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    Forum updates, feedback system and new versions

    By Arnie

    Firstly I'm going to try to document forum updates and other work completed to the site here in my forum blog. This will keep all the forum related updates in one place.   I've completed several updates to the forums today. We're now running the latest IPS versions for Gallery and Blog. There should be several bug fixes and feature adjustments with these new versions; I don't get a list I'm afraid or I'd publish it.   I've also taken comments on the trading system on board and we now have a
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TMC's Blog

I have the worst luck with AEGs... ever.

AEGs and me just don't seem to mix.   My first AEG - a Tokyo Marui M733 carbine - fired off to the left.   Second AEG which a Classic Army M15a4 RIS, had a faulty oring on the piston, a shoddy motor and the RIS wobbled like jelly on a bouncy castle.   The current one? A rather lovely M4 RAS with an M203 launcher. Well, that's pretty much perfect all round. The externals are lovely, and the majority of the internals are fine, except for one minor detail. The tappet plate.   Oh my, tha
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Hardcore's blog

Yaaaawwnn......

*sigh*, sleepy Hardcore once again.... though this time, with a lot less chicken!   This weekend, i have mostly been dressing as a six year old girl and dancing about at a family halloween party. Yes, they were both at the same time. I'll try and post some pictures if I can get a hold of them, reports suggest I was cute as a button but then again that all depends on how cute the button is.....   I've spent the whole of today feeling like I've just come down from a huge sugar high, must h
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Death and Vengeance...

It's complete.....

My S&W 500 Revolver showed up today.   I shall be posting a review of it once I have skirmished with it, but let me just say from initial impressions that this is a silly, silly revolver and it makes me grin like a loon just holding it.
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Arn's Forum Blog

POI, GPS, OV2 ow my head hurts

Well I spent a good it of time last night coding the output code to produce files in the right format for TomTom navigator.   Not that it has got anything to do with with the fact that I finished wiring in my GPS unit into my bike.   Anyway, I added the news to the front page but still have a bit more work to do. Apparently TomTom throws a wobbly if you have more than 100 points in one file, so requires you to encode thigns in an optimised b-tree. That's great, but the SDK from TomTom the
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Snowman's Blog

Boring weekend again...

Well, it's been another boring weekend at Snowy Towers.   Had to get home early on Friday to take my daughter riding, only to find out it was cancelled.   Then, Saturday morning was spent at the cinema. Sounds good, doesn't it, until you realise I was there to see a Lego Club screening of the new Bionicle 3 movie...Sadly, it's the worst of the 3, but my son (Who is 8) thought it the coolest movie ever, so not a total waste.   Wifey was away yesterday afternoon, all night (drinking for
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Hardcore's blog

Happy Hardcore

I just recieved some good news! The English Lit presentation that I was stressing about the other day was not a total loss, far from it in fact. My tutor emailed me to tell me that I've been awarded 19 out of 20! I'm going to buy some junk food to treat myself!
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HaVoC's Blog

AWAY NOTICE

My Lordships, I shall be absent until approximately 5 hours into the afternoon of the day of the Sun himself, that which is also the thirtieth set of twenty four of your finest hours in the last batch, batch being the group that occurs exactly twelve times per item, item being a group of either three hundred and sixty-five or three hundred and sixty-six of these 'days'.   Marvellous.   Finished PJ impression, too - check out La Gallerie
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Arn's Forum Blog

Southpark Series 9 Episode 9

The next episode of SouthPark aired yesterday and if you weren't able to see it you can find details of the episode up over at MrTwig (here: http://mrtwig.net/ep/909.html ). Oh here's some random links to keep folks entertained: - If Fox news were around since the year dot: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1ldyn/id2.html - The Onion randomness http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41676 - Scary shouty insane woman http://www.killsometime.com/Video/video.asp?ID=346 - another KST vid,
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Fear and loathing in Airsoft

#2

Ok, first proper entry. First attempt at a blog and first attempt at keeping any kind of a record of what I ever did.   I am supposed to be rebuilding our bathroom after a burst pipe ruined some of the woodwork and carpet. I was using a dremel (other cutting/grinding tools are available) with a tiny brush to clean the grout between the tiles today. So, I was rooting around in my toolbox for the chuck-key for the dremel when I found a small lump of RIS rail which had previously been remo
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Fear and loathing in Airsoft

Entry #1

Who'd have thought writers block would kick in so soon?   Anyway, here's a run-down of the terms and conditions for this Blog:- Yikes!   Defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative writing was probably going to make up the bulk of this blog.   Bugger! Guess I'll have to come up with something else instead.   Nah.   So, now it's here, what am I going to
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Arn's Forum Blog

Review Database code updated

Well after much messing around (I hate code upgrades) the Review Database site code has been updated. It now shows a calendar on the RHS so you can see reviews/products posted on any particular day.   It was a bit of an *albartroth* to get it all working, but it's now done.. I can go grab a coffee now.   Someone reported that the review stats weren't correct and were infact showing more reviews that were present for some products, thus incorrect product stats/ratings. I've corrected the pr
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TMC's Blog

Review of the Eotech holosight

The majority of CCOs (Close Combat Optics) have been in the form of the red dot sight, such as the Aimpoint M2 and Trijicon ACOG Reflex sight. The Eotech series of sights, known as "holosights" are the next generation in CCOs.   I bourght my Eotech 552 HWS (Holographic Weapon Sight) simply because I just didn't like the tubular nature of the aimpoint. The Eotech carries the same holographic three dimensional properties as a modern fighter aircraft HUD (Head's Up Display) and thus does away wi
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Arn's Forum Blog

Dreamweaver 8, a backwards upgrade

I tend to use Dreamweaver 7.01 (MX, 2000 something-or-other.. they keep changing the version numbers and product name) various online projects around the 'net. It uses a handy interface that makes handling lots of files much easier. It makes life easy for me to search through multiple files at once, and to do global updates on a series of files if one image or page is moved.   Of late Macromedia chose to update their product to version 8. Now I was waiting for this release myself as there's s
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Hardcore's blog

The musings of a sleepy Hardcore....

I wonder how many chickens I've eaten in my life. Seriously, It must be a lot. I would eat chicken every day If I could, but considering I've eaten it probably at least three times a week since I was a child, that's a hell of a lot of chickens.   Also, if I managed to find a reliable method of counting every incident of chicken consumption (which is impossible) I would have to decide on a way of figuring out the almighty chicken number, which is even more difficult (if that were possible; do
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Snowman's Blog

What am I up to?

Some of you will know I have a website - http://www.justpistols.co.uk - where I review, mostly, airsoft handguns.   At the moment, I'm writing reviews on the TM Steyr GB NBB and the KSC SIG PRO 2340, both of which will probably be out at the weekend, all things being equal.   I've got an Airsoft Innovations flow restrictor (which I've actually had for ages), but I keep bottling cutting the floating valve down on the gun, but I think I've sourced a spare, so I should be reviewing the flow r
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Snowman's Blog

My Blog

Having moaned about other Arnie's Blogs being non-airsoft related, I better be strict with my postings.   I'll be posting stuff here which doesn't really justify a posting on the forum and/or isn't really in the nature of the stuff I post on my website - http://www.justpistols.co.uk.   Expect to see comments on items I've spotted on my trawls around the web, experiences testing and reviewing various airsoft handguns and just general views and musings on airsoft in general.   To get you
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Arn's Forum Blog

Stores without an address

This is really getting on my nerves at the moment (I'll leave names out so that I don't offend anyone). In my efforts to get the weblinks section up to date I keep coming across Airsoft retail outlets who have a website, and believe it or not they don't have primary contact details on their site anywhere where they are easy to find. In a lot of cases they don't even bother adding a link to Mapquest or Multimap. Sure a map link isn't needed but it takes 30 seconds to sort and add a link to your o
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Arn's Forum Blog

Marushin 8mm M500, the fatal flaw

The chaps at 858Airsoft have posted a review of the Marushin M500 8mm Shotgun. I'll leave you to read the review, but my reason for posting it here is that they've highlighted the issue that I also came across with one of the pivot points breaking after only light use.   This happened to me on two of my own 8mm M500s, and on a further two that I know of myself. Sadly it looks to be a manufacturing flaw and affects pretty much every 8mm M500 at some stage in their lives. Initially I thought it
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Death and Vengeance...

I wanna blow *beep* up...

Hopefully my flatmates Airsoft Scotland and Zero-one orders will show up tomorrow, as I've tacked a few things on myself - specifically 10 electric mk5's and a box of blanks for my tripwire mine.   Should be a laugh at fallout in 2 weeks   Will report on their effectiveness once they arrive.
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TMC's Blog

I hate mobile/cellphones

It's late - midnight, infact. I am trying to get to sleep, and what happens? My mother's mobile (cellphone to Americans) goes off!   First time it's like, "Why the heck did someone phone at this hour?"... the phone rung off the hook and then phoned again, and again... by the fourth time, I was pretty freaked out. I mean, it could be a family member or friend who's been hurt! So I raced upstairs and picked up the phone...   Missed call messages. Bloody Missed Frickin Call messages. Dated fr
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Prometheus' Blog

New Blog

Welcome all   I hope you enjoy my blog. I will be writing about new airsoft products, doing mini reviews, talking about major and minor world events, and more as I see fit to add it to my blog here on Arnies. I will attempt to update this Blog every other day. Expect my first blog to come out by thursday. I will attempt to do two blog per day. One on Airsoft, and one on either World events or just random trivia and/or ramblings of my own. Please if you see any mistake on my part including gra
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Hardcore's blog

Wheeeee! Blog of my own!

Thank you mr Arnie sir, I promise I won't make a mess!   Welcome to the girliest blog on Arnies! Here I can write my own bits and pieces instead of taking up room in Ghost_Rider's. So, what's new....   Sunday's skirmish was fun, I had my pair of pistols for the first time and managed to blood my new one (Bella). I was runnning about a lot more in the first game whch was nice, as I tend to just sit in the tree fort and get pwned when the attacking team reach it. The only real down side of t
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TMC's Blog

Illness

I've been off for the past two days because of illness. My head feels like it's going to explode, my nose will not stop pouring both snot and blood out at a steady rate, and my stomach feels like it's going to explode in a similar, yet larger, manner to my head.   Luckily we're nowhere near shortstaffed at my work, so it's not a big issue for people to take sickies. So... here I am.   Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go find a box of paracetemol and down the lot...  
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