Is this still working????

[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

 

[richard]

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.

 

[Shane]

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
news:ubAVWSKwHHA.312@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> 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
>

 

[Shane]

"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.

I can't see this post! Help!


Shane

 

[Heather]

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.

 

[Mike M]

> 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.

 

[Heirloom]

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.
>
>

 

[Shane]

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.

 

[Mike M]

> 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'.

 

[Heirloom]

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'.
>

 

[Mike M]

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

 

[Shane]

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.

 

[Heather]

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
news:edZm71NwHHA.4184@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> 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.
>>
>>
>
>

 

[Mike M]

> 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!

 

[Mike M]

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.

 

[Heirloom]

>
> 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
>
>
>

 

[Heirloom]

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?img...ell&um=1&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

 

[Heirloom]

Forgot to add this site..............really good hi-res pics, but, not a lot
to choose from.
http://www.zap16.com/Sanicole 2004.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
>
>
>
>
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> 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.
>
>

 

[Shane]

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 2004.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.

 

[Shane]

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.