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The [email protected]#%ing Taliban just shot me. [email protected]#%!
Interesting review. I already have COD 2 so I wasn't planning on getting this ( I don't even plan on getting black ops either), so I figured there would be very little difference. I also totally agree with you about the Taliban controversy.
I see medal of Honor as the underdog against COD. I really wanted this game to be better than Black ops..."sigh".. maybe in a few years. I can only hope they do better.
As Shakespeare would say, a rose by any other name... Though, in all honesty, you said it much better, a Taliban by any other [email protected]#%ing name is still a [email protected]#%ing Taliban...
More on topic though, kinda disappointed from what I've seen of this game myself, it looks to be nothing more than a blatant attempt to try and beat the CoD series by copying the CoD series. Who in their right mind thought that would work, exactly?
From what I'm seeing in the video review, the game looks very bland(and I hate using that term) and the action is not all that great. (that was one ugly looking knife kill)
And the game is scripted and short? Yeah, sadly I'm skipping this one. Multiplayer sounds great though.
I just loved his voice tone when he said "those fuckin' guys are Talibans" :D
"Stream not found" Daym...
Video no worky. For me.
Anyway, I might get this, since I'm not buying any Activision games anymore. Used or new. Looks solid enough, and comes with Frontline on PS3, iirc.
Hmm, originally I was excited about it, especially after MoH Airborne which was awesome. However ... gotta agree, it seems to try and copy CoD a bit too hard, or something. It doesn't feel right.
Is it just me, or does this feel like Bad Company 2... minus destructible enviroments? This seems like the kind of game you would buy if you couldn't afford MW2 or BC2, except that IT JUST CAME OUT so it's still sixty bucks.
No thank you good sir, I have better ways of spending my money.
Ahhhh a fellow man with a stance, im also off Blizard products but mainly becuase im a million miles past WoW at this point and Starcraft is well... Starcraft 2. I do like RTS but Starcraft is the embodiment of everything that can be wrong with it.
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What do you think i've been doing for the past 10 minutes? Should i try bashing my case and shouting loudly next?
While I agree with the review in general, I would go so far as to point out that MoH doesn't just fail to do things better than it's competition, it generally fails to do them as well.
Playing through the game, it has so far done nothing that another contemporary shooter (be that Call of Duty, or heck, even Halo: Reach) hasn't already done better. It's not just a CoD clone, it's an inferior CoD clone. And I think that's worth note.
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i have a strongly held opinion on the taliban issue (that EA are moeny grabbing attention seeking scum desperatly trying for a "scandal" to match MW2s airport scene and don't care how many bereaved families are hurt by it) but i respect the way it was handled in this review.
other than that it was a good review, if i buy this game it will be second hand (so no money goes to EA) but i have yet to hear a positive review about this game so far.
C-Cleaner should proabaly do the trick.
EDIT; Nope still nothing. Not exactly urgent though, i guess i'll try again tommorow or something.
I agree with the single player portion of your review but have to disagree with the multiplayer being well designed
You mentioned the long corridors for snipers - problem is these corridors normally take up only 1 of at most 3 ways to get to an area making the attackers role run into sniper fire and die repeatedly.
Due to badly designed maps, poorly thought out game modes and a lot of other issues I had, I found the multiplayer distinctly not fun and would not recommend it to anyone
Looks... decent.
Might be a good one to get away from the "almighty CoD!"
My first draft was originally much heavier on the direct comparisons to COD but I just couldn't get the format right. It wound up being distracting so I challenged myself on the rewrite to minimize the references to COD.
Fair 'nuff.
I have it. I like the multiplayer. Campaign is acceptable but no near amazing. PS3 version of the Tier 1 mode comes with Medal of Honor Frontline in HD don't you know?
It has however just wet my appitite for Black Ops, which I'm looking forward to. Need to shoot some explosive crossbows at 'nam zombies.
A hard thing to do these days, especially with this type of shooter. I thank you for the effort, really let me judge the game as it was. Even if my own conclusion was CoD clone, it was mine. ^_^
it's littered with unrealism, texture overcompression, cheap shadows and wrong lighting, glitches and sometimes external models of guns missing a part of their textures or there is an extra silencer, but what really turned me off was the aiming device with 3 fire modes, the situation was so chaotical and underexplained I stopped playing it and loaded Road Of The Dead on newgrounds, not regretting at all. Hope this type of shooter dies fast, but please rush with the termination of Dead Space franchise!
Well the comparisons are really unavoidable, especially when the game seems to have been designed from day day one with the idea of chashing in on the CoD cycle market. I don't really get where Medal of Honor 'fits'. Are EA really going to try and bring out a 'realistic' first-person shooter every year? How many do they think the market will suppot? I mean we already have Bad Comapny 2 which reall covers much of the same ground especially online. (Bad Company is also argumably a better game than COD, well on the PC at least.)
Personally im dissapointed in EA for taking such a "Copy EXACTLY the money printing machine now!!!" approuch to making games, they have really concided that Activision is the market leader and they should follow. Was EA really expecting to ride the black ops train all the way to moneyville? Are they planning a kind of yearly release of the same game like Call of Duty so blatantly does.
There is also the side point that "realistic first person shooter" is kind of a laughable title for these types of games, in a universe where something like ARMA II exists it's a bit of a pretencious label. Like calling grape juice a fine vintage wine. Sure it's grapes but there is so much more to it.
The last "modern infanterist fps" I played was CoD:MW1. And frankly, I get the feeling that both MW2 and MoH mostly look and feel like the one that made them big. How accurate is my assumption?
Wonder where those franchises will go once the modern setting sells as badly as WW2 used to at some point. Rivaling Crysis kind of shooters? Would love to see some sort of "Call of Duty: Plausible Nifty Military Gadget Warfare of Tomorrow". :P
I'd like to get this however my incredibly hectic and expensive lifestyle has resumed vacuuming out my bank account upwards of £50 a month.
So I'm limited to roughly one new title a month... I didn't buy one last month (thank you Capcom competitions) and currently I have a copy of Fallout New Vegas and Fable 3 sitting in some dark room with my name on it waiting to be picked up.
Maybe next month... however Ultramarines does come out then... plus I do want to see Sum 41... so maybe next year.
Actually, MF2 was crap, a large stack of crap and white wash. Well, unless you like hackers and griefing. I'd rather play MW1 any day of the week.
I heard this was shit off IGN which means it's REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLY shit. So naw. I'll pass on it.
Looks like CoD, but with the over-the-top fun removed.
And what with the controversy and Blops coming up, this is going to get arse-raped.
Great review, I feel about the same way. Loved the closing line :)
looks like bad company 2. i'll buy it.
the reviewer didn't do a very enthusiastic job explaining that this game was in most ways much more realisitic to how events are overseas for special operations, which was the mainstay point of the development of the game. It seems as though Steven was very biased. I did pick it up at launch, and i will say there are some drawbacks that took me out of complete immersion at times, but it was an overall great effort. The multiplayer isn't as good as MW's but the singleplayer is definately a winner. Remember to SLIDE!
I don't know if anyone has already mentioned this, but the whole name change (from Taliban to Opposing Forces) actually makes the game more realistic. My brother-in-law, an Afghan War marine vet, says that they always called the guys they were fighting "Opposing Forces" because, and this is clearly reflected in the game, the Taliban itself is only one component of the confederated groups that are all having a being-bad-guys field day in Afghanistan at the moment.
The remnants of the Taliban are fighting against us, NATO and the Afghan Army with Al-Qaeda flunkies from a dozen countries, Chechen separatists / Islamists, Iranian "military advisers," local Afghani warlords who oppose the Taliban, the new Afghani government, and any other powers attempting to reduce their local control, and a whole host of other guys of various native and non-native ethnicities and sects trying to take advantage of a disrupted situation to further personal / ideological / political goals. Some of the same groups are also fighting in Iraq where they ally themselves with local anti-government / anti-American forces.
So by changing the name, EA is actually making the game more realistic. Am I the only one who's noted this?
Another three-hour shooter set in the modern day.
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Song butchers: Let's 'play ball' with the original
You love to sing this part, I know you do:
"O, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"
I don't care whether your bumper still sports a McCain-Palin sticker or a beat-up "Change We Can Believe In" declaration, your heart beats faster and you feel great when you're surrounded by a crowd of your fellow Americans, all singing the same tune – for once. Nothing says "We're all in this together" quite like joining our voices in song.
And whenever it's time to "Play ball!" we get another chance to experience this venerable ritual. Well, in theory, anyway.
Provided it's presented in the right key, we Americans are happy to participate in the singing of The Star-Spangled Banner. And, oh, what a unifying event this could be, now that we have polarized ourselves into red people and blue people and political discourse rapidly degenerates into "I'm right and you're an idiot."
Alas, this therapeutic opportunity has been snatched away from us, right when we need it the most. Over the past several years, our ritual sing-along has been hijacked by soloists who apparently attended the Mariah Carey school of vocal interpretation, because they warble our national anthem as though it were a torch song.
(I don't think national anthems are treated this way in other countries. Have you ever heard a melismatic, Whitney-Houston-style rendition of God Save the Queen? Neither have I.)
There is a place for this sort of ornamentation in singing. In Italian opera, a coloratura soprano will stray delightfully from the composer's notation in order to express emotion and add personality to the performance. Jazz diva Ella Fitzgerald entrances us with complex scat detours above and beyond what the composer wrote. And then there's Ms. Carey and a host of other pop singers who exude passion and longing with this style of singing.
Here's the problem: Attempting to sing along with the national anthem when the soloist deviates from the score is like trying to follow along with a dance partner who, in the middle of your waltz, starts doing back-flips and cartwheels. About all you can do is give up and say, "Well, apparently this dance doesn't include me."
If you want people to participate in communal singing, you lead them in a note-for-note rendition. If I wanted to lead you all, dear readers, in singing, say, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, I would stick to "Ee eye ee eye oh!" and not go off into the weeds by singing, "Ee eye [whoa oh oh!] ee eye [unh unh unh!] oh!"
I got to thinking about all this back on Patriots' Day weekend, while attending a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. There was no way to sing along with the meandering rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner, but you should have heard everyone united in belting out Take Me Out to the Ballgame and Sweet Caroline, and both of those tunes were presented in a straightforward, note-for-note way. Apparently, the impulse to unite in song is alive and well.
Coincidentally, while mulling over my Fenway Park experience last week, I came across a YouTube video that's been making the rounds for some time now. Maybe you've seen it: It's a recording made at Fenway Park, on Disability Awareness Day, of a developmentally disabled man attempting to sing, a capella, our national anthem.
Much to his credit, this soloist was singing the song straight, just as it was written. People were listening quietly, a habit we've fallen into thanks to awkward experiences encountered while trying to follow the usual vocal gymnasts.
When the disabled man loses his composure and has trouble continuing the song, the crowd helps him out by suddenly singing The Star-Spangled Banner along with him – and I'm telling you, that upwelling of supportive voices from everyone in Fenway Park would make an anarchist weep.
Think back: when was the last time you got to sing along with The Star-Spangled Banner? Since we are both free AND brave, let's raise our voices in protest, confront these soloists and say: "Remember, this song is not about you – it's about us. Don't butcher it."
From her home in Free Union, Janis Jaquith pines for baseball.


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Posted: Fri 03 Jun 2011, 18:17
Post subject: Can't Boot -- Frugal Installation
I made a Frugal installation of LegacyOS, being careful to put in the kernel line, "pmedia=idehd," but I still get the message "can't find pmedia=idecd," and the boot is aborted. I know I'm doing something wrong. Here is the menu.lst entry:
# Legacy OS begins
title Legacy OS Puppy
root (hd0,0)
kernel /legacy/vmlinuz pmedia=idehd root=/dev/hda1 pfix=ram ro
initrd /legacy/initrd.gz
# LegacyOS ends
Do I need to put the .sfs file in the root directory?
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Posted: Fri 03 Jun 2011, 18:31
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Hey JB, All's well I hope...
Anyway; although pfix=ram got me through to boot-up, the installer hangs.
Q1 - installer mentions ext2 specifically, is it mandatory?
Q2 - installer mentions swap file, is it mandatory?
Q3 - what are the correct paramaters for grub? (manual install possible?)
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Many thanks! Downloaded now - took 5 mins - going to burn to disc.
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Posted: Fri 03 Jun 2011, 20:16
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hi davec51,
use this PMEDIA=idehd root=/dev/ram0 instead of pmedia=idehd root=/dev/hda1
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Posted: Fri 03 Jun 2011, 20:28
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Hello Everyone installing, please read this.
The Truth about Installing Legacy OS 2 on your Computer
I want you to go back in time to early 2007 when Barry K released Puppy 2.14. Barry's .sfs system isn't what it is today. Most Puppy users who use .sfs apps would be using them with Puppy 4 and 5 series. Legacy OS 2 is based on the Puppy 2 series.
Lets say Barry K decided to give all this Puppy stuff up after releasing Puppy 3.01 and was never seen again! Would I still have released Legacy OS 2? Yes! I'm 99% sure if this forum was still active, you'd still have this release.
With Legacy OS and with the help of ttuuxxx, I updated glibc from 2.3.5 to 2.5 from Puppy 3.01. This allowed a great number of apps that have found their way in to Legacy OS to work for the first time. Besides this major system update, Most of Legacy OS 2 is where Linux was in 2007. Why? you might ask are you still using this old out dated System and Kernel? As the "Target Hardware" was built between 2000 and 2006 what better way to support it then by building an OS around a system build in 2007.
Where possible the latest version of an Application is used. The age of software included in Legacy OS 2 ranges from 1999 to 2011. Applications are chosen for reliability, usefulness! not on their release date. OK I'm getting of track lets get back to the install process but before I do just remember Redhat/Centos 5 still uses Kernel 2.6.18 / Glibc 2.5 like Legacy OS 2 does. If this combo is good enough for them then it good enough to use on the old obsolete Hardware Legacy OS 2 is targeted at!
Legacy OS 2 was tested and successfully installed on 12 PC's and 3 Laptops.
The simplest way to install Legacy OS 2 is to navigate in the main menu to (Setup > Install-Remaster > Legacy OS 2 Hard Drive Installer) and click on it. Here's where thing differ from the Installer in Legacy OS. I modified Puppy's installer to pop up important info as well as start "Gparted" so you can format your Hard Drive to EXT2 and 500Mb's of swap. check with "MUT" to see that the Live CD you've just booted is mounted before you start the install proper. Also Puppy installer has been reworded so hopefully it's a little easier to follow. If you follow it, really read what written and just except the defaults, Legacy OS 2 will be installed on your Hard Drive ready to go in around 20 minutes on average.
I never been a fan of the frugal install as I like to give any Linux Distro a whole Partition for itself. One problem I see is Legacy OS 2 needs / wants to be installed on a EXT2 file system. As most of you running a later version of Puppy would be using an EXT3 files system, I think here is where you may be running in to trouble trying to install Legacy OS 2 in frugal mode on a EXT3 partition when it's looking for an EXT2 partition to call home!
If you can give Legacy OS 2 a freshly formatted EXT2 Partition, 500MB's of swap and follow the instructions, I'm 99% sure you'll successfully install Legacy OS 2 on your computer.
Legacy OS 2017 has been released.
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Posted: Sat 04 Jun 2011, 01:58
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Most of us are aware of your ground rules, john, and have adequate reading + comprehension skills. However, you are always going to run into these problems with one nation. They don't have the latter, they are groomed from birth to landfill everything once a year and it's considered macho to buy the latest and greatest shiny toys. The only answer is a nuke, a tsunami, the promised fault line collapse or caldera reactivation. Just keep doing what you are doing, john, it's well appreciated elsewhere.
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Sorry, but I didn't realize that one nation has all the incompetents in the world. I thought they were spread throughout all the world.
P.S. Sorry, but I take offense when verbally attacking someone's home or fellow countrymen. I thought this was a forum for Puppy Linux, not for political viewpoints. I try to keep my opinions of people to myself, and I definitely try not to judge someone because of where they are from. I myself don't just buy because it is newer. I run a windows xp along with my puppy linux, and am very happy with it. I also work as a high speed internet installer, and tell people all the time that their computer does not need replaced. People tend to believe marketing hype ( here and all around the world) and want to try the latest and greatest. Thanks, Rob
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john biles,
Any chance of having a torrent download for those that do not have a fast internet connection?
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Posted: Sat 04 Jun 2011, 14:47
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John Biles wrote:
... Legacy OS 2 was tested and successfully installed on 12 PC's and 3 Laptops. ...
Hi John Biles; sounds like you are a LAN admin somewhere. If so, you MAY want to be aware of a technology introduced earlier this year by JamesBond which
allows you to have PCs boot without installing and maintaining an OS
on each one of them. Simple to setup and simple for any user to boot and run his/her PC.
You only have to maintain one ISO and never have to "setup" any machine(s) on your LAN....an Administrator's (or anyone who supports multiple PCs over al LAN) dream.
Its here for you to review and use.
Hope this helps.
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Posted: Sat 04 Jun 2011, 18:52
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Hello 8-bit,
There's a link to russoodle's site for those having trouble through Softpedia.
Download here:
Hello gcmartin,
Those 15 computers are different makes and models that are used to test booting and installing on. Their not on a network and most of them only get brought out of storage for testing. I will how ever look at the link you've supplied.
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I wanted to know which browser is used and size of download
(it is Opera and 700MB)
SneekyLinux provides a Youtube video for a complete run through
He is also doing one shortly on installing
the new Legacy with a full install
Congratulations John
Thanks Sneeky
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Posts: 59
Posted: Sat 04 Jun 2011, 20:15
Post subject: installation issues
Hello John,
Firstly thank you for all your hard work in making Legacy 0S2.
I usually download a version of Puppy as an iso and then just manually install the individual files (vmlinuz, initrd, pup_xxx.sfs etc) as a frugal install into a subdirectory of an ext3 partition, where all my other Puppies reside. But it now seems that this is not possible with Legacy OS2.
So I burned a CD and it ran fine from the live CD using pfix=ram.
Then I tried to do a
install using the built-in installer to a new ext2 partition and finally got it booting using the following grub2 stanza:
menuentry "legacy OS2 on sdb12" {
set root=(hd1,12)
linux /boot/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd root=/dev/sdb12
I guess in grub-legacy it would be
title legacy OS2
root (hd1,11)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz PMEDIA=idehd root=/dev/sdb12
Note that contrary to what is said earlier in this thread
did not work for me.
So I now tried to do a
install in a new ext2 partition, using the built-in installer, which seemed to complete but I have been unable to get it to boot from grub this time.
JFYI I have 15 other puppies from series 2, 4 and 5 all booting happily on this system ( a 7 year old PC) including ttuuxxx's 214X but yours seems to be the only one that needs to reside on an ext2 partition and the only one I can't seem to boot from grub.
Can you possible shed some light on why I can't do a frugal boot but a full install works? Also I am a bit surprised that it needs to run in ext2 (I have ttuuxxx's 214X happy in ext3). Out of curiosity was there a specific reason for this?
I really hope we can get this running as it seems such a great effort on your part.
Many thanks
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Location: Australia
Posted: Sat 04 Jun 2011, 23:18
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Hello eternal-sunshine,
ttuuxxx's 214X version is a major overhaul of a number of system files in the Puppy Series 2 releases which relate to the installer, xorg, gtk the list goes on and on! If you look at the development post for 214X you'll see it's one of the biggest ever on this forum with page after page of feedback from testers / users.
Legacy OS 2 started life as Puppy 2.14 with only minimum updates to main system files. This without seeing if the original Puppy 2.14 release acts the same way or not on your computer might explain why your having this trouble.
In all truth ttuuxxx is a very gifted programmer who's knowledge excedes mine by a long way. Each release I create reflects my growing knowledge of Linux in general. In truth Legacy OS is an experiment to see how far an old legacy OS can be pushed. I know It will boot and run only on so many computers out there and no Linux Distro will boot 100% on every hardware combo out there.
Example: Ubuntu since 8.10 won't boot up to a desktop on this PC. Why? Ubuntu dropped support for my legacy graphic card.
Nothing would make me happier to find that Legacy OS 2 worked as expected on every computer ever made. But we know this isn't going to happen.
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Posts: 78
Posted: Sat 04 Jun 2011, 23:44
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Subject description: boots on ThinkPad
First run with Legacy OS 2 on this ThinkPad Z60m, 1.86GHz Pentium M, 1 G RAM, Intel i915 video. It booted in RAM on this machine, allowing the CD to be ejected, without requiring any special boot parameters. When I tried to connect with the ipw2200 wireless and WPA/TKIP, failed to get a connection. Guessing this is a problem with authenticating. The machine sees a PC Card with atheros AR2413 I had left inserted (after using another live CD with no firmware) but I was unable to get this to do anything in brief trials. In recent kernels this card works without need for firmware. With Legacy dmesg indicates the card is seen and it is recognised by the network setup utility. The Broadcom ethernet works OK. bcm5751m aka tg3. Will try to drag out a couple of older machines and test further.
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Hello gnomic,
Thanks any feedback you can provide if you are successful in getting wireless going will be collected for inclusion in future documentation.
Please list Hardware you have success with also if you want.
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As the first 5 minutes are dedicated to "Quick Learning Sessionâ€, Vinod kumar From Microsoft took us through the "Windows to goâ€. Windows To Go is an enterprise feature of Windows® 8 that enables the creation of a Windows To Go workspace that can be booted from a USB-connected external drive on PCs that meet the Windows 7 or Windows 8 certification requirements, regardless of the operating system running on the PC.
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Hi guys;
I just started in my first GIS job after my MSc, and I'm the only GIS guy in the village so to speak - so forums like this will hopefully be my lifeline!
I've been charged with getting an ArcView 9.1 GIS our survey company was asked to build for a large house bulders here in Scotland. It's been basically mothballed for three years near enough due to the recession etc.
Basically, during that downtime there has been a server move and the file paths to all the data have changed.
There is a seperate .mxd project file and assosiated CAD files and assosiated legal documents etc for each of the sites this company owns, which is well into the hundreds.
All the data as I say now exists on a different drive and therefore the project files cannot locate the data.
Basically, I need to know how to re-assosiate the hundreds of different .dwg CAD files with the project view. I've attached this screenshot to show you what a typical project file looks like.
Double clicking each layer and manually browsing to the data path would take weeks to do all the files. I can't drag and drop the CAD files, this results in an error.
I can't 'Add Data' as while this DOES import the CAD drawings fine, it needs to be sorted out into points/lines/areas and named properly like in the above screengrab. I could do this manually of course but it would take days and days to re-sort things. The below photo is how the Add Data option brings in the drawings;
There must be a way of getting ArcGIS to know the new file paths without starting the project files over again and losing all the work that has been done...
The MSc is of little help so far!
Thanks so much, I desperately need some help on this one, even to tell me it can't be done or it needs a script written or somethig (I can't code to save myself, though I am learning!)
Here's a start: http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/27425
Thanks :)
I did look into this tool but annoyingly our map documents are loaded with VBA customisations and this removes threm all!
It really should be automatically removing the exclamation points when I point it to the correct folder, but I tihkn it's because it is CAD layers that is stoppnig it from doing this. It's because a CAD feature is made up of points/lines/polygons/annotations and I need to drill down into the CAD data to point it to the respective data type, I assume this is what is stoppnig ArcMap from doing what it usally does with this.
Seems unless I can find an extension that does it for me it's going to be an exhausting manual process then!
Am I right do we think?
There are multiple ways to do things in GIS. This is the method I would use. I'm sure there is probably a faster and more efficient way to do this, but this is what I'd do. Either in the Information button drop down or in the attribute table itself, reset the link to the current location. It might be easier if you do some maintenance on the files before hand. Such as move all the files for "building A" into a folder in a shared server. Then simply link the folder to that asset so when you scroll over it, all of the information pops up. I know that's how I'd do it. I've become very comfortable with this so It'd be a half days work for me, but for someone unfamiliar, it may take longer. Anyways, for what its worth, I am also the only GIS person in my office and I just graduated from college last may. I find Google to be my best friend. There is no question you have that hasn't already been asked somewhere. Good luck!
I've brute-forced it just for now, but it might need changed again, just to change the drive letter later on. I can't brute-force it again, it would kill me!
Thanks for the help, but I'm not too sure what you mean really.... there doesn't seem to be a link in the attribute table for the drawings... Sounds good if you can explain it a bit more though!
The custom scripts out there to repair broken data links don't seem to work with CAD drawings and when you drill into the dataset it is split into point/line/polygon/multipatch types - even if it's just for example a polyline contour layer for a topo survey or something...
Also thanks for the advice - google is indeed getting a thorough workout from here!
Edited by radlord on 01/18/12 03:15 AM.
Go into your ArcCatalog and create a new field in your attribute table. When it asks if you want it to be a "text", "double", "integer" etc... click the one that says either "link", "HTML", or "hyperlink".. I know, I wish I could be more specific, but you get the idea... its in there. Be sure to make its atleast 100 characters to save you trouble in the future. Then what I'd do is I'd go put all of my links together for that attribute. I'd put them in a folder of some sort.
Once you have your folder set up with all your information, simply open the folder. When the folder is open, in your "my computer" files (C:) or whatever server you are using.. simply copy that Url of the opened folder. Migrate back to your attribute table for your assets and paste that Url into the new field you created. Save your edits and click on the lighting icon (hyperlink tool). there should be a blue dot over the asset. Click it and it opens you up to that folder you just created. This will give you easy viewing of whatever document/file you need that is linked to that asset. I really hope this helps.
Let me know if you are still confused.
Hi Murray, There is an easier solution for you in Catalogue. We are using ArcGIS10-ArcINFO so there is a chance that the tool may not be available to you with the version and license that you have available. So, open Catalogue and navigate to one of your mxd files, right click and open 'Set Data Sources...'. This provides options to set a new data source to multiple Layers. I suggest trying this on a copy of the original mxd just in case..
Good Luck, Tom, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, CANADA.


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2) Global X Funds Relaunches China Technology ETF
On Tuesday, Global X Funds relaunched the Global X NASDAQ China Technology ETF (QQQC) on the NASDAQ. The fund was previously named the Global X China Technology ETF (CHIB). QQQC tracks the NASDAQ OMX China Technology Index, which is designed to track the performance of the technology sector in China. As of December 12, the three largest index components were ASM Pacific Techno, Lenovo Group, and BAIDU, INC.
QQQC is made up of securities of companies that have their main business operations in the technology sector: computer services; Internet; software; computer hardware; electronic office equipment; semiconductors; and telecommunications equipment.
3) Advisor Software Launches Goal-Based Proposal Solution and goalgamiPro
Advisor Software, Inc. recently announced the release of two new products: the ASI Goal-Based Proposal Solution for enterprise clients and goalgamiPro for advisors.
The ASI Goal-Based Proposal Solution allows investment professionals to integrate financial planning and investment management to create personalized advice for clients using customized household balance sheets that showcase every client's true capacity for risk.
It applies the asset-liability matching concepts of the pension industries' liability-driven investing methodology to the retail investment problem and allows advisors to determine clients' risk capacity by analyzing their entire household picture, not just administering a risk questionnaire. In addition, the goal-based software gives investment professionals the opportunity to measure their success in terms of progress against goals, putting the client's unique needs at the center of all financial plans.
The other product, goalgamiPro, is a web-based, goal-driven financial planning tool that enables advisors to create and maintain multiple household balance sheets for clients, providing an effective and efficient way to help clients prioritize and determine the feasibility and affordability of their financial goals. It leverages ASI Wealth Manager, a goal-driven investment management solution, and allows the advisor to express a client's goals in multiple priority classes: necessary, target and aspirational.
The key output of goalgamiPro is a PDF report of the household balance sheet diagnostic, indicating whether a client can afford to fund his or her financial goal plan.
Read last week's Portfolio Products Roundup at AdvisorOne.com.


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Papi Don't Screech
|Papi Don't Screech
Two Cubans attempting to console a distraught Umberto Robina, who is certain his father Alberto will be killed by the Cholos
|GTA Vice City Stories
|Umberto Robina
|Little Havana, Vice City
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Papi Don't Screech is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories given to protagonist Victor Vance by Umberto Robina from his house in Little Havana, Vice City.
Victor stops by Umberto Robina's house, seeing Umberto crying for his father, Alberto Robina who went to the stadium in Downtown to see a wrestling match and the Cholos have been heading there, in attempt to kill him. Victor gets in a Cuban Hermes and drives to the stadium to pickup Alberto. Alberto is nervous about opening his cafe late and tells Victor to drive carefully without crashes or speed. Victor takes him to Café Robina whilst avoiding being attacked by Cholo Sabres, completing the mission.
(Two Cubans, Victor and Umberto, who is crying)
Umberto Robina: You even got any balls?
Cuban #1: I didn't know!
Umberto Robina: And you, I've seen shit with more guts!
Cuban #2: You didn't say your father was going.
Umberto Robina: Shut your mouth, lady boy! He's my daddy, and I love him! I can't believe you would do this! And you left him there to die!
Victor Vance: Umberto, what's the problem?
Umberto Robina: Oh, my God, I'm going to be an orphan!
Victor Vance: Oh, man... I'm sorry. How did it happen?
Cuban #1: It hasn't happened, brother. Alberto - that's his dad - he's over at the wrestling, man.
Victor Vance: So why the tears?
Cuban #1: We just saw some Cholos driving over there, man.
Victor Vance: So why doesn't somebody just go pick up Alberto?
Cuban #2: That's what we said to Umberto. Only he freaked out.
Victor Vance: Well, go get him.
Umberto Robina: No. No way, Vic. Don't let my daddy be collected by these two bitches! He's a man. The shame would kill him.
Victor Vance: Well, you go!
Umberto Robina: I can't drive, man! I'm hysterical!
Victor Vance: Goddamn it. I'll go get him... But you owe me, you freak.
(Victor picks up Alberto as he's leaving the stadium)
Victor Vance: Hey, Alberto? Your son sent me to pick you up.
Alberto Robina: Gracias, senor. You're late... Tarde. I can't be late opening my cafe. In twenty years, I have never opened late.
Victor Vance: Take it easy, Alberto. No problems.
(While Victor is driving to Cafe Robina)
Alberto Robina: Ooh. I don't feel too good.
Alberto Robina: Take it easy! My heart!
Alberto Robina:Please! I don't have my medication!
(Victor and Alberto reach Café Robina)
Alberto Robina: Phew... All this rushing... My heart, she's not so good these days.
The reward for completing this mission is $1,000 and the mission Havana Good Time is unlocked.
- The name of the mission is a reference to the Madonna song Papa Don't Preach released in 1986.
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My goal with this new blog will be to help you live a healthier life by offering tips and interesting bits of information in an entertaining and personalized format. Some of my entries will be about what I call Calorie Bargains. What's a Calorie Bargain? Well, it started out being a food that tasted great but was lower in calories than what you normally ate. Over time, however, the term has taken on an entirely new meaning. A Calorie Bargain is now loosely defined as anything from a food to a product, book or service that will make it simpler for you to eat foods that are more nutritious, lose weight, and be more active. Other entries will be commentary and explanation on current weight-loss, nutrition and fitness research. Or it could simply be an observation based on my personal experiences. Needless to say, I'm excited about sharing, teaching and learning (from you). For those of you who don't know who I am -- you can read more about my background on my about page on DietDetective.com and/or you can start reading this blog on a regular basis.
So, for my first blog, I wanted to answer one of the most commonly asked questions that I get from family, friends, readers, viewers -- and nearly everyone I run into:
"What should I eat?"
The answer might surprise you. "Eat whatever you want."
Yes, that's right eat whatever you want. But, (yes of course there's a "but.") it's not as easy as it sounds -- it can get complicated.
For instance, if you say that you want to eat healthier, which is not a bad idea, you really can't eat candy all day, right? Of course not. That's saying you want something (eating healthier) and doing something entirely different (eating unhealthy).
When I was overweight (which was most of my adult life until I was 30ish, BTW), I just didn't get the concept of choice and responsibility. Finally, I had enough. I really couldn't take the lifelong yoyo dieting.
I made my decision, I was either going to lose weight permanently OR I was going to eat Yodels (it's a type of Swiss roll) for the rest of my life. My choice was to figure out how to lose weight and get in shape for me. I realized that I needed to decipher what I was willing to eat; when I was willing to exercise; and finally how I was going to put it all together. I was able to lose the weight and keep it off for more than 10 years.
So, what should you eat? Eat to reach your goals. If you want to lose weight and eat healthier, you need to figure out how to include more vegetables, whole grain foods, fruits and lean proteins into your life. Below I've outlined a few key ways of improving your diet and reaching your purported health goals. (BTW, I also believe in physical activity -- but that will surely be another blog).
Calorie Bargains: Find three or four lower-calorie versions of what you typically eat (three to four times per week) and make substitutions you can live with forever. Make sure you don't overindulge in the newly found Calorie Bargain — that defeats the purpose. For example, if you eat potato chips three lunches per week, replace them with a Calorie Bargain such as air-popped popcorn.
Be spontaneous: Learn to be flexible and creative when eating out or traveling. Come up with a list of pre-approved foods you know are low in calories so you can avoid making too many on-the-spot decisions.
Fast food is OK: There are low-calorie options available. Learn them before arriving at the restaurant.
Singles only: Buy single-serving snack foods; never buy in bulk.
Read it: Check food labels and never eat anything that contains more than 15 calories without thinking about it. That includes cookies, crackers and chips (each chip can have as many as 15 calories).
Buy frozen and ready-to-eat: Most of us are time-pressed. Go to the supermarket and stock up on healthy, low-calorie frozen foods (e.g., Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice or Kashi), also pick up cereals (under 120 calories per cup) and low-cal soups. When you're too tired or too busy to cook, use these tasty lean alternatives to eating out.
Switch: From whole milk to skim, from eggs to egg whites and from soda to water or no-calorie iced tea.
Eat more fiber: It helps keep you full longer. Foods that are high in fiber include fruits, vegetables, nuts, cereals, legumes and whole-grain breads and pastas.
I look forward to hearing your comments and suggestions.
Have a wonderful and healthy day.
The Diet Detective
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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Anni Puolakka and Laura Jantunen, performance/reading/book launch of V4ULT publication A gesture waves us on, answering our own wave (2014), SIC, Helsinki.
V4ULT is a curatorial platform initiated by Anna Mikkola and Hanna Nilsson in 2013. Taking place in various built environments, in book form, and online, the project has been described as an "interface" through which people, ideas and artworks move. The project's website has been archived by Rhizome using the dynamic web archiving tool Webrecorder (developed by Ilya Kreymer), and Mikkola will take part in a forum organized by Rhizome at the New Museum on the topic of the Born-Digital Art Institution.
The first iteration of the project took place in a walk-in closet in their former studio in Berlin. One exhibition in that space, "Breathing Kevlar, Perforated Skin," presented works that could be held in your hand. The accompanying website for episode 1 included documentation video for each exhibition, accessed by clicking on a black rectangle at the top right of thepage, with each video displayed against a custom background with stills of the online work that was part of each show. Each video documented the exhibition from the point of view of an investigating visitor–zooming into details of the work, swooping around the room or slowly scanning across it with the subtle shakes of a handheld camera. By moving away from a sterile exhibition documentation format, the exhibition in the space and its online experience became less disparate and felt more intimate.
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Twin to twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) is a disease of the placenta (or afterbirth) that affects identical twin pregnancies.
TTTS affects identical twins (or higher multiple gestations), who share a common monochorionic placenta.
The shared placenta contains abnormal blood vessels, which connect the umbilical cords and circulations of the twins.
The common placenta may also be shared unequally by the twins, and one twin may have a share too small to provide the necessary nutrients to grow normally or even survive.
The events in pregnancy that lead to TTTS - the timing of the twinning event, the number and type of connecting vessels, and the way the placenta is shared by the twins are all random events that have no primary prevention (see section on The Monochorionic Placenta), is not hereditary or genetic, nor is it caused by anything the parents did or did not do. TTTS can happen to anyone.
|The placenta is the only biologic structure that can cause the death or injury of more than one person at the same time.
Depending on the number, type and direction of the connecting vessels, blood can be transfused disproportionately from one twin (the donor) to the other twin (the recipient).
The transfusion causes the donor twin to have decreased blood volume. This in turn leads to slower than normal growth than its co-twin, and poor urinary output causing little to no amniotic fluid or oligohydramnios (the source of most of the amniotic fluid is urine from the baby).
The recipient twin becomes overloaded with blood. This excess blood puts a strain on this baby's heart to the point that it may develop heart failure, and also causes this baby to have too much amniotic fluid (polyhydramnios) from a greater than normal production of urine.
TTTS can occur at any time during pregnancy, even while a mother is in labor at term. The placental abnormalities determine when and to what degree a transfusion occurs between the twins.
Chronic TTTS describes those cases that appear early in pregnancy (12-26 weeks' gestation). These cases are the most serious because the babies are immature and cannot be delivered. In addition, the twins will have a longer time during their development in the womb to be affected by the TTTS abnormalities. Without treatment, most of these babies would not survive and of the survivors, most would have handicaps or birth defects.
Acute TTTS describes those cases that occur suddenly, whenever there is a major difference in the blood pressures between the twins. This may occur in labor at term, or during the last third of pregnancy whenever one twin becomes gravely ill or even passes away as a result of the abnormalities in their shared placenta. Acute TTTS twins may have a better chance to survive based on their gestational age, but may have a greater chance of surviving with handicaps.
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Millions of people in the UK could be failing to recognise that they are obese - putting themselves at risk of early death, a new report suggests.
There is poor understanding of obesity-related health risks and many do not even recognise that they are obese, Nuffield Health said.
New research conducted by the charity found that two-fifths of obese people had no concerns about serious illness due to their weight.
Being obese increases the risk of a number of potentially fatal diseases such as heart disease, some types of cancer, stroke and type 2 diabetes. But many people simply believe they are overweight instead of clinically obese, a charity spokeswoman said.
The charity questioned 3,100 people about their health and well-being - including about perceptions of their weight.
Half believed themselves to be overweight and 6% thought they were obese. But body mass index (BMI) tests revealed that 17% were clinically obese - classed as such when they have a BMI score over 30 - and 3% measured as "morbidly obese", with a BMI of 40 or over.
The charity said that there is a "clear misconception" over what weight is considered to be obese.
If the figures are extrapolated, this means around six million people in the UK could be at risk by not recognising that they are obese and the associated health risks, a charity spokeswoman said.
Meanwhile, 44% of those who are obese said they have no concerns about serious illness due to their weight. And many did not recognise the links between obesity and health problems.
Eight in 10 of those polled did not know about the link between obesity and some cancers such as breast and bowel cancer.
Around two-thirds were unaware about obese people's increase risk of liver disease or osteoarthritis. And 46% were not aware about the link between obesity and stroke.
Dr Davina Deniszczyc, medical director for well-being at Nuffield Health, said: "There is a very big difference between being slightly overweight and clinical obesity. Once BMI reaches 30, the body experiences physiological changes which can put massive pressure on the vital organs - increasing the risk of numerous conditions including heart attack, stroke and liver disease.
"We are seeing a vast number of people unwittingly straying into dangerous medical territory and perhaps not realising that the obesity awareness campaigns are directed at them.
"As healthcare professionals, we need to prioritise the health of our patients over the risk of hurt feelings caused by a frank and open conversation about their weight.
"It's vital that people have the information they need in order to make informed decisions about their health.
"While we need to increase access to clinically recognised weight management programmes and treatments, some people may simply benefit from structured information and goal-setting, an exercise regime or through tackling the root cause of their obesity with the help of a support group or a weight management specialist; currently, these conversations are not taking place."