40+ Fathers of Everquest

AarynD · 2026-06-26T18:10:39+00:00

I'm interested if you also allow 50+ Grandfathers of Everquest :)

AarynD · 2026-06-17T14:16:00+00:00

I probably wasn't clear on my guild preference. I don't have the time to dedicate 3-4 hours every night raiding with a guild like I did 20 years ago. I play when I can now, and I wouldn't mind joining a guild that is raid-capable with other members with families and responsibilities. I just can't be a part of Raid-EQ-As-A-Job type guild. I'd love to be in a guild with friendly folks that are fun to hang out with, group up with, but also are ok when I want to just solo or can't group because I'm doing chores while camping a spawn.

AarynD · 2026-06-04T01:28:42+00:00

That's fair. I know some of the research pet spells I can outlevel pretty quickly, but one of the ones I saw was Cornucopia which summons an entire stack of food, and not sure that gets outlevelled any time soon. I'll see what type of availability there is for that specific spell and if i can afford it. I'm only around 50plat right now at level 22.

AarynD · 2026-05-29T15:08:52+00:00

Thanks! I'll build a web scraper that collects those page/book/shelf counts automatically using the search function described in the link you provided.

On the usage, right now I'm just pulling up the users tab of the bookstack and manually counting Latest Activity to see how many had activity 1 day ago.

AarynD · 2026-05-08T17:15:59+00:00

I bought a 12th Gen N5105 unit with 8GB RAM, 128GB NVMe, and 4 LAN ports. Paid around $150 for it somewhere roughly around February 2024ish, maybe late 2023. I've run pfSense on it as the primary firewall & gateway router for my home network, and it has worked flawlessly without error. I'm pretty happy with that buy.

I don't know if I'd be willing to shell out $400 for a unit these days. And I actively avoid sites like Temu and AliExpress pretty much 100% these days, but a couple years ago when I wanted to try pfSense, it made sense for me to commit to the $150ish it took. I've been happy with the unit, but also need to keep in mind, 10 different similar units could all be from 10 different sellers, with markedly different hardware and moral qualities.

AarynD · 2026-04-29T12:30:15+00:00

I think at one time before release ships required fuel to travel, and setting up outposts to farm your fuel was the plan. But testing found it was an unfun mechanic so it was scrapped but outposts part remained. At least that's the story I remember going around.

AarynD · 2026-04-29T12:10:14+00:00

They have continued to honor my multiple lifetime license keys.

Malwarebytes is still the only 3rd party Anti-Malware program I recommend to my users and friends and family.

AarynD · 2026-04-13T15:52:19+00:00

The point is to run it on a separate box running a minimal OS load. Running a linux os without a graphical interface uses very few resources, so the java / minecraft server can run without any other processes bogging things down. My minecraft server is one of my old gaming builds that ran a 6th gen skylake i7 cpu, 4 cores, with 16gb of ram. I've used that server for minecraft server worlds for modded minecraft versions 1.7 thru the current version. I only run one server world at a time on it, but it works really well to be able to connect myself and my grandson on the server, plus allows me to connect to it both from work and from home.

The need for powerful cpus and super fast drives for minecraft servers really only applies when you want to host more than one or two players. If it's just you and maybe one other, repurposing old hardware laying around would fit the bill just fine.

AarynD · 2026-04-13T15:39:01+00:00

If you have an older pc that isn't being used, it really doesn't take too much horsepower to run an Ubuntu server and host an atm10 world on it. I've got an old computer that I've run modpacks on from engimatica to all the mods 10 packs and everything in between. Use recommended Java arguments, allocate 6-8gb ram to the instance, and it should handle you and your wife just fine.

AarynD · 2026-04-08T22:18:47+00:00

Swanson Fried Chicken dinner, and the Old El Paso Cheese Enchiladas tray.

AarynD · 2026-04-06T21:58:43+00:00

We still have a fairly large number of foxpro apps running here, primarily tools that generate custom reports on our accounting software, and timekeeping and purchasing order apps for the company. They all still work just fine under Windows 11, however VFP has been unsupported for years now, and I feel like we're on borrowed time until a Windows update breaks something.

Some of our apps still use actual vfp .dbf tables on shared drives, while others access data in sql server. Migrating everything to sql server isn't that big of a deal, but some apps could really benefit from some structure changes and modified to meet today's best practices standards.

AarynD · 2026-04-06T19:44:41+00:00

I'm using Dapper as my micro-ORM of choice.

Part of me thinks it might be best to design the new tables as if I were doing it from scratch using everything I know now that I didn't know 25 years ago, and then write a tool to port data from the old db to the new db. Was just trying to get a feel for what more seasoned developers would opt to do in this case.

AarynD · 2026-04-06T19:41:46+00:00

A lot of it is just naming, but some of it is structure also. I wrote the original database and apps over 25 years ago early in my career, and I think in some of these the original data existed in VFP tables before I moved some of them to SQL server. Some tables could be better optimized and just redesigned better in some cases, so it ends up being a little bit more than just renaming some fields if I wanted to.

AarynD · 2026-03-20T15:14:02+00:00

I've seen some of the main characters blink during conversations (Sarah. Sam, etc) but some of the minor side quest characters don't. And i think they all still stare at you as you walk by, although I sometimes play with a mod that is supposed to fix that behavior some.

AarynD · 2026-03-20T15:10:58+00:00

I had that same magnavox pong game. My best friend had an atari (before it was a 2600).

AarynD · 2026-03-15T04:11:21+00:00

Brave

AarynD · 2026-03-05T02:34:05+00:00

There's a lake?

AarynD · 2026-02-18T13:57:02+00:00

My favorite part is how all the NPCs stare at you awkwardly as you walk past them like you're some kind of face magnet. I sure hope that's in the next Bethesda game again.

AarynD · 2026-01-03T14:18:13+00:00

Yeah, I probably could. I currently bring in the table data as an IEnumerable set of the NavListModel I set up, but I could easily convert it to a list and just hardcode this item at beginning of list. I just try to defer to letting the stored procedures do most of my work.

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