Jabo

Ditto. LOL

Not normally one for trains, but that's something else...WOW.

Google Earth is a wonderful thing.

Yep - feck Shuttleworth, let's go to Cosford. I suggest though that we have a separate DDz outing to one of Shuttleworth's evening air displays some point during the summer (or what passes for it in Blighty). Apparently it's nice to sit there in the late afternoon/early evening and watch the really old stuff get an airing (due to the breeze dropping later in the day usually). As always though - what do other people think?

And a bloody good job too - The man's a self-aggrandising fool

Hey Mctav, nice to see you back m8. You had your name on file for Legends @ Duxford. Is that still on for you? ~S~ Jabo

Check PMs m8 ~S~ Jabo

I guess it's something to do with your router not providing an IP address, try Start-Run 'cmd' (no quotes) to get a dos window, then ipconfig /all to check if you have an ip address assigned by the router. If not try ipconfig /renew to see if the router can provide one. Let us know how you get on. ~S~ Jabo

That approach would work for me Jim, but most UK computer shops don't have their display machines connected to t'interweb - not sure about over on the contintent. You're in the UK at present Jedi? ~S~ Jabo. An alternative option would be to take a copy of a web page in html format, take it to the store on a memory stick and load it up in IE - that might be useful

Not sure if this affects anyone here, but there is a possible bug in the above driver when run under Vista. My 9800GTX has been plagued by some very strange anomalies whilst using this driver. I have changed now to the v182 driver, and the problems seem to have gone. Just a word to the wise is all. ~S~ Jabo

Looks like a nice machine Jim. I agree with you about the Dells, the XPS machines are great, but are on the heavy side. ~S~ Jabo

Oh no, I've got plenty of tea

This maybe closing the door after the horse has bolted Jim, but I'd steer clear of Lenovo, we've had a ton of trouble with them as they have no DOA policy, and the support is nightmareish. A customer recently bought 30 laptops, half of which were DOA, and three months later only half of those have been repaired...Not good. In fact we have an unofficial department policy of trying not to sell them now, the above situation is not a one-off. ~S~ Jabo

Before I went to SATA HDDs, I used to use a DOS boot disk I put together years ago which did things with fdisk and format commands as a pre-install prep. That doesn't work with SATA HDDs of course, so now I just exercise considerable caution before downloading anything. ~S~ Jabo

According to local history, the destruction of Roche Abbey was due to the Dissolution. Despite the Abbey passing into the hands of the Crown in 1558, the local population decided that they had first claim on the Abbey and its artefacts. Wkipedia in usual fashion states that this was done on the orders of one Oliver Cromwell, despite the fact that the Dissolution started in 1538 and he was born in 1599. Ho hum ~S~ Jabo PS - You should have dropped in for tea Jedi, you were only about 10 miles from where I live!

Blimey Roger, a 4 word answer - I was going for "Yes"

You are quite right m8, xh558 was the Vulcan used as at the time she was the official RAF display aircraft. If you ever get the chance to visit her at home (Bruntingthorpe near Leicester) you will also see the big model that was also used in the film. One of the reasons the pledge target was met was the mobilization of the 007 fans around the world as well as the aviation enthusiasts. ~S~ Jabo

Re: DT's post about Hollywood - THIS is why I'm so worried about the re-make of the Dambusters film. The original is a classic, and if the film-makers are prepared to change the name of Gibson's dog despite it having a siginificant role in the story...well I shudder to think what else they'll be prepared to change. B-17's anyone? Jon Bon Jovi will probably be flying the lead aircraft... ~S~ Jabo P.S. On the subject of Pearl Harbour - I quite liked the historical bits, but for some bizarre reason, film-makers (in general) seem to think that a story without a romantic twist isn't a story - oh, yeah, and Ben thingy is definitely a twit. His ex is nice though.

Hmm, OK, I'll look into it, but the issue I have at the moment is the noise generated by the PSU fans, I'm running twin 120mm case fans, plus the Zalman CPU cooler, and the GPU fan and together they're quieter than the PSU! Might have to look at changing that first.

I've never investigated water-cooling myself - knowing how ham-fisted I am, I dread the idea of flooding the insides of my rig with coolant. On the other hand, I don't much like the stock coolers either. At present (and for the last 5 years or so) I've been using Zalman CPU coolers which run seriously quiet, and do a damn good job at the same time. My Core 2 Duo runs at sub 40 deg under the maximum load I can generate. My next purchase for the innards will be a Zalman GPU cooler (too much of a wuss to try water cooling). ~S~ Jabo P.S. Oh good, the insomnnia's kicking in again.

Bruce is (or was) an olympic standard fencer as well (that's the one with the swords, not the planks of wood

Up the Irons indeed - Got Live After Death playing via iTunes as I type