I say the following without any intention of sounding rude: Live with it. We all have to make sure we don't run out of unlocks (you get one every week, up to a max of 2). Even with a new box every week you should be able to keep LFS unlocked.

A bit late I know, but I got the following:

• 20 quid voucher that I can spend in various places
  
• WiFi detecting T-Shirt
  
• Coat
  

And something that is much better than any of them gifts - I got to spend the Christmas period with my rather lovely girlfriend

Quote from SamH :

@John.. I've had as many wives as you've had girlfriends.. and I'm much happier playing BF2, tyvm

You've been married that many times? Damn!

What happens when you refuse to play BF2 with UKCT? Girlfriends happen. Take note, Sam

EeePC's current desktop - nice and simple (with Compiz running for a little eye candy should I want it)

Uplink's final mission (on the Arunmor side). Nothing beats the adrenaline rush of trying to hack 3 or 4 machines every 2 minutes just to stop the spread of Revelation. Love it

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

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Olympic gold for the Mega Drive - The diving event was absolutely impossible, come to think of it, about every sodding event was nigh on impossible.

Oh god - you mean the Barcelona '92 one? I remember that game and maintain nothing but hatred for its horrible button bashing control system. HATE HATE HATE :chair: (I did manage to do the running style event, as well as the swimming, but the diving was just impossible)

Quote from farcar :

At the end of the day, you're still running an OS on top of another OS albeit in a more efficient way than old methods.

It's still an inefficient way to run an app, and I still don't know what the point is.

The point is that you don't need to reboot just to run one or two applications - what's the point of rebooting if you can run it without doing so?

Quote from Riders Motion :

You overclocked your mental a bit too much, it needs cooling.

Indeed - downclocked again now, should be okay

All these people saying that it's being run in an emulator - no, it's not. It's being run inside virtualisation software. There's a difference. Emulators imply that it's a different architecture completely (such as x86>M68k in the case of Amiga/Atari ST/Mega Drive emulators). Virtualisation creates a machine of the same architecture and places it inside a hypervisor, so the virtualised OS thinks it's actually running on the main machine.There's much less overhead involved in running inside a virtual machine and that's why you have 30FPS in LFS. If it was an emulator (such as the old Virtual PC for Mac that Microsoft produced, in which the title was a lie) then even if 3D acceleration was implemented then you'd be lucky to get 1FPS out of LFS. If you want an example of a PC emulator nowadays try Bochs - it'll run Windows XP...if you let it install for about 2 days.

Quote from dougie-lampkin :

(DragonCommando != Riders Motion :razz

I'd take you up on the offer, except my wheel still has a little bit more in it...Might end up snapping something before the warranty expires and getting it replaced anyway

D'oh! :something

Quote from S14's Profile :

Location: Thatcham , England

Thought it'd be obvious from that, that he's not IN Canada

This sounds just like trying to get into Second Life And there's not even user-generated content yet, just wait for the server load then!

EDIT: Except you can get into Second Life most of the time...

Quote from Riders Motion :

That sure look like a cool system but aint it a bit too over-the-top? I mean, you could get something more normal and it that would handle most games and stuff for 2-3 years... This system will be good for like 4-5 years but if you're like me, you will upgrade in 2-3 years anyway so why not get a system that's ok to handle today's stuff and wait until a quadcore is really needed to run games and all?

Just my 0.02$

Also, good (or fast or whatever...) ram is 1066MHz and up, that motherboard does not support that kind of ram...

Edit: John UK beat me.

You obviously didn't read the Op properly - he's going to be doing a lot of rendering, which is primarily CPU based (and scales VERY well to multiple threads). So I'd say an octo-core machine wasn't over the top of he is doing that as the primary use for the machine

You'll need a much better PSU than that - 650W just isn't gonna cut it for 2 quads and 2 GTX280s. I'd be looking more like double that (or even higher). Other than that, it should totally tear through 3DS Max and LFS on a GTX280 is a dream. Also, you'll need FB-DIMM RAM instead of unbuffered.

EDIT - realised the mobo will only take 667MHz RAM - duh The FB-DIMM thing still applies though!

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Quote from John5200 :

hmmm... why you don´t post in testpatches? we want to solve all bugs don´t we?

Because he said next week

Quote from Uximura :

Fact: "At some point" people lose interest and get interested by other products.

Fact: "At some point" sends the ball so far ahead in time you'll forget why or who had thrown it years before in case you happen to find it years later.

Fact: LFS has again the opportunity to compare itself with real world car (common one this time, the scirocco) and again the solution presented is half-baked like so many in LFS these recent years. Not even suspension geometry/type is of same nature. Fantasy la-la land continues.

Fact: The excuse over these years for half-baked, has been that after months of idling you work your butt-off for a month to make an artificial (self imposed or not) deadline. "there is no time for that" becomes the easy and handy excuse. Since GC there was no time to code a proper suspension for it? Shouldn't it have been a priority?

Fact: Confort is an enemy of will.

Fact: LFS will remain the sim that could but rarely is.

Fact: You cannot make any of these comparisons on playing the demo alone.

Quote from Zen321 :

I don't think wreckers deserve a permanent ban from LFS, whereas cheaters do.
This is for the simple reason that cheating messes with the physics of LFS, while wrecking messes with the rules of each server.
In that case, it is as if the cheater was Neo in the Matrix, who is pursued and banned by the LFS Agent Scawen, Agent Erik and Agent Viktor.

On the other hand, since the LFS engine does not simulate driving rules, and since each server has its own wrecker policy, then the server's authorities will take the appropriate measures. As a matter of fact, maybe the guy's got his account taken by his little angry brother, and things will tame down. Maybe he could become a Demolition Derby superstar and become more mature... You never know.

Banning for wrecking is (in my mind) equivalent to, say, the FIA banning somebody for purposefully crashing into others and thus bringing the sport into disrepute. Wrecking in LFS ruins the experience for everybody else and if one person goes around wrecking everybody they can it'll eventually drive people away from the sim as they get frustrated with it. It's not just a matter of server rules, it's a matter of keeping people racing too.
Back onto the FIA analogy, if they DIDN'T ban somebody for crashing imagine the backlash from the rest of drivers! There'd be HUGE fallout from it, probably ending in many drivers leaving the series in question. So, in my mind at least, cheating and wrecking are both on about the same (awful) level.

Renault's new human-powered car has severe visibility issues...

Quote from deggis :

Running out of fuel just 200 metres before the chequered flag is tough luck unless you're Usain Bolt.

Winnar!

Okay, here we go then, again on the theme of bikes...

"Honey, I Shrunk the Bike!"

Quote from BastianB :

sure:

edit: for all that wallpapers visit 4chan /wg/ i got 90% of my wallpapers from there

I prefer DeviantArt for mine - some really excellent wallpapers on there, including the one I'm currently using (and I'm back on GNOME)

EDIT: and yes, that's just a recoloured Vista desktop - I happen to like it

Quote from Gunsmith :

I swap bits around every few months so life expectancy isnt really an issue.

I was referring to the OP