The most I've ever managed is 3 days...and that was heavily assisted, don't know how the hell people can do longer

But as has been said earlier, keeping it in a datacentre will cost more over a year than buying it. You may as well save the money you're going to spend and have a dedicated box straight from the provider. Plus, as you already said, he has his own box...so why tell him he can get a new one if he just wants to upgrade the current one? (Besides, no ebuyer server has 4GB RAM and SCSI Ultra320 HDDs, nor do they have 4 CPUs)

EDIT: dieselfuelonly, if you plan to just run LFS servers on that machine then you don't need any upgrades at all, just chuck it in a datacentre. If you want to do anything stressful (like run VPS's etc) then maybe a little more HDD space would be useful, and a slight bit more RAM

Last edited by JohnUK89, Fri, 2 Nov 2007 12:56.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I believe though, it only does it if you "Upgrade and Install", a fresh install shouldn't. I'll test this when I Leopardify myself later.

Nope! The firewall is off by default no matter what type of install you do. And even when turned on it doesn't ask whether you want to block apps phoning home...

It's a 4400+ IIRC Jack...but the point stands on LFS being a very resource-light app on the server side...it needs a lot more bandwidth than anything

Quote from BlueFlame :

No, Soccer isn't a proper word IMO. Football you use your feet, American-Football you use both hands and feet. Soccer is just America's way of trying to better us, it's typical that THEIR version of Football is more violent and WAR based though

They're just not man enough to play rugby, so they chuck body armour on, let them throw forwards, let them score without pressure on the ball and call it football...wusses, the lot of them!

Quote from thisnameistaken :

If Leeds get a promotion this season with that 15 point penalty I will go out and buy a shirt myself! Good luck.

Hey, we're already in the playoff places, AND are only 4 points from top! Time to think about that shirt

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Over 2000 posts and you still don't know how a forum works?

I'm surprised no Hitler references have been cited...oh, wait...

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I'm looking forward to Leeds and York City being in the same league in the not-too-distant future. Just out of spite, you understand, not because I want to see any Leeds fans in York.

Not gonna happen, we're going up this season

Jack - there's a nice addon named ProxySwitch which lets you define multiple proxies and switch between them (including none at all)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2648

Same kinda thing as Kev here, except I'm right next to Elland Road. Therefore Leeds is the only option (they had 3 police choppers over and blocked all mobiles from working around the ground for the Millwall game last weekend, don't wanna get the crap beaten outta me )

Indeed I did race with that, although I didn't really have any money to get any better...wheel after that was an R220, which I bagged for £20 lol

OMG that was my first wheel...when I was about 10, lasted me till a couple of years ago when the pedals went on it Aah the memories...

I wouldn't bank on being able to use AA at all on an 845G without totally killing your frame rate (which TBH I'm surprised is high enough for you to want to consider AA). The 845G also doesn't support vertex shaders, so you'd need to upgrade to a dedicated graphics card if you want that.
For screenshots of LFS with all these effects (AA and AF, as well as the vertex shaders) applied, head into the thread named "How to make LFS look better". It has some rather nice screenshots

Quote from Thunderhead :

Ooh I do like that...fancy listing the stuff you're using there?

Quote from NotAnIllusion :

I mean the shortcuts for adding www., .net and .com. I.e., so I type 'lfsforum' in the address bar and press shift-enter.

Does that on plain enter here, so your point appears to be kinda moot

[EDIT] Reply removed

Last edited by JohnUK89, Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:21.

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/

UKCT's car is starting to look doubtful...not heard from Sam for a good 15 hours now.

Here I am...

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

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UKCT's car will be there, driven by the following two drivers:

UKCT..John - JohnUK89
UKCT..SamH - SamH

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*