DD_Brando

Funny - but nowadays he'd have been tasered after a mumbled warning and thrown in the back of a van. That would've part way solved his problem without him even needing to un-zip, but he would have needed a new pair of trousers. Polite bobbies? That's so 20th century, JP

Nah, but I wish. A tiger moth is the pinnacle of my stick time. But he hung up his wings after Desert Storm and now he's a long-haul skipper for BA - so I might get that flip one day. Oz sounds worth a look

I could get my cousin over to show me how to 'fly' it He's on the left - with hair Like an exchange visit - on the right - with chair

Traditional blues "I've been down so long - this feels like up to me" sung to the music of the old school hymn, Jerusalem, from the poem by William Blake, with music written by Sir Hubert Parry in 1916. What's really strange is that it fits

Hi Colin A tricky call. Reviews I have read suggest that while its low power draw (45W only) and budget price are good - its single core structure means it is not well suited to multi-tasking and it will be relatively slow. However, it should do OK for the kinds of activity that you've listed. The comparative Intel processor is the Celeron http://www.amd.com/u...comparison.aspx and I think the Sempron is better. It sounds as if the budget price and low running cost may win out? It is an AM3 socket, so it would be possible to fit a dual, or even a quad core processor in there if required later. Ross

That's flock, bro, flock. Why only just last week I heard someone shouting "get those flocking sheep outa here!" Welcome, Will.

That's really rather tidy.

I downloaded and installed it - "flew" it - and deleted it an hour later. http://www.simhq.com/_air14/air_525a.html says it all better than I can.

Meanwhile, back here in GB, I heard a joke - Q. What is a quark? A. The sound a posh duck makes. Boom, boom

Rugby made me gay! Well, not really, but you have to have been there to know the feeling. Five foot nothing, on a cold muddy field, half blind from not wearing my spectacles and surrounded by hulking, mud-covered hoodlums, suddenly someone throws a slimy leather bladder into my arms. "Pass it" screams the mob, so I do; straight into the welcoming arms of the opposite side's fly something or other. Trust me - I'm not so bothered. It certainly beats getting jumped on by half a dozen pit-props and having my face forced into the freezing slush that coats the playing field while someone rips off bits of my shirt, shorts and body to get at the pointy thing No, not that pointy thing. That one has sensibly retreated into my body to evade the biting easterly wind driving straight from the steppe and over this particular patch of Wormwood Scrubs. No, it's that pointed leather thing that everyone seems obsessed about. Someone tears off with it anyway and scores, and it ain't my side. I know I'm going to suffer the derision, and worse, of the team; and prepare myself to be last into the tiled pool of lukewarm water, mud, blood and urine that poses as a bath. Another Wednesday afternoon totally wasted. Luckily there was an alternative - swimming! Strictly for poofs according to the rugger lads, but I take to it like a, well, duck to water. Clean water at that, and you don't need twenty-twenty vision to swim A pair of natty goggles to keep the chlorine out of the eyes is enough, and a pair of sharkskin briefs. I eventually represented the school for several years, and went on to join the Lime Grove Penguins to race at club level. Later I took up canoeing and yachting; great fun and really exhilarating, and no mud anywhere!

I wonder whether there is any bandwidth limitation enabled in the router settings; QoS, something like that?

Collies are just dopes aren't they? Our mother had one - it would have chased a stick over a cliff.

So true. I can just imagine Valda doing that

Stick it to 'em, guys

Now that has passed beyond the pale - call for the gastronomic moderator immediately!

Yes, they are the ones. 13 sets altogether, from Bagration through to Stalingrad. An epic effort.

Thanks for the link FT. I also found that I already have most of them - but there are a few that are new to me. Recently I've been re-flying Eric Cotes' incredible series of missions based on the Eastern front. Published under the name DR-Hangar (back when the Diables Rouge flew regularly in Hyperlobby) they're all good; and even better in the latest versions of the game. (4.11m, or HSFX 5.01). The usual line-up back then was 16 'live' seats - but with the newer planes now flyable (such as the Pe-2/3) the available seats are increased to about 24. So, if you want to go back to when Catwoman was a regular in HL I can really recommend the whole series. B

Good old ADSL

I bought an HIS Call of Duty Ati Radeon 5870 last year. The Call of Duty part means that it is the factory overclocked version - GPU @ 875MHz / Memory @ 1225MHz. It has 1Gb of GDDR5 and is air-cooled. I'm looking to upgrade now that the 7xxx series is out, and I've spotted a 6970 for £200. So it's time to lose the 5870. I'd like £100 for it. The card is working perfectly and runs IL-2 '46 very well in concert with my Phenom 975. It also runs RoF on nearly max settings. I have run CloD with it too - with reasonable results using some kind of medium settings - but I can't say I've persevered with it. (One day - when they've sorted out the gremlins - I may try again) Anyway, if anyone is interested you can find me in the usual way Brando

Well, what do I know, but those wheels surely look a tad small for the purpose of rolling and braking such a beast?

There was a time when Rolls Royce would have sent a polite request asking the owner to desist from using one of their engines in such a hybrid - or face a meeting with some members of the Special Air Service.

It went up to £190 at the end - and that is still a good deal compared to new retail. I can give one important reason why CH flightgear is so good IMO: it's really moddable! No other manufacturer has better bodywork for cutting and shutting, drilling and filling - and a whole bunch of room for extra cabling and switchgear. But I certainly agree that it's time they added a new model.

It's already past £70 and seems to have a minimum bar. That is, every time I bid over the price shown it immediately tells me I've been outbid. Some clever automation there, maybe some bright spark can explain that?

What I don't understand is; babies suck, but the world is overpopulated.

This made me HELL EXPLAINED BY CHEMISTRY STUDENT The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well : Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)? Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant. One student, however, wrote the following: First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added. This gives two possibilities: 1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose. 2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell,then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over. So which is it? If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God.' THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.