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This gives it context: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/03/13/world/asia/satellite-photos-japan-before-and-after-tsunami.html Third largest economy has been hit exceedingly hard, and I think recovery will be a long haul. Going to be a global impact methinks.

The HSFX files are now tucked up in our vault Cheers Manu!

The Beta I can host here, locked down to DangerDogz only, will help perhaps. When it is released I will provide a mirror (or 3 or 4 if needed) to help spread the goodness. Can also make a torrent seed too PM me the ftp details please and I can ftp it directly to this server for the guys. Rog.

Oi! This software cost us, you leave our editor thingy alone If this HFX5 is a large (aren't they all) download and can be got by torrent I can pull it onto the server and split it up if required..

Shocking, and no pun intended. Thank goodness they are well prepared, but the news of 2-300 bodies found on the coast is terrible news. And the missing ship with 100 on it. Thoughts are with them.

Shorten it to 'Enk' It means Big Enk, 1=i (I) 6=g (G) a play on substituting letters for numbers

I add my vote in for more RAM, what RAM does your system use? I may have some spare if it is DDR - got loads

Yeah, kept forgetting who I was..

Not had an issue with Steam for years. Works well and is a boon for keeping stuff up to date, plus the cloud concept is handy too - for the games that support it. My Steam folder is 101GB...which says a fair bit I reckon. Black Ops Jabo, now that was an over hyped POS if ever there was! I played it less than 10 times, utter drivel..

I use Steam, find it works well and minimal overhead too. Has some nice functionality it provides, aside from updating software, such as ability to add in friends and get notifications when they are online, and be able to IM them. It does allow an offline mode too, so a permanent connection is not required. Will have to look into adding Steam IDs to the forums now

cLod..oh well.. 'bout time I got with the times it seems! Glad to see IL2 has some mileage yet

Hmm. Performance here is not brilliant, another reason why I am keen to move us off the server here. Possible that there was a database time out, nothing in the logs to that effect, but it has been known more than once or twice in the past.

Not come across this either.. What browser are you using? I usually use Chrome..

I ask the question because it occurred to me that time and effort is still being put into IL2, with Mods and SEOW campaigns etc. If Cliffs of Dover turns out to be anything like what I have so far seen, by way of screen shots and videos, I can see IL2 being left to gather dust mostly. Sure we have a much greater selection of aircraft, and missions etc. but won't CoD draw us in and totally occupy us for the foreseeable future? Would love to know more detail on the online aspect, such as DF hosting and campaign/co-op hosting too. Is it likely to be more *nix friendly thus enabling easier permanent DF servers?

The best protection is education. Firewalls are to prevent opportunistic outside attacks, and to ameliorate lack of education from within the protected zone. Advantage of a hardware firewall over a software firewall is that they offer some insurance against lack of education, they don't put up convenient prompts asking if it is OK to allow this sort of traffic when something unusual happens. Security suites such as Kaspersky have plugins that work within the browsers that have blacklisted malware sites, this helps with the education issue too. A good suite will also have access to a database of applications and ports, and give some insight into what that application is and what it's trust rating is based upon user based collated data (again Kaspersky has this).

If that is a true copy and paste, then that gives it away. Definitely searching out drag artists

I was at my bank today; there was a short line. There was just one lady in front of me, an Asian lady who was trying to exchange yen for dollars. It was obvious she was a little irritated . . . She asked the teller, "Why it change? Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I only get hunat eighty? Why it change?" The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fluctuations." The Asian lady says, "Fluc you white people too"

At last!! Setting some money aside, 'DX11' so a GPU upgrade is on the cards

Fallout 3 is a good one, son got the Vegas add-on recently but I've not had a chance to hijack it off him yet. He has Mafia II (I know an 18 rated game for a 15yr old makes me 'one of those' parents) and I have to say the graphics are stunning in DX11. He asked for a new GPU for Christmas and got a 6850 and I am impressed with it's performance.

I recall, without fondness, the British military rations from when I was serving. Bloody awful stuff, I'm sure the preservatives used will result in cremation being mandatory

For all of you who Know what an MRE is... And those that don't this is too funny and true not to be read. MRE dinner date, the following is a true story... Told from the point of view of a young Marine. I had a date the other night at my place. On the phone the day before, the girl asked me to "Cook her something she's never had before" for dinner. After many minutes of scratching my head over what to make, I finally settled on something she has DEFINITELY, definitely had never eaten before. I got out my trusty case of MRE's. (Meal, Ready-to-Eat) Field rations that when eaten in their entirety contain 3000+ calories in each meal. Here's what I made: I took three of the Ham Slices out of their plastic packets, took out three of the Pork Chops, three packets of Chicken-a-la-king and eight packets of dehydrated butter noodles and some dehydrated/rehydrated rice. I cooked the Ham Slices and Pork Chops in one pan, sautéed in shaved garlic and olive oil. In another pot, I blended the Chicken a-la-king, noodles, and rice together to make a sort of mush that looked suspiciously like succotash. I added some spices, and blended everything together in a glass pan that I then cooked in the oven for about 35 minutes at 450 degrees. When I took it out, it looked like, well, ham slices, pork chops, and a bed of yellow poop. I covered the tops of the meat in the MRE cheese (kinda like Velveeta) and added some green sprinkly things from one of my spice cans (hey, if it has green sprinkly things on it, it looks fancy right? For dessert, I took four MRE Pound Cakes, mashed 'em up, added five packets of cocoa powder, powdered coffee cream, and some water. I heated it up and stirred it until it looked like a sort of chunky gelatinous xxxxxxx, and I sprinkled powdered sugar on top of it. Voila, "Angry Pudding." For alcoholic drinks, I took the rest of my bottle of Military Special Vodka (yes, they DO make a type of liquor named "Military Special"...it sells for $4.35 per fifth at the Class Six) and mixed in four packets of "Electrolytes - 1 each - Cherry flavored" (I swear, the packet says that). It looked like an eerie Kool-Aid with sparkles in it (that was the electrolytes I guess... Could've been leftover sand from Egypt ). I lit two candles, put a vase of wildflowers in the middle, and set the table with my best set of Ralph Lauren Academy -series China (that stuff is EXPENSIVE... My set of 8 place settings cost me over $600 on sale at the Lejeune PX), and put the alcoholic drink in a crystal wine decanter. She came over, and I had some appetizers already made, of MRE spaghetti-with-meatballs, set in small cups. She saw the dinner, saw the food, and said "This looks INCREDIBLE!!!" We dug in, and she loved the food. Throughout the meal, she kept asking me how long it took me to make it, and kept remarking that I obviously knew a thing or two about cooking fine meals. She kind of balked at the make-shift "wine" I had set out, but after she tried it I guess she liked it because she drank four glasses during dinner. At the end of the main course, when I served the dessert, she squealed with delight at the "Chocolate mousse" I had made. Huh? Chocolate what? Okay... Yeah... Its Chocolate Moose. Took me HOURS to make... Yup! Later on, as we were watching a movie, she excused herself to use my rest room. While she was in there, I heard her say softly to herself "uh oh" and a resounding but petite fart punctuated her utterance of dismay. Let the games begin. She sprayed about half a can of air freshener (Air Freshener, 1 each, Orange scent. Yup.. The military even makes smell-good) and returned to the couch, this time with an obvious pained look. After 10 more minutes she excused herself again, and retreated to the bathroom for the second time, I could hear her say, "What the hell is WRONG with me???" as she again send flatulent shockwaves into the porcelain bowl. This time, they sounded kind of wet, and I heard the toilet paper roll being employed, and again, LOTS more air freshener. Back to the couch. She smiles meekly as she decides to sit on the chair instead of next to me. She sits on my chair, knees pulled up to her chest, kind of rocking back and forth slightly. Suddenly, without a word, she ROCKETED up and FLEW to the bathroom, slammed the door, and didn't come out for 30 minutes. I turned the movie up because I didn't want her to hear me laughing so hard that tears were streaming down my cheeks. She came out with a slightly gray pallor to her face, and said "I am SOOOOOO sorry. I have NO idea what is wrong with me. I am so embarrassed; I can't believe I keep running to your bathroom!!" I gave her an Imodium AD, and she finally settled down and relaxed. Later on, she asked me again what I had made for dinner, because she had enjoyed it so much. I calmly took her into the kitchen and showed her all the used MRE bags and packets in the trash can. After explaining to her that she had eaten roughly 9,000 calories of "Marine Corps Field Rations" she turned stark white, looked at me incredulously, and said "I ate 9,000 calories of dehydrated food that was made 3 years ago?" After I admitted it, she grabbed her coat and keys, and took off without a word. She called me yesterday. Seems she couldn't shit for 5 days, and when she finally did, the smell was so bad, her roommate could smell it from down the hall. She also told me she had been working out nonstop to combat the high caloric intake, and that she never wanted me to cook dinner for her again, unless she was PERSONALLY present and supervising. It was a fun date. She laughed about it eventually and said that that was the first time she'd ever crapped in a guy's house on a date. She'd been so upset by it she was in tears in the bathroom while I had been in tears on the couch. I know... I'm an asshole, but it was still a funny night.

We regularly see 40-70 players online on our server, there is client induced lag but this is solved by briefly hitting the menu (or so I am told). We see peak daily data transfers of 64GB when the server is really busy (I have put a Persistent World mod on for my son). Biggest issue is finding good admins/mods to keep rules obeyed, and why we are considering running a second no rules server.