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Yep. Once again, welcome to the club. Thanks. Any Solaris versions on the horizon?

No worries. Do what you can. Do you remember the TV show Battlestar Gallactica? The "ragtag fleet" or ships trying to find Earth? Viola! I now have a Dual 800 MHz P-III Redhat box on the job. I guess my name shows up as soon as I've crunched one block?

Too bad, I could have dedicated one whole Netra to 24x7 crunching with an 450 MHz Ultrasparc II, but you have no Solaris version...Got a Redhat box I can put on it, not as much crunching power though...

Nice to meet you folding. I'd be pleased to dedicate a few cycles from my home machines to the cause. Cant hook that Sunfire 15k up though. Not if I want to keep my job :-)

Giving Microsoft your hard earned money pleases you? Not surprising since they are so poor and you are so rich

wow... imagine a beowulf cluster of those things.... *runs for cover*

Mac OSX is UNIX baby! Its a FreeBSD kernel! I can deal with MAC no problem

Dont have any pics of mine. :-( At home I have a Sun Enterprise250 and a Sun Netra X1 running solaris 9, 2 FreeBSD boxes on Dual Intel P-III platforms, 2 Redhat 9 systems on Dual Intel P-III. At work I run 10 Sun 420R quad CPU servers and the crem de la crem is a Sun Fire 15k. This puppy has 90 Ultrasparc III 1.2 GH CPU's (these being 64 bit processors, not the 32 bit intel toys). Thats right, 90 processors! Price tag on this puppy is about 4 million bucks. Sheesh! Not a microsoft product in the whole bunch

My ideal rig is one that is mine :-)

And adding again to the already pretty high costs to start and keep jumping. Once you have to follow classes so you cannot learn from your buddies the price goes up. And most often, WAY UP. I've just paid 1000+ euros for my AFF, unfortonalty I will have to have another go at this caus I'm not that good: another 1000 euros. Then offcourse gearrental and after that buying my own gear again thousands of euros I'll have to find somewhere. Now you want me to take some more classes also?! Adding again at least several hundred euro's or more? Better a few thousand more euro's than being a smudge on the ground

Lived in BC for 2 years. Beautiful place. I was VERY surprised at how much they dislike Americans. Everybody likes to blame their problems on someone else. In rural BC (Trail, Castlegar, Nelson, etc) they blame them on the United States. They also think we are all hicks that drive pickup trucks, wear cowboy hats, have an IQ of 7 (Mine is 16 so HA!) and love to kill stuff. Meantime, we here in the states think that all Canadians live in Igloos, speak french, and say "How ya doin, eh?" Constantly. It was a surprising and enlighteneing time for me. I always thought the US and Canada were tight. I dont know any americans that have it in for Canadians but I know MANY Canadians that have it in for Americans. Personally, I think we are ALL ignorant morons :)

I'm with Ivan! Not 40 till next year :-)

Works great until their high profile catches the wind and flips em off your face. Thats happened to me 3 times even with the strap so tight it was reshaping my head into an hourglass. The only way to keep em on for sure was a helmet which I prefer to not wear if I'm doin a solo jump. Prescription goggles rock :-)

Your right in that it would be damn near impossible to prove the guys motive for brushing his teeth unless this was a guy that was famous for never brushing his teeth in the AM and he strangely chose to do so on this day. Even then it wouldnt be proof positive. However, for the purposes of the hypothetical situation, it was stated as a given fact that he did so to conceal his alcohol breath so that he could get on the load. We are privy to his hidden agenda. I assume this means we are making a moral or ethical decision about his culpability rather than just legal.

If Cole, knowing that he was still intoxicated and that the DZ rules would not permit him to jump in that condition, intentionally decieved them in order to jump, AND knowing the potential dangers of executing swoop landings proceeded with a dangerous high speed maneuver without checking to make sure the area was clear and all this resulted in Bills untimely death through no fault of his own, then Cole is guilty of a crime and should do appropriate time. I wont speculate on wether or not this is murder or manslaughter or negligent homocide. I am not qualified to make this judgement. I do know that (in this hypothetical scenario) Cole was decietful, reckless, and negligent and that resulted in the death of another person. I'd call that a crime.

Holy shit, the sheer emotionalism and sentimentality in this post are astounding :-) Softie!

Done it twice now. Watching my sons come into the world ranks up there as the two most fantastic moments in my life. 11 years later and I still get all gooy eyed remembering holding my child for the very first time. Way better than jumping! Of course I hope to jump thousands of times and I dont think I could handle all those kids... Best of luck!

What he said!

Bad no wind landing wearing shorts. Slid on my left side and took all the skin off from my hip to my ankle. What a road rash. The scab was inconceivable!

ACK, trying to turn him to the dark side?!?

1:1 wingload with 68 jumps I wouldnt mind regulation on this issue as long as its other skydivers doing the regulating. They have the best interest of the sport in mind. I take guidance all the time from more experienced jumpers. I was not allowed to freefall until my instructor knew that I could open my own parachute. I didnt mind this. The rules were for my own safety. They were not going to allow me to do something before I was ready for it. Why should canopy flight be any different? Its just as hazardous to your health (and the health of others) to fly a canopy thats too hot to handle. As long as you pose a possible risk to ME flying your HP canopy, I'd prefer some kind of regulation that keeps you from doing it before you are ready. I was not allowed to determine for myself when I was ready to freefall on my own. That decision was left to the more experienced jumpers. My license doesnt suddenly give me the right to do whatever I want because the bad decisions I might make can hurt other people too. Is driving under the influence a crime because you might hurt yourself? No. Its a crime because you might hurt someone else that has nothing to do with it. Chris

I just ordered a pair of sportrx last week (G103 with poly carbonate lens) for $114.95. I didnt think of trying to submit it on my insurance but now I'm going to give it a shot!!! Chris

Well the suits made from a Polyester/Cotton blend should take dye alright but im just speculating. I would think that Supplex might not take a pigment well. Once again I'm speculating :-)

Unfortunately, this is something that we, as skydivers, will always have to deal with. Some of my family/friends are ok with it and some are not. You cant design your life around what other folks think you should do or not do. Theres only 1 person in this world thats responsible for your happiness and thats you. There will always be resistance to your choice of activity and there is always an element of risk involved. You can minimize that risk by not getting sloppy and complacent. Stay on the ball. After a while some of the pressure to quit will ease off but I wouldnt ever expect it to stop. Short and happy is better than long and miserable. Long and happy is the best and thats what I'm shooting for!

I'm curious. I have at this point seen 3 or 4 different videos where someone got a horseshoe when they deployed from their BOC and the bridle wrapped around their right ankle. It doesnt seem to me that I've seen any of these with ROL or anything else. How much more common is a horshoe mal using BOC than other methods of deployment? Anyone have any thoughts about this or any comments as to why BOC is better than ROL. There must be something better about it because 8 or 10 years ago the leg was the predominant place for it on sport rigs and now that I've returned from my 8 year layoff I see them mostly BOC. Regards, Chris