PickleRick

so after knowing this person for over 40 years . Monday i lost the person i loved .she is pain no more .
me and Tabatha will keep going as Miyra  would have wanted us to. she will be missed every day .tell we meet again you will be in my heart
                                                
 
 

Let start with your clan name? dLUX
    Do you have any nicknames? Personal or in game? dLUX
    When and where were you born? Santa Monica, CA
    When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Soldier
    Where have you lived? Santa Monica, CA; Simi Valley, CA; Spirit Lake, ID; Frankfurt, Germany; Coeur d’Alene, ID; Dana Point, CA; San Francisco, CA; Tacoma, WA; Spokane, WA; Baghdad, Iraq; Al Asad Air Base, Iraq; Some really small town in northeast Washington State.
   What got you into gaming? Fun and competition
    Your first game you played? Pong
    And what do you play now? Nearly exclusive to COD4 Freezetag. Every time I try a different game it loses its allure after a while and I end up back with COD4.
    Why did you join XI? I was spending all my time with you jokers so I ended up leaving my old clan and then was invited to join.
    What do you get from being in this clan? XI tags. 
    What is your favorite hobby? Shooting
    What is your favorite travel destination? That’s a tough one. Costa Rica and the SW coast of France would be top slots.
    Are you married? 26 years and counting. Best lady on earth. She not only puts up with me but actually loves me so I am very grateful for her.
    Do you have children? 3. The youngest graduates from high school this year so pretty close to an empty nester.
    What kind of pets do you have, if any? What are their names? A yellow lab named Ca$h. 3 cats: Milo, Moo-moo bear, and Frankie.
    Are you a sports fan? If so, what is your favorite team? I really don’t dig on most American sports but that is because of their politics. Sad but true. I am a new convert to Rugby. Ireland!!
    What causes are you passionate about? Freedom.
    Do you volunteer? If so, where? I suppose military service counts. Currently a Fire Commissioner in our district.
    What is an interesting fact about you? Sadly, I can’t think of anything.

    Have you continued your education past college or university with career development seminars or classes? What kind? Bachelors degree in World & Comparative Literature. Masters in Education. Infantry Officer Basic Course; Captain’s Career Course; Bradley Leader’s Course; Information Operations (tactical & strategic); NATO Information Operations
    Did you know what profession you wanted to work in when you started college? Har. No.
    Did you belong to any professional organizations? Combat Infantryman’s Association; American Legion; Firearms Policy Coalition.
    What is your current job title? Retired
    Did you win any awards or recognitions during your education? Har.
    Where do you work? Retired
    What other job titles have you had in your career? Stocker, Tire Installation, 1-hour photo (Costco); Infantry Platoon Leader, Infantry Company Executive Officer, Infantry Company Commander, Battalion S-1, Battalion Assistant S-3, Tactical Informations Operations Team Leader. Private Firearms Instructor.
    Where else have you worked? I taught 6th grade math and science in public school. Homeschooled my own kids until they went to High School.
    Why did you choose to work in your industry? I chose the Army for the challenge but 9/11 really moved things into high gear.
    Why do you like your job? Leading men in a combat zone is a unique challenge. Seeing to the welfare and training of them in between deployments was a great privilege. 
    How would you describe your career? Successful
    What are some accomplishments you've achieved during your career? There is a list of military awards and decorations but surviving all that with my marriage and kids in tact is the greatest. The grace of God in full display.
    Describe a time that your career was rewarding. When soldiers thanked me.
    If you could give a younger person career advice, what would it be? Whatever you do, commit yourself fully.
    What is your favorite thing about your career or industry? The Army paid me to blow things up. That’s pretty cool. 😉
    What is a valuable lesson you learned in your career? Things are not always as they seem. Keep your eyes open.
    What is your favorite sport? Soccer and rugby. Admittedly, I know precious little about rugby but its still amazing to watch.
    Do you play any sports? In my youth I played the common sports here in the States: baseball, basketball, football, soccer, snowboarding, skateboarding, and I’ve done a variety of Martial Arts over the years. My body can’t really take that stuff anymore, unfortunately.
    If you were granted 1 wish, what would you wish for? I’ve seen that movie, its a trap.

on android i just plugin to pc and im able to copy anything off the phone apple doesnt allow this

Enjoy your break from being shot.
See you when you return

Back to work for me on Friday. Last few weeks been a blast. See you in 5.
Take care of each other.
Baldie good times come & go, so do the sad ones. Hang in there ...

Yesterday I took my wife for pre booked tests at the hospital. And after having an Endoscopy and Colonoscopy the Doctors discovered my wife has Bowel Cancer.
At the moment we are just numb and trying to get our heads round it, Donna is a woman who has never smoked or drank to excess (the odd glass of wine) and teaches PE at school. So she has always been fit and healthy. And in ten years has only been off work twice due to illness it just makes no sense.
We have now told all the family which has been very hard on everyone. This woman is my rock for over 22 years we have only ever been apart 3 times in all those years. I find myself having to be the strong one telling everyone its alright mum will be fine, while cracking jokes and keeping a smile on my face when in reality I just want to scream. 
It is now a waiting game for more tests and the results from the Biopsy. We have a full body CT scan booked for the 4th of next month to see if it has spread and only after those results will the Doctors decide the next step.
I do not claim to be a religeous man but I prayed for the first time in a lot of years. Not for me but for my wife who is the most wonderfull kind and gentle woman you could ever wish to meet.
I only post this to remind everyone, hug the special people in your life , tell them you love them today. Because you never know what tomorrow brings.
Wishing everyone the best
 Baldie (Rob) 

Let start with your clan name? Roody
   Do you have any nicknames? Personal or in game? In former times "Ans" later sometimes "FreakFunk"
    When and where were you born? My son claims that I should have met the dinosaurs. Grrrrrr
But it was 1972 Oct. In a small city named Gelnhausen (Germany)
    When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Drummer in a rockband, better metalband.
    Where have you lived? My whole life in a small village near Frankfurt. In the middle of the dark woods.
    What got you into gaming? My neighbour and his two COMPETITION PRO joysticks plugged in the C64
    Your first game you played? Xerons
    And what do you play now? Xerons and COD4
    Why did you join XI? The name "xtreme idiots" catched me. My humor! And I was addicted by the freezetag server from xi. Very funny mod.
    What do you get from being in this clan? I can no longer be kicked from a full server. Meet incredible crazy people from all around the world
    What is your favorite hobby? See my son laughing, freezing some old guys, repairing notebooks and personal computers, my dog, mountainbiking
    What is your favorite travel destination? acores, la gomera
    Are you married? Yep. Nearly 20 years now. Hard time for my wife.
    Do you have children? A wonderful son ("Cpt. Rex" on COD4 ft Server)
    What kind of pets do you have, if any? What are their names? A black cat called "Shadow" und a black dog named "Sky"
    Are you a sports fan? If so, what is your favorite team? Hallenhalma and Tabletennis. Timo Boll is my fav sportsman
    What causes are you passionate about? Helping helpless people. For example refugees from ukraine, disabled persons and much more. Respect for all people
    Do you volunteer? If so, where? I'm member in school parents council. And in DLRG (german lifesaving society). There I train swimming for kids
    What is an interesting fact about you? My shoe size is 10
    Did you belong to any professional organizations? yes
    What is your current job title? system engineer
    Did you win any awards or recognitions during your education? It's a great swimming award in germany called "Seepferdchen"
    Where do you work? In Frankfurt at a big broadcaster
    What other job titles have you had in your career? Carer for disabled persons, communications electronics engineer spezialiced in telecommunications, sound engineer.
    Where else have you worked? Hanau, Gelnhausen
    Why did you choose to work in your industry? Make my hobby to my job
    Why do you like your job? Money. Canteen. Get to know lots of people. Get to know lots of new technical features
    How would you describe your career? chaotic
    What are some accomplishments you've achieved during your career? I'm proud of a Unplugged-CD-recording with Amy Macdonald as sound engineer
    If you could give a younger person career advice, what would it be? Don't do anything you don't like to do!
    What is your favorite sport? Hallenhalma, etreme couching, Tabletennis, Mountainbiking
   
    If you were granted 1 wish, what would you wish for? Let it rain brains for humanity!

Good evening folks, 
Just passing this your way but I am going to try a couple of things in the server as a trial

I want to look at fixing the issue we have with Auto Balance. Currently, the server sets people into teams as soon as they join the server, and then scrambles it again in the next map; auto selecting peoples teams, even the spectators. What this means is that the server will try to auto balance spectators.
The idea that I propose is to turn off the team auto-select, meaning that you can now choose your own teams. This stops the server from giving you a team automatically, and it should then stop the auto-balance not moving people around. However, there is a down-side to this; this will invite team stacking. People want to play with their mates, which is great and all but it can end up with teams being 6-4 etc. I would like to think that people have the decency to still choose auto select. 
To combat this inevitability, the server will check every 15 seconds if the teams are balanced and if not, it will move someone. Again, if it moves someone and they move themselves back to where they used to be, I will warn you. If you do it again, I will kick you. It may end up moving people all the time, but this is something I want to try out at least. 
This will be live for tomorrow, and will run for tomorrow to see how it goes. 
I have also added some new sniper maps to the server, which will break it up a bit more because I was using old maps from old rotations. 
Hope to see you all tomorrow!  
 

Sent you a message with Screenshots and instructions, but if you need me to show you how I can screenshare on discord to show you how to do it.

Thanks everyone, I'll try not to come and cut a steak behind your back too much.

Chicooooooon! Félicitations!

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Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, supposedly credited her health and good looks to her love of pickles, and Roman general Julius Caesar was said to have fed pickles to his troops in the belief that they would make them stronger. 

@PickleRick instal file completely fixed my game from crashing and asking me to run safe mode.  Game was really frustrating crashing after every match until I messed around and found his way.
 

My game (run through Steam) was crashing nearly every map change. I followed ReAhdapt who followed PickleRick who got it from . . . you get the idea.
Anyway, looks like problem solved.

Thank you Totty!
I was very glad to assist even though I wasn't quite able to prevent it from crashing. Looked at the event logs, fixed some persistent errors but that didn't seem to help. The memory error was obviously not the reason since I checked both the SSD space (plenty) and ran a RAM test to check and fix RAM health. Updated the graphics drivers. Booted in safe mode and tried running COD4 in compatible settings... As @Hatchetman mentioned it could quite probably be a hardware reason.
(An error she gets often. I even did the following to prevent it:
Registry Editor.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Media Foundation\Platform.
Create/set EnableFrameServerMode registry DWORD to 0.
Reboot

UPDATE: Installing the cod4x patch fixed it.

Thank you Totty!
I was very glad to assist even though I wasn't quite able to prevent it from crashing. Looked at the event logs, fixed some persistent errors but that didn't seem to help. The memory error was obviously not the reason since I checked both the SSD space (plenty) and ran a RAM test to check and fix RAM health. Updated the graphics drivers. Booted in safe mode and tried running COD4 in compatible settings... As @Hatchetman mentioned it could quite probably be a hardware reason.
(An error she gets often. I even did the following to prevent it:
Registry Editor.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Media Foundation\Platform.
Create/set EnableFrameServerMode registry DWORD to 0.
Reboot

UPDATE: Installing the cod4x patch fixed it.

Thank you Totty!
I was very glad to assist even though I wasn't quite able to prevent it from crashing. Looked at the event logs, fixed some persistent errors but that didn't seem to help. The memory error was obviously not the reason since I checked both the SSD space (plenty) and ran a RAM test to check and fix RAM health. Updated the graphics drivers. Booted in safe mode and tried running COD4 in compatible settings... As @Hatchetman mentioned it could quite probably be a hardware reason.
(An error she gets often. I even did the following to prevent it:
Registry Editor.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows Media Foundation\Platform.
Create/set EnableFrameServerMode registry DWORD to 0.
Reboot

UPDATE: Installing the cod4x patch fixed it.

So I was sitting at home tonight and I thought to myself, I haven’t heard anyone say or as a matter of fact I haven’t said this in years.
 
F U Funstick 

Could be a few things (CPU/GPU overheating, page file too small, corrupt files, driver issues, hardware issues, etc)
 
I second what Hatchetman said, give it a good dusting, if you haven't already.
Does it happen in other games? (YES: issue likely with system. NO: uninstall/reinstall CoD)
Do you notice stutters/lag when not playing games (like browsing the web, playing music, or videos)? (YES: generally hardware issue (HDD/RAM/CPU) but maybe windows/software issue. NO: possibly driver problem, corrupt directx files, GPU problem, overheating)
When playing CoD, do your fans spin up like it's trying to fly away? (YES: possible hardware overheating...double check with temperature monitoring software!* (if needed, clean the PC and/or repaste CPU/GPU). NO: could indicate other hardware/software faults.)
What are your PC's specs? 
Last time thermal paste redone? (if ever, lol)... Usually recommended every 1-3yrs for gaming rigs... depending on level of cooling performance you require and quality of paste, of course.
*Normal CPU/GPU temps, at load, are anything up to about 65-75C (up to ~85C for GPUs). Generally, anything above that (for desktop PCs) is "overheating" (assuming no overclock with appropriate cooling). If load is applied and CPU/GPU temp quickly rises to 90-100C, you have a cooling problem.