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I can see this being added to the next BOC Newsletter, it's descent into tabloid-ism is imminent.

Well my wife managed to find me a copy of XP pro, and we also discussed something she remembered from her IT classes of a couple years back, that the first, early Home edition of XP, which I think is the 32 bit version, didn't have support for multiple core CPU's. And that XP Pro did? Now considering that I've had a bit less than stellar frame rates on my computer when running OFF with Gregion 3.1 recording, would going to XP Pro give that big a boost in frame rates? Oddly enough my Gigabyte's motherboard tuner shows both cores activated and running and I get a slight increase in FPS when I up the PCI-e's front side frequency. But I'm curious as I don't run large resolutions.

I have not a whole lot more to add except to welcome you to our Barmy Group, OneoftheLost. Cheers. Given the simplicity of setting up Freetrack for 2 axis view tracking, you might give it a go. I survived well enough prior to setting up Freetrack, by setting up the Views to the Hat switch and toggling between slew and instant view using the default scroll lock key. Just remember when you're in a fur ball, to always check your six when attempting an attack. Most of my pilot losses were when I was in the middle of an attack, and I forgot to watch my rear quadrant.

These online publications beat my old RC club's PDF newsletters hands down. I think R/C modelers take themselves far too seriously. Cheers and keep the Presses rolling! Contact, (tink...tink.... tink.) Clear!

Seems to be a bit of an impasse of agreement here. I'd like to keep my recordings from dropping into the low teens, FPS wise, if I can help it.

When I was making the Vollmoeller Monoplane for FMS, a member of the German RC simming forum I was on informed me that a certain German museum had the remains of the original in it's collection and he sent some images. I'm trying to recall the name of the museum .. Ah it's actually in the Munich Deutsche Museum.

Yup, Thanks, I just spent yesterday out being a BaRbEEQue speschea-ial-alist.. This morning, this was in my In-box from my sister, I think she's trying to tell me something..

Actually this is one place where I made a conscious decision about my hardware upgrade path. My new system has the ability to run both SATA and IDE drives, and I've been able to save a lot of my old 800 Mhz machine's archives directly from the old HDD's and such to DVD data discs. For some volunteer work I did at our local library I've also been gifted a nifty 5 Gig USB thumb drive. It's one of my most used data transfer devices Both of these have been a lot lot less troublesome than saving old files to CD. I try to rotate my old HDD's out before they start to show trouble, and fire them up twice a year to check on their data condition.

Some of my biggest adventures have been in the pursuit of fishing. My wife and I, when we were dating had a scary one whilst out on a lake fishing in a rowboat. We had gone out on a fine late spring day that had promises of gentle breezes and fair skies, with her Father's car topper Jon-boat to one of the nearby larger lakes. We had every thing we needed for a mellow sunny day on the lake. 45 minutes into the trip out, after launching, while we were a fair ways from shore, a low line of clouds developed to our West over the ocean and the wind picked up, blowing from the direction of our boat landing. I hadn't considered what a small boat was like to row against a hard wind until the front hit and with it a soaking cold rain mixed with sleet. And we were in a pair of light, non rainproof jackets. We got blown into a thicket of willows along one side of the lake while struggling against the 45 mph squall. I ended up abandoning the oars and we literally pulled and poled our selves along the verge of trees by their branches and old pilings while 2 foot swells pounded our boat. I had to empty the tackle box and use it to bail the boat. We finally made a bank we could wait the storm out from, but with little shelter. The storm passed in a couple hours and we exhaustedly rowed the Jon-boat back to the launch and the car. My future Father-in-Law looked a little skeptically at us as we drove in, both looking like the survivors of the Titanic, and asked, 'Well how did the fishing trip go?" Knowing full well what we had been through as in town the storm had been pretty strong.

I'm looking forward to more of these Forum Newsletters! Tip-Top!

I always seem to meet a bunch of German Aces in good number when tasked with airfield defense. Once ran into Jasta's 2 and 11 with Lothar and a few other aces. Fortunately for us, we were tackling a couple of DFW's while the Flying Circus dived past us while intent on another Camel squad.

Caught a 25 pound Pacific Sockeye when I was a younger person while out fishing with a friend and his father, it was the biggest fish I've caught. But it was out on the ocean and it was a bit choppy. I don't remember much of the remainder of the trip as I spent the rest of it over the side having a talk with Neptune. Nice catch, I've had Carp and I agree with Lou, it's pretty good smoked.

I guess XP Home does this differently than Win 7 and Vista.

Put your cursor over the image and right click it. It should open a box with the option to copy image location.

It was a joke about my being physically upright or 'up-standing'. Yeah I know I'm in the Club/Guild, my being a mod for one of the 'Other Sims' does make my membership a bit 'questionable' but I like OFF and this forum a lot, you guys are great people.

Did you "copy image location" from another opened tab and then opened your Edit Profile page in another tab and add the image using the upload image in the Edit my Signature page's toolbar above? It took me a little while to figure it out. It's not exactly self-explanatory.

It is a gorgeous aircraft, the engine in it you know is one of the most rare survivors of WWI vintage engines. It's so rare that VA is making their own castings and pieces for it. I find it unusual that for the near ubiquitous of the BE2c, that aren't that many examples of the old Renault 8c and RAF 1A engines left in collections and museums. Here's an interesting link I've been watching for a year or so. The Manchester Industrial Museum in partnership with the modern day AVRO company has been working on two flyable examples of A.V. Roe's old early aircraft. The Type I Triplane and a new project, the AVRO type F. Build pictures of the AVRO type "F"

I've seen the video of the BE2e they made, flying around Omaka, but the early model hasn't been on Youtube yet. Are you sure that the Second BE2 has just been finished? I thought it's been done for a couple of years.

Somehow the title of this thread reminds me of Terry Pratchett. Thanks for the heads up Winder, I think I'm going to make a .wav of our cat's meow to substitute for the original.

I'm not so sure about the thud, the cat MEOW! in the beginning drives our cat nuts. He spends a few minutes checking out my desktop whenever he hears that other cat.

That image of the Sop 66 Strutter is beautiful. One of my favorite French two-seater squads. It looks like he uses a mix of painting techniques. I'm seeing airbrushed and water-color. I'd guess he uses a mix of acrylic and water colors

Good to hear, sometimes Windows can be a bugger to troubleshoot

I've been playing around with the config file on some of the OFF aircraft, it's odd but a lot of times for some aircraft when you edit the least little thing, at least for the QC1 aircraft config it crashes the availability of that aircraft in Quick Combat. Is there an easy answer why this is? Do you have to go through all the same aircraft and set the configurations to match the changed FM?

You see that's the thing, NVidia supposedly tends to let the programs set the AA as default. But, if I set my OFF AA to say X4 in CFS3 configure, NVidia will reset it it to zero after closing OFF. Yet it's set to 'enhance the application setting' which is the AA set in OFF-CFS3. But it also optionally can have 'use global settings' which is a generic setting imposed by NVidia's control panel overrides. It makes my brain hurt.

Rugby might be on to something here. That said, my installation of an old XP 32 bit OS on my new M'board went without a hitch, but I followed the Gigabyte users manual to the letter for the installation. My techie wife reminds me that Packard Bell have set a precedence for being somewhat proprietory and a bit cheapish in their hardware implementation. Most computer techies have a jaded view of PB products. I'm also wondering if the original Packard Bell OS software was a bit proprietorial unto itself. Do you have the original PB Windows OS discs?