Friar

Whilst researching for a new event I am working on I came across the article below..... "The Luftwaffe bomber was in trouble. It had dropped its 4,000lb cargo of bombs over London and was heading home. As it flew over Kent it was hit by anti-aircraft fire from a gun emplacement beside the Medway at Upnor. Then pursuing Spitfires and Hurricanes pounced – but for once they didn’t seek to blow the enemy plane from the sky. The pilots from 66 and 92 squadrons recognised that this was no ordinary Junkers bomber. Earlier an order had gone out to all units to capture one like it, intact. The bomber pilot, Fritz Ruhlandt, was given no choice but to attempt a forced landing on the Kent marshes. On the ground, soldiers from the 1st London Irish Rifles billeted at the Sportsman Inn on Graveney Marshes between Faversham and Seasalter heard the crippled bomber as it plunged towards them. Under-offizier Ruhlandt, despite being wounded, brought down his plane a few hundred yards from the pub. He and his injured crew members crawled from the wreckage. A dozen or so soldiers in the pub grabbed their rifles and rushed towards the scene. And so, on September 27, 1940, the scene was set for an historic encounter of the Second World War. The Luftwaffe crew had armed themselves with two machine guns and a sub-machine gun and opened fire. The soldiers returned fire but were forced to take cover under a hail of bullets. It was the only battle of the Second World War on the British mainland and the incident was thought to be the first in nearly 300 years in which armed invaders had fought with troops on English soil. The dtramatic incident is featured in The Forgotten Frontline, an exhibition at Whitstable Museum illustrating how the Kent coast was affected by the war seven decades ago. The Irish rifles re-grouped and crept along a dyke towards the Germans. When they were about 100 yards away one of the airmen waved a white flag but as the soldiers closed in fighting erupted again before the Germans were over-powered. The drama didn’t end with the surrender of the aircrew. Like many Nazi planes, the Junkers 88 was fitted with time-bombs to prevent it falling into enemy hands. The soldiers had discovered and removed just such a device. Unknown to the prisoners, one of the soldiers could speak German and he heard the fliers talking about a second time-bomb due to go off at any moment. Captain Cantopher from the Irish Rifles courageously rushed back to the plane, found the second device and defused it in the nick of time. By doing so he helped the war effort – for the Junkers 88 was only two weeks old and was fitted with a secret and extremely accurate new bombsight. The outcome Captain Cantopher received the George Medal for his bravery. The Junkers 88 was taken to RAF Farnborough for examination and was said to have provided highly valuable information. The Luftwaffe air crew went to prisoner-of-war camps. The riflemen were mentioned in dispatches for tactical ability which enabled them to force the surrender of the heavily-armed Luftwaffe crew. Unofficially, however, it is said the riflemen had their knuckles rapped for opening fire without being ordered to do so. Historic note The Battle of Graveney Marsh has the distinction of being the last exchange of shots on mainland Britain by a foreign invading force. The encounter was believed to be the first confrontation with an enemy on British soil since the French landed at Fishguard in 1797, although on that occasion not a shot was fired."

Hi Guys, For those of you that might want to add a bit to the feeling of immersion, (and dont know about this little trick) I have found a way to cut down on the messages that are displayed on the right hand side of the screen. Via the conf.ini you can either turn them on or off. This gives you a few more options.. The file, located in the folder (for me "Ultrapack 2.0" is where my install is) C:\Program Files\Ubisoft\Ultrapack 2.0\Files\i18n\ and is called "hud_log_ru.properies" 1. - MAKE A BACKUP OF THE FILE! 2. - Open the file in notepad. 3. - You can now change or remove the text in the right hand column. DO NOT DELETE THE LINE COMPLETELY I have removed the obvious things like "Engine starting, Canopy open etc. I have also removed Enemy Plane Destroyed, just to make it surprise when I get the scores! Have a go, see what you think, if all else fails you can go back to the original file....you DID make a backup before trying this..didn't you?. Friar

On reflection, it would probably be a better option to buy another external hard drive and take it work and leave it there, just bring it home, say, at weekends to update. Thanks for the input anyway guys, much appreciated. Friar

time now 20:15 bst server up zuti 1.12 come one come all..... UPDATE 22:20 BST SERVER NOW CLOSED...thanks to Artie and Swep for trying to repel the invading German forces from blighty without success!

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Taking everyone's folders into account with pictures and music its currently about 30GB ...Just had a look at that site Roger, 100gb for £50 a year. Looks promising...

Hi Guys, Although I have an external 500gb drive which I back up all my stuff to periodically, I am thinking about taking an on-line back up account, (co-incidentally, I read somewhere recently that your data is not safe until you have it in three separate places! ) Does any one have any experience of these or can provide suggestions for a host? I am thinking of an annual subscription rather than monthly payments. Cheers Friar

Hay Roger, loving the world clocks, but are you not missing one?

Salute all, With the adoption of Teamspeak 3 by the dogz we lost the utility Teamspeak Display. I have contacted the developer but it seems a bit of a dead end. I know a lot of people like to have the name of the person speaking. Apparently it helps some of you American's to tell us Brits apart! I have been going through the Teamspeak forums and have come across this utility http://www.voipoverlay.com/ It is not free, costs $14.95 but there is a 15 day free trial. It was very simple to download and just requires a file being added to the Teamspeak 3 "Add-ins" folder. You can place it anywhere on the screen plus also change the colour (that's "color" for some of you) and size of the text. If it proves popular I thought about trying to contact them to see if we could get a group license at a discount. I ran it on Sunday with Jabo and we both thought it worked well. I did disable mine as when hosting my pings were going up and down and I wanted to see if this utility was the cause, however I think it was due to the map as I was getting the same issues with it not running. I did notice however, with it running, when opening up my Trackir 5 software, in the orientation view. all the longitude and latitude lines had gone together with the 3d heads, although there was still a "target" to highlight where you were looking and it did not seem to effect the in game use of Quackir, err sorry Track IR For all you leading edge techies out there, it worked under Windows 7 and 64 bit (you just need to copy a different dll file into the TS add-ins folder. Friar

Excellent job Roger, I find this style much easier to read and navigate. As for the cost.......I'll have a word with the Priory parishioners to see if we can not divert some of the founds that were intended for the community wine store roof fund..

Thank you for the kind introduction JP... My honorable friends of the Dangerdogz, you may not know, but for some time I have thinking about standardizing our...what, STFU....ok.......

Only Jeddi can take a post about a TV and turn it round to offering dietary advice....

Nice post JP...

"Lower" and "Raise" ?

Oh how wrong I was....I saw it on wednesday (would have posted sooner but had trouble logging in..) It was absolutely brilliant.....saw it in 3d...will any film in 2d be ever the same again, I doubt it.... believe was suspended and I was not sure what was real and what was CGI... when they have finished with the computers....can I have them...they might just run BOB!

I have just updated to Firefox 3.5.8, I have cleared my history and cookies and I can now log in with Firefox..Yipeee. it felt so odd being with out the forum....my life was a void.... great work Roger as always. Friar

yea, my insurance company are gonna be pissed..

i have a graphics issue on my machine as well.....it says DOUBLETAP...must be an error!

all in jest my friend.....after seeing me prang a take off you asked how long i had been flying with the dogz, i answered like a naughty school boy with my head hung low.... till me meet in the air .. Salute

Oi ! Tonar...get your own thread....BG said attention Friar...and bye-the-way... I can take off in a 190, your just never around when I do it!

Thanks Jim.

sounds to me you need to set up a remote desktop connection or a vpn connection between the two. VNC is a good application I have used before (infact I have it on this pc to enable me to remote in to another pc running Ubuntu, works a treat)

i have mine on, so happily limited to 60

jp, fps average of 60.....if you have a new hockey 2000 computer the frames may be limited by the screen refresh rate of 60hz. mine is, i cant remember the setting but when i took it off, it went to about 140..!! so dont dispare....it may be 60 but i bet each one will be quality