I have a Mk5 Zetec 1.25 16v- first car and I can't really fault it. Nippier than a lot of 1.4s from other manufacturers and it's the last decent Fiesta (except for the ST and ZS) Ford made. All newer (Mk6 Fiesta, Mondeo etc) Fords are just heavy, ugly pieces of crap.

How did you get the MSN contacts on the desktop in Vista, Jakg?

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Drunk racing

I think it'd be quite interesting to play LFS afer drinking because I think after seeing themselves drive drunk in LFS, people would never drink drive IRL.

Hi guys, I'm not usually one to ask about this kind of thing but it has me stumped.

When my Firefox opens, it loads my homepage as normal but the address bar has nothing in it. I can navigate to other pages by typing in addresses as usual but the address I type stays there even if I follow a link to another page. My Back button has also stopped working, yet pressing Backspace to go back works fine.

This is on a 2 day old Vista Premium laptop and Avast and Spybot checks have come up clean. There are no suspicious system processes running and I run NoScript so I don't see how any Javascript-based nasties could have got in.

I'd be grateful if anyone could please shed some light on the cause as Googling hasnt helped- is it simply an error or a sign of more serious malware?

EDIT: Sorry guys, I found the cause- the bloody Polar Rose plugin had gone wrong.

Last edited by TiJay, Tue 14 Aug 2007, 18:31. Reason : found solution

If you knew your PC has USB issues, wouldn't it have been sensible to wait until they were fixed before buying a new USB device (which wasn't likely to work)?

What sort of things are you hoping to do? If you're into 3D, you could quite easily create a little render farm.

Replace the graphics card on that new PC with a 7600 or even an ATi 9800, the 5500 is a bottleneck.

You want to use a laptop to control a PC, right?

You'll need something like VNC or a web-based service like LogMeIn installed on both PCs. However, you will not get the sound on the laptop and you can expect about 2FPS from the visuals, as all the remote-control apps do is send an interactive screenshot to the client PC.

USB pen drives don't have Recycle Bins in Windows. No way I know to enable it either, sorry.

Ford Island is a track and there's another one you unlock at Champion somewhere.

To the OP: From what I've been told, Canada is the best bits of the UK and USA without the bad stuff. So I plan to move there at some point as well.

Wow, sorry for the bump, I never checked this topic recently.

Thanks ever so much, that's a fantastic skin!

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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to read the press and know that Franz and Gerhard are pushing like hell to get rid of me and Tonio.

Scott Speed said this earlier. How right he was.

The only way to make HP entertaining is replace the word "wand" with "wang"...

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She was trying to avoid some animals, and can say that. She was not focusion on the road or something, but she tried to avoid the animals, and probally didn`t even notice the other car. Nothing special you can do about it tho, she tried just to save some lifes, but again she putet her and a other person`s life in danger when driving that hazardios

She was trying to avoid DUCKS. Avoiding a deer/cow/anything big enough to **** her car is fair enough. But what kind of idiot endangers other road users by swerving onto the wrong side of the road to avoid ducks? Pretty damn dangerous if you ask me.

Btw, I love ducks.

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I mean the revs are shown as a 4-digit number like "1234 rpm".

This isn't just a new feature in cars either- older Fords can do this as well- my Mk5 Fiesta has the option to display digital mph, kmh, revs, miles left in fuel tank etc instead of the trip computer. The Toyota Yaris has a digital dash too. So it's feasible the XFG etc could have some kind of digital tacho too.

Glad you're OK

I can't stand women who drive big cars they don't need and think they own the road either. I push trolleys at a local supermarket part-time and whenever I see someone going the wrong way, parking between two bays or not stopping for me at crossings, it's usually one of them.

As for the silly bitch that hit you, I'd try to get dangerous driving charges against her to be honest.

He is AFAIK.

The 3330 is still the best (most reliable, best for phone stuff like calls and texts- and Snake!) phone I ever had. The 3510, (which I never owned) on the other hand, is a piece of crap anyway, so my advice is buy a proper phone like a cheap Sony Ericsson.

I know it's just a dead battery but I had to get my opinion in

I use the official XP Royale theme on my games PC. I think it comes with Media Centre Edition, but I'm sure the theme is downloadable...

Great pics Did you visit BMW's Pitlane Park and try rTractor?

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Audiophiles don`t live a subjective life. HiFi is very objective, because it`s trying to recreate the IRL experience, at home

You can`t argue about the sound of a violin or cello ! Either its the real sound, or it`s not

Audiophiles uses a lot of money, to get the "real deal" and your argument is the thinnest I`ve ever seen.

If you leave out the term "Audiophile" and put in young people - Then I can accept your reasoning Young ppl give a shit about the quality of sound, as long as it`s high, and there iss a hell lot of base

Audiophiles DO live a subjective life (at least the headphone ones) because each brand has its own distinct sound- neutral/emphasising certain frequencies and advantages/disadvantages. It's all down to which sound they prefer.

Good luck!

Thanks, those refurb ones look great! Only thing is, the prices don't include VAT...

I'll also have another look at small business laptops.

And yes, the RAM was at Dell prices.

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What FS2004 offers is a platform that is still supported by addon developers with little performance difference from FS2002.

If you want to improve your experience with new addons, you'll need 2004. You can also use higher res terrain meshes and ground textures in 2004.