Dohmar

Ahh im 55. the *other* corner, gawler pl -D

Thats a memory timing issue. Either the ram isnt rated at 400mhz / pc3200 or the latency timings are out of whack... I only ever had that with cheap ram. When I switched to corsair xtra low latency ddr I stopped having problems (and got a better whetstone too) -D

I think IXL005 would be good (I dare people to get that one) -D

Which one is that? I have to say theres a lot of candidates for ugliest building. Is GHD number 45 or something? Luciano works in the SA Water building which Im looking at right now from my office on the 8th floor -D

And I have a guitar with a wah pedal, I could do some genuine 70's porno music to go with it... Oh and Dan, ruby only has a padlock under that trenchcoat... -D

www.nvidia.com go to download drivers enter 8800 ultra as the gfx type. download the release that suits your operating system (vista) Once downloaded, Run it. Voila, new driver installed. -D

Saw a silver 32 gts-t with what looked like the vertex kit about 10 mins ago in grenfell st. Dude had a blonde chick passenger... howdy if yr out there -D

*cough* Nvidia drivers are probably the most solid drivers out there on the market. If you're using beta/alpha drivers then you're bound to have issues, but historically Nvidia have had much better drivers than ATI. That said, I've owned ATI and Nvidia and both have had isolated incidents with driver releases from time to time... -D

It works well >if< you have decent drivers for the hardware. So far the drivers have been less than spectacular. DX10 can cause some games to run slower than their DX9 modes, and theres also a retarded networking issue that prevents network traffic if Vista cant ping home to a particular server (and theres no fix, they just added the complexity to piss us off). I would expect something with 4 gigs of ram to be fast. Max XP can address is 3.5 gigs cause it has a 32 bit memory address limit (64 bit xp doesnt have this problem of course). I can never imagine XP being slower than Vista on equivalent hardware. And yeah, changing the location of configuration items is just dumb. They did it when they moved to XP and everyone said 'oh we dont like it' so they introduced 'classic view'. Is there an option for classic view in vista? I cant remember. Theoretically Vista has faster framework (so if the drivers improve, so will vista) but the problem most people have is the eyecandy taking up processor cycles. I've got all the animation and draw effects disabled on XP and its about as fast as it can get.... They abstracted the graphics driver to be both userspace and kernel mode.... this will supposedly make it more stable and faster (aka best of both worlds) but it makes writing decent gfx drivers really really hard... -D

Check this out http://www.news.com.au/business/story/0,23...5-31037,00.html "Holden alone spent $420 million in research and development last year which has made it Australia's largest private sector R and D investor for a number of years now," he said. I bet they spent all that $420 million on designing thong holders... or 420 = they were all smoking ganja -D

nah that wont make it go faster, it'll just make it noisier if you want it to go fast, you have to recalibrate the warp coils by turning the pc on and off as quickly as u can for a good 5-10 minutes. When u hear the loud bang, its as overclocked as it can get -D

hey dan i know a trick to make yr pc faster, its all about getting the dust out of the cracks, u gotta turn yr pc on and while its booting, pick the box up and drop it from 2 ft height...keepdoing this... when u hear something go bang then that means ur hdd is now dust free -D

lol. i could do it for ya, but you'd have to come over my place and do work on my car or buy me alcomahol -D

nah vista is shit ;P slow, bloated, broken.... installing vista on a pc is like kicking it in the nuts and expecting it to piggyback you up a hill... xp ftw Oh yeah jenkies, just back up your data on a blank disc, usb stick or external hdd and then format the cd using the windows xp installation discs... or if you have a laptop, reimage the hdd with the XP image discs... -D

Hi pete I think you're comparing apples n oranges here. Football teams change per season, governments change every 3-4 years depending on which country yr in. For that reason alone, any financial policies can take years to take effect. And I don't for that matter just take what is written as being gospel. I make my own mind up. I voted Howard in, and I voted him out. I voted Ruddy in and I might just vote him out. thx -D

(Apologies, I don't usually steal verbatim from other essays but this is worth it) "People now believe that if inflation rises, the authorities will respond and inflation will return to 2-3 per cent. Before the recession, people thought that if inflation rose, it could go higher and at best would hover in the 8-10 per cent range. It was these inflation expectations that meant that the 90-day bank bill rate averaged 14.5 per cent during the 1980s.Reserve Bank governor Bernie Fraser locked in low inflation when he lifted interest rates in 1994 ahead of a strengthening economy. Raising interest rates in 1994 did the Keating government no favours, but it is why Australia now has the gift of low and stable inflation and low interest rates. Second, we now have a labour market where wages are negotiated on a decentralised basis. That outcome had been an objective since the two disastrous wage explosions of the Whitlam and Fraser years. Although it was not planned, the fact that Paul Keating and Bill Kelty successfully made the switch from a centralised to a decentralised system is directly related to the recession. By the end of the 1980s, the Accord had kept wages in check and facilitated a major shift from wages to profits, which reversed the disastrous consequences of the Whitlam and Fraser years. Employment growth was exceptionally strong but employers had little incentive to raise productivity - labour was cheap and profits were high, so why should they bother? It was essential that employees negotiate over higher wages and higher productivity. The constraint was the intense pressure on the labour market. The surge in the terms of trade at the end of 1987 and the ridiculous lending of the recently deregulated banks had created a property frenzy and surging demand. You cannot decentralise wage negotiations successfully during a period of intense demand for labour. In 1988 and 1989, if the Accord had lost its grip, over-award payments would have taken over and spiralled through the centralised system. Far from enjoying the prosperity of the past decade, we would have spent the 1990s dealing with high inflation and high interest rates. In 1989, time was ticking and interest rates were the only way to avoid the otherwise inevitable disaster. In the event, the economy was allowed to run too rapidly for too long, in part complicated by the 1987 stock market crash. And when it turned, interest rates continued to wreak havoc even though the immediate danger of inflation had passed. We will never know for sure whether continuing to increase interest rates up to mid-1989 saved the nation from a third wage explosion or whether it was overkill. What we do know is that it took this lift in interest rates to deflate inflation expectations; that employment grew at an annual rate of 3.1 per cent in the second half of 1989 and that unemployment continued to fall. Keating always respected the Treasury and the Reserve Bank and both organisations were allowed the courage to disagree with him. Keating could have used his powers to instruct the bank to increase rates faster and to lower them more swiftly. The boom at the end of the '80s was always going to end badly, but a more dexterous response with interest rates could have reduced the pain. However, no treasurer has ever directed the bank. It may have been in Australia's short-term interests for Keating to have acted, but the precedent would have been dreadful." Taken from http://www.theage.com.au/news/Opinion/Why-...7625206096.html. Bear in mind that its written from an ex Keating staffer (he seems to idolize the man) but for the most part hes right regarding the deregulation of wages, the stock market crash of 87 as well as the point you made earlier, that it had been a monetary policy that had been allowed to run its course for too long... Yeah... but thats inevitable when you tie the value of the currency to a single other currency or 'fixed' by government regulation. The RBA is supposed to remain impartial, so I'm really not sure why the RBA couldn't control it (its something I don't know much about to be honest) Tho I'd also like to point this out (again, stolen from another website, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/meetpm.as...re&pmId=24) "The currency float was part of a broad financial deregulation program introduced by the Hawke government and guided by Treasurer Paul Keating. It included licensing foreign banks to operate in Australia, and removing direct controls on interest rates and other restrictions that created competitive disadvantage for Australian companies in international markets. Critics pointed to the danger of speculation and of the vulnerability of a globalised economy to market crises. This was demonstrated after the New York stock market slump in October 1987. The very public collapse of some high-profile corporate entrepreneurs in Australia indicated the inadequacy of Australia’s company laws." Can be summarized as 'The float did make it hard (record unemployment, etc) but it set the scene for aussie companies to profit in overseas" EDIT* - It can also be summarized as 'the floating of the dollar caused the conditions that are making our petro/cost of livingl more expensive' lol. just depends if you see the glass half empty or the glass half full (but of course if you're an accountant, you see the glass is twice as big as it needs to be ) -D

Yeah, thats a shitty thing. We can try to do our bit, and sacrifice our quality of life but the indians and chinese don't have to. I doubt they even could. The chinese have held a 1 child policy for a few decades now out of sheer necessity, cause when you're talking 2 billion people to feed it gets rather hectic. Even gordon ramsey would say "F*&k me" when he saw the size of their order... China and India should be going nuclear, and instead of starting their own R&D, some 4th generation reactor tech would be good... I think you'll find the 380 died in the arse because *drum roll* it was a piece of shit... how many people actually bought one? Anyone from this forum even? It was an ugly, bland, uneconomical sedan, just like commonwhores and fords. Howard should never have given them money. Its not the place of the govt to prop up poorly performing overseas companies, even when their workers are going to suffer. The writing was on the wall for mitsubishi for years, and all they were doing was putting bandaids on a company that was haemorraging money. Stupidity. While its sad that people lost their jobs, you gotta remember that this is unskilled labour we're talking about (for the most part). It'll be harder for them to find work, but thems the breaks. Last time I got made redundant, I had to go get more training, so perhaps if they do the same, they'll have more job opportunities. Hell, at the end of last year I was so desperate for a job I was consideirng a $5000 course that runs for a week, and then even considering moving to sydney because my field is so competitive. Dude I totally agree with the thing about the banks being greedy. They've been at it for quite some time. And the thing regarding teachers and doctors striking/quitting; its been building for around a decade. Anyone remember the news reports about the nurse shortage just 2-3 years ago? The pay doctors get is low (yes, compared to the 10+ years of training they have to do to get there), and the teachers pay hasnt scaled comparitively either. To be honest I'm surprised they took the extreme step of quitting in spite of a change of government, but this is another example of Rudd dropping the ball. He didn't cause it but hes done stuff all to fix it. And now these monkeys in charge want to build yet another hospital. Fking great. A brand new hospital with no doctors and no nurses. IDIOTS! Holden is in the same boat as Mitsi. If you make shit products, don't expect the increasingly savvy public to shell out their hard earned dollars for it, especially when you chuck 5 liter engines in there....Holden never even had IRS on their cars till something like 1997, something the japanese cars had 2 decades before. Now you can't tell me that it was impossible for Holden to implement, they just had their market of glue sniffing bogans to keep happy, who didnt care about such details. Holdens are built by Orks, For Orks. They reckon that they're having problems selling holdens eh? Maybe they should have a thong rack for the bogans to put their footwear on so they can enjoy the sensation of velour and carpet on their feet. Maybe they should ditch the V8 and chuck a hole in the floor so all the bogan families can walk their fat asses across the land, just like the flintstones.... lols. Yeah he needs to give up the cocaine too. Otherwise he'll have a mono-nostril. least he didnt do an R. Kelly... -D

Re; bushes. since you're replacing stuff down that way, you might want to get adjustible bushes or adjustible arms incase you want to have that little bit more tweakability to yr suspension. best to replace any bushes that look worn while yr mechanic is in there (which it sounds like you are ) Re; fuel smell. it's probably one of a number of things. Either your charcoal cannister needs more charcoal, the fuel cap pressure valve isnt functioning right or the seal is worn, or your rubber fuel line is leaking fuel vapour but not liquid (this can happen with old rubber). Best to replace the entire fuel line if you've never had it done before, thats probably what I'll be doing next service cause I have the exact same issue... probably will replace the charcoal too. Do you get a big 'psssht' of fuel vapour when you take the fuel cap off? -D

Could be decent. I'd go for Dizzee Rascal, Diplo, Blackalicious... the rest I don't really recognize aside from peaches... bit pricey tho. I'm goin to Devo next month, will see if I can justify the expense ;P hopefully there arent too many mongoes drugged off their yar danketies, or idiot bouncers, or cops for that matter. festivals can suck for that reason -D

You just made the same point I was about to make; the Dollar was floated. There was bound to be issues with that, and its only due to the dollar being floated that we've been able to enjoy the last 12 years of growth. I bet most people who play the sharemarket are greatful for that fact. That, and the account deficit were killers for the ALP, and so we did in fact need that recession (it wasn't popular but it levelled australia's gross national value vs the rest of the world. Yeah the strikes/labor movement has been attached to the ALP for far too long now. Its about time they moved to the centre a bit more and stopped listening to the ACTU. The small business argument is twofold; you force them have too many restrictions and the worker suffers (liability, tax, workcover, anything that eats the profit margins). You let the small business have a free hand, the worker suffers (low pages, poor working conditions, no sickleave/insurance/indemnity. Its a balancing act, something the senate is supposed to be checking and balancing but with the demise of the democrats, its a bit of a toothless tiger. For all the credit that Howard took on the economy, the conditions that enabled this to happen were ALP policies, sad to say. And regarding social security/work for dole/mutual obligation, I find it ironic that the very people pushing these policies were the people who got a free education. All politicians are bastards. Its a matter of choosing the lesser of two evils. Rudd's probably gonna be a single term PM unless he pulls his socks up quick smart tho. (PM Turnbull would probably be pretty decent; he has the financial brain as well as a nice socialist streak (for a lib) lol). -D

I dont think that was the reason at all. Governments dont have any power over the price a barrel of oil costs, as much as they'd like to think otherwise. I'd say it had more things to do with Howard being out of touch... that and MV Tampa, Iraq, Baxter detention centre, the Hicks saga, etc. Landslide is pushing it in a big way. I agree that the Rudd govt has become more and more unpopular with every day, and there are reasons for it, but they still lead most opinion polls. This will stay the same until nelson quits and either Turbull or Costello get into opposition leader. If you look at the world markets, theres a reason that things are changing right now. Oil is a factor, but you also have to counter the incoming US recession and the slumping of stockmarkets in asia. Japan isnt doing too well right now, as a matter of fact Nissan are experiencing financial difficulties (again) due to the petrol issue. I can't agree that work is easy to find; at least not for me, and most times people don't want to pay what their workers are worth. Now I really agree with u here, on the solar issue. Theyre utter morons for getting rid of the rebate.... I've been pushing my parents to get solar for a while now and with the loss of the rebate, theyre not sure. They earn much less than $100k a year (which is where the rebate threshold stops) so poorer houses can still get the solar rebate... point being people shouldnt be discriminated against when theyre buying something that offsets carbon emissions. The libs didn't want to have the carbon trading scheme because it would have required a huge change (as Rudd is saying). Carbon emissions trading is going to be part of the future here, regardless of whether we like it or not. Rudds unpopularity on this issue is twofold; lack of PR experience and the fact the public is very resistant to change, especially when it comes to their leisure/lifestyle. So, if we can agree that petrol is a major factor in transport (which it is) which then trickles down the cost of production for all business (which it does) then its no wonder that business are finding it harder (which they are) and subsequently the consumer (us) is feeling it too, because the cost is passed onto us at the end of the day. Businesses are getting less profit margins, and its a fail/fail situation for everyone. Now, if Ruddy had a pair of balls, he'd make some nuclear reactors. We have some of the best uranium reserves in the world, and we're not bloody using it. Clean coal is a joke of a thing from the coal industry. Just how clean do you think burning carbon can get? And don't anyone out there give me this 'oh nuclear power is dangerous and screws the environment' because thats a load of shiznit. France and the US have been running nuclear reactors, as have the Japanese and British for decades now. They've never had any issues in the last 20 years using third generation reactors. And now the 4th generation reactors are coming online now and theyre even safer. The first and second gen reactors were rather unsafe by design and thats why america and britain both had issues with safety (Long Island incident & the SL-1 reactor particularly). The russians were still using 2nd generation reactors on all but the most recent power stations and subs, which is why they've had such an abysmal safety record. So, Ruddy hasn't done everything right, tbh its still too early to judge imho. I wouldn't start lionizing the libs just because theyre out of power now, but so far I'm not too impressed with Rudd either. Rann is a fool who has held premier for so long he's just lost touch and has a bit of the power hungry mojo going on (bikie laws, workcover anyone?). And while I agree that the liberals generally have a better sense of finance and economics, and Peter Costello was a very good treasurer, one can hardly forget the Fraser Govt (and lil johnny as treasurer) left the incoming Hawke government to deal with a 9.6 billion dollar account deficit. I wouldn't say im for Labour or Libs (I'd rather have Bob Brown as PM anyday, commence your flames ) but you gotta look at world circumstances. Both sides of the government have been dragging their feet for years on petrol (especially when we have some of the biggest reserves of natural gas/LPG) as well as solar and wind power (we have the best conditions for both, yet the last 2 governments haven't made it financially viable to produce solar panels here). We used to be the worlds top manufacturer of photovoltaics, but now China and Taiwan are and we pretty much have to import their panels to Australia. We should be making them ourselves, especially if theres going to be any kind of government rebate... I'm still waiting to see if he's full of Hot Air or if he's a realist ©. I don't think any government is perfect and theres a very good reason that we did have a change of government. Can't just ignore those reasons and blame the petrol crisis on Ruddy, same way you couldn't blame Howard for the interest rate rises. They kept inflation in check for the most part. *shrug* 0.02 -D

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hrm news to me, i always thought they were some special type of comp controlled head ... will know better next time -D

NEO engines have variable valve timing, so Im not quite sure that they will fit rb26's... I dont believe there were any rb26's released with VVT... will probably need a special ECU to do VVT.... possibly easier to just remap the stock ecu -D

Well its always been one of the most tastefully, highly cosmetically modded rides. Orange. while not being my style, stands out a lot and that car certainly had one hell of a lot of presence. Saw it last Kellie meet and it was beautiful. Its a shame you had to lose your baby but I'm sure once you got yr house you'll feel the bug bite again And in the meantime, welcome to the new owner! -D