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Speechless. Is it a 1:1 model? Even the wicker seat - Wow!! I'm also assuming he's hand painted the German lozenges? Just incredible. You're a credit to Oz Beeza1. Fantastic stuff.

Wonder if you get simulated yobo's on the bus, an occassional assault and spit in your ear, and brick through the window now and again. Driving for St Trinians might have it's moments. And the fork lift driver would fail his fork lift test. You're supposed to be stopped and have the handbrake on before you lift or lower the forks. Nobody ever does it, but technically, IT'S THE LAW!!!! (But it's OK if you're in a rough terrain forklift, you can live outside this law!) OK, so it might be more of a regulation than a law, but if you want your ticket, - don't do it. Get your kicks somehow else. There's also a freight lorry simulator out there too. You can pick your own journey, and off you go. No Ice Road Trucking though. So just what is the point? I have to admit, (and this might be heresy in these parts), but I even find flight sims a little dull without the 'shooty-gun' bits.

Got a lot of respect for crane drivers, but even doing it for real is boring most of the time they say. Sitting on your arse all day, & p____g in a bottle. Wonder if there's multiplayer option to have a banksman. Woohoo. - Getting bungs from the workies to lift their stuff first! Lets not forget, simulators aren't games, they can be used to train people, (but I'm not at all sure that's the case here).

0 deg this morning. Woohoo! Felt like summer. Nearly run home to put my shorts on and dig out the BBQ..... Nearly. Seriously, zero degrees never felt so good. Felt so good I took the dogs a good long walk, forgetting the snow was still 2ft thick. Maybe not my most inspired judgement - damn well nearly killed me. - I'll have to get myself fit.

You can adjust the transparency though. The Boys of 60 had them semi transparent - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSthEjxecA Sure I've got the relevant info somewhere if you're keen.

A few did, but they had serious problems jamming. These were overcome reasonably quickly, but not in time for the few months which B of B lasted. Edit - If I recall correctly, a sqd of Spits with cannon engaged a group of 109's, but had a desperate time with jams etc, losing 4 aircraft to nil in the engagement. The powers that be persisted with cannon however because it was universally acknowledged they needed the extra punch.

Looks very promising. But Wings of Prey? Is it just me, or does that not sound quite right? Kinda sounds like something lost a little bit in translation, either that or all the other "Wings of ____" titles were already taken. I like the look of the sim, quite a lot in fact, - but not what it's called. That replay facility has me drooling though... I must try out the demo....

Isle of WHITE. Just got it......

Thanks for the de-icing tips. The WD 40 does work best, but only for a couple of openings I find. First time, (even overnight), 100%, second opening 60%, third 10%. You need to spray it every time you lock it, and being me, I forget. I've never had it freeze on me though. - Jings!!! Deisel yes in the old days, but not WD40. Heating the key is a pain, and it does work eventually, but not that effective I'm afraid to say. When the landy freezes, and especially the container padlocks at work, you can't actually get the key into the lock. I think part of the problem is the lock. More than one person has told me it's a weakness in the landy. And don't whatever you do blow into it. If your lips touch metal, you're stuck, and stuck looking like a pillock. Either that or you pull your face off. Kettle is quickest and easiest, but I know the hot water re-freezes almost immediately, and you've just filled your lock with water. - Can't win, but at least you're in! I'd leave it unlocked except there's too many scruffs about who wouldn't leave it alone. What happened yesterday when driving was the lock had opened, but the door button itself had frozen in, so the door latch was staying open. I couldn't stop to sort it because I was on the move by then and there was nothing I could have done anyway. Well said indeed Themightysrc. Most accurate reflection of our status I've heard since it all began. There is a relative factor to remember too. I fully expect Pappy55's snow in the Isle of White is a bigger shock to the local system than what we have here. Experience is a big factor in dealing with it. Be great if the Council had 100 ploughs and snow blowers sitting idle for the past 20 yrs ready for today, but it would be a spectacular waste of resources. It's a bit grim here, worst I can remember if I'm honest, but only 'the' worst by a small margin. It's been close to this before. At the end of the day, we're only catching what Scandinavia gets every year. If we caught it every year, we'd be ready too. What I'm beginning to see is the hysteria beginning to wane quite a bit, and people are just getting on with it as the Brits typically do. I think they're the type of people to whom the media delivers quite a disservice. With all their 'wolf' crying, nobody now cares about another 'severe weather warning' from the Met Office. Only thing I see that's properly daft and irresponsible is people just abandoning vehicles where they come to a halt. That's a big kick in the nuts for the plough drivers trying their best to clear the road. If you can't hack it, at least get your vehicle off the main carriageway. And if the car ahead is stuck, get off your arse and get him moving again. Do the arithmetic. If he's stuck, you're stuck. Haven't these people heard about people dying in blizzards not 50' from their cars? I'd fine them, and void their insurance when they get a snow plough up their arse. Keep truckin' Dude!!

Woohoo! Neighbour says it was -18 this morning. Who am I to argue. Took 30 mins to scrape the ice off the windscreen, - and I mean 30 minutes. You know when you scrape, and nothing comes off? Well that, twice, inside and out, and a door lock that froze almost instantly. That was a real a pain in the t*!ts. I stopped to give a guy a lift to his work, but the passenger door was frozen, and once I'd opened my door, it wouldn't shut again. Had to drive the last bit just holding it shut. Doggely's can only walk about 100m then the feet start to hurt. Not a pretty sight. Spring, where the F are you? This is getting decidedly un-funny.

Having a posting frenzy on this thread - Just to add this snow isn't the usual stuff we get. I don't mean the quantity, but it's lightweight powder snow, and it doesn't seem to solidify when it freezes. Usually our snow is pretty wet stuff, which turns to concrete once it freezes. I reckon we have between 1 1/2 to 2 ft of this powder snow, similar consistency from top to bottom. I'm not to concerned about the frost forecast, but if we get any significant wind, this stuff is going to drift like crazy. There is a lot of snow, but it's a dry snow. We've been down to -10 recently, but I swear, I've felt -2 feeling much, much colder. It's very weird, but I dare say it's old news for folks who get this stuff more regularly.

Love my Defender. It's a TD5, but 10 yrs old. I don't have it for it's off road capacity, but for hauling stone about. It's a genuine workhorse, and never let me down. Doesn't hurt a bit when the weather turns bad. I don't have off-road tyres, but even so, it's already pulled 4 cars out of the snow this year already, plus got a run-over dog to the vet. I'm not landy daft, had 3 before, 2 were complete dogs, one was ex military aspirated deisel which wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding, but when the time comes, I want to be buried in my TD5.

Just tinkering unhelpfully again... but I have a presumption against Dell running in my head. I was once told Dell machines were fine, did exactly what they were asked, but the downside was they were already optimised and 'maxed out' when sold, - that is to say you couldn't upgrade them. Now I'm not in the trade, and have nothing to back this up, and it may very well just be heresay or anti-Dell propaganda..... But I was told this, albeit about 10yrs ago.

Yeayyy!!! Made it to work. No worries mate. For Sale - 1 Landrover. Offers over £3,000,000.00. Even so, I think I'll buy him some snow tyres for a late Christmas present.

I'm saying nothing, because it's still snowing, and I don't want to upset the snow god. How an I supposed to get to the travel agent to get my ticket to Adelaide in this? Pippen's definitely not impressed.

Hmmmmm. Undecided about European attitudes towards history. My line of work is stonemasonry, and there are hundreds of quality stone buildings in dire need of repair, but very few people care enough to do anything about it. It makes my blood boil when many thousands of hours work by skilled tradesmen are left to rot to the point of collapse often willfully destroyed only to be replaced with modern 'crap'. Folks will buy a house for half a million or more, park a £50k car or two in the drive, but have a seizure before they'll pay for a plumber to fix or even maintain a broken rhone. Water soaks into the mortar joints, the timber joist ends then develop dry rot, and when rot treatment has to cut back 1m from the last evidence of rot, which neatly takes out any ornate cornices in ceilings below and any timber panelling upstairs. Once they've cultured a nice juicy repair bill, they have the cheek to whine about the cost of putting it right. If people can't afford to look after our built heritage, they should be forced sell it to someone who can. Once it's gone, it's gone. It's true it isn't a pan-european attitude, as far as I know the French have a much more enlightened attitude towards their history. While the UK was squandering billion on the Millenium Dome, the French celebrated the new millenium by making sure their castles and cathedrals were good for the next 1000 years. No surprise the French have a much healthier stone trade as a result. History means very little I'm afraid, - unless it can pay it's own way and turn a profit. And don't get me started on the taboo subject of Scottish History...... Good luck with the letters. Pardon my ignorance of sütterlin, but it sounds like the original author might be quite a cultured gentleman. I don't mean that in a biggoted way, just that he might be more skilled than some at commiting his experiences to paper.

I was about to say the same - We're flying into battle in the middle of WW1. - Probably the most brutal and violent part of modern history. It's not violence that's the problem, but the gratuitous way in which it's so often presented. (Not by OFF I hasten to add....) BTW, Avatar looks superb. I haven't seen it yet, but the trailer alone is a work of art.

Just dipping my toe in the water again, but I once had problems with a hard drive failing on me, and CHKDSK report never said the same thing twice. Sometimes it would say it found errors, appeared to fix them, but it didn't and I still had problems. Do you have any old hard drives kicking about? Size won't matter (within reason). Format one of those and trying using it to install your Pro. It won't fix you up with a solution, but you might learn if the diffulty is in the install process you're following, or a hardware issue with your main drive. I'm a complete lightweight when it comes to such issues, but I know from experience that finding the problem is a huge part of fixing it. If it is a hardware issue, Win 7 might kick you out too.

Hmmmmm. Formatting your C:/ is worth thinking about HARD. It'll erase everything, and having copies of documents, drivers etc is hit or miss affair, since many have to be installed, not just copied or they maybe won't work fully. There are often dll files installed or altered, but with no obvious connection to the utility that uses them. I'm not a PC expert, but I'm sure there must be a way to update your operating system without the format. On the other hand, if you're happy to re-install everything, (and pay special attention to your CD Rom driver - or you'll be going nowhere). The format will blitz everything, so you'll have a blank canvas. A complete format is a big step, and I'd exhaust all other options first.

As I understand it, even today, a Sergeant Major of the Salty Pies is supposed to have a beard. (Might be the Colour Sergeant - I forget). (Salty Pies being Assault Pioneers - the guys who love blowing things up). They're a little bit mad, and use PE instead of hexamine for making a brew. Nutters.

I THINK it's aircraft detail, but I'm not 100% sure. I'd need to run to some tests. Aircraft sounds most logical, but this is CFS3 country so it might be Terrain, scenery, or effects. I'm reasonably sure it's not Clouds. It doesn't have to be set on 5 either, I sure 4 delivers sharp guages, and I'm reasonably sure 3 is OK as well. You can also change your sliders through the workshop, or running the config.

Guages with sliders on 5 vs sliders on 2. Check out your sliders RCAF Dudley.

Isn't fuzzy guages just a detail sliders issue? Forget which slider in particular....

Edits are time limited. Leave it too long and the opportunity expires.

Don't shoot the messenger guys. At least not until you know what's gone wrong. Everybody runs down the Post Office in the UK, but the alternative is private courier. That might be ok if you live in a city, where couriers can cherry pick the profitable deliveries, but I habitually get deliveries returned to my 'local' collection office 50 miles away. They won't negotiate a delivery at my work address, they won't give me a time to deliver so I lose a whole day waiting, and they won't have the courier driver call me. I once even got a delivery sent from Newcastle 60 miles away, and ended up driving to Carlisle to pick it up 50 miles away. I should just have driven to Newcastle in the first place. Courier still got paid for it though. City Link (s**tty Link) don't even man their phones now. If they miss delivery, you get an automated answering service and a multiple choice of alternative delivery dates to pick from. So I just have them to return my package to the sender to get it delivered properly with the Post Office. The Post Office either gets it's right first time, or holds it for me in my local town. I expect maintaining such facilities is the reason it's such an expensive service to run, but at least it works. It may not be perfect, but it stands head and shoulders above it's closest competitor, and it really gets up my nose when suits from the city slag it off. TNT even uses the Post Office to deliver their Post. Work that one out! First choice Santa, second choice the Post Office.