I thought it used to be in LFS? I remember adjusting handbrake force in S1 days anyway

Quote from Jakg :

You certainly sound like a bit of a cock.

Why thank you

Wait, didn't you crash into a ditch after coming across a "postman", because you were driving too fast for the conditions? Yea, sorry, the only crash I've ever had wasn't even my fault, I was rear-ended by someone not paying attention

Most of my accidents seem so unfunny in comparison to these

I was driving home late one night in the beast that is the Yaris, with a mate following me in a mahoosive Landcruiser. The roads were almost deserted, so we were giving it fair welly. There was a car in front of me at one stage, tipping away at 80/90-ish, so we slowed down to follow. Next thing I know he stopped dead in the middle of the road, going downhill on a greasy ass road. I somehow managed to grind to a halt microns from his back bumper, but for a good 5/6 seconds I heard a screeching behind me, and saw a Landcruiser aiming for me. The inevitable bang came, but luckily the car in front was actually trying to turn right, and had finished turning, because I was pushed down the road for a good 20 feet, even with my brakes locked. We got out and surveyed the damage, nothing major other than a few scratches to my boot, he had bullbars so no airbags had gone off. We heard sirens, so we got back in and pegged it away onto the motorway before we were caught

A couple of 17 year olds racing down the city outskirts crash in the middle of the road with no witnesses and about 200 feet of skidmarks, I don't think that would have gone well.

Also had my first tip parking, the first day after getting my full licence. I was parking in the local underground shopping centre carpark, so I went down wheels spinning, tearing around corners, smoke everywhere. The first space I found was beside 2 girls getting out of a Corsa or something (the point is, they looked hot :shy, so I skidded to a halt, threw it into reverse (with a satisfying crunch), and tried to burnout into the space. What I didn't see was the red and white striped support pillar on my offside, and smacked into it with a nice cracking noise. I was too embarrassed to finish the manoeuvre, so I ran away

And another embarrassing moment was when I was parking outside my friend's girlfriend's house dropping her home, I mounted the kerb outside her door and as I brought the offside back onto the road (it's a wide footpath...), I heard a lovely crack as my sump smacked into the concrete. There was no damage done, not even leaking

And another one was one of my first weeks driving on my own, I came into a multistory car park in town (one with the really smooth floors) with a friend beside me, and thought it would be an idea to burnout around the corner from where you get your ticket to the ramp leading up to next floor. I managed it fine, smoke billowing everywhere of course, and hit the ramp in second doing a good 60km/h. I heard a very loud bang, and stopped at the top to investigate. No damage whatsoever, it's still a mystery

Another multistory fail I had was in a different one, only a couple of weeks ago. I had a couple of lads in the car from school, as were out on lunch. They wanted me to go to the roof, as one lad's dad worked in an office across the street and they wanted to shout obscenities (as you do...). We got to the top, and there was a fair puddle. Feeling brave, I parked with my front wheels in the puddle, took her to the redline and dropped the clutch. The car spun for a few seconds on the spot somehow, but then launched off on me, and I had to go around the corner in front. I decided to rip the handbrake for the laugh, even though this was on grippy stuff and it was dry out. It worked anyway, and I slid sideways for about 30/40 feet. But then the car was more than likely on two wheels, as it found grip again. I got out to inspect the damage, and found the rear mudguard had gotten trapped under a metal strip running along the ground, and pulled half the car in the air rather than fall off. <3 Toyota engineering

Actually, this car has been given some abuse in its time, including at least 200 miles so far of being redlined down the motorway in 5th to top out at 190km/h. But it doesn't show any of it, and still demolishes any other car less than a 1.4l (it's a 1.0l). I'm convinced the Toyota plant made a mistake and put something else under the bonnet, it's even beaten a 2.0l turbo Avensis in a race I know I give it way too much abuse, but it's only a temporary car while I'm waiting for mine to be ready (next weekend actually), and it seems to love taking abuse The tyres are still road legal even after 6 months of burnouts from every stop sign/red light, handbrake turns on anything from gravel to concrete and understeering around roundabouts at 80km/h. It's been rear-ended by a 2 tonne jeep with nothing but a scratch. I've been practising my short-throws (with nice clunking and grinding as a by-product) and it still engages all gears spot on. It's more indestructible than a Hilux

I spotted that earlier, isn't that your comment?

I'm looking forward to Christmas day for a change (usually it consists of sitting at home with a mildly inebriated family watching the same boring movies that are on EVERY year...). This year I'm going off for an all-night cruise with some of the local car clubs, last year there were 300 cars involved, and they stayed out from sunset to sunrise Bringing some mates with me (not that I can fit more than 2...), some beer, some tunes and a few jerrycans of petrol. Going to be a good evening/night/morning

Quote from Velociround :

Actually you're right, but some people just can't stand changing tabs every time they want to go to another website.

And by the way, in my opinion things are easier and faster if everything is in the reach of your eyes at the same time. Of course you don't need a web page to do that, but anyway...


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Not all browsers have this function. So, at least in my opinion, the googlegooglegooglegoogle website is useful.

Windows 7 does just this too

This thread is just

With the abuse the small road cars get, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a hint of blue smoke coming out. And the UF1 should be putting out plumes of blue smoke

If we get dynamic weather, it would be a nice effect to have a hint of smoke on a cold day. It's hardly essential though, at speed you wouldn't even be able to see it

Without the chicane, Blackwood is almost an oval It would be nice to have it as a config without it though, it would really open up the straight for the fast classes

Quote from Shadowww :

cba to look, but is it yet another repack of ubuntu?

In one

http://linvo.org/screenshots/Linvo-menu.png

It's the one from every An Post ad we've been cursed with for the last 3 years (John sent a scarf to Mary, who sold it on to Jim, who...)

The shiny red button in the museum is unreal What happens when you clear it though, I heard a noise but I didn't get an achievement or anything

Quote from bunder9999 :

local user != domain user

But he's asking about a local user, isn't he? He said he has a school machine, presumably meaning it's in his possession and not at school, unless his story is complete bullshit. Getting Admin on the domain in our school was pretty easy too, what kind of a competent tech guy leaves "admin" as a full Admin login with no password The same one who leaves the default admin login on all the wireless routers in the place I suppose, but that means I can sell places on the MAC whitelist so I'm not complaining

Quote from theirishnoob :

ill have 1 year ncb next month, civic is tied first most stolen car btw along with the teg and glanza !

mini's where cool but their worth too much now ( thank you 1990's banger racing )

might get a 1.1 fiesta shell and dump the sierra lump into it ( so had to find one with a NCT on it ( or mot as its known in england )

@ matrixi , nice corrolla, pitty about the wheels and gear box but it drives ! cool color also

They're usually stolen by pikeys and burned out, unfortunately

They're worth over the odds this year as it's the 50th anniversary, but they'll still hold their value over the next few years, which is partly why I wanted one. It's like an investment, the longer I hang on to it, the rarer they inevitably become, and the more valuable the remaining ones become But if I picked up a 106 or Saxo, it'd be worth scrap metal in a few years when I want to change

I was planning on hanging onto this until it hits 30 years, making it NCT and almost tax and insurance exempt. Then I can do what I like with it, I was planning on dropping in a K20 or an R1 bike engine You could look out for the old early 80's fiestas and starlets, they're NCT exempt in a couple of years, so there's no hassle with engine transplants or any mods you want, plus they look the business and can be picked up for pennies if you don't mind a bit of welding

This will only work if the player is on-track though, if they aren't then obviously there's no data to show

Quote from trebor901 :

the 4th true call of duty as infinity ward say because they're the true producers of the game not crappy treyarch

Then why was there a COD5?

Quote from AstroBoy :

Yeah but you dont call, GTA VC, GTA 4 do you? Or GTA SA GTA5? Or those little spin off of liberty city stories vice stories ect.

Its the principle.

That's a bit different to be fair, there is a GTA 4 that's completely unrelated to VC. This is the first COD that dropped the number. It's not the official title, I know, but it's easier to type COD6 rather than Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 all the time, and I've been met with varying degrees of confusion when I said MW2 before Plus, until they do release a proper COD6, you know exactly what I mean by COD6

It's the 6th Call of Duty in the series. Don't be an ass.

COD6 online for PS3 is even better than COD4. I'm getting far more kills, mostly due to far less lag. COD4 was a bitch for that, I could unload a full mag into an enemy at point blank range and they'd still continue running. Now I can kill an enemy with a handful of rounds from the L86, my new favourite friend alongside the Steyr

The campaign is alright too, there wasn't really any major flaws in it. It's a completely OTT and unbelievable story, but hey, it works

If it's XP, start the computer in safe mode. This lets you login as Administrator, which lets you modify user accounts. I'm sure this functionality can be disabled, but I've never seen it done, it works on our school PCs If it's Vista I'm not sure if that still works though

A 1.1l Saxo is €3100 for me, TP F+T.
A 1.1l 106 is €2800 for me, TP F+T.
A 1.3l Mini is €1300 for me, TP F+T.

It's all down to the car you pick, pick a typical boy racer car and you'll be loaded at this age, regardless of your safety record. The Saxo and 106 make around €2000 for a ~'00 model (for a clean one), with the '94 Mini worth anything up to €5000 (just been restored). I tried getting quotes on a 1.4 Civic, a 1.6 Integra and a 1.4 Astra, often regular first cars in this country (honestly, the amount of 17 and 18 year olds driving Civics, Integras, Glanzas, etc. is unreal), but it wouldn't give me a quote online.

Those quotes are for an 18 year old with a license for 1 year, 1 years no claims, clean driving record, etc.

Quote from obsolum :

I can't seem to find it anywhere in there. 9800GTX+ here

I needed RivaTuner to adjust my GTX+'s fan

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About 3 p.m. a low-flying pelican distracted him

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The Veyron’s powerful engine gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.

What kind of a spanner leaves the engine running underwater? You've some hope of salvaging it if you knock it off as soon as

Quote from danthebangerboy :

I don't adhere to 20's especially when i followed a cop car one day along a stretch of road in newmarket that changes form 30 to 20, then back to 30 again about 4 times in about a mile, and the copper just cruised along at 30.

I've followed cop cars down 50km/h roads doing 80-100km/h, they weren't looking to catch up to anyone, and stopped at traffic lights and all, but put the boot down on the straights. Some of the speed limits we have are ridiculous, this was a 4 mile long stretch of dock road that's 4 lanes for half of it, still a 50km/h limit

Quote from Bose321 :

-1.

But wtf, seriosly, what kind of idiotic country is that? They smash you and your car, seriosly, wtf. And just standing on their feet, and punching and kicking whilst laying down already, what a bunch of idiots....

I wish they treated criminals over here like that, really. Break the law (by robbing a bank and killing people, I don't mean by failing to indicate or rolling through a stop sign...), and you deserve everything shown in that vid. Are you suggesting they should have politely asked a group of armed criminals to stop, and have a quick chat at the side of the road?

Notice how they didn't physcially harm anyone from the first Cayenne, until they were positive they had the right one, nobody innocent was harmed, it even says the owner of the first Cayenne was compensated for damages caused

30Hz is a very usable refresh rate for LCD monitors, they aren't as affected by flickering as CRT monitors Mine is on 1920x1080 30Hz with no flickering in LFS or Windows, but I'd get a headache instantly if my secondary CRT was set to anything less than 75Hz