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General Discussion Area / Re: Big WARM Scottish Welcome to Bob Dent

« on: 12 November 2007, 10:11:20 »

Wasn't much warmer down South this morning. Saw all the ice I'd have to scrape off the Omega and got the Westfield out of its' nice, warm garage instead

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: What other car would you have?

« on: 12 November 2007, 14:27:23 »

Monza GSE

Ooh! Forgot those Used to druel over one of them on my way to school every day. Then I saw it get T-boned one morning. Written off without a doubt

Ultima Gt

I would love one but where do you use the performance? I was speaking to a guy who tried in Belgium. He's not allowed to go to Belgium any more. It's a bit too expensve to do track days in, IMHO, and most UK tracks are probably a bit tight to really streatch your legs in one of those :-/

Still, I wonder if Top Gear are going to acknowledge their lap record any time soon?
http://www.ultimasports.co.uk/laprecord.html

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: What other car would you have?

« on: 12 November 2007, 13:29:29 »

Joined this discussion a bit late. I can't  imagine life without a Lotus seven style car of some sort. Just what you need to complement an Omega. Excels at everything an Omega does badly and vice-versa.

But seeing as Mk2 Escorts are a bit thin on the ground (at reasonable prices), and Sierra's are starting to get the same way, how about using an Omega that's getting ready for the scrapper?  Now then...  undecided

If I were to do it again and I wanted a single donor vehicle I'd go for Westfield's MX5-based kit. The parts on an MX5 are already nice and light, the gearbox ratios are nicely sorted for a lightweight car (Omega ratios would be dire in a Seven) and MX5 mechanicals are bomb proof. Part of me is having unclean thoughts about an X30XE in a seven though. [smiley=evil.gif]

Assuming I could afford another fun car on top of that - well, there are loads of classics I'd love. Where do I start? Lotus Elan / Europa / Cortina / Carlton, Ford Escort Mk1/2, Cortina mk 1/2/3, Consul, Rover P5B/P6/SD1, Triumph TR4a/TR5/TR6/Dolomite Sprint/2500Pi, BMW2002, 3.0CSL... In fact, pretty much any classic car seems attractive compared to the uninspiring boxes on the roads today.

Just watched the whole of "life on mars" on DVD and it's great just for the classic cars.  

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Honour

« on: 09 November 2007, 18:42:59 »

I'll spare a thought for my father-in-law who's in Kandaha at the moment.  

He got a bullet in the chest from a sniper a month or two ago. Luckily the armour stopped it. Puts my life and the odd minor inconveniences I come across into their proper perspective.

Not a situation I could imagine coping with at all so I'm humbled by all those, past and present, who have done.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: One for the IT Techies...

« on: 09 November 2007, 21:46:17 »

When 32 bit 386 was demonstrated assembly modes were same as twilight zone..After I give up..

Ahh, that's just when the "kernel within a kernel" stuff got really exciting!

The most fun project I've worked on was developing an embedded system from the RTOS kernel upwards. Made me realise what you can go with a little processing power if things don't get too bloated. Our simulation build running on a top spec PC at the time ran many times slower than on the target system - which was a 16 bit machine running at 20MHz IIRC.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: One for the IT Techies...

« on: 09 November 2007, 20:05:57 »

Ahh, yes. Processes not that interesting when the meat is all done in VMs.  

Right, shall I do a search now and see if I can make it grunt a bit ?  

Kevin

the search is cpu intensive. the cpus can cope easily

They're looking a bit bored, to be honest.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: One for the IT Techies...

« on: 09 November 2007, 20:02:51 »

Ahh, yes. Processes not that interesting when the meat is all done in VMs.  

Right, shall I do a search now and see if I can make it grunt a bit ?  

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: One for the IT Techies...

« on: 09 November 2007, 19:50:25 »

Yep, whatever is there isn't needed often - if at all.

Time to name and shame a few processes?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: One for the IT Techies...

« on: 09 November 2007, 19:25:38 »

Is that a virtual machine or the real one?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: One for the IT Techies...

« on: 09 November 2007, 18:48:17 »

to be honest, normally feels fine to use from here, occasional sluggishness, but nothing like we used to have  

Yeah, much better since the upgrade

The fact that it hasn't come to its' knees makes me think it's not using most of that memory on a very regular basis. Not sprung a leak, has it?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: One for the IT Techies...

« on: 09 November 2007, 18:45:33 »

I had the answer a minute ago but my memory must be failing me.

It's no good, this virtual stuff.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Supper

« on: 10 November 2007, 01:12:39 »

Maybe I should take everything out of the shed. Except me and my sleeping bag

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Supper

« on: 10 November 2007, 01:07:06 »

(walks to bottom of garden and puts spade back in shed. Time to stop digging)

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Supper

« on: 10 November 2007, 00:57:35 »

.. in which case she'd be a fine one to complain

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General Discussion Area / Re: Supper

« on: 10 November 2007, 00:35:55 »

Ah.  

Just thought. Made SWMBO some cheese on toast too, and she's a total freak when it comes to dreams. She once smashed a picture frame over my head in her sleep (while I was asleep).

Hmm.  

Kevin