Jabo

WE'VE DONE IT!! Nearly... Below is an excerpt from the website ---- Vulcan now truly "The People's Aircraft" Thousands of pledges provide a future for the Vulcan One month ago, the Vulcan to the Sky Trust (VTST) had to announce that the prospects of seeing Vulcan XH558, the world's only flying Vulcan, ever flying again were looking very poor as the result of the lack of cash, and that notices had had to be given to its employees that their jobs would end on Friday 6th March With the launch of a Pledge Campaign to raise £1million, VTST based its future on the public's affection for the Vulcan and their desire to see it fly. As the deadline of the end of today approaches, the Pledge Campaign has this morning (11.00am) passed £956,835, pledged by over 9,821 supporters, and so has excellent prospects of passing its goal of £1million imminently. This is the third time in seven years that the future of the Vulcan in flight has been saved by the support of thousands of members of the public, making XH558 "The People's Aircraft". Never has one historic aircraft owed so much to so many! Sponsors provide breathing space On their own, pledges can't solve the Trust's immediate cash problem, because they each need now to be converted into cash donations. The Trust is therefore very grateful to its sponsors, Aerobytes Ltd and Judd Power, who have today committed sufficient cash to keep the Trust going for another month, allowing time for the pledges to be redeemed. As the result, VTST is delighted to announce that it is able to continue its activities on a more secure financial footing, and that the prospects of seeing the Vulcan fly in 2009 are now good. Supporters led the way forward For the past month, supporters of the Vulcan have been tireless in their fundraising activities, ranging from the cross-country Vulcan Scramble, to "Pledgathon" events across the UK. VTST is enormously grateful to all the members of the Vulcan to the Sky Club for their help. Inspiring the Young There are well over 10 million young people who have never seen the Vulcan in flight. Following the success of the Pledge Campaign, these youngsters now have an opportunity to experience this inspirational "once seen, never forgotten" sight. Because we cannot assume that all the pledges will be honoured, we are asking the the public to continue to pledge financial support, either through our website www.vulcantothesky.orghttp:// or by phone to our office on 0116 247 8145. We have demonstrated that even the smallest pledge helps, because it is people in their thousands who make the difference. Robert Pleming 6th March 2009 ---- And on a personal note - Thank you. ~S~ Jabo

Rofl. Especially conisdering who I work for

The six pin plug is a specific one for gfx cards. If your psu is new it should have at least one. Not sure about the eight pin one though, my card uses two six pin connectors instead.

Is that 4.10 beta?

I'm with Jim on this Jedi, the Asus looks to be the better machine. I personally quite like Dell machines, and they build some very nice desktops, but I'm not sure about the laptops - We sell 'em, but I'd rather have an HP or Sony if I didn't want a gaming machine. ~S~ Jabo

Yep, the Su-27 is a much bigger aircraft. The Mig also has outward canted fins compared to the Su's which are straight

oopsie. That's going to take some explaining - 20 seconds! ~S~ Jabo

Hi guys. Normally I'm not in favour of this sort of thing, but as some of you may know, I'm personally involved. The project to return Avro Vulcan XH558 to airworthy condition which succeeded in such magnificent form last year is in serious financial trouble due in part to the credit crunch amongst other things. The long and the short of this is that unless significant additional funding is found either through a major backer, or public generosity or both within weeks (days?) XH558 will be grounded - for good. If you would lke to help (and I stress the if), please visit the website here. The pledge details are on the main page. Thank you for your time. ~S~ Jabo

Thought as much myself Rog, but there you have it.

As always Roger, your vast knowledge is invaluable to some of us 'keen amateurs' (ie me

Indeed. Although these days, the mainboards tend to arrive with a floppy disk image for the SATA drivers on the driver CD so you can create your own - joy. What OS are you planning to use m8, and what Service Pack revision is it? ~S~ Jabo

What he said - While it's one thing for a GPU to get to that temperature, there's no way the CPU should be that hot. Couple of questions; Are you using the stock cooler? Have you removed the tape from the underside of the heatsink and then cleaned both the top of the processor and the heatsink using a suitable cleaner (I use a specialist one, but anything alcohol based should be OK)? Have you applied a thin layer of thermal compound (the thinner the better)? Have you checked fans, seating of heatsinks etc? There are a number of Hardware monitoring programs out there. I use CPUID Hardware Monitor which is free and will report core, GPU and HDD temps plus fan speeds and a number of other things I don't understand

Found this - pretty much sums up my day... ~S~ Jabo

Attendees thread is here

Crash was wondering who was confirmed for Legends this year, so I thought a compact and bijou threadette on the subject might be in order. I'll kick things off; Jabo - arriving Friday, departing after Sundays activities Knight - Ditto ('cos he's getting a lift from me

Looks like you had a good day out there m8, and some nice piccies too! Just googling for your 'what is it?' pic ~S~ Jabo

Nice Cuda - Similar to my recent build - I've run XP32, XP64 and Vista 32 bit on this rig so far, and been happy with all, but niggly problems have eventually seen me wind up with Vista (no DX10 in XP32, no Windows Live or DX10 in XP64 - Windows Live and DX10 in Vista) - Don't tell Jim but I occasionally play other games which prefer those things. Sad thing is Vista benchmarks slowest of the three

In some cases, many, many hours of grief