your argument about once in two weeks is a fallacy. If you are going to night clubs, you are dating, going out with friends, shopping, going to comedy clubs, sports events, and gatherings. No one is going to a night club, and then quarantining for 13 days. No one.
I can count on one hand the number of times Iâ(TM)ve gone to the movies in the last two years. That is down from my usual 2-4 times a month. Meanwhile, Iâ(TM)m not doing the other things you mentioned. Believe it or not, some people can actually moderate their going out and such. In fact, some of us prefer to moderate social interactions. Being goaded into going to the office everyday with 500 to 1,000 people where I work is a lot different than going less than half a dozen movies, each with only half a dozen other people in the whole auditorium.
Iâ(TM)ve been to a buffet three times in the last two years. Each time, the same one, at a quiet time, when there were only two or three employees there, me, my friend, and only three or four other people there. Less than ten people, all spread out. People can truly control themselves regarding exposure.
HL occasionally had issues with the sound card drivers, but my overall experience with ME was that it was a somewhat better looking version of Windows 98 that even had some touches of Windows 2000 and XP in it.
I think I was done playing games in DOS by that point. Quake ran in Windows, along with Quake 2 and Half Life. I guess I hadnâ(TM)t played Scorched Earth in awhile by then. If I did anything command line back then, Iâ(TM)m guessing CMD or something was good enough for me. Not like I wanted or needed DOS Shell or whatever by then.
Linux was ok back then. I tried it and decided it involved learning lots of things over again. For example, I knew how to make CD-ROM drives work in Windows and how to partition HDDs with Windows and DOS, but trying to get CD-ROM drives mounted and working in Linux on my various computers around then was too much trouble/didnâ(TM)t even work.
I had better luck just SSHing into my collegeâ(TM)s Solaris machines with X and running Xemacs and running stuff via Cygwin on Windows. I downloaded and watched The Matrix, Jackass, Family Guy, and Undergrads on my ME machine.
Back then in the scene, the movies and shows were ripped & encoded or distributed by âoe SMRâ/âoeShadow Movie Realmâ (among other groups). Saved in nAVI or XVID containers with XVID or special nAVI encodingâ¦
Back then, Windows Media Player was tops for playing stuff and VideoLan was still just that - a project for streaming video over a LAN, not a project for playing media files locally.
Skype and SiLK were new back then, having come from KaZaa/Morpheus and Skype had a bunch of competitors back then.
Those were the daysâ¦
This sounds like a job for regular expressions to make it go faster. Seriously!
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