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Awesome show. Great acting. I look forward to seeing this second season once I can get ahold of reruns sometime.

I've been absorbed in other life-details for a few months, and I'm pleased to see I will have ample distractions come Q4-2012 (if they release on time in the spring).

Hahaha!

I picked these Navy trousers up from a surplus in Massachusetts in the 90s. I haven't looked at them in a while. This AM I pulled them out and found under one of the pockets a name and serial #. I think these are pre-WWII because the clothing contract # doesn't include an Nxxx at the beginning. I looked briefly on the St. Louis military archives website but I wasn't sure how to learn about the person who used to own these trousers. The tag reads Name: LANG WP [handwritten] Service #:490045038 [handwritten] Trousers, Men's (Blue, Enlisted) Fiber Content: Wool (100%) Contract #:DLA100-80-C-2283 Stock #:8405-01-076-6027 Size:35S [handwritten initial] KA Name of contractor : Statham Garment Corporation After the cleaning instructions is another handwritten code, best guess CO80 or CO87, maybe CO82.

It's called peer pressure. You will fold. (No, I will not buy Star Wars. I am stronger.)

Most excellent. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for the extra nudge peter. The mobo is by TMC research corp. AI5TV (v2.1). The closest spec I found online so far is this: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/T/TMC-RESEARCH-CORPORATION-Pentium-AI5TV-VER-2-2.html http://artofhacking.com/th99/m/S-T/34465.htm The 2.2 board configuration is either identical or very close to the 2.1 spec. The two unique pieces of equipment connected to this are the Bridgenorth Signal processors, BN4000 and BN1416 First article on BN4000: http://www.aip.org/tip/INPHFA/vol-3/iss-2/p43.pdf Ha-I just found this while looking for bits on the BN1416. It's what we're setting up to (re) do over a decade later. The .pdf is a gov't technical doc from 1998. http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/232735.pdf I was wrong earlier, running W98, not W95. We have a copy of 98SE which is supposed to have better USB support. This rig is boss's baby so he gets to play with installs. The ISA /USB piece might be really handy if the windows fix doesn't work. We have everything set up now to translate and read the data. We just don't have anywhere to put it yet because of this last hardware hiccup. If we were going to rebuild from the ground up, are mobos made with ISA slots and modern computing speeds? This is definitely not something that fits within the university's Dell workstation contract!

We're stuck currently with the older machine because a special card that translates the dat signal needs the old slot. I think that's the key limitation. I'm confident we could otherwise assemble a machine to connect the various other components, maybe. In the first photo to the left of the monitor are two aluminum boxes. They also contain custom electronics built by now-retired fisheries guys a decade ago to futher manipulate the signal. BNC cables and old SCSI signals, it's all well over my head. I'm trying y'all now based on the few components boss tells me he still needs to make this work-namely a HD to fit that SCSI cable. Hey-would a newer HD partitioned into multiple smaller drives be identified by the older OS? There's an issue with larger drive readability too.

The drive setup is stuck to this older machine. It's about the various ports and cards we have to use-unique to the dated mobo-to convert the dat signal. new mobos don't have the slots. Also, @ custard, this is win 95 I think. I'll ask about the bios check, but the USB card is an addon to the mobo. would that show up in bios?(I'm not the primary user of the equipment.)

I'm looking for an early 90s-era SCSI-1(?) HD for use with some old fisheries data retrieval at work. We have the system set up to read the DAT tapes containing fisheries survey data from the late 70s-90s, but we can't yet put it on anything. This is terabytes of data. We have one HD that works with the connecter shown. It's 2gigs. Does anything exist larger, even just 10G? We also have a USB card that fits a slot in this early-90s era machine, but we can't get the mobo to read it. If that worked we could just go with a modern external HD. In the picture of the whole setup you can see an external drive series connected by scsi1 with the CD and a HD. The CD works, not the HD, which is adapted within from I think 50 to 68 pin (or vice versa). We have another newer external SCSI HD that didn't work. What's the deal? Your combined genius would be super handy to have in the snowy north right now! If you happen to have hardware that would work, let me know and we may purchase it from you.

Congrats!

Is Tom the Lion anything known in the UK? I just received his double-cd. It's a fine bit of work for a 24-year old producer-singer-player. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaTUmShOwN4

I just watched the Valor trailer, yes interested for the BF3 tags. In it I saw what looked like a tiny recon drone, about the size of a typical kid's balsa wind-up plane. OK-impressive. Question: In the Act of Valor trailer with this kind of tech or whatever else, dives, seal tactics, etc, how much of it is movie magic and how much is the real McCoy? I could think A- some is over-glorified or overused for the sake of movie drama, B-the tech is actually far less in the movie for confidentiality reasons, C-the tech is the true front-line material. What say y'all with military service? As for the funeral, I've mentioned a year or two ago about my grandfather's service time in WWII. I don't have a clear picture of his service time, he only spoke of the war near his death and his records were destroyed at the St. Louis, MO archives in the 1970's fire. However, he did not have a military funeral. Are military funerals only for active duty service deaths or do all vets have the option? My grandfather was cremated and released at sea off the California coast. I couldn't afford to attend his funeral in '07, but I see him going into the same ocean that he fought for sixty years before in the south seas. I don't think he saw it that way. He had requested a private funeral. Do vets commonly request the decorated or not, is it part of the humility of service? For all the troubles of PTSD that he suffered maybe, or maybe for the very coherent memories he had from the islands, he was staunchly anti-war near his death. According to my mother, she remembers him putting his uniform in a corner when he returned in '45/'46, and promptly burning the uniform within a week or two. He proceeded to drink a lot for the next half-century, run a failed car-wash business in Fresno, have himself cleaned out by a business partner, and end up in a glorified trailer park. A year before he died he opened up a little about some of what he saw, things I could only imagine in a horror flick, men crushed under vehicles shot out by Japanese fighters, ammo dumps exploding 'very' nearby, hand-to-hand with Japanese boys, boys he said, and he was only 20 himself. Mother had gleaned only one story from him in her entire life, which was after she found a bloody knife in his drawer, a Japanese service knife that Granddad had fought away from an attacker and used to dispatch the original owner. I just found this bit online at a memorial website "He[Paul Handloss] entered military service in 1942 after the beginning of World War II, earning his commission in the U.S. Army at Camp Davis, North Carolina, later serving in the South Pacific where he was Anti-aircraft Gun Unit Commander with landings in Hollandia, New Guinea and the Biak Islands."

I don't think tanks are that far off the mark, but from the beginning I've been dissapointed for the lack of a commander (player coordination) role. I mean really, would any commanding officer send a tank into tight urban terrain without close infantry support? I'm guilty as the rest of us for taking the Rambo mentality to a tank and charging right through battle areas, or making all kinds of noise on a close flank .... "Brwawwwwww...!" Support:Hey did you hear that? Sparky:Yeah I think it's an M1 coming down by Office Support:Do you have your RPG? Sparky:Yup, and their infantry is still at spawn. Support:Cool-I'll go C4 'im. You watch my back.... For tanks, if they wanted to encourage more role appropriate play, then they might need to work with the radius-based defence point system. Bonus for infantry support near tanks. And also a tank bonus for working close to infantry as armor support. What could that be, something like saviour points? As for Recon, they have handy access to enough CQB weapons that I've found myself spawning as one for the same intention as Durka, but carrying on suitably with whatever buzzbox gun I chose at spawn. I'd like to see more role-appropriate play which would have to be forced by a different weapon selection for Recon. Leave the Recon primary weapons as long guns, no MP7, 45, shotguns, whatever else, and give them a couple more G18-type options for secondary weapons, automatic/bullpup and short-range effective only. That gets toward the Project Reality method for gameplay from BF2/ARMA2, by limiting play styles in game, but the commander function would really help for the bulk of play that can't be scripted in code. Someone goes lone wolf and doesn't support what the commander wants? No ammo drop. Players stick with that armor toward the objective, then their arty calls get answered. I just reread this last line: "giving the Recon player a place in CQB is important to us as developers." As developers? Don't they mean as marketers? I don't hold it against them; I play knowing that I'm outside the bullseye of their target audience (gameplay development target) but well withing the marketing target. I bought it, didn't I?

For those of you who dig bnc cables and oscillators. One of the projects in our office is to upload 25+ year old fishery acoustic data into the servers for processing. It's just getting started, data from the 80s and 90s. The last image is the current processing setup-a sextuplet-core Mac tower and sexy monitors.

Three Samsung BX2440's are available through the local classifieds. I don't think it's worth $250(CAN) for one of the monitors. Samsung doesn't even advert the BX2440 as a gaming thing. 5ms response time. I read that is pretty important, and I can get three diff 24" models from the local futureshop for under $200. My current samsung 2043snx, although small, has the same 5ms response time. So worth the $250? My rig is a cobbled together quadcore, 2009-mid-range mobo, gpu MSI-5770. Ultra high settings are pushing it for me but I have managed that in a lower-populated BF3 server. What will I gain? I can appreciate the addition of a couple inches (who wouldn't )

Scope glint? If you mean scope-drift, I saw that on one of the text-hints in between maps. Only higher power scopes have the drift, which I suspect also means that only higher power scopes are steadied with default L Shift.

Finally remembered to get on this-busy cleaning and cooking tonight (yes, I run an equal opportunity household. I'm also the only one here) · W7x64 Home Premium · Q9650 intel · MSI-HD5700 AMD · GA-EP45-UD3L v1.0 mobo Monitor is a Samsung2043SNX

Here, is this anything familiar? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1DXrENXFH8 I can't get the video to post properly.

This isn't the green flickering in game, it's a whole monitor off-on-off-on flash that does not stop until I un-accept the full-screen selection. Later I'll get a blackberry video and post. I'd like to try a different monitor just to see. I think I have an older tube 19" in the basement.

I've updated with the most current AMD release (10/31), and CAP 4, but my blasted machine still flashes the BF3 screen whenever I attempt a fullscreen display. By flash I mean a full blank and refresh of the screen at about a 1-sec period. I've tried setting the screen to a few different resolutions in the BF3 video settings to no luck. No, once it did work at 1440x900@75hz, but I can't get it to repeat. I've been playing in windowed mode since the release and it's getting really, really old. Any other suggestions? I haven't looked in-depth, but a cursory google shows others with similar problems in the obnoxious yahoo questions and the rest.

Happy birthday! WTF-49? I wouldn't have thought a day over 44.

Released yesterday

That's hilarious!

Batwing-there is a sub-menu when looking at loadouts for your regular kits then land and air. Select land, and it should show the relevant categories for your map. Also-unlocks might be specific to each vehicle and each side, same as weapon unlocks. Not sure. However, once there you'd click over for each perk or gadget the same as for your character. The keys seem to vary a little, but it's starting to make sense. Example-once you have unlocked and equipped the tank zoom, it's the same as optical zoom: RMB. Your coax is like a second weapon. click 2 or F to switch. This is different from BC2, (or was it in BF2?) where you could both fire the main gun and coax simultaneously.