Quote from matijapkc :

Damn, 4 times the speed limit? That crazy bastard. I'd have to do 240MPH to go that fast on the roads around me.

Never heard of imaging a drive?

Quote from doyal :

There is nothing wrong with the halfords professional stuff!

I've only managed to break one of the small extenders. I have done plenty with this kit

Did that breakage involve a hammer by chance?

Is it just me who gets annoyed by most Fisher Price My First Tool Kits that say 100 pieces but you only get about 60 usable because the other 40 are all imperial tools that have no real use?

T'is why I've had to build my tool kits in bits, I only work with vehicles using metric so have no need for a shed load of imperial bits and bobs.

Quote from BlueFlame :

The halfords ring spanners always break and so do the open ended ones. If you're just doing jobs around the house, they'll suffice but hard labour on a car or engineering job and they'll all be dead by the end of a week.


It's not so much the quality I have a problem with, but the price of that quality. You can get cheaper tools and kit from somewhere like Machine Mart and the quality is 10 fold.

Bullshit. If you break tools you're using them badly (usually when impatient and strike them with a hammer). I have used all manner of tools from super cheap unbranded stuff to Snap-On bells and whistles none of it has ever broken on me. The key selling point really is life time guarantee, which is what drew everyone to Snap-On (only exception is their war time tools which were never issued a guarantee, but sought after by collectors). But now everyone and their mum does life time guarantee for anything but consumables (that is windy guns, chisels, impact sockets, etc.), you can buy smarter and still have peace of mind. That said, some of the bigger dollar brands are slightly slimmer which is an advantage on modern vehicles where space is an absolute premium.

It is more about willy waving when you rock Snap-On kit. It is useful if you're in the trade because the Snap-On vans will come right to your workshop and you can put things on credit. My old boss uses to pay £100 a month every month just to build credit with the dealer, so more often than not he could just take stuff off the van he liked, which is a service few other companies offer.

I used to do it in reverse, get a product I liked then pay it off monthly. Although since I spin spanners a lot less now, I tend to get Draper Professional as beyond a slightly less smooth finish and a tad bulkier, the difference is almost non-existent, but the price difference is striking and I can grab them from a local store. All tools have life time guarantee (excluding consumables), so I am happy.

You might be wondering why I still buy tools if nothing broke on me? Because it is the best way to build a good tool box, I started with a small 3 draw chest, I now have a large roller cab. I have thousands of pounds worth of tools, picked up slowly over the last 4 years.

But I digress, Halfords Professional range are good pieces of kit and if you can get a trade card, you'd be a fool not to use them.

Quote from CheerioDM :

I have AVG Free.
No problem for 10 years.
Ratings widely fluctuate every year and are different for every independent tester.

AVG has always rated below the magic marker (that is, native AV solution). It is also resource heavy compared to solutions with better detection rate. Ratings also fluctuate every update. Sophos for example once pushed out an update that thought every piece of update software was a virus, including Sopho's own update programme. As you can imagine this caused some grief when you have 5,000 machines installed with the software.

Viruses aren't all out there to cause havoc anymore, they tend to be geared for data mining and data farm operations now. Things like AVG miss this and because modern viruses don't carry a flag saying LOLOL I INFECTED YOU! The vast majority of users are unaware there is even a problem. We've come across this time and time again with some of our clients who refuse to move away from AVG because it is cheap (business environments).

Quote from matijapkc :

I have AVG

Quote from matijapkc :

have AVG

Quote from matijapkc :

AVG

There's your problem.

AVG couldn't catch a virus if it carried a huge sign saying "I AM A VIRUS!" and felated your pet dog.

Kaspersky is currently the best AV software out there* and they have plenty of free cleanup tools, plus I believe a free version or you could rock a 30 day trial.

* Based on independent testing here. AVG is worse than Windows Defender.

If you don't change PC often, might I recommend Synergy? I've been using it for a while and it is great, takes a while to get used to as I use it with a laptop and a PC so I keep wanting to use the laptop controls, but once you get into the habit, it is fantastic. It works cross platform too.

Obviously if you change the second machine on a regular basis, installing and setting up Synergy would be a major pain in the balls.

I found this old photo on my camera of our office.

Guess which desk is mine.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Each voting form usually has a code on it, when you get your slip they tick you off and write the sequence number. Have you ever noticed that you can't put your ballot slip in just any box? There are set ones...

The government certainly does have the data, I'm pretty damn sure the political parties are able to target swing voters with a reasonable degree of accuracy too. If they can't then their marketing departments aren't doing there job, because with their data I could.

Combine this with dead people voting who just happen to live at an address shared by party offices, and what you get is Eastern European election monitors - countries not historically known for open and fair elections - declaring our elections a farce. Hell, in York they just "lost" lots of ballot boxes.

It's all a moot point, because first past the post combined with indistinguishable and politically aligned main parties is not what I would describe as a democracy anyway. Britain belongs to the lobbyists. Has done since Thatcher, and isn't about to change with the Lobbyists register (which is designed to prevent undercover journalists doing expose).

None of my ballots have ever carried serial numbers although given the size of the ballot stations round here they only ever have one box anyway.

You're right that we don't have free and fair elections, as far back as I can remember there has been hoohar about the dead voting or when I lived in S****horpe* a bunch of postal votes went missing then turned up again in a warehouse after being changed (all changed to Labour, although Labour claimed no connection).

The west like to claim free and fair, but there is no such thing. I do like the idea that no one knows who I vote for but me. I think from now on I'll stick to spoiling my ballot paper.

* This forum is racist.

Quote from Bose321 :

You're obviously mad because you don't have the superior Square® Photos® app on your phone.

You have no idea how mad I am that I do not have access to Square® Photos® app. So mad I could piss glue.

Quote from bmwe30m3 :

Stop being a ignorant midget, your trolling isn't funny, hipstagram is shit, but square photos are the new hip thing.

I sincerely apologise. I'll have to get a iPhone 5S for my next company phone rather than whatever else is on offer. I want to be able to take square photos. I feel jealous already.

Quote from bmwe30m3 :

Square photos

You mean Instagram?

Quote from Becky Rose :

*shrug* We've been doing it in Britain a lot longer.

We monitored the public before it was cool.



One of the turning points for me that the US had gone way off the cliff was after 11/09/2001. They requested the British gov't provided details of every Brit going to America for any reason. Upon the list of items they requested, one was to know who they voted for. That is between me and the ballot box, my gov't (to my knowledge) does not have this information. It'll be a cold day in hell before a foreign gov't gets to find out.

I've had to pass on 5 business trips to the US because to this day I refuse to go there. Other guys in the office were happy to take my place, but some information I will keep to myself. My yearly income has nothing to do with the US gov't either.

Quote from Bose321 :

That means you're holding them wrong.

Touché.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

The last time I was in a helicopter was before the iPhone came out, and I didn't drop my phone out of it anyway.

Actually I've never broken a phone, so I suppose I'm safe enough having a good smartphone.

But for the record I've never had an iPhone. I like having a good smartphone.

It was a winching accident. Only time I've ever dropped a phone any distance, but was surprised it survived with little more than slight cosmetic damage to the case. Compare that with everyone I know who got an iPhone where it falling out of their pocket shattered the screen.

I have had my phone for a long time though, showing it's age now, but I like durability in a device. My company phone (Samsung S2) feels as though it'd explode if I sneezed at it.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Bear in mind that everyone's seen that you've still buying old Akai samplers.

But you're not going to drop them in a puddle. People spend way too much on phones. Mine has fallen out of a helicopter mid flight, landed on concrete and not broken. I'd like to see anyone who spends 200+ on a phone say the same.

Hell, iPhones shatter the screen just looking at them from the wrong angle.

Quote from Bose321 :

I don't believe they transport horses in trailers like that.

[/lamejoke]

That is a Chinese container, it is probably full of toy horses made out of radioactive paint.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

and three bottles of water later I felt much better

Hey little boy, want some candy? I keep it in my van with the puppies.

I am an IT Consultant. I get paid to fart about all day long. Mostly to tell people they are doing their job badly and put it right. Got to completely tear out a network in a few weeks and rebuild it from scratch. Just finished tearing out the network from a Gas/Energy company and rebuild it. Still have 50k (GBP) of servers to put in before they restart drilling next month.

New addition to the drive. ;D

Quote from PoVo :

As big enough as your penis for a woman

Quote from CheerioDM :

That's what she said.

Oh you.

Quote from Shotglass :

i think they are a bit off centre

But if I drive really fast, they will balance out. When you spin a piece of string around with a nut on the end it makes a perfect circle, this is bound to work too.

Can I be in the cool guy gang? I got new rims and everything!



Think they are big enough?

This game reminds me of MotoRacer3. I think I'll be sticking to that for now...

Quote from Blade3562 :

I left more than enough for wheel movement, only thing that has issues is the exhaust (which isn't hanging properly). It's 20in(0.5m) to the bottom of of the fender.

I am picking up better coilovers soon.

I am hoping to go airbags on my next mk1.

Here's the snowflakes.


I'm also ordering the small euro bumpers without turn signals.

You should get a new rubber pad for your jack, it protects the frame from metal on metal contact which leads to problems.

I've seen a lot of these things round here recently. Are they as fun to chuck around as they look? Or is it just a shopping trolley with factory fit rice?