Which files & folders to back up?
I'm gradually backing up all my stuff to my NAS box in preparation for moving to a dual-boot Linux/WinXP system, and it's LFS' turn.
Can someone tell me which files/directories I need to backup so that if I had to reinstall LFS in the future, it retains all my settings? Player details, controls, in-car view settings, wheel settings, the whole lot. Obviously I'll be backing up my setups folder too, but no point backing up the game files that I can re-download from lfs.net. I know the misc folder contains unlocking and some relevant files, but is there specifically anything else I should back up that personalises LFS?
Yes I did search, but didn't find anything in the first 100 topics mentioning backups and files, and reviewing another several hundred topics looked rather daunting.
Also, can I move my LFS installation between hard drives on this computer without having to unlock it? Not a problem if I have to, just curious, as I'm trying to shuffle some stuff around and balance the capacity of my hard drives.
Thanks in advance.
Can someone tell me which files/directories I need to backup so that if I had to reinstall LFS in the future, it retains all my settings? Player details, controls, in-car view settings, wheel settings, the whole lot. Obviously I'll be backing up my setups folder too, but no point backing up the game files that I can re-download from lfs.net. I know the misc folder contains unlocking and some relevant files, but is there specifically anything else I should back up that personalises LFS?
Yes I did search, but didn't find anything in the first 100 topics mentioning backups and files, and reviewing another several hundred topics looked rather daunting.
Also, can I move my LFS installation between hard drives on this computer without having to unlock it? Not a problem if I have to, just curious, as I'm trying to shuffle some stuff around and balance the capacity of my hard drives.
Thanks in advance.
Lovely panning shots, very nicely done. Next year when you go, you can try an even slower shutter speed for more background blur. 
Looks like a great day out.
Looks like a great day out.
Well, hitting a tractor in F1 isn't that unrealistic.
Talking simply, it's the number of people you share your bandwidth with. Suppose you and 50 other households in your street has a 4meg adsl connection. If everyone tried to max out their connection at the same time, nobody would get 2 megs - the ISP (and in the UK's case, BT's local loop infrastructure and nearest exchange) don't have the capacity to deliver 200 megs per second. So the contention ratio defines how many you have to share with when the network gets congested.
A 1:1 contention ratio is effectively your own private leased line, which costs a small fortune. This is what bandwidth hogs like to think they're entitled to when their ISP starts clamping down on them running their connection flat out 24/7.
Disagree. Was racing FOX on SO1R recently, and I knew from prior experience there that none of the setups in my collection were any good for that track. A couple of races at first proved this. So I asked for a set from the quickest guy in the previous race, and suddenly I had grip in the slower corners and could get the throttle open sooner. I got way better entirely because of the setup. If I had the knowledge, and most of all, the time, I'd gladly make and tweak my own but with the sheer number of track & car combinations it's not really an option. Which makes me extremely grateful to those able to develop such a good set and those willing to share it.
I fully appreciate/respect it when people decline to share a setup, for whatever reason. But it's sad when you join a server, ask for a setup inbetween races, and just get ignored with silence rather than anyone saying "no, sorry". Not sure what leads to such a mentality, but some servers seem worse for it than others.
I rarely check setupfield myself though, because it's usually for hotlapping setups. Some of which have distinctly un-race-like handling characteristics!
Or maybe it's just my ham-fisted driving. Either way, I'd always prefer (if possible) to get a set that is shown to be capable of doing well in races, than a hotlap set from setupfield....finish your sentence?
On topic, however: speed bumps? In a racing simulator? You gotta be joking.
On topic, however: speed bumps? In a racing simulator? You gotta be joking.
Agreed. Unless, of course, dyslexia suddenly compels you to write perfectly in txt spk mobile phone language.
No, BMI isn't something to be taken as gospel - it doesn't take into account an individual's natural build, lifestyle, or even gender. Guys who push a lot of weights in the gym get classed as overweight on the BMI scale, because BMI assumes that any significant extra weight is fat, not muscle. It's just a guideline for an "average" person.
At 5'10" and just over 12 stone I wouldn't say you're significantly overweight if you're of average build, but if you've done jack shit for the past three years then I wouldn't suggest exercising every day. Do something more intensive, maybe a brisk walk interspersed with quick jogs (and keep a rough idea of how long you can jog for in one go to give you an idea of your progress), but do it 3 times a week rather than every day. Make sure you have a rest day inbetween. Also, as someone who gets to the gym four or five times a week, I'll urge you not to underestimate the importance of a good solid night's sleep. Not always practical or possible depending on work, stress, noise levels, love life, neighbours, emotions, etc, but an extra hour's sleep gives me twice the energy the next day.
Once you get to the point where you can sustain a single walking/jogging session for longer than you have time for it (eg. you've got an hour spare in the evening, and after an hour of alternating jogging/walking you still feel like you could go a bit further), them imo that's the point to take it to 4 times a week, and so on from there.
And feel free to shake things up a bit too. It shocks your body into improving faster, because it gets used to the same routine. Throw in a few random 30 second flat-out sprints, or take a hilly route one day, and so on.
P.S. Forgot to mention reading a report a short while ago suggesting that walking alone isn't intensive enough to produce noticeable health benefits if used as an exercise regime for the normal person (i.e. not the hugely obese). Bump up the intensity and for the time being decrease the frequency as suggested above.
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What kind of fitness level were you starting from, body shape/size/weight etc? Ignore the question if it's too personal.
But I can't see why you'd be getting headaches from such relatively light exercise - you definitely drinking enough? (Water, that is, not alcohol beverages.
)I do spinning classes a couple of times a week and soon learnt that drinking Lucozade Sport helped stop the occasional cramps in my calf/foot that water couldn't prevent, as it was the minerals and salts getting sweated out that water can't replace.
Eat plenty veg, a moderate amount of carbs (eat more meat if you start doing weights), drink at least 2 litres of water a day, and start any exercise gently while building it up over a few weeks, and you can't go far wrong imo.
Slight correction: Prodrive modified Humberside's handful of Imprezas, and those of another force in the country (I forget which at the moment). That's about it.
If you think that police forces have the budgets to arrange bespoke engineering solutions on whole fleets of hundreds of vehicles, then I wish I lived in the same world as you. They've got some neat stuff and often some very nice motors, but not quite the chinese army of invincible rally cars that you seem to be trying to make out. :-/
And for the record, the only reason Beemers aren't in police fleet use as much as a few years ago has nothing to do with their performance or reliability. It's because the seats were too uncomfortable to spend an eight or ten hour shift in.
If you think that police forces have the budgets to arrange bespoke engineering solutions on whole fleets of hundreds of vehicles, then I wish I lived in the same world as you.
They've got some neat stuff and often some very nice motors, but not quite the chinese army of invincible rally cars that you seem to be trying to make out. :-/And for the record, the only reason Beemers aren't in police fleet use as much as a few years ago has nothing to do with their performance or reliability. It's because the seats were too uncomfortable to spend an eight or ten hour shift in.
Ahh, love these threads that pop up every now and again where people talk utter shite pretending they know so much and that everything they say is true. It's like a pub conversation without the social aspect or the alcohol or, well, anything that makes it enjoyable.
Prodrive tuning all the police cars? Old 2.0 litre auto Omegas doing 0-60 in less than 10? Claims that a first-generation fwd Mondeo with 350bhp and adorned with plastic crap actually handles well? Police forces trading and selling cars like DelBoy in order to afford something else?
Lol, very funny.
Prodrive tuning all the police cars? Old 2.0 litre auto Omegas doing 0-60 in less than 10? Claims that a first-generation fwd Mondeo with 350bhp and adorned with plastic crap actually handles well? Police forces trading and selling cars like DelBoy in order to afford something else?
Lol, very funny.
XCNuse looking for an excuse to use his moderatory powers? Surely not. 
Having said that, there really are more important things, and this doesn't deserve it's own topic.
Having said that, there really are more important things, and this doesn't deserve it's own topic.
Well it's pretty much the opposite for me, in four years I'd hardly ever touched the LX cars until LX month, and had little intention to. Partially because there was never the opportunity to drive them online (no servers), and partially because I'd never really got to grips with them.
But at the moment I can't get enough LX4 and LX6. Thanks to LX month, the past two or three days I've enjoyed some excellent racing with the friendly guys at Dead Men Racing on their server (LX4/BL1), and on the official LX Month @ South City server. Even though I'm utterly crap at autocross and haven't got any inspiration (or perhaps, arguably, talent) for the skinning competition, LX Month has still made LFS more fun. So here's to some more surprise events and features in the future.
Well, thanks to the forum moderators too, then.
Nonetheless, the success and popularity of LX month must surely have been noticed. The CTRA has demonstrated how beneficial and successful some kind of organisation/structure is to public racing, so maybe LFS is just waiting for that next step, in the devs occasionally providing a bit of structure/fun to the public racing community.
Depends on the refresh rate of your monitor. Doesn't matter how many hundreds of frames per second a rig is generating if the display is only getting updated at 60/75/100 Hz.
Well, I'm sure it is a very nice bridge.
Nonetheless, any top speed track gets a -1 from me.
It gets a -1000 if it involves modelling & texturing a major bridge and surrounding city.
I'd rather Eric spent his time fondling his testicles* than creating a pointless top speed track. And it would be pointless, because once you've taken a car flat out, well, err... that's all there is to do.
[size]* Although I wouldn't complain at some new environments. Just as long as they're not testicle shaped.[/size]
Tell me about it. Every day I commute through the cradlewell bypass in Newcastle, where there are a pair of front-facing speed cameras on each side of the road at the bottom of the dip. The limit is 40, but the amount of people that do 45-50 down the bank then slam the brakes on and pass the cameras at 30, is rediculous. You have to prime yourself for teh car in front slamming their brakes on instead of concentrating on all the traffic around you. Drivers are so myopic they don't even have a clue what the speed limit is, they just see a camera and think "shit, gotta do 30!". Yeah, real safe.
The irony is that these cameras are on a section of 40mph dual carriageway with no central reservation and no footpaths. And they say they only put cameras in accident hotspots, or where there have been fatalities. So after much research when I was bored at work one day, I found out the only reference I could find to any fatal accidents there was that four young lads had been killed when they crashed at high speed at the bottom of the dip.
In their stolen Sierra.
I agree with it. It would appear that it's use is only intended for auto-x servers where, as mentioned in the patch thread, being able to see exactly where your wheels are is an advantage compared having to judge the corners of the car from the cockpit view.
I can see the advantages of non-cockpit views in other situations too, eg being able to perfectly place your wheels over kerbs and chicanes lap after lap, because you can see the damn things. That's not realistic. A single screen might be limiting, but it's a lot more realistic to have a cockpit than it is driving with a transparent car or an invisible camera boom sticking ten feet out the back.
Also, in case it hasn't been mentioned, it's only an option. If servers running it decline in popularity, then they'll take it off, or other servers will fill the void. Nobody is forcing anything on anyone, unless you actually want to win stuff in LX month, which is more than fair enough in my book.
I can see the advantages of non-cockpit views in other situations too, eg being able to perfectly place your wheels over kerbs and chicanes lap after lap, because you can see the damn things. That's not realistic. A single screen might be limiting, but it's a lot more realistic to have a cockpit than it is driving with a transparent car or an invisible camera boom sticking ten feet out the back.
Also, in case it hasn't been mentioned, it's only an option. If servers running it decline in popularity, then they'll take it off, or other servers will fill the void. Nobody is forcing anything on anyone, unless you actually want to win stuff in LX month, which is more than fair enough in my book.
Search is your friend.
You mean he's an incompetent amateurish fool?
He's not talking about the in-game (LFS) settings, he's referring to the game controller properties via the Control Panel in Windows. In the Game Controller screen, open the properties for the DFP and click on "settings" at the bottom. There you'll see all the options described above.
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