Simviation Forum - FSTipster???

Apr 12^th, 2003 at 7:34pm

tim l lam 10386 Offline
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I know this has nothing to do with FS2002. It may be moved, but more people view this board..

What happened to FSTipster?? All his posts are gone and his profile is gone..
What did I miss?

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Reply #1 - Apr 12^th, 2003 at 8:23pm

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That is a good question Shocked

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Reply #2 - Apr 12^th, 2003 at 10:20pm

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Hmmm... His posts per say (original topics started) are here, but none of his actual postings/replies and his name has been changed `, that is the only thing that denotes posts originally started by him... Where did he go?

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Reply #3 - Apr 12^th, 2003 at 10:33pm

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U R right. Strange. Come back Tipster! I can't live without your advice.

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Reply #4 - Apr 12^th, 2003 at 10:58pm

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Hope he hasn't 'crashed' again.

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Reply #5 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 1:22am

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that's bizarre.

Hope everything's ok

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Reply #6 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 1:29am

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I agree. This is very strange. I have sent him an email.

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Reply #7 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 1:36am

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hmm, going to go check his site

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Reply #8 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 2:03am

tim l lam 10386 Offline
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Yeah, very odd indeed.. However, I don't think his computer crashing would constitute such a dramatic change to his posts, profile, and name..

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Reply #9 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 3:44am

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Your right. I wasn't looking. I hope it is not a result of things that have gone before.

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Reply #10 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 3:46am

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maybe he had been kidnapped by some aliens... Grin

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Reply #11 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 4:17am

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I suspect he's nipped off to Wills (Smoke2Much) for that pint, come back and scrambled his computers processor.

Ozzy Shocked

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Reply #12 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 4:42am

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Afraid not Ozzy, I've not had a pint for a week.

Will Grin

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Reply #13 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 4:59am

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Guys, there appears to be some kind of server error, SilverFox has been zapped too, even on the moderators list. I've notified Pete of the problem, and I'm sure it'll be fixed in no time.
In the meanwhile please put your seats in the upright position, fold up the trays into the seat in front of you, and then enjoy your flight. The crew apologises for any turbulence you may experience.

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Reply #14 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 6:39am

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Hi Guys!

Sorry to hear about SilverFox but the server wasn't the problem in my case. Sad

Suffice it to say that the problem arose from a combination of me being out most of last night, no password on my P.C. and an errant 11 year old son.

My RTW site and forum also bit the dust in the process, along with most of my software. Roll Eyes

I'll get the site back up shortly but there's nothing I can do about the messages on my own forum (it's not my software) or the one's lost here.

It looks like about 400 messages have gone and I apologise profusely to all concerned.

It's somewhat ironic that I 've spent dozens of hours securing my box from internet attack. Enough said.

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Reply #15 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 7:36am

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I think we should start a poll on suitable punishments for the eleven year old in question.

I recommend Hanging, Drawing and Quartering as decently slow.

Will

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Reply #16 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 7:36am

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Good to see you back Tipster. Wink

Shame about all those lost replies though. I relied on them for sorting out all those problems I can't answer myself. Still it could be worse I suppose. Roll Eyes

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Reply #17 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 7:41am

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I can only apologise again. Sad

I should have mentioned earlier that my I.M. and e-mail messages have been wiped out. If anyone has received any abusive, unusual or otherwise unpleasant messages in the last 24 hours or so, I'm very sorry and please ignore them.

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Reply #18 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 7:45am

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Good to see the Tipster back.
I was a children once! Oh! Hang on! I'm stuffing things up still even after all these years,I must STILL be a children!! Cheesy

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Reply #19 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 11:01am

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Tipster, buddy....

I was about to call up a SAR mission!

Glad everything's at least repairable.

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Reply #20 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 11:09am

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Deja vu....

Remember my comments on that very subject, in the Cafe' Forum?

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Reply #21 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 11:13am

tim l lam 10386 Offline
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You're back! yay! The Forums just increased in overall intelligence ten fold! Cheesy

You gotta share with us what you did to your son. Heaven forbid, the same thing were to happen with our young sons (in the future) or daughters, we would at least know what to do Wink

Tim

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Reply #22 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 12:08pm

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Hi John,

Couldn't figure out what was happening lastnight. Sure was strange tho'!

but i'm glad everything is ok Wink

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Reply #23 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 1:20pm

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Geez got a real scare there for awhile, but Welcome Back Tipster, wouldnt be the same without you. I rely on your tip, comments and advice so much I'd probably have to retire again lol Grin

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Reply #24 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 2:32pm

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Hi Guys!

Suffice it to say that the problem arose from a combination of me being out most of last night, no password on my P.C. and an errant 11 year old son.

Solution: Get the kid a computer of his own. That way in a couple years he'll be the one fixing yours when it breaks down. Grin

Failing that how about just a hard drive. Get a removable drive bay and another HD. Load an OS with all his games and such on it and when he wants to use the computer insert his drive. That way if he messes something up it only affects his drive. Yours is unchanged.

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Reply #25 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 3:06pm

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Let's just say that both me and my son have learned valuable lessons from this. It won't happen again, that's for sure.

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Reply #26 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 5:39pm

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HI Tipster,REALLY sorry to hear of your crash.Had one myself 3 days ago that Im still repairing-had to dump and reinstall EVERYTHING! Embarrassed

I know your in pain,but I have to ask-Is the B52 panel gone Shocked

???(Oh please god of simulation cyberspace-say it isnt so)

To bad I cant make a living out of this,but it would probably kill me.

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Reply #27 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 6:18pm

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HI Tipster,REALLY sorry to hear of your crash.Had one myself 3 days ago that Im still repairing-had to dump and reinstall EVERYTHING! Embarrassed

I know your in pain,but I have to ask-Is the B52 panel gone Shocked

???(Oh please god of simulation cyberspace-say it isnt so)

Sorry to hear you're on a full re-install. My situation isn't quite that drastic, but there were a couple of major casualties. My e-mail was one, several FS2002 add-ons that I can't even remember the details of now Roll Eyes

, and sadly, the B-52 panel.

It wasn't near completion so I suppose I can be thankful for that, but the worst part of it is losing the main bitmap. It took me absolutely hours and was a complete re-vamp from the original I did following receipt of some photos. Out with the Paintshop Pro again... Sad

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Reply #28 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 6:54pm

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Wel,#$%& happens.Mabey its a good thing computers arent as smart as we are,cause if they were they`d be crashing us.My meltdown was self inflcted.I tried to mesh fs2k2 with cfs2(ill spare the details)and the reults were catostrophy Dont try this at home kids!Anyway Im almost back,and I hope you recover soon too. In a way this was a blessing as I cleaned up and got rid of alot of crap in my system (electronic enema) Grin

P.S .,My 10&12 year old boys have their OWN computer!! Shocked

To bad I cant make a living out of this,but it would probably kill me.

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Reply #29 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 8:10pm

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Can't you do a recovery of some sort. I think there are programs aout there to help with that.

I am sad to hear about the panel work being lost, i really am, just hope you can get it back together.

As to the firewall and stuff do you have one you bought? Frankly i don't find free online firewalls real protection. Mine--and i am not afraid to say so--is McAfee VirusScan which came with the firewall. I've found it very reliable, but what does that matter? Lips Sealed

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Reply #30 - Apr 13^th, 2003 at 9:07pm

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Can't you do a recovery of some sort. I think there are programs aout there to help with that.

I am sad to hear about the panel work being lost, i really am, just hope you can get it back together.

As to the firewall and stuff do you have one you bought? Frankly i don't find free online firewalls real protection. Mine--and i am not afraid to say so--is McAfee VirusScan which came with the firewall. I've found it very reliable, but what does that matter? Lips Sealed

Glad to have you back John Grin

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I did a system restore but the last restore point I had was about 3 weeks ago. Didn't help much unfortunately.

The firewall is academic in this instance. The damage was done by my son sat at the keyboard. I do have a `paid for` variety of firewall though.

I'll get the panel done. It's just going to to take some time obviously. Right now, my priority is restoring my software, primarily FS2002 of course.

Thanks to all who have posted such kind comments.

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Reply #31 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 1:43am

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If anyone has received any abusive, unusual or otherwise unpleasant messages in the last 24 hours or so, I'm very sorry and please ignore them.

i hope ferdy got a few of thoose Grin

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Reply #32 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 1:50am

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lol, now wouldn't that be amusing Grin

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Reply #33 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 4:24pm

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I tried system restore too but my most recent restore point was 30 days ago,and most of my data came up corrupt anyway.After I finish off rebuilding Ill change my restore point for every 48hrs-I think I can do that with XP?

To bad I cant make a living out of this,but it would probably kill me.

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Reply #34 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 6:45pm

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Ill change my restore point for every 48hrs-I think I can do that with XP?

If you mean setting it to do it automatically, I've no idea how to do it if it's possible.

You can do it manually by simply running system restore and selecting "Create a restore point". Be aware that these points take up a LOT of hard drive space.

You can adjust the amount available to it in the System Restore settings, but doing it every 48 hours is going to eat up major amounts of space.

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Reply #35 - Apr 14^th, 2003 at 7:19pm

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HMMM,Im glad you told me that,as I only have 21% free space left after my last disk cleanup/defragment session(yesterday) Ill investigate further! THANKS!

To bad I cant make a living out of this,but it would probably kill me.

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Reply #36 - Apr 15^th, 2003 at 3:37am

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Just to share the misery around, I'm sure you'll all be interested to know I lost a 60 GB hard-drive on Friday
4th May and it's replacement went 1 week later on the
11th May. Second time I lost the lot. Boy, the FlightSim is a lot faster in standard default mode without 3 Gigabytes of addons. I also had to replace the keyboard, the salt tears rusted it out. My wife and my dog have left town. Anyone want to take bets on how long HD NO. 3 will last ?

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