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If you use the deisel trick (or any other Cleanout proceedure) CHANGE THE FILTER 3 TIMES!!!! You won't beleive the gunk it pulls out and the filter, doing it's job, filters it all out. Lucas products are top notch and 90% of the time do what they say. If your car is truely "broke" no band aid will fix it. But a ticking lifter is fixable easily under $50. As stated above get a stethoscope or long handled screwdriver to find the actual source of the problems. Put the tip of the screwdriver on various parts and your ear on the handle and listen for noise. You can find the source very easily. Be careful on a running engine. A friends car developed a LOUD tick that he thought was a bad bearing. He called me and we did the screwdriver trick. Found out the alternator was loose. The best part of mechanicing is a good diagnose proceedure.

What calibre is it?

I don't play but have watched youtube about it and talked to a friend who plays. When you start at level 1 you play against levels 1-3. When you reach level 3 you go to levels 2-5, some weaker, most stronger. I think he said at level 5 you play against +2 to - 2 levels. So your about medium strength. You earn point for kills and not being killed which allows you t obuy weapons armour blah blah.......OR you can go do the "Wallet Warrior" route and send money for credit to buy the upgrades and talk in game. He plays the free way and enjoys it alot. When you start, buddy up with a level 3 with you in a small fast tank. You go forward and look for other tanks, shoot it and back up to let your buddy kill it. You get a percentage of the kill without endangering yourself. He says most people agree to this tactic and helpp out a noob. I've been thinking about it but don't have the bandwidth to d/l it. If you do get it give me a hollar and I might get itso we can buddy up.

Boy this will start a shit storm...............I used to work in a automotove machine shop and hot rod shop. I did the dissassembly and machining of the motors and parts. Over the four years I was there I noticed a commonality in all the badly gunked up motors. Quaker State Oil.

Cobra PB usually does a behing the scenes update so you probably never senn it done. X-Fire will also auto update it for you.

Sorry hit the edit time limit. Had to start over. This is a little off topic,but might help to explain things. It is a very basic anolgy but everyone should be able to understand it. A hard drive can be compared to a book (and newspaper). When you install a game, it says Chapter 1 is on page 562, chapter 2 is on page 103. and so on as it finds empty space. This is a defragmented drive (like a newspaper, sports on section C, comics section b. And alot of times you'll read an article that "continues on Section E page 5". You have to do a lot of scrambling to find stuff.) When you defragment your hard drive, it rearranges things like a book, chapter 1 page 1, chapter 2 page two, and so on. Very easy to find things. SOMETIMES (especially in XP) when you uninstall a program, all it does is remove the page numbers but leaves the data. You actually show blank areas on your drive but Windows remembers where they were and what they contained.. When you reinstall all your doing is replacing the page numbers. So chapter 2 is back on page 103, and so on. Whenever you do an uninstall and you know your going to reinstall the same program, do a defrag on your system. It causes Windows to forget chapeter 2 was on 103 and will place it in a new slot ,say page 473. Everything is put in to blank areas as close together as possible. If you want tot see this in action, dwonload Defraggler. It is very easy to use has a cool animation while defragging, does a better job than Windows Defrag, and is (just as Yoda likes it) FREE. You can find it on MajorGeeks. Bottom line, Just because you reinstall doesn't mean you changed anything.

This is a little off topic,but might help to explain things. It is a very basic anolgy but everyone should be able to understand it. A hard drive can be compared to a book (and newspaper). When you install a game, it says Chapter 1 is on page 34, chapter 2 is on page 103. and so on as it finds empty space. This is a defragmented drive (like a newspaper, sports on section C, comics section b. Yoy have to do a lot of scrambling to find stuff.)

Hi guys. My laptop hd crashed so I got a new 160 gig hd for it. The problem I'm having is when I try to install windows, it seems to copy the files ok but won't boot off the hd. I've tried everything I can think of to get it boot but no luck. If I reinstall windows , it give the message OS already installed do you want to delete and reinstall. The drive doesn't show in bios no matter what settings I have. I'm thinking maybe a bios update but can't because I can't boot. I have bios F5 on it now and HP shows an update to F13 on their site. The question is, how can I get bios to recognize the drive and get windows installed? And most importantly, should I try to get laid tonight?

I remember my friends Amiga 128 also . He had a stack of 6 floppy drives stacked up and didn't have to swap disks either. Load,8,1!

Hey guys, anyone a stargazer? If you are and have a smart phone d/l an app called googlesky.map. Shows the planets, stars, and constellations in real time or you can time travel. Pretty cool app.

Commode=door 64 here. At 1 hertz. Traded it in for a Commadore 128 at TWICE THE SPEED!!! .A blazingly fast 2 hertz. Caverns of Kafka was a big selling point way back when. Then my buddy picked me up an Amiga 500 that screamed at 7 hertz!!! That's .0000000002 of my current cpu if my math is correct. I quickly attached a 10megabyte HD that only cost $800 BUT I could play pool of radiance without swapping disks!! The HD case also held 16 megs of memory.Boy was I a super user!!!! The Amiga boasted 4096 colors when the IBM's were at 8.

driveimagedixmlsetup and Easus todobackup will both back up your hard drive to cd or dvd. Easy to use. Does a full HD backup or partition back up. Make sure you have a couple free hours for the back ups but it saves LOTS of time during a reinstall of windows. Do a google search for an incremental backup program. It will allow you do do a back up of only your changed data. Example: If you download a new map only the map is added to your exsisting backup. You don't have to do a full back up again. I don't know of a free one. The previously mentioned ones are free.

Sorry, misread the title. But I'll leave this up anyway. The downloader will only work if you tell it to do it manually. Download Tarallyn or any file sync program (allwayssync is another). Put a BIG thumbdrive/usbkey in the back of your computer (hidden away). Sync your files to it and it will automatically do a backup of your files on the fly. Download a new map? Done! New Perk? Done! Level up to 55? Done! Midget Porn? Wrong forum. All backed up with no hassle other than 15 minutes of setup. If your computer craps out, all your files are safe. Reload the game and drag-n-drop your profiles, maps, perks back into the prober folders. In 10 minutes your a level 55 midget porn star again.

I agree Roxy, no panties.

Try this, very easy. Right click the movie icon. Choose properties. Look at the "Opens with" option. If it doesn't say Nero..........click change,,,,,,,,,,choose Nero (or the program you want. As a side note Nero has a trial for Nero 11. Super easy vob /movie burning WITH MENUS!!!!!

Cops must have done an in-depth investigation.

Everyone has a Mother.

Got it up and running. Used a newer version of Black Edition. I really like the way it runs. Quite a bit faster on bootup and while running. Didn't like being loaded off thumbdrive though. Had to burn a disk. The viruses that everyone talks about Black Edition having are the keycode finder and reg hack programs that are supplied with the programs. They are flagged because they do the same thing as some viri do, steal keycodes and hack registry settings. You'll also see "stolen" programs mentioned. All the programs supplied by Zone 54 (the original makers of the Black Edition) are open source or free download trials. Try it you'll like it.

mp_heavensource is the one where you spawn on the bridge and cant get off of. I don't play much MW2 but definately quit when this map shows.

Way to go Chicago!! Isn't that a song?

Got mine yesterday. It was the first parcel to arrive in my new mailbox!!!

I planon going to the comicfest on the 19th. If you're going and would like to meet up give me a pm and we''ll get it going.