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Will do as soon as the spyware thing finishes. Its found a couple of items others have missed. It won't let me do anything while its running. Thanks for all the help guys!

Safe Mode with networking no change. Running the Super Anti-Spyware now..

Have been using google's 8.8.8.8 and their other one whatever it was. It originally used Embarq's DNS servers - worked fine up until 2 days ago when it suddenly stopped. Ah yeah I just remembered something - he did tell me that right before this happened he hit ok to some Windows Update but it bluescreened instead of rebooted. So maybe something funky happened there..

Already deleted both the hosts and lmhosts files. ping request could not find host google.com

Trying to resurrect a friends Windows XP computer. In the CMD nslookup works fine. Using google's DNS servers (I changed to them during debugging). Ping and tracert work fine to IPs. In Windows no web browser can go to a domain name (yahoo.com) but can go to IP addresses fine. There was some malware on it but ad-aware says its gone, as well as Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool. System Restores always just say that nothing has changed no matter the restore point (figured out how to fix this for future ones.) I'm out of ideas (and can't find help on google) on what else to try. Any ideas?

Actually it was a dramatic wind change. It was the 3rd load of the day (and a tricky spotting day anyway). For the first 2 loads, ground winds were about 10 out of the north, and uppers were 40-50 out of the southsouthwest. We did the same jumprun on the 3rd load, and unfortunately exited right before the ground called up to say that the winds had shifted to and picked up out of the west. I actually opened up last doing a tandem video, pretty close to on top of the dropzone, the same spot I had opened all day, and backed up until 300-500 feet or so which is when I finally got some drive. The people getting out first were way short after the wind shift- jumprun had been into the uppers all day but downwind for the lowers, so the jumprun started a half mile short or so. The people getting out first thought they were fine until they started trying to fly back. We actually used Skydive MidWest's Spot Calculator which worked well for the first 2 loads. The wind shift just caught the load by surprise. Next load we exited a mile west and all was good :-) (And heck - I do a lot of CRW - the world is my dropzone :-)

Laugh. I can say that I landed closer to the dropzone than any other person on that load!

Used mine on Saturday when I landed off in the next field to request a ride :-) Got one too....

My iphone never has a problem :-)

Its not the only time Ken got punched :-) I remembver one time at Salado that happening and the student being worried because he was enlisted and Ken was an officer!

Frigging animals ;-)

That's happened to me. Admittedly - I have 6000 jumps and 18 cutaways so I'm not so adrenaline pumped about reserve rides anymore as I am just plain annoyed :-) I opened up with a lineover over the right side of my canopy. I held it straight with the left riser while I tried to clear it. I didn't have any luck and reached down for both my handles. (I was probably a little above 3 grand at this point.) I immediately started a hard spin so I reached back up and grabbed my left rear riser while I got my cutaway handle. Its far easier to find things when not in a violent spin. I looked up again and still had an issue so started to pull the cutaway. It was however a new rig with very crisp velcro, and I actually had to really consciously work to peel it to get it off. I did that and just before letting go of my left hand to grab the reserve handle, I looked back up and it was all clear and I was flying straight. Woo hoo! I just put my cutaway handle back on the velcro (it had been peeled but not pulled at all) and went on with the skydive. Would I recommend this to newbies? No. All this only took me a couple hundred feet well above my decision altitude. If I hadn't been hanging on to my left riser to fly straight I would have been hauling ass towards the ground and things might have had to been hurried. With my left hand keeping the canopy flying straight, while I had a lineover, I wasn't screaming towards the ground and I was well above my decision altitude so I had time to think and work things through. W

I'm not the rigger at my dz, but we probably do 30-40 pilot rigs with rounds in them a year. No idea when the last non-pilot-rig round was though!

For guaranteed weather you might be better off with Southern California or Eloy. While I love Texas, our weather can be iffy at times in the winter..

Yeah I've got a nice hi-res of line twists, and some stills taken off video of a lineover, but updated photos would be nice..

Do you guys have any variance in that wing-loading? I mean not particularly for me, but I'd have to wear 45 lbs of lead to meet that wing-loading - and I'm bigger than a lot of the CRW females. I think it pretty much rules out a heck of a lot of women out of even trying - not because they couldn't handle the wing-loading, but they couldn't handle wearing 50-60 lbs every jump. Not everyone can be Chris Gay :-) Admittedly as I get older its less of an issue :-), but that was always a problem for me for years. The Lightning 113 certainly helped, but the fun of competition never won out over the complete and abject misery of wearing 40-50 of leads to match up with the guys.. Especially landing off!

His son's name is packerdana on this website. He's a packer at my dz and I can get in touch with him for you. Check out the thread "What we unpacked Saturday Night" in this forum for some stuff of Jack's we opened last weekend.

I've had floating ripcords before and always pulled my main. Never had it come out, and never even had the handle budge the reserve pins. I think it would take a lot of tension to accidently pull the reserve pin from just a floating ripcord.

Nothing to do with the parachute actually. Just a cool souvenir found in his dads attic

That is being planned!

Unpacked a nice army green pack Saturday and check out what we found. Belonged to Jack Joerns.. The last photo is just cool as well :-)

Exactly - enjoy the journey - no hurry to a destination

Airline Conqueror I'm addicted to..

I like winter football gloves with glove liners. As far as the gloves, Neumann are my favorite brand (but they're expensive) but I've had pretty good luck with Square 1's Brand X gloves as well. The winter gloves are noticably warmer than the summer ones..

Uploaded a video to youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wxNAVWvM-s A level 7 I did last week - think he was born to be a skydiver? Not only did he do the flips and stuff twice - he took time to geek the camera between each one! All from a 182 and still managed to pull at 4500!