GJK

Yup, it's working like a charm in Amsterdam. The Mafia/organized crime will simply retire if you legalize drugs. Don't forget prostitution too, gotta legalize that!

From his grave perhaps. It is very Redmond Simonsonesque, isn't it? Something attractive about it - kind of like Raquel Welch, older, still classy and still looking quite good.

Vol's 1, 2 and 3 in the works...wow, that looks great - GOD love hexes, counters and CRT's!

Love those health bars!

Why not install the new harddrive as a 2nd drive (slave) in the system - then you won't need to do all the mirroring, etc. and will have even more storage space (trust me, it's never enough). If for some reason that is not an option, then you can use something like Norton's "Ghost" to safely copy the contents of one drive to another.

Jason - a quote from Dorosh that he wanted me to post on his behalf: And a follow up response from him:

That script on totallyphp.co.uk is a SERVER-side script (PHP), so that code would need to be added to the page that has the link(s) to the file(s) that you are offering. I too tried to click to download that script and it led to another page with no download link, but I think that I found an alternate download location HERE. The other solution is the CLIENT-side script (javascript) - one is provided at that Bravenet.com link that I gave earlier. Frankly, that would be easier to set up and is about the same on accuracy (ie. if they sit and hit "refresh", it will continue to rack up the hits whether or not they actually downloaded the file). If you want absolute accurate control over how many times the file was actually accessed, you will need to write your own custom SERVER-side script. That is what I did for www.the-proving-grounds.com and www.the-scenario-depot.com so that I could track how many times a scenario file was downloaded (you may have the same thing in the works? ).

All webservers would be server-side script enabled, from either .net/ASP to .php or others. As mentioned, the most *reliable* method would be to use a log analyzer as provided by your ISP. This is typically standard stuff that is included with a decent hosting package, however it may not be included in a freebie hosting account that you get for having someone as an ISP. You'll just have to ask or search their website to see if/how you can enable that. A web-log analyzer can/will track not only what pages were requested and by whom (via IP address), but also what on a page was requested - from images to links clicked (i.e., files requested). This is probably what you want. A javascript (client-side script) hit counter (one of the cheesy numbers on a page looking things) are *very* inaccurate in that if the same person returns to the page a dozen times -or- is on the page and simply hits refresh, the counter is going to rack up a hit whether or not he downloaded the file. That may or may not be what you want recorded. I realize that yours probably isn't a business site, but I tell clients that ask about those types of hit counters "it not only tells you how many times that your site has been accessed, it tells everyone else how many times it hasn't been". They look very unprofessional. If you want to tinker around with one though, Bravenet has a free hit-counter (and many other free tools), see LINK. I have seen javascript hit counters that don't show on the page - hittail.com was one, however you had to pay for that service. Edit to add: ALL webservers are also going to have web logs running that are tracking all of this stuff (though some things may be disabled, depends on the config settings). Whether or not you get to have access to those web-logs depends on the host - they generally need software that takes all these raw log files and makes the pretty pictures and graphs specific for each virtual host/directory (i.e., your website) that is on the server. On the index.html thing, it all depends on what your webhost has mapped for each home directory, it could be index.html, index.htm, default.html, default.htm, index.php (if PHP is running on the box) or it could be ALL of those (amongst others). The reason that you don't have to type www.mywebsite.com/index.html is because in this case (and generally), index.html is mapped by the server to be the root page of the home directory - i.e., it defaults to that page. So that is going to be the page that will always come up if someone just goes to www.mywebsite.com so would generally be the page for a client-side hit counter if you were to count (inaccurately however) ALL the visitors to your website. If you're trying to monitor the download of a specific file on any one page of your site (that is or is not your "home page") then this instruction about "index.html" is irrelevant - you need the client-side hit counter on whatever page it is that you have the link to the file that you are offering for download. Another alternative is to use client-side script (which I forgot to go into). But that is going to be way beyond your scope here unless you quickly pick up basic HTML and then find out what server-side scripting is offered with your hosting and then quickly pick up on how to write/add such code to your page. I'm curious, why the need to track this information - is it just to satisfy your own curiousity or is there a business need?

Preston Tucker will have finally gotten his revenge.

Yes, Semper Fi! GJK

Ah, but what of the 'Al Jolson's' of today...?

You're eavesdropping on somebody else's conversation and thus don't know that you're supplying totally useless drivel. Go back and re-read my conversation to see how/why Saddam came up.

Ok, we *think* we know who he is - let me be specific, how about his policies? Do YOU know any of his policies and how he plans to make them work. Tax-cuts for 95% of the people with over a trillion dollars in proposed new spending; really?

We're really not going to argue whether or not Iraq was a good or bad thing are we? That had no impact on this election aside from the fact that Obama wants to drop the white flag and run just as we have most of the country secured and stable and in a democracy.

Obama played his cards perfectly; I won't say anything that is news worthy here, but it is clear that he moved to center as the campaign went on (as most candidates do to appeal to both parties) - tax cuts from a liberal? persue war in Afghanistan/Pakistan from a liberal? cuts in spending and government programs from a liberal? It also became clear that when he wasn't reading from his teleprompter, his true colors came out (ala "spread the wealth"). So, we'll see what his true agenda is a few months into his term. Carter tried to move us too far to the left and we saw what happened in his re-election. Times may of changed however, so again, we'll see.

Been there and read it: 1. He opposed the war in Iraq but offers no solutions of his own aside from leaving Saddam in power. 2. He'll sit down and talk to everybody so that all the world will love us again. 3. He'll auto-magically secure loose nuclear weapons (says not how) and they have this big goal to rid all of the world of nuclear weapons (energy?) but again says not how. This is my point; nobody knows anything about this guy except for his bumper-sticker slogans but ok, I'll sit back and see what happens, perhaps I'll be pleasantly surprised. Perhaps it won't prove that he was elected because he was black, not Bush and didn't have Palin on his ticket and that he really was/is the best person for the job (experience forthcoming). He ran a brilliant campaign and McCain's was brain-dead. Republicans have gotten away from their conservative roots and so this was a well needed bloody nose. I worry about our national security but put my trust in Obama's hands at this point; so we shall see.

GOD forbid.

Really? Besides sitting down for a chat with no pre-conditions, exactly what is his foreign policy?

Why can nobody identify exactly what this "change" will be and how he will do it?

Almost as funny as Biden throwing a hissy fit after someone finally asks the Dem ticket some hardball questions - and to then have the media cut-off for the rest of the campaign for doing such. Should be interesting to see how the media is controlled and manipulated in an Obama Presidency (ala "Fairness Doctrine"). But yes, register and vote often, ACORN is counting on it!

It's not nice to point.

It's not going to prevent 3rd party sites from hosting/supplying mods & scenarios. You get a certain download amount for FREE each month. So, if you've used up your monthly allotment and don't want to pay for a new scenario/mod that you've seen or heard about you can either wait until the next month or go look at the various 3rd party sites to see if it's been uploaded there. So, what will happen is that new mods/scenarios will be posted to the official 'depot' and then those will be copied and uploaded to the 3rd party sites so that those that won't/don't or can't pay can have access to them with or (now) without the permission of the original mod/scenario author.

I've started tinkering with VB.Net and have probed into Java (that sounds nasty!) but everytime that I try to pick up a new programming language I get side-tracked or discouraged or my patience wears out; I just want to get to the end-goal of what I want to do without the learning curve. Here's going to be my first VB.Net project (so says I): I'm currently working on that game assist tool for a boardgame. Browser based, hasen't proven too difficult to code thus far and so I think that it would be neat to do it in a self-contained little .exe file that could be windowed: http://www.garykrockover.com/sample/RAM/ Note that there's no map, no counters to move around - and I want it that way. I want to roll the dice and move the counters - but have this program play the side of the (hidden) Japanese. Thanks for the tip about the Flash player upgrade, haven't done that in some time so that may be the issue.

Curious to see what the ratings were for the Series (I'm too lazy to look it up). I know that there was almost no interest in it down here (unfortunately). Still, congrats to the Phillies, I had them as the underdog vs the Rays but they prevailed! As an aside, my major leaguer buddy stopped by to say hello earlier in the week. He was all grins and we got a chuckly about my prediction of him going to the all-star game (as a player, not a fan Him and his wife are expecting their first child on December 7th (yes) and with his performance for the Cards this season, he's sitting pretty for the future. Lucky guy with some great talent; very nice kid (I say kid....he's nearly 1/2 my age).

I'm currently about 70% done with a "game-assist tool" (GAT) for MMP's "Rage Against the Marines", their newest area impulse game (and my first). It's a small game and I really enjoy it. The GAT basically hides the Japanese units and conducts their movement and attacks so that you can use VASSAL to play against a "virtual" opponent. I'll post more about it when I'm looking for playtesters if anybody is interested.