Quote from The Very End :

What is the story behind the picture?

I flew a plane. Shit was cash.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Jack: All Postbox is is an older version of Thunderbird with some extensions.

That much is obvious the second you dip into the options, but it claims to be much faster (which I doubt! Mozilla stuff is generally very bloated and sluggish...) but I have to at least try it.

Quote from majod :

I'm also using Thunderbird for years and like it less each time I run it. You can try Postbox which is something like Thunderbird with everything it's missing, but...why would anyone pay for email client today is unknown to me.

Thanks for the recommendation - I've installed it now. It helpfully pulled across all of my Thunderbird settings, but not, for some reason, any of my actual emails so I'll have to leave it on overnight to download them all...

Olds

Gmail actually has the best search by far - but I'm not keen on webmail and would much prefer it all to be on my PC - I also want one email client to manage several addresses.

60k emails is only 2GB ish so I might as well keep them all.

I want a decent email client to use on my PC.

I use Mail on my Mac and it's awesome, specifically because search is lightning fast and it's fairly responsive to use.

I have ~60k emails, which is where it gets a bit of a mess (I really want them all stored locally for quick access)

I've tried Outlook but it was just rubbish. Windows 8's Mail just didn't seem to work for me. Thunderbird seemed ok but now it seems to be quite slow both with the interface but also at getting mail / updating messages at read.

It's really annoying that I'm always reading emails on my phone because they always to come to it way before they do on my PC.

Bonus if it could do Hotmail as well but in no way essential.

And while I'm at it, something that allows me to view my Google Calendar & Contacts would be awesome, too.

Suggestions?

Quote from CSU1 :

...I'm not a whole lot clued into what goes on in the major marketing corporations, but I'd imagine geolocation data of almost one billion people, their interests, who their friends are (and what they 'like') is worth a fortune.

Except, who's buying that data? Loads of big web companies "must be worth billions" and yet actually don't make much money or have any assets (like Myspace)

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Don't ****ing go out to eat if you can't afford to tip.

It's a culture thing - in the UK it doesn't really happen (or at least, when it does it's normally an Americanism!)

No-one tips a mechanic for slaving away on their car, or a heating engineer for fixing their boiler in the freezing cold, or the AA for fixing their car at the side of the road, or even the chef for cooking their food... just for the person bringing it out.

I also appreciate that in the US service industry staff "need" a tip to survive (or at least so I've been told) due to their minimum wage - but in the UK it's not the same situation.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

Only time I've ever seen restaurants apply a tip automatically is with large parties (usually 6-8 or more).

Quite a few restaurants in the UK to this. Incredibly annoying (for me) especially as it "forces" people to tip (do you really want to appear cheap in front of your date, even if the service was average at best?). I refuse to tip in such restaurants out of principals.


I do occasionally tip, but the service has to be actually outstanding - not someone merely doing their job (just as I would for someone in any other role!).

Quote from Kyle-Caz :

how???

http://portforward.com/english ... _Speed_Server/default.htm

Select your router and then go from there.

Some people in this thread genuinely scare me.

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

To be unique I assume. I slap mine in the bottom left as it puts it inside my wiper sweep without being in my FoV. I regularly get a muddied up windscreen which can cover the tax disc. Which would be illegal. Although I do mount it at 45° CCW which makes it easier to read.

I'm a good boy I is. :dunce:

Swept windscreen area is valuable looking space - the top of my windscreen doesn't get that opaque you can't see through it!

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Eww, those wheels
Eww, no popus
Eww, way to block the radiator
Eww, stupid placement of tax disc*

Otherwise, lovely little MX5 you've got there.

Law states it has to be on the nearside of the window. Draw a line down the middle of the car, it can be anywhere on that side as long as it is visible from the kerb. Probably worth noting if plod thing it'll obscure the drivers view, it is a a ticketable offence.

I don't get why you'd want it on the drivers side anyway?

Mine lives in the upper passenger side (mounted with cellotape no less)

Quote from Derv94 :

picked this up last weekend

Needs different wheels / you not using another user account.

Quote from Bose321 :

You should search for a retina screen.

Can you get a HiDPI desktop display of a reasonable size?

On topic:
Car insurance - £455 (suprisingly cheap, and I even get driving other cars cover)
Floor mats - £50 (wtf expensive)
Bosch MAF - £115 (finally trying to junk my aftermarket MAF & tuning box)

Have you forwarded the ports?

Quote from P5YcHoM4N :

Did you prime the surface by mashing it up with some sandpaper?

Yes, but not that much - but all the guides on t'interweb say you can spray it straight on your wheels.

Oh well.

EDIT - Right wheels are fine, both left wheels have peeled (kerbside). Suspect it's due to all the debris & water on that side of the road.

I tried plastidip on my winter wheels





It failed.

Apparently I never posted what else I do - when I'm not working part time, I'm doing a degree in Computer Science at the University of East Anglia (UEA). I'm in my final year, due to graduate this summer... scary.

Quote from BigPeBe :

TY for the nice comments.
That thing on the side of the transmission tunnel is an inner heater. Pretty much must have in Finnish winter. It is wired from the block heater, so when you put them on hour before drive, the engine isn't freezing cold and the inner heater has cleared the windows from ice and snow.

Ah thats cool

Quote from Nadeo4441 :

Why is the insurance so high in some countries? I just calculated what it would cost me to insure a brand new 542hp Nissan GTR with 2 years driving experience - under 200€/year..

In the UK, it's down to a mixture of over-inflated repair costs ("insurance approved" repair garages are VERY expensive), credit hire (companies hire out courtesy cars at ridiculous prices and reclaim it all from the insurers), personal injury claims (inc falsified ones!) and uninsured drivers.

Despite how expensive insurance is in the UK - most insurers don't actually make a profit on their motor policies*

*although obviously they re-invest the money they take from those policies and DO make a profit overall using the investments made with this money - but with the financial crash the return on investment isn't as large as used it be leading to higher prices.

Quote from GAVD999 :

Just tried that in the uk using 2 years driving experience and 2 years no claims in a low crime area ... cheapest price for insurance .. £1724.62 per year

That's actually not far off what I paid to insure myself on my ZT with 2 years no claims aged 19 (£1k iirc)

Is that an electric fanheater screwed to the transmission tunnel...?

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Damn, internet, phone, insurance etc is hella expensive in first world countries

For comparison, I spend 14e for Internet (4 mbit), like 6 euros for the phone..

My home internet is ~£26pm with BT - however the UK has quite a "backwards" telecoms infrastructure outside of major towns / cities.

My phone sounds expensive - but that does include a £600 iPhone 5 and unlimited everything (I understand most US mobile packages actually work out more expensive than in the UK when you look at the handset cost & minutes as well)

EDIT - £26 gets me ~5mbit down / 0.5mbit up & 300GBpm FUP

Last edited by Jakg, Fri, 8 Feb 2013 22:14.

Quote from Boris Lozac :

Thought about opening another thread, but this will do. I'm interested in knowing what some of you do but also how much you're beeing payed.
So if you could post your job, average paycheck and some general life costs, like a month rent, food prices etc, so i can compare...

I take home about £300-£350 a month working part time (12-16 hours a week, £6.39 an hour), but after overtime, bonus etc I'll clear nearly £9k this year, but also get ~£3,500 a year student loan.

A fair bit of tax should come off that, but due to the "low" amount I earn I pay very little (first £6.5-ish-k is tax free in the UK - this year I've paid £335 tax and £335 national insurance).

I pay ~£700 a year for insurance (very reasonable and due to fall again this year), and spend about £70-£80 a week on fuel (average diesel price here - £1.428pl, aka $2.26 per litre or $8.55 per US gallon).

Rent in the country isn't that expensive - you can get a proper house for £500pm (although I haven't moved out yet, looking at it this year with my girlfriend).

I pay about £35pm for my phone.

Quote from [RCG]Boosted :

CPU = AMD
GPU = Nvidia
imo.....

I don't think AMD make a CPU as fast as mine at stock clocks (i7 3770k) let alone overclocked (4.8 GHz).

The GPU was just because I was lazy and could swap it over without installing new drivers (previous one was an AMD card because years ago I bought an AMD "Dragon" bundle).

On-Topic - Haven't had my iPhone connected and it hasn't crashed yet...

Quote from ACCAkut :

What are you doing on the comp when it freezes? Since 2D and 3D application are handled quite differently by the card the faulty "area" of the card may only be used in 2D mode.

No real common factors, no 3D applications but I thought Aero in 7 was always hardware enabled

Quote from Scrabby :

Not to be an arse or something, but why such a long thread needed by this? It's clearly the graphics card what's broken. And I'm pretty sure you (Jack) knew it way well before posting this but hoped on something else.

These kind of things take 10 mins at my work... Dead GPU? Swap out for another, reinstall drivers and put it on a burnin test.

I have to be honest I hadn't even considered a hardware fault - I'm used to artefacts or crashes from faulty GPU's, not a whole system freeze.

I thought it was graphics related - but drivers. But no jiggering with the drivers seems of helped...