David Hingtgen

Another possibly stupid question: I had my PC apart last night to check some things before I order my upgrade parts, and while cleaning out the CPU fan and heatsink (4 years of dust) I "discovered" that the heatsink isn't fastened on nearly as tightly as I thought, and it came totally off, and I got a bit of the thermal compound on my finger. Do I need to remove and reapply the thermal compound? As there's now a bit less than there was, and it's "contaminated" by my finger touching it. And there's probably air gaps etc. And it is just cheap OEM white stuff, I could upgrade to Arctic Silver while I'm at it.

Those rock.

Just a point: G's are a measurement of force, not turn radius. This is how a 7G turn in a plane can defeat a missile than can do 20G turns.

I think DA should change his title to "Mod who gets to see Heroes before you do"

<----wonders if "new" 360 will have a quieter DRIVE than the original. I have no issues with the cooling fan noise, it's the disc drive that makes me buy the PS2 or PC version of a game whenever possible. My only 360 games are 360-exclusives.

I would so buy one of those... (a VF-19 with boobs, that is)

That's historic--isn't it Graham's first video?

I think you'd technically want this now: http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/ic/sis/index.html

Hey, one guy in the US bought an F-18. Partially disassembled, but the real deal. Made the news, and I think the govt confiscated it, but it happened. And there's of course big problems with F-14 parts getting out now.

This may be a stupid question/comment but: You can at least read the numbers of the decals, right? Shouldn't that plus a scan of the decal sheet showing the numbers be enough? Here's the Max & Milia in high-res: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/models...j/MM-Decals.jpg

Time Crisis is always popular, for some reason. Haven't been to an arcade for a while, but the latest version of that is ALWAYS being played.

Are the ones at 1999.co.jp any better/good enough? http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10013237 I often go there for instruction scans.

And there were also "half versions" without stickers, like mine.

Any rumors on a Classics Thundercracker? I'll be ticked if it's a Botcon exclusive or something...

I'm wondering if the fan being "low and small" in the intake is an attempt at forced perspective. But that doesn't work when you're trying to make 1mm of depth look like 100. Just for comparison, here's both types of F-16 intakes----which are quite short and straight as modern jets go, intake-wise. The fan is only a couple feet back from the intake, and the entire intake is painted bright gloss white, and polished until its smooth and shiny. And all you can see is black. Now, having stuck my head inside several F-16 intakes, I can tell you you can easily see the fan--IF YOUR EYEBALLS ARE INSIDE THE INTAKE. You really can't see it from the outside, unless it's like sunrise or sunset, and a ray of light hits the intake from a low angle, illuminating the fan directly. Intake fans on a model=pointless. Unless you tend to shine flashlights down the intakes and use angled mirrors to see around in the internal bends.

Possibility: The VF-11 was primarily designed for anti-rogue-Zentradi ops, like we see in the beginning of M+. Thus the bayonet and rapid-reload gunpod---it's optimized for close-range, hand-to-hand, etc. Not zillions of missiles against zillions of other planes, Regults, etc. Later, when the need for missiles reappears, we get the VF-11C, which much like the F-15E almost always has FAST packs attached, and are pretty much required for its missions.

It doesn't count because in real life, an F-22 wouldn't just turn around, shut off its radar, and go home because "it was time to start round 2". PS--F-22 doing the longest, slowest Cobra and Kulbit I've ever seen, about 1:20 in. Cool pic: The Northern lights in Alaska, from an Alaska 737 in flight: http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=1183...d=&next_id=

That doesn't count as a kill. No more than if he was "shot down" 20 mins later while flaring to land. Best story I ever heard of an "exercise" kill was when a couple Jaguars took down an entire flight of F-15's.

I considered having "low-speed mod" as my title... And FYI, I didn't use the low-fi version of the page. I basically just never clicked on any attachments. I just found out Roy was on dialup until November.

Had some issues the past 2 days, back now. To reply to multiple questions: GeForce 4 4800--thanks but no thanks. Plan to go with GeForce 6 7600GS. Servicing a computer: The one time I had a PC with a problem that even I couldn't fix--the manufacturer couldn't really fix it either. They replaced the entire motherboard and formatted the drive and reinstalled all programs. (thankfully under warranty). Yeah, that worked, since it was practically a new PC at that point... Net Speed: well, I actually am back to my original 2002-era Ethernet driver, instead of the 2005/2006 update. And now I'm getting 7-8Mbps tonight. Woo! Sometimes older IS better. I'm paying for 8Mbps, and I got 7.976 last check... Not going to mess with any settings or drivers with results like that! FYI: not only was I on dialup, but our phone lines are so bad (due to them being accidently chopped then spliced back together so many times due to construction, not age) I didn't ever even get 56k. I usually had around 24-26k. 30-32k on a good day. And yes, I downloaded the first ep of Macross Zero like that. Took days...

Finally found the Magnus/Skywarp two-pack--my first copy of each mold. Pretty nice, though I found that Magnus' large "arm armor" doesn't lock onto the grill well in truck mode. Just mine, or inherent to the mold? Also, does the roof fairing lock at all, or just lie there on top?

My question (going back to Yamato's VF-1)--is why have the fans molded there in the first place? It just really looks bad to have them RIGHT THERE when you look. If you can't have them way back inside (you know, where the engines actually) are---just don't have them at all. Mold nothing, or have it taper into blackness. "Blackness" looks just like the real blackness you see in real jet intakes. Trust me, 99% of the time, you can't see a fighter jet's fans by just looking. You pretty much have to literally stick your head up inside the intake, and use a flash (which I have done many times--I also like to yell to see how much the intake echoes).

I know there's a few places that sell them, but it was a long time ago that I read anything about them. (many of the places that sell them are the official suppliers, and military orders take precedence over civilian, so you may have to wait a while)

Well this afternoon I made the most important upgrade by far---from dial-up to broadband. Due to old wiring in the house, and it being the afternoon, I'm currently only getting about 30x faster than before, I want 100x faster!

I said 2 GB because that's what HP "recommends" for this PC as the max,(and they recommend actually doing that as 4x 512MB). 4GB is the physical max, not the "it'll actually use it" max AFAIK. But I know it'll accept 3200 1GB chips, it's been done. I swear I noticed a difference when I just swapped around mine to experiment--single channel took slightly longer to load XP. New BIOS for my board really doesn't update much--it just locks out even more controls/adjustments. I still run the original BIOS for that reason. (have the new one available if ever needed, but I can't go back to the original if its ever changed) Latest Googling seems to indicate that my 1.5GB plan *should* work--so long as each pair is identical within itself, it should work fine. All 4 need not be identical. (and that thread specifically mentioned black/blue RAM pairings---which is exactly how HP colors their dual-channel slots--though maybe others do as well, I know there's many other color combos out there but black/blue is usually found with HP) Now, it is possible to have, say, a matched pair, and then a 128 and a 256. The matched pair will operate in dual, but the other "pair" of course won't. That's dual/single. Dual/dual (what I want) just requires 2 matched pairs, not all four. (Otherwise it'd be quad-channel or something). From what I can tell, only PAIRS of memory slots can operate in dual-channel mode--hence the name, and they really won't care about what the other pairing is. If you had 6 slots, you could probably have 0, 1, 2, or 3 pairs operating in dual-channel. But you'd never need all 6 to match. (You could, you'd just have 3 separate pairs all in dual-channel, not one giant 6-channel RAM block) It seems the "all 4 same" theory might originate from HP boards of the same era with THREE slots. Where you have to have the odd slot equal the other 2 combined. So if you have two 256's in the pair, the odd one has to "balance" with a 512 chip. (As you can see, RAM for HP's isn't easy)