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  • Special Server Maintenance

    Just when you think you have everything running some what better...

    You get a message from the Hosting company. Short story they need to move us to a new server. I have been working with them to plan a good date for all concerned. Here is what we have come up with as a schedule.

    1. November 4th 17:00 -5UTC shut off the forums and start backup proceedures. During this time there will be no access to the forums or the Resource Section.
    2. November 5th Continue with Backups and download same until complete.
    3. November 6th 7:00 turn over server to hosting company to move system to new server
    4. November 7th - 8th restore backups and upgrade forum software.

    If all goes well we should be back online on November 8th.

    To keep you updated we will post updates on AVSIM forums.

    Thank you for your support.

What did I do?

jmig

jmig

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I think I mentioned a month or so ago that I was planning building a new flight simulator (MSFS, P3D, & DCS) computer. Around every five years I get the itch to build a new computer. By then the software has eaten any hardware advantage I may have had. So, I build a new one and the old flight sim computer becomes my everyday computer. Well, the parts all came in and yesterday I put it together. I don't know what I did wrong, but...the darn thing fired right up and Windows 10 installed on the the new M2 drive without a problem.

I have built over two dozen PCs. I can't remember, with the exception of early DOS and maybe a Win 95, any computer just working. It goes against the laws of physics, psychology, and possibly theology for a new build to work without some twilling, praying, and cussing (at least for me) before it does its thing. Windows can especially be hard to load. It always seem to not like your drive for some reason known only to the software gods, who are laughing at a mere mortal trying to figure out the complexities, abstruseness, and idiosyncrasies that are Windows 10.

I ran it all night while it downloaded MSFS. It is currently downloaded loading all the DCS Mods from Eagle Dynamics. Tomorrow I will probably start loading P3D on the system, provided the other two work when I try them. Then it is on to tweaking the performance until I screw something up. Then I back-up a bit.
 
There are mysterys' in the world where we have as little chance of understanding, as an ant has of understanding us. All you can do is accept them and realize that there are some things, better left unknown..
 
warchild said:
There are mysterys' in the world where we have as little chance of understanding, as an ant has of understanding us. All you can do is accept them and realize that there are some things, better left unknown..
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Not only are you a flight dynamics engineer, you are a philosopher too. :very_drunk: Well said, my friend.
 
A buddy I had in the Navy summed things up when asked why things worked like they did. His answer? "FM". (Friggin' Magic).... NC
 
Good preparation and planning plus a sacrifice to the Gods of the Clan MF10 will do it along with a hefty dose of Simplified Wild Arsed Luck!
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You built it all wrong. I suggest taking it apart and starting over. That has to be a mistake. LOL
 
Hdguy said:
You built it all wrong. I suggest taking it apart and starting over. That has to be a mistake. LOL
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You may be right. :jump: I have MSFS, P3D V5 and DCS all working at the moment. I keep waiting for something to break.
 
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