Although I'm not keen on the engine, thank GOD someone bought a new ish car in something other than black / silver / brown / dark blue!

Last edited by Jakg, Sat, 7 Sep 2013 16:43.

I can't think of a situation (on road driving) where a wheel would unload enough to lockup, which you would notice - and if you did it's a really *really* bad way to be driving on road.

But in this situation you want to be at the limit of grip - not over it.

Quote from Blade3562 :

Don't know how true this is in your side of the pond, but over hear the only time it makes sense to buy a diesel is if you can get the car for tbe same or cheaper cost of a petrol motor. The amount it costs to step up to a tdi golf over a petrol golf state side is so much that it takes several years to make the cost equivalence up.

In the US the fuel costs are much much lower (for petrol especially) that fuel costs aren't such an overriding factor.

Here is £1.40 a litre (yes I'm aware that thats cheap ish by Euro standards) which makes $8.25 a Gallon (US Gallon that is). My weekly fuel bill is about £70 ($110) just going to work and back really.

Theres an LPG station round the corner from where I work, which is handy!

EDIT - I'm not one of those people who expects 60mpg equiv from a V8, but if I can run a petrol on LPG for roughly the same sort of cost (or close) to a diesel it makes it a viable proposition. If it's going to cost me £thousands more a year (like a petrol would) then I just can't justify it

Last edited by Jakg, Sat, 24 Aug 2013 18:46.

My journey to work is all country roads, and I wanted the 3L one - so I don't think I'll get be getting 40MPG!

I cant really justify a petrol doing 15k mile a year - were talking over a hundred quid a month extra on fuel, a month!

But also, don't really want a diesel again

Don't care about boot space (already ruined that in my current car with a massive sub anyway, having an LPG tank would be an improvement!)

I also don't really believe in remapping "for economy", especially on an NA car. I think BMW are quite good at that bit...

Quote from e2mustang :

Aaaaand here she is !

Nice!

Trying to find a new car as I'm getting a bit bored of my ZT... currently thinking an e46 330i with LPG as I want a car that sounds *good*. But for some reason I am being drawn to the convertibles, especially with an individual colour scheme...

I work near Ipswich, but I live (or at least next week when I move...) somewhere between Norwich / Ipswich / Bury (Yaxley)

Remember a DDos attack can come on both bandwidth (which you've got covered it seems) but also on CPU etc - you can send malformed packets that require very little network traffic which will eat the CPU when it tries to process them.

Quote from Bose321 :

That makes sense. Running the 'latest' drivers that you get via Windows are not really that good I think, do you even have a control panel to fiddle with settings?

AFAIK they are the latest "certified" drivers (which means they will always be a few months out of date), but without the Catalyst control centre.


Having said that, I don't actually have the latest (:facepalm so I'll try upgrading and then complaining!

Quote from Bmxtwins :

whats the issue? did you go to battlelog to launch?

The web page loads (I dont want to whine but why I have to install a browser plugin AND a game distribution client to play a game I've already bought I have no idea), I select an option to launch the game, the intro movies etc start playing and then it just crashes back to the desktop.

I've tried a "repair" within Origin and it found no issues.

I did Google it, but while I found many people reporting the same issue few got any relevant support.

Specs are in the sig, drivers etc are all whatever the latest versions on Windows Update are - but I wouldn't expect driver issues on a game thats been out for 1 year+

Quote from Mysho :

Depends on a machine, because I've never had any single problem with downloading or playing Origin games since the very beginning of Origin...

BF2 had no end of problems at launch (and for years after!). Google seems to show lots of issues as well

I don't doubt that it works on some PC's (they really would of struggled shipping it if it did!) but IME EA have used their customers as their testers more than a lot of other companies

Even though I don't really play games, I bought it - in total a single beer last night cost me more than all 8 games so I really can't complain (although in hindsight - should've paid more).

Only one that really interested me was BF3 as I was quite into BF2. After a 20GB (!!!!!) download (which decided to stop when I had the nerve to log into the Origin website from work...), I opened it up - ran once and now crashes whenever I launch it.

How I've missed EA's "well developed" games...

Quote from Matrixi :

If you do a lot of typing or programming, or just work on your keyboard in general, then you'll love a mechanical. You also can't judge them if you haven't tried one live, the feel is completely different to rubber domes.

They aren't for everyone - I tried one but didn't really get on with it, lucky I had a go before parting with £££!

Having said that I think I personally prefer the cheap keyboards that come free with Lenovo / HP PC's etc!

Thats a very... American looking car. Rear has overtones of a Mercedes CL.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Poor choice. The surface is 3 times as heavy as an iPad.

Not to mention the iPad would be in your hands more than weighing down paper.

The Surface is a little bigger, although no way is it 3x heavier

(of course, 10" and even 10.6" tablets are all way too big!)

Quote from Bose321 :

Can you run OS X apps on an iPad?

No, but iOS has some apps at least.

A Microsoft rep was talking to me about Windows 8 (before RT was launched) - they know the app store sux and they don't care, Windows has the highest number of apps on any platform, the store is meant for only the highest quality apps and even if they only have 10 apps, they still have more than all the mobile platforms put together. Sound logic, but falls down on the RT front...

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Microsoft needed to either ditch classic UI entirely on RT, and actually buck up and make true Metro Office

Bearing in mind the changes that Office 2013 came to bring it "in line" with the rest of their products, and that it was launched *after* Windows 8 and even excludes a lot of older OS', it's very jarring that you do everything in the Modern UI on the Surface, but the Office apps jump straight to the desktop and really aren't optimised for touch!

Quote from Bose321 :

I bought the Surface RT with a Cyan touchcover for 260 Euro. The original pricetag is a little steep IMO, but this is a nobrainer.

I had one (briefly) and I had a love-hate relationship with it.

I don't really like tablets (having had a fair few!), but the Surface feels much more like a traditional PC when browsing the internet than a tablet.

It's also nice that you get Windows "stuff" like networking, NTFS sym links etc.

However... it's a rubbish PC. You obviously can't run any apps on there, and a laptop is much nicer to use, and for "tablet stuff" like checking Facebook on the sofa it's rubbish as well.

iOS is still *the* tablet OS as far as i'm concerned.

On the plus side - at least my Surface was free!

EDIT - Don't get the type cover, it's rubbish - keys don't feel good, and the trackpad is just woeful compared to the touch cover.

Advice - Don't spend £3000 on a PC.

Quote from matijapkc :

Lol, I was only asking what is the power output of that thing And for that level of engineering they could have at least increase the output. I've had a 1A charger with my HTC Explorer.

The iPhone only uses up to 5w (1A @ 5V) no matter what power charger you use, so there would be no point making it more powerful (and thus bigger).

If you want a bigger one, Apple do a 12w (2.4A @ 5V) one for use with the iPad range, but it's obviously a lot bigger.

Quote from Bose321 :

It's Apple, so it's obviously far more superior than any charger.

Well yeah actually, Apple make surprisingly good chargers.

Remote desktop works fine over LAN, but over the internet its a little slow (but doesnt drop or anything). My home upload is only 60 KB/s so it's to be expected.

I want to use Window as I want just 1 PC on all the time, and I'd like to run Windows apps as well (i.e. my cloud backup provider, XBMC etc), and I'm just not that keen on Linux...

EDIT - Also I've tried a "traditional" NAS (Synology unit) but while it did lots of stuff it wasn't really fast enough, my Microserver is brilliant in this respect it's just not as "polished"

I have a public IP address. FTP is an option, but I thought (wrongly?) FTP was a bit antiquated.

Erm, what? I'm perfectly happy with Windows 8 (for some of my devices)

I've recently built myself a home server running Windows 8, and i'm looking to replicate all the functionality my old Synology NAS had.

I'm looking for a way to access the files stored on the device over the internet - I'm looking more towards remote file administration (renaming files etc) than anything else

I already have some files backed up online but were talking movies etc where that isn't practical.

I know remote desktop can do this (and I've already got this set up), but my home upload connection isn't the fastest which makes it a bit choppy to use.

Ideas?

Quote from R34GTR :

Are the numberplate lights really that bright? A bit extreme IMO, these are the ones on mine




But some good snaps!

Long exposure makes them glare, but no they are a "sensible" level (although they are LED ones).