Perfesser

I've become a fan of podcasts and all the content they offer. Or, maybe I'm too cheap to pay for content. If you are a student of history at all, specifically war, this guy does some good stuff. Current content is free with archives costing a small fee. He does a commentary audio blog on current stuff called Common Sense and another in-depth historical series called Hardcore History. The last series he did was on WW1 called Blueprint for Armageddon parts 1 through 4. Each episode is 3-4 hrs and it's riveting stuff. Dan Carlin website http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive You can still get the Genghis Khan series, Wrath of the Khans for free.

Am I living in a cave? I've never even seen this before. Looks promising for my old eyes.

By all means check out the Shadowplay feature with the Nvidia cards 700 series(?) and later. Enables saving a recording of the previous block of time (up to 20 min) at the touch of a key in glorious quality. It's going to make for some great gun camera action.

Now that's just strange. When I click on your link FT I go to a post titled "Il2 Cliffs Of Dover Dedicated Server Address" in the mess and under game servers section. Yet when I go into the dogz mess there are only 3 posts showing for IL2 DF, MDS and RoF servers. IL2 Dog Fight IL2 Dog Fight Server Board 1 topics 19 replies By FoolTrottel 27 Dec 2013 MDS Server Moving Dogfight Server discussion 4 topics 39 replies By Crash 02 Nov 2011 Rise Of Flight Rise Of Flight Dedicate Server discussion 1 topics 0 replies By PropNut 25 Sep 2011

TY Crash

It looks like I have to bite the bullet and join the CoD world. Of course the first thing I noticed - OK the second thing (the first was, this is hard. I've peeled off enough wingtips and landing gear to ground a squadron) is the DD server. I searched through the forums and can't find info on joining the DD server- like a password. No CoD server listed in the game servers section. Also having some trouble with practicing wind on takeoff. Has anything been posted about hosting a game? Having some trouble with FMB, creating and hosting missions.

Maybe have a look in the windows event viewer for some clues. Start button, type event viewer in the search bar. Either look in the Windows/system folder for all events or Custom Views/ administrative events for the juicy stuff. Apparently I'd been having the odd random crash for months before it came to my notice. Same "kernel power 41" event ID though

This may only be a problem for folks with on board sound ie no separate sound card. In device manager look for "Sound, video and game controllers" and expand that. I show: High Definition Audio Device (I think this is my headset) NVIDIA High Definition Audio NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device (Wave Extensible) (WDM) Realtek High Definition Audio Right click on each NVIDIA entry and select disable. Then reboot. You can experiment, but I think the important thing is to have only one driver active. From the limited searching I've done the Realtek driver works best with on board sound. NVIDIA Virtual Audio Device may be needed for Shadow play sound or streaming.

Suddenly I'm getting random reboots and crashes. Not blue screen, just shutting off. Event log shows "kernel power 41" system reboot without clean shut down. A few times it didn't even boot up again fully before the next crash. I'm thinking PSU or HD or motherboard failure. So I search a bit and find a post where the guy says he has the same issues and he has the answer. Nvidia installs sound drivers as well as video drivers when you do a regular update. I go to the control panel and sure enough there are the drivers for my on board sound plus 2 new Nvidia ones. I disabled the new ones and all is now good. Doesn't seem like that should have made such a fuss in the OS but 24 hrs now and it's still working.

This accelerometer based system has got to be the future of head tracking but it doesn't look ready just yet. In the meantime, freetrack will get you the same functionality as TrackIR for $30 or $40 using a PS3 Eye Camera and the same basic construction/soldering skills. http://www.behance.net/gallery/Hacking-Sony-PS3-Eye-Camera/8955421

Canadian joke: Quebec cop pulls over car "is that a beer I see there?" Driver "umm..shit .... oh hell I forgot it was there Sir" Cop "Can I have some?"

True enough. It's to the point where everyone now has it written down and prominently displayed, defeating the purpose.

Good stuff

I saw this somewhere else a few days ago. Laughed like hell, just like my workplace - really.............

I bumbled along with the X52 till the stick began to give out(the flashing LED's). Bought a CH fighterstick and am using that with the X52 throttle(and stick too - extra buttons)

My enter button would only work if that controller was #1 on the list but I ended up not using the software at all. If I want any extra strokes I use joytokey but I'm new with that bit of kit

I spent a lot of time playing with the (uhhm crap) Saitek software. Try NOT loading the software. Then go into the game, select the box to fire the weapon and hit your stick button. Test to see if that works. Then quit the game, load the software, go back into game and see if it still works. I found most things worked better without the software. Just out of curiosity, is the controller you're trying to use as the Enter button the first in the "game controller" list in Windows?

Now I'm inspired!! I'm going up to the cottage to check the snow load on the roof. I'll see what I can do for a few pics. Meanwhile, in Canada ...........

You laugh but those of us eating a Paleo or Primal diet are eating salads just like that while loosing weight and feeling younger. OK - maybe a few more veggies in the mix but all the bacon, butter, cream, and pork you used to feel guilty about are on the plate. I've always struggled with the extra pounds, from 180lbs when I was 20 to 230lbs a few years back at 50. Over the last year on about a 50% Paleo diet I'm down to 190 again with virtually no effort and still going down slowly. My wife just started last month and is down almost 10lbs. The store bought bacconaise is off the list (probably made with soybean, canola or cottonseed oil) but you can make the real stuff with bacon fat - I shit you not. Anyone who thinks they have a cholesterol problem or is having their doctor try to kill them off with statin drugs(Lipitor, Crestor) really needs to watch this.

We usually see -5 C temps as a daytime high this time of year, maybe up to zero on the odd day. Not bad if the sun shines and you're out of the wind. Certainly enough to keep the ice and snow and cleared off the sidewalks and driveways. For the last 2 months it's been -10 to -15 with night temps in the -20 range or colder. Too cold for salt to melt the ice. This sucks and I'm in the farthest South part of Canada Forecast Graphic forecast Fri 7 Feb 40% -12°C -18 Sat 8 Feb 30% -11°C -18°C Sun 9 Feb 40% -9°C -16°C Mon 10 Feb -9°C -15°C Tue 11 Feb -14°C -22°C Wed 12 Feb -7°C -17°C

Even setting IL2 46 to DirectX doesn't work. Not a supported game I guess. It does make great quality vids with no system impact that I can notice.

No not in this one but the SOB bunch can always be found on Skies of Valour, beating up on the inexperienced. We try to even the playing field.

I notice he didn't post the one where he failed to notice Gothkrieger, Squawk and Perfesser come in higher than the top of his loop. We had at 3 of the SOB's , downed 2 and drove the other off.

You can manually start/stop recording. Problem is, you press trigger once to start recording, second press it stops so you need a separate key to actually start the recording and keep it going. I use JoytoKey to program a key. Probably a better way is to use the Shadow Time function. If I understand it correctly (haven't tried yet) when you hit the key bound to "save shadow recording" it will save the previous segment of time before you hit the button up to 20 minutes. Whatever you have the shadow time clock set to. So you would bind a key to that and then after the kill or ground attack is complete you hit a key and it will save the previous few minutes of gameplay - much easier as I often forget or don't have time to start if surprised. Totally sucks I can't get it to work in IL2 46.

I can't get Shadowplay to work in IL2. Works in CLoD and looks nice. Back to FRAPS I guess.