Dash Rendar

Your offer of rohypnol and fudge makes me think you're taking my love comment a bit too far. I'll take the chocolate.

Yeah, it's been there for years. If this thread generated revenue, the pay-per-click fees you'd owe me would be massive. Again... no need to thank me. Just bake me a cake or something.

You don't need to thank me. I do it for the love.

Quiet around here...

I believe I have a genuine Office 2003 Pro key that I no longer use. I'll drop you a PM.

Wow, what is wrong with that kid?!

I normally set a calendar entry.

In case anyone wants to go back to some of this retro-gaming, I've got a big bundle of Amiga stuff up for grabs: http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=229331. (Classics like Xenon 2, Syndicate, Canon Fodder, Worms, etc, all included.)

Awesome! I'm always mucking about with WinUAE. It would be great to have an equivalent on the iPhone!

Thanks for the offer, but I think I only need the spring. I've actually found spare springs at the XSPower website, but the springs don't list what size wastegate they're designed for. I've dropped them an email...

My car used to reach 1.4 bar with the EBC set to around 50% duty. But now it only hits 1.2 bar, regardless of how high I set the EBC. Ryan and Darryl are of the opinion the wastegate spring is at fault and needs replacing. It's been like that for about a year or so, but I don't really mind running at 500bhp (which is what it dyno's at with 1.2 bar). But the car has a service coming up, and I thought this might be a good opportunity to put in a new spring. Darryl wasn't sure if the springs are interchangeable between wastegates (mine is the XS Power), so he suggested I post up a thread here. Can anyone tell me what I need, or a source? Thanks.

Hilarious story!

Haaaaa haaaaa!

Wow. Clearly the crowning moment of David Carradine's career.

I have a phobia of small bits of sticky paper... So I have a hissy fit if someone takes a label off an apple and tries to stick it on me. How's that for completely mental?

I gotta admit... That's an awesome conversion.

Personally, I can't get enough of this noise!

Legend!

This is what you need... http://www.streetfire.net/video/ride-in-a-supra-funny-as-hell_61066.htm.

No flaming necessary. I agree with you.

One can only hope the scum that did this can be found and duly executed.

I remember using RAM disks in the AmigaOS Workbench back in the 80s, and in MSDOS too. They've been supported in every Windows version that's been released since, and you can still install a RAM disk into Windows 7 as a legacy device. (Takes about a minute to set up.) But RAM disks were traditionally used prior to the existence of hard disks out of necessity, and faded into obscurity since hard disks made them obsolete.

No worries. BTW, Windows 7 Experience Index has my disk at 7.7, so that's good enough for me! (Not that this is the most accurate benchmark in the world.)

In case you're interested, the Intel X25 I mentioned earlier supports TRIM on Windows 7 without needing any additional tools. You just need your BIOS configured to AHCI. Note that if AHCI isn't enabled in your BIOS when you install Windows 7, then enabling AHCI post-install will prevent Windows 7 from starting. (Which is easy to fix... just switch back to IDE.) But you can configure AHCI in Windows 7 at any time by editing the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci and changing the value of "Start" to 0. Then restart Windows. Then you can change your BIOS settings and restart. All done. Alternatively, you can use the Intel tools and configure them to optimize your drive on a schedule. But I prefer letting Windows do it all for me.

My opinion would be that if you want a cost effective way to make your machine run a lot quicker, then spend it on upgrading to Windows 7 rather than getting a new SSD. Windows 7 is so much faster than Vista it's hard to believe until you see the difference on your own hardware. And it's much more stable too. Vista is an awful OS, whereas 7 is very good. I just installed Windows 7 on a 5 year old laptop that was previously running XP, and I'm stunned at how much faster it's running that XP was. In my nostalgia, and having been through the pain of going from XP to Vista, I always remembered XP as being lightning fast compared to Vista. And that's why I was so surprised to find Windows 7 running faster still.