Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

It's a part of life and a part of motorsport, if you don't understand and witness the dangers of the sport you can't fully appreciate the risk drivers take in every race and practice session. Death is a part of life, some people prefer to pretend it doesn't exist, others prefer to open their eyes and try to understand it.

You don't have to witness someones death to understand it.

Anyway you never truely understand death until it affects your life directly in some way. Watching complete strangers die on a video gives nothing to the process of understanding death.

oh I forgot. Also reading this :

http://www.amazon.com/Managing ... qid=1252062548&sr=1-1

Quote from Intrepid :

My GCSE English teacher gave me this to read once. She musta been ****ing mental!

I keep meaning to read his non Sci-Fi stuff, I really like his style of writing as Ian M Banks, (as well as his particular take on the Sci-Fi genre). I've got a copy of "Dead Air" sitting on a shelf waiting to be read, must read it.

Currently reading this compilation of 19 short stories (Science Fiction):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mammot ... qid=1252008111&sr=1-1

Most of the authors I've never read before.

Quote from Bob Smith :

The term amps is confusing in your post, gezmoor. I think we need to start clafiying between amplifiers (big metal box with knobs on) and amperes (measure of your much valued current). Or maybe it's only me that's getting confused.

I've tried several times now to edit it - just keep getting a database error.

Anyway to address your point, I was only using one meaning of the word ie amp(s) = amplifier(s).

Sorry for the confusion.

Quote from xaotik :

I'll never figure out this fixation we got with watching other people getting killed, maimed, injured or just plain hurt on video. So much as that we even make compilations of that stuff.

+100 !

I don't get it, I don't subscribe to it. In fact IMO it's sick, tasteless, tactless, insensitive, disgusting and anything but a tribute or honor to the memory of those that died. It's the worst kind of voyeurism.

Might be worth your while working your way through here:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.c ... ows/en-US/networking.mspx

Some pretty basic stuff in there but might be useful as a cross check to make sure everything is configured correctly.

Quote from CSU1 :

...that link is very slow for me?

The Wan router is assigning addresses DHCP 192.168.xx and router 2 is manually assigned to the 10.42.43.xx range so no conflicts there. As I've said above I did go through the Windows firewall and only allow basic communication on the 'Public' side, according to the firewall is locked tight...but meh, I'm not convinced...while were here do you know of similar software like Zonealarm for Vista?

All would be hunkey dorey if Vista allowed me to assign profiles based on interface(maybe thats in the link but it's still loading...?)

E; and sorry, no there's no ICS enabled as I want no direct communication between WAN and LAN.

The link is to a forum post which I believe is a very similar issue to yours (except its not relating to the sharing aspect of your problem) about having the public and private profiles supercede each other. It's answered by someone that appears to be a MS employee. The answer basically states that the network profile is defined at a computer level not NIC level so what you're trying to achieve in that regard will never work.

I understand that you don't want your "lan" network exposed to your "wan" network, I only suggested ICS as a potential solution to having both networks accessable at the same time and then looking in to other ways of securing the "lan" network from the "wan" side.

In regards to Zonealarm. Well depends on what you are looking for exactly. There are plenty of commercially available internet protection suites around. However, if you're just looking for a free firewall try comodo :

http://www.comodo.com/home/dow ... ownload.php?prod=firewall

or others:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-firewall.htm

link deleted - was for Linux firewall boxes.

How well they deal with multiple networks I don't know. I used to use Sygate personal firewall which was configurable with advanced rules to deal with multiple networks but it's no longer available.

Last edited by gezmoor, Wed 2 Sep 2009, 20:36.

How are you assigning the IP addresses on the two networks?

Windows and the routers are most likey defaulting to 192.168.0.1 networks and so as soon as you enable the second NIC you'll get a conflict and Windows won't be able to differentiate between the two.

IF this is what's happening, first thing you'll need to do is reconfigure the router connected to the internet to give out a different IP network to PC 1 on its "wan" NIC. Personally, just so you don't have to mess around with changing network masks on the other router, I would use 172.16.0.0 255.255.255.0, with 172.16.0.1 for the router and either static the PC 1 to 172.16.0.2 or let DHCP do it's thing.

Other than that, I have my doubts about Vista being able to handle more than one network, (given that it is a client OS not a server OS), but I could be wrong as I've never tried configuring it like that.

Unless that is you configure Vista to use ICS. That would be the normal way to achieve the kind of connectivity you have. But then PC 2 etc wouldn't be completely isolated from the "wan" network. To be honest they're not completey isolated even so. Anyone who manages to compromise PC1 will still be able to access the rest of the network that PC2 is connected to.

Hope that is of some help.


Did a bit of digging around. Would seem that you can't do what you want re separate profiles per NIC in Vista :

http://www.vistax64.com/vista- ... etworks-multiple-nic.html

Last edited by gezmoor, Wed 2 Sep 2009, 19:45.

Yes appologies for the confusion. By multi-channel I did in fact mean Surround Sound amps.

Nothing wrong with surround sound amps, but as with everything you get what you pay for, (to an extent), and obviously an amp with 6 channels costing the same as a standard stereo amp is just never going to be as well built or specified. All the things that make an amp good, (ie the topology, output devices, input stages and power supply), cost more when better quality parts are used. Especially the power supply, which actually plays a huge part in the sound quality of an amp.

By the way, power output in Watts is irrelevant to sound quality in amps. It's an amps current capability, (especially in to low impedance loads), that's important. Current capability is directly related to the amps ability to control the speakers connected to it.

Last edited by gezmoor, Thu 3 Sep 2009, 16:55.

Quote from Racer X NZ :

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Most people require a basic system which actually works, doesn't cause agravation, and doesn't require a completely pointless systems upgrade just to run the operating system.

Amen to that..

Vista has been flakey as hell on a completely new machine.. just got progressively more unstable. I ended up completely reinstalling the OS and it was fine for about 3 to 4 months and now I get the occasional BOD and spontaneous restarts. There are no dodgy programmes, no Virtual Machines etc installed... nothing but WHQL certified drivers yet it's still unstable.

All that and it makes a reasonably spec'd machine feel slugish.

I never had any such issues with XP unless I started installing beta drivers.

I've got W7 as a dual boot. First thing I noticed was how much quicker it was than Vista. No unexplained "thinking about it" pauses before getting on with opening an application or installing a package. On the downside, I have already experienced my first crash on it, (so I am now entertaining the possibility that I have a very intermittent hardware issue), but either way it's more stable and quicker then Vista ever was. So much so, that I'm giving serious consideration to buying it when it's released and that would be a first for me !!

Quote from jibber :

....... Also, get an amp with a lower power output than the speakers can handle. This way you won't destroy your speakers if you ever turn it to high (stupidly high) volumes.

WRONG !! The easiest way to blow speakers is to overdrive an amplifier in to them. Especially a cheap amp that has 10% THD at so called rated power !!

A speakers power rating is measured using a completely distortion free signal. Speakers can only handle 120W (or whatever) when being fed clean signal power. Feed speakers with a signal with even a relatively low level of distortion and just watch the power handling capability of the speaker tumble !!

Always get an amplifier that is rated higher than your speakers can handle. Otherwise you're going to get your amp up to around 9/10 on the dial one day and your tweeters are going to go pffff. The only exception to this rule is when your amp and speakers are rated so high, that you're never going to be running the amp anywhere near full output in a million months of sundays anyway.

As for amps. Bob and myself have already given two examples of good quality budget amps. Forget multi-channel amps, you don't have the money to get even a budget one worth considering.

As for subs. For the kind of money being talked about, again forget it. Nothing but cheap plastic boom boxes producing a lot of uncontrolled resonant bass frequencies.

Yes good subs are worthwhile when using small/mid sized standmounts but only if

a) They are servo controlled active devices with adjustable levels and cut off frequencies etc

b) You really must make the floor rumble with every song you listen too.

I say that as a firm believer that properly controlled extended bass extension is an absolute must for the reproduction of accurate music even when the music itself contains no instruments with fundamentals that low. It's all about how frequencies are percieved by the human ear/brain cognative system.

Last edited by gezmoor, Tue 1 Sep 2009, 17:35.

http://www.microsoft.com/windo ... sta/discover/default.aspx

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2238

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2123835,00.asp

I take no responsibility for any of the information on the sites.

Nothing you can do unless you have configuration control over both end points. ie your PC and whatever machine is at the other end (router, server etc). In that case it might be possible to set up a VPN. But given that they've gone to the trouble to block the services you've mentioned it's highly unlikely that they wouldn't have blocked any variation of tunneling protocol you might try using also.

In other words, you're pretty much stuck.

Quote from Shadowww :

gezmoor, 8.04, 8.10, 9.04 and 9.10 can install drivers automatically.

Including propietary ones?

If so, fair enough I stand corrected.

I haven't done this since 7.04 but unless it's changed installing nvidia proprietary drivers on linux isn't that simple..


download latest version here:

http://www.nvidia.com/object/l ... splay_ia32_185.18.36.html

follow instructions here:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/ ... 5.18.36/README/index.html

good luck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtMfwXAuB8

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Quote from Ovidiu23 :

Damn !! I missed that one.. is it real or a concept??

Now THAT is a sexy car !!

I have to say, I am kind of shocked at how many people consider BMWs to be the "sexiest" car they've ever seen.

To me they are just dull saloons, that in all honesty I find difficult to differentiate from all the other salloons on the road. It's not like they're even uncommon. There are just as many BMWs on the roads as Fords.

I'm not attempting to be controversial or offensive, I just genuinely don't understand their existence in a thread like this.

Ok, all very interesting. I wasn't aware that so many subjects resulted in multiple exams.

I'd like to open up the answers to people that took exams before GCSEs existed, (eg O Levels and CSEs etc).

All I'm interested in is number of subjects/exams taken and the year.

A few "retro" options:

http://loudpop.tumblr.com/post ... age-via-www-motorbase-com

http://lamborghini-cars-pics.b ... lamborghini-countach.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared ... enl_1184167326/html/1.stm

Quote from 5haz :

Who else thinks GCSEs are easy? I passed all mine with next to no revision, if I can do that, ayone can.



:rolleyes:

Let's try and stay on topic for at least the first couple of pages??

Quote from 5haz :

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Good luck to all those with their results (I know its late now).

Year please .. it's important to my research.

How many GCSE, O Levels, CSE exams did you take?

Not interested in what they were or the results, just how many you took in your final year at secondary (or whatever) school.

Please post the year you took them and number of Academic subjects/exams taken.

Just doing a little research

Last edited by gezmoor, Fri 28 Aug 2009, 16:53.

The UKs car parks are full of CHAVsticks doing exactly the same thing every weekend evening