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I was in the blue one .. on my way to court. We glanced at each other

nah, this is more of a gadget really. I'll keep my eyes peeled. BTW, some of the current-ish Dells (e.g. Latitude 505) have a 9-pin serial port.

I guess dampers or just simply "shocks" would be the usual term. Brand new Toyota rears are a shade under £80 each from our man at Inchape Toyota..

I'm pretty sure it's a Toytota WiLL Cypha

How many's you got in stock? Interested on a p/x for a super-mini Sony VAIO notebook? I haven't got around to selling this one yet, but it's so tiny it's unreal! VAIO TR1MP if you fancy looking them up.. £1,799 inc vat when it was new..

I haven't got the balls to swap anyway, and I kind of thought you wouldn't since your price on the Aristo is about 3k more than I'd expect to get for the Sup

looks like one of those Toyota WiLL Cyphas..

I presume you're talking about shifting into N whilst driving though?

I don't know. I think you were just luky. The box is electronically controlled, and for example won't shift down until revs allow, but I *almost* had exactly the same incident as you, and I heard the gears grind but I didn't actually get it all the way into R. I think you, like me, have been quite lucky.

I've got loads of pictures of that car!

I'm tempted to see if you'd swap for my UK tt auto but I'd probably not like the manual 'box

I wonder what their RB26 engined Supra goes like?http://trial.co.jp/osaka/export/stock/stock_cars/rb26/rb26_s.htm

Right kids! This machine now has in-built Atheros Super-G 108mbps wireless. Same price. £280 + delivery, or collection welcomed! That's a lot of laptop for your money! Wireless, 768mb RAM, Ultra-XGA screen, Firewire, CDRW, 3D graphics...

Bump. That's just £280 + postage, or £300 all in.

Funny, but infuriatingly true.

£300 plus postage. I've been thinking hard about it actually and I could *just* about manage to do it for £300 incl. postage. (postage costs me £18.50).

This is a bit older than usual, but is still a good machine, and has a few quite unique features.. Dell Inspiron 8200. Mega meaty machine. Very solid and hard-wearing. It has a U-XGA (Ultra-XGA) 15" Screen, with a massive 1600x1200 resolution. Also a 9-pin serial port, which I know some of you guys want. Lots of RAM, fairly decent CPU, much-o kit all round, good price. Spec: 1.8Ghz Pentium-4M Processor 768mb DDR SDRAM nVidia GeForce 32mb dedicated-ram graphics 20gb HDD 10/100mbps Ethernet 56k v92 Modem CD-ReWriter DVD Player TV-Out Firewire USB2 1.44mb Floppy Good battery 15" U-XGA Screen Windows XP Pro Now, the machine came to me with just a DVD-ROM, so I have replaced this with a CDRW/DVD. The machine is Wireless-ready, so it has an empty Mini-PCI slot with the aerials in place ready. I can install a 802.11g 54mbps Mini-PCI internal wireless card for an additional £15. *this is not a PC-Card, it's completely internal as in any 'proper' wireless laptop*, or I could throw in a 54g PC-Card for free. I can upgrade the hard-drive to a 40gb unit for an additional £15 also. Pictures to follow... anyone interested?

check your brake discs and pads aren't over-worn before ordering a new bearing!

Type 005 battery I think. Halfords do a reasonable Calcium one for ~£50. My car looks like it could have taken a bigger battery but 005 is the one apparently.

Mine was ok by hand. If you need to use special tools on it, then you will have to start removing bits in the engine bay and do it from above. Sump plug is kind of in the middle. It's nearest the engine. The one further back is the gearbox drain (auto).

Yeah you're in the ICE section Jack the car up and put axle stands under it, get marigolds on your hands and a tesco carrier-bag and a torch and get your arm up through the passenger-side front suspension and you'll see the Oil Filter there. Unscrew with the carrier-bag around it and keep it the right-way-up 'cause it's filled with about half a litre of oil. Spark plugs are easy but you'll want replacement cam-vent hoses if they've not been replaced lately. Should be some good writeups on that already.

Thanks Yulia. It's the main exe file. What I'll do when I'm ready for it is to post up a screenshot or two and put markers around the bits I could do with help on. thanks very much

I'm quite lame when it comes to web stuff mate, but could you have used mod_rewrite?

Thanks. Actually, Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com) does a remarkable job on Russian. There must be some serious similarities between Russian and English for the translations to become so perfect. It really does come out that good though! Anyhoo, the problem here is that the text is in an image so without Russian character-recognition (ocr) software it'd be no good as there's no text to feed into the translater. Thanks for the help everybody, it's been very much appeciated. Unfortunately though I have a (perhaps) bigger problem on the horizon. The application I need to use is also written in Russian Here it is http://atprog.boom.ru/CHAMEL05.ZIP I need to read the contents of a 24c02 eeprom and then save it (a dump of the eeprom contents) to a file somewhere. Does anyone know of any software which purports to be a hex-editor style ascii search & replace with Russian to English translation? hmmm. not likely I don't think John_M, Geoff, are you guys really doing what I think you are? Opening some kind of Russian on-screen keyboard and typing out the words before putting them into altavista babelfish? Good grief

Don't I know it!