Unknown_Enemy

The inquirer made another article about the bug-war between Via and Nvidia, which is now between Nvidia and all chipset producers. http://www.theinquirer.net/17120116.htm Read it and if you are in the situation they describe PLEASE ANSWER THEM ! Via made an uptade to their 4in1 4.36 drivers. It is still 4.36, but the silent patch for nvidia cards has been updated. You can find it at www.viaarena.com PS in my case nvidia 23.11 with 4in1 4.36 was a good fix, it worked fixing frequent BSOD on win xp. [ 12-18-2001: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

If FBI crack down on warez sites, so be it. If they could have done this before, may be Cavedog would still be in business. I pay for every games I like to play, also for my antivirus other utility soft but I will NOT submit to the "microsoft mandatory tax system". While doing a warez cleaning the FBI could also cope with the big fish.

This morning some Frensh deputies put to examination a law to forbid such absurd trials (heard this on France Info radio before going to work). A child will never be able to sue anyone just because he was born. Then I am personnaly not a pro-choice, but I will politically fight for it to be a legal right. Even if it is paid with my tax money. I am not only an individual, but a member of a nation. If I do not agree with the way my tax money is spent, then I will vote for someone else.

Thanks guys, I will add all that. But it will take a few days, as I have started to add cross page references to the glossary, which is an utter bi..h to do ! I will post here if I need some help to find some signification. BTW may be one of the admin could move this thread to the newbee forum ? PS I hate everything that my FATAL system can lock, or which can fit in my MTAR. So if you want to get my commander mad, just paint a flying sauccer in his visor.

From The Inquirer "SOURCES CLOSE TO NVIDIA told the INQUIRER it believed that problems experienced by people using its 23.11 drivers are not due to its software but down to Via. That might put Nvidia in the clear if it's correct but leaves a number of end users frustrated by a glitch that makes their machine displays go haywire. Nvidia sources said that the problem with 23.11 and Via chipsets is related to a BIOS glitch and that is why a patch is being made available to its end users on the Via Arena site. Yet, as we reported last week, other people using Intel chipsets also seem to have been plagued by the problem - which would seem to put this sensitive ball back in Nvidia's half of the court." From www.viaarena.com "NEW 4in1 drivers, version 4.36: An updated 4in1 service pack has just been released on the Drivers Page. This includes the new and improved IDE driver version 1.20. It also includes a silent installation of a patch which adjusts a memory setting in BIOS on some VIA Apollo chipsets to ensure stability with the latest video drivers under all Windows Operating Systems."

What the hell is ASL in BCM ??????? I read again the manual, but I just could not find it. HEEEELLLLPPPP ! BTW what SC means by "Don't worry because he has a LONG way to go. Problem is, he doesn't know it yet.". At the moment I have been working only with the BCM paper manual as given in the box. Do you guys hide hundred pages of docs full of abreviations ????? If yes then be sure that I hate you all. Then point me in the right direction and I'll start working.

Updated to V1.1, if you use it, please report errors. Thanks.

Updated : from 132 to 178 terms. Corrected some also. Thanks to Soback for reporting an error. If you find something wrong, please REPORT IT ! Looked again through the whole doc, but I could not find ASL (as reported by sc). Did someone found it ? Is it related to ASD ? At the moment ASL just means to me Advanced Squad Leader, which have not much relations to BCM.... "I got a CH with my APPS on your SWC/MMC, we have to resolve this on the IFT." That was one of the fisrt sentence I heard while learning to play Squad Leader Wargame. But at the time, I had a wonderful glossary of all abreviations used in the rules. We don't have any in BCM. So I created mine while reading the manual. Of course, when I finished my glossaray I discovered that I do not need it anymore. But other newbie (like me) may get confused with the 178 abreviations used in the manual, and with the fact that a few one are used twice (MLS = main launch system & main life support) It's in CSV (; separated), 1 column is the abreviation (sorted), 2d column is its signification and 3rd column is the manual page where I first found it. So enjoy ! 6DOF;6 Degrees of Freedom;P71 A/P;Autopilot;P14 ACM;Advanced Campagn Mode;P7 ACTIVE;Active radar mode;P25 AE;Alter Ego;P6 AGL;Above ground level;P52 AI;Artificial Intelligence;P11 AID;Altitude Information display;P19 AIR;TACSCAN tracks airborne targets;P24 ALS;Aux. 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Action;P7 MIM;Mobile Infantry Marine;P7 MIN;Mine Bay;P26 MLS;Mine launch systems;P46 MLS;Main Life Support;P26 MLS;Missile Launch Systems;P46 MNC;Main Computer;P26 MO;Medical Officer;P11 MTAR;Missile Target Acquisition Reticule;P17 MTD;Missile Tracking Designator;P17 MTI;Missile Tracking Indicator;P16 NAV;Navitron Computers;P26 NBF;Number of beers in the fridge;P69 NID;Navigation Interface Display;P20 NIR;Navigational Information Relay;P23 NO;Navigation Officer;P11 NPC;Non Playable caracters;Na NRE;Nuclear Reactor;P26 NTD;Navigation Target Designator;P17 OC;Other Craft;P12 ODS;Orbital Defense system;P53 OPR;System operation status;P37 ORDERS;Craft's tactical orders menu;P20 OTS;Orbit to Surface;P34 PASSIVE;Passive radar mode;P25 PERSCAN;Scanner to locate & track personal on board;P43 PLS;Probe Link System;P22 PRL;Portable rocket launcher;P71 PRO;Probe Bay;P26 PS;Planetary support;P7 PSP;Planetary support pilot;P9 PSS;Power System Status;P27 PTA;Passive Target Acquisition system;P45 PWA;Primary weapon array;P44 PWR;Power integrity settings;P45 PZ;Patrol Zone;P8 RCU;Radiation Control Units;P61 RE;Research Ingineer;P11 REC;Reactor Core;P26 RLI;Radiation level indicator;P47 RTB;Return to Base;P20 RTM;Radar Target Mask;P28 SAD;Search and Destroy;P20 SAM ;Surface to air missile;P25 SAS;Ship Alert Status;P14 SC;Shuttle Craft;P11 SCAN;MTI possible status when missile is selected;P16 SEAD;Suppress Enemy Air Defense;P20 SF;Space Force;P7 SFM;Space Force Marine;P9 SHD;Shield;P26 SHI;Ship Heading Indicator;P15 SMD;Store Manifest Display;P26 SNG;Start new game;P6 SOP;Standard Orbital Profile;P14 SOS;Emergency Broadcast;P14 SP1;Solar Panel 1;P26 SP2;Solar Panel 2;P26 SPC;TACSCAN tracks space targets;P24 SRE;Solar Reactor;P26 SSD;System Status Display;P12 SSR;System Status Relay;P26 SSS;Support Ship Status;P27 STS;Surface to surface missile;P67 STT;Single Target Tracking;P24 SUL;TACSCAN in support unit locator mode;P24 SVI;Ship Velocity Indicator;P16 TA;Training Academy;P5 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System;P21 [ 12-12-2001: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ] [ 12-12-2001: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

Living in France. Preordered in September and still no news at all. I send a "where is my order" (well, more polite terms) mail to BCM on thuesday (12/04/01) and still no answer... Some here made something similar, how long did you have to wait to get an answer from BTM ?

You asked for other countries, well in France lots of black are from Guyane or Martinique territories, and they are frensh since centuries. I work in IT, and I cannot remember a frensh black booted out just for his skin color. (I said frensh black) But this is not the case for Arabs (mostly Algeria and Morocco), since I have witnessed that on equal qualification, experience and pay a white or black guy will frequently be favored over an arab. It is illegal, but you will never be able to prove it. Today, if you want to hire an IT engineer, you will be able to find tens of qualified unemployed Arab guys but very few frensh names. All service providers companies know that an Arab guy is much more difficult to rent to a client than an europeen guy (even an asian or black one). So what of a solution ? I still wonder.

75% ?? that's wrong, only my father is english, and I always lived in france. Stop tea whining , just gimme a big bad expresso !

quote: Notion: We are killing innocent civilians in our war on terrorism. Of course USA is killing some innocents. When a bomb fall it has no friends. But that would be forgetting that since WW2 civils are not any more considered as legitimate targets by western governments. At least as few as possible will die, even if it is a low reconfort for the dead. quote: Notion 2: It is impossible to win the war on Terrorism. Reality: Think logically for a minute. Yes, bombing Afganistan to hell will not end the war on terrorism, neither will bombing Iraq, or any other Middile Eastern Country. That's why we are setting up a new government in Afganistan, and probably will in any other terrorist harboring country. I doubt the United States will make the same mistake twice, in this specific instance. After the terrorist harboring countries' governments are replaced, it will become much harder for terrorist groups to operate. Yes, terrorism won't be eliminated, but it will likely be lower than pre 9/11 levels, because they will be unable to operate in the open because of governments crushing them. It will never work. UK with thousands of soldiers was not able to eliminate IRA, France has not been able to eliminate Corsican terrorists and even Spanish dictator Franco was not able to erradicate ETA(not to mention nowadays) when his police had very few civil rights to respect. Just because all these organisations had popular support at some extents. The only example of terrorists whose organisation was erradicated (in france) was les brigades rouges, but they were a small (even if ruthless) group operating without any popular support. So if you want to eliminate a terrorist group, you have to deal also with its popular support. If not, you will just kill some terrorists just to have some new ones emerging a few moments later. Then here we go for the everlasting war..... quote: Notion 3: We are acting like terrorists by bombing Afganistan. Humm.. Did not read this one before, I find it a bit difficult to support. Even if it is Christ's teaching to forgive, well... Sometimes peace can be worse than war (anybody remember Munich ?) quote: Notion 4: We are doing what the terrorists want. Reality: Bin Laden doesn't want his top military and terror advisors dead. That's like Bin Laden saying that he wants us to chop off his hands and legs so he'll be more effective against us. Captain Dread's reality seems to me very "American", not Arab. The way WTC was bombed shows that we have in front of us some very intelligent people. I cannot imagine that they did not include the possibility that they could be wipped out clean by the retaliations, which I hope will be the case. I would guess that if they are killed, their bet is that they will be martyrs, thus showing the way to others. Please remember that these murderers do not care about their own lives. How can we treatten people to kill them when they are eagier to commit suicide just to kill you ? quote: The terrorists are mad. The only way to make them happy is the destruction of America, and/or the withdrawl of support for Israel (which would cause them to declare their nuclear status and start a Middle Eastern Arms race, not much fun when a bunch of "kill the non-islam fanatics" have nukes) The only option is to disable the person's ability to punch you AKA, destroy terrorists and their supporting countries. Anyone who is "pro-peace, anti-war" is saying, "let them keep punching us". If that's not pro-Taliban, nothing is. To the point, a nuclear suicide attack is my worst fear. And restrict help to the only democracy of this area would lead to another genocide. But what to do with Egypt ? Most of its population is furiously against USA. It won't matter how much billion of US dollars go to the country, as long as root of their hate is not treated. quote: The destruction of Terrorist supporting countries will highly limit the capabilities and activities of terrorist groups, and in the end protect American security. You are dreaming, as shown in Europe. In fact to win the war is only the first step. The second step is to win the peace. A poor peace will lead to other wars (remember WW1 ?). quote: fighting is wrong Of course it is wrong ! Only terrorists of madmen can imagine it's not ! Problem is not if fighting is wrong or not, but what will happen if it is avoided ? If it was alway avoided France would probably have been "freed" by soviets troops in WW2. All fighting was avoided in Cambodgia. Then Pol-Pot killed millions of his own people. As a whole I think Captain Dread is missing the point : the most important thing will not be to win the short term war but to win the long term peace.

I also made my pre-order late September, and no news yet, but if you were processed, it should arrive soon....... just a few more days wait........

I remember reading that on Win Me, the file auto-backup (whatever it is called) is a bugfeast. Did you desactivated it ?

How would react the indies if someone just launched a RANDOM weapon to one of their main populated world ? How does the game engine reacts to such an event ? My goal is to conquer earth and to establish again my cult to these earthling. I would really be pissed off if a bastard just nuked the planet in front of my eyes. Gammullians need slaves, the dead are not good slaves. So I think it would easier if the main powers would agree to these rules of war : LAW 1 : no planet who reached stade 3 shall never be destroyed. Nothing more than tactical nukes shall be used on such a world. LAW 2 : no mass destruction devices shall be sneaked and detonated in any world. LAW 3 : no intelligent race shall be obliterated. Please remember that these are agreements. If these should be transgressed, well things could get ugly. Note : Stade 1 : colony established on planet Stade 2 : colony reached agricultural level Stade 3 : colony reached industrial level Stade 4 : colony reached system wide industrial level Stade 5 : major trade/industrial/populated world

GO BUY IT !! The first avp sucked. I never liked games where you have only limited save possibility. I don't want to restart a level because I did not aim precisely the two last aliens. But damn, you are in the film with this game !

From : Unknown_Enemy aka Cthulhu To : Mr Jaguar, Lord David, I would be honored to apply to a mercenary status in the Gammurian Empire. I have been working with humanity for countless century by terrorizing some of their specimen, and I have driven mad countless numbers of humans. To assure you of my motivation, keep in mind that these bastards of humans worked with me until they decided that aliens made better monsters then ME ! Then they fired me and just forgot my existence ! They expulsed me from my ancestral home ! They transformed it in a nuclear testing range ! I just hope this could qualify me for any mission launched against their confederation. Such outrageous things shall not be forgotten. Regards, Unknown_Enemy

I just cannot believe some of the posts I just read. First for the UN : it is a neutral ground where country can negociate. Whatever it is called, there is a strong need for such an organisation. The corruption in it is just another problem. Then for the terrorist guys. I was delighted to see somewhere in this forum a post with a link to the English mandate in palestine, just after WW2. My grand-father's name was Arhur Middleton(also!), he was an officier in the british army sent to this country. Ten years ago he was still telling me about this dirty war, how some british soldiers were captured, executed and their corpse bobby trapped . How some random killing were done versus the arab population. How some bombing were done versus civilian buildings. All that by Israelian terrorists. (email me if you need verification details, I will send you the more complete story about my grandfather) Do that remind you ANYTHING ? These cold blooded murderers are now chief of state, or first ministers because they won their war. They are now "liberation heroes". And after creation of Israel, UK did not bomb their leaders. How would USA feel if Taleebans win their war against USA then appoint Ben laden as first minister following a democratic process ? I am going to tell you : you would feel disgusted. You would feel even more anger. And there would be very little that could be done. So think about this, remember our history before writing everywhere that taleebans should be nuclear bombed. At last but not last, the fact that I despite Israel's choice of leaders doesn't means that I do not respect their choice. And I also fully recognize this state as the only democracy in middle east. But you WILL NOT have me agreeing with this state's doings.

Good guess from Blade ! call of Cthulhu it is ! Well, half. On Earth they just fired Cthulhu from his big hugly-scarring-monster-job. Don't need him anymore they said ! They got a Ben something doing the job better than him ! So no wonder he now works as an alien....

Just a thought for you guys, Spanish dictator Franco was not able to wipe out ETA, nor is Spanish democracy. France is not able to wipe out Corse terrorism. UK is not able to wipe out IRA. Almost all of the above posts speak about destroying terrorism. This has been tryed before, but always failed. Would some of you would be shocked if I say that USA could loose the war by always winning battles ? That means that as it took place for IRA, ETA and Corse movement, the state dismantled and destroyed countless numbers of terrorist squads, but there was has always been some fresh terrorists volonteers to start again the whole process. What is your reaction on this point ? [ 10-23-2001: Message edited by: Unknown_Enemy ]

Now USA and some UK troops are trying to take Ben Laden "dead or alive". I have no doubts that they will succeed. I doubt it will be it the following weeks, I would guess they will catch this man in a few years after a longue and difficult hunt. But they will catch him. And some of his officers. In fact I am sure that his organisation will be completely destroyed. And these bastards deserve their fate. But then ? Will it prevent just another madman to step in Ben Laden's shoes ? Will it prevent another murderer to create another terrorist organisation ? Of course not. USA is the country who brings the largest help to Egypt to take a case. And yet USA is there the most hated state just after Israel. Where Egypt's leader fully understand their best interest to be allied to US the population just keep disliking USA (at best). Which takes us to the two pending problems : - Irak - Palestinians IRAK Most of middle east find unfair the current situation where the blocus is mostly harming the population. And S. Hussein is still in power, and abseloutely not repenting. PALESTINIANS From Arab view, Europe and USA created Israel at the expense of Palestinian. The popular meaning is then some arabs are homeless because jews stole their land. So the Irak problem will start to be solved when S.Hussein is dead. I would guess that a state without Hussein's family at its head would be much less threatening. Which would lift the blocus and allow for internationnal funding. On the other hand, the Palestinian problem is way more dangerous. It is very interesting to see that when an arab leader want to put the opinion with him, he starts saying that his doing are to help the Palestinians. Even if he did never took care of them before. And it works ! It works ! Just look at middle east population opinion. Take Egypt, very few people agrees with the hidjacking and the virus-bombing. But a vast majority say they can understand why it was done. Well the point is that anybody who think that this crisis will be resolved by weapons only is dreaming. As long as Palestinian and Irak issues will remain, there will be an ENDLESS supplie of "ready to fight" terrorists. As there has been in Northern Ireland with United Kingdoms. Now here is my question : what do you think of this situation, what is your analysis of it especially from USA and Israel point of view ? I know I have an Europeen view, so I am eager to read what other country think this whole thing.

My old OS was Win98se, I went for xp PRO final release. I formatted my hard drive and went to install it. The install is smooth and overall a good quality work. But then, I discovered that I was not able to play system sound (uuuhhrrr ????), but music cd-rom were working fine, and a game was playing sounds all right. To update my sound drivers, I then tryed to install my DSL drivers, the install went perfectly. I rebooted the computer but when I tryed to connect, the system did a reset. Exactely as if I did push the reset button. After a long search, I discovered that the install was not finished correctly, and I had to manually apply IP settings on my modem to have it working properly. But EVERYTIME I did something wrong on the DSL setup, I endured a reset. Then I was able to connect to the internet. But I still endure some random resets. Rare, but still. I did download win2000 drivers for soundblaster live, I installed them, but at the end of the install I experimented another RESET ! So I uninstalled soundblaster's drivers, and I stayed with the MS drivers for sb live. I remember reading during the install that win xp vainquished the blue screen of death, that is absolutely true, I have never seen it since I am on xp. But I NEVER had so much reset on a computer. I am not sure it can be called a progress..... By the way, Nvidia drivers are ok. Please note that I never had a problem to rollback a driver, this feature works fine. Conclusion : if you install win xp, just work for MS drivers. The only exception is nvidia drivers. I regret doing this migration, I should have waited for a few months, I believe that by december most 3rd party drivers will be ok, but at the moment they are a pain in the ass.

Some points I wanted to react on : Equality : remember there are now proof that we are not born as equals. Some of us grow up as Einstein, Mozard or Platon and some will not be able to lace their shoes alone for their life. Then it is a bit "artificial" to think so different people will live(deserve?) the same living condition. Anyway, the problem is not to limit the amount of money that Bill Gates can earn per year. I believe the problem is more what is the minimum to live under which human dignity is not respected ? To answer this question I do not think that capitalism is adapted, but communism is even worse. Then a bit of history : I read in this thread that in the 30s in Germany, the Jews were possessing almost the entire (what was left of) German economy. This point has seen some widespread use in different country. This is to forget a bit to quickly that during 1500 years, jews were NOT allowed to own lands in most of europe. They could work on it, but never own it. There you go on the legend that all jews were merchants. In fact, they had very little choice. During middle age, the power was with the lands owners. Merchants was some sort of low caste. That started to change around XVI century. Nowadays it is the contrary.... Then for the feeling of most of Europe versus the jews, it has NEVER been good until end of second world war. My Grandmother used to pray in the church to forgive 'these poor jews who killed the Crist'. THAT WAS IN FRANCE JUST BEFORE THE WAR.

Guns are restricted in France. No pistols, only hunting rifle or similar weapons. No war weapons are permitted, and knifes are restricted. But I do not think restriction is the point. France as most of Europeen citizen never used to have lots of guns. It is a cultural thing. When I read previous posts, I just wondered "By God, why should a normal guy need a tank in its garden, a rocket launcher in its saloon and a kalashnikov in its bed room ????? Don't they have police to maintan law and order ?". It is very difficult for lots of Europeen people to understand the way USA deals with personal weapons. Especially when you realize that in UK, most of policemen don't even have a gun. There is some figures I still remember from my school years. In a text about a comparution between frensh and US criminals, there was this number slipped in : in the previous year, there has been around 40 dead by gun shoots in France, and around 10000 in USA. This was around 1985. Having read this (very interesting) thread I will not dare to say if weapon free access is good or bad for USA. I acknowledge that USA is a democratic country which is staying whith this system. What is not even thinkable in France (or in most of Europe) is part of the Law in USA. What is weird for me is a normal right for some US citizens. Definitely, we do live in interesting times.

*** bump *** based in France, still waiting too.....