By coincidence I came upon your website today and was impressed. I downloaded a movie and was impressed. Whether it's the pinnacle I wouldn't know as I'm bad enough not to get anywhere near a pinnacle to recognise one. Certainly not the pits though; I'd recognise that!

Quote from GFresh :

Please Duke, can we smash the pervs with baseball bats, then lock them away, and then periodically f**k them up with said bats at a frequency determined by how much they breathe? (More breathing = more beating)

Bleeding heart liberal!

Most of what you've said can be said of Britain almost word for word. I admit to being amazed at how a little more than 5 million people pay for a road network as good as yours. Bearing in mind that roads have to be hewn out of an awful lot of bloody great boulders! Finlands biggest mistake was to huddle round the skirts of the EU. We tried to warn you but.... Anyway, we're going to live in Kerava, we've already got an apartment there and are keeping an eye out for a nice house.

Quote from Matrixi :

I have a dream to move out from this hellhole in the next 5-10 years too.

You're frightening the life outta me! My wife and I are going to retire to Finland in the not too distant future! All this talk about sinking ships! I wouldn't be surprised if most people in most countries feel the same. I know I do about Britain. You in Finland have something which is, as far as I'm concerned, precious. Space! Whenever I go to Finland I'm struck by how the pace of life is more sensible than the rat-race that is England. You're not all on top of each other. Treasure that.
I suppose though, that the grass is always greener etc. Having looked at your 'grass' many times I've not seen anything, apart from talvi, to change my view.


New Zealand is nice, but I bet it'd bore your socks off unless you're into sheep!

How many servers also run Ventrilo/Teamspeak? Would you welcome new people? Or are you just a 'mates only' deal?
To kick off, Dead Men Racing run a Ventrilo server and if you sign up for the forum www.deadmen.co.uk/forum you can get the password. You would be welcome.

Quote from Albieg :

If you want to ban your language, fine, but leave alone mine. Keep dreaming on, if you wish, or just keep in mind that languages generally don't follow the kind of dynamics you're suggesting, even when some kind of ruthlessly repressive policy is used to crush the habits of a people. I could speak for hours about such themes and try to explain why your idea sounds so morally and culturally repulsive to me, but I'd probably end up speaking about Beowulf, or Geoffrey Chaucer, or some other ancient (English) book or author that even most English people are nowadays unable to read properly, or about a poet named Dante Alighieri who is generally acknowledged as the father of Italian language. I doubt, in fact, that you ever read something written by Dante. It's never too late to start. Although devoid of its original Italian musicality, this English translation could suffice:

'Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang;
Ye were not made to live like unto brutes,
But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.'

If you'll follow this advice maybe in the future you'll understand why your sentence is so repugnant for me, especially when you talk about banning languages. Suggested readings: 1984 and Politics and the English Language, George Orwell.

To be back on topic in this off topic section of the forum, I can read English because of some technical and artistical interests. I can read it much better than I write it, and much, much better than I speak it, but that's normal, especially when you don't have the time or chance to practice.

I see where JTbo is coming from but 'banning' is too strong a word. The world is getting smaller by the day and in order for us all to be able to communicate it would be neccessary for some of us to be bi-lingual. As English is spoken more widely (don't mention Chinese) it turns out I won't have to be one of them! I find it amazing that the language from a tiny island off the coast of Europe has spread it's language over a huge part of the world. (Doesn't half piss off the French!)
As a footnote, did you know that Finland is the most English speaking, non English speaking nation in the world? I was in a little village in Finland some time ago and we went into a little cafe. I practised asking for two coffees and some cakes. I went to the counter and recited my order in my best Finnish. The girl behind the counter answered me in English! You can't win.

It's an odd thing but whenever I see a name from the forum I know they'll be good clean racers. Whenever we see these 'strangers' that trouble ensues. Restarts are disabled for 4 minutes either end of a race. Unless they are particularly thick they normally get the message. Just like real races, we'll 'red flag' if there is abnormal carnage, but generally it's a case of 'if you lose it, tough. get on with it. That applies to our admins as well.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

...I know I personally would do my best to clip right inside someone at the precise moment the collision detection kicked back in.

There has to be a smartarsed comment for me to make but I'd damned if I can think of one. You drove a blinder last night.

Quote from ebola :

Im thinking overheating PC here.

Ya got me going there for a minute. No, it's not overheating.

Quote from filur :

Wrong log ?

S'all I got. This was not a Windows crash so therefore no crash report.
Edit: Reading it again I see what you mean. I played NKP earlier in the day with no problems. Hey ho. Ignore this babbling.

Last edited by Doorman, Tue 7 Nov 2006, 22:57.

Another lockup and hard reboot Attached is the relevent piece of Dr. Watson (i.e. todays bit) Maybe it's of use. I copied this a soon as I rebooted

Quote from Scawen :

Because you have a reliable computer

Up to now, yes.

Quote :

I guess I suspect maybe a spike in the power

Sounds good.

Quote :

I'm just trying to suggest a reason why it might not be LFS. That is a total operating system failure if other programs stopped working and you had to use the power switch. I wouldn't know how to cause this, if I tried. Not saying it's impossible but I'd better not worry about it too much unless we get more reports of that.

I tend to go along with that. Maybe a fly killed itself on my processor. The odd thing was that Windows showed no sign of distress and booted normally. I'll keep a lookout. Cheers

No black screen, in fact I was lying third and bang! Frozen picture

Since U30 two hard lock ups of lfs neccessitating a switch off via the button. I've been on the server for about 1/2 hour. No error messages. Not lag because everything is running as per normal. Rejoin the same server and continue for the rest of the evening. This also caused ventrilo to be discoed as well. Up till now no patch has caused me problems.

It's good to know the ranks of clutch, 720° turn wheels and shifter users are growing. More power to G25s!

Quote from Scawen :

OK, an easy convenience feature, I have now turned off message history display automatically in two situations :

1) You press SHIFT+F to hide the 2d display
2) Race or qualifying starts or restarts

What can I say? You're a star.

U28, Great patch. One teeny weeny thing. Shift+F doesn't hide the 'History' messages. You have to re-press H. A small point and not one to lose sleep over.

Quote from KiDCoDEa :

just a side note, audigy cards have since birth been plagued with crackling issues, never to be solved via driver, motivating group protests etc.
i dont own one and followed the controversy at a distance but someone owning one prolly can give a summary of that whole situation.

I've got an Audigy 2 ZS and have had several other Creative sound cards and have never experienced the sort of trouble posted in these forums. Yes there was some crackling associated with Uwhichever but only with that particular patch. That's not only sound problems either, I've not suffered the various other tales of woe; black screens, crashes etc. I sometimes wonder if the PC housekeeping isn't all it should be with some folks

Last edited by Doorman, Sat 28 Oct 2006, 14:55. Reason : Appalling grammar

Quote from danowat :

I certainly would'nt tell a girl I was "wooing" (you cad, does anyone this side of 1940 still use that word? )

Dan,

Saved me making a pos...:doh:

Being 65 and telling people I race online, I receive slightly raised eyebrows. When they see the kit I use to do it I get 'My god!'s. Oddly enough they all want to have a go on it though.

Alt-F4 is a helluva combination to hit accidently isn't it? Personally, I would love to have a way of closing LFS without going through the process that we have now. One keypress and back to desktop. Just the job.

Quote from danowat :

I can handle the red messages, no problem.

What i can't handle is the falling over of LFS, the looping / stuttering sound and awful lag that comes with it.

I reckon this directsound thing doesnt like my creative soundcard.

Dan,

Grandmother -suck-eggs, but have you got Creative's latest drivers? Latest are 9th October. Just a thought.

Quote from Scawen :

Removed text "LEFT pit lane" and "ENTERED pit lane"

Excellent!

Quote from birder :

Point 1) There is no PM from you................ banned it will soon fill up again.

Without quoting the whole of your post, I like your style.

Back on topic, I'm always a little uneasy about public apologies to individuals. They almost always end up treating the apologiser as some kind of hero! It takes BALLS to say sorry? No, it ought to take humility, a rare thing unfortunately,
2c

Quote from Scawen :

It's ok, if it's ok for you. It's just that, if some obscure bugs come up because of using alternative methods of swapping windows, I may not be able to fix it, because Windows doesn't tell LFS that something has happened. LFS just can't repair itself if it doesn't know anything has happened. SHIFT+F4 is safe, because you are asking LFS to go into a window (or back to full screen). It then does whatever it needs to do, to do that safely.

Okey dokey. I'll add a macro on my G15. Still one dab. I love when you're given a REASON!