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I think KER is miscalculating DV, It currently says the H.O.K. has a thrust to weight ratio of 187. Ahh TWR varies wildly depending which planet your on so is always going to be changing but right now it can accelerate at 1g

Introducing the MostlyVeral Lander Mk II Total Mass (fuelled): 51,761kg TWR: 4.61 ( in a vacuum ) Engines: 4 Aeropike "Dart" engines Crew Capacity: 2 DV: 3,932 m/s This has a single fuel cell bank supported by solar panels. It has a Convertotron 125 and a Standard Drill'O'Matic in place of the two juniors. This one CAN refuel itself. It CAN perform a powered landing on Kerbin with aroun 800m/s dV The AIRBRAKES provide enough drag ( deploy when only supersonic rather than hypersonic ) to keep the craft stable. Pushed into orbit with the same lifter as the MVL Mk I, the Mk II it to Minmus and Picked up Kermal Kerman.

Thank you Fully fuelled? Not entirely sure. Somewhere around 7.5k Very comfortable and over engineered. The TWR as I say in the post above is about 1.22

Hummm.. the MVL can barely refuel itself on the high ore section of Minmus let alone the HOK. I think there is need for a redesign. It's strange though because it refueled on Tylo just fine in a cheat test. I guess Tylo must have very high ore levels. Unless of course 1.45 changed something.

Well, here we are again. The orange bar says "This thread is quite old. Please consider stating a new thread rather than reviving this one". Well, I have and after due consideration I figured it's my thread and it's been in a coma due to illness. This is not necromancy merely recovery :). I lost the video I'd made of changing an engine cluster over but not to worry. I can make do with a couple of screenshots. Here's the rather oddly shaped lifter that takes the Inter Planetary Engine cluster into orbit: And here is the "Heart Of Kerbin" with both her engine clusters swapped over. She has six wolfhounds. I went with those because of the high ISP and good thrust. I absolutely did not want to be using NERVS and worrying about overheating and multiple burns at PE and so on. I the words of Jeremy Clarkson "POWERRRRRRRRRR". She has a total mas with almost empty fuel of 256,452kg and a TWR of 1.22. Next Stop - Minmus for a refuelling and anomaly scanning session. Also it will be the first live test of the MVL

Gentoo was my first foray into Linux in about 1999 ( one of the pre-releases ) it had an early enlightenment desktop. I did actually get it all to compile and run and look nice for a few days but then it fell over and I had no idea at all how to get it back running so I went back to windows for the next many years. I was very much a gamer and linux gaming back then was pretty much non existant

Right.. I tried to reply to this earlier but my phone did "a thing" and the message went away. Yeah I learned all about auto struts the hard way. I had a rocket that kept falling apart for no apparent reason and the auto-struts were the cause. What I'd done was use a LOT of them ( every part ) and set every strut to "heaviest part" which was one of the large orange fuel tanks. As the tank emptied at around 70km it became light enough that it was no longer the heaviest part and other parts started a competition for the heavyweight title. This caused rapid vibration and almost immediate Catastrophic Unplanned Rapid Deconstruction ( C.R.U.D. ) as the struts tried to make up their minds which component they were going to attach to. Lesson Learned - Grandparent or Root are the only way to fly, unless you're flying an asteroid of course in which case heaviest part is probably relatively safe. I have the tweakables turned on because I like to govern the fuel flow in my craft. Thanks for all the advice. I'm sure I'll be ok now. I'm fine with everything being stretchier and bendier now that I know it's probably intentional. Just hope it doesn't cause the "Heart of Kerbin" to fall apart. One day soon I will get back to that. I had a PC issue ( bad linux upgrade ) and lost all the video that I'd recorded for it so It will be just pictures now.

I am a tinkerer by nature but in this particular instance I'm going to stick to the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" aphorism.

Ok so it isn't just me. Things are indeed stretchier and bendier and breakier. Which I'm fine with now I know It's "Don't worry folks, it's all part of the show". ( guess the movie quote )

Ok. I've not played for a while and KSP has gone through a few new releases. I was playing with some space plane ideas but they kept on breaking up if I pitched up too hard. It was most spectacular. Anyway I was getting annoyed so I went with a config I knew would work ( very over engineered but I like over engineered. Nobody can call me "subtle") That got into orbit just fine.. but re-entry was a bit of a thing.. agian .. Broke up. Seems to me that the latest KSP has a much less forgiving model for aerodynamic stresses. Or is it just me being heavy handed on the controls?

Bugger: ruth@ruth-mint:~$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver-396 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies. nvidia-driver-396 : Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-396 (= 396.54-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libnvidia-cfg1-396 (= 396.54-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1) but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. To be honest everything seems to be working with the 390 long lived driver. I'll stick with that

Thanks for the link, I will make sure I bookmark the info. You're right about Ubuntu - I liked it because it install and worked with no fuss and it's extremely well supported. But it really is ugly isn't it? I thought with 18.04 and Cannonical going back to Gnome from Unity it would be nicer but no. They've managed to keep their hideous look and feel ( 16.04 on G3 was lovely ) And when I tried to install vanilla gnome in 18.04 it looked exactly the same and had lost the nice features I had in previous. Cinnamon is fine though, I'm quickly picking it up and with Mint everything seems to be just a shade more reliable than under Ubuntu. It's like Ubuntu - but not ugly and it's been fixed!

I think I can get to like Cinnamon. Other than that it's almost exactly the same as Ubuntu to use. Most importantly - No Freezing Up! Mint Wins!

Oh it's working now.. on the 6th mash of the reset button the motherboards splash screen stayed on long enough for me to boot from the USB stick I am now Freshly Minted so to speak.

This is really messed up I can't actually boot into anything other than UBuntu now.. It's done something to my mainboard that it bypasses the UEFI screen where I can go into setup or select boot options and just goes straight to ubuntu. Anyone got a clue? I literally power off.. power up and spam the delete key but I just goes right to Ubuntu

Cinnammon !- I don't really like any of the Mint desktops but I'll give Cinnamon a try and if it's not to my taste then on goes Gnome 3. Gotta Love Linux.

I am not going to worry about it. I waited 6 months for 18.04 to become stable before trying it and the following happened: 1) The upgrade messed my system up forcing a fresh install 2) The fresh install freezes constantly and is harder to use than the previous version. Canonical fumbled the ball and Mint has caught it. I have unetbootin running and I'm just downloading a Mint 19 image to go on a USB stick

Mint it is - They seem to be doing a good job of an Ubuntu that's not broken. Now- which flavour of mint - It will be one with the gnome 3 desktop as I'm used to it

Anyone happily running a linux distro on an intel / nVidia system with Steam Play ( Proton )?

Ubuntu 18.04 is starting to annoy me Can't run the installer for nVidia drivers becuase there's a kernel module running Reverted to X.org driver rather than nVidia proprietary - still can't install Hold Left shift to start bring up grub so I can boot in recovery to install latest nVidia drivers - doesn't work Update Grub and set it to boot in console mode - PC boots in X session anyway. Press CTRL Alt F3 , log in, sudo service gdm stop - console crashes reverts to GUI CTRL Alt F2 reveals Gnome Session is alive and well!

Huh, I thought I was using a proprietary driver. I'm using X.Org X Server Nouveau. - going to switch to the latest proprietary from nVidia I'm seeing this as an opportunity to try new things. Glass half full and all that

Debian is tempting too - I am a fan of stuff just working. 16.04 was perfect in every way.. it's only 18 that's giving me stress. I know Debian has a very slow update cycle but you know if stuff just works then I'm happy with that. Was only half serious on the SteamOS thing - I like a proper desktop with no annoyances and with decent community support. The Steam Support pages are a terrible terrible place.

I'm almost tempted to give steam OS a go though

Hardware maintenance I know exactly what I'm doing, right down to stripping and refurbishing fans. Everything on that score is very tidy, cable routed for best air flow, large quiet fans all spinning as they should, no overheating at all. Right now it's been 20 minutes since the last freeze so digging through the logs is a chore I'd rather not do right now. That said the logs app in Ubuntu has a section marked "Important" and it's contents is as follows: 15:51:40 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19 15:51:40 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19 15:51:40 kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data 15:46:30 pulseaudio: [pulseaudio] bluez5-util.c: GetManagedObjects() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. 15:46:06 spice-vdagent: Cannot access vdagent virtio channel /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 15:44:38 hpfax: [1332]: error: Failed to create /var/spool/cups/tmp/.hplip 15:44:38 colord-sane: io/hpmud/musb.c 2101: Invalid usb_open: Permission denied 15:44:27 hp-firmware: hp-firmware[621]: error: Firmware download failed. 15:43:29 spice-vdagent: Cannot access vdagent virtio channel /dev/virtio-ports/com.redhat.spice.0 15:43:28 colord-sane: io/hpmud/musb.c 2101: Invalid usb_open: Permission denied 15:43:24 hp-config_usb_p: hp-config_usb_printer[401]: error: HP Device plugin's are not installed. Please install plugin's using hp-plugin command. 15:43:23 kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \_SB.PCI0.SAT0.SPT2._GTF, AE_NOT_FOUND (20170831/psparse-550) 15:43:23 kernel: MODSIGN: Couldn't get UEFI db list 15:43:23 kernel: Couldn't get size: 0x800000000000000e The top 3 at 15:51:40 are the ones that probably happened right before the crash. The HP stuff relate to my printer - an ageing laserjet - those don't worry me and only affect printer functionality. I don't think it would be my video driver - I'm using the Cannonical recommended and tested one from nVidia. My system though a bit old is pretty solid: Intel Core i5 3570k - modest overclock to 4ghz has run reliably for over 3 years on this. Gigabyte Z77 UDH3 Main board 16GB motherboard compatible ram - can't remember exact brand and I'm not pulling a stick to check. nVidia GTX 660 Ti 2GB Samsung 500gb SSD Antex 600W Silent PSU

Annoyingly on a brand new installation of 18.04 I'm getting random freezes.. Maybe after 5 minutes.. maybe after 15 hours but last night i had to hit the reset button on my PC 4 times. I've not had to touch that button for years. Doesn't matter what I'm doing - although If I'm doing nothing it doesn't happen. I can leave netflix playing all night and it's fine. It seems to be when there's interaction between me and the PC. The system will Freeze, I can wave the mouse pointer around, the keyboard becomes unresponsive and I am unable to interact with any windows with the mouse. Any animated effects stop animating. All I can do is move the mouse pointer and my only recourse at this point is to hit the physical reset button.