Long time no see...
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Artlav
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Hello there and welcome back!
The betas are open these days, which may very well count as new versions, with terrain and whatnot.
So, what have you been up to this decade?
The betas are open these days, which may very well count as new versions, with terrain and whatnot.
So, what have you been up to this decade?
reverend
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Oh, I'll have to grab one and give it a try. I'll have to dig up an old Windows Laptop as I switched to a Macbook Pro about 3 years ago and never looked back!
In 2013 I quit my job at the IT company and started a cloud hosting company of my own. Things are good. Only got a handful of customers, but already earning about $3500/mo. Seems to be a good market to be in these days. If anyone needs a fast, reliable virtual server I have them starting at $11/mo (shameless self promotion!)
Anyway, glad the community is still going. I do miss flying! Not as much free time these days though.
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Yes! I did so much work on network integrated addons. Unfortunately all of my orbiter projects were lost due to a hard drive failure at some point. It was muchly a hobby and I didn't make backups of anything.
Welcome back to Orbiter and the forum.
You might consider running Orbiter on Windows in the Mac's BootCamp partition - that's mostly what I do, on a 2012 MBP El Capitan and Windows 10. Sometimes I run Orbiter on Windows XP in a Parallels Desktop virtual machine, but performance is just barely tolerable.
You might consider running Orbiter on Windows in the Mac's BootCamp partition - that's mostly what I do, on a 2012 MBP El Capitan and Windows 10. Sometimes I run Orbiter on Windows XP in a Parallels Desktop virtual machine, but performance is just barely tolerable.
Lisias
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I'm running Orbiter on MacOS X under WINE, with good results.
I use Wineskin Winery as the WINE "distribution", and it's very practical. I just double click the "Orbiter.exe" file and it's launched.
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Last time I remember bringing a point like this in a similar situation, I was bashed by a user and the OP, that the question was about buying a laptop, not emulating.
It's good to see that the forum finally looses its elected and unelected Nazi moderators.
Welcome back Reverend. Good job on launching your own venture. :tiphat:
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Thanks guys. I do have windows setup in Bootcamp... I set it up to play some GTA5, but I dont honestly boot into it too much... Its too much of a pain to reboot and switch back and forth. I have a Windows 10 VM in my cloud that I RDP too when I want to do windows things usually. Just has no GPU.
I also wondered about running it under a Linux VM, perhaps just Orbiter_NG or something... the VM's are High-Availability, so I'm wondering how long I could keep a simulation running. Never really been a fan of Wine, but I may try it out.
I'm assuming Orbiter is still not compiled with .NET, so Mono probably won't help. Anyway. Glad to be lurking once again.
I also wondered about running it under a Linux VM, perhaps just Orbiter_NG or something... the VM's are High-Availability, so I'm wondering how long I could keep a simulation running. Never really been a fan of Wine, but I may try it out.
I'm assuming Orbiter is still not compiled with .NET, so Mono probably won't help. Anyway. Glad to be lurking once again.
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Huh?
What kind of a cloud is that and how much does it cost?
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Check a little farther up; Reverend has started his own cloud hosting provider, one would assume he runs his own VMs there too.
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Well, I didnt honestly come on here to promote my business, but since you asked...
Its a pool of 4 Citrix XenServers, 32 cores (64 threads), 512GB of RAM, Dual 10 Gigabit internet connections to each server, and several storage servers with 240TB of raw storage. It can run Windows virtual machines or Most flavors of Linux. I charge $4 per virtual cpu, $2 per GB of RAM, $0.10 per GB of storage, and $2 per IP address. Windows licenses are $10 extra. Those are monthly prices. I only have 5 clients that I'm hosting for at the moment, but over 100 virtual servers on it thus far. Revenue is about $4,000 USD/mo, costs are about $1800 USD/mo, so pretty decent margins, and I only have to spend about 4 hours a month supporting it. Still have about 60GB of unsold RAM, so it could still be more profitable.
Leaves me with lots of free time to do IT consulting as well. Overall, glad to not be working the 9-5 grind anymore... Being your own boss is great.
Its a pool of 4 Citrix XenServers, 32 cores (64 threads), 512GB of RAM, Dual 10 Gigabit internet connections to each server, and several storage servers with 240TB of raw storage. It can run Windows virtual machines or Most flavors of Linux. I charge $4 per virtual cpu, $2 per GB of RAM, $0.10 per GB of storage, and $2 per IP address. Windows licenses are $10 extra. Those are monthly prices. I only have 5 clients that I'm hosting for at the moment, but over 100 virtual servers on it thus far. Revenue is about $4,000 USD/mo, costs are about $1800 USD/mo, so pretty decent margins, and I only have to spend about 4 hours a month supporting it. Still have about 60GB of unsold RAM, so it could still be more profitable.
Leaves me with lots of free time to do IT consulting as well. Overall, glad to not be working the 9-5 grind anymore... Being your own boss is great.
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:facepalm:
Ok, i fail at putting two and two together...
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An old hero from the M6 days...
Good to see you back here again. I don't do much flying or dev work these days but I still visit the forums regularly.
Good to see you back here again. I don't do much flying or dev work these days but I still visit the forums regularly.
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As someone with maximum envy, how much did the outlay on this cost you?
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Welcome back!
Wait - no GPUs? How can you run Orbiter on that?
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Just the monthly costs listed there. I'm renting everything as dedicated servers from OVH. There's no way I could afford all that... probably $100,000 in hardware... It started smaller, but as I added more customers the pool grew...
The XenServer's I rent are $259/mo each and the Storage servers are $439/mo each. Bandwidth, colo, power all included.
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Haha, I don't run Orbiter on it. XenServer does support GPU passthru though, so if I had them, it could work. None of my clients have ever asked for GPU support though.
Also, doesn't orbiter support RGB emulation? that should still work.
Well, yes but the FPS would abysmal and turn Orbiter into very complicated PowerPoint presentation. I'm talking single-digit FPS.
