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General Discussion Area / Re: Project Tractor engine swap
« on: 18 August 2007, 23:35:18 »
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Well done all concerned..It WILL be worth it in the end..

Have a beer.. [smiley=beer.gif] :y
I'm that knackered, I'd rather have a nice cup of tea.

Cup of tea with a whisky.. :y

If thats the case, remember (please) to use the cooking whisky.  Keep the malt for a time when you can really appreciate it!!

B
Most definately in the wrong frame of mind to enjoy a whisky.... :(

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General Discussion Area / Re: Project Tractor engine swap
« on: 18 August 2007, 23:28:05 »
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Well done all concerned..It WILL be worth it in the end..

Have a beer.. [smiley=beer.gif] :y
I'm that knackered, I'd rather have a nice cup of tea.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Project Tractor engine swap
« on: 18 August 2007, 23:25:52 »
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Good Work Everyone  :y :y

Hope This Engine Works Ok TB and its not possessed

So by tomorrow afternoon you should have her running  ::)
With the tractor, i make no promises on timescales!

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General Discussion Area / Project Tractor engine swap
« on: 18 August 2007, 23:20:02 »
We attempted the engine swap today, started at about 10:30ish by time we got there.  Took a little longer than planned to remove, but was out by 1:30.  By time we got it to Brackley, and unloaded, it was about 2:30.

Quickly pulled out my old engine, changed a couple of bits over and removed loom from donor engine, started to put new engine in around 4ish.

Could we get the bastard to line up on the gearbox? Could we heck.  After 5 and a half hours, sucess, we got the engine bolts to gearbox.  What an absolute bastard  >:(

So, jobs left to do - everything really. Bolt on PAS, Bolt on oil cooler pipes, bolt on compressor, fit electric fans, consdensor, rad, hoses, airbox, turbo pipes, exhaust, a/c pipes, hbv, expansion bottle, loom, and plenty more.  Must removed to fit TC bolts as well!  Lots and lots still to do.

I had hoped to be not far off getting it to run today, but that bloody car is jinxed.  We were all wet and cold, and very tired by 10pm, after being on it all day.  Good job my neighbour is away, as there was plenty of bad language towards the end ::)


Still, decent progress has been made due to the perseverence of my fellow conspirators, to whom I owe a huge debt of gratitude:

So a massive thankyou to Omegatoy, Kevin Wood, LFF64, Bo Bo, and Tunnie, for your time, your effort, your skills, and your commradeship today.  Personally, despite the fact the rather car is possessed by some evil spirit, I had a very enjoyable day.  Bloody knackered now though.

Thank you :y

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General Discussion Area / Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
« on: 02 October 2007, 22:33:56 »
Incidentally, of all the Internet facing servers I have supported, a few without proper firewalls in front, the only ones that have been compromised through the OS itself have all been Linux ones...

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General Discussion Area / Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
« on: 02 October 2007, 22:32:24 »
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Use Firefox if thats what you prefer, but do not get suckered in to the open source mindset that it is the most secure/bug free stuff out there, as Firefox actually has the worse record of the popular browsers...
And incidentally, the Linux kernel has had loads more CERT warnings that the Windows Kernels in the last 12 months, and that includes a new OS released in Nov (corporates)/Feb (Consumers)...


There is a school of thought that both FF and Linux now have enough "general users" for the idiots that do these things to think it is now worth "attacking" .. up until now the user base was too small for it to be worth it ... which is used to explain the recent rise in CERT warnings ...  

Now how true that is I have no idea .. the logic makes sense .. I don't see latest versions of FF/ Linux suddenly being  LESS secure than older versions !!
Yes, I suscribe to that theory - remember the flaws they are finding now generally affect earlier versions as well.  I always said Windows took security flack due to its popularity...

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General Discussion Area / Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
« on: 02 October 2007, 22:06:54 »
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Use Firefox if thats what you prefer, but do not get suckered in to the open source mindset that it is the most secure/bug free stuff out there, as Firefox actually has the worse record of the popular browsers...
And incidentally, the Linux kernel has had loads more CERT warnings that the Windows Kernels in the last 12 months, and that includes a new OS released in Nov (corporates)/Feb (Consumers)...

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General Discussion Area / Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
« on: 02 October 2007, 09:03:46 »
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Gert rid of IE and use Firefox ....  easier, better, less buggy and it ain't micros**t  ;)
The first 2 are opinion, the last is proven to be untrue - in the last 12 months, FF has had way more critical CERT warnings than IE...

Use Firefox if thats what you prefer, but do not get suckered in to the open source mindset that it is the most secure/bug free stuff out there, as Firefox actually has the worse record of the popular browsers...

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General Discussion Area / Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
« on: 01 October 2007, 22:38:51 »
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Ruh roh!  Been saying Setup will complete in 39 minutes for a while now.  :(

Btw, how do I get this website to stop asking me about the clipboard every time I post?  I forgot.  :-[
IE7!  There is a setting 'Programtically access clipboard'
I stripped IE7 out.  Now IE6 is asking about the clipboard.
Its still got a load of IE7 in there then!

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General Discussion Area / Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
« on: 01 October 2007, 22:38:16 »
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I can only imagine. It's the downside of wizards when it comes to installation IMHO. Half way through installing Exchange you realise you've answered a question wrong when installing Windows Server but, because it was in a wizard, you're left with no idea where the setting is, or even if you can change it after installation, so you surf the net for an hour trying to find the answer, then mess about for another hour, then start again.  >:(

So, the Wizard means that you don't have to know your way around the whole damned system to install it, but you don't learn how to maintain it and configure it during that process, so when something doesn't go right or breaks later, you're guessing.

I know the alternatives are painful too but at least you can retrace your steps if you do something wrong.

Kevin
 
Ex 2003, I'm pretty good at. Ex 2007 I'm still learning fast!

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General Discussion Area / Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
« on: 01 October 2007, 22:34:26 »
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Ruh roh!  Been saying Setup will complete in 39 minutes for a while now.  :(

Btw, how do I get this website to stop asking me about the clipboard every time I post?  I forgot.  :-[
IE7!  There is a setting 'Programtically access clipboard'

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General Discussion Area / Re: G^£ D@"" Microsl#t!
« on: 01 October 2007, 22:26:26 »
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I lost count of the number of times I has to start from scratch the last (and only, believe me) time I had to install Windows Server. Then it was the same story when I tried to install Exchange >:(

I feel for you. Good luck.

Kevin
Oh boy, you wait until you try and make Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007 coexist, then attempt to remove Exchange 2003....

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General Discussion Area / Re: LAIDBACK CALL ME!
« on: 02 October 2007, 21:58:00 »
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Technically impossible...too far.. :)
Oh I don't know, I thought I was too far, but he's turned up on my drive before to laugh at my tractor ;D.  He does do some miles now, but afaik, not Turkey. Yet.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Back from Scotland early
« on: 02 October 2007, 21:53:58 »
Well hopefully the surgery will be best in the long run, but doesn't sound too nice in the short term :(

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Oh good, that means you can do a 'business trip' to Brackley instead ;D

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