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    Check out these l33t idiots. DO NOT DO THIS BS. EVER.

    in Military chit chat

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    It's like they watched someone playing MGS and thought "Hey! We could look all sweet like those PMC guys!" It looks straight out of a Kojima game. Not that I'm bad mouthing him as I love Metal Gear. They are training for shit that should not and will not happen. Being surrounded by 6 people, even if they are unarmed and you are, is not going to play out in your favor or nearly as cool as they seem to think.

     

    I can't say much on the firing past or in front of each other as I've trained doing that sort of thing with a SAW and M240 but I also know/knew that my automatic riflemen are highly trained and proficient with those weapons and won't shoot me in the back. And if an accident occurred we at least had body armor and Kevlars on.

     

    But hey Natural Selection doesn't really apply to humans as it used to so it's kind of important that we allow the inferior specimens to kind weed them selves out. Unfortunately THESE retards could hurt someone else during they're antics. I would not want to be in the area if someone tries to mug one of these folks as I can reasonably assume that I'm going to catch a bullet as well.

    Like you said... natural selection.

    Was in the Finn army almost nine years and did all sorts of stuff but this looks like no brainie to me.

     

    -KILLE- Jan

    Stupid autocorrection

    in Humor - Spartan Jokes

    Posted

    What is this program? Do iphones transcribe voice?

    I don´t think that these are from voice transcription software. It seems that chat history is stored on the phone:

     

    iphone_im.jpg

     

     

    There are some voice transcription softwares around for PC´s & smartphones:

     

     

    Dragon dictation

     

     

    I don´t have an iPhone, been using Nokia phones all my life... may have to take to the iPhone soon, depending what our companys new phones will be.

     

    -KILLE- Jan

    dual quad-core suggestion (non-gaming)

    in Computer Discussions

    Posted

    That's the program. I know the memory max is 3G for the program, but an x32 system can only use 3.25. My thought was an x64-based system would permit an allocation of a full 3G of RAM to the program itself with more for the OS.

     

    We currently run it on a C2D, not sure of the chipset exactly (writing from out of office), with 3G of RAM on XPx32 and a 9600GT VGA. The computer can run the program fine for some tasks, but the higher resolution data, given how the program runs (taking raw data files @100mb each and assembling them into 'ev' files), it lags out. It can certainly still do the work, just not in an efficient manner.

     

    In this case then, a single quad core like an i5 might do the trick with W7x64 and 6G RAM. I might try to sell boss on an SSD for this program and associated files alone, but it doesn't seem like a dual-quad setup is necessary now. I use the Optiplex 980 myself, which is an easy aquire for the office since that's the current evolution on higher-end desktops at the office. A few extra customizations perhaps?

     

    How's that jive?

    Sounds good, but how is that program built, I mean that can you install it into 64 bit OS? I would try it out first, usually older programs do have only 16bit installers (.exe) which is a no go for x64 operating systems. If you can´t do the installation then you can´t go for W7x64 and for 6GB RAM. Even if the installation goes nicely software might get hickups from that amount of memory... Remember arma2 when it was launched, one had to fork the boot parameters to switch off some memory if this system had more than 4GB RAM.

    i5, i7 or Xeon CPU´s are great even for non threaded older programs because of their turbo boost technology = Dynamically and automatically maximizes server application performance by increasing core frequencies, enabling faster speeds for specific threads, and mega-tasking workloads.

     

    -KILLE-

    dual quad-core suggestion (non-gaming)

    in Computer Discussions

    Posted

    At work we're having hangups with a program called echoview, and boss wants to try a dual quadcore like his mac, but a PC version.

    Through our purchasing agreements we can probably get a Dell Precision T7500, but is that really a good option?

    Sounds like this is ooooold program if these specs are right which I found by doing the google thing: http://support.echoview.com/WebHelp/_Introduction/Computer_requirements.htm

     

    This seems to be a program that can be run on a normal desktop, not even on a workstation because of this requirement: Microsoft Windows XP (note: the x64 edition is not currently supported).

    So any kind of desktop or even a laptop with a dualcore/quadcore cpu with max 4 gigs of RAM and Win XP 32 bit should be able to run this.

     

    I´m currently working with around 5000-6000 servers and virtualization (vmware, xen) and this just does not fit into those because of the OS & usb demands if that link which I found is still valid.

     

    -KILLE-

    -Jan

    1 you're lucky, 2 you're a damn good shot

    in Spartans general chat

    Posted

    How different is the .338 Lapua from the .338 Win Mag? I'd look it up, but easier this way.

     

    http://www.lapua.com/index.php?id=888

     

    and something I just found:

     

    Another okie's numbers are on for 338 Lapua.

     

    From Military .338 Lapua Magnum Rifles Compared, the SAKO TRG-42 and AI-AWSM (http://demigodllc.com/articles/military-338-lapua-rifles-trg42-awsm/)

     

    In the early 1980's, the U.S Navy sought a new cartridge for long-range competition. Research Armament Industries (RAI) developed a .338 caliber wildcat using a rimless .416 Rigby case. After a few years of testing the .338/.416, U.S. Armed Forces lost interest and chose to focus on the .50 BMG instead. Lapua picked up the pieces, strengthened the case design, and created the .338 Lapua Magnum cartridge.

     

    The .338 Lapua splits the difference between .308 sniper rifles and .50 BMG anti-materiel rifles, with an effective range of 1500 yards against man-sized targets. Rifles chambered in .338 Lapua are the same size and weight as other long-action calibers like .300 Winchester Magnum, or about half the weight of a .50 BMG rifle. This makes a dramatic difference in mobility for shooter and spotter teams.

     

    Accuracy International (AI) was established in 1978 by World Champion rifle shooter Malcom Cooper along with Dave Walls and Dave Caig. They produced one of the first modern sniper rifles, the Precision Marksman (PM), which was adopted by the British as the L96 in 1985. AI modified the rifle to work better in arctic environments and this Arctic Warfare (AW) model was adopted by the Swedish Army in 1990. They had a vision for a multi-purpose long-range sniper caliber and this idea came to fruition in the Arctic Warfare Super Magnum (AWSM) sniper rifle chambered in .338 Lapua, which was adopted as the L115A1 in British service.

     

    338 Win Mag is basically a big, slow round for wholloping game.

    338 Lapua is a long-range "sniper" round.

     

    datruth- This article describes caliber selection for long-range shooting

    PRACTICAL LONG-RANGE RIFLE SHOOTING - PART I: THE RIFLE & GEAR (http://demigod.org/articles/practical-long-range-rifle-shooting-equipment/)

     

    -KILLE- Jan :Finland:

    ?Medal of Honor? ReBoot (Sept 2010)

    in General Game Talk

    Posted

    Something else you'll note is which hand his wrist watch is on. A lot of shooters will wear their watch on their strong side instead of the normal, opposite your strong side, because it is easier to look at while holding the weapon either at the ready but especially when looking down sights. The wrist is right in view distance and instead of pulling your weak hand off the front grip, which can compromise accuracy if you need to engage a target in a hurry, you can just glance over at it as needed.

     

    Just a little inside info for those that may not know.

    And if you´re used to wear your watch on the left wrist you can always have it twisted to the other side (palm) not to the other hand, then you can take a look at your watch with your left eye and hold your right eye near the sights. This is what I did when I was in the service.

     

    -KILLE-

    Wings of Prey

    in Simulators

    Posted

    There's a few joystick profiles that come with the game. Mine's not one of them.

     

    As far as multiplayer modes, I don't know yet. I'm still trying to see if I can get my joystick to work. LOL

     

    Honestly, if I'd know about the DRM and the lack of support for my joystick, I would not have purchased it.

    Hi there... and sorry for not being around for a looong time.

     

    I also purchased the game through Steam and I had some difficulties also even though I have an x52 controller which is supported by the game. I had to do a lot of work to get my x52, rudder pedals and TIR4 working with the game but I somehow managed to do it.

    First I tried to use the "pre configs" for the joysticks = no go

    Next thing was to use the device settings in the options menu where one can apply settings for any controller. So I had to do all the elevator, rudder, aeleron setups through the axis setup screens.

    After this I went to the keyboard setup screen and configured all my keyboard commands + all the joystick buttons in the same menu (use the third row on the right hand side for your joysticks buttons).

     

    TIR should be working automatically with the 6DOF support if you have one, but it only works in the cocpit mode.

     

    After all this work I thought that I was ready to fly... no. I had to invert the settings for elevator and elevator trim settings in the device settings screen and after that I was able to fly the planes like the real ones should be flown.

     

    I have been flying only the tutorial missions now (only couple left anymore) and I have enjoyed the game. Yes it´s arcadish compared to IL-2 but the scenery is a lot better than in the 10 year old IL-2.

     

    I flew IL-2 since it was published as a demo (some ten years ago) to April 2009 mainly in full real. I haven´t tried out the online gaming or even the single player campaign in the wings of prey yet but the tutorial missions looked good.

     

    BR,

     

    -KILLE-

     

     

    Bottlenecking

    in Computer Discussions

    Posted

    I intend to wait for some good reason before buying Vista or Win7; I hear too many program conflicts with our valuable games. I'll have a look at both bits of s/w later today, and I think I'll have to buy diskeeper now. I've been spoiled by automatic defrag.

     

    Edit: Diskeeper is on sale-$40US for 2 licences.

    Vista 64 is the way to go, have been using it for a long time and I haven´t had any issues with it. I´ve heard that people have had some issues with the 32 bit version, but you don´t want to use that on if you want to really use more than 4GB memory on your system.

     

    Current set up:

    P45 Neo mobo, 9440 2,6GHz quadcore cpu, 6GB DDR2 memory, Nvidia 260 GPU, 2,5 TB of SATA2 diskspace.

     

    Be sure to have the latest drivers and patches, haven´t done any special tuning on Vista64 only taken the admin features off to ease the usage. With my old xp system I had to do alot more tuning with the paging files

     

     

    Tried out 64 bit Win7 and it felt a lot better than Vista 64, it uses less memory and all the games seems to run smoother on it. One thing to remember is that Win7 supports only fairly new hardware, so you might run into minor probs with old hw. I´ll propably wait for a one or two months after the Win7 release before installing it to be my main OS, just to be sure that the minor probs which will be found after the release have been patched up.

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