Is this still working????

[Guest Heirloom]

Strange........no new posts since 07/05/07 at 5:30PM, entitled "screen

background"......this is just a test to see if things are working.

Heirloom, old and must be SOMETHING new

[Guest richard]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Heirloom wrote:

> Strange........no new posts since 07/05/07 at 5:30PM, entitled "screen

> background"......this is just a test to see if things are working.

> Heirloom, old and must be SOMETHING new

>

>

 

No news is good news. Everyone's problems have, at last, been solved.

[Guest Shane]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Okay 'Loom.

 

(Hi!, btw. )

 

I sent a new post to the 'What is?' thread in the early hours and it never

showed. I suspected it may have been censored - but I guess it wasn't!

 

I do wonder about censorship here (of course, what with having brought it up

over and over over the years <the ones that are over>). I amply proved long

ago that certain profanities *will* fail to make it - which leaves the

possibility always there for any other kind of censorship. But there doesn't

seem to be any bar perhaps an automated filter, here. Whereas on XP General

MB openly had posts censored just because they offended *his* sensibilities!

He ought to be shot. Anyhow, it doesn't seem to happen here and it isn't

certain whether it's because ME groups are so insignificant, or that it

happens in XP Gen because one maverick has more power than he's supposed to.

 

I think I'll try my favourite old post-that-never-got-through (thus, I

remember what it was!) again to see if anything's different now.

 

 

Shane

 

 

 

"Heirloom" <roland58XX@XXcox.net> wrote in message

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> Strange........no new posts since 07/05/07 at 5:30PM, entitled "screen

> background"......this is just a test to see if things are working.

> Heirloom, old and must be SOMETHING new

>

[Guest Shane]

Re: Is this still working????

 

 

"richard" <rmk@wonderland.net> wrote in message

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> Heirloom wrote:

>> Strange........no new posts since 07/05/07 at 5:30PM, entitled "screen

>> background"......this is just a test to see if things are working.

>> Heirloom, old and must be SOMETHING new

>

> No news is good news. Everyone's problems have, at last, been solved.

 

I can't see this post! Help!

 

 

Shane

[Guest Heather]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Loon is losing it in his old age......I am looking at 3 posts of mine

dated the 6th. But of course, the US is usually a bit behind the rest

of the world......bwa ha ha.

 

Figgs

 

"richard" <rmk@wonderland.net> wrote in message

news:edUJbNLwHHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

> Heirloom wrote:

>> Strange........no new posts since 07/05/07 at 5:30PM, entitled

>> "screen background"......this is just a test to see if things are

>> working.

>> Heirloom, old and must be SOMETHING new

>

> No news is good news. Everyone's problems have, at last, been solved.

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Is this still working????

 

> filter, here. Whereas on XP General MB openly had posts censored just

> because they offended *his* sensibilities!

 

Somewhat unlikely. Filtering tends to be by rules and not targeted at

individual posts. This means that all posts containing certain phrases,

URLs, phone numbers, and the like will be automatically removed regardless

of who posts them. Similarly if an individual is for some reasons deemed

to have caused problems through their posts then all of their posts will

be filtered from that point in time forward rather than specific posts as

happened you may recall to Alias a couple of years ago for reasons that

never came to light but that were claimed to have been a "mistake". Such

maintenance of the Microsoft newsgroups isn't even now done by someone at

Microsoft but rather by a third party contractor who/which appears to only

work during office hours Monday/Friday which is why new spam posted on a

Friday often remains in the NGs until the following Monday.

 

Note also that when new rules are added these tend to be run

retrospectively a few days meaning that posts that were present for a few

days but contained filtered phrases that were added subsequently might be

removed as will any posts that reference those posts.

--

Mike Maltby

mike.maltby@gmail.com

 

 

Shane <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay 'Loom.

>

> (Hi!, btw. )

>

> I sent a new post to the 'What is?' thread in the early hours and it

> never showed. I suspected it may have been censored - but I guess it

> wasn't!

> I do wonder about censorship here (of course, what with having

> brought it up over and over over the years <the ones that are over>).

> I amply proved long ago that certain profanities *will* fail to make

> it - which leaves the possibility always there for any other kind of

> censorship. But there doesn't seem to be any bar perhaps an automated

> filter, here. Whereas on XP General MB openly had posts censored just

> because they offended *his* sensibilities! He ought to be shot.

> Anyhow, it doesn't seem to happen here and it isn't certain whether

> it's because ME groups are so insignificant, or that it happens in XP

> Gen because one maverick has more power than he's supposed to.

> I think I'll try my favourite old post-that-never-got-through (thus, I

> remember what it was!) again to see if anything's different now.

[Guest Heirloom]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Oh, I see the problem now!!!........I had the sh*t filter turned on!!!

Heirloom, old and double bwa ha ha

 

"Heather" <figgyd@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

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> Loon is losing it in his old age......I am looking at 3 posts of mine

> dated the 6th. But of course, the US is usually a bit behind the rest of

> the world......bwa ha ha.

>

> Figgs

>

> "richard" <rmk@wonderland.net> wrote in message

> news:edUJbNLwHHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> Heirloom wrote:

>>> Strange........no new posts since 07/05/07 at 5:30PM, entitled "screen

>>> background"......this is just a test to see if things are working.

>>> Heirloom, old and must be SOMETHING new

>>

>> No news is good news. Everyone's problems have, at last, been solved.

>

>

[Guest Shane]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Mike,

 

I know that is the case here, but MB openly threatened to have posts removed

and then they did go. I was warned by him about one (frankly mild one, just

not politically correct in his red neck of the woods and sure enough it

didn't get published. He was doing it - notably with Kurtrail, but also to a

lesser extent with those who on occasion took Kurt's side - generally all

the regulars there who weren't apopleptic at some poor sap with a genuine

copy of Windows but for whom Activation wasn't working just the same).

 

Really, it might as well belong to a different organisation, xpgeneral,

Mike. There are some excellent contributors - one fewer since Alec passed

on - but that hardcore of (mostly) MVPs there are a disgrace, and it's

obvious who's side MB is on! And it's the wrong one.

 

And there were and doubtless still are plenty of MS employees frequenting

that group and for the most part they were what they were supposed to be -

independent and helpful. But MB acts like a hit man. You know, like Alistair

Darling (who probably spent his childhood learning to be as nasty as he

could in order to dissociate himself from his name). I would have said,

without a doubt, that MB was doing his 'policing' role off his own back (for

whatever deranged motive) only nothing was ever done about him. It may not

be MS policy to censor politically, but it is one of those things where they

turn a blind eye to it when an employee does it.

 

It's like 'terminological inexactitude' and 'economy with the truth' are

just lies in a false moustache and an ill-fitting toupee, respectively.

 

Honestly, Mike, Kurt(rail)/Kur(trail)? provided many instances of MS

censoring his posts in XP General. MB clearly has/had a free rein there. For

too long - when XP was the main OS - for it to have been 'overlooked'.

 

 

Shane

 

 

 

Mike M wrote:

>> filter, here. Whereas on XP General MB openly had posts censored just

>> because they offended *his* sensibilities!

>

> Somewhat unlikely. Filtering tends to be by rules and not targeted at

> individual posts. This means that all posts containing certain

> phrases, URLs, phone numbers, and the like will be automatically

> removed regardless of who posts them. Similarly if an individual is

> for some reasons deemed to have caused problems through their posts

> then all of their posts will be filtered from that point in time

> forward rather than specific posts as happened you may recall to

> Alias a couple of years ago for reasons that never came to light but

> that were claimed to have been a "mistake". Such maintenance of the

> Microsoft newsgroups isn't even now done by someone at Microsoft but

> rather by a third party contractor who/which appears to only work

> during office hours Monday/Friday which is why new spam posted on a

> Friday often remains in the NGs until the following Monday.

> Note also that when new rules are added these tend to be run

> retrospectively a few days meaning that posts that were present for a

> few days but contained filtered phrases that were added subsequently

> might be removed as will any posts that reference those posts.

>

>> Okay 'Loom.

>>

>> (Hi!, btw. )

>>

>> I sent a new post to the 'What is?' thread in the early hours and it

>> never showed. I suspected it may have been censored - but I guess it

>> wasn't!

>> I do wonder about censorship here (of course, what with having

>> brought it up over and over over the years <the ones that are over>).

>> I amply proved long ago that certain profanities *will* fail to make

>> it - which leaves the possibility always there for any other kind of

>> censorship. But there doesn't seem to be any bar perhaps an automated

>> filter, here. Whereas on XP General MB openly had posts censored just

>> because they offended *his* sensibilities! He ought to be shot.

>> Anyhow, it doesn't seem to happen here and it isn't certain whether

>> it's because ME groups are so insignificant, or that it happens in XP

>> Gen because one maverick has more power than he's supposed to.

>> I think I'll try my favourite old post-that-never-got-through (thus,

>> I remember what it was!) again to see if anything's different now.

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Is this still working????

 

> I know that is the case here, but MB openly threatened to have posts

> removed and then they did go

 

Ah, I've just realised who you probably mean by MB in which case he's a

wild cannon at times and would quite possibly face getting the sack if his

action was known to some at MS. Staff or not he has no authority to

remove posts in the way you describe.

> Really, it might as well belong to a different organisation,

> xpgeneral,

 

Which is why I rarely post there and most times that I do not as MikeM or

as an MVP.

 

Who is trying to have a CD/DVD burning session and getting extremely

frustrated. Grrrrr!

--

Mike

 

 

Shane <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike,

>

> I know that is the case here, but MB openly threatened to have posts

> removed and then they did go. I was warned by him about one (frankly

> mild one, just not politically correct in his red neck of the woods

> and sure enough it didn't get published. He was doing it - notably

> with Kurtrail, but also to a lesser extent with those who on occasion

> took Kurt's side - generally all the regulars there who weren't

> apopleptic at some poor sap with a genuine copy of Windows but for

> whom Activation wasn't working just the same).

> Really, it might as well belong to a different organisation,

> xpgeneral, Mike. There are some excellent contributors - one fewer

> since Alec passed on - but that hardcore of (mostly) MVPs there are a

> disgrace, and it's obvious who's side MB is on! And it's the wrong

> one.

> And there were and doubtless still are plenty of MS employees

> frequenting that group and for the most part they were what they were

> supposed to be - independent and helpful. But MB acts like a hit man.

> You know, like Alistair Darling (who probably spent his childhood

> learning to be as nasty as he could in order to dissociate himself

> from his name). I would have said, without a doubt, that MB was doing

> his 'policing' role off his own back (for whatever deranged motive)

> only nothing was ever done about him. It may not be MS policy to

> censor politically, but it is one of those things where they turn a

> blind eye to it when an employee does it.

> It's like 'terminological inexactitude' and 'economy with the truth'

> are just lies in a false moustache and an ill-fitting toupee,

> respectively.

> Honestly, Mike, Kurt(rail)/Kur(trail)? provided many instances of MS

> censoring his posts in XP General. MB clearly has/had a free rein

> there. For too long - when XP was the main OS - for it to have been

> 'overlooked'.

[Guest Heirloom]

Re: Is this still working????

 

What program(s) do you utilize for your DVD burning, Mike??

Heirloom, old and just curious

 

"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message

news:OapKeuOwHHA.4592@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>> I know that is the case here, but MB openly threatened to have posts

>> removed and then they did go

>

> Ah, I've just realised who you probably mean by MB in which case he's a

> wild cannon at times and would quite possibly face getting the sack if his

> action was known to some at MS. Staff or not he has no authority to

> remove posts in the way you describe.

>

>> Really, it might as well belong to a different organisation,

>> xpgeneral,

>

> Which is why I rarely post there and most times that I do not as MikeM or

> as an MVP.

>

> Who is trying to have a CD/DVD burning session and getting extremely

> frustrated. Grrrrr!

> --

> Mike

>

>

> Shane <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> Mike,

>>

>> I know that is the case here, but MB openly threatened to have posts

>> removed and then they did go. I was warned by him about one (frankly

>> mild one, just not politically correct in his red neck of the woods

>> and sure enough it didn't get published. He was doing it - notably

>> with Kurtrail, but also to a lesser extent with those who on occasion

>> took Kurt's side - generally all the regulars there who weren't

>> apopleptic at some poor sap with a genuine copy of Windows but for

>> whom Activation wasn't working just the same).

>> Really, it might as well belong to a different organisation,

>> xpgeneral, Mike. There are some excellent contributors - one fewer

>> since Alec passed on - but that hardcore of (mostly) MVPs there are a

>> disgrace, and it's obvious who's side MB is on! And it's the wrong

>> one.

>> And there were and doubtless still are plenty of MS employees

>> frequenting that group and for the most part they were what they were

>> supposed to be - independent and helpful. But MB acts like a hit man.

>> You know, like Alistair Darling (who probably spent his childhood

>> learning to be as nasty as he could in order to dissociate himself

>> from his name). I would have said, without a doubt, that MB was doing

>> his 'policing' role off his own back (for whatever deranged motive)

>> only nothing was ever done about him. It may not be MS policy to

>> censor politically, but it is one of those things where they turn a

>> blind eye to it when an employee does it.

>> It's like 'terminological inexactitude' and 'economy with the truth'

>> are just lies in a false moustache and an ill-fitting toupee,

>> respectively.

>> Honestly, Mike, Kurt(rail)/Kur(trail)? provided many instances of MS

>> censoring his posts in XP General. MB clearly has/had a free rein

>> there. For too long - when XP was the main OS - for it to have been

>> 'overlooked'.

>

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Heirloom <roland58XX@XXcox.net> wrote:

> What program(s) do you utilize for your DVD burning, Mike??

> Heirloom, old and just curious

 

 

Primarily Ahead's Nero. v7 something on my main media box and v6.60

something on this box, both running XP Pro SP2. I also use, but for CDs,

the last version of CeQuadrat's WinOnCD before it was bought and killed

off by Roxio because I prefer the interface for creating CD-Text and also

for adding track markers for continuous live material. CloneCD for the

odd CD copy. I think that's all I'm using nowadays. I've got lots of

other stuff that includes elementary burning software that mainly hooks

into XP's imapi.dll but I rarely if ever use it.

--

Mike

[Guest Shane]

Re: Is this still working????

 

I've considered trying Nero 7, Mike. Not that I feel any particular need to

drop Nero 6.x just yet. Frustration aside, what do you think of it? It is an

extremely large download, isn't it! btw I also use Nero Vision and the two

combined are pretty large, of course. But there still seem to be a lot of

modules in there - in 6.x, let alone 7.x! - that I'm never going to use.

 

But maybe I will download it. After all I've got Server 2008 coming down the

tubes, so Nero 7.x isn't so large.

 

btw the Lanc went over again today! Must be a year since last time then. I

gues it's Kemble weekend.

 

What a sight though! I never saw a Lanc as a kid. So now I've seen one -

it - mthree times. The first time was quite high up but made my chest quake

just the same. Last year it banked above the house. This year it came over,

straight. It was gone that much sooner, but it was a different aspect. In

fact like: http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/wallpapers/1944/lancaster1800.jpg

only below rather than from above. Still only minimum allowed height. Like

last year it was the dawning realisation that it wasn't a Cessna coming

towards me!

 

I seem to have developed an uncanny knack of getting under the flight paths

of interesting aircraft these last half dozen years!

 

Shane

 

 

 

 

 

Mike M wrote:

> Heirloom <roland58XX@XXcox.net> wrote:

>

>> What program(s) do you utilize for your DVD burning, Mike??

>> Heirloom, old and just curious

>

>

> Primarily Ahead's Nero. v7 something on my main media box and v6.60

> something on this box, both running XP Pro SP2. I also use, but for

> CDs, the last version of CeQuadrat's WinOnCD before it was bought and

> killed off by Roxio because I prefer the interface for creating

> CD-Text and also for adding track markers for continuous live

> material. CloneCD for the odd CD copy. I think that's all I'm using

> nowadays. I've got lots of other stuff that includes elementary

> burning software that mainly hooks into XP's imapi.dll but I rarely

> if ever use it.

[Guest Heather]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Harrumph!! For once I am at a loss for words. But don't get all

excited, it won't last.

 

"Heirloom" <roland58XX@XXcox.net> wrote in message

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> Oh, I see the problem now!!!........I had the sh*t filter turned on!!!

> Heirloom, old and double bwa ha ha

>

> "Heather" <figgyd@nospam.invalid> wrote in message

> news:%23krToYLwHHA.5036@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> Loon is losing it in his old age......I am looking at 3 posts of mine

>> dated the 6th. But of course, the US is usually a bit behind the

>> rest of the world......bwa ha ha.

>>

>> Figgs

>>

>> "richard" <rmk@wonderland.net> wrote in message

>> news:edUJbNLwHHA.1212@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...

>>> Heirloom wrote:

>>>> Strange........no new posts since 07/05/07 at 5:30PM, entitled

>>>> "screen background"......this is just a test to see if things are

>>>> working.

>>>> Heirloom, old and must be SOMETHING new

>>>

>>> No news is good news. Everyone's problems have, at last, been

>>> solved.

>>

>>

>

>

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Is this still working????

 

> need to drop Nero 6.x just yet. Frustration aside, what do you think

> of it? It is an extremely large download, isn't it!

 

Nero 7? No different to Nero 6 really, only difference is one less click

at the end of a burn! Note I don't use any of the other Ahead/Nero

junk/stuff. I create my DVDs and media using other tools ranging from

Adobe Premiere through VirtualDub. I think the main reason that Nero 7 is

such a large download (and I haven't looked for some months) is because it

is one big lump rather than 6 which I seem to remember comes in four

chunks with only one needed for the basic burn GUI etc.

> Server 2008.

 

I haven't bothered with the most recent build and hardly bothered at all.

Primarily because I find Vista offers me nothing I want other than a load

of hassle, especially with networking.

> btw the Lanc went over again today!

 

I haven't seen it for quite a few years now. Good to know its still

flying at shows and the like.

 

Ah well back to trying to find why Nero has started to "stutter" when

burning. Something odd and I wonder if the burner involved is part of the

problem. I've defragged the drive with the files I'm burning but

nevertheless the buffer is going up and down like a yoyo and I can see the

burn light blinking quite frequently rather than glowing steadily showing

the burn is being done in chunks. Let's see what happens when I burn a

DVD on this box.

--

Mike

 

 

Shane <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've considered trying Nero 7, Mike. Not that I feel any particular

> need to drop Nero 6.x just yet. Frustration aside, what do you think

> of it? It is an extremely large download, isn't it! btw I also use

> Nero Vision and the two combined are pretty large, of course. But

> there still seem to be a lot of modules in there - in 6.x, let alone

> 7.x! - that I'm never going to use.

> But maybe I will download it. After all I've got Server 2008 coming

> down the tubes, so Nero 7.x isn't so large.

>

> btw the Lanc went over again today! Must be a year since last time

> then. I gues it's Kemble weekend.

>

> What a sight though! I never saw a Lanc as a kid. So now I've seen

> one - it - mthree times. The first time was quite high up but made my

> chest

> quake just the same. Last year it banked above the house. This year

> it came over, straight. It was gone that much sooner, but it was a

> different aspect. In fact like:

> http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/wallpapers/1944/lancaster1800.jpg

> only below rather than from above. Still only minimum allowed height.

> Like last year it was the dawning realisation that it wasn't a Cessna

> coming towards me!

> I seem to have developed an uncanny knack of getting under the flight

> paths of interesting aircraft these last half dozen years!

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Is this still working????

 

OK. Burned reasonably well on this box, perhaps two blips, which is a bit

of a surprise since this is the box that seems to have loads of traffic on

the bus meaning that my TV captures aren't as good as they should/could be

despite HD Tune showing decent figures for disk transfers. Ah well,

another mystery to try and solve but it can wait until tomorrow ... or the

next day ...

--

Mike

 

 

Mike M <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote:

>> need to drop Nero 6.x just yet. Frustration aside, what do you think

>> of it? It is an extremely large download, isn't it!

>

> Nero 7? No different to Nero 6 really, only difference is one less

> click at the end of a burn! Note I don't use any of the other

> Ahead/Nero junk/stuff. I create my DVDs and media using other tools

> ranging from Adobe Premiere through VirtualDub. I think the main

> reason that Nero 7 is such a large download (and I haven't looked for

> some months) is because it is one big lump rather than 6 which I seem

> to remember comes in four chunks with only one needed for the basic

> burn GUI etc.

>> Server 2008.

>

> I haven't bothered with the most recent build and hardly bothered at

> all. Primarily because I find Vista offers me nothing I want other

> than a load of hassle, especially with networking.

>

>> btw the Lanc went over again today!

>

> I haven't seen it for quite a few years now. Good to know its still

> flying at shows and the like.

>

> Ah well back to trying to find why Nero has started to "stutter" when

> burning. Something odd and I wonder if the burner involved is part

> of the problem. I've defragged the drive with the files I'm burning

> but nevertheless the buffer is going up and down like a yoyo and I

> can see the burn light blinking quite frequently rather than glowing

> steadily showing the burn is being done in chunks. Let's see what

> happens when I burn a DVD on this box.

[Guest Heirloom]

Re: Is this still working????

 

>

> What a sight though! I never saw a Lanc as a kid. So now I've seen one -

> it - mthree times. The first time was quite high up but made my chest

> quake just the same. Last year it banked above the house. This year it

> came over, straight. It was gone that much sooner, but it was a different

> aspect. In fact like:

> http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/wallpapers/1944/lancaster1800.jpg

> only below rather than from above. Still only minimum allowed height. Like

> last year it was the dawning realisation that it wasn't a Cessna coming

> towards me!

>

> I seem to have developed an uncanny knack of getting under the flight

> paths of interesting aircraft these last half dozen years!

>

> Shane

>

>

>

[Guest Heirloom]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Crap, didn't mean to send that first one......of course, it will show

up~~!!!

 

I just looked at the .jpg of the Lancaster, WOW! It reminds me a lot of

the B-25 Mitchell that my father was shot down out of during WWII over

occupied Holland.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.zap16.com/sanicole2004/san04%2520B-25%2520Mitchell%2520dobaf%25201.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.zap16.com/Sanicole%25202004.htm&h=768&w=1024&sz=180&tbnid=kC5gFtuDyQbhvM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3Db-25%2Bmitchell%26um%3D1&start=2&sa=X&oi=images&ct=image&cd=2

Dang, now THAT'S a URL!!

Heirloom, old and hope that gets you there

>

> What a sight though! I never saw a Lanc as a kid. So now I've seen one -

> it - mthree times. The first time was quite high up but made my chest

> quake just the same. Last year it banked above the house. This year it

> came over, straight. It was gone that much sooner, but it was a different

> aspect. In fact like:

> http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/wallpapers/1944/lancaster1800.jpg

> only below rather than from above. Still only minimum allowed height. Like

> last year it was the dawning realisation that it wasn't a Cessna coming

> towards me!

>

> I seem to have developed an uncanny knack of getting under the flight

> paths of interesting aircraft these last half dozen years!

>

> Shane

[Guest Heirloom]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Forgot to add this site..............really good hi-res pics, but, not a lot

to choose from.

http://www.zap16.com/Sanicole%202004.htm Oh yeah, and check out the

wallpapers...there are a couple of hi-res close ups of your Lanc!! i.e.

http://www.zap16.com/images/desktop_lancaster_1024-768.jpg

Heirloom, old and still likes older planes

 

"Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> I've considered trying Nero 7, Mike. Not that I feel any particular need

> to drop Nero 6.x just yet. Frustration aside, what do you think of it? It

> is an extremely large download, isn't it! btw I also use Nero Vision and

> the two combined are pretty large, of course. But there still seem to be a

> lot of modules in there - in 6.x, let alone 7.x! - that I'm never going to

> use.

>

> But maybe I will download it. After all I've got Server 2008 coming down

> the tubes, so Nero 7.x isn't so large.

>

> btw the Lanc went over again today! Must be a year since last time then. I

> gues it's Kemble weekend.

>

> What a sight though! I never saw a Lanc as a kid. So now I've seen one -

> it - mthree times. The first time was quite high up but made my chest

> quake just the same. Last year it banked above the house. This year it

> came over, straight. It was gone that much sooner, but it was a different

> aspect. In fact like:

> http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/wallpapers/1944/lancaster1800.jpg

> only below rather than from above. Still only minimum allowed height. Like

> last year it was the dawning realisation that it wasn't a Cessna coming

> towards me!

>

> I seem to have developed an uncanny knack of getting under the flight

> paths of interesting aircraft these last half dozen years!

>

> Shane

>

>

>

>

>

> Mike M wrote:

>> Heirloom <roland58XX@XXcox.net> wrote:

>>

>>> What program(s) do you utilize for your DVD burning, Mike??

>>> Heirloom, old and just curious

>>

>>

>> Primarily Ahead's Nero. v7 something on my main media box and v6.60

>> something on this box, both running XP Pro SP2. I also use, but for

>> CDs, the last version of CeQuadrat's WinOnCD before it was bought and

>> killed off by Roxio because I prefer the interface for creating

>> CD-Text and also for adding track markers for continuous live

>> material. CloneCD for the odd CD copy. I think that's all I'm using

>> nowadays. I've got lots of other stuff that includes elementary

>> burning software that mainly hooks into XP's imapi.dll but I rarely

>> if ever use it.

>

>

[Guest Shane]

Re: Is this still working????

 

You get to see Tornados then. They've grown on me in recent years.

 

The Lanc - well, yeah, it has the same kind of tail as the Mitchell, but the

engines make a big difference. The Lanc had/has four, of course - and they

were Rolls Royce Merlins - what were in the Spits (I think the Hurricanes

had Merlins too, actually). So the Lanc had four Spitfire engines! I think

that whole era was marked among other things by aircraft that seemed like

failures until they fitted Rolls Royce engines and suddenly they were high

performers!

 

They've revamped that RAF site now and several pics that were there don't

appear to be anymore (though I got them yonks ago!). Including one where

they're loading the biggest bomb used in the whole war prior to

you-know-what (I forget the name, but it was essentially a bunker buster -

and I suppose therefore the first bunker buster). Lancs had really big bomb

bays but could only carry one of these things.

 

Actually I have seen another Lanc, but it isn't flying - at the RAF museum

in Hendon - where they've got one of those bombs, too (Big Bertha,

perhaps?). It's got nose art including Goering's claim that none of them

would ever fly over the Reich - next to the bombing mission stencils (a lot

of them!).

 

Actually here's the one that came over:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1207411/L/

And a slightly more disrurbing view:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1201552/L/ (one wonders where she keeps

her stetson!)

 

And here's the one at Hendon: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1185500/L/.

The Lancaster was the most potent prop bomber we ever built. It was built by

Avro (originally A V Roe) who also built arguably the most potent jet bomber

we ever produced - the Vulcan - and there's one at the back, out of shot to

the left of the one at Hendon - and just out of shot to the left but in the

foreground - is a Mitchell! (and a B-17).

 

Ah!: http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1034063/L/

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1016887/L/

 

The Lanc (that I flew over) is one of only two flying examples left in the

world today. The other is in Canada - like many of our aircraft they were

also made in Canada (how come Canada isn't known as 'The Can'?). The

Canadian ones were called Lincolns - for the place they were built - as I

understand it. Anyhow, that's how come when you see a Lanc fly over, you

know which one it is!

 

Another shot at the RAF site - not sure if it's still there - is of the raid

to sink the Turpitz. Like a still from a movie! But, of course - as I expect

you know - the Lancaster was the Dambusters aircraft, and aside from a

couple of effects that show their age - and a bit about a dog that also

shows its age! - 'The Dambusters' is the film par excellence for Lancaster

spotting (speaking of which I saw that Roberts' Mitchum and Wagner one about

Korea that seemed more than anything else to be about the Sabre! I never

even knew the film existed, but saw it a couple of months back. far out when

Mitchum deliberately crash lands one behind enemy lines! Looked like they

did it for real! But I suppose there were so many of them and they were so

cheap...).

 

 

 

Shane

 

 

Heirloom wrote:

> Forgot to add this site..............really good hi-res pics, but,

> not a lot to choose from.

> http://www.zap16.com/Sanicole%202004.htm Oh yeah, and check out the

> wallpapers...there are a couple of hi-res close ups of your Lanc!! i.e.

> http://www.zap16.com/images/desktop_lancaster_1024-768.jpg

> Heirloom, old and still likes older planes

>

> "Shane" <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote in message

> news:%23U%23LNiPwHHA.4132@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>> I've considered trying Nero 7, Mike. Not that I feel any particular

>> need to drop Nero 6.x just yet. Frustration aside, what do you think

>> of it? It is an extremely large download, isn't it! btw I also use

>> Nero Vision and the two combined are pretty large, of course. But

>> there still seem to be a lot of modules in there - in 6.x, let alone

>> 7.x! - that I'm never going to use.

>>

>> But maybe I will download it. After all I've got Server 2008 coming

>> down the tubes, so Nero 7.x isn't so large.

>>

>> btw the Lanc went over again today! Must be a year since last time

>> then. I gues it's Kemble weekend.

>>

>> What a sight though! I never saw a Lanc as a kid. So now I've seen

>> one - it - mthree times. The first time was quite high up but made

>> my chest quake just the same. Last year it banked above the house.

>> This year it came over, straight. It was gone that much sooner, but

>> it was a different aspect. In fact like:

>> http://www.raf.mod.uk/downloads/wallpapers/1944/lancaster1800.jpg

>> only below rather than from above. Still only minimum allowed

>> height. Like last year it was the dawning realisation that it wasn't

>> a Cessna coming towards me!

>>

>> I seem to have developed an uncanny knack of getting under the flight

>> paths of interesting aircraft these last half dozen years!

>>

>> Shane

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> Mike M wrote:

>>> Heirloom <roland58XX@XXcox.net> wrote:

>>>

>>>> What program(s) do you utilize for your DVD burning, Mike??

>>>> Heirloom, old and just curious

>>>

>>>

>>> Primarily Ahead's Nero. v7 something on my main media box and v6.60

>>> something on this box, both running XP Pro SP2. I also use, but for

>>> CDs, the last version of CeQuadrat's WinOnCD before it was bought

>>> and killed off by Roxio because I prefer the interface for creating

>>> CD-Text and also for adding track markers for continuous live

>>> material. CloneCD for the odd CD copy. I think that's all I'm

>>> using nowadays. I've got lots of other stuff that includes

>>> elementary burning software that mainly hooks into XP's imapi.dll

>>> but I rarely if ever use it.

[Guest Shane]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Mike M wrote:

> OK. Burned reasonably well on this box, perhaps two blips, which is a

> bit of a surprise since this is the box that seems to have loads of

> traffic on the bus meaning that my TV captures aren't as good as they

> should/could be despite HD Tune showing decent figures for disk

> transfers. Ah well, another mystery to try and solve but it can wait

> until tomorrow ... or the next day ...

 

Are you on the A3, Mike? I remember taking that long straight stretch

towards Brixton - through Stockwell? - a time of two and there were always

plenty of buses!

 

 

:-)

 

Aplogies for that one!

 

Shane

 

 

 

>

>>> need to drop Nero 6.x just yet. Frustration aside, what do you think

>>> of it? It is an extremely large download, isn't it!

>>

>> Nero 7? No different to Nero 6 really, only difference is one less

>> click at the end of a burn! Note I don't use any of the other

>> Ahead/Nero junk/stuff. I create my DVDs and media using other tools

>> ranging from Adobe Premiere through VirtualDub. I think the main

>> reason that Nero 7 is such a large download (and I haven't looked for

>> some months) is because it is one big lump rather than 6 which I seem

>> to remember comes in four chunks with only one needed for the basic

>> burn GUI etc.

>>> Server 2008.

>>

>> I haven't bothered with the most recent build and hardly bothered at

>> all. Primarily because I find Vista offers me nothing I want other

>> than a load of hassle, especially with networking.

>>

>>> btw the Lanc went over again today!

>>

>> I haven't seen it for quite a few years now. Good to know its still

>> flying at shows and the like.

>>

>> Ah well back to trying to find why Nero has started to "stutter" when

>> burning. Something odd and I wonder if the burner involved is part

>> of the problem. I've defragged the drive with the files I'm burning

>> but nevertheless the buffer is going up and down like a yoyo and I

>> can see the burn light blinking quite frequently rather than glowing

>> steadily showing the burn is being done in chunks. Let's see what

>> happens when I burn a DVD on this box.

[Guest Shane]

Re: Is this still working????

 

> The Lanc (that I flew over) is one of only two flying examples left

 

ROFL!

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Shane <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you on the A3, Mike? I remember taking that long straight stretch

> towards Brixton - through Stockwell? - a time of two and there were

> always plenty of buses!

 

Near enough but not quite. I'm just down from The Oval and between the

A23 and the A202. The A3 crosses the A202 at The Oval as does the A23.

 

The A23 comes from Waterloo and heads towards Brixton, the A3 comes from

The Elephant and heads towards Stockwell and carries on towards Clapham

Common where the A24 separates whilst the A202 comes from Victoria and

heads towards New Cross where it joins the A2. So overall The Oval is a

bit of a junction.

 

--

Mike

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Shane <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you on the A3, Mike? I remember taking that long straight stretch

> towards Brixton - through Stockwell? - a time of two and there were

> always plenty of buses!

 

Near enough but not quite. I'm just down from The Oval and between the

A23 and the A202. The A3 crosses the A202 at The Oval as does the A23.

 

The A23 comes from Waterloo and heads towards Brixton, the A3 comes from

The Elephant and heads towards Stockwell and carries on towards Clapham

Common where the A24 separates whilst the A202 comes from Victoria and

heads towards New Cross where it joins the A2. So overall The Oval is a

bit of a junction.

 

--

Mike

[Guest Heather]

Re: Is this still working????

 

 

"Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message

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> Shane <shanebeatson@gmail.com> wrote:

>

>> Are you on the A3, Mike? I remember taking that long straight stretch

>> towards Brixton - through Stockwell? - a time of two and there were

>> always plenty of buses!

>

> Near enough but not quite. I'm just down from The Oval and between

> the A23 and the A202. The A3 crosses the A202 at The Oval as does the

> A23.

>

> The A23 comes from Waterloo and heads towards Brixton, the A3 comes

> from The Elephant and heads towards Stockwell and carries on towards

> Clapham Common where the A24 separates whilst the A202 comes from

> Victoria and heads towards New Cross where it joins the A2. So

> overall The Oval is a bit of a junction.

>

YE GODS!! I didnt understand it the FIRST time......nor this one

either. Not about to drive in London, that's for sure!!

 

XX Figgs

[Guest Mike M]

Re: Is this still working????

 

Heather <figgyd@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> YE GODS!! I didnt understand it the FIRST time......nor this one

> either. Not about to drive in London, that's for sure!!

 

I don't know how/why that got posted twice. I blame the cr$ppy MS news

servers. <vbg>

 

UK road numbering is a real doddle with the numbering in England being

radial clockwise based on London for the A1 to A6 inclusive with roads

starting between the A1 and A2 being numbered A1x to A1xx and B1xxx, those

starting between the A2 and A3 being numbered A2x to A2xx and B2xxx etc.

A7 to A9 are in Scotland with a similar scheme. The M numbering is similar

but there are far fewer of these.

 

What makes The Oval junction appear complicated is that not all roads

start in the same place so whilst the A1 - A6 and others such as the A20,

A23 etc. appear to radiate from London when looked at from a distance on a

map this isn't the case when looked at near to where they all originate as

they tend to cross over each other such as at The Oval.

 

See http://local.live.com/?v=2&cid=399308F25D82496F!101&encType=1 Windows

Live Local or whatever it's called today. If you pan out you should be

able to see the radial pattern of road numbering.

--

Mike M