Friar

Obviously working under him BG

Just a thought on this, and you have probably already thought about it, but do aussies run the same power supplies that we do?

Jabo, Very kind offer. I have sent you a PM Friar

yes please Roger, i suspect there will be loads waiting for me!

Moving my stuff over to the new pc, I am trying to set up my friar@dangerdogz email. I rather stupidly seem to have forgotten my password. Roger - can it be re-set?

Propably a lot more than my budget will allow though shadow

up my count by one please...

Cheers Roger, food for thought........ Now I have to decide if the jump from the 6800 to the 7300GT is a worthwhile one.

Ok, following my leaving work and me taking my PC with me, I now have a little dilemour. I have made it the main PC (the on which I fly) and have now installed the sound and graphics cards. It has the same CPU as my old Dell (2.80GHz) but has slightly more memory at1.5gb as opposed to the 1gb in the Dell. This machine, a HP d330 uT(P133T), running xp pro sp2, has the ability to take a maximum of 4gb of memory where as the Dell was maxed out at 1gb. I am using the same 17" CRT monitor and run at 600x800 resolution Now my question is.... Should I spend approx £45 pounds on expanding the PC3200 memory (which has to be done with matched pairs, the current slots are taken with 2x512 and 2x256),with 2x1gb to replace the 2x256, to 3gb or should I do something with the graphics card which is a Geforce 6800 with 128mb of on board memory. I cant do both and cant spend much more than £50-60 pounds. Any offers on what would give the best improvment per pound?

Perhaps a "Doh!" type question but is it ok to use a usb2 extention cable when connecting to a usb1 cable. I am preparing to move my stuff over to a "new" computer and want to extend by trackir cable. Cheers Friar Edit By Friar:

Hey Gman, welcome back to the virtual world m8! Yep, we are still on the 352nd patch and it has been going well. You have a lot to catch up on, the dog fight ladder, special dog fight events, lots of new members....... it will be good to hear you back on comms, oh and get the weather sorted will you!

Found what it was I was doing wrong. I was reducing the size of the circle around the base to a size that was too small. When I leave it at the default diameter, it works. Thats one for the memory banks! LOL Cheers and thanks again. Friar

Ok, sorted. I deleted everything i had had done and started again. I put in test runway 4 and then assigned a home base to it and set up the required aircraft. i then started up a dogfight map, job done. so i dont know what i was doing wrong before. Many thanks Friar

Jim, the desert map you sometimes use for the dogfight session has an airstart for the northern blue base by the coast. how is that set up in the fmb please?

I thought that for a dogfight map you need to define the home bases so that the players click on them when signing in, and then select one if the aircraft available to it. Is that not the case? do you just need to define the airbase colour? How then do you define the planes available to that airfield if the list is retricted. if so then i have been a numpty on this one

For your dogfight map, did you define the home base and the plane list available to it? and if so how did you then provide waypoints for the aitcraft. I really dont know/understand how you can. Did you then fire up your map as an actual dogfight server map and was the base/choice of plane selectable ? Cheers Friar

Thanks for the replies gentlemen but I feel you both missed the important fact, .The use of waypoints is not applicable here

Can someone put me right on how to set an airstart on a dogfight map at sea please. Also can you orinintate the direction of flight at the start? Need it for a project i am working on. Cheers Friar

In Canada only BG owns land large enough to fire them.

As it our want, during a quiet moment tonight on ts, talk turned to drink, no change there I hear you say, and I got to wondering, if we should not declare an Official Dangerdogz Cocktail. So its over to you guys for a suggested recipie. A few suggestions have been put forward, more in the way of decoration actually. It was suggested that it have an unbrella and sparkler for Painless, as to its drink elements what do you think. Once we have decided on the recipie perhaps we could have a dogz tasting session. All on ts at the same time. Cheers ! Friar

i am only an expert on quantum time units. i know nothing about linux.

you have just experienced a new quantum time unit. Its invoked at the point of key press and is defined as an "ohno" second.

Ok issue solved. After checking the event log (thanks to the pointer chaps on ts) it said that the "Server service had hung". did a bit of googling and it turns out that the problem was being caused by my Lexmark print spooler needing to have a dependancy on the service. so as a test i stoped the server service and disabled it and the machine booted up just like it had always done. i have a registry fix that will create the dependancy for when (and if) i try setting up the network again. many thanks once again for the input chaps. Salute Friar

ok, i now have a more serious problem. after trying to run the network setup wizard again, i now have the problem that my original pc boots up ok, i can log into my account ok, i can click on desktop icons ok but if i move the mouse to the start button, i get the egg timer. when i try and shut down explorer.exe says it is not responding. i can run normal in safe mode with networking enabled (as i am now to post this) if i leave the new pc plugged into the router i get a black screen after logging in to my account. with the new pc not plugged in it loads up ok (still with the egg timer when hovering over the task bar) i have disabled file and printer sharing in the properties section of the lan connection to see if that helped but it didnt. can i copy explorer.exe from my other pc if this version is corrupted? any other advice?

Hi chaps, I need some pointers on setting up a home network in order to move some files across from my old pc to a "new" one (well, its one that came with me when i left work but has the potential for greater expansion than the dell i currently use.) I now have 2 pcs both running xp pro sp2. I have a netgear router DG834G obviously both machines have nic cards and can both connect to the net through the router. i have tried running the network wizard but am obviously doing something wrong. Any pointers / hand holding would be very welcome. Salute Friar