LordFerret

If it was sitting out in the hot sun, I'd question it. Being unopened at room temperature, it should be fine. I've eaten far worse lol.

Thanks for the ideas. I'll experiment with all of them.

I hear ya. I had many friends living in NYC, quite crowded and not always a fun place to grow up ... but they were very creative, and any time I visited the fun ensued. If you live in an apartment complex with a big parking lot, and they plow the lot into big piles - half your snow fort work is done. I guess what I'm trying to point out is: Where's there's a will... there's a way.

Ya'll miss out on the really great toys though... being outside every day, all day, playing with friends, enjoying nature. Like now, it's winter... we'd be out building massive snow forts and having EPIC snowball battles! Not to mention: sledding/tubing, skiing, ice skating/hockey, ice fishing, trail hiking & camp fires - all out in the cold and snow. - - - Updated - - - And yes, I too had trains (in the basement). Lionel & HO.

lol... they just need moar boosters! (and some fire retardant)

The TVR-400L adapter (with its LV-N motors) attach to a Rockomax Jumbo-64 Fuel Tank. There is nothing else attached to the adapter to dissipate heat. I prefer the LV-N's over the LV-909's, which, when used in the same configuration, do not explode... at least not yet, and I've had some long burns with them.

And here I thought it interesting... the only thing I thought it lacked was a citation link (which I'll ask for now).

I've found that using the TVR-400L Stack Quad-Adapter with LV-N Atomic Rocket Motors tends to cause one (1) of the rocket motors to explode at 100% throttle ... an overheating issue ... and backing the throttle down a notch alleviates it. Anyone else run into this?... or is this old news?

The last time I saw something like that, with that kind of velocity, the Kraken was involved and my ship was hurtling across the solar system after passing/falling right through Kerbin. lol

Small rings are the result of water vapor, large rings are the result of ice crystals.

I sometimes forget that. Still, although not a default package, HDparm is a package available in Fedora. There are so many Linux blends out there it's close to mind-boggling. There's a few I like (used to be a big SuSE fan... until), but I stick with Debian.

I'm not questioning the 'realism' of its visuals display (even though our actual limit of knowledge is well stepped-beyond in its representations), it's an amazing dynamic fractal engine. What I am questioning is its astrometric accuracy ... the motions are based on what ephemerides, VSOP87, SPICE, etc.

I more tend to call Knoppix to the rescue. The OP claims a difficult Fedora install to work with, comments that HDparm doesn't come default... but it does... Fedora is a branch out of Debian, HDparm is there... there will be no specifics for Fedora.

I've been using AVG since it first came out here in the US (1998), back when it was owned by Grisoft. Along with it, SpyBot S&D, and Malwarebytes, and a few other tools and goodies I keep handy. None of my Win machines has ever been (successfully) hit. True, AVG has gotten a bit hog'ish, but it's not intolerable..... as the old saying goes: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Not sure, so don't quote me on it, but I think the individual was previously from / involved with the Celestia community. This appears to be the current Celestia replacement, being Celestia.sci still isn't out. From what I'm looking at so far, nice, pretty cool, but wondering about its accuracy... on par with Celestia or what? It is not a "game" though.

Methinks you've an attitude problem. Methinks you'll also be waiting a long, long time. Do your own damn homework.

A Google search also shows the "Sandforce cold start bug" is an old issue, and goes back to 2011.

What I didn't do today..... My ships are disappearing, gone without a trace. I've lost two probes around Moho, and just now another one just moments away from a Duna intercept. This most frequent occurred while in the Tracking Station with very little time-warp in progress. Just as the ship approached the initial encounter point, I slowed warp to normal time, then clicked to fly the vessel... the screen went black and super lag ensued. ESCaping out to KSC left me with another black screen. Exiting out of the game and examining the Persistent file shows no trace of the ship. Time wasted. This is really starting to .... me off. This is the kind of thing that lends my opinion that this game is not stable ... and needs to stay in Beta until such things are fixed. In the mean time, we've got big fancy explosions and girl Kerbals. :/

That shouldn't really matter much unless both wireless routers are in (very) close proximity to each other.

Nice shot. Careful though, out there in CA you'll have them all screaming about Chemtrails.

I have several machines with different OS's (Win, Linux, OSX). The one I play KSP on though is Win8.1 ... it's the only thing I have on this laptop aside from Gimp.

Firmware for any hardware device would be found via the manufacturer. Hitachi SSD's FTW.

I have a SCANsat probe parked in a stable orbit around Gilly, 250km. After finishing the low-res and then hi-res scans, I parked it back down there... I do so with all SCANsat probes. It's been there for quite a long while, MET 31+ years. Moho is the one I have a problem with... it seems to eat probes at any orbit I park them at. Nobody seems to be able to answer the question 'why', other than to suggest it's related to time-warping and the Kraken. Clearly, a game bug which needs to be addressed.

Keep in mind these images are in infrared with color enhancement, that most of the imagery you see is such or false color or color enhanced along various light wavelengths... to bring out the contrasting features. And then there's this from the other day, something I'll be following... a disturbance in Saturn's outer-edge A ring, possible birth of a new moon. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-112

Put another (same model) SCANsat up around Moho. Two have vanished without a trace so far. This will sit in a useless 100km orbit... see how long it lasts. In other endeavors, I've got SCANsats mapping Pol and Tylo, and another 'spare' which just completed Jool aerobraking ... need to work its orbit down a bit. I've almost got everything mapped at this point, just two more Jool moons remaining - self appointed goal nearly achieved.