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Depends on car and rim colour really. Here's my old blue one with yellow calipers: http://www.css-networks.com/oops/images/dsc00037.jpg and here's my current gunmetal one with red calipers: http://www.css-networks.com/gunmetal2.jpg I think the blue one looks better, with the yellow calipers, but then it had only just been waxed and polished, and it was lowered, but it looked horrible most of the time because dirt showed up badly.

Anyhoo, back to the original question. Does the car have a single turbo or stock twins?

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I heard that Dan blows cars up or something Now where's that Partridge clip?

Just downloading now; I suppose it's Episode 6 - "Over Logging"?: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4640222/SouthPark_S12_E01-14_(mozilla_9211)

I did wonder if it needed UPnP or mDNS/Bonjour or something with how Scot said it would magically find it, and the mediacenter thing he was talking about, whatever that is. I've got all this to learn when I get my PS3 in a months time. I've never shared videos from within Windows Media Player, so that's something new learned. thanks for the info.

Fair enough But when I try to check that out, I go all confused. Although it's not quite happening now. I think it's because I'm looking for a black border, or a perceivable "end" to the picture. It's that end thing again, like the universe.

I was just looking at my Thinkpad laptop with its square screen, and my widescreen desktop monitor, and I started to think "What do my eyes see?" "Do I see in a square or do I see a rectangle due to having eyes side by side?", and I tried to see what I was seeing, and I got all confused. It was like when I think about the size of the universe, and what contains the universe, and where does the universe end, and what comes after the end then, etc. Does anybody elses mind go all weird sometimes when they think like this?

By the sounds of it, if you have movies on a Windows computer there, you can share the folder (Right-click folder -> Sharing -> Shared As "Videos"), and hopefully the PS3 will allow you to browse the Windows network and see that computer, then see the folder and play the movies. All this fancy stuff is for if your videos are in unusual formats that the PS3 can't play by itself. These fancy things re-encode (translate) the videos as you play them into a format that the PS3 can understand. They probably do other nice fancy stuff too, but to just play movies, I'm thinking you won't need them.

Can't see much point to be honest. My Thinkpad has Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha, my desktop has Fedora 10, I have a web server and general play about server with F10 on it, and my Netbook dual boots XP & Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha. I have a lot of Linux already! I read pretty much what Michael says, that it's very slow and probably only useful as a technical/interest exercise. I should think/hope the Sony PS3 whatever system on there is pretty polished.

Cool, supports Linux. thanks.

Is the PS3 limited in what containers/codecs it can play? I'm planning to get one as a media centre and my movies are all in xVid and h.264 AVI and MP4 files on a Samba & NFS server. I don't have a Windows computer here other than my netbook.

I remember reading something about this. The interesting thing was that in some cases all that was needed was a firmware update for the drive.

I think that's my birthday present sorted, I might as well get a PS3. Screen in bedroom is a 1680x1050 thing with DVI, so not quite 1080p but not far off. Do you reckon I'd do better to swap it with the 26" 1920x1200 screen that I have on my computer downstairs, or will that resolution suffice? I might have to run at 720p or something I suppose ? I have been wanting a decent network media player to replace my cheap Freecom MG35 thing, so a ~£250 PS3 sounds like it might do the trick. I just bought a £48 HDMI upscaling DVD player last night too, so that the kids could take the £15 one and I could use a HDMI > DVI cable in place of the horrible composite I've been using up 'til now.

Check this out.

No but I found this:

http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=175530

Yeah, t'internet's broke!

but I saw it as a gamble, so I'm not too bothered really. Plus it was always going to be a long term thing. I'm half tempted to buy a couple of hundred quids worth more now that they're at 12p. That'll essentially double my current £1000 stake, for only £200 .. but I kept doing that before, thinking "damn that's cheap, surely they can't go lower"

oops my grand is currently worth £212!

AFAIK the concept of low level formatting has not existed for decades. I would just run DBAN, or try rewriting a MBR with "fdisk /mbr" from a Win9x boot floppy (http://www.bootdisk.com), or look at the partition layout prior to attempting the format.

It's /dev/sd[abcd] now as the ATAPI stuff uses the scsi subsystem or something.

It's mostly gone in fees and what not. Those hedge funds who were investing their client's money into Madoff's scheme were being paid commision on the 'profits' made. As much as $500m per year for some of them. With the financial crisis of last year and now, a lot of investors were wanting to draw their money back out of the fund, and there wasn't enough money to give it back .. Oh and it's $50bn that's been invested since day 1, 14 years ago. Every year for 14 years money has been going out of the fund to pay non-existing profit to previous investors. Some of that profit might/would have been left in the fund, which makes you wonder if the $50bn is what was invested, or what in total investors thought they had accumulated, but also there's been many millions paid out in commission to feeder funds or whatever you call them, and of course for the lavish lifestyle of Mr Madoff and his family and co-workers, many of which are family anyway.

Yeah. Mr Markpolos says in his SEC letter that many senior fund managers he spoke to said it was a scam.

$50bn basically wiped out. Nuts.