carl0s

Yes, I was giving my opinion that there isn't much point on a JDM car but also offering the potential argument for having one (EBC).

Gotcha

No, as per my post, I mean with one

 

You can play about with the gain and set gain on EBC's to promote quick spool. Depending on the EBC, you can also set a target boost level that it will always try to achieve independent of what gear you're in, or 'train' it to know what gear you're in and apply different duty cycle settings on the solenoid to make your target boost in every gear.

 

Because our cars already produce a lot of torque throughout the rev range, there isn't any real gain to be had as you run into traction 'issues' in lower gears. I will be playing about with the EBC functionality of my MAP2 on the strip this year though just to see if gains can be had through quicker spool.

 

Cheers,

 

Brian.

Ah I see, so you're saying what I was thinking then? It's just the way you said 'not much point' had me confused a bit

If you used the LC's autobox, you could make a 4wd Supra

I've always maintained there's not a lot of point in an EBC on a JDM car. If anything, you could theoretically produce a quicker turbo spool with one.

Do you mean without one?

I think I disagree though. I have no EBC on my car, and for this reason the car doesn't see above 14psi until high revs in top-ish gear.

You have to set the upper boost limit with your restrictor ring/exhaust system. This is the absolute max the car can make and you need to make sure the car doesn't go above that.

Unfortunately this max boost is always going to be in high gear, which will leave you with less boost in lower gears.

An EBC would allow the wastegate to be blocked off in those lower gears to attain closer to your target boost (say 17-18psi) in all gears.

Wouldn't it?

It's on my list of things to do. If it makes no difference I'll come and tell you all

games is being played at the city ground

Fair enough

I don't get it. It's a Scottish team playing against a Russian team or something, so what's Manchester got to do with it?

Fedora 9 was released last night, so will provide info on that tonight

 

Damn, beaten to it by Alex, should really read more carefully

I'm eager to upgrade mine too, but it can wait. I have downloaded it now though

The point here being it was actually _designed_ (consciously) as a replacement for Minix

I would have thought this is simply because Minix was the only free (as in beer) unix-alike out there.

Thank you.

 

See how easy it is to give a quick, straight answer?

LOL but that mp3 is very important. You would be amazed how many people say Lie-nux and are adamant that it's 'correct' that way.

I use to use linux on USB but with only 1gb I needed the space for files instead, now with 8gb USB sticks selling for as little as £15 it could be worthwhile.

You should see my little 8gb 'stick'. I had an OCZ Mini-Kart which was only 2gb and broke, this one is miles cooler. It's just a little bit bigger than a fingertip.

I use fedora a lot as its built like redhat which I like, we have lots of servers running various versions of fedora for things like DNS, www, remote login, external email, ftp etc etc etc

 

There is a new feature in Fedora 9 which allows you to install onto a usbkey, the difference between this and a livecd is that all your settings, downloads and docs are kept

I noticed that too. Nice feature

and it uses upstart instead of init, which is something I was talking about earlier in the thread.

I suppose that highlights another thing I mentioned - the sharing of good technologies between distributions.

Latest Ubuntu got virt-manager from RedHat/Fedora

Latest Fedora got upstart from Ubuntu

I'm downloading Fedora 9 to try out

Oooh. Thanks for the reminder

I'll wait 'til I've got a quiet day to upgrade my Fedora 8.

It's just that with virt-manager being such a publicised new feature/addition in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron, I would think that a lot of the stuff in that howto is already done, i.e. kvm is probably already installed, the scripts are already there, and you just use the new Virtual Machine Manager or whatever Ubuntu have labelled it as.

Here is a KVM setup guide on Ubuntu

 

http://www.howtoforge.com/using-kvm-on-ubuntu-gutsy-gibbon

A lot of that will not be relevant to Hardy Heron, because Hardy introduced virt-manager from RedHat (Virtual Machine Manager) which is a gui and command-line interface to it all.

If your computer has hardware virtualization support (Intel's iVT or AMD's AMD-V) then it'll be close to native speed, but you need to be aware that you won't have hardware graphics acceleration, so no Vista aero or graphical games.

I think all Core 2 has iVT.

Regarding how to do it.. you already have KVM there, as Virtual Machine Manager. Create a new VM from within there, make an 8gb or whatever file to use as the disk, select non-paravirtualised (i.e. not Xen), but tick hardware acceleration and you'll have a system ready to install Vista onto. You have to map the virtual Cd drive to /dev/scd0 or whatever your cd drive might be.

With regard to just booting up your existing Vista installation within a VM, that's not going to happen unless you do something like image the drive with Acronis TrueImage and then restore that image to the VM with Acronis' optional Universal Restore feature. Might as well just not bother because it's a bit too involved and likely to go wrong.

I would think there are loads of "how to install Vista virtual machine on Hardy Heron" howtos out there!

how sweet, its not wrong.

Who's sweet, me?

On email I normally call people whatever they have written in their signature, on phone you should be able to ask them?

Well his signature has his full name, but he works for a very large corporation so familiarity probably isn't allowed in signatures..

I should just ask next time we speak, but I do most over email and I might feel uncomfortable if he says "I don't like Abhi" or something

I deal with somebody called Abhisek over email quite frequently (and sometimes phone).

Is it offensive for me to call him Abhi ? I mean, is that like him calling me Ca instead of Carl?

It's just I'm sure he's rung me and said "Hi it's Abhi", so from then on I've just called him Abhi, but now I'm wondering if it's offensive or just wrong.

Anybody know?

It was a replacement but how much of minix made it into linux I dont know.

I'm pretty sure the answer is none. I replaced Windows XP with Linux, but Linux is not a derivative of Windows.

Not always the case, the place ive been looking at for VW's charge the VAT and 10% extra for PCH because there is more risk!

Cheeky eh! You'd have to ring them to find out I suppose.

something else im not sure on is even though they say business or personal use its still leaseing through a Ltd company not personal leasing. I get a car allowance so would be doing it myself

For PCH you just add the VAT. It's the same price but PCH is quoted as VAT inclusive and BCH is quoted as VAT exclusive.

thats a really good site that one - nice one

That's my friends in Leeds. They're all really good people.

I'm not sure if the price is £269 or £295 though. The site is due to be replaced with a new one but it's taking a longer than it should.

I like the look of the IS220 and am in the same boat as you - need it for work but the IS is not under £300 - ive looked and they are quite a bit

http://www.amtcars.co.uk/vehicle-lease-lexus-is220d-4dr_1189.html

Lexus IS220d ?

There are plenty of other cars in budget. I could have an Alfa Brera 2.2 or Alfa Spider. I'm sure there are loads of others (needs to be under £300/month + vat business contract hire), but those Alfas aren't diesel. The diesel Alfas are too expensive and the petrol ones pretty poor on fuel.

I'm thinking like this at the moment:

Civic Type-R, minimum fuel consumption ~40mpg (56mph motorway).

Civic Diesel, minimum fuel consumption ~60mpg.

Diesel is 10% dearer, so I'm pretending the Type-R could achieve 44mpg for comparative purposes. I'm sure that maths doesn't work that way, but it's close enough.

The problem is I am starting to think about cars for the sake of a new car, whereas the point was supposed to be low fuel costs..