Finally got round to getting some better parts, mainly spurred on by my Sempron of doom kicking the bucket. Anyway, here goes:
CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4200+
RAM: 2GB <insert random brand here> DDR400
Motherboard: Abit UL8 (I know, crappy ULi chipset, blah :P)
Everything else hardware-based is the same as my older system, except the fact I'm using a DFP now
OS(es): XP Pro/Vista Business/Arch Linux

Just installed the new Opera 9.5 Beta, and it's looking damn fast.
Found some numbers here that seem to agree with that, too. General page loading times down, and stress tests handled with relative ease. Please note that as with all numbers like that real world usage will be restricted by the time it takes to download the pages

Link: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/next/

Here I am...

Oops...sorry...HERE I am...with less hair

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Quote from harjun :

pornographic material is not allowed on the lfsforum...i find that offensive, and disgusting

I find it offensive that you find such attractive young ladies offensive

Screenshot attached of what I've been up to *gulps in fear of the reaction*

Happy birthday Franky! Many happy returns from all of UKCT!

Quote from duke_toaster :

Rolf.

Harris?

PS. Tie me kangaroo down, sport.

EDIT: Post removed and taken to PM

Re that DFP: How much would shipping be on top of the £30?

Quote from davejah :

Well i have 32 Bit so its not that. I reinstalled it but still the same problem :S

Try the steps outlined here: http://blogs.conchango.com/pau ... 869-on-Windows-Vista.aspx

Quote from Leifde :

good racing

Please say you're joking there...in one of the FR2.0 races one car managed to punt another one while under safety car, a couple of people in other races had offs during safety car periods and the general standard of racing was worse than that on many public LFS servers. That said, it was a good weekend, just a shame that the "simulator" they had on a competition to win a PSP was Formula 1 on the Playstation O_o

Hmm...I speak:
Yorkshire
Pretty damn rusty bit of German (GCSE grade B 2 years ago, forgotten most of it)
Google's form of 1337 (i.e. I can convert http://www.google.co.uk/intl/xx-hacker/why_use.html to English again)
That's pretty much it...monolingual really

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

HARJUN! STOP MESSING AROUND WITH STUFF, AND LEAVE IT AS IS, BECAUSE YOU'VE WASTED MORE THAN ENOUGH TIME OF OURS!.

It's not only the time of people who have read and replied to his threads that he has wasted...it's his own.

Harjun, this is the last message I'll be posting in any of your threads until you learn to do your own research before coming running for help when you mess something up, despite advice not to bother.

My message is this: put the machine back together, clock it back to stock levels, and STOP. You've created nothing but trouble for yourself by overclocking it, and you're only going to create more trouble by trying to overclock the graphics. Follow Jack's advice: sell the laptop and buy a desktop, they're much better for LFS and gaming in general.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs
POWERTHIRST!

I'll be there on both days, along with a few other UKCTers, we made an outing of it last year, may as well do the same this!

Quote from richy :

+1 for stopping all signatures, forever

+1 for removal of all avatars, forever

+1 for black and white forum in times new roman

+1 for no live for speed forum logo

+1 for not being moany grumpy old scrooge

I totally missed your attempt at being funny there, really didn't work

Quote from theirishnoob :

i think that there should be more characters allowed so you can do type art ( words made using dots , / and such ) its the next best thing if you not allowed img's

ASCII art is large, cumbersome, and not needed on a forum signature. -1

My sig is pretty close to the limit (524/600 characters) and has all the info I want on it, yet it only takes up 2 lines. I don't think the problem here is not having enough characters, it's people not using them characters to their fullest potential. For example, unneeded BBCode in sigs also adds to the total character count, as do unneeded spaces and dashes between userbars *koff Jack* . I'd say people should use their sigs more conservatively, and not waste all their characters on useless things

Quote from harjun :

oh yeh....it does actuallly....FYI OMG ....AFK ATM

Proof?

It will on my 233MHz Pentium 1 with MMX! [/leet]

Quote from harjun :

it was off a Pentium Pro, which was running at 100 Mhz, i dont know which computer is, but it allowed me to enter bios and it managed to be overclocked to 900Mhz...and with that "crappy" fan on it, load temps were 40-45, but there were a few other random fans, and it looks like some heat spreaders on the VGA, i guess my dad had built it a long time ago

That's just crap, for 3 reasons. First reason: No socket 8 motherboard in existence will allow a Pentium Pro to hit 900MHz (the Multi and FSB are nowhere near high enough, and even if they were, the processor would be massively unstable, and not even POST).
Second reason: The Pentium Pro was manufactured in 150MHz, 166MHz, 180MHz and 200MHz flavours, so even your original clock is wrong.
Third reason: The Pentium Pro didn't have a temperature sensor. Therefore checking core temperatures with them isn't possible.

Before making claims, CHECK YOUR FACTS!

EDIT: Forgot to mention that setting FSB and Multi in the Pentium Pro days involved shifting jumpers around on the motherboard. So even your method of overclocing wouldn't work

Last edited by JohnUK89, Sun 2 Sep 2007, 21:43.

Use the mouse then! Hold left button down and move the mouse around, you'll find it more responsive than the keyboard

Bit long, so I pastebinned it: http://pastebin.com/f3be60e18