[Road Trip over Independence Pass (Colorado)]

Oh, yah, Derek, it's a pretty state. I'm from Oregon, and it has it's scenic spots, too, as every state does. Regarding your comment about 'Legalization', I'm gonna start a new Monkey Topic about it. It's bizarre, compared to most other states, that you can legally purchase 'Reefer Madness' substances. Many entrepreneurs are taking advantage of this lucrative market. To quote an 'Old School' Dow Chemical (now Dow Corning) advertising ditty, "Better Living through Chemistry". P.S. BTW, "Better Living Through Chemistry", has been one of my mottoes for many years.

[How slow/fast is your ISP?]

What the ****, Derek? I've never seen an Upload speed faster than a Download speed. As you said, if you uploaded stuff, that would be a great speed.

[Road Trip over Independence Pass (Colorado)]

Went on a small 'road trip' recently (Sun-Wed). Not that you'd care, but here's a few photos I took:

[2 Very Powerful new Routers: Asus RT-AC5300U and Google OnHub (What a difference in appearance!)]

Asus (availability - 4th quarter? - rumored price: $400): ****************************************************************************** Google (availability - 15 Sep - around $200):

[How slow/fast is your ISP?]

I get pretty good speeds. This is around my average (low 90's for download (10-15 for upload)): My ISP (as you can see from the lower-left corner of the 'speed test' screenshot) is Comcast/Xfinity. Click here if ya wanna check your speed. P.S. I'd be interested to see what you folks in foreign countries (or U.S. folks in the 'middle-of-nowhere' or huge metro areas) get.

[Nasty Emails]

I have a lot of refrigerator magnets - here's one of my favorites: Send the pathetic baby one of these (I suspect it will easily apply to them). If they heed the advice, we'll all be better off.

[YouTube Gaming (Link)]

YouTube Gaming Interestingly, in Firefox (which is my Browser of choice - Yay for Open Source!) the page starts to load, and then I get an 'interesting' error message: "Lorem ipsum other castle, arrow to the knee set up us the bomb." I'll have to investigate that, later... Works fine in IE, though.

[80% of my Images directory has vanished, but all the artwork still shows-up in LaunchBox]

Jason Carr said Hi Stimpy, in theory, all of the images that didn't move are no longer referenced by LaunchBox (and can be deleted). Usually these are due to old versions/copies of games. We have seen some odd scenarios pop up, however, due to glitches in older versions of LaunchBox. So try moving them out of the folder first, and then refresh your images.

Yup, everything is present and accounted for. Thanks, Jason! And now I know where to put the artwork I download. P.S. Did my Back-Up, too.

[Magician David Blaine sorta freaks-out Harrison Ford (Link to 1'50" Video Clip)]

Cool trick!

[Gamefly’s game-streaming service arrives on Samsung smart TVs]

Competition can be good for the consumer, so I welcome Gamefly's streaming (however, I won't be subscribing any time soon), although their initial offering of games is reported to be pretty thin.

[LEGO and Bio PC's]

LEGO PC P.S. Very long article, but I mostly scrolled like heck and only viewed the pictures. And then, there's the Bio-PC.

[Thunderbolt 3: A seriously fast connection]

Thunderbolt 3

[Windows 10 - Tweaks, Tricks and Community Sharing [Please Read]]

SentaiBrad said http://www.pcworld.com/article/2975289/windows/how-to-cure-windows-10s-worst-headaches.html I came across this, it said it was updated 5 hours ago from me making this post. So it seems to get updated. Lots of cool tips and tricks in this article as well as how to disable some applications like Cortana.

Good stuff at PCWorld, Brad. I subscribe to a few of their Newsletters. There are lots of decent Links relating to Windows 10 in this article (Windows 10 Superguide)!

[AMD Radeon R9 Nano Graphics Card - Much smaller, but more bad-ass than a Radeon R9 290X!]

This 175W card measures a mere 6 inches in length, but packs up to 30 percent more performance oomph than AMD’s pre-Fury flagship, the Radeon R9 290X! AMD Radeon R9 Nano P.S. Available 10 Sep for about $650

[80% of my Images directory has vanished, but all the artwork still shows-up in LaunchBox]

Jason Carr said Hi Stimpy, with 5.0 the images were reorganized. The proper image folder paths should be something like this by default: LaunchBox\Images\[Platform]\[Type]\[Game Name].jpg For example: LaunchBox\Images\Nintendo Wii\Front\Sonic Colors.jpg Do they show up there?

Hey, Jason. Ah-ha! There they are. Thanks! So, now, instead of downloading my own Cover Art and calling it 'Front', and placing it in the sub-directory with the name of the game, I call it the name of the game, and place it in the Platform\Front directory, right? But, why didn't they all "go over"? About 40 of the games "stayed behind" under the old structure.

[Run Android Apps in Windows with AMIDuOS (Link)]

AMIDuOS, since you don't have enough programs on your PC already.

[80% of my Images directory has vanished, but all the artwork still shows-up in LaunchBox]

I was attempting to add some downloaded artwork into a game sub-directory (under Images), but the appropriate directory wasn't there, even though I had just added the game (and downloaded whatever TheGamesDB had for it). Therefore, I can't replace the Front.jpg, as I don't have the correct directory to place it in. I have about 300 games added to LaunchBox (the artwork for all of the games is there), but there are less than 50 sub-directories under Images. My Back-Up of LaunchBox has the more appropriate amount of 300+ sub-directories under Images. What the heck's goin' on? Could some of the directory structure have moved itself???

[Windows 10 - Tweaks, Tricks and Community Sharing [Please Read]]

Shortcut Keys for Windows 10 (well suited for a printable 'cheat sheet'). P.S. Derek, your 'drive array' is insanely awesome.

[Amanita Design has some decent puzzle games (Machinarium, Samorost 1 & 2, and Botanicula)]

Here's a few point-and-click puzzle games I play, that have fun artwork (IMHO) and challenging game-play. These links allow you to play a little of each game. I'm not that great at puzzle games (some of them have ridiculously obscure puzzles/solutions, I think), but I still enjoy them, and thank goodness for 'walk-throughs'. Machinarium Samorost 1 Samorost 2 Botanicula Here's the company's Website.

[AMD's Project Quantum: The Enthusiast PC Form-Factor Leaps Forward]

If you're even slightly interested in PC hardware, I suggest you watch this video. The guts of this thing are explained here, in a bit more detailed, but fun way. P.S. The very end was a bit adolescent, but I (being a little short on maturity) got a good chuckle out of it.

[Ahhh..., if you don't mind a 'potentially incriminating' question...]

Do you folks with armies (aka thousands and thousands) of games, buy them all, or is it that many of them were a 'free-off-the-Internet' type of thing? My games only number in the 'low hundreds' (but I don't have any emulated games and only 15 Steam games).

[Windows through the Ages (Well, its 30 years, anyway)]

Windows is 30 years old, so FWIW, here's the nostalgic flash-back:

[Assorted Free Guides (about 100 - from Job Hunting stuff to Linux Utilities to Web Programming)]

I've been collecting some free guides (all PDF files) of various sorts. Some are pretty good. Anyway, here's the link: Guides I hope you can find something useful.

[Can't connect to Steam Network]

Yeah, and I guess I spoke too soon, as now I can't connect, again (same error as my original Post). So, if anyone can connect to Steam more often than not, I'd appreciate your ideas on any Settings, or whatever. Thanks.

[Can't connect to Steam Network]

Oops! Never mind. I had typo'd one of the Port ranges in my router configuration. Now that I've corrected it, I can connect to Steam. Sorry!