Quote from Uke :

Windows 7 64bit.

i don't know anything about adding a video card degrading performance, but have you tried stripping out unneeded services?

you're willing to let a complete stranger have full access to your servers? brave man.

Quote from Amynue :

Would be cool if Scawen could give some more grip for hot tires in that upcomming incompatible test patch to make wating for new physics more pleasant

it would be cooler if the road cars didn't have their tires heated to 30C... i hope they "fix" that when they create limited setups.

Quote from branney :

but really the point is can twin turbos be programmed/enabled in LFS?

long story short, is it possible? of course. will they do it anytime soon? probably not. it's been asked many times.

Quote from sinanju :

All 3 timed out (from Scotland) - I assume you must be doing something with them just now?

they work for me... can you ping other internet hosts?

Quote from majod :

also it's not actually fiber to the home, it's just so-called FTTB (to the building) - optic fiber terminates at gigabit switches in each block, from there it's just ordinary 100mbit UTP.

that's better than what they're offering me right now... last year they told us they were rolling out FTTH/FTTB, and all we have now is a buggy DOCSIS-3... not to mention they're charging $200/month for 30/1.5 on it... the highest DOCSIS-2 package is what i'm currently using... $100/month for 16/1... and those are the business packages, because of all the port blocks put in place by the ISP to prevent home users from running mail/web servers.

and people wonder why i hate telecom in north america.

edit: i would gladly pay $100/month if i could get a symmetrical connection, even if it's only 10/10, or worse, 5/5.

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115, 150, 145.

i agree, north america probably isn't your target market.

http://www.bizjournals.com/pho ... rom-glendale-to-keep.html

Quote :

The Glendale City Council will vote Tuesday on a new Phoenix Coyotes plan that involves the Arizona city coming up with another $25 million to keep the team from moving to Winnipeg. The city and National Hockey League say the new $25 million allotment gives the NHL (which owns the Coyotes) and city another season to sell the team to “a qualified ownership group that will be committed to retaining the team in Glendale”.

which they apparently approved.


why doesn't phoenix just give it up?

Quote from majod :

nothing changed...

hm, another monster connection from europe... question, what makes fibre so cheap in slovakia?

Quote :

Antik Standard - € 17.92 / month

• Connect one computer to the Internet via an optical network
  
• Attainable speed: 64 Mbit / s.
  

a connection like that would cost thousands here...

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Cricket = Connecting with a tethered phone = high ping.

maybe so, but those speeds are just awful.

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Also Disk Defrag is another pointless Windows tool because data is still fragmented, just not as "far" apart as it once was.

of all the useless tools norton has come up with, you might want to try speed disk... it's actually pretty good.

Quote from Matthewrobinson :

i want to make my own track for a demo server ?

the point of demo was that they only have blackwood... giving them more tracks would defeat the incentive of purchasing the full version of lfs.

that said, i don't think they should be allowed to use layouts either, but that's my personal opinion.

Quote from MadCatX :

Isn't it actually the other way around?

V(voltage) = I * R
I(impedance, current) = V / R
R(resistance) = V / I

Quote :

So higher resistance leads to higher voltage at a certain current.

that's what keeps your car from dying on the road when you've got a bad battery (the exception being when you end up using all your available electrical power)... if you can't charge the battery, you can't crank the engine, regardless of the voltage.

i could be wrong, but i think the current is more important than the voltage for starting.

Quote from DarkTimes :

Um... you do know that whole clogged up registry thing is a myth. I know a lot of people find this hard to believe, but it's true. Any program that pretends it can speed up your computer by cleaning out the registry is a scam.

that's because they moved everything worthwhile to "user profiles" and those can grow to multiple gigabytes for each user that ever logged into the pc.

i've had this windows pc for a couple years now and it's already at 2gb. imagine what an always-logged-in, heavy-use user's profile would accumulate.

Quote from MadCatX :

Total Annihilation working quite dodgy

the game was made for windows 95... what do you expect?

good game though.

Quote from UnknownMaster21 :

Anyway, Have you got speakers which has it's own master volume? Isn't that would be solve the problem? Or if you have Windows there is sound settings use that.

that's taking the easy way out, and not entirely practical. for me to change the volume on my tv, requires me to get up and change it on the tv, because my remote is broken. the only button that works on it is the input select button.

i like this suggestion, but only because the STD cars are super quiet in relation to the GTR's and the top-end SS cars. (the BF1 is really loud - changing back and forth between cars can be disorienting due to the volume differential) if they could do it on a car-by-car or a class-by-class basis, i'd be fine with that.

Quote from tristancliffe :

Exactly. The wheels drive the engine, and with no fuel it's just an air pump (with the throttle restricting the intake) so no need to worry about being lean. That's been covered to death on this and every other 'car forum' though.

yeah, i think we had that conversation here before, talking about driving downhill... but since we're talking about engine braking, doesn't that wear your clutch out more?

Quote from spankmeyer :

I snatched SimCity 4 Deluxe and some other various good bits lately from Steam sales.

word of advice, save often, and backup the save files often. while SC4 can provide hours of fun, it's not fun when it decides to fudge up and trash your save files.

edit: and grab yourself a copy of Network Addon Mod (NAM). it'll help deal with traffic overflowing the roads. Network Widening Mod (NWM) is another good addon for multi-laned roads, but i found it rather confusing to use for highways, so i just use the standard maxis highways.

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Quote from bbman :

Why downloading a program when you could just use the Windows Sound Mixer? Maybe not the most sophisticated solution, but in your case it should do the trick...

this. on the playback options there should be a slider for the microphone. bear in mind that you also need to slide one on the record options, and IIRC, they're not linked so you will have to adjust both to your tastes. (so you're not deafening yourself or whoever plays back the recorded audio [if applicable])

this sounds like another mtv3 or v1... trying to pass off LFS as if it was their own creation... then again, their website clearly states "powered by" LFS...

Quote from MadCatX :

but rather gradually slow down

wouldn't it be more economical to just put your foot on the clutch the instant you know you need to slow down, and brake it out? i know "they" tell you not to do that because you might need engine power to avoid an accident, but i don't see the difference between taking your foot off the brake and taking your foot off the clutch...

could be heat, but if it doesn't do it when you're doing other things, it's probably not that...

i'm more inclined to say that the onboard video drivers suck so bad that they don't cause things to crash, and the machine just hardlocks. i've had that happen to me years ago with the intel 810E chipset. it just didn't like certain openGL calls. try with a real video card.

Quote from rockclan :

I can't remember me ever asking money for a fund on this forum, so you must been mistaking with someone else.

that's odd, now that i actually looked, i can't even find it...

i guess it would help if i remembered what the condition was called...

Quote from tristancliffe :

A final (ish) word - when my Dad and I drive somewhere together, he often drives there and I often drive back. In his car, we do an economy run, to see who can get the biggest number on MPGs. Not because I worry about climate change, but because we're competitive, and it's a fun game. He drives gently, changes gear as little as possible, but makes good time. I tend to do the same for the first 5 minutes, then get bored and drive home normally. Our journeys take about the same time. My MPG is usually 2 higher than his. It could be I get better traffic, or the conditions of the day help, and 2mph is too small to be statistically useable really... but I've won every time bar one, and we've played that game lots.

that's not exactly a fair test, because it's not the same trip both ways, between weather and the road's elevation changes... even if you did drive the same path twice it still wouldn't be a fair test because of the weather... if you did the same trip at the same time using two cars, it would still be unfair because each car isn't built (and operates) equally.

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Will an engine burn more fuel at lower RPM but much wider throttle, for say 6 seconds, or at higher RPM but less throttle for 33% less time.

my take on the question...

if you're below the power band (ie: gear too high, speed too low), and you put your foot on the gas, it's going to try dumping as much fuel into the cylinders as it can. when you take your foot off the gas, it deceases that fuel flow to idle levels. even though the engine isn't rotating as much at lower speeds, i would have to believe the former uses more fuel.

on a side note though, i don't know how EFI would play into this, i'm only going by what i remember from school. i would imagine that EFI throws my theory into chaos because of all the electronic mapping involved.

optimally, you want to keep a road car under 4000rpm. from a dead stop, an 5 speed automatic would probably want to start WOT in 2nd, go to 3rd, then 4th. but by the time you get into 4th, you're probably going ~100-120kmh and most likely, the second you lift your foot off the gas, the overdrive gear will engage. but again, more electronic mapping, it'll vary car-to-car.