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Title: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest526 on May 14, 2009, 09:55:58 PM: Found this Japanese blog last night (your correct, I was bored) choc full of thumper racers,mainly SR's and GB's,and somewhere there's a bright yellow "banana" SRX ;D

http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/tetsutaro499/folder/1580912.html (http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/tetsutaro499/folder/1580912.html)
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest7 on May 14, 2009, 10:17:47 PM: Lots of cool stuff, well spotted that man.

Unfortunately I can't rip any pics because the site has some tricky image protection code >:(
GC
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest7 on May 14, 2009, 10:25:36 PM: Aha! but that didn't stop me from doing a screen grab, cropping the image in Photoshop, saving it as a Jpeg on my hard drive and then uploading it to my webspace:

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/one.pot/racing%20SR.JPG)

That'll teach the tetchy jap webmaster to be uptight about image copyright protection.
GC
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: Steve H on May 14, 2009, 10:27:34 PM: Click on the image, its opens in another window, right click and save image as a normal jpg file.
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest7 on May 14, 2009, 10:29:07 PM: Yep, I tried that and my 'save image' option was still greyed out :(

Hence the workaround.
GC
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: Steve H on May 15, 2009, 06:57:30 AM: Works ok in Firefox
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest7 on May 15, 2009, 07:03:14 AM: Don't even start me on browsers. I am still running Win 98 and this is starting to restrict my choices of software versions and updates. I use Opera as a my browser of choice, but this isn't supported by Ebay or one of my banks so I have to use IE as well (and an old version at that).

I can't download a version of firefox compatible with Win98.

I suspect I will have to buy a new PC sometime very soon.
GC
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest27 on May 15, 2009, 10:14:18 AM: GC - I have just started looking at doing some work for a local company who salvage computers from businesses etc and then sell them on at a reasonable cost. (£50 for a windows box) not sure if they can sell to the public or if it has to be through the various schemes, would you like me to ask what sort of box, price etc they may be able to do you. I know there is a legit copy of Windows on each but I am not sure what plus a legit copy of Office - but you have that any way.

R
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest7 on May 15, 2009, 05:02:12 PM: That would be grand, if it can run 2000 or better then it's got to be better than this 'in.

Cheers and thankyouveryta
GC
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest27 on May 16, 2009, 07:48:30 PM: I will see him in the week...

R
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest7 on May 19, 2009, 11:24:41 AM: My current box contains the following
AMD Duron processor
224MB ram
Drive C - 38GB

What's the ideal sort of processor and RAM levels that I should be running these days?

GC
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: tj63 on May 19, 2009, 02:01:28 PM: A typical PC I would order for work nowadays would have:

Intel Core Two Duo processor @ 2.6Ghz
2Gb RAM
250Gb hard disk

At home I get away with an Acer Aspire One netbook:

Intel Atom processor
1Gb RAM
120Gb hard disk

Perfectly fine for web surfing and other bits and bobs. Only problem is the small screen, but you can always connect to a larger monitor if you want to.

You can pick these up for less than £200 new with Linux, or £250 with Windows XP.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/aug/07/computing.gadgets

Trevor
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: guest7 on May 19, 2009, 02:18:49 PM: Cheers for that.

On a slighly related issue, my connection speeds using speedtest.net show as:
0.93mbs download
0.17mbs upload

I'm on a 1MB line (I think).

Why the disparity?
GC
Title: Re: Japanese thumper racer pics
Post by: KungFooBob on May 19, 2009, 02:36:32 PM: If you're on ADSL the A parts stands for A-synchronous. ADSL is always faster downstream than upstream. You need SDSL if you want them both the same.