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Post by vikingken on Dec 14, 2010 23:35:32 GMT
The top screen is only for the in flight movie.
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Post by vikingken on Dec 15, 2010 19:03:48 GMT
Got my new instrument panel today, makes it a lot easier than only having the virtual instruments. I now have a GPS and can find my destination without searching the whole country. Cheating a bit, because I've got it on old aircraft that are not fitted with one.
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Post by vikingken on Jan 18, 2011 22:42:15 GMT
After having the SSD give out the Super Beast is all machanical drives now. The SSD is going back, it started giving out without warning and it was showing at about half its perfomance when it was going. Only being a 120 Gb drive, I ran the paging file on an eSATA pen drive in a module, the docking station runs from the onboard eSATA port. Having 2 spare SATA ports, I replaced the 135 Gb for 2 x 2 Tb HDDs. When they replace the SSD; I will keep it and put it in my mini netbook, when the warranty runs out along with another gig of RAM. The 4 Tb HDDs cost me about half of what I paid for the 120 Gb SSD. Super Beast looks quite empty at the moment. Shes got Samsung Spinpoint F4 Ecos all round now and apart from being a bit slower to boot, she runs beautiful. Some people say the Samsung are great for storage, but run the C:/ on a faster drive. I was thinking about putting a WD 64 Mb cache in for the C:/, but decided to stick with the Samsung 32 Mb cache. I think most of its in their heads; the human brain dont register milliseconds, well mine dont. Apart from the boot time, I dont see any difference between the HDDs and the SSDs and yet on paper the SSD is much faster. Mine dont have to boot very often, it seldom gets shut down and at least I know the Super Beast is solid.
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Post by vikingken on Feb 3, 2011 18:33:19 GMT
Under full sail and looking a bit empty at the moment. Offloaded quite a bit onto external drives that work from the docking station. I must have a good sort out one of these days, I've got backups of backups that I will never use.
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Post by vikingken on Mar 15, 2011 0:23:45 GMT
The flightdeck evolves
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Post by nike on Mar 15, 2011 0:46:14 GMT
Hahahahaha ... whatever pops ya corks I guess !
Cape Canaveral ! Eat ya heart out! lol.
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Post by vikingken on Mar 15, 2011 2:26:25 GMT
I will leave that to NASA Kev, I'm not ready for space flight. I would be forever worrying about my O rings and the slates falling off the roof.
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Post by vikingken on Mar 24, 2011 8:44:52 GMT
There is only one way to describe my Brother A3 all in one printer, but it does a good job for a 4 ink printer. A good 6 ink probably does a better job, but its more a case of what a printer does with what its got than how many. The only thing with Brother, they are a bit slow on high quality. There is nothing slower than me designing whatever it is I'm going to print, so printing time is of no importance. For normal printing, its not much different to any other standard printer. If I had needed a high speed printer I would have bought a laser. Brother haven't got the best reputation, but I put it down to the users. They need to be on a good solid base and set up with a spirit level. I think that is a good idea with any printer anyway. You certainly need to do it with a Lexmark, if your rich enough to be able to afford to run one.
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