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General Discussion Area / Re: didnt eat much on holiday.....

« on: 14 December 2007, 21:25:11 »

Why is your wife lying down stroking wood then?  

PMSL! New laptop, please! This one's got beer on the screen.

.. and no more "Wood" jokes

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Had my 2nd interview

« on: 14 December 2007, 16:03:21 »

You'll get there in the end.  


Kevin

33603

General Discussion Area / Re: Crank sensor life expectancy?

« on: 14 December 2007, 21:27:43 »

Mine's already died. Lasted 4.5 years and less then 50k miles

A few folk round here had better have a spare

Kevin

33604

General Discussion Area / Re: for singles only

« on: 14 December 2007, 10:41:30 »

So, let me see. You were searching for parts for your Omega and "came across" these sites "by mistake"?

 

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Help needed with driver for hard drive.

« on: 14 December 2007, 11:22:43 »

back to days with commodore 128

And the dreaded "slower than tape" 1541 floppy drive (shudder!).

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Help needed with driver for hard drive.

« on: 14 December 2007, 09:45:55 »

My new PC at work has a SATA drive and no floppy. Does this mean I can't re-install XP without this aggro? (actually I'd hope the OEM copy of XP includes the drivers).

I think it's rather shocking that an OS comes without the capability to access any storage media invented after the 1980's.

Do you think we could put the driver on a cassette and load it through the sound card? Or maybe it supports punch tape?

 

Kevin

33607

General Discussion Area / Re: Global warming

« on: 14 December 2007, 09:24:17 »

so let us spend money on developing those new clean technologies instead of pouring millions, if not billions, into a futile scam.

Some hope of that happening with physicists having their projects cancelled left, right and centre at the moment.

It's plain to see that, assuming man made "climate change" is a problem, we have a choice of reducing emissions by going back to live in the trees, reducing emissions by finding cleaner ways to do the things we currently do or carrying on regardless.

Kevin

33608

General Discussion Area / Re: Juke box

« on: 14 December 2007, 09:28:54 »

Watched the Pink Floyd docu on the telly last night.....  And Led Zep the night or two before.... Can that be included??

 

Missed both of those

The CCR2006 is loaded with Led Zep CDs at the moment though

Kevin

33609

General Discussion Area / Re: TECH2 Diagnostic's KIT for Vauxhall/ Opel

« on: 12 December 2007, 17:15:24 »

Interesting...

Can it watch the fuel trim values? Might be useful for tuning LPG conversions too

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: TECH2 Diagnostic's KIT for Vauxhall/ Opel

« on: 07 December 2007, 11:24:31 »

Oh, agreed. Definately worth having as they can get you out of trouble and will probably cost less than a single Tech 2 session at a main dealer. Just don't expect too much from the software.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: TECH2 Diagnostic's KIT for Vauxhall/ Opel

« on: 07 December 2007, 09:25:14 »

Looks like the standard "chepo tech2". The software is really poor and mostly in hungarian language. They can get you out of trouble if you need to read the codes, and will attempt to read most systems in the car but won't do much more than that and can be difficult to get working. They need a laptop with a real serial port (USB adaptors won't work).

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: What's happening

« on: 11 December 2007, 20:57:10 »

Its Christmas, some folks are probably busy, shopping, or havin a few beers

It's not Christmas for another 14 days    

.. and no present (and no ideas) for Mrs. KW yet.

Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock...

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Say, buddy, can you give me a tow?

« on: 12 December 2007, 16:04:19 »

From mine, opposite locking a Mini on roundabouts certainly was not.....

I had a similar experience at the Goodwood festival of speed one year. Torrential rain and the field I'd parked in was a quagmire. Chap in a lovely old vintage RAC landy offered me a tow and proceeded down the field, through the gate and up the other side of the fence. He had plenty of grip to get through the gate and had the luxury of not having to negotiate it sideways! I don't know how I managed to get a Rover 214 sideways through a 5 bar gate without ripping either bumper off, but somehow I did!

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: WHA'S LIKE US?

« on: 11 December 2007, 20:50:21 »

I have a dead dyson(motor) ,but I will get one of ebay for about £15 sometime,I bought swmbo a cyclonic Vax as a stopgap for £40,It was 1/2 price from amazon, and she prefers it,and if it lasts a yearand blows up I'll buy her another one,
Generous or what  
  ;DFor Christmas I'm getting her a new iron  
That was a joke
DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES BUY DOMESTIC APPLIANCES AS GIFTS

Mrs. KW saw the foot spas in John Lewis the other day and informed me that if I ever buy her one she's off. So, that's my exit strategy sorted should I ever need it.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: WHA'S LIKE US?

« on: 11 December 2007, 11:41:39 »

I agree in the most part, but as an engineer I find that someone marketing themselves on the fact that they employ trial and error as a development methodology grates a little bit.

I don't think the end result is as revolutionary as claimed. Like every other "hoover" it does the job but has its' flaws.

Kevin