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I worked for a guy that had one of the first R8s in the UK. I went to his house to check some kit and asked him how he was enjoying it... "Well I was really loving driving it until it died..." Turns out one of the chips that controls the engine management system had gone kaput so it was dead. How long did it take them to sort the problem? 8 weeks. Next time I went round he no longer had an R8... In other news it's midday Saturday and I'm going to the gym to lift weights because I've just booked a holiday mid June and I need to look my best while strutting around in my pink kitten swimming trunks.
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Things to do in slow traffic: http://i.imgur.com/NfddYpT.gifv http://i.imgur.com/OhF7hEg.gifv
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Made it 20 miles then GDCS. Came around a corner, accelerated and massive cloud of steam in the mirror. loving old cars. 2nd tow in less than 24 hours.
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Apr 18, 2015 13:19
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NitroSpazzz posted:Made it 20 miles then GDCS. Came around a corner, accelerated and massive cloud of steam in the mirror. loving old cars. Your cars just have Spring throw-parts-at-it Fever.
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Apr 18, 2015 13:25
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NitroSpazzz posted:Made it 20 miles then GDCS. Came around a corner, accelerated and massive cloud of steam in the mirror. loving old cars. I saw your snap and immediately went "Noooooooo!" 
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Apr 18, 2015 14:04
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Mat_Drinks posted:Sometimes I enjoy drinking Rainier beer (Northwest PBR), or I eat cake from a boxed mix. Sometimes it's nice to not have to think hard and just enjoy some light fiction.
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CommieGIR posted:No, they just had recalls for fire risks. (2015 Chrysler 200 Sedan recall for wiring harness fire risks) Don't forget the early 90s spate of Grand Cherokee fires caused by a bad grommet on a bundle going through the firewall. I put out at least 5 or 6 of those. kastein posted:I think my favorite wiring fire issue has to be the F150 one that burns the truck to the ground, however. I put out 4 of those, and one was in an attached garage and had started overnight with the residents in the house asleep. It had breached the door of the garage and extended into the attic by the time it was discovered. The garage/truck was OFF when we got there. Ended up venting the roof of the garage while another two crews went through the front door and pushed the fire back through the attic and downstairs hallway to the garage. That was a fun morning.
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Apr 18, 2015 15:37
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meatpimp posted:Your cars just have Spring throw-parts-at-it Fever. T-Square posted:I saw your snap and immediately went "Noooooooo!" Friend runs a towing company so he came and picked me up, towed all the way back to the house. He's a BMW and E30 nut so it was a good time. I'm happy it didn't happen on the Tail of the Dragon or other twisty road full of motorcycles. Time to see how good Grundy's towing reimbursement is. I cursed myself yesterday... 
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Apr 18, 2015 15:50
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CommieGIR posted:And I'm willing to admit that VW makes and has made some garbage, I just get sick of the whole ragging on VWs and Audis. Hey man my project car is a 1st gen Kia Sportage, my second pre-Hyundai-era Kia. Hell over half the cars I've owned would be classified as terrible by a sizeable chunk of AI. Having people rip on a car you like every time its name comes up gets irritating, I know all about that. But hey sometimes this hobby takes a sense of humor, thick skin and the knowledge that you're doing it for you and not anyone else- even when you're not the underdog.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Sure seems that way. Haha. Its a curse with foreign cars and plastics. My old P38 rover was good at pissing coolant and plastics randomly making GBS threads themselves. Though to be honest, I had way more issues with my suburban than I ever did with Rovers
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Apr 18, 2015 16:16
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You know it's going well when you have to break out the 3/4" drive kit to work on a small family hatchback.
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Apr 18, 2015 16:48
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Getting serious about lifting weights and getting into better shape, so I'm starting to track the weights I'm lifting in a spreadsheet so I can see how much stronger I'm getting.
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Apr 18, 2015 17:23
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Printed some parts for my Rostock Delta 3D printer on my Makerbot 3D printer last night:
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some texas redneck posted:Irony: I just noticed that the cable between the router and my desktop is marked as CAT5 (no E) - and it still links at gigabit speeds. This is normal, if you were to transfer a large file you'd find the actual transfer speed is (probably) considerably lower than gigabit. You only need CAT-5E/6 if full duplex speed is a requirement or if your runs are near the maximum length .
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CommieGIR posted:Printed some parts for my Rostock Delta 3D printer on my Makerbot 3D printer last night: 
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So, just a reminder: today is Record Store Day!
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Apr 18, 2015 18:50
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Undersea posting. The phone signal in the channel tunnel is better than at my house (I'm half way through the tunnel on the train)
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iwentdoodie posted:So, just a reminder: today is Record Store Day! I didn't even have to attend today, one of my friends is an avid collector of vinyl and he grabbed me a copy of this without even asking if I wanted it. He just knew.  What a guy. 
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Apr 18, 2015 18:54
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Tomarse posted:Undersea posting. The phone signal in the channel tunnel is better than at my house (I'm half way through the tunnel on the train) Probably repeaters in the tunnel.
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88h88 posted:I didn't even have to attend today, one of my friends is an avid collector of vinyl and he grabbed me a copy of this without even asking if I wanted it. He just knew. Awesome. I hit one store and picked up Radiohead, Flaming Lips and Johnny Cash. Waiting on our other one to open now and see what they have. Edit: and just got Electric Wizard - Time to Die. 2xLP, clear vinyl, with a poster and digital copy. Awesome. iwentdoodie fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Apr 18, 2015 |
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Apr 18, 2015 19:17
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Welp. Just wasted $60 on GTA V. Turns out I do not have a 64 bit system after all. Oh well, I need an excuse to upgrade, so here we are. Been doing some shopping too. I think it's time for a total new PC build.
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ExplodingSims posted:Welp. Just wasted $60 on GTA V. Turns out I do not have a 64 bit system after all. If you have Windows 7 and your key laying around, you can reinstall Windows 7 64-bit with the same key. It should work fine. Not sure about Windows 8.
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mariooncrack posted:If you have Windows 7 and your key laying around, you can reinstall Windows 7 64-bit with the same key. It should work fine. Not sure about Windows 8. True for Vista, too. Probably true for 8, since I think they came with one key and two discs in the box. If you don't have the key, but bought Windows (i.e. it wasn't preinstalled) you can use Produkey or jellybean keyfinder to pull it out of the registry. If it's an OEM preinstall, there are other methods, but they're more complicated. Assuming your hardware is capable of 64-bit?
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mariooncrack posted:If you have Windows 7 and your key laying around, you can reinstall Windows 7 64-bit with the same key. It should work fine. Not sure about Windows 8. Yeah, the issue is the key is at my parent's house somewhere. I haven't seen that disk for 8 years.
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My dad and mom came over to the house to see the grandkids and I got my dad to help me bolt up the wall mount for my old flat screen. Got everything hooked up and plugged in. When I turned on the power the status led went from red to blue like normal but nothing turned on. No noise, no pop, no sizzle. Just a black screen with no response. The remote is working. I'm really bummed out. The TV worked fine when we last had it up, it's been sitting for about a year and a half in the basement waiting to be something awesome. The bastard of it all is it is probably not worth anything since it seems 42" TVs can be had for less than $300 now.
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T1g4h posted:We have a Social Club Crew. There's also the AI Steam Group. I'd recommend joining the Social Club crew and friending people, more likely to get matched into freeroam with AI guys that way. I'm in, bravestulysses
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Somewhat Heroic posted:My dad and mom came over to the house to see the grandkids and I got my dad to help me bolt up the wall mount for my old flat screen. Got everything hooked up and plugged in. When I turned on the power the status led went from red to blue like normal but nothing turned on. No noise, no pop, no sizzle. Just a black screen with no response. The remote is working. I'm really bummed out. The TV worked fine when we last had it up, it's been sitting for about a year and a half in the basement waiting to be something awesome. The bastard of it all is it is probably not worth anything since it seems 42" TVs can be had for less than $300 now. I scavenged a nice Samsung flatscreen monitor from the trash pile at work that was doing this (although it was intermittent). After Googling a little bit I found that they used glue on the electronics inside that over time dries out and becomes conductive. Solution - go in there with a plastic scraper type thing and carefully chip all of the lovely glue off of the electronics. I was kind of skeptical, but had nothing to lose except an hour or two, so I did it. It hasn't done it since, and I have the nicest screen of everyone in my office 
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Yeah I'm not going to scrap it just yet. I'll do some Google work and see what I can come up with. It's about 8 years old, it's an LG model 42LG30 which I'm fairly sure they sold a grip of.
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Raluek posted:True for Vista, too. Probably true for 8, since I think they came with one key and two discs in the box. It's capable, but my build is close to 9 years old at this point, and is finally starting to chug under some new games, so I figure it's time to upgrade some of the hardware. Looks I'm for about $700 build or so. If I can another 9-10 years of a new build, I;ll be happy.
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ExplodingSims posted:It's capable, but my build is close to 9 years old at this point, and is finally starting to chug under some new games, so I figure it's time to upgrade some of the hardware. I have a ~3 year old CPU, but just installed a gtx 970 and I'm running GTA V on ultra at 60fps. So it won't take much just don't skimp on the GPU.
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ExplodingSims posted:It's capable, but my build is close to 9 years old at this point, and is finally starting to chug under some new games, so I figure it's time to upgrade some of the hardware. If you do a complete rebuild, I'm sure your current system would work well as a HTPC.
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MustardFacial posted:I have a ~3 year old CPU, but just installed a gtx 970 and I'm running GTA V on ultra at 60fps. So it won't take much just don't skimp on the GPU. All the new games are more GPU than CPU hungry anyways. Pro-Tip: It is LEGAL to install Windows with pirated images, so long as your product key is legitimate. That is all Microsoft cares about is a legal key. And yeah, if you are reinstalling, the most it might make you do is do the phone activation, which is really simple but boring and time consuming.
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saturday night muthafuckazzzzz https://vine.co/v/Oj3Hve1TXtK
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Phone posted:saturday night muthafuckazzzzz lol
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I just ate the hottest of hot chicken a couple hours ago and now my body is in revolt.
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I got out of the gym and my Outback failed to turnover. Twice. Cars with ~11k miles aren't supposed to do that are they?  On the plus side, I was able to install a new head unit in a car yesterday. I know it's not super difficult but it was the first time doing it.
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I just left a car meet that could have been plucked from the 90's it was so bad. And then some assholes got into a fight and one of them had a gun tucked in his belt so I said gently caress this and bailed. Passed 6 cops heading that direction on my way home.
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