Do you have a Radio Shack or Tandy up your way?
Also a good hi fi or music instrument store (electric guitars, etc) that would do repairs and suchlike, they will have pots available.

Quote from wheel4hummer :

There should be photochromic windshields. That way when you drive during the day, your windows tint to block out the brightness of the sun.

We've been down that route. Trouble is, in bright sunlight all day, the photochromic effect over a large area like a windshield, which also gets quite hot, starts to fatigue. It's ok for sunglasses where you'll get a year or two of use before the effect fades, or for toys, but greenhouses and windshields it's not yet practical.
We did get involved in a project about 3 years ago putting them into the tear-strips in Schumacher's crash helmet visor, to help counter glare and changing weather conditions mid race, but nothing came of it in the end.
That could have been a nice little earner.

LOL!

A new Fox livery based on my 3M BF1 skin I did last year.
(And a big thanks to 'unseen' for his massive decal pack)
http://www.ice-files.com/alheeley/FOX/FOX_3MPro.rar

Thank you for your moral guidance. Actually there are some people who might be offended if you called them Canadian. All the ones I know are great people. Any way, back on topic............

Quote from Tweaker :

Judging by those names Al, those are obvious giveaway that they are rogue spam software

How do you come to that conclusion? To me, I would have no idea that these are rogue

[from wikipedia]
Malicious programmers have released a large number of fake anti-spyware programs, and widely distributed Web banner ads now spuriously warn users that their computers have been infected with spyware, directing them to purchase programs which do not actually remove spyware — or worse, may add more spyware of their own.[40][41]
The recent proliferation of fake or spoofed antivirus products has occasioned some concern. Such products often bill themselves as antispyware, antivirus, or registry cleaners, and sometimes feature popups prompting users to install them. They are called rogue software.
Known offenders include:

• errorsafe
  
• Pest Trap
  
• SpyAxe
  
• AntiVirus Gold
  
• SpywareStrike
  
• Spyware Quake
  
• WorldAntiSpy

• Spy Sheriff
  
• Spy Wiper
  
• PAL Spyware Remover
  
• PSGuard
  
• Malware
  
• WinAntiVirus Pro 2006
  
• WinFixer

The adverts pop up a display with notifications to convince the user that something may be amiss with the computer, or run a fake diagnostic. The program repeatedly prompts the user to purchase a licensed copy of the program.

Due to these problems, WinFixer and its sister applications are generally considered scareware spyware. Indeed, their misleading popups and forced downloads mirror the infection strategies of many spyware programs. Computers infected with this trojan also exhibit sluggish performance.

I'm pretty sure thats at the root of all my recent pc problems

i agree, that switch away from the '67 british racing green was blasphemy (well nearly) but at least the new adopted livery also went on to become a classic (and also a very good skin theme for a MRT - I remember a few of them done for S1)

1967 isn't it?
[anal gpl fan]

I seem to have a very ill pc, a spyware scan reveals other earlier spyware progs as being high risk. Aer they the cause or the cure?
Seems like a good way to make money, pay 24$ a year for something that says other competitve products are in fact bogus spyware programs. Fact is, I keep getting irritating popups and the firefox popup blocker does nto stop them, it opens up windows internet explorer instead and its driving me mad.
Ant recommendations on good, kosher adware blockers/spyware stuff (needn't be free)?
Cheers!

i love the graph paper one. There was another bmw with a map all over it - sparked my first ever skinning activity, sticking a map on a dodge viper in that great old Viper Racing game

I'd be glad to sell you some. The pure pigment powder sells for upwards of £12 to £80 per gramme. It goes a long way though.
Now how much would you like?

rest assured you will get in return far more content and stable gameplay than many full-priced retail games that profess to be 'finished'.

Quote from glyphon :

that's pretty cool. what options do those of us in the states have? are they going to be sold here, if not, online ordering?

They're going up in Walmart in a couple of weeks. Europe a couple of months later.

I think this discussion has reached a natural conclusion. Thanks

Paint my ride
Our company's just secured a good sized contract with Corgi Toys to provide the special photochromic pigments for this new kids toy;

http://toyology.typepad.com/pl ... le/2007/02/paint_job.html

The pigments in the plastic car are activated by a tiny LED torch in the near-uv range which fade back to clear (white) after about 30 minutes.

These will be in the shops soon. Remeber, you saw it first here!

Hint: Store the car in the fridge and the colours will be brighter for longer. But please mind the butter.

There's a possible good deal coming on a little HP model with AMD 64 x 2 3800+ processor. Are these a serious proposition or old hat now?

I'll send you a £1

Quote from Racer X NZ :

In my opinion we're actually looking at 2 issues and people are getting very confused trying to apply one argument to them both.

1: The mess we (humans) are making of the planet.
2: "Global warming tm" or to be more specific "Whats going on ?"

Actually there's a third issue and that really concerns me, its the manipulation of these situations by the lobbyists and politicians in order to gain power/money from the common folk by exploiting their ignorances, feeding in to them little bits of the story as best fits their cause. That's what I really despise.

good start, needs some drift decals, keep the cf hood. Please no need to post S U C H a big screenie, 800 px wide is way big enough.
The black line running along the side is part of the 3d model on that car and cannot be removed.

So, err, you say the earth has stayed the same temperature even though the sun has got hotter, and this is because the greenhouse effect must now be far weaker than it was 4 million years ago?
Then it's true, the greenhouse effect is in fact receding and we can all rest easy in our beds knowing the global warming scientists are speaking , as I suspected all along, a big load of tosh.

Trouble is where lobbyists and politicians get hold of science and statistics, they can manipulate it to show their own points of view and ignore the rest. Very dangerous.
[cough] millennium bug[/cough]

You have a nice vision of our Government, we often lose sight of the fact that they are in fact at our beck and call doing our bidding, and not riding roughsod over our civil liberties.
We do still have a queen and voting, but we don't really know if it works.
And yes, sheep do remain a big problem, especially round my area on the edge of the peak district.
Internet-based pressure groups/email petitions are a laughable failure: too many armchair activists too content to sit at home in the comfort and warmth of their front room typing away in blissful anonymity. Nobody cares enough but everyone like to have their say.[/irony]

It's important to remember that there is always natural culling of mods (not moderators ) by the community that helps preserve only the good stuff, yet I agree on the whole with the argument in keeping LFS pure until the project has reached the end of its natural life.

Quote from Damo74 :

And I've seen many an electric car do plenty good burnouts.

I'm intrigued. What electric cars have you seen doing good burn outs?
Are these real (commercially available) city runarounds or special showcase technology ones?
Just I've never come across an electric car that could do this, or ever seen one doing it. Do you have any interesting links?
Maybe its because of the limited practicality of wrecking your tyres that the electric engines in commercially available vehicles (ok, I'm thinking milk floats here) don't normally allow burnouts to happen.