Erik

After the pure brilliance that was Brexit we have humbly decided to bin your offer of owning our debt. A youth vote of 52% in favo(u)r to remain independent was surely to blame and we the remaining 48% are remiss for the great offer and opportunity we passed on. Since we are quite confident that the younger generation will age please resubmit your offer of revocation in eight years. In your resubmittal please be prepared to explain everything from HRH the Queen, juicy bits in your orange juice, UK road signage, Mr. Blobby, Geordie Shore, Eastenders never ending, Marmite, and finally are you taking a piss with dogs bullocks? Signed "The guys who left a couple years ago" Cheers!

As long as it makes your funny bone tingle that's all that matters.

Not sure what you mean mounted sideways. CPU coolers are designed to only mount one way, heat sink pad directly to CPU.

This campaign season has been dangerously divisive and polarizing on everyone. It brought out anger and hate in the process that we as a country haven't felt in one and half centuries. I'll be glad when it's over. One thing we need to push for in both parties is term limits in the congress and senate. If we did just that in the next four years and nothing else I'd be happy.

I don't think any of us here disagree with your views. I'm ashamed that this is the best we can offer. Oprah would have won in a land slide but she laughed when they offered the job.

This is a hidden poll you are the only one who can see your vote. Very interesting so far.

Pretty simple give us your vote it'll be interesting to see a true populous poll. Open to everyone you don't have to be an US citizen to vote.

https://amzn.com/B0044FHFJQ This is a much better and quieter fan for your machine and should fit with no problems. Copper cores will help disperse heat better if you're using conventional cooling. The fan should be a four pin so it should vary its speed depending on the temperature of the CPU. Some fans are just noisy no matter what you do it has to do with fan speed and air flow so be prepared even with all your fidgeting you still may not have the quiet solution you're looking for. As Fubar stated make sure the thermal paste is doing it's job or heat won't transfer to the cooler possibly causing the 100% fan setting to be on continuous. I like MX4: https://amzn.com/B0045JCFLY You'll need to remove the pad on the new copper heat sink that comes with the new fan. There's a kit for thermal paste removal here: https://amzn.com/B0007TOR08 Also clean the old thermal paste off the CPU before installing the new heat sink and fan. In a pinch I've used nail polish remover and cotton sticks. Of course there are better coolers available than the one I showed above but I was trying to be budget friendly for your needs. Also if a fan is noisy because it's gotten dust in the bearing or it's frozen you can try using a drop of three in one oil, peel pad on top to reveal bearing. Use caution here because you want the pad to stick back when you're done that's what keeps dust out of the bearing so get your drop exactly on the bearing. I actually use a high performance engine additive called BestLine and a hypodermic needle. All tricks of the trade use at your own risk. Good luck.

I wasn't talking to you if I was I would have quoted your text not to mention there's not a single threatening word in anything I said.

It's very easy to say that when it's not you who is damaged by such actions. That's like Napster telling the RIAA "it's a song guys. It's a song." Didn't quite work out for them and it's directly to the reason why our policy on the matter exists and why I so adamantly shut down even the thought of it. Machine's log everything don't risk it.

Okay well seems the problem is fixed by whatever means if it happens again please let us know. Thank you.

The only way you'd get that message from our system is if you're trying to log into an account that has been banned usually for duplicate accounts. Do you have a second log in like use the Facebook or Twitter login or another account? If so that's the problem because if you can log in with a valid account and post messages as you've done there's nothing wrong with your account from our perspective. Let me know. Thanks.

Crazyhorse - You can't force your hand on this issue. I will not allow you to implicate this community in your illegal behavior and make us all pay for your mistakes. Everyone has been more than accommodating reading your colorful profanity but we're all done. So either back down on the issue and keep calm or I'll moderate your account more than just removing your PMs. You've taken me to task more than just this once. I don't remember what are we on round three or four now. You seem to have an issue with me doing what is best for everyone and not just you. I have no issues with John Shelton or anyone else for that matter and I never did but I always seemed to get thrown into some dispute you all were having and here I am again 10 years later. It's time to move on and let the community focus on doing what it enjoys and that's not listening to you rant or being party to your distributing illegal payware. As the ancient Tibetan Philosophy states, "Don't start none, won't be none!"

http://combatace.com/topic/89655-windows-10-au-has-just-killed-my-wov-flying/

Yeah bummer the screenshots are all behind group access on FB.

They are making sure to give plenty of warning after Sandy and Katrina. The order to evacuate was perfectly timed this go around to avoid loss of life. Now for you silly folks "toughing" it out may God keep you and may one day we figure out why you'd endure such misery when Las Vegas is open 24/7 and the airlines are offering cheap flights. I better not see you on the rescue boats or you'll forever be shamed. Good kite weather though. :)

Well it all started back in 1958 with ARPA through US Government funding and yes major universities played a huge role in it's development and growth. The closed network transformed into the ARPAnet somewhere in the late sixties and it was still a private network. When the impact of networking computers nationwide was discovered the US Government through the FCC figured out that they needed to expand the network which at the time was run on copper phone lines. To do this the FCC started imposing a tax on the telephone companies that the public paid. Through this tax a larger and bigger backbone was paid for and built. That network was the basis for what we use today with the exception that most of the infrastructure was privatized which made way for companies like Comcast which is the nations largest internet service provider. Of course this is an over simplification of 40 years of development up to the point where companies like AOL, Netscape, MSN all started charging for dial-up access to their access points. From that point forward the internet has grown into what we know today. So we paid to have it built. We paid/pay to connect to it. We paid/pay to serve content on it. The bottom line is that we've always paid because that's how a capitalistic system works and the government is still taxing us for it's upkeep by way of FCC surcharges on your phone, cable, and internet connected devices. The word FREE though convenient it has never been.

This is more common than you think. It wasn't long ago a guy over at another aviation simulation site took a group of people for thousands each. My memory of what I read was that this computer expert promised a group of people he'd build them a custom tuned, personal gaming machine with all the latest and greatest hardware for a fraction of the retail price. He claimed he didn't mark up hardware just charged a flat fee of $100 to build a machine which he claimed explained his pricing. Because he was so incredibly busy the only way to order a machine was to pay up front. Many did and many got burned with little to no recourse. This all happened because an online friend of all these people vouched for this computer guy. The computer guy did build a machine with all that money it just so happened it was for him. So in the end not only did these folks loose tons of money but they lost their personal enjoyment of a hobby and their friends. Like PC says the only way to do business online is to first know you have a valid recourse if something goes wrong. Use a credit card or account that has a zero fraud liability this is the best method. Then you can feel confident shopping online because all disputes error in your favor. This means the bank refunds you first then goes after their money through the merchant's payment processing vendor which they will in turn deduct their money right from the account they make deposits into (whether the money is there or not) before the seller even knows about it in most cases. Personally my second check is to find their physical address and phone number before I order anything. I then verify it by calling them and google mapping their business at street view to see if it's legitimate. Then I know if things get really bad I can use a local police department to report the incident and him before doing anything stupid. Spend your money wisely and good luck out there.

It has always been my experience that most hardware is designed for whatever OS / driver is installed or should I say optimized for that OS / driver. I have never found a machine where an upgrade to an OS (and some drivers), that wasn't a point upgrade to address bugs and such, does more good than leaving your current OS. Updated drivers and operating systems are mostly to make sure newer hardware is compatible with their software. If you don't have that newer hardware very few software upgrades are going to make any noticeable difference. Everyone should start reading the release notes of what an update is and if it doesn't apply to you don't install the extra bloat on your machine. In other words if you have Software Version 9.01 and they release a 9.02 then that's probably to fix something that isn't working as intended or improve something. Those updates are worth your time but to make a version jump say version 9.02 to version 10.1 those updates are for newer features and support of newer hardware. Installing those instruction sets usually bogs down older hardware and is considered bloatware. I think it was crappy of Microsoft to shove Windows 10 down people's throat where most of them had no idea it was coming and the havoc it would cause. Imagine the amount of people that are having to buy new hardware to support the OS. IMO that is a huge mishandling of trust and is unprecedented when it comes to possibly taking someone's livelihood offline. The only saving grace is that the OS can be rolled back to restore your machine's performance to pre-slaughter auto update. Imagine taking your car in to be repaired and the mechanic said, "We have a newer version of your engine so we went ahead and installed it. Unfortunately, you now need a new ECM, electrical upgrade, transmission, new motor mounts, blah blah blah." Imagine the chaos. Remember you own your machine Microsoft doesn't. How dare they make assumptions and or cost anyone hours of unpaid work just because they want to push a newer OS no matter their reasoning or cost. Microsoft you blew it and your credibility is now in the crapper. My bet is you'll see more people turn off your auto update service and you'll end up causing compromises and loss of data in never before seen volumes. Good luck out there.

... and they told us we "never leave a fallen comrade" NEVER! Physically or morally we are there. Damn straight you'll fight this, it's not a request, it's an order.

There's been a few threads about this and most of us killed the automatic update to save our Win 7 machines. However you're not the only one who has been victimized by Microsoft policies. It's criminal.

We'll keep you in our thoughts and prayers. Keep in good spirits and remember to find laughter even if you have to wear your gown backwards, we'll be pulling for you. E

When you get behind the aircraft or its flight systems you're no longer flying the aircraft it is flying you. We're setting pilots up to fail and when it happens we call it something friendly like loss of control or failure to train and little to no actions are taken to correct the problem at the pilot level. We've stopped teaching pilots how to fly and have replaced it with how to interpret what the flight system is doing. By the time you get to the point where the flight management is warning a pilot a deadly condition exists it's already to late and yet this scenario plays out in more cockpits than any airline will truthfully admit. You will never hear an armchair or magenta pilot utter the words "I felt it" when speaking about the aircraft they're flying. Proficiency is all your senses coming together to know your aircraft before it knows itself. That's what makes a pilot worth his salt and seat and that my friends is dead or dying. May you not become a statistic and happy flying. E

Let the guy build what he wants and if it's wrong you have the option of not using it. Why anyone would try to stifle someone's creativity is beyond me. I suggest that anyone who feels differently grab your thinking cap and build a better option to make your point. Otherwise it's time to relax, shake hands, and walk away friends agreeing to disagree. Continuing along these lines isn't going to get anyone anywhere. I think that point has been made abundantly clear. Erik