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the 4 more gals than guys sounds good, but the 14 guys that have to fight over the comp that the college geek has? no thanks. i'll stick to the present numbers.

when i saw you say memmaker i immediately thought of the ram-doubler software that compresses the ram like speeddisk does. mwahahaha. forget the name though, also back in the day when ram was more precious than gold...

if i applaud you, that means your rep as an evil troll goes down the shitter, seeing as that would be at least 10 applauds till now. it's probably more, but i don't feel like taking my socks off to count em.

and it seems someone is smiting me every time they see it, which is good. i like a more chaotic heavily smitten alignment. along those lines applaud and smite should be used more. a rating in the 100's for each gives better average.

well, you can probably run it on regular. /but/:

reason for premium prolly higher compression than normal model, necessitating better resilience to knocking (premature ignition) by fuel. which is what the octane rating means.

possible consequences: 1 it can sense knocking, it adjusts for it more or less, causing loss of power/fuel economy. worst case: it fucks up the engine good because fuel ignites compression stroke.

either way, possible, but not a good idea.

be nice. yhey may actually be unaware of the problem.

give benefit of doubt, delay hissy fit till tuesday

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one thing about the multitronics:

they can't handle torque. proof of this is that the engines it is offered with are the gasoline ones. especially audi, whose multitronic according to tests is nice, offers it with a v6 gas, but even the 4 cylinder diesel according to audi has so much torque that it would turn the thing into a modern art masterpiece.

:haha:

looking for a rice burner and think this is ugly?

[img width=400 height=300]http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/mustang/launch/wallpaper/mst05_wp_800_ext_2.jpg

well everyone's entitled. but there's no replacement for displacement!!!

well, don't know, but if you want to get rid of it and have a legal subscription, i will bite the bullet and take it off your hands. for free, even.

that's just the thing.s1. is it the link from the server to the hoster that's getting swamped, in which case the fixes i poposed might help, or is it the hosters network that is maxing out, in which case we're sol, CA3LE can't very well balance load for an unknown load.

a quick and dirty way might be to have the dl tests do the following:

when a test is started add 3mbps to the total for the duration given for the slowest cable time.

so the 3 meg test would reserve the 3mbps for 16 seconds. that should let you tally it up, it wouldn't be accurate in any sense of the word, but it would show if there /is/ indeed a problem with too many concurrent tests.

ah, i've got it. will just keep posting to it so that it eventially becomes so off topic that it gets baleeted.

i don't know wether to applaud or smite rtb every time i see him post with my quote in his sig...

if the download slows down only some time after its begun... try using a dl manager like getright, then when the speed drops, pause the dl, wait a while and resume, hopefully at full impulse power?

ok, for 25 grand there shouldn't be any question what you get, unless you're dead from the neck up.

forget the rice.

2005 ford mustang coupe v8, the premium starts at 26250 msrp, so that'ts right there in the price range.

there is /no/ sporty car at tha price that has better looks.

does that gmail thingum allow download off server with outlook or similar? or do i have to let myself get spammed with banners et al to check my mail? and do they add spam as a footer in your mail?

hehe

nitpick mode on. but if you host the test part of the month, until your quota for the month is full, wouldn't that make the test even more inaccurate than it already is (or is it?), what with people testing to one site and then another?

yeah, and how much is the tool itself a spyware. i can't imagine they would pass up the chance to ul some interesting data when they retrieve the definition updates...

reno, i /was/ kidding. then again, there isn't much we /can/ do, since all the data we'd need to wade through is not yet available to us, and we wouldn't be getting the raw feed, we would be getting data already processed by CA3LE, so all we /can/ do is nitpick.

hm. no, i think you will nail it down. we're just gonna sit here and complain that a certain /free/ speed test is inaccurate.

on the subject of aol

get your hands on one of their spammed mailing cd's

slip it into the drive of someone you do not like.

let the autostart commence.

he /will/ in all likelyhood end up reinstalling his system. the damn things infest the whole comp even before you agree to install anything.

hm, does the broadband version of aohell do everything through it's own software like the dialup?

hm. tuning, as in ricing it up with body panls and stuff, sure. but you should not touch the drivetrain. for example adding supercharger/turbo to normally aspirated engine=sudden premature death of the same. the engine is built to perform at spec forever, but increase compression by adding blower, inject more fuel, you get more stress on the engine block, more heat in the pistons, all equaling much more wear and tear.

25000 what?

pounds, lira, canadian?

and with that in mind, you should take the time to do some test drives. you will be surprised at how much sportier an auto is, you don't feel shifts hardly, and like you said, it won't let the engine stay at high rpm too long.

pretty much all the tiptronics et al give better performance than manual, only time they re slower than automatic is when you insist on shifting yourself.

right. how much does aol say you should be getting, and i agree. lose aol, get other isp.

and to be complete, what os, run a tracert to www.testmy.net and post it, also add in a post of your ul speed if you want.

first off, how much are you willing to spend.

then there's two type of gearboxes with paddle shifters.

one is the manual gearbox, where the paddle shifters cause a computer to actuate the transmission via hydraulic/pneumatic controls.

then there's the full automatics with paddle shifters, essentially an automatic transmission with the paddles as inputs for the computer.

usually both types will not allow the engine to over/under rev. meaning that it won't let you downshift if the engine's rpm would spike too high in the lower gear, it will upshift once max rpm is reached, and downshift when you drop below min rpm.

the manual or sequential gearboxes with paddle shifters have the drawback that the actuators in the transmission are a possible source of mechanical trouble.

the ones with auto transmissions are to be preferred, as you will have the thing essentially in drive, and you have the paddle to downshift (within the rpm limits of course) or upshift if you desire. for example downshifting before passing another car, preempting the short delay that would occur if the tranny downshifts when you kickdown to pass, downshifting in a corner to have lower gear to accelarate out of the corner etc.

other types are the automatics with a manual mode, bmw for example offers them. you push the lever out of drive to one side of the normal path, and can then upshift/downshift as above.

otherwise, i would always prefer an auto over a manual, it beats the hell out of a stick in bumper to bumper (no annoying clutching all the bloody fucking time your stuck in a traffic jam with one gazillion other schlubs to and from... but i digress.

and besides, an automatic is sportier than a manual. take two identical cars, one with a manual, the other with automatic.

the automatic will usually outaccelerate the manual, unless the person driving the stick is very very sharp.

cruise controls also work better with automatic than manual, since the auto can downshift at a hill while the manual will justget floored and strain itself.

and if you're looking for some neat performance look at volkswagen (also skoda and seat) turbo diesels. a modern turbo diesel volkswagen golf will run 150 hp, 350nm of torque, while getting you 40 miles to the gallon, or about 6 liters per 100km, depending where you life. don't punch it and the mileage gets even better. the torque from a diesel is sooooo sweet. <message ends due to rambling. post terminated.>