[jr2]

I'd have to agree but I run a Vista machine... Vista doesn't do drivers.

If you have an old copy of XP you can dual boot.

If you have an old OEM copy... hmm.  There are ways of *acquiring* XP Pro SP2 Corporate ... *cough* Toorgle *cough*.  Since you own the software, I'd say you've a right to use it on your machine.

[Asuko]

Ha ha, you just reminded me of an IRC conversation somebody posted on bash.org, where (in the interests of science of course) they replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in selected passages from the first Harry Potter Novel.  It was highly disturbing.

*shudders* Don't even want to know.

I actually have some virtual machine software that I run XP under. Still, running XP under a main Vista frame does murder whenever I start up the VM. I should dual boot. I got XP Pro through my college's MSDNAA.

Oh and about the IP sale at 2011, I certainly hope FS3 is made before then.

[jr2]

Dual boot is easy... get GParted Live CD (or Live USB), and shrink your partition down, then create a new one.... restart, let Vista check the drive for errors (this is a must!), then install XP to the second one... you may need to restore the Vista bootloader, not sure.  To resize / move partitions in GParted, keep in mind you have to move the actual partitions before you can move the extended partitions that they reside in.. click "resize / move", then play your mouse around the borders to see what you can do.  Do whatever you want, then after it looks good, hit the "Apply" button, and it will do it.    If you need a walkthrough or something I can make one.

[Asuko]

Oh wow, that can be helpful. Thanks jr.

[colecampbell666]

I certainly hope FS3 is made before then.

No, you don't. If FS3 is made, will probably not make it, and it will nullify all of the work on the SCP. I don't want to get into this discussion.

[Asuko]

Alright, it's just a hope really. Breath of fresh air, if you can think of it like that.

[EAD_Agamemnon]

FS3? Read that caption below my name....INFERNO is as close to FS3 as I think we are going to get. Though it'd be nice to see BETAC included in Woomeister's mod somewhere....it would add some mystery. Though it'd be nice for a real sequel for PC. But as it stands....WOO IS GOD! LONG LIVE INFERNO! LONG LIVE FS3! 

[Unknown Target]

Just because Inferno is a big campaign does not automatically make it FS3. Yes it's well done, but it's no more FS3 than a newbie-made five mission campaign.

[colecampbell666]

Though it'd be nice to see BETAC included in Woomeister's mod somewhere....it would add some mystery

BetAC isn't a mystery, it means Beta Aquilae Convention. Sort of like our Geneva Convention.

[Asuko]

Maybe he was talking about ETAC. In retrospect, that would actually be interesting.

[colecampbell666]

You mean ETAK?

[Jeff Vader]

Dude, I just realized something. ETAK is KATE backwards. Whoa.

Anyways, quite surely they both meant ETAK, since ETAC is clearly typoed and if someone says he'd like to see BETAC in FS3, it really doesn't mean anything.

[Asuko]

Ah, my bad. What does ETAK stand for anyway? Extra Terrestrial Assimilation ... damn.

[Jeff Vader]

It's a shortened version of Etamnanki, the tower which may have inspired the story of Babel.

Hmm, actually Wikipedia says Etemenanki. Whatever. Potato, potatoe.

[Asuko]

Interesting stuff. I didn't really know there were a ton of references to mythology or otherwise in FS.

[Marcus Vesper]

Interesting stuff. I didn't really know there were a ton of references to mythology or otherwise in FS.

Only just about every single ship class, ha ha.  Mythological references are extremely pervasive in FS.

Ha ha, you just reminded me of an IRC conversation somebody posted on bash.org, where (in the interests of science of course) they replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in selected passages from the first Harry Potter Novel.  It was highly disturbing.

Any chance you could find that? It sounds funny.

Well since you asked......

<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let's see the results...

<JonJonB> "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
<JonJonB> "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything

<JonJonB> A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.

<JonJonB> "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
<JonJonB> "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "

<JonJonB> Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls

<JonJonB> "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"

<JonJonB> The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.

<JonJonB> He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.

<JonJonB> He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.

<JonJonB> Ok
<JonJonB> I have found, definitive proof
<JonJonB> that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all
<JonJonB> "Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
<melusine > O_______O
<JonJonB> Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang

<JonJonJonB> Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.

<JonJonJonB> 'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.

[Retsof]

  I have never read Harry Potter, yet I am now scarred for life.

[Mobius]

I read Harry Potter, but I don't know the meaning of that word

[Jeff Vader]

What? Wang?

Besides, this sounds just about the same as taking the Star Wars movies and replacing certain key words from the lines with the word 'pants'.

"Han will get the pants down! We just gotta give him more time!".

[colecampbell666]

Interesting stuff. I didn't really know there were a ton of references to mythology or otherwise in FS.

Only just about every single ship class, ha ha.  Mythological references are extremely pervasive in FS.

Ha ha, you just reminded me of an IRC conversation somebody posted on bash.org, where (in the interests of science of course) they replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in selected passages from the first Harry Potter Novel.  It was highly disturbing.

Any chance you could find that? It sounds funny.

Well since you asked......

<JonJonB> Purely in the interests of science, I have replaced the word "wand" with "wang" in the first Harry Potter Book
<JonJonB> Let's see the results...

<JonJonB> "Why aren't you supposed to do magic?" asked Harry.
<JonJonB> "Oh, well -- I was at Hogwarts meself but I -- er -- got expelled, ter tell yeh the truth. In me third year. They snapped me wang in half an' everything

<JonJonB> A magic wang... this was what Harry had been really looking forward to.

<JonJonB> "Yes, yes. I thought I'd be seeing you soon. Harry Potter." It wasn't a question. "You have your mother's eyes. It seems only yesterday she was in here herself, buying her first wang. Ten and a quarter inches long, swishy, made of willow. Nice wang for charm work."
<JonJonB> "Your father, on the other hand, favored a mahogany wang. Eleven inches. "

<JonJonB> Harry took the wang. He felt a sudden warmth in his fingers. He raised the wang above his head, brought it swishing down through the dusty air and a stream of red and gold sparks shot from the end like a firework, throwing dancing spots of light on to the walls

<JonJonB> "Oh, move over," Hermione snarled. She grabbed Harry's wang, tapped the lock, and whispered, 'Alohomora!"

<JonJonB> The troll couldn't feel Harry hanging there, but even a troll will notice if you stick a long bit of wood up its nose, and Harry's wang had still been in his hand when he'd jumped - it had gone straight up one of the troll's nostrils.

<JonJonB> He bent down and pulled his wang out of the troll's nose. It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue.

<JonJonB> He ran onto the field as you fell, waved his wang, and you sort of slowed down before you hit the ground. Then he whirled his wang at the dementors. Shot silver stuff at them.

<JonJonB> Ok
<JonJonB> I have found, definitive proof
<JonJonB> that J.K Rowling is a dirty DIRTY woman, making a fool of us all
<JonJonB> "Yes," Harry said, gripping his wang very tightly, and moving into the middle of the deserted classroom. He tried to keep his mind on flying, but something else kept intruding.... Any second now, he might hear his mother again... but he shouldn't think that, or he would hear her again, and he didn't want to... or did he?
<melusine > O_______O
<JonJonB> Something silver-white, something enormous, erupted from the end of his wang

<JonJonJonB> Then, with a sigh, he raised his wang and prodded the silvery substance with its tip.

<JonJonJonB> 'Get - off - me!' Harry gasped. For a few seconds they struggled, Harry pulling at his uncles sausage-like fingers with his left hand, his right maintaining a firm grip on his raised wang.

Do you have a link to the site? I'm going to send this to my friends.