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Too cool gec. It's the electronics end that frightens me. I picked a cross country ski machine out of the garbage a while back and was going to use it but in the end never did. Had really nice aluminum I-beams with sliding foot rests that looked like they were custom made for rudders. Sort of like this pic. At least it would have good quality sliders and bushings. There has to be a lot of Nordic Track Ski Machines out there ready for the garbage.

I didn't think that was possible. I figured once the gear touched the water you'll nose in for sure.

The owner of the site has rob the cash box a run off with the money. and has not paid the bill for website so this is the end of AAA. I don't much pay attention to the politics but I would love to hear the story behind that one.

Thanks Roger, I'm getting in today. After the first problems I tried to come in through a Google link (http://www.dangerdogz.com) to the Dogz and was still getting the same error

I think what the author is missing is humans' remarkable ability to do absolutely stupid things while still in the mindset that "nothing is going to happen to me". I will walk away as a hero and it will raise my status in the tribe/ look cool for the chicks. I once ran across traffic on an icy bridge at night on a 3 lane highway while cars were still sliding/crashing into each other at 60 mph to get a girl out of her car who was just sitting there in shock. I didn't know her, and was truly in love(first few months of our relationship with my wife of 26 yrs) with someone else at the time. It's not like I was looking for a date. Got her off to the side of the road safely and drove away home without so much as a goodbye. Only later realized I left my coat on her back. Damn near got killed and to this day I still have no idea why I did it. Funny, I can't edit my reply and when I hit reply I find I'm logged out. Must clear cookies I guess. Oh that's very funny. I hit edit, get error, hit reply, have to log in to reply and now I AM in the reply screen yet it may show up as an addition to my first post.

Good for you BG. All our pollinators are in trouble and need all the help they can get. I would be interested to hear if they have any trouble like the Colony Collapse Disorder that has been so hard on bees all over the planet. We used to do the same at our place and got 50 lbs of honey every year, split between the 7 owners. 7 lbs of honey is a lot to eat. I think the guy got too old to continue and nobody took over.

Mythbusters did a segment on this. Somewhere on youtube is a vid of a car being lifted by 4 hoses. They found the car had to be stripped down to the bare body for it to work. I saw the man lifter on a science show. The guy worked on it for a number of years.

Homebuilts or experimentals are damn good planes these days and can be had for the same as a middle priced car but more than half are never finished by the original buyer. Today's kits make that ratio much better but still a lot of them never get in the air.

He's a super villain I tell ya.

Up here they just passed the "hands free" law. It will make little difference in the accident rate. Hands on the wheel means nothing if your BRAIN isn't focused on the ROAD ahead. I fail to see why they don't understand this. Damn glad you're all safe Bucky.

Yes but I am a poor man.

I stumbled onto this today. It's mostly about building sim cockpits from PVC tubing. I have to admit, the PVC pipe has the right look for a sim pit. There is this cool IL 2 keyboard mod. It looks like you take a regular keyboard, mount vertical but upside down(spacebar on top), and print out a bunch of decals to overlay the keys. * Designed for the online WWII air combat pilot * You don't have to memorize endless key assignments * Use this modified keyboard in addition to your regular keyboard If I didn't already have too much to do I think I would spend the $15. http://www.rogerdodger.net/diyflightsims/il2_keyboard_mod.html

My daughter just got back from a trip to France through school. She brought the usual touristy stuff back, Eiffel Tower keychains and jewelry, t-shirts and the like. For me she brought a little pencil sharpener /die cast model of an aircraft carrier(I have a matching one of a Spitfire from the warplane heritage museum) but the coolest thing she did was sneak off from her group and steal me a rock off of the Juno Beach landing site.

Happy Birthday Toad

Perfect timing! Someone broadcast that you're an experienced B5N pilot. Think Pacific .....

I get the same thing. It's like the cookie "goes stale". Upgrades of a forum and for a few months it will just forget I checked that "remember me" box every week or two with diminishing frequency till it works properly. Could have something to do with Firefox updates that seem to be every other day. Always the same computer for me, static IP.

The Logitech LCD Manager thing in your taskbar probably has to be running. And in Win 7 you may have to run as admin.

I doubt IL2 is very fussy about netspeed. Anything between 5K and 10K should work OK.

42 it is then.

We've heard one thing or another. We could test but I see no point in reinventing the wheel if anyone knows for sure.

If you set resolution high wouldn't that make it harder to spot distant planes? At some point they're 1 pixel. Isn't that much bigger at lower resolution?

That question is about as simple as "what is the meaning of life, the universe and all that stuff"? IF I UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE THING PROPERLY: It's complicated ... and server dependent. Fast machine running the server(high tickrate or functions per second) and you can benefit from a higher netspeed. Set netspeed too high and you might appear jerky(too much info to server so it drops some but there's nothing to fill in the gaps) Too low and you might appear jerky, not enough info to fill all the info spaces the server creates. So it's mostly about how much info the server can handle. How do you know? You don't. Trial and error, and it will change all the time with servers, ping and your internet connection. This is for Unreal Tournament. IL2 is probably less affected than that. http://wiki.unrealadmin.org/Netspeed_Tutorial_%28UT%29

Open Office is free and works the same as MS Office. I think Google has some kind of word processor for free too.

When I make those gun cam videos from screenshots I take all of the FRAPS screenshots(convert to JPEG in Irfanview) into Windows Movie Maker and create a slideshow and save as a movie. It looks like a choppy movie but it's actually screenshots taken every half second and played back at .35 seconds - about a 3FPS movie but you can set whatever delay you want in WMM. http://s828.photobucket.com/albums/zz206/Indyyeti/?action=view&current=FinlandMar29.flv&newest=1 Once it's a movie you should have no trouble burning to DVD.

UPDATE: I shut it off, the game freezes every third mission or so. Tried the latest version - 4.1 and still the same lockups. No lockups since I shut it down.