Perfesser

For what it's worth I have pretty much the same system, E6750 2.66GHZ, 8600GTX. The upgrade I'm considering is the E8500 chip and more RAM. A video card probably won't give you much more FPS, but it will give you better quality in each frame that it does render.

Just saw a show on TV about one of them, guy bought it for $513 in the '60s.

You're wrong BA, education is the answer, just not the kind we're all thinking of. Who can blame the youth of today? All they've ever seen are relatively good times and that breeds self-indulgence. I couldn't appreciate the sacrifices of others till I had to do a little of my own, and they're no different than we were at their age. I feel sorry for them, their school of hard knocks won't have much to look to as an example, not many elders left to learn from. The affluent of the planet are in for some tough times in the next couple of decades as their way of life becomes prohibitively expensive, or what we would call tough times till we're more on par with the living standard of the rest of the planet. A nature with new fury fed by climate change will deal her blows on a cash strapped society used to throwing previously unlimited money at the problems of "controlling" nature. State of emergency means nothing if there's nobody to come to help. And that's without the "new wars" on the horizon, Israel isn't too happy with Iran's nuke program and has already shown her willingness to act. Pakistan is about to be taken over by the Taliban and that frankly has me more than concerned, worried more like. This generation will have her own heroes that will be forgotten by the next one. And for the record ... Hugh Dowding would be a more fitting hero to remember than Park but even W.W."wrong way" Feldman deserves more mention than the trash they have on display there.

Just speculating here ... How well would the OS evenly space all tasks among the cores?

After 3 or 4 months I can safely say the Freetrack setup is reliable. After initial teething problems with my setup (that you would have with any type) that Jedi fixed up(thanks yet again Jedi) it's worked perfectly. I will say that after trying the reflector route I went with powered LED's. If your setup is in the basement where the ambient light changes little or not at all you could use reflectors. If anywhere near a sunny window go with the powered setup. The link that Trout was intending to post on the [CHG] website http://www.canadianhonourguards.ca/messageboard/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=6607

It is a little known fact that Georgian Bay was once known as Gowrie Bay but he lost it to some guy named George Champlain over a card game and a bottle of whiskey way back.

Too true but it's only one mutation away from pandemic. It bears watching without hype, awareness without panic. Is the media capable?

Burt Rutan has come up with the coolest aircraft over the last 20 years, unconventional but great concepts and great fliers unhampered by conventional thinking. He's been an inspiration to me.

Caught the little bugger. I haven't been sick for many years but I woke up Friday with what I can only assume is the flu. Not a bad case, mild fever and aches but I'm listening to the news with interest these days.

Footage from the recent test of Virgin Mothership Eve at the Scaled Composites skunkworks. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/05/exclusive-video-of-virgin-galactics-test-flight/

Just heard at an employee meeting last week that Magna has worldwide jobs posted on their website. An option if anyone is looking these days. Search by location or title. No doubt most are in emerging markets but here they are anyway. The auto industry might seem like a dead end but as smaller suppliers go under we keep picking up more business. http://www.magna.com/xchg/magna_com_careers/XSL/standard.xsl/-/content/16_804.htm?appInit=true

Nice BG. Not all ponds turn out well around there, water table can do funny things. Some people will find this funny but around there clay is a rare and valuable commodity. We have a couple of much smaller ponds at our place, the first was dug by hand(my father was a little crazy about his trout like that). One year we must have gotten an invasive weed during the stocking process and it's been a battle. I did find a natural control. Sterile grass carp, haven't been able to find a place to get some though.

Blue dot???

For testing use unlimited, voice activated. Some keys "pulse" like letter keys, frequency set in Windows setup. I wouldn't use one of those as PTT. I use a function key myself but any of the ins Del Home End Page Up/Down would be a good choice

Of course in TS you already set the bandwidth to unlimited? Settings, options, bandwidth.

I would be happy if he was less Soviet biased. Already I don't like the I-185 in the game. 4 produced, canceled due to politics even though it had performance equal to planes of 2 years later. Or at least availability representative of production. Only 2 at the start of the map and if you don't bring it back.......

His airshow stuff is legendary, never seen it myself. I'm trying to work out just how you do that while keeping the horizon steady off the nose. Must be all aileron/rudder but how do you keep the nose up without going neg G? Must have a lesson......

I can only guess a corrupted OS, I would try to repair it with the disk. That should tell you if it was software or it's still a HD problem. What was the micro stutter from? We were talking about that.

Whatever has the most power, I'm sure the vacuum is the most powerful tool most have available. I give mine a vacuum, then I get in there with a few spurts of the canned air right into the PSU and the CPU fins too. The vacuum could produce a lot of static so take care. I wrap a foot of bare wire around the hose with an alligator clip to the chassis. We used to suck up dry sand with a 6" hose and if the hose wasn't grounded you would get a 3" spark off your elbow in seconds.

Before the addition of the last set of solar panels, for the first time in history, the brightest object in the sky was a man made one. Should be easy to see even in cities now. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/ Plug in your city and see when you can view it.

Top This One For A Speeding Ticket ... Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, just north of the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar. One of the officers was using a handheld radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the crest of a hill. The officers were, suddenly, surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour. The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset ... so, he turned off. Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had, in fact, locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet, which was engaged in a low-flying exercise near the location. Back at the CHP Headquarters, the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander. The reply came back ... in true USMC style: Thank you, for your letter. We can now complete the file on this incident. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and, automatically, sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down. Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully-armed aircraft had also, automatically, locked on to your equipment location. Fortunately, the Marine pilot, flying the Hornet, recognized the situation for what it was and, quickly, responded to the missile system alert status, and was able to override the automated defense system, before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position. The pilot, also, suggests you cover your mouths, when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very high- tech. Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar -- it appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster. Thank you for your concern. Semper Fi

I set up everything through the game interface withe the exception of 1 "push to talk" key. If I don't load the profile my PTT key doesn't work. I used the left thumb button in the center of the trim wheel below button "D". Called the clutch button. Lucky you though, new software was just released with graphic interface. There's a thread somewhere here......got it http://www.dangerdogz.com/forums/index.php/topic,7128.0.html

After reading "Chickenhawk" I had a great understanding of helicopter flight. I would recommend it to anyone remotely interested in choppers. http://www.robertcmason.com/Books/chpage.html "About Face" - this is a leader of men. http://www.hackworth.com/usbookorders.html A Rumor of War - disturbing but it certainly left an impression. http://litsum.com/rumor-of-war/ Basic flight? Stick and Rudder simply CAN'T be beat. http://books.google.ca/books?id=CPdDju21zt0C&dq=Stick+and+Rudder&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=0cBEOaFwfZ&sig=sor_Lxx9Mh40sFr7V3Dsri-9IfQ&hl=en&ei=y3DuSYrrIprMMeqb-OoP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1