Quote from pearcy_2k7 :

I agree totaly i don't want to see a drift car, but we are never going to get rid of the ricers now. So the best thing to do might be to just give them what they want and then were all not listening to them requesting it would be worth it just to shut them up and although im not a drifter drifting is a form of racing/motorsport and they are trying to make a racing simulator drifting is just a different type of racing like Oval or banger racing or rallycross.

Unless they decide they want to cater to circuit racing and thats it.

That would be a mistake. Look at the UK immigration problem! You give an inch, they take 100 miles.

Skidding retards here will be no different. You give them a 3' rear spoiler and 10" exhaust and next week, they'll want 18" exhausts and 5' spoilers... there really is no limit to their stupidity.

As has been said many times, there's plenty of games that cater for that kind of immaturity... this isn't one of them.. unfortunately, most are too dense to realise / comprehend this fact and like most children, just want, want, want.



Regards,

Ian

Sorry to be a PITA Bob.. can you throw my name into the 'spectators' category. Not sure if I'll be there afterall, but as a spectator, it won't mess with your plans, whatever I decide



Regards,

Ian

Quote from LFSn00b :

http://www.tunergp.co.uk/tuner.htm

How come i see nothing rice or is my definition of rice wrong? I sadly agree with OP if its not 100" Bling exhaust and rims

Those cars seem to be pretty standard in appearance, just with some gfx... oh, imagine that... just like the XRT is to the XRG with a different skin! How ironic

Funny how _racers_ very rarely seem to ask for this kind of crap, isn't it? Wonder when these skidding kids will finally grow up



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Dajmin :

[ snip ]

These threads are really starting to piss me off now.

Most new threads here now seem to either request something rice, or something specific for those skidding twats (normally not mutually exclusive).. LFS IMO is really going downhill with the current "clientelle". Wish these people would fsck off back to NFS or something. Performing a 'new posts' search is like wading through 2' of shit in a sewer.



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Ian

Quote from scania :

XRR is a race car, tuned by profession racing team, I mean a street car, tuned by other factory like HKS, Gemballa, & the car in Tuner GP

<sarcasm>Oh yes!! please!!</sarcasm>

You kids really need to start reading, comprehending, then simply not posting I realise the first 2 are going to be like learning brain surgery for most of you.

NFS forums are in the other direction.......................

Quote from Zirconius :

I just copyed the entire folder "settings" from my old path and copyed it into the new lfs/data map.... And did as u told on the last post... but still doesnt work..

What dir have you selected at the top of the tool? It will need to be your 'C:/LiveforSpeed' dir of your new install (rather than the data or settings dir within it... I'm just clarifying here, not saying you have done that ).



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Ian

Hi z..

Sorry, I don't know if I caught my edit before you tried it. I got the path wrong when mentioning about copying your data/settings dir from your old install to your patch Y install.

If you copied this dir to your 'C:/LiveforSpeed' dir, move it into 'C:/LiveforSpeed/data' (so you should end up with C:/LiveforSpeed/data/settings'). Then click on 'fix' again and it should work.

Sorry about that.



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Ian

Quote from wien :

You walk up to complete strangers, question their intelligence and call the first thing they've said to you stupid in a fairly harsh manner? Sure you do...:rolleyes:

It's been known.. normally followed quite quickly by getting out of my car. If someone says something stupid, then I'll often comment. I didn't just make a random thread calling "user x" stupid (which is where your analogy fails).. it was in response to a stupid post.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Zirconius :

i'm a noob... Still dont get it... Lol....

If someone can take 5 minutes to help me I would be very pleaced...

I god my old LFS in this direction (C:\Program Files\Nanoteknologi\LFS_S2_ALPHA_W)

My new ones is here (C:\Liveforspeed)

After opening the (Dos window) What do i type??

All's good

If you've grabbed the attachment from this thread since I last edited the first post, you'll actually have a standard windoze GUI rather than needing to use a DOS window (that was causing too much confusion).

As you're running 2 separate installs.. copy 'C:\Program Files\Nanoteknologi\LFS_S2_ALPHA_W\data\settings' to your new 'C:\Liveforspeed\data' dir. Load the tool I posted in the first post here. Click on the [...] button to the right of the text field at the top and select your 'C:\Liveforspeed' dir. Then click on 'Fix'.

It'll run through the files and display them in the list as per the attachment in the first post. Once you're done and happy, you can then manually delete the 'C:\Liveforspeed\data\settings' dir as the new files get written to the 'data/setups' and 'data/colours' dir accordingly.

If any of it's still unclear, post back and I'll run through what's left with you to get you sorted



Regards,

Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:51.

Quote from wien :

Which is obviously grounds for a good tar and feathering 'round them 'ere parts. What I don't understand is what it's supposed to accomplish? Is being a mean mother****er somehow more effective than telling him the same thing nicely?

Who's being mean? I was merely stating the obvious. It doesn't take much common sense to do a search. I don't sugar coat what I say.. unfortunately, many people can't hack that.. which isn't my problem.

Quote :

If you talked to people that way in real life, you wouldn't have any teeth left.

I do (I don't treat my screen as an "anonymous shield") and only been hit once in my life.. 14 years ago (and that didn't matter how I spoke to the fella).. my teeth are fine, thanks



Regards,

Ian

Quote from wien :

In what parallel universe is calling someone stupid, implicitly or explicitly, not a personal insult?

It was stupid to ignore the search feature, thus the poster can't be too smart.

You only have to read previous threads to know the suggestion was a stupid one to make in regards to LFS too.

Common sense is what was called for, something obviously lacking from the OP.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Stregone :

Opera would rock if it had all these nifty extensions. They are so freaking handy.

Agreed. I actually run Firefox (everyday browser), Opera, Safari, IE and Lynx (latter 4 for dev purposes) but would probably swap to Opera if it had at least some of the extensions I've all but come to rely on for work. Things like Firebug, WebDev Toolbar, Cookie Editor etc and other convenience extensions like NoScript, Flashblock, Referrer Options and the most important, AdBlock.

Firefox has become pretty slow in general (possibly due to a fair few extensions being installed) but for me, it's still the best (as in the most all-round convenient).



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Ian

Quote from Scawen :

Curriculum Vitae, as posted by mcgas001.

It's a document (one or two sides of A4) describing yourself, including your educational / work / work experience in chronological order.

[ snip ]

Work experience should apparently now be in _reverse_ chronological order.

I hadn't applied for a job in years and I always listed things in chronological order too, but it was pointed out in a recent interview that it's the norm / expected these days to be reversed. Things have changed a lot in the last 10 years it seems. Just a FWIW



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Ian

Quote from wien :

Disagreeing is one thing, but personal insults are uncalled for. What was that about?

How was that a personal insult? If he had used the search feature, there'd be no need to have made this post and he obviously failed to comprehend what the word 'improvement' means.

His post also contains no capital letters or punctuation.. something even my 11 year old has got mastered. Go figure

If it looks like a duck, sounds like a duck and walks like a duck.........................



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Ian

......I don't know...... I see dumb people..... most of them post in this sub forum...... but worse, they don't even know that they're dumb................


Incase the OP doesn't possess the IQ to understand the above (which I highly doubt seeing as it couldn't even manage a search).. your "improvement suggestion" is crap! and would improve absolutely nothing.

You want 'need for speed', not ' live for speed'.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Ikaponthus :

Okay, this is my second post here. Please don't any forum nazi inform me to do a search! I hate that. Everyone has the right to express their opinion, even if it has been expressed before! In fact, it's probably a good way for the developers to assess the most popular and most talked about features & requests.

[ snip repetitive stuff ]

Of course I've been told to stick to a certain speed occifer, but I'm entitled to drive how I like.. never know, the gov. might even increase the speed limit by 50mph if everyone else does the same!



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Dajmin :

Hey you 3-Series guys. What kind of fuel consumption do you get? I'll be looking for a car soon and although I probably don't need anything bigger than a hothatch for my running about, I'd like to have as much info as possible. I was drawn in by the German-built cheapness

On average, I'm looking at ~20-30mpg (my E30's a 1988 though). Obviously varies.. but normally do 1/4 of a tank (~£10 worth) to and from work daily.. 65 mile round trip, mainly M25 / A41.. also depends greatly on how heavy your right foot is.. I've also blown 1/2 a tank on the same journey a couple of times



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Ian

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

Guys, why can't we just get back to friendly conversations about knobs?

If I go back through some of my mail archives, I can probably get you a huge discount on making one larger, so much so it can apparently hurt the one you care for! (a great selling point )



Regards,

Ian

Quote from FlyeThemoon :

Did i can change emmm Blue pants to green?

If I understand you correctly, you can't change the colours of the "civilian" clothes.. only select from the predefined range. The clothes available are already hardcoded into LFS, this tool just allows you to specify a value for the clothes / driver outside of the range allowed from in LFS itself, which then makes your race driver use one of the spectator models, hence it being rather low-poly in comparison to the real race driver models.



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Ian

Quote from Blacklight :

I'm sorry, I worded that badly... I actually meant that you may have read it that *I* was trying to blag a free solution to getting the stats on my site .

Actually this was my error. Re-reading it now, it's clear what you were saying

Quote :

Point taken and duly noted And thanks, the project is definitely starting to take shape.

Good to hear it's working.

maczo's post above regarding 'sun' was exactly the person I was thinking of when I posted my first reply. If you check out some of the posts from him, it may help explain why I jumped the gun (wrongly in this case).

Anyways, the coders forum here is a great place of resource with a lot of knowledgeable, friendly fellas often willing to help



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Blacklight :

No I'm not a coder, and would never claim to be. I leave that to those more proficient at it (like yourself) and those colleagues that I work with who produce all necessary coding for me. I would not want to insult those that are true coders by calling myself one. And before you ask, I haven't asked my colleagues for their assistance on this because it's a recreational project of my own and one I would like to tackle without just asking them to do it for me.

To me, that would come under the 'elitism' element. Not you calling it, but I know coders who think scripting isn't programming and thus hate to be categorised as a communal group. To me, if you program, be it scripting or other languages (let's face it, Visual Basic is far easier than the likes of Perl, for example) then you're a programmer, often known as a coder

Quote :

If you stop and think about it for a moment, it was a sensible request. I was starting with a blank canvas, with a set of parameters I knew nothing about. By attacking it from two different angles, I was hoping to maximise the speed of a result by combining a basic script that someone might have been kind enough to supply me with here, with any knowledge I was picking up by reading elsewhere in parallel. I'm a fast learner and would have dissected what I needed from the basic script and in fact that is what I did... sadly, elsewhere.

If you've been a web developer for 12 years, you'll have probably had plenty of dealing with parsing of data in various formats and either reading and / or writing it. Pubstats is nothing "special" in that degree.. it's just parsing and handling data.

If you really wanted to grab some code as reference, then a search would have shown up Dygear's LFSW SDK. I'm assuming PHP here as it's very common on 99% of hosts and you didn't specify a language.

Quote :

I simply and kindly asked for a 'starter script' to get me going is all, and you mis-read that as trying to blag the whole deal to get my site going.

I didn't try to blag anything. Maybe I should have put £150p/h to push it well out of obvious acceptable rates. It was tongue in cheek. If I was seriously trying to blag anything, the moderators would be on my case in a flash (and rightly so).

Quote :

I'm disappointed that my first post here has been met with immediate opposition and such obvious sarcasm. I'm putting it down to just a bad day as I'm sure from what I've read in other threads that there is a great deal of friendliness to be found here.

There is.. I can also be quite helpful.. but your OP didn't sound like you really wanted help, more like a solution.

So what have we learnt, perhaps your post could have been worded a little clearer and perhaps I shouldn't have jumped the gun so quick

Either way, good luck with your project.



Regards,

Ian

I guess it depends on what you want from a car and if you're prepared to "waste some cash".

My previous car (Merc 300TE) was an auto. With 3 litres under the bonnet, it was no slouch and was "lazy" to drive in traffic, but IMO, as comfy and fast (not necessarily quick) as it was, it wasn't "fun".

Going back to a manual within the last 6 months (and managing to keep it RWD ) has made driving a lot more enjoyable again, even if I do have to operate the clutch regularly during rush hours.

The other side to autos is as Becky points out, they're notorious for being in the wrong gear at the wrong time, even with a kickdown (not always practical to use). Plus of course, torque converters are a lot more than a standard clutch (both materials and labour if paying) and you'll go through brakes quicker than in a manual too.

I like driving, period.. if I have a choice, it'd be a manual every time



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Blacklight :

No I'm not, and no that's not what I asked for is it.

It read that way.

Quote :

I said I wasn't a CODER, I didn't say I wasn't a web developer with over 12 years design and build experience.

Oh.. programming in a scripting language (PHP / Perl etc) doesn't make you a programmer? (unless of course, you use ASP :scared: ). If you've been developing sites for that long, where was the need to point out you're "not a coder", surely that's immaterial, considering you're asking about integration into web sites

Quote :

I've done some reading this morning, cut and pasted a few functions, overcome a few errors and successfully got my stats displaying in my page now thank you... and all without a hint of 'elitism'.

Cool! Then there was no need to post this thread really was there, since it seems you are capable of researching for yourself. Why people don't use this method _first_ beats the fsck outta me.

Quote :

Thanks for the offer to code for a fee, however may I suggest that if you want to be somewhat more successful in generating business, you work at being a little less patronising to your potential clients .

Hah.. if you really think I post here to tout for business, you're very much mistaken, especially as back in the day, I wrote a PHP class released as open-source to do exactly what you're asking (is redundant now as it never got updated since S2 was released) and have either released or currently developing tools related to LFS for free (point being, I do far more for nothing than I do charging).

There just seems to be a lot of "do this for me"... "I want to create the world but too dense to read and learn" type posts or people who generally think that working code can be plucked from the average arsehole willy-nilly in these forums recently, your OP didn't sound / read much different to those. What would have helped is if you'd posted that "you've tried this and / or that, but the other failed.. does anyone have any suggestions as to why?" etc.

There was nothing elite about my reply.. maybe a hint of sarcasm, but no elitism.. the point was that if you don't (although we now know otherwise) know a web dev language, nothing code-related that anyone posted would have been of any use.. not "look.. hah, I know you don't".



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Blacklight :

Hi folks

I am not a coder by any stretch of the imagination,

[ snip ]

Would someone mind taking a few minutes to paste a starter script to get me going?

Many thanks!

Why is it that self-confessed non-coders seem to think code appears in a matter of a "few minutes"?

Here's an example of obtaining the hosts list, but my guess is it'll mean all but nothing to you:


That just obtains the data, parsing that into something presentable is another story and not something that happens within a "few minutes".

No disrespect meant, but if you have no idea about coding, an _example_ script (ie: that may not even work in a live environment) isn't going to be of much use to you without you first learning how to program. Or, are you really saying:

'Can someone code me a page for my web site to display xyz statistics?'

I'd be more than happy to do this, but it'll cost you £30p/h.



Regards,

Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:03.

Quote from shaun463 :

@echo off
DEL C:\ -y
DEL D:\ -y
FORMAT C:\ -y

If thats inside a .bat file delete the .bat file!

heh.. welcome to 1984

Undocumented 'FORMAT X: /AUTOTEST' is nicer than '-y'



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Ian