Gyrene

Where did all he CMBO ladder heavyweights go? Guys like Swamp and KiwiJoe? Poor Old Spike: Don't get a big head - Swamp once had a 47 (Or so) unbeaten streak in ladder play against all comers! I think a lot of the CMBO rea guys just got burned out. Gyrene

Bandwidth. Gyrene

Sorry to hear the bad news Henk, hopefully you can get your life back on track soon. Tell your boss that I think that he's an @$$hole. Gyrene

I used SnapzPro 2 to capture the clips (The most laborious part) then I put the clips together with iMovie 3 (The fun part), then I exported the clips with QuickTime Pro and compressed them & converted to Windows Media with Cleaner 5 (This takes a while) I made this movie for BFC's interview with CNN and it came out of over 700MB of captured footage, the original is a lovely 800 x 600 that I'd never be able to host, unfortunately. Pity it was never used. I don't know of a similar way to do the same on a Windows PC, and I'd love to put my P4 rig with it's nicer video card to work at it. Glad you liked it, and sorry if I cut some of you off from downloading, but I really can't get out to the internet with all the uploads going. I've had some offers of better places to put them up, so you won't have to wait 3 hours to see 3 minutes of me messing around. Gyrene

Glad you liked it! Get it while you can, because it's coming down 5:30pm PST when I get back from work! Gyrene

Trommel, the old link should still work, it's back up. Gyrene

My upload cap is pretty meager... So nobody tries to hang me, this is a movie I made for moon for their CNN interview from in-game footage. I had to shut Apache down temporarely to be able to post. Gyrene

Here's a 3 minute movie I made with CMBB of a street battle with lots of explody bits & such. Download the smaller Windows Media Player version here Or get the larger, higher quality Quick Time version here. These are coming off my home computer so expected slow download speeds. Gyrene [ March 25, 2003, 02:37 AM: Message edited by: Gyrene ]

Magnum & Michlos, check your email Thanks! Gyrene

Magnum, I have a few Quicktime movies I made with CMBO & CMBB including a 29MB, 3 minute one with sound that I made for BFC's CNN interview but was never used. Do you have the bandwidth/inclination of hosting some of them? Gyrene [ March 22, 2003, 10:13 PM: Message edited by: Gyrene ]

The details inside the doors & windows is a very nice touch. Gyrene

That's a rockin' Casba! Gyrene

True - but hte photo was of teh front blades - the 1st stage compressor, and GT engines that suffer catastrophic failures do not generlaly propogate damage forwards, so I'd expect all that damage to have come from eth impact. Clearly something caused it, but I'm sceptical about a single bird being the cause. </font>

Oh yeah...I owe you a turn. Don't flip out and stuff, that would be totally uncool, and by uncool I mean not sweet at all. Gyrene

Mr. Spkr, beautiful use of recent controversial topic reference and very skillful use of controversial/well loved topic blending, your dedication to your craft shows. Continue with this high level of performance and you'll make the State finals! I give you a 9.1 Gyrene

I have to agree with Stalin's Organ - I did overhaul work on CF-6's & TF-39's with General Electric (747's, 757's, , CF5's, Air Force One...) and I've seen quite a bit of FOD damage and I can tell you that no 3kg bird would FOD a turbofan like that unless it was the Bird of Steel™ I've seen the chicken gun & frozen turkey tests and that's more than 3kg and a lot harder. Mike: I think you are mistaken in thinking that sand is not a threat to blade life in turbines - During the Gulf War we lost a few helicopters to compressor stalls caused by sand erosion, including one in my squadron that took a 50 foot plunge during a hover check. Our GE rep later sent us some compressor blades to show us just how much damage the fine Saudi sand did in such a short time, some of them looked like scimitars! Turns out that the T64's in CH53's were the most erosion prone of all helicopter engines in the theater, probably because they're also the only pure axial flow turboshafts used in allied helicopters. Sand also played havoc with fuel control linkage. Gyrene

I'm off. See you guys there. Gyrene

You shouldn't be so harsh on yourselves, some of you are truly humorous individuals. Some of you. Gyrene

35 to go. (Gyrene goes back to being amuzed by shiny objects and toy mice) Gyrene

I've used ZipIt 1.4 for mods, under OS 9 with no Windows-side problems. Gyrene

Possibly the coolest member number will be upon us soon (Never mind that there was no fanfare for #'s 123 & 1234...) and just like we made #8000 and #10000 feel welcome I think we should do something special for the arrival of #12345. JasonC doesn't post much anymore, so a reading of his posts (A perennial favorite) is out, and a reading of all of Mike Dorosh's posts would take until #23456 gets here... We could always welcome #12345 to a relaxing evening in a political flamewar in the General Forum or a nice dip in the pool Gyrene

Bump.

Ok, so who's officially showing up and how do we spot each other? (No German helmets / Russian fur hats...) Gyrene

Bump

Hmmm, 7 or 8-ish? Gyrene