Using Your Porsche To Deliver Pizza In The Inner City

[cascaderailroad]

Using Your Porsche To Deliver Pizza In The Inner City

How many of us have 2 PC's ... one super video card Desktop ... and another Integrated Graphics old clunker laptop ?

How many countless hours do you spend in Surveyor, with your high end PC's video card screaming away ?

Creating a route in Surveyor using TRS2006 (which is a simple, more stable platform) on an old clunker laptop, which has Integrated Graphics, has no downside to it, as there are no framerates to deal with in Surveyor.

But when actually driving the TRS2006 route ... send it over as a CDP to your high end PC that has a higher version of Trainz installed on it.

Why waste your high end PC video card ... when the same thing can be done in Surveyor on
the old clunker laptop.

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On a side note:

You can invert the way the forum shows threads by clicking the "Forum Actions" tab,
selecting "Generals Settings", selecting "Linear-Newest First".

Now instead of clicking on the threads last page, and having to tediously scroll down to the bottom
of the thread page ... Where as now, when you simply click on the threads main header title (not the last page), the last post in the thread, is right at the top, needing no scrolling.

It's sort of like reading a book backwards.

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Also with the Black pages DLS
https://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS.php
https://www.auran.com/planetauran/download_settings.php

Select General Settings "Images Only", and display "5 per page" ... now instead of having to scroll down by 100 per page ... all the 5 asset images fit in one small window of the Black Pages DLS.

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Please use this thread to post your estute brainstorm thoughts, that you wake, sitting up in bed, in the middle of the night, proclaiming outloud: "I got it ... Why dint' I tink' a dat' before" ?

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Edit: I previously thought of having a big party on the 20th of Dec 2012 (the day before the Myan Doomsday) ... now it seems that an asteroid 1300' across is heading between the Moon and the Earth on November 8th 2012 ... so the party is going to be schedualed one month earlier ! :hehe:

 

[BLACKWATCH]

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On a side note:

You can invert the way the forum shows threads by clicking the "Forum Actions" tab,
selecting "Generals Settings", selecting "Linear-Newest First".

Now instead of clicking on the threads last page, and having to tediously scroll down to the bottom
of the thread page ... Where as now, when you simply click on the threads main header title (not the last page), the last post in the thread, is right at the top, needing no scrolling.

It's sort of like reading a book backwards.

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No need to go to that bother, just click the little blue square with the 2 white arrows in, it's at the right hand side by the name of the last poster on the thread.

Or one can just click on the button indicated in this piccy ...................

................... & go to the first UNREAD post, no need to scroll down the page to find it.

( Because there may be a number of posts that you haven't read, between the last one you read & the latest post )

 

[mezzoprezzo]

~snip~ Edit: I previously thought of having a big party on the 20th of Dec 2012 ~snip~

So, the Mayan calendar ends on 21 December 2012.

For the past six decades, and more, my family have had calendars that ended on 31 December. That’s happened every year without fail.

We just buy a new one.

Suggest you get out your hammer and chisel so that you can spook whoever’s left in 5000+ year’s time!

Could this have been the original hard disk - or pizza design perhaps?


Cheers
Casper

 

[MountE]

I actually worked with a guy at GM who had a second job delivering pizzas and subs. He had a corvette, always wondered what his tips were like.

Rob

 

[sparky15]

I just build and operate on the system with a version that works the best for me. That is just me, though.
A computer is just a tool and the program a diversion. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[JCitron]

I just build and operate on the system with a version that works the best for me. That is just me, though.
A computer is just a tool and the program a diversion. Nothing more, nothing less.

This is my usual attack plan as well along with getting the most of the ROI I can on my investment. I usually plan for at least 3-5 years on a hardware platform, and so far this has been a very successful operation budget wise. The 3-5 year plan works because new OSs come out now it seems on that schedule, and by the time the new OS comes out, the hardware is pretty old by the 4-5th year and is ready for a refresh. The other thing too is the budget isn't always there for my new PC/hardware investment, so a new machine every 1-2 years just can't cut it, and I can't justify my expense on it.

I'm sorry if this sounds like a corporate upgrade program, but this is how I work at home as well as at work!

John

 

[sparky15]

A good plan, John. I have three computers. The newest is five years old, oldest was bought in 2002. Each have their place with certain software. My old iMac G3, for instance, earns it's keep running Mac Falcon 4.0. I bought the newer version of the game, have no intention of upgrading hardware when the old fills the bill just fine, hardware and program.
I only buy when the equipment dies or the majority of programs I use call for an upgrade. As of now, only one program is calling for an upgrade and it's a diversion. All others run great and do what they need to do, albeit an older version. My G5 Dual 2.0 crunches video and photos just fine in Final Cut Studio. This Intel laptop does it all, including Trainz, even though an older version. Mac Trainz is nice. Not nice enough to drop $1500 on a system to run it better though.
If I were turning a buck, I would think different.*

 

[JCitron]

I agree there's no reason to upgrade unless I need to. The upgrading just because doesn't make sense unless there's a compelling reason to get the next procesor. My two Trainz-level machines I have now replace a 3 year old desktop, and a 6 year old laptop, which I gave to my sister through my trickle down program in my house where older hardware goes to people who don't need the latest and greatest just to download music and go on Facebook all day. So, my sisters got my older laptops, one of my desktops went to my dad, and the other became a Solaris server for a very long time. Two older machines went to a printer friend because he needed a new RIP to drive an imagesetter. The older hardware with lots of RAM works perfectly for that. There's plenty of disk space for spooling, and the RAM allowed the images to float in memory while being processed. This machine, plus its sister spare, replace an older '486 he was using for 16 years before! If these machines die on him, he's gotten his and my money's worth out of the hardware, and we'll take another upgrade path then if it should exist.

Where I work, we squeeze the very last bit of computer juice out of the hardware before we retire it, and usually even though it has outlived the warranties. The hardware will be used as loaners and test machines until there's no longer any computer juice left, and by then we strip spare parts out before the scrap company gets the shells.

John

 

[schweitzerdude]

There are sometimes very good reasons to keep "beater" PCs or laptops. In my case, I have a 10 y/o scanner that works great, except that it won't work beyond Windows XP due to lack of new drivers. So I scan with the beater laptop, then transfer the scan files to my "good" laptop. Inconvenient? - yes somewhat, but I don't scan everyday so who cares.

That same beater laptop is my travel laptop - email, web surfing, remote desktop. No personal data files on it, it gets stolen from my car, meh.