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Now you know why I declined Friar and JP's very kind offer to kip in their room. My snoring can move furniture, crack plaster, undermine foundations. Wifey makes me sleep wearing a full-face crash helmet!
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One thing I forgot to mention that Mr May was a two-time member of the "Caterpillar Club".
Besides the crash landing in the Mossie, he bailed out twice.
He managed to bail out of a Mossie twice! That is no mean achievement. Not the easiest of planes to escape from in a hurry. I seem to recall the navigator has to go first, whether out the door or top of the cockpit. Terrifying.
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No need to upgrade that hardware, and there's no sense in it.
A bigger CPU might be the only option, but the investment would not be worth it, if it's just for IL2. Other games may benefit from more Cores...
A re-format may do some good, but, what makes you think about an upgrade?
Any issues with it currently?
Like you said, the system looks fairly balanced...
I agree. I'm running an E6600 at stock 2.4 ghz, an Nvidia 9800gt 512mb, 2gig of ram on windows XP. Frame rate is locked to the refresh rate of my 22" monitor so I get a consistent 60fps in perfect mode. Everything looks great. When BoB comes out I'm hoping it'll run it too. If not then I plan to upgrade my processor to an E8400!!!!
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Also, be aware that carrier versions would have to take off with rather less ordinance than say, US Marine Corps versions from strips. I seem to recall the Marines could carry eight thousand pounders. That is four under each wing.
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Pinched this link from over at the UBI forums. Fascinating BBC2 documentary from 1969 on Battle of Britain pilots. Well worth watching.
Also, at last the Beeb are putting some of their huge archive online.
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Good lord, you've got a lawn out of a hose in three weeks! Sure beats turfing it.
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Dick Barton Special Agent!? They don't write em' like that anymore. Mind you, they don't talk like that anymore
I think you might be interested in this BG;
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Satellite radio? Is this what we call DAB (digital audio broadcasting) over here? We're big on radio in my house. To my kids disgust, I'm a bit of a TV Nazi. I see no reason to have more than one TV in the house. Certainly none in bedrooms. Ten years ago here in the UK we had just four or five channels. On a Saturday I used to sit down with the TV guide and have look at what was on, make a note of it and make sure I'd watch it.
Nowadays we have 'Freeview' which is digital broadcasting. We've got something like forty channels now. It's total shite. As there is not enough decent telly to go around most of these forty channels just recycle the same old garbage constantly. I just can't be bothered.
Most evenings my wife and I find ourselves banished to the kitchen as my now big kids command the telly rights. Neither of us mind. We can read, drink tea, my wife can thrash me at scrabble. I can smoke the occasional cheroot. We have the radio on. We did have a DAB jobby down here which was great if the reception was working but usually hopeless. It was fine upstairs. Last year I bought a Phillips Internet radio. It's fantastic. Works off the signal from our wireless router upstairs. The choice is truly endless. Despite what I said about modern TV I find radio much less obtrusive and a kind of nostalgic adventure. As a kid in the seventies I used to do my homework listening to the John Peel show and the Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. That originally started out as a radio series on the BBC.
I still prefer to listen to soccer commentary rather than watch it. Somehow just much more exciting. Been getting into Baseball too. English language radio is endless. Every local station worldwide seems to have an internet stream these days. I get a kick out of listening to local radio from Perth in western Australia knowing that my cousins out there will be listening too as they work at printing money-or pool contracting as it's more commonly known. Local radio ads from the Soloman Islands become fascinating. Even the Goon show is streamed by someone. I'll be checking out local radio from Ontario and Missouri later tonight after coops!
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O.K., now up to T-34-85 wiv a bloody gert cannon but I'm runnin' outa gold and sleep
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Hey, happy belated birthday Cap'n. Hope you had a good one
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Happy birthday Funflak, m8. Hope you have a great day!
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Nice pics FruitBat. I think I've seen a piccy of that old boy before. Was it on page 3 of the Angling Times?
Oh yeah, shouldn't Painless be sitting in that Spitfire?
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I've been wasting my life playing this for about three weeks as ArthurSmedley. So lets get this straight. When it comes back we'll be able to create our own rooms/play as a squad?
Fantastic
I must say WoT is a great way to use a few minutes waiting for a coop to start! -
Ooops. Another one I've missed. Happy belated birthday guys. Hope you had a good time.
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Happy birthday Jabo! Hope you and your new shiny multi-coreness have a great day.
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Nice pics Jabo. 'That one' is now my desktop.
My brother-in-law went to RIAT. He loves jets and the Raptor display was like nothing he'd ever seen before. -
What a great weekend.
Really good to meet all those familiar voices face to face.Thanks to Fruitbat I found the Dogz sitting beneath the shade of a VC10.
Phew wot a scorcher!
Had a quick look around the American hanger. Wow, I followed the 'path' up and around and the stuff they've got in there is amazing.
And then there was the evening! BG gives a demo of professional scotch whisky tasting
Roll on next year.
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YES, YES, yes, yes, yes!
Was talking to Largie during the finale at Duxford and we both agreed we want to do the Balbo one night. Take off, form up and a couple of close formation low passes would be great. Then see if we could actually land in group formation
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O.K., Schools out, run the gauntlet of yummy mums. Taken my newish crap car to be fixed. Picked up courtesy car. It's a fuggin' Transit Connect van!
"Er, we're a bit short of cars this week. Sorry."
Decide not to tell 'em I'm gonna put 400 miles on the clock and crash out in it!
Off home for curry, strength three, sh*t, shave , shower. Then early start tomorrow a.m.
Should I bring chairs and picnic rug, Gimp mask for Jedi?
See you all tomorrow mid-morning. Stand by Jabo, Sid for heavy breathing phone calls to find you all at Duxford.
Looking forward to this no end
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Nice pics Rattler
Some of them actually show me shooting things down without crashing Despite this I think the formation of Ponies would make a great desktop.
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Holland just beat Brazil 2-1. That was very cool.
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Cometh the hour, cometh the man;
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I'll rely on the old fashioned way to find you...listen for "Oi! Look at the t*ts on that one!"
Ah, the international language of men travelling without their wives.
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I think I'll take Jedi's advice, thank you!
Hmm, it's just that occasionally the busty, half-naked young women are accompanied by muscular, half-naked young men equipped with these
and we wouldn't want any sort of international incident would we?Btw, have you checked out Google street view? If you know the zip-code of your flop house you can take a virtual walk from the tube station. Pooka and BG are staying at Captain Blighs gaff, which you can see is just over the road from the Imperial War Museum;
Weird stuff. This morning I "walked" from the house we lived in when I was a nipper to my primary school. A journey I last took nearly forty years ago.
Halftime Report From The Island
in Jim's Place
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Happy birthday, Swep m8. Apart from the teeth very glad and slightly jealous to see your having a good time.
When you get back=Winter draws on!!!!