FSTipster???

[Smoke2much]

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

[Hagar]

Good to see you back Tipster.
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.  ::)

[FSTipster]

I can only apologise again.

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.

[packercolinl]

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!!

[fisharno]

Tipster, buddy....

I was about to call up a SAR mission!


Glad everything's at least repairable.

Al

[fisharno]

Deja vu....

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

[tim l lam 10386]

You're back! yay!  The Forums just increased in overall intelligence ten fold!  :D

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  ;)

Tim

[BFMF]

Hi John,

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

but i'm glad everything is ok

[Splash]

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
Splash

[MattNW]

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.  ;D

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.

[FSTipster]

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.

[phil509]

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! :-/I know your in pain,but I have to ask-Is the B52 panel gone (Oh please god of simulation cyberspace-say it isnt so)

[FSTipster]

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! :-/I know your in pain,but I have to ask-Is the B52 panel gone (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 , 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...

[phil509]

:-/ :-/ :-/ :-/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)       P.S .,My 10&12 year old boys have their OWN computer!!

[Lethal.Ambition]

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?

Glad to have you back John