Hello all, 

We had a project some number of years ago to host free chat rooms using Ajax Chat. We improved upon it quite a bit and added an admin panel, username registration, custom commands, among other things. It's a simple, but fully featured webchat interface with minimal ads, and it's totally free. Unfortunately, our host at the time shut it down. Fortunately, we have fixed that problem.  

I'm in the process of redirecting old chatcave.me links to chatcave.makestation.net, so the website is a little rough on the edges right now. It's a small project, so I'm not planning on advertising it a whole lot outside of here (it pretty much advertised itself last time, it grew faster than we expected). Other than that, if you are looking for a lightweight, fully featured chat room, check out our chat hosting service. It's available for anyone who needs it!

Visit Makestation Chat Room Hosting

Geekbench is a free (for the tryout version) benchmarking software that is pretty much used to benchmark anything from tablets and phones to server mainframes. A score of 1000 indicates roughly the performance of a laptop-grade 8th generation i3. If you get 1000, you can expect pretty good performance, but some devices get over 1,300 (particularly Apple's mobile devices and some high-clockspeed Intel processors). 

Anyway, I benchmarked my machine. These were my results. I got 631 for single core, and 1414 for multi core. It's on a 2012 Macbook Pro with a 3rd gen dual-core i3 at 2.5-2.9ghz. It's not very good by today's standards, but it's fast enough to get the job done. 

If you've benchmarked your machine, I'm curious to see what you get. Share both the benchmark and the CPU specs! You can download Geekbench 5 here. It's free for the tryout mode, which is usually plenty enough to get the benchmark done.

I’ve had many old cars in my lifetime. Almost all of them burned oil. My old Toyota was the worst of them all. It managed to burn about a quart every gas tank. I had an old civic that did the same thing, but it had a blown head gasket, so it makes more sense on the civic.

I feel like 1 quart every 1000 miles is pretty much acceptable for a car under 200K miles, but it depends. How much is too much, for an old beater?

Congratulations to @s3_gunzel  for being named the May 2020 Member of the Month!

https://velocitypartners.com/blog/6-exam...marketing/

I read this today, and thought it was a good read. Honestly, so many businesses are competing for being "the best" - whereas creative methods as shown in the article aren't necessarily terrible ideas.  

Ling's Cars is pretty widely known as one of the worst websites in the world, and it's totally on purpose. They get quite a bit of traffic simply from being acclaimed as one of the world's worst. It works out well for them apparently. They are actually a 100% legitimate business, and apparently a pretty successful one at that.

What are some of the most "interesting" marketing campaigns you've ever run across?

Is there a live webcam from your city?

Unfortunately not from my village, but the neighboring village has one.

https://www.webcam-4insiders.com/de/Wett...Wetter.php


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I live in a beach town personally. Our traffic is okay during the winter, and awful during the summer. It's a lot of crammed roads with too many red lights, and bumper to bumper traffic for 30 minutes to go 3 miles. 

Otherwise, it's nice. Everything is very close. I could walk literally anywhere I ever need (and often do). I only drive when absolutely needed. 

I've lived in bigger cities too, and the traffic is generally better at a local level in a bigger city, but the interstates get jammed pretty badly during rush hour. 

What is the traffic like in your city?

Feel free to ask me anything.

A random thread with no longer manipulations on it.

I joined a year ago but was not super active. 
Here I am making post saying I'm Julia. 
I like outdoor adventures, sci fi, paddleboarding, skiing, and hiking.