Erik

The skin sets will need to be rebuilt. For now I have removed them and moved everyone to the Classic skin as it's the only one I will be working on as a template for the other skins. I'll restore the other skins when I can move the changes and mods from this skin to those. I'll let everyone know as those become available again. This should resolve the issues mentioned above. Please let me know if it does not. For now I'll focus my attention on this skin set. All input is welcome. E

The feedback is appreciated and will be included in our final draft. It's been a year since we upgraded software and in software lifetimes that's an eternity. To evolve we must remain current and to support new platforms like hand held devices and tablets this process is inevitable. I know it's a pain in the backside for everyone including me so bear with us while we make these changes and move forward. It may take some time before I can actually get to some suggestions and ideas but I'll keep them in mind. The first process is getting everything working then we can add the window dressing. Please keep me posted here with any functionality problems or suggestions for improvements. If I don't get feedback I assume everyone is happy so feel free to be involved in the process. E

All issues should be resolved with the forum skin. I'll be making the necessary updates to all skins in the next few days. Until then I've removed the skins with issues which is all but one, CA Classic. Standby more updates to come. Have you seen some of the cool new stuff? E

CombatACE will be undergoing routine updates later today to provide the community with a more feature rich and stable version of our community software. I will be turning off features and accessibility as I make the upgrades and they will appear offline and will resume normal operation as the updates are completed. The downtime is necessary to make sure all files and database entries maintain their integrity. Thank you for your patience and understanding during the necessary improvements. CombatACE

I see three (3) albums total in the Member's Albums section. Is that what you're supposed to have?

I'll take a look at this. I'm thinking maybe they got put somewhere they shouldn't.

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Each file has a report button or link associated to it. When you use that feature to specifically tell us which file is bad we can check it. To make a blanket statement and say that 2/3 of your downloads were broken gives us nowhere to start looking. So in hindsight maybe we should have asked you to report the files you had problems with as we couldn't do anything with your report as it was when you first posted here. So as of this response nothing has been done, there is no resolve, and we're no closer to solving anything other than agree you reported something and we tried to help with some common issues others have had. Thanks for the help and sorry for the confusion. If you run into this again use the feature to report the file so we can look into that specific file closer.

Dad that's the last brussel sprout I'm eating, are we clear?

Al mal tiempo, buena cara. There are two sides to a window but only one glass. We all see the same glass. Words are never to blame it is how they are used. In both cases here words are said by friends and mean nothing more. There is no hard feelings or stain on the community. No-one on either side meant anything bad by what was said. Foro aqui esta perron. Yo respecto mucho todos amigos Argies y Gringos ... todos! Laughter is always best. Time is too short for such small problems. ------------------------------------------------------ Real or Virtual? ¡Papá! ¡Papá! En el colegio, en la clase me pidieron, que para mañana explique la diferencia entre "virtualmente" y "realmente". - Bueno... Pregúntale a tu madre si se acostaría con otro hombre por un millón de dólares. -El niño obedece: -Mamá... ¿te acostarías con otro hombre por un millón de dólares? -¡Por supuesto! -¡Papá! ¡Papá! ¡Dijo que sí! - Bueno... ahora anda y pregúntale a tu hermana... -María... ¿te acostarías con un hombre por un millón de dólares? -¡Claro que sí! ¡Papá! ¡Papá! ¡También dijo que sí! - Vale y pregúntale también a tu hermano mayor... - Paco, te acostarías con un hombre por un millón de dólares? - Pues claro tío! - Papá Papá él también a dicho que sí! ¿Ves?... "VIRTUALMENTE" tenemos tres millones de dólares, pero "REALMENTE" sólo tenemos un par de putas y un maricón en casa.

I have to agree with the two posts above. I would suggest trying a different decompression tool like 7zip or WinRar. The site automatically assigns a file size of 0KB to a file that is corrupt on upload. Otherwise if the file size shows as having a size it's a valid file checked and scanned upon upload to both our main server and mirror server. As to your question, you wouldn't obviously, and I wouldn't blame you. Thankfully we aren't faced with that problem. Erik

A otro perro con ese hueso ... gringo, wedo, wahito, blanca, clara, negra .... they are just words. It's not so much that they are used but the context in which they are used. This is content versus context and I personally wouldn't give this a second look. I think it's more important to remember that we are all part of the same community and our first goal is to remember we're here together as friends. Todos amigos aqui, ta bien? I trust Dave he's not here stirring up trouble just making sure everything is fine. Saludos. E

In Win7 the WerSvc (Windows Error Reporting Service) is not started by default automatically. You might research how to start and use this feature as it might give you some insight to the problem. CTDs are difficult to diagnose because generally there are no error logs written and that's why I mention the WerSvc. However without some technical assistance or background the error reports are not easily deciphered as they reference an illegal call or resource in hex format and if it's something as fundamental as hardware related it's even more difficult. I'm not an OFF expert so my insights are limited but I'd consider: 1) Does your machine run CFS3 or MSFS without any issues? 2) Does your machine have the latest install of DX9 (I believe Win7 uses DX10 but CFS and MSFS use DX9 so an additional install is required)? 3) Does DX9 report any errors (using the diagnostic tool)? Wish I could be more help but as a consolation you're in the right place the guys here are top notch at figuring this stuff out. E

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D.A. - I was being a bit sarcastic with a toothy edge of truth thrown in. When there are aircraft registered to Kris Kringle - 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, tractor trailers registered to Jack Frost - 935 Pennsylvania Ave, and black Lincoln sedans registered to Crypto le Man - McLean VA you just never know. I do agree the cumulative general appearance is and can be rather vanilla.

Those guys are way too smart for something that obvious. They'd opt for something definitely more secret squirrel like G Men Inc, The Man Inc, or Flowers By Isaac. I'm just saying silly stuff happens. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/fbi-tracking-device/

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I was having some birthday cake and saw this on the news, but that's not important now. Very sad. Rumack: What was it we had for dinner tonight? Elaine Dickinson: Well, we had a choice of steak or fish. Rumack: Yes, yes, I remember, I had lasagna. My condolences to his family and friends and thanks for the laughs Leslie. E

I've heard stories about our neighbors to the north getting the shaft when it comes to unregulated rates charged to consumers. A little known fact is that Canada has one of the highest per household densities of Internet users in the World and obviously rates to match. That's a fairly dramatic fact considering it's the second largest land mass behind Russia but with only 1/2 the population. Another scary fact is that high speed Internet in Canada is considered anything above 64K. I can't imagine trying to surf the web on a 64K connection.

The weather server is back in operation with a very challenging schedule of weather conditions from clear skies to fogged in. Designed for the experienced and not for the faint of heart the knuckle biting seat cushion sucking weather service is back with an attitude to match. Turn off your weather programs and come join us for a full month of new changing weather that is sure to keep you wanting more. The service details are here: Game IP: 66.208.223.140:83 TeamSpeak: 66.208.223.140 Password: wcatc Enjoy!

There are new IP addresses for our services. Please update your FlightSim and TeamSpeak as provided below: ATC Server (Flight Sim): 66.208.223.139 ATC TeamSpeak: 66.208.223.138 PROPS Server (Flight Sim): 66.208.223.138 PROPS Teamspeak: 66.209.223.139 24 Hour Server (Flight Sim): 66.208.223.140 24 Hour Teamspeak: 66.208.223.140 TSComset is not affected and does not require any updates. We hope you enjoy our improved services to the community. WestCoastATC

Yes. The fact that our mirror is faster really puts the wrench to me. I'd like to have your traces and speeds to use as ammunition. Thank you.

Ticket is open and I'll need that information from you guys to proceed. Please post it up when you have it so we can get this resolved. Thanks.

Nobody is stuck with anything there are always options. The hard part is I have to have valid credible evidence to wield not just reports of problems. I'm not saying that the reports aren't credible I'm believing every word what I am saying is that when I make the complaint to our upstream provider the first thing they are going to ask for is the proof not the claim. That said I've already filed off the first complaint and we'll see where this takes us. What you can do in the meantime is help me get ready for their response. Here's how. For my upstream: 1. I need new traceroutes to combatace.com 2. I need new ping reports to combatace.com 3. You can also traceroute to files.combatace.com (they hate this because our files machine is on their competitors line). 4. Ping reports to files.combatace.com 5 Screenshots of the download windows of throughput while the file is downloading showing the 15kb/s. 6 Traceroute and ping a site you get good speeds from. For me: 7. Compare the download speeds between the two servers (The standard download button and the mirror download button) and report them along with the above. I'm sure you guys are up to the task so once I get those I'll do the return traces back to you and fill out the appropriate paperwork and continue the complaint. If they don't or can't explain the issue I always have the option of looking for another provider. If you are having problems with download speeds and are reporting them please read the entire thread, and provide the above. The more documented cases the easier it is to make things happen. Let me know. Erik