Quote from mkinnov8 :

Well done matie boy, thats your free one right there.

I did not say anything about ****s. Nor that anyone is (or isnt)* one. I asked a simply question, as id not check anything out.

Regardless.

* With a responce like that, jumping down from that horse of yours, there are exceptions. Perhaps you are one.

I didn't mean it in that sort of tone. In fact, it wasn't against you at all. I was just trying to make the point that if people say it's impossible, it's most likely not because they're closed-minded people who cannot possible imagine that someone might get a faster lap than them. I did come across as harsh, but that's my horrible word choice as usual... The first sentence was more meant to be read with a sort of sarcastic-ish tone. The kind of tone that doesn't work well on a forum, lol.

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 17:26.

It looks a bit boring - but maybe he just wasn't pushing it very hard?

They really should put THAT in LFS.

Yeah - I'm glad it's come back - considering I'd only been signed up for about 20 hours before it went down, lol.

I thought this was worth sharing. This is really, really cool... and it's air-powered too!

http://photos.revolution-press ... k/202/202%20animation.mp4

Quote from wheel4hummer :

How did you measure that? Because GPS isn't always accurate, because the only GPS I've ever used was a cheap $200 one and it only updated the speed every two seconds.

Yes, it was GPS, which is actually very accurate if you've got more than three satellites and a flat open road

The issue with WMM is that it is VERY touchy with a lot of codecs. I'm fairly confident that that is what your problem with. Many people live with it by saving every 10 seconds as it freezes every few minutes - others just do what I did and use something else. There are some freeware movie-maker style programs online (there's an open source one called Jahshaka - but I don't know if it's any good.) I had a horrible experience with WMM just a few weeks ago (also posted here) and in the end I discovered another video making program on my PC that had come with my sound card and was actually better.

I managed to discover the Bananaphone song about two months ago - and it's been my ringtone ever since!

Quote from hrtburnout :

Now this is a brilliant commercial.

They do make great commercials...

[url]http://youtube.com/watch?v=gjyWP2LfbyQ[/url

And unrelated - but also really cool:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IQTtGQh7EsY

Quote from tristancliffe :

10% is not uncommon for a speedo to be out, even on a complete standard car. They generally range for 5% (rare), through 9% (common), up to 15% (really quite rare up here).

Wow. I guess we've been lucky with our speedos. The past three cars my family has owned ('89 Pontiac TransSport, Audi A6, and Subaru Outback) have never been off by more than 2 mph at 60... which is around a 3% error.

Quote from mkinnov8 :

Why is this time impossible to get? Is it physically impossible? or is it just faster that anyone else has been?

We're not all complete @$$holes here who claim something is impossible just because it is slightly faster. Though I have not personally raced with that combo, I'm fairly certain that if people say it's impossible, than it most likely ISN'T with that car/track combo!

Yeah - if you really want better graphics, get a larger case and transfer everything into that!

Quote from Takumi_lfs :

And how do they actually recalibrate it? I mean like on LFS?

Turn full left and right, but on a car drive full speed then stop?

If only:

"Yes officer?"

"You DO know you were doing 30 over the limit."

"Oh, I'm sorry - I think I forgot to calibrate it this morning."

"Oh, alright then - carry on. Don't let it happen again!"

Quote from Takumi_lfs :

Now I get it, But not enough to explain it.

hmm

So becasue of the tyre size it actually turns faster/slower than the speedo which can't be fixed?

He has larger tires, which means that to travel the same speed, the wheel does not have to rotate by as many degrees. This means that the driveshaft is not spinning as quickly, so the speedometer thinks the car is travelling at a slower speed than it really is.

Picture a marble, and a soccer ball. To move the marble one inch you have to roll it a full rotation, whereas to move a soccer ball requires rolling it only maybe 1/60th of a rotation or so. Of course, it's not that big of a difference with his car, but big enough to give a 3-5 mph slower reading.

I am curious as to the temperatures of other similar processors because I've ALWAYS had an issue with mine running hot. If anyone has a similar-spec processor, could you please post your idle and load temps?

Mine idles around 45°C and gets up to 60° on full load.

This is WITH this cooler, in a room where the temperature is around 22-23°C.

The max temperature as per the AMD website says "55-63°C." So I'm right up there at the edge.

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Sun 13 Apr 2008, 21:15.

Lolz - Harjun = pwned for the 1983748919237th time!

Quote from amp88 :

Hehe. I have 2*74GB Raptors + 1*1TB Hitachi Deskstar in this box. I also have 4.5TB of space on an external RAID5 array

Ahhh - I realize now I missed the 1 TB drive in your specs. That's what I meant - I would have expected that - but I didn't see it.

Good point(s).

A lot of people who post here seem to have the same setup. Then have these ridiculously spec'd computers, but then they have things like 2*74 Gb HDD... wtf?! I would expect people who built their own computer, especially computers with those kinds of parts, to require more than that much space for all that they did on it. It's just ODD.

How difficult do you think something like this would be for the LFS developers themselves to implement. It would seem to be fairly simple, as it involves simply tweaking the views that the "person" sees. I can't possibly imagine this being very complicated...

I'd just stick with a Logitech sound system. They sound fantastic, and are well built... AND they are designed to be used with computer sound cards - so you don't end up with RCA connections that need converters or something. Either what Jakg has, or if you want a 5.1 system, any of those too. I can guarantee though that if you want to rock the house, a z5300 or z5500 setup with blow your mind.

Quote from Primoz :

By far the best case probably is a self made and designed one. It maybe doesn't have all the fancy stuff but it's as big as you need and has the things you need - space for 2 480 rads? No problem. Space for an eATX mobo? Not a problem too, neither is a problem to have 5+ HDs. And yes, this would be something along the lines of a Skulltrail with quad SLI/CF, all water cooled (both cards, both CPUs, NB, southbridges) :P And something the size of 60x60 cm

Had a friend who build exactly that - it was about 80x80x80 cm... clear plexiglass, 12 fans... and sitting in the very middle at the bottom was a really cheap mobo with an Athlon 64 3000+, 1.5 gb of ram and like a 6800... it was completely ridiculous.

I'll do that as a last resort, but I really, REALLY don't want to have to configure everything again. I don't even think that the "USB INIT" reading is of much value. When the computer is off it displays that message constantly since it's set to turn on via USB, so I'm thinking that it may just be showing that message even if it doesn't mean that. It displays a ton of other stuff for a few second before it freezes - including TESTVRAM and stuff -so I want to say everything is working. Doesn't make sense that it would just quit on me without my doing anything. Last thing I did last night was I accidentally pressed the keyboard and it turned on so I just turned it off with the power button.

EDIT 2: Problem solved: Unplugged the power - held down power button for 10 secs - plugged power back in - works! Kind of scary tho - since I don't know why it did that.

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Sat 12 Apr 2008, 16:46.

Alright guys. This is really, REALLY bad and I need your help. Had issues with my computer the other night (running really slow) so I just shut it down. This morning I turned it on to find that it just sticks on the BIOS screen (the one that says press DEL to enter setup.) I don't know what to do - but pressing delete does NOT get me into the setup. It seems to freeze. I have to hold the power button down to turn it off. I have no idea what's wrong - but it's kind of scary - as I've got a LOT of data on there. Any ideas what it could be? As my other post of the off topic section says, Norton's been popping up for the past few days saying it found a trojan, but I don't care what happened with that - it should not freeze on POST...

UPDATE: I just remembered that my mobo has that little post LCD on the back, and it seems to hang on "USB INIT" which I know means USB initialization. However, I unplugged all the USE devices and it still isn't working. I guess the next thing would be to unplug the usb cables from the mobo. We'll see how that turns out.

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Sat 12 Apr 2008, 16:28.

Alright, here's the scoop. I've ALWAYS used Norton (like since as long as I can remember) as my dad always used it - and still does. For the past few months, however, everything's been expired - and now I've got me a bug on one of my computers, so I'm looking at my options.

I LIKE Norton for what I've always used it for. I had the SystemWorks suite, so it was nice to have all the little programs like WinDoctor and other programs that did a lot to fix problems with the computer. Norton SystemWorks is what I'm looking at - though it's expensive. Plus, I've ALWAYS hated how much of a resource hog Norton is.

The other choice I've got is NOD32, which, from what I hear is pretty damned good. However, all it is is an AntiVirus program and nothing else.

So, which is better? Should I get SystemWorks to protect my computers, or use NOD32 coupled with ZoneAlarm as my firewall and Adaware/Spybot for my spyware tools! NEED REPLIES ASAP - MUST INSTALL ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE YESTERDAY! Thanks!

Last edited by Stang70Fastback, Sat 12 Apr 2008, 03:49.