Hey we learn something new every day Kev glad you got it worked out, lot of great help here lucky we have it

I wasn't that impressed by your first post, either.

Fixed it. Opened up the file, no problems. Was mislocated following a Win7 system restore point into another directory. Works great, now that it's in the appdata/roaming/microsoft/fsx directory where it belongs. My thanks to pete_auau and others who mentioned the .dll.xml file. Sorry for my rant.

 

Kev

 

glad you got it sorted now hopefully now you can enjoy your flights now and hopefully you have backed up your hard drive to an external just in case some thing else goes wrong

I'm just curious about the real "DANGER" of posting real name and surname... What is the risk?

 

There is none. It probably comes from stranger danger that people's mothers scared into them.

Want some candy Kyle? Or perhaps look at all these boxed add ons in my van?

There is none. It probably comes from stranger danger that people's mothers scared into them.

 

Actually, there is. Not "I'm gonna get you, sucka" danger, or ID theft, a little more subtle. Job hunting. I realize that there's a lot of different people here that are in different countries, and policies differ throughout the world. Now, I actually haven't gone off the deep end. I've a good friend that's a VP of HR for a company with several thousand reps in North America, and several manufacturing facilities. She states that they (companies in the US) pay people to find you, find your interests, find your hobbies, find anything that they can about you in the hiring process. For example here, they might say that a 40-something guy wanting a job that still plays computer games just isn't mature enough for our organization, or something along those lines. I've firsthand knowledge of people getting passed over for an interview because they said something about the election several weeks ago on their Facebook page, or they have some quote on a page that the potential employer doesn't like, and <poof> the job opportunity is gone.

 

You know, if I could delete the original post and start over, I would. I'm not an angry nutjob, yesterday was just a spectacularly bad day for me. Sorry.

 

glad you got it sorted now hopefully now you can enjoy your flights now and hopefully you have backed up your hard drive to an external just in case some thing else goes wrong

 

Yep, sure did, and backed that up onto my library drive as well. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

 

Cheers.

 

Kev

To answer the Op imo he is right in his perception of some parts of the Avsim forums . A lot of threads start off okay (not this one) and end up in a brawl at the finish. This is in contrast to other forums such as DCS that have a large audience and are very well behaved.

Actually, there is. Not "I'm gonna get you, sucka" danger, or ID theft, a little more subtle. Job hunting. I realize that there's a lot of different people here that are in different countries, and policies differ throughout the world. Now, I actually haven't gone off the deep end. I've a good friend that's a VP of HR for a company with several thousand reps in North America, and several manufacturing facilities. She states that they (companies in the US) pay people to find you, find your interests, find your hobbies, find anything that they can about you in the hiring process. For example here, they might say that a 40-something guy wanting a job that still plays computer games just isn't mature enough for our organization, or something along those lines.

I'd like to throw my 2¢ in here, at least from a technical standpoint...

 

The signatures here on this forum are not crawled by search engines. For example, I've just gone and googled (also yahoo'd) my name exactly as it is in my signature. I've made over 500 posts on this forum, with my name on every one as a signature, and not one result (at least in the first 10 or so pages that I looked) had anything from Avsim on it. I then re-tried and searched my name with Avsim after it and all that came up was my essay contest entry from earlier this year. (Which I entered knowing that I was allowing Avsim to put my name with the entry)

 

Secondly- lets think about this. How many people play XBox games? PlayStation? Are those people all children? Most definitely not. The average gamer is 34 years old, and the average game buyer is around 39. PC gaming fits right in there. I highly doubt an employer could say you were too immature because you do a fun activity in your off time to relax.

 

I agree with Kyle- there really is no risk in putting your name in your signature. Would PMDG ask you to do something risky to get support? If you don't want to take a chance, then there is a nice ticket system they have.

 

Just some food for thought

I highly doubt an employer could say you were too immature because you do a fun activity in your off time to relax.

 

Apply for a management position at EDS and they'll find out what you eat for breakfast every morning. If it doesn't fit the "company image", it'll be "Thank you for your time."

 

Hook

I can see your point, but only to a certain degree. Yes, I've heard of people not getting jobs and getting fired over stuff on Facebook, and some of it has merit, but a large amount doesn't. I'd further argue that if you have to hide your true self, then the company isn't a good fit for you.

 

You only have something to worry about if you do something wrong. Granted, various companies have different definitions of wrong, and some are very conservative, but I hardly believe that using your first and last name in an internet forum would be evidence enough.

 

If it were, people would have a hard time with me. I apparently died in a fiery car crash in NJ a while back. I was in the USMC. I'm on the Jackalopes hockey team. I was a pro wrestler in TX. Oh, and a guy with the exact same name found me on Facebook back in college. So, which one of us wrote this post?

 

Want some candy Kyle? Or perhaps look at all these boxed add ons in my van?

 

haha - awesome.

I'd like to throw my 2¢ in here, at least from a technical standpoint...

 

The signatures here on this forum are not crawled by search engines. For example, I've just gone and googled (also yahoo'd) my name exactly as it is in my signature. I've made over 500 posts on this forum, with my name on every one as a signature, and not one result (at least in the first 10 or so pages that I looked) had anything from Avsim on it. I then re-tried and searched my name with Avsim after it and all that came up was my essay contest entry from earlier this year. (Which I entered knowing that I was allowing Avsim to put my name with the entry)

 

I found you on the second page of the google search, and you may live about 80 miles from me... let's just say that I found about 200+ pages that are directly related to you in the context of VATSIM, AVSIM, and some other forums. Your business is your business. I will say that you have a lot of virtual hours in the MD-11 and over 52,000 minutes with your virtual airline...

 

I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm proving my point. And yeah, Kyle (if I may call you by your name), according to the internet, I'm a pro photographer in England, a simmer in the US, a porn star, and various and other sundry items. Nothing I'm ashamed of that's really me, just stuff, the same as you and everyone else here.

 

Where I was going with the order number item was that if I have a problem with REX, for example, and I need to talk to the OEM, what are they going to ask me for? My email, order number, and name. When you give a scammer two out of three things, the last one is easy to find. In my opinion, if I have to toss out my order number on a public forum, then I'll use the ticket system. And I'm OK with that.

 

You see, when my wife was 18, someone at the BMV (motor vehicle registration) stole my wife's info, wrecked a car, put someone in the hospital, etc. My wife was on a USAF installation 6 states away when this went down, and only when I went to add her to my car insurance did we find out the mess we were in. Fraudulent bank accounts, criminal records, etc, were all tied to my wife, and it took two years and money we didn't have to put things right. So yes, we both are stingy with our public info. Nothing to hide, just minimizing risk.

 

Kev

In my country I've never heard about it, however, having an hobby is not something wrong, and, in this case, the flight simulation of a complex aircraft is all except that a game. Some "brain" is required to use it correctly more than most of the games, so it is something that add value to you.

If you search me, you will not find anything that is a threat for a job request.

It will tell them that I have hobbies, that I have my life, that I have some interests, and that my interests are a lot.

Hiding you will probably point someone in the direction of "no interests".

ID theft is something ridicolous, it can be done directly on facebook, or a telephone yellow pages.

Or, a name can simply be invented.

Kevin, I would advise that you read through this, even though half of it doesn't relate to comercial support websites, you might learn something. http://www.fenixdev.net/ I am just going to quote number 14 from that page "Never insult someone who's been active in any group longer than you have. You may as well paint a damn target on your back."

Hilarious thanks for that laugh Vladimir :lol:

jeff

As a moderator on another forum with about 2K members, I'm just surprised that so many posts turn into a shouting match or a flurry of smart remarks.

 

In the last 30 days we have had over 2,800 topics started and over 25,000 posts made. I always suspect the motivation of folks that exaggerate to make a point. If we had "so many posts turn into a shouting match", I doubt we would have that kind of traffic and I doubt that you would have posted here at all.