Mister Frag

It's probably an inability to allocate memory for the sounds -- you may want to try adding the -nomap switch to the OFP shortcut to see if that solves your problem.

From http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/30/war.peace.ap/index.html

Are you sure? I've flown with other people on the internet with X-Plane version 5.xx, and the current version of X-Plane is 7.61. That's why I added the AFAIK. When I tried it, it did not have network support, though I can't tell you which version it was -- it was years ago. I checked the X-Plane site today before posting, and saw nothing about it either, hence my qualification.

You can also get some good stick time in X-Plane if you are looking for realistic flight models and cockpits. There are also lots of downloadable aircraft models. Alas, the program does not support any form of networking yet AFAIK.

From http://www.cnn.com/2004....ex.html

You can bet that the U.S. doesn't share all of its intelligence information with its allies. Nobody does...

And from http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/08/28/russia.security/index.html

This was relayed to me by an old friend of these forums. The story came from http://www.gazeta.ru/2004/08/27/oa_131573.shtml

Yes, same guy.

I felt the same way about the A-6E Intruder. It was a great all-weather attack aircraft capable of hauling more than its own weight in ordnance (and about 5 times what a late-model WWII B-17 could carry), but it became too expensive to maintain, and no replacements for old airframes came out of Grumman.

All you have to do is breach the pressurized cabin, and the whole fuselage will pop like a can of ready-to-bake dinner rolls.

That's not entirely clear -- he's certainly been involved with them, though. Simon Mann is known as the founder of Executive Outcomes.

From http://www.cnn.com/2004....ex.html

No, that's not normal, unless you run a program such as Folding@Home, CPU Idle, or something similar. Did you happen to notice which process was consuming all the CPU cycles? I know it doesn't really matter anymore since you got a different system, but I'm curious.

Whatever you do, DO NOT GET A SOUNDBLASTER! It will likely make things worse. An Audigy2 or later is fine, but the SoundBlaster cards are notorious for causing tons of problems. Anyway, before you go out and spend more of your hard-earned cash, try the latest drivers (Version A3.62): http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloa....re=True

There's also this from http://www.cnn.com/2004....ex.html

The nice thing about AutoStreamer is that it knows how to patch all official Windows XP installation CDs, and then it automatically creates the proper ISO file for you. There is no need to extract boot sectors, set proper volume labels, set the disk format, or choose a character set. If you have Microsoft's PowerToys with ISO burning support to drive XPs built-in disk burning engine, you don't need any other programs to make a bootable, slipstreamed Windows XP SP2 CD. It's nearly idiot proof!

Personally, I prefer using the Network Install package instead of Automatic Update. If you download the entire 266MB Network Install and burn it onto a CD for safekeeping, you will never have to put up with slow or interrupted SP2 updates again. That's perfect if you have to do more than one system, which is why the Network Installer (intended for network administrators) was created in the first place. It gets you ALL the files that have changed since the original Windows XP was released to manufacturing, not just the ones you need for your particular installation. Another great thing about the Network Install is that you can use it to create a slipstreamed Windows XP SP2 CD that you can use to install from scratch, and which won't have to be patched immediately. Research has shown that an unpatched, unsecured (not behind an external firewall) Windows XP system that is connected to the Internet gets compromised in an average of 20 minutes, which doesn't give most people enough time to download and apply the service packs and security hotfixes that would prevent such a compromise in the first place. That's the number one reason for making a slipstreamed Windows XP SP2 CD. Windows XP SP2 Network Install AutoStreamer Windows XP SP2 Slipstream Creator

Sounds like access to the drive is locked, which isn't a physical lock -- just that a program has claimed temporary exclusive access. Just restart your system, and while it is doing the POST (Power-on Self Test), press the button on the front of the drive to eject the disk.

Dude, did you really tape that microphone to your face?

well, it also seems not to like me cuz it wont open? Â Do you have Sun's Java VM installed?

OK, so it doesn't have all the features of OFP, but it's still pretty cool! http://arcadevault.com/warzone_2.html

It isn't easy for flaked-off metal chips to cause such failure. First of all, you'd need a lot of flaked-off metal to do this. Second, there are filters, both mesh filters and magnetic ones, to deal with different types of fuel contamination (though I'm not sure how the Tupolevs are equipped). There are also filters to deal with water contamination (condensation). Two separate planes crashing within minutes of each other (almost at the top of the hour) is just too weird. To me that is a probable sign of a coordinated attempt to take control of the flights.

Try to disable any power conservation features that the laptop may have. It might be going to sleep intermittently in order to prolong battery life.

Are you using Microsoft's standard mouse drivers that came with Windows, or vendor-supplied ones?