plan on running through the attic this weekend: one is a 30' HDMI cable and the other is a 30" CRT cable. In my living room, I have a shelf close to the ceiling that makes a perfect place to hide electronics that burglars would have a hard time getting to even if they knew something was up there (unlikely). Knowing the distance may be an issue, the cables were very inexpensive and I thought it would be worth the try to see if they work - I think they will. I want to hide and centralize my Simplisafe security system base and my wireless security camera base. I have to run power to the shelf through the attic (not a problem) and run the cables from the shelf through the attic to my office where I can view the devices.
  11. I've done this TWICE in the same spot!. The first time, I thought I just missed the board. I fixed the ceiling and then did it again in the same spot.... but I KNOW I stepped on the board the second time. After checking it out, I found the 2x4 was not nailed on one end and it gave way each time I stepped on it. Boy, that pissed me off.
  12. Great suggestions! I just did some quick reading on Hyprevisor and will try VMware Player later this evening. I will post how it works out later.
  13. Yeah, I should have mentioned compatibility mode in my OP. I'm finding all games dont work in compatibility mode. I'd like to create a container environment to host all the old games.
  14. Baseline: On my tower computer, I run Win10 Pro on a system I built a few years ago that runs at 3.6gh processing as a baseline w/out overclocking, 49gb ram, w/5 internal hard drives. Along with other stuff, I also have a hot-swap port on the front of my tower that accepts 2.5" & 3.5" internal drives. I'm not a novice but I'm not a computer science kind of guy either. I probably still have every version of windows I've used going back to DOS 6.0 along with other operating system versions (linux, ubuntu, newdos, ect). I could probably figure this out but... I'm getting old and when you get old, time becomes a premium so if someone can lead me in the right direction, it could save me a LOT of time. Issue: What I would like to do is run Windows XP on a 2.5" drive inserted in the front of my tower computer while I'm still running Win 10. Why? I have stacks of old games and programs that will not run on Win 10 and would love to insert the drive and run a game every now and then. Sure, I have several old computers (both tower & laptops) out in the garage that I could get to work (and may anyway for the grankids) but I'd like to figure this out. What I've done: l selected a 2.5" 100gb drive for this purpose and formatted it to FAT32. I turned off all other drives (w/on-off button switches on the front of the tower) and left this drive as the only boot-able drive. I powered up the system with a WinXP Pro disk. It went through the windows process of gathering information and when that was done, I repeatedly got the blue screen of death. I'm assuming my system capabilities far exceed what WinXP handle, even with a fresh install. Therefore, IMO, the BSoD is likely a runtime error or something of that nature. Along with that, I would think there are disk space memory limitations, ram memory limitations, resolution, limitations and other issues with running XP in the modern computing environment. Questions: How do I make a drive seem like an old Win95/98/XP environment in order for XP to load properly? and, thus, be able to load a lot of simple games on that drive? Is there a way to make that specific drive a container with Win95/98/XP limitations insular of computer's real capabilities? I've done some reading up on creating a virtual machine. if this is the only way to get the results I want, how do I load WinXP in a virtual drive while already in Win10 environment? or do I need WinXP at all in the virtual drive? Would I simply need to create a "Programs File" as a placeholder to install the old games? That then brings op other issues such as will the game in virtual container be able to use Win10 settings for internal or external LAN for multiple players. For instance, I have several friends that would like to play the old axis & allies game Win98 version via the internet if I can figure this out. thanks in advance for any help, suggestions, or opinions.
  15. yes, that gives him two years to play one at the D1 level- right? and, that can be right away or does a grad transfer get to play two right away
  16. Doesnt that depend on where he transfers? If he goes down a level (D2, D3 or JUCO), he can play right away with 2 years left If he transfers to a division 1 program, he still has to sit for year giving him one year left to play out of 5 yrs or am I ate up?
  17. my mom is dead so that would be creepy
  18. or... hide them in motels (a la Earl C) LOL
  19. agree... there's no reason to sign a LOI in secret. As much as I hate it, I can understand the self promotion hat games and videos but if you are not going to have that special moment, then there's no reason to do it at all, IMO
  20. BUILD THAT WALL...around California
  21. exactly. I like the bowls and watch as many as I can
  22. I'll give her husband that suggestion.... or we could go gun shopping while they are here. hhhmmm [sorry for the triple post. I dont know what happened]
  23. yeah, I ended up having to get my ex (when we were married) a .38. We went to quite a few pawn and gun shops to find something she could operate.
  24. yeah, I ended up having to get my ex (when we were married) a .38. We went to quite a few pawn and gun shops to find something she could operate.
  25. yeah, I ended up having to get my ex (when we were married) a .38. We went to quite a few pawn and gun shops to find something she could operate.
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