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RetiredToker76

RetiredToker76

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DarkWeb said:
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Eh, when I was a Network Administrator working 65+ hours a week keeping a state agency running on an Active Directory network. I ran a Windows XX server at home for testing and workstation or pro editions (whichever year they called what when) on all my use systems. I ran a blackberry phone that had the software necessary for our ticketing system. It was a job.

Now that I'm an independent media editor, sound engineer, recording engineer, I've used an iPhone and Mac for the last 11 years. If I'm making fine stone jewelry I don't use a food processor to tumble the stones, and if I'm making a fine steak sauce I don't use a power drill to puree the stock. Every tool for its job.

For gaming I've bounced between consoles and PC's for years, as I've gotten older gaming is less important across the board. Too much work to do to game all day.

That being said I'd hate to manage anything more than 10-15 users on a Mac network much less a network with thousands of users and computers and hundreds of servers, it's gotten better but Mac was very late to the networking game and proprietary networking protocols of the late 90's and early 2000's reduced the number of corporate Mac based networks. The last time I tried a multi-user mac network was 2010-2011 and it worked but was clunky compared to AD. These days just getting my wife and daughter accessing iCloud rapidly hasn't been either easy or fast and my wife still can't browse iCloud as if it's a drive from her Mini for some reason; mostly my lazieness but it's still a mess. Recording combined analog and digital music at high sample rates on a Winbox is damned near impossible, ASIO4all kind of make audio sampling more stable in the Win-sphere, but no where near the stability of a Mac when I'm runnning 3+ active vst instruments and recording a guitar, bass and voice at the same time. The number of shows where I"ve helped some DJ recover his crashed windows box from just running two 44.1 khz audio streams is practically uncountable.

Everything else is just engineered consumer culture wars. I bought into them as a kid in the 90's but by the time I left IT, I hated Windows at its core from just being saturated in it for so long. Kind of brought perspective.
 
DarkWeb

DarkWeb

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RetiredToker76 said:
Eh, when I was a Network Administrator working 65+ hours a week keeping a state agency running on an Active Directory network. I ran a Windows XX server at home for testing and workstation or pro editions (whichever year they called what when) on all my use systems. I ran a blackberry phone that had the software necessary for our ticketing system. It was a job.

Now that I'm an independent media editor, sound engineer, recording engineer, I've used an iPhone and Mac for the last 11 years. If I'm making fine stone jewelry I don't use a food processor to tumble the stones, and if I'm making a fine steak sauce I don't use a power drill to puree the stock. Every tool for its job.

For gaming I've bounced between consoles and PC's for years, as I've gotten older gaming is less important across the board. Too much work to do to game all day.

That being said I'd hate to manage anything more than 10-15 users on a Mac network much less a network with thousands of users and computers and hundreds of servers, it's gotten better but Mac was very late to the networking game and proprietary networking protocols of the late 90's and early 2000's reduced the number of corporate Mac based networks. The last time I tried a multi-user mac network was 2010-2011 and it worked but was clunky compared to AD. These days just getting my wife and daughter accessing iCloud rapidly hasn't been either easy or fast and my wife still can't browse iCloud as if it's a drive from her Mini for some reason; mostly my lazieness but it's still a mess. Recording combined analog and digital music at high sample rates on a Winbox is damned near impossible, ASIO4all kind of make audio sampling more stable in the Win-sphere, but no where near the stability of a Mac when I'm runnning 3+ active vst instruments and recording a guitar, bass and voice at the same time. The number of shows where I"ve helped some DJ recover his crashed windows box from just running two 44.1 khz audio streams is practically uncountable.

Everything else is just engineered consumer culture wars. I bought into them as a kid in the 90's but by the time I left IT, I hated Windows at its core from just being saturated in it for so long. Kind of brought perspective.
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raratt

raratt

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RetiredToker76 said:
Absolutely sucks to have to do in the middle of a live performance. I got to watch the Red Hot Chili Peppers suffer a midshow reboot when their video screen computer crashed. Early 2000's blue screen of death right smack dab in the middle of 'Throw Away Your Television.' Anthony pointed out the irony after the song.
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We sat behind and above the soundboard at a concert once, I was distracted the whole evening...lol.
 
FirstCavApache64

FirstCavApache64

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dabbles said:
haha no. The Big Lebowski sucked. Dudes supposed to be all chill and calm yet they yell at each other the whole movie.

I'm a minister of the Universal Life Church.
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My Dad was also ordained in the Universal Life Church. People were using it to get over on the IRS back in the 70s. He has never officiated at a wedding in the 40 some years since lol.
Congrats minister Dabbles!
 
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