lol this thread reminded me of this old joke:

Reasons Why Motorcycles Are Better Than Women

Motorcycles' curves never sag.
You can ride a motorcycle at any time of the month.
Motorcycles don't have parents.
Motorcycles don't whine unless something is really wrong.
You can kick your motorcycle to wake it up.
You can share your motorcycle with your friends.
If your motorcycle makes too much noise, you can buy a muffler.
If you motorcycle smokes, you can do something about it.
Motorcycles don't care about how many other motorcycles you've ridden.
When riding, you and your motorcycle both arrive at the same time.
Motorcycles don't mind if you look at other motorcycles, or if you buy motorcycle magazines.
You don't have to deal with priests or blood-tests to register your motorcycle.
You don't have to convince your motorcycle that you're a motorcyclist and that you think that motorcycles are equals.
If you say bad things to your motorcycles, you don't have to apologize before you can ride it again.
You can ride a motorcycle as long as you want and it won't get sore.
You parents don't remain in touch with your old motorcycle after you dump it.
Motorcycles always feel like going for a ride.
Motorcycles don't insult you if you're a bad rider.
Your motorcycle never wants a night out alone with the other motorcycles.
You don't have to take a shower before riding your motorcycle.
It's always okay to use tie-downs on your motorcycle.
You can't get diseases from a motorcycle that you don't know very well.
You don't have to take your motorcycle out to dinner to get a ride on it.
You can leave your motorcycle out in the garage and it won't complain about the cold.
You can ignore your motorcycle and it won't ask why.
Your motorcycle won't look at the grease on your collar and ask where you got it from.
You can ride your motorcycle in public.
You can flirt with girls when you're with your motorcycle.
If your motorcycle isn't working, you can always borrow your friend's.
If you see a girl riding a motorcycle, you don't have to worry.
You can choke your motorcycle.
Motorcycles won't leave you for another rider.
Motorcycles don't wake you up at 3:00 AM and ask you if you love them.
You don't get into trouble with the law for storing disassembled pieces of the motorcycle in the basement.

lol @ -27, but Whistler is in the mountains so I'm not surprised. Here in Toronto we have a couple weeks of -20 degree weather every winter, that's about as cold as it gets. But over in the prairies they regularly experience -30 degrees every year. We don't have wood-burning stoves though for heat, we have gas furnaces. Many houses have wood-burning fireplaces, but they are more of a luxury, not really for warming up the house, but in a power outage it's very good to have one.

You know the "Home" page in LFSW that nobody looks at? How about putting the "best racer info" on the forum as well? If it becomes more obvious maybe people will go out and race more to try to get their name to appear here on the forum where everybody will see it, rather than on LFSW where nobody sees it.

Exactly how cold does it get down there in the winter?

Interesting. Whenever I make a fire in my fireplace I sort of make a little container made of small sticks, and light a piece of newspaper inside it. The only down side is that it is hard for air to get to the newspaper, so it starts burning kinda slow, but it gets going after a while. And yea, you need dry wood, if it's wet it'll take forever to get going (if it gets going at all). I think I tried your way before, but the newspaper would eventually burn out and the sticks would not light at all. That's when I put the newspaper under the sticks and they finally burned.

That was a good read, and here I thought engine braking was just due to all the friction in the engine.

Does the vacuum in the engine have any impact on the exhaust? I hear people say (especially cops) that you shouldn't use engine braking to slow down because it causes the exhaust to make a lot more noise. Is there any truth to that? Also, does the vacuum hurt the exhaust in any way?

Next time, instead of asking, do a search, and you will find this thread:

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=41775

And sunglasses can be found at your local corner store.

The Scirocco will never be released in LFS. It was a marketing ploy to boost sales. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Btw that pic is the worst edit ever. Fail.

Are you guys being sarcastic or something? That laptop will run all those games, but probably not at max settings though.

Hate to burst your bubble DragonCommando, but benchmarking is the only real way to compare the performance of two cards, you have them all run exactly the same test and compare the results. You can't compare clock speeds and automatically know which card is better, the true performance of the card is the combination of all the specs. But we don't know how they are combined, so we cannot tell from the core speed + memory speed + amount of memory + all the other stuff in there how one card compares to another card. And sometimes you cannot compare specs directly, like ATI and Nvidia have different ways of counting shaders, so an ATI 4870 has 800 shaders and a Geforce 280 GTX has 240 shaders (or something, dunno exactly). The 4870 also has a faster core clock speed than the 280 GTX. Does that make the 4870 faster? No, it doesn't. In fact it's slower. But how do I know that? After all the specs tell me the Radeon should be faster, right? Benchmarks tell the real story, even if they don't match exactly from site to site, they all follow a similar pattern.

"earthing" - is that the word used in the UK? We call it "grounding".

I have no idea, it can take a couple weeks if you ordered from the US (Amazon.com).

RTFM, you should be around long enough to know about this page.

http://en.lfsmanual.net/wiki/F ... rs_are_the_LFS_cars_based

Wow that system is really weak, only 2.4 GHz, it doesn't matter how many cores you have, it will still be slow, and a Geforce 8600 lol, forget about "maxing out any game", good luck running your games at the lowest quality (except for maybe duke nukem 3D). The point is, don't buy that system, it's the best advice I can give you.

Pretty good build. But you don't want a new video card as well? An 8800 is old now.

Run "fdisk /f" on your hard drive, it should fix the problem. You probably have to put it in another PC and do that though, since you may not be able to get to a command prompt in your current situation.

I recommend you don't put a fan on the door of your case. I did that and the whole door would vibrate, and it would be really loud. I suggest you put one at the front of your case, in front of your hard drive. That's a really good place for a fan, cause it takes in cool air from in front of the case.

It won't break. I've had mine for a year, I've used it regularly, and it's still as good as new.

Nope, we cannot change the parts that light up. Sure you can paste a picture of those taillights on top of the originals, but when you hit the brakes it will look weird. So you gotta find taillights similar to the ones already in use.

That's the American Amazon, it's in American dollars, when you factor in the exchange rate it comes to be the same or more. Or you can wait a few days until the exchange rate rises to par, it's been skyrocketing the past week or so.

You better have good airflow in your case if you get that cooler. These fanless coolers assume that you have a few fans in your case which can actually take the heat somewhere else. Otherwise you won't accomplish anything, and your video card will bake in it's own heat.

Shopbot is your friend. Just find the store which has the best shipping rate and accepts your payment method.

http://www.shopbot.ca/default. ... wheel&position=search

If your card "never gets to 70C" then what's the point in messing with the card's bios? It clearly wasn't overheating.

I have a 4870 and it's at 80C all the time, with about 20% fan speed. This is normal. If the temps reached 100C then I would be worried.

I don't like when they close threads that might not need to be closed. But I do like that they give explanations of why they do close them.

That being said, these are people who are volunteering their time to moderate this forum, nobody's paying them to be here afaik. And they are older guys too who have real lives to deal with, so I can only imagine how tough it can be moderating this forum and living their lives at the same time. So I think we can cut them some slack when they make decisions which we may not necessarily agree with. I think they are doing a great job keeping everything in order around here, and not letting this place turn into an uncivilized 4chan-like forum.

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how to put install interior??

how to english speak?