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bled my brakes tonight after fitting a 260RS master cylinder and booster and damm do they make a difference over the small one i was running with the Brembo's.

Cant wait to test them tomorrow now woo.

Sipping some nice spirits here and I get bored.

Reading the news.com.au's report on the weather front makes me laugh

Bureau of Meteorology says 95kph. News.com.au decides 'f**kit lets add 20%' and says 120kph

Love it how they embellish EVERY story to get more clicks, thankfully its not just car owners...

I just posted this :

|The storms are actually a by product from car hoons doing burnouts at lower light (Mike Rann told me so). I have a solution. We should crush low pressure fronts and make mother nature do community service for every window cracked by hail. Time to put a stop to weather hoons like mother nature, enough is enough. save the murray and the porpoise, can we not coexist in peace?"

I wonder if they publish it. They published my diss of them in the hoon poll but if u notice, theyve removed the comments section from the hoon website. Ahh gotta love being able to filter out the inconvenient truth. And by doing so, they just made my rant 100% true. Gotta love the recursive irony in that.

-D

Google some reviews on Kwak around the net guys .... widely regarded as one of the best beers on the planet. And you would hope so at a bit over $150 per carton delivered. They cost a bit over $15 each at the Belgian Beer Cafe! Scandy, Wiplash and I have downed quite a few of them at the Belgian in recent times - and you leave with a very sore wallet!

How did u pay for the SSD Ben? Normally Visa companies and Paypal favour the consumer and refund your funds immediately. Don't tell me you were silly enough to direct deposit?

On a related issue, my 901 came with a 4Gb and a 16Gb SSD. Now WinXP was loaded on the 16Gb, which when I did some hard drive speed testing, was about third of the speed of the 4Gb. Both are genuine Acer items, but the 4Gb one is far superior. So I nuked the 16Gb drive and made the 4Gb master - installed Performance XP and she absolutely flies. Performance was significantly below par before when the OS was loaded on the 16Gb, but the 4Gb one is now pretty good indeed. Not as great as a quality GSKill SSD like Heslo's, but more than sufficient for what I want the lappie to do. :laugh:

How did u pay for the SSD Ben? Normally Visa companies and Paypal favour the consumer and refund your funds immediately. Don't tell me you were silly enough to direct deposit?

Yes I was stupid enough. This douchebag had a website and was recommended by the f**kheads who manufactured the product ffs. www.voitech.com.au is the scumbag who rorted me, runcore.com are the guys who made the drive. I reported his fraud to the manufacturer who tried to chase it up and found that they were unable to contact 'voitech'. So they made solidstatedigital their aussie distributor. ended up ordering the drive thru them and got what i wanted, but im still $220 out of pocket because of these f**king arsehats who recommended me buy off an internet conman.

Someone is going to pay, I dont give a goddamn if its voitech or runcore, but I'll pursue this until someone feels my boot in the seat of their pants.

On a related issue, my 901 came with a 4Gb and a 16Gb SSD. Now WinXP was loaded on the 16Gb, which when I did some hard drive speed testing, was about third of the speed of the 4Gb. Both are genuine Acer items, but the 4Gb one is far superior. So I nuked the 16Gb drive and made the 4Gb master - installed Performance XP and she absolutely flies. Performance was significantly below par before when the OS was loaded on the 16Gb, but the 4Gb one is now pretty good indeed. Not as great as a quality GSKill SSD like Heslo's, but more than sufficient for what I want the lappie to do. :laugh:

The speed issue is exactly why i upgraded to an ssd. the 16gb ssd is the removable one. I replaced it with a 32gb runcore module that has 20x faster write and at least 10x fast reads - the writes are the key when running any OS that relies upon a swap file and many i/o transactions (ala windows).

I run my 4gb drive with Fedora Linux v11.0

32gb drive runs XP, and is as fast as any ssd on the market.

Spend around $1k on my eee 901. Every upgrade was worth it.

-D

Edit - fyi thats

4gb primary ssd - fedora 11

32gb secondary aftermarket ssd - fedora 11 swapfile (4gb - appropriate for 2gb ram), + 28gb windows xp partition

16gb type6 SD card - more than enough for pics, music and movies

+2gb simm replacing 1gb simm.

result?

Asus eee 901 with 52gigs of solid state storage, a bluetooth mouse, usb dvb-t tuner that works under linux and windows, and hdd's with the latency comparable to an entry level desktop pc. there is nothing this eee 901 can't do for business users (it wont play doom3, big deal eh?)

and if I had another $200 spare I'd buy the touchscreen kit for the 901

-D

Nice setup there Ben.

Have you contacted your bank? In the case of online ripoffs, I believe they can try to reverse the transaction and get the money back from the guy's account (if it still exists). I would give it a try if I was you.

Nice setup there Ben.

Have you contacted your bank? In the case of online ripoffs, I believe they can try to reverse the transaction and get the money back from the guy's account (if it still exists). I would give it a try if I was you.

I thought that was only possible if you had not actioned the payment? Recently had 1375.80 dollars disappear from one of my credit union accounts, 4 months after I had used that card in an ATM in Venice! ATM was inside a bank still seems like someone cloned the card, funny how I can be in Bondi and 20 minutes later in Venice withdrawing 800 euros! :laugh:

Nope, they can do it anytime. Banks are well aware of people's reluctance to shop online (which banks have a vested interest in) due to the inherent risks of fraud, so are red hot on actioning and refunding people's money if they have or feel they have been ripped off. The onus is then on the seller/receiver of funds to prove their case if they believe they have acted appropriately. Of course the account the money was paid into has to still exist and have funds in it - if they have done a runner then the cash is gone forever.

On a similar note, when I was last in Singapore I was out buying all kinds of things on my Visa and had my card skimmed at one stage or another. Within hours, someone from the ANZ rang me to report suspicious activity on my card, so we went through the list of things I had bought that day, and they simply crossed off the transactions that weren't mine and they never even appeared on my statement.

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