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03-04-2018, 10:43 PM
#5679
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Measnes, La Creuse, France.
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After two days of standing up for hours on end my feet were killing me! Any requests for information about WW1 aircraft were passed on to me or Francois and yesterday afternoon I suddenly morphed into the club's Spitfire expert! Not that I know that much about Spifires apart from the fact that in model form they are hard to land! Some guy had built a model Spitfire and needed advice on an engine for it. He looked quite disappointed when I told him that a Spitfire was not a suitable model for a beginner even when I strengthened my point by saying that the real Spitfire pilots were not beginners either. Then he let on that he had travelled from Gueret to our exhibition, a distance of about twenty-five miles. This was my queue, I palmed him off on the president of the Gueret club who is a mate of mine and who was also exhibiting. This fellow was very complimentary about the British and the Battle of Britain and said that if it was not for us the French would all be speaking German these days. Something of an exaggeration I think, but we did give the Nazis a bloody nose. Not that I was there at the time of course.
From a membership of perhaps 28-30 members, we have a sprinkling of young people in our club but I suppose that begs the definition of the word "young." Compared to what? Morganne is seated second from the front in the right hand row of us having our lunch; she is 23. Ludovic is third from the far end of the same row, he is 30. Then we have two younger men Quentin and Jean-Elie who are 20 and 17 respectively. They were both at the event but chose not to stay for lunch. Jean-Elie's father, Andre, is seated at the far end of the same row. Female members of the club are admitted for free so I'm also counting Ludo's girlfriend Allison who I have taken up on a buddy box on one occasion! She's in her twenties. That's five people under thirty from a membership of thirty.
We made the front page of the Sunday edition of the local newspaper. There was an article on the event inside the newspaper with half a dozen pictures of us including one of your humble servant holding the BE2 and were given a lot of balsa wood and some obsolete equipment by a retired Dutch modeller who turned up.
The event was successful beyond expectations. Bar sales contributed immensly to the club's coffers and aeromodelling was well and truely publicised. I now have to unpack the van and make an inventory of the stuff which the Dutchman gave to us.
03-05-2018, 09:37 AM
#5682
Join Date: Apr 2008
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That's probably because the pictures are too big Joe. To reduce them in size depends upon the system you are using, Windows XP, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Apple. Someone with greater knowledge of computers will be along shortly to help you! I have looked at your gallery joe, very impressive!
03-05-2018, 09:47 AM
#5683
That's probably because the pictures are too big Joe. To reduce them in size depends upon the system you are using, Windows XP, Windows 8, Windows 10 or Apple. Someone with greater knowledge of computers will be along shortly to help you! I have looked at your gallery joe, very impressive!
03-05-2018, 09:58 AM
#5684
Nowadays the photo resolution of cameras and cheap storage SD cards have increased file size to several megabytes or more per photo. I use free Gimp photo editing software. I reduce the 4096 pixel or more wide photos to 1024, sometimes 800 using the change image size option. Then I save as (export in Gimp) to a JPG format, setting compression as required to get file size to under 400 kilobytes. If you set compression to not less than 60%, photos will still be clear. Then they upload quickly.
Compression is basically an internal file setting where as part of the photo specification, essentially converts image file into a type of zip file so it doesn't take as much storage room. It also has built in compromises to get size down, so if you set it too low, the photo will become fuzzy losing image quality.
Services like Facebook basically does this automatically through the server when you store photos, reducing their pixel and storage size, so you don't have to. However, when I post on FB, I find it more advantageous to "preprocess" my photos, so they don't take as long to upload and process. Sometimes, I've gotten a photo error from Facebook. It appeared their server was overloaded with all the other activity going on with it.
Processing photos for upload isn't difficult, but if one isn't computer savvy, it can be daunting until one gets the hang of it.
Compression is basically an internal file setting where as part of the photo specification, essentially converts image file into a type of zip file so it doesn't take as much storage room. It also has built in compromises to get size down, so if you set it too low, the photo will become fuzzy losing image quality.
Services like Facebook basically does this automatically through the server when you store photos, reducing their pixel and storage size, so you don't have to. However, when I post on FB, I find it more advantageous to "preprocess" my photos, so they don't take as long to upload and process. Sometimes, I've gotten a photo error from Facebook. It appeared their server was overloaded with all the other activity going on with it.
Processing photos for upload isn't difficult, but if one isn't computer savvy, it can be daunting until one gets the hang of it.
03-07-2018, 05:11 AM
#5686
Thread Starter
Hello everyone!
been looking in when I can, it has been difficult to stay on line lately and my signal is weak. everything has been timing out. Are they messing with the Internet again?
been looking in when I can, it has been difficult to stay on line lately and my signal is weak. everything has been timing out. Are they messing with the Internet again?
03-08-2018, 08:45 AM
#5697
Thread Starter
It puts a smile on my face every time, we have some nuts in this thread
I have been laughing all morning!
well...anyway my Internet was stabilized by a antenna setup, not perfect but much better. I have not installed my new W.I.F.I. card which I hope will improve the reception even more so the Russians, Koreans, Martians and sunspots do not mess me up again.
my friend picked up his trainer plane after I made repairs for him so now maybe I can do some work on my own, I also repaired my daughters big screen TV, she could not control the power on /off so she found the reason on line, (bad capacitors) three of them, had to pull the power board and do some solder work. I replaced five to be on the safe side, it fixed the problem and it functions normally after over a year of hassle. it was a common problem with this TV.
Now I gunna shut down to put in this new card.
I have been laughing all morning!well...anyway my Internet was stabilized by a antenna setup, not perfect but much better. I have not installed my new W.I.F.I. card which I hope will improve the reception even more so the Russians, Koreans, Martians and sunspots do not mess me up again.
my friend picked up his trainer plane after I made repairs for him so now maybe I can do some work on my own, I also repaired my daughters big screen TV, she could not control the power on /off so she found the reason on line, (bad capacitors) three of them, had to pull the power board and do some solder work. I replaced five to be on the safe side, it fixed the problem and it functions normally after over a year of hassle. it was a common problem with this TV.
Now I gunna shut down to put in this new card.
03-08-2018, 09:10 AM
#5699
It puts a smile on my face every time, we have some nuts in this thread I have been laughing all morning!
I also repaired my daughters big screen TV, she could not control the power on /off so she found the reason on line, (bad capacitors) three of them, had to pull the power board and do some solder work. I replaced five to be on the safe side, it fixed the problem and it functions normally after over a year of hassle. it was a common problem with this TV.
Now I gunna shut down to put in this new card.
I have been laughing all morning!I also repaired my daughters big screen TV, she could not control the power on /off so she found the reason on line, (bad capacitors) three of them, had to pull the power board and do some solder work. I replaced five to be on the safe side, it fixed the problem and it functions normally after over a year of hassle. it was a common problem with this TV.
Now I gunna shut down to put in this new card.
What brand of TV was it and where did you find the parts?