Quote from ATC Quicksilver :

I've met people that work in IKEA marketing, they have 1 brain cell between the whole department, so I doubt they would be able to come up with a scam like that.

Sounds like every other marketing department then.. brainless droids that live in a theorised world



Regards,

Ian

heh.. I remember that wheel, but never had one.. only a 2-(combined)-button joystick

I still have the pedals in my wardrobe and would still have my Amiga (+8000 odd disks) if my ex hadn't binned them during one of her moves



Regards,

Ian

The 2 that really "did it for me" would have been Microprose Grand Prix and Hard Drivin'.. both on the Amiga.. although put many hours in on TD2: The Duel too. The former inspired me to buy my first pedals:



The latter was so great to play in the arcade with a clutch and an H-shift box

Lombard RAC Rally on the Amiga also got played a lot:


Celica GT Rally:


Crazy Cars II:


Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (first one was by far the best IMO):


PC-wise, LFS was the first really.. followed by rFactor then GTR2. Now it's mainly RACE'07 when I can be arsed to get the wheel out and of course, Generally still gets played



Regards,

Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Thu 22 Jan 2009, 13:31.

Quote from Tomba(FIN) :

Why would they think of chinese ppl more than european ?

[koff]language chars[/koff].. I mean development progress



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Ian

Apparently it takes a lot of skill!



Regards,

Ian

For PHP devs (on windoze): NuSphere PHPEd

For Perl (primarily, but others too I guess) devs (multi-OS): Komodo (IDE == commercial, EDIT == free)

Windoze Perl itself: http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/. Invaluable IMO, far better than VBS or BAT scripting.

General (windoze) text editor: UEdit

DOpus (Directory Opus).. was _the_ filemanager to have on the Amiga, and now shining on windoze too (I find it hard living with a box without this): DOpus

VMWare. Comes in _very_ handy for development purposes and as a sandbox for picking apart viruses and the likes if you have an interest. I use it a lot for testing Unix config setups too.

FreeBSD. Personally I much prefer to compile a "LAMP" environment within VMWare than using some "WAMP" type setup.. much less restrictive, IMO.. and can use the PHP mail() function properly!

Firefox / Thunderbird. No introduction needed.

For Unix shell access from a windoze box: PuTTy and PuTTy tray.

Handful of personally developed software too, such as Columbo.. a windoze based Whois / NSLookup / Dig / DNSBl scanner etc app.. great for spam tracking.

Not many of the above are free, but most I use on a(n almost) daily basis.



Regards,

Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Wed 21 Jan 2009, 13:57.

Quote from SamH :

I haven't done any photo printing in a long time, Ian, but I think borderless printing is a fairly recent, printer-specific function and only borderless printers will actually deliver it. I know Epson do it these days, but I'm not familiar with your HP printer so I'm not sure if it's within its scope. IIRC you can get out-sized, perforated pop-out paper from HP. You print on it, and the image is printed in the perforated area. That might be the way you're expected to achieve the result, I'm not sure.

Despite trying out a couple of the long-life ink reservoir add-ons in the past, I've resorted to Jessops for photo printing. It's cheaper, sqare inch for square inch, than printing it yourself and the result is better. Stick your images on a USB stick, SD/CF or CD, and drop 'em off at Jessops with instructions and dimensions. Make the whole thing their problem

[e] http://www.jpics.co.uk/

Thanks for the info Sam. Much appreciated

I have however, just discovered at least one of my problems As you rightly state, you can get "tabbed" paper, which is oversized. A few sheets came with the printer for demo / test purposes, the last batch of paper I bought didn't have these.. BUT.. the paper isn't 10x15! It's 10x16andabit. It's basically tabbed paper without the perforation, so me not thinking (or thinking incorrectly) that it was simply 10x15 meant that no matter what I did, if I attempted to fill the entire sheet, I was always going to get problems with clipping.

I think I should be able to tweak photoshop into working now just so I'm not beaten (can't test now as my cyan has just run out.. doh!).. but at the prices on the site you linked to, you're right.. would be hard to beat DIY. Was all fine before my ol' man retired from Kodak 5 years ago

Thanks again. You mentioning perforated paper was what got me thinking

After seeing the pics in this thread.. I'm seriously contemplating a "cheap" SLR camera as although I don't take many pics, would be nice that the ones I do take are at great quality (assuming I manage to be up to the job ) and would be interesting to be able to do some more experiments than with my "point-n-shoot"



Regards,

Ian

Whilst I'm not showing any pics as such (none to write home about really and only have a simple Canon Powershot A400).. I was wondering if anyone had any info regarding printing them. Basically I have my cam set up to take 1600x1200 pics and want to print them onto 10x15cm paper via my HP C5180 printer.. but alas, it seems no matter what DPI I pic (pics originally taken at 180 it seems) or what I crop them to in Photoshop, they _always_ come out clipped. I've tried cropping the images before printing too, at 1200x800 and using Photoshop to set the page info up as 10x15 but it never seems to work

Obviously I can use the 'scale-to-media' option, but then I'm left with an almost polaroid sized image in the middle of the paper with a border around all sides.

For example, here's one original pic I was attempting to print. I've scaled this down for posting here, but the AR is the same:




Yet when printed, I basically get the following (ignore pixel size of image, I cropped the original to pretty much match the 10x15 photo print that I get):




Any ideas on this would be greatly appreciated


More OT with the rest of the thread.. there's some _very_ nice pics here!



Regards,

Ian

Quote from S14 DRIFT :

Yes, in slow speed/stationary. A fan should not come on during normal running with a steady flow of air through the radiator.

Disconnect a fan on a modern engine and so long as you're moving (say, steady 60mph on an A-road or motorway or something), it'd be fine. Stop for more than 5 or 10 minutes and it'd overheat.

The fan in my car is on permanently

Fair points regarding fans though by you and DTBB. Sometimes I forget about electric fans being thermostat controlled. Has been a while since I owned / worked on a motor with them



Regards,

Ian

Quote from tristancliffe :

No, that's the radiators job.

[ snip ]

I beg to differ. That would actually be the job of the fan



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Gunn :

Thanks Ian, I have removed the offending image as a precaution.

No probs. I'd guess at it needing quite a specific exploit to work, but not right nonetheless

Here's a NULLed version if Inouva wants to reattach it to her OP


Regards,

Ian

The image in question is fscked and while not a trojan itself, contains things that an image shouldn't contain!


Not what I'd expect to see at the end of a JPG file

Not much of a surprise to see a LACNIC domain in use for malware however.



Regards,

Ian

A quick shower earlier.. and a recent HID conversion. Nice to be able to see at night now, much better than the original candles

Gotta replace that O/S fog light sometime soon though







The remains of my previous touring after a weekend with the socket set




Which has joined the other 2 E30s in the lockup reserved for E30 parts only





Regards,

Ian

Quote from JohnUK89 :

Is that an "in order from not for newbies to totally insane batsh*t crazy" list?

Wouldn't say it's that bad. My first step into the *nix world was FreeBSD and it now runs on all my servers. The ports tree under FBSD makes life quite easy for "n00bs" too I think.

Back when it was my one and only desktop box too, I ran WindowMaker under X for a GUI



Regards,

Ian

Hands free is fine, IMO. No different to having a conversation with a passenger.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from asbjoern :

if i should ever buy a 5-series, theres only one car to choose

the e34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v ... &feature=channel_page

*only in sweden*

An E34 touring would be quite nice I think.. but for me, in the 5-series range, it'd have to be an E28 (bottle-tops would have to be replaced with a decent set of BBS X-spokes though):



One of the fellas that I picked an E30 up off of was also selling an E28 M5. Wasn't sure if the £170 I was paying was going to be sufficient for the (almost mint) M5.. so refrained from asking and took the E30 instead



Regards,

Ian

E30 every time! (not that I'm biased )

E39 - Too rep-mobile-ish.
E36 - Only thing missing in one of those is burberry seat covers. Every council estate and it's long lost brother has one.



Regards,

Ian

Quote from Shadowww :

Flash is good for photo galleries only.

Not really. Flash is good for animations, simple as that as it allows better resolution images than animated GIFs.



Regards,

Ian

For free alternatives for general design / dev tools, I'd go with GIMP for graphics and Komodo for an editor.



Regards,

Ian

Some camera experiments

Quote from Leprekaun :

[ snip ]

I know that Flash is the daddy for web designing

[ snip ]

Flash is a real PITA! Never, EVER, EVER create a "flash web design". It's inaccessible, resource hungry (in comparison) and really serves a purpose for very little in web design IMO.

Simplicity IMO, is the key. Simplicity doesn't have to mean boring however.

Learn how to code proper web sites (I used Dreamweaver years ago in WYSI(N)WYG mode and then read the code it produced to learn what tags did what) and you'll find that you'll be able to do so much more. I'm not saying don't learn flash if that's what you want to do.. but any flash-only site I come across personally 1: displays nothing due to the FlashBlock / NoScript Firefox extension, 2: gets forgotten about quickly as there's plenty of other sites available that usually have similar content that will display without the need for 3rd-party plugins.

Just my 2p worth anyway.. take it as you see fit



Regards,

Ian


PS: Sorry.. no idea about flash alternatives.. have always avoided anything related like the plague and stuck to traditional stuff.

Quote from G!NhO :

lfs player hacker is for noobs that dont go on CTRA

Cocks
Twats
Retards n
Arseholes

You score highly in _all_ of those categories..... sir.


Not only n00bs steer clear of those servers



Regards,

Ian

Quote from scottmackie :

hey

im wondering if any1 can help me

i have downloaded lfs player hacker and installed it

but i cant create player name

it wont let me type

any body no how to fix it?

thanks

The name field is read-only as it reads the contents from the loaded .PLY file.

You just simply need to create a player from within LFS as normal, then you can load the resulting .PLY file into Player Hacker and change the style and then save... but you can't create a player from scratch from within Player Hacker.

HTH



Regards,

Ian

Quote from okijuhans :

Dont want to offend anybody, but thats typical - http://www.lfsforum.net/attach ... id=51294&d=1205415925 . As you can see in real life you have not such blue windows and that line.


Dissapointed a bit right now. How I can fix problems, when nobody says whats wrong.

And I am not saying that all Brazil renders suck, but default scenes are not so great. IanH made terrific job.

The blue reflections was a bad mistake on my part. My aim was simply to give the windows a blueish tint, like many "higher class" cars do have (although this is often more greeny than blue, admitted), except IIRC, I made the reflection colour blue rather than the actual material colour, which is why there's always such difference between the part hit by the reflection plane and parts that aren't. That said, back when I did the original scenes.. I was all but a 3DS n00b and didn't really know too much (same reason for the crappy looking "chrome" wheels ).

I did fix this look later on with some of my own renders (albeit in VRay and overhead plane still used (well, actually a vray light but same effect) and not quite ideal looking, but a bit better):



but never got around to redoing the brazil scenes

Thankfully, most people now that still use my original brazil scenes have modified them heavily and improved them a great deal



Regards,

Ian

Last edited by Ian.H, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 17:31.

Quote from The General Lee :

Ian - Very nice mate. Gotta love the Old Skool-ness of the E30. I'd love to own one at some point. My next door neighbour has had 2. He is a member on the Zone as well. His username is 'GrindCulture'

Small world! I was reading through his "history" thread just the other day and was going to offer a set of 15" BBS alloys for his black touring as I now have a spare set

Some E30s are going at decent prices, some are going quite high. I saw a Royal Blue Metallic (same as my old one) going for £600 in the trader just before I picked up my silver one. Looked tidy too. I think a lot depends on where you buy them.. some old fella selling on in the trader might go for less as unsure of what he may actually get for it etc.

The 36s are a bit more refined and a bit quicker than the 30s.. but personally I prefer the old skool brick styling of them. I remember my mate's 318i E36.. was comfy as hell, especially on the motorway. In general though, there doesn't seem much to fault about the german engineering behind most of the models

Would love a '86 / 87 E28 too (M5 or Alpina preferred, heh).. but maybe that's dreaming a little



Regards,

Ian