What I did for my external firewire drive was get a 120 drive for $80 (this was 3 years ago, so the price difference between that and larger drives is more than it is today), and an exernal encloser for $30. $110 total. and i was able to pick exactly which drive i wanted, with the exact specs that i wanted...and did it for less than 1/2 the price (at the time) of prebuilt external drives, which was very important because i was in school at the time and money was very tight.

only thing i'd recommend is if you go with your own enclosure, get one that has a fan on it. mine is passively cooled, and it gets hotter than i'd like...expecially when trashing it with video read/write for extended periods. never had any issues from the heat, just made me nervous, that's all.

i want one of these
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/

the cheapo 350w PS in my box died recently, and replaced it with a cheapo 600w PS. actually, the PS was fine, but the bearings in one of its fans crapped out and was making the most god awful squeal. and its easier to just replace the whole damn thing than just one of th internal fans.

I know the cheapo PS aren't very good or reliable around their max power rating, but i'm no where near it, so it should be more than sufficient for my needs.

retarded and yet impressive at the same time...

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According to its builder, the mod uses an "ATX MB with OC'd 2500 supporting a Ultra fire CPU cooler (modded with two Blue UV fans), 550 Watt X2 Finity Blue UV PSU (Modded to blow air out the bottom of case), 2x 5.25 bays, 2x 3.5 bays, and 4x 80mm Blue UV fans (inside of wheels, 2 exhaust- 2 intake), 4x 12 inch UV lights and 2x round UV lights, plus dual blue 12 inch lights under car for that streetglow effect."

nope, my box is flat black with no lights other than the standards (power, hard drive, network, etc.). and it's quiet. which is nice because my previous box sounded like a jet taking off.

most lakes (in the US anyways) aren't salt water.

5ha7 is l33t speak for shat, the past tense of shit

i don't know about taxi driver, but if you have a dreamcast that plays burned discs (not all of them do), and can speak/read japanese, you can get Tokyo Bus Guide. Its a realisitic bus driving simulator.

and let me tell you, it is every bit as exciting as it sounds.

i haven't experienced this problem (and hope that i don't). my question is, what version server are you connecting to?

does it happen on U servers, Uxx test patch servers, or V servers (or all)?

Quote from XCNuse :

it would be worse; LFS is mainly dependant on the CPU, and since platforms have really bad CPUs, but good graphics card... you'd get like 10 fps

plus, why would the graphics change...?

actually, the PS3 and the 360 both have very good processors.

still, i doubt running it on the ps3 would do what the OP whats it to do...the Cell is a RISC system, where as the Intel/AMD chips are CISC. In order to run software that is compiled for one cpu architecture on a different type of cpu, the software has to run through a software emulator that translates the programming of the software into something that the CPU can do somethign with.

and this is a very slow process...and this is why emulating a PC on a mac is such a slow process (not including the intelmacs). If you are lucky, you get ~ 1/12th the speed of the processor.

the cell runs at 3.2ghz, which would correspond to ~266mhz after the performance hit...no where close to fast enough to run LFS.

the xbox processor is a triple core PPC (risc) processor with each core also running at 3.2ghz. but since it would require emulation also, the 360 would take the same performance hit down to ~266mhz. and since LFS doesn't support multiple cpus, it would just run on a single cpu.

^^^ i don't think taht's a bad idea...in the future, but since this is an urgent project that is already behind schedule, probably not the best idea for this project.

there are ways to do it, but i'd imagine any of the possible methods aren't allowed for security reasons.

its just not as good in school.

excellent work. i'm d/l it now. oh, and thanks for using my brake texture.

I got mine for 270.00 USD (204.580 EUR)

lg cu500
http://www.itnewsonline.com/images/news/LG-CU500-ss.jpg

and he will never be able to access the specific page he's trying to get to again either

^^ he's already tried that.

when you go to a page, and it doesn't load, what happens if you hit refresh/reload? Does the page load then? If so, try changing these settings

1. click Tools, and then click Internet Options.
2. Click the Advanced tab.
3. Make sure the following are not checked:
• Use HTTP 1.1
• Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections
4. Click OK


5. click View.
6. Point to Encoding, and then uncheck Auto-Select.

try disabling the phishing filter. it seems to fix the problem for some people.

is this just the pc (beta) release of the 360 game?

if it is, the motorcycles are rather fun to drive. but over all, all the cars handle like 5000lb lead sleds with soft suspensions.

i don't think it has anything to do with the first movie. the trailer almost makes it seem as if it is a movie version of what would have been a pilot episode.

but won't know for sure until it comes out.

HAHA...that 2CV commercial was great. I was just about to ask, why bother making a transformer from a 2cv, then when it fell apart at the end, it was just great

i'd say Bay has a 50/50 chance of screwing it up...maybe better than 50/50. Here's to hoping it not another Pearl Harbor or Armageddon.

well, if you were to watch this video, it looks easy. but in practice, its a PITA. as such, it almost always stays in car mode.

Quote from tristancliffe :

The toys and the cartoons were masterpieces of simplicity, and looked much better for it.

you apparently haven't tried some of the newer transformers...especially those from the Altenator series. The RX8 transformer i think has 35 steps listed in the instructions and i had to follow them to transform it the first time (a first for me), and it took ~15 minutes. now with a bit of practice, i've gotten it down to ~5 minutes.

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He lost it in a straight line? What the hell was he doing?

yeah, pretty sad...fwd too.

but what i think happened is he was trying to roast a wheel on the shift (you see/hear him rev the engine in neutral right before shifting and loosing control) and got a little torque steer, which pulled him to the right, dropped a tire then lost control...that or he was looking at his guagues so intently that he didn't realize that he drove off the road and lost control. both equally lame.