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carl0s

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  1. I was looking into TH400s on supraforums yesterday and spotted your post Phil and have been wondering what a VWR motor is since. Can't search for VWR on there 'cause it's a small word.
  2. LOL, that's what happens when you let 10yr olds loose on the laptop whilst on the supra forums
  3. merry christmas chicks of england
  4. Apparently burning hydrogen produces water, but still getting the hyodrogen in the first place costs more than the engergy it provides: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_combustion_engine
  5. and why will the pistons and valves rust? From Hydrogen & Oxygen burning? hmm.
  6. Havn't read it all yet but I'm at a loss as to where the electricity comes from for the H20 separation to take place. I suspect the problem might be that more electricity is required than can be generated by the alternator..
  7. Sure. I didn't want to sound clever either, 'cause I'm not
  8. My Volk GT-AVs aren't particularly light. I know the Gram Lights were supposed to be, but very poor quality and out of production now. I was told that Volk were to bring out a new line of lightweight rims which were filling the gap left by the demise of Gram Lights.
  9. I know but I think he was referring to the 'not the driven wheels' comment, which I have to say had me frowning a bit. When braking all the weight goes to the front obviously - the front brakes have a hell of a lot more work to do than the rear, so the fact that the fronts aren't the driven wheels doesn't really mean the front calipers have an easier job does it.
  10. Oooh. Check this out. The cameras are small too. I'd ideally like to have GPS information overlayed as well though, e.g. vehicle speed. http://obsusa.com/index.html Group buy anyone? About £700 by the looks of it.
  11. It seems that now I realise they are referred to as 'black boxes', I'm finding some better results through google, although probably not entirely what I'm after.
  12. I'm still searching for a black box solution with concealed cameras. Does anybody know of anything? I have already bought a mini DV recorder which records as MJPEG to an SD card, but the quality (jpeg lossiness) is extremely poor. I bought a couple of small cameras from eBay, but they're not small enough. I want a camera which is no larger than the passive IR sensors used by car alarms, and with a similar mounting solution. It seems I'm not totally alone in wanting this sort of system though, (see http://neasia.nikkeibp.com/neasia/003040)
  13. We were wondering if Sadam's death had been saved for today for this reason. Anyway, all the best Imi. I'll be playing fixing cars today
  14. Printers never come with printer cables. In the old days they never came with parallel cables and nowadays they never come with USB cables. Full set of third-party inks costs less than £8 from the right place, but can be a pain with Epson printers. Canons are easiest.
  15. Yeah mine's a late-1996 pre-VVTi and it's fine at the moment.
  16. I thought the beige/cream ones were cheap but the black ones were very pricey. ?
  17. Bugger. I'll watch out for this one on mine then. Does the cable stretch with time or something? Mine works OK at the moment.
  18. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FakeRaidHowto
  19. The dmraid people refer to this kind of raid as FakeRAID. This might help in your googling.
  20. the above (apparently, from the description) doesn't do partition resizing, although apparently this does: http://www.zeleps.com/ Beware of your (soft) RAID-1 mirror. Linux will probably/possibly treat the controller as a regular sata controller and see the disks individually. There will be ways to control this behaviour but at least keep an eye out to see if the Ubuntu setup wizard sees two individual disks or one virtual disk (the mirror). There are various ways to deal with RAID in Linux, and I believe dmraid can read the sata softraid metadata and work with that, but you may need to be vigilant and careful. I haven't installed Linux on an existing softraid mirror like this so I could be wrong, it's just what I've read in the past. I'd start by confirming what chipset your softraid uses (Highpoint HPTxxx, Silicon Image 3xxx, Intel ICHxxx or whatever) and googling from there before you start. Best bet would be to spend £40 on a 120gb HDD and install it on there.
  21. I think the eBay seller is misleadingly selling them individually. He was showing a quantity of two and someone has bought one now, so I suspect it's £75 each. If gregasgp is anyone on here then beware.
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