Surface street. Just a short cruise, those things are no fun on city streets.
A car that is meant for the track is seldom fun on the street.

Kinda cool though, it gets TONS of attention. EVERYONE is staring

 

lol, i'd hate to do this to fastrx8, but damn speed, that looks like a laserjet bruise. hope your alright.

 

626 group did a marathon late night run last night- finishing all the way up in the mountains where we usually go for our monthly meet cruises. this was my first time doing a run like this late at night... and, it was really fun... basically, it's a lot faster than what we'd normally run at- purely because there was almost zero worries of on-coming cars & cops. (we only saw 1 cop and it was a park ranger i think.) there were maybe 1 or 2 slow cars that wouldn't use the turn-outs here and there, but overall not too bad. we were all tired at the end though... started at around 11:30pm cuz ppl showed up late and when we finally all sat down for food it was like 5am... <lol>

how was the auto show jorge?

 

p.s. it appears that rick is alive and kicking... (for those of u guys who r young enough to remember who he is...)

 

glad everything worked out but no matter what time i would avoid going into the other lanes.

 

^ yep

 

It was a medium distance run by LateralG standards! One of these days, I'm going to try to realize my dream of an overnight run so we can get away from just the Greater LA area and go to other parts of the state.

I'm glad it worked out so smoothly, but the group was a bit big; I didn't actually plan for so many people to come, and so had to improvise a bit on the spot. If it wasn't so big and included so many inexperienced people, I think we could've spent less time waiting and more time driving, which would've cut down on the fatigue. I might need to organize two types of drives in the future: one that is longer ranged for experienced people only, and the other that is relatively short to blood in newbies. Nonetheless, this was a successful conclusion to the 2008 drives even if it didn't go quite as smoothly as I would've liked.

 

Laser Jet 4050 baby.

puppy was on its way to Surplus.

 

Soo update on the computer:
I reformated it again, installed office xp and the newest firefox and required drivers. I have not done the updates or office 2007 because it slows down after that step. I was not able to run ubuntu, it just wouldnt load or run directly from the disk. AVG would not work because it could not updated itself even though I have a internet connection and scannign woudl freeze, it thought I wasnt connected. I was also unable to load AVG on the current setup because it required XP with SP2 to work. so for now everything works but i have to save down from my computer to my wifes all her old files that were office 07 to xp (I also have office 03 but i figure it would be better to do evertyhing XP). No pop-ups or virus so far.

 

On any PC shared w women or children, its always a good idea to keep xp patched with all the most up-2-date MS critical updates, because those close known vulnerability holes in the OS. Yes the computer is slightly slower, but ur less likely to get exploits. It's also good to have 1 good AV app & 1 good AS app.

Or, get them a mac- a lot less worries re viruses & spyware- esp for curious, click happy users. (ahem) like women & kids... :LOL:

 

morning everyone!

Loren: good to see you on Saturday.

Detrich: show was FUN. Saw a cool Honda concept car and I was really impressed with it, until it rotated all the way around and we saw the back end.

 

Detrich, the mac wouddl confuse them, especially my wife thruoughly, as for the updates and slighylt slower, try pushing a bolder the size of a car up a hill slower.

Good to see you too Jeorge, did you guys finish? What were your best and worst cars that you saw at the autoshow?

 

@ lesper4
Your pc should not be slowed down by windows service pack updates.
I would definitely recommend updating to service pack 3.
It actually makes it more efficient.
You need to install some sort of anti-virus or you will end up w/ problems eventually.
AVG 8.0 is free and it runs very well on any system. It does not hog resources that would slow your pc down.

If you had issues trying to run Ubuntu, it's because your pc is not setup to check the CD drive first.
Restart the pc, and go into the BIOS Setup. It's probably F2 or F12 while it's booting up.
Read the screen, and it will tell you which key to push to go into Setup.
There is an option for boot sequence. You want the CD Drive 1st, and your hard drive 2nd.
When you boot up your pc, it will check the cd 1st, and if there is something that it can boot from, it will, but if it's some
other type of file, like music cd or games, it will just boot from the hard drive.

Once you're CD is setup to be checked 1st, you can restart w/ the Ubuntu CD in the drive, and it will work.


Re: my carpc install.
We finished. Lots of wires, but I accomplished what I wanted to do.
It was mostly testing to make sure everything fits like I wanted, and that the metra kit worked correctly.

 

Cesar: glad we got the Metra kit in there, I wish we would have had a little longer to finish up the little things but I would say the install was a success.


P.S. Cesar and I have uber wiring skillz. You guys should SEE the amount of wires involved in that thing!!!!

 

Well I guess then maybe Wednesday I will go and do all the OS updates. That way I can run AVG. Do you reccomend I stay with firefox? or go to IE7 or IE8 beta 2?

I did run AVG on my computer last ngith and it found a bunch of stuff. I was reading also online that AVG doesn't actually delete the stuff it finds. What does it do with the adware / spyware / virus it finds?

 

it quarantines the items in an attempt to isolate them in a place where they won't cause any trouble.

 

I was reading today that you (not that I can cause I'm out of HD space) can download your games to the hard drive now..and go without having the game disc in.....if that is so, it may be worth going to buy the 120 gb hard drive and start sharing games. Buy one copy, download it to multiple hard drives.

This can't be right, can it...would it be that easy?

here's the blurb from the reviews guide. I actually first saw the information on the Forzamotorsports.net web site.

Instead of always playing from the disc, we made it
possible for you to copy games to your hard drive.
This will cut loading times 30 percent to 50 percent.
That’s huge. If you have a few favorites that you play
daily, you can get into them faster than ever. And like
everything else in the new interface, it’s easy — pop
your disc in, use your Guide Button to go to My Xbox
Channel, select Install to Drive and you’re done.
It’s worth noting that saving to the hard drive is
optional, not required. If you’re just testing a game
out, you can still play from the disc. Another key thing
to mention: If you delete a game from your drive to
create space, your game will still be saved for the
future if you decide to play it again later. Any content
you’ve purchased from Xbox LIVE can be deleted and
downloaded again without charging you twice. For
obvious reasons, we recommend that you get a hard
drive to have sufficient room for your entire library.

 

Thanks for the pics.....I wonder how much aggressive the hatch will be......???

 

Mazdaspeed Monday...who's playing tonight?

 

^^i will be on not sure how long thought as i keep forgetting my show is on and the season fianlly is coming up soon.

 

I took 350+ pics at the AutoShow, I'll have to start posting them soon.
(either that or Cesar can post them since he ninja'd the pics from me at dinner)

OH, that reminds me: we ate in the SMALLEST IHOP restaurant EVER built! I wish we had pics. (might have to look it up on google maps)

 

@ cesar / jedi i thoguth VW wasnt getting this phone
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...edPhoneId=4331

 

Verizon is getting the phone, Sprint just gets the HTC phones a few months sooner.

 

just out of curiosity (its the season) which one would you get (just of these two!)?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16855102033

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-059-_-Product

 

Not even a question. Get the Creative ZEN 2.5" Black 4GB MP3 / MP4 Player.
It has an expansion slot.
You can buy a 16 or 32 gb SD card later and carry much more than the 8gb.
16GB sd's go for about $30 right now, and prices are dropping.