DD_Arthur

Well now Jim, if I remember correctly we first ran into each other about four years ago on a Friday night after you posted an open invitation on the Ubizoo boards to attend some coops you were willing to host for the community. I didn't know what coops were then. When I flew online it was dogfight servers on hyperlobby. Talk to strangers over the interweb!? That'll be weird but I bought a cheapy headphone and downloaded teamspeak. At eight o'clock that evening, lo and behold, a voice. A voice with an accent that went bewilderingly from Canadian into lowland Scots. We flew a lot that night. It was great fun. It was more than that, it was brilliant. There was only one call of "twenty seconds!" too. I seem to remember Jedi and Snacko turning up, possibly FT, and a few others who fell by the wayside. From the established Dogz Sid was there and Friar and Badaim too I think. Only found out later you were auditioning with a view to extending the empire! Then a few months later when I realised that the fun and laughter of a group of pan-Europeans meeting their North American cousins and sharing a common interest could be had several times a week. It just had to be done. The first coop I flew with the Dogz I was wingman in a P38 to Erco whilst Smash flew around us inverted. A professional pilot and a high school kid in middle America, some five thousand miles from where I was sitting in the comfort of my own home. And the evening you managed to get Tail-Drag to fly with us? A real, veteran Hellcat pilot, a veteran of Okinowa. How cool is that? Jim, for myself it's been four great years of evenings laughing, learning, swearing, drinking, joking. Often crying with laughter. In that time my eldest sons discovered girls and often brought them home to introduce them to their father, often to be found wearing a funny hat and shouting "Break, break!" at his pc. My dear wife; "I knew about the motorbikes and the wandering about at night but where did this thing with 'planes come from?" And of course meeting everyone at Duxford. That was the icing on the cake for me Jim. So, as Friar would say, 'In the spirit of the Dogz' it's au revoir Jim but not good bye. The sky is blue my friend and the glass is half full.

Ah......this is looking very good. Been swapping around ram and looks like one of my sticks is up the swannee. PC now been running for twenty minutes with no problems. Gonna give it a workout in Orthos next and if that goes o.k. then will order more ram before buggering off on a spot of hols tomorrow. Happy birthday, DangerDogz!! Looking forward to flying with you all again soon.

We're going to a wedding today. The wedding of the daughter of our old friends Pete and Britt. We've been looking forward to this all year. Pete and I have been friends for over thirty years when we did our basic training. Britt is Norwegian. They met when we were in Norway on our regular winter training. It's a tribute to my mates charm and ingenuity that he persuaded this beautiful woman to leave her wonderful country to come live with him, a soldier, in grotty old Britain and believe me, compared to Norway, the UK is very grotty. All her family are here now and we'll be on our way to the church in an hour. Although I was aware that a tragedy had taken place in Norway yesterday, I've just turned on the tv news to have the full horror revealed this morning. I know we have no Norwegian members at present but I'd just like to say my heart goes out to the whole people of Norway at this time. That brave, resourceful, enlightened nation that have been very good friends to my country over many years. I will pray today.

Could I just recommend to everyone who has now got a copy of CloD to talk nicely to Jedi and see if he will run a tutorial session at a conveniant time for as many as possible. A Sunday perhaps? I've been enjoying CloD for quite a while now and my PC ain't no great shakes. This is largely due to Jedi who has been an invaluable source of excellent advice when it comes to this game. Set up needs some thought to optimise it and the GUI in particular seems to be some devilish plot by the KGB. Even joystick settings are bizarre. There is a diamond in here but without Jedi I'd still be at the "WTF! Oleg you fool" stage.

O.K. Fitted an old HD just now and it's gone into the same freeze after a couple of minutes. Gonna pull it all down tonight and have a good look-see whilst reseating ram, cpu, etc. Also got a different cpu to try too. We've got a wedding this weekend and then off to France for a few days next week and I really, really have the urge to fly with the guys tonight. Most annoying. If the worst comes to the worst and I need a new motherboard, what are my options? I'm running a Gigabyte P35 which has done me really well and would prefer to stay with Gigabyte. I've also got two Intel dual core cpu's ( an E6600 and an E8400) which I'd like to stick with for the moment. Obvious;ly, something multi-core is the target for the future but I'm not sure if I can get a compatible board with my present cpu's? If I do isolate this to a motherboard problem I'd like to get something ordered on evil-bay before we go away so I can fit it immediately we return. Thanks for the advice so far, guys.

The screen freezes with however far it gets. First time it happened eveything loaded normally, went on Google when mouse froze. Screen still displayed, just frozen. I've just gone through the connections and all seems o.k. Pretty sure the HD stops turning when the freeze happens. Also, it now seems to be freezing up at shorter intervals after start up now. Started it in safe mode but still froze.

Went to fire up my game pc tonight for the first time in a fortnight and the bloody thing freezes whilst starting up. Done this four times in a row now. Seems to make all the right noises then just freezes. I think the HD stops whirring. Any ideas? Oh yeah, Win7 64bit. ps, Aaarrghhhh...............

Some just outstanding stuff here Sweper. Thanks for posting these. Great work. Got about a years worth of desktop backgrounds and the Spitfire landing in profile, with the impession of speed.......we've got an A3 printer at school. Gonna see if I can get something worth framing out of these.

Because realistically it's about the only way I'll ever manage to shoot him down, lol. Great idea, this anniversary celebration. I'll be there.

Fruitbat is gonna be a gunner in an IL2!? Oh please please please sir; can we have just a couple of lil' old FW190's in the mix? Pretty please with knobs on.

The Hen party?

Rain you say? No prob, Jim. RNAS Yeovilton airshow about four hours ago. Vulcan Slightly freaked out by the Vulcan Big though, innit? Dunno what it is but I want one Quick, FT at 12 o'clock low. Shoot!! A good day out with the boy and a bit of a break from stuff too. No substitute for Duxford with the DangerDogz though! Now what are those mangy gits up to I wonder...............................................................................................................................................................................................................?

Oh bollox to this! Saturday morning, the sun is shining. I'm not hangin' around all friggin' day waiting for my brothers and their families to roll up. I'll put the key under the mat. Right! Camera, binoculars, fags, youngest son? All present and correct. I want to see some aeroplanes. Vulcan, BoB flight, Seafury, Swordfish, loony Hungarian in his Mig 29, Red Arrows? Yeovilton airday here we come.

Nice one, JP This put a big, big grin on my face this morning!!!! You lucky, lucky man.

Lucky? She decided to pick up the only Venomous snake in Ontario!? Lucky is if it does not rain on Duxford this Saturday.

No, no. I believe Jedipedia has fouled up on this one. Ask him again about Japan invading China/Manchuria. 1937? Hmmmmm...................

+100%. Frankly, if they enabled 6DoF on the next official patch, I would'nt bother with mods at all. Yes, I accept they have brought a whole host of good things and the amount of work and dedication they represent is laudable, the fragmentation we now have, the sheer amount of farting around they now seem to require I think outweighs their benefits. Bring it on Team Electric Chopper!

'Fraid I am indeed a member of the ever so militant National Union of Teachers JP But boringly and for a whole host of reasons, I did not come out on strike today and frankly I won't be, period.

Fascinating read Toad. A couple of things stand out; We returned this guy to internment after he escaped!! I suppose at the time Churchill was desperate to get the Irish PM de Valera to allow British ships to use Irish ports during the battle of the Atlantic. Unsuccessfully as it turned out. I could say several things about Eamonn de Valera and his government but lets just leave it while remembering that while over 50,000 Irishmen chose to enlist in the British army to fight Hitler during WW2 the Irish government choose to remain so neutral they even managed to send their regrets to Berlin through their diplomatic staff on learning of Hitlers death in May '45!!! The other thing that slaps me round the face is that the Eagle pilots were stripped of their American citizenship!!! I find that astonishing! These free citizens of a friendly democracy came to help their cousins put down a monster and FDR's administration did that to them!? Never knew that at all. In the UK I don't think our government can do that. It might be different if you've become a naturalised citizen but if you're born British there's no way to take that away from you.

LMAO!!!

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Colin, Jabo very kindly did me a dvd of some sixty episodes of the Goon Show!!! I got one of my boys to put half of it on his i-pod nano (which he dosen't use anymore since he got an i-phone) and I listen to it through the car stereo via a, er thing.......which plugs into the i-pod and broadcasts on fm to the car stereo. It cost nineninetynine (my favourite price) from a petrol station a couple of years ago. It works a treat.

Whatever you wanna do Angus but I'm deffo interested in the E8400. I've got a Gigabyte mobo which is good for overclocking and a GTX460 so I think it'll give me a decent boost in RoF and CloD.

Angus, I would very very much like your E8400 to replace my E6600 and am very willing to pay postage from Canada to the UK. However, I quite understand that you'd rather get rid of the gear as a job-lot so if you get a better offer then take it m8. Btw, now your family is fairly well established and you're getting a new whizz-bang system which you're gonna be amazed at the eye-candy it will produce, have you thought about a vasectomy!? What with your new system, the progress the devs are making with CloD and the impact of global warming, have it done now and you could be flying Coops with us in a couple of years! Edit; Doh, I'll have the mobo and ram too if you want as I've just realised it's all higher spec than my stuff. Can I suggest you hang onto the graphics cards as a handy back-up, just in case.................................Also, gonna have to offer you more than postage m8. If not money then books or something. I know from past experience that I cannot post single malt scotch from the UK to Canada