David Jenkins
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 11:40 AM |
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For some REALLY good (and accurate) peeves, look at:
http://www.chris-longhurst.com/carbibles/
and look for "Driving pet peeves" in the left-hand margin.
Another very informative site, BTW.
David
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Alan B
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 12:13 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by pbura
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Theorising (sp?) - just build it...make the next one perfect..
Ouch! I resemble this remark!
Thanks for the pointers on rust prevention, Alan, I'll be able to sleep tonight 
OK = (according to folklore) Oll Korrect, from a creative speller ticking off batches of ballots at a polling place.
Pete B.
Pete, I had heard that too about OK...
BTW, none of my peeves are aimed at anyone in particular...they are based on many instances of the aforementioned peeves...
I have many theories too and love to chat about them.......it is just that 100% theory = no car........again aimed at nobody in particular.
Another peeve.....
Make your frame from regular mild steel......unless you are VERY competent in welding stainless/chromoly/Ali...etc.
If you haven't done any welding at all don't even think of exotic materials.....
Oh yeah, and TIG is NOT easy....unless you can do it..
Ah...feeling better again......
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 12:32 PM |
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Peeves ?
Kids - can't stand the little buggers.....
tolerate my own of course
And the wonderful recurring post -> i want to build a locost - how much does it cost and how long does it take ?
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Alan B
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 12:38 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by protofj
......And the wonderful recurring post -> i want to build a locost - how much does it cost and how long does it take ?
Easy.....wild guess + more money + more time = car...
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pbura
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 12:47 PM |
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quote:
Ouch! I resemble this remark!
Just having fun with an old Three Stooges line, tho' I confess feeling like I single-handedly killed off the Theory list obsessing about
suspension geometry.  I'm all better now.
A peeve:
Auto parts websites with keywords for the stuff you want, but all they're selling is shift knobs, deodorizers, and mufflers with 1-3/4"
inlets and 4" tips.
Pete B.
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Rob Lane
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 01:04 PM |
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Tim,
There was a GP program on Sky of years gone by, who showed this to be guessed as true. (Couldn't actually prove it!)
They showed snippets of pit lane film taken at time where one of the mechanics jobs was to remove and quickly replace the extinguisher bottle.
Why? It hadn't gone off!
Rest.
If some of the poseur questioners just went ahead and built a basic one they probably couldn't find fault with it anyway!
Never mind fanciful tubing etc. put one of them in a Morgan with sliding pillar front suspension without telling them and they would still think
it's great!!
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Viper
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 06:16 PM |
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My current Peeeev
Tiger Racing..
Nuff said.
 
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 07:31 PM |
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This wouldnt be from someone with a psudonym beging with J would it?
I got a very personal and attacking email from this person a month or so ago, which he ended with the very adult 'dont send an answer back cos I
will ignore you'.
A real grown up!
atb
steve
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Originally posted by Syd Bridge
Not to worry too much Rorty, I've had the emails as well. Sad individual.
Cheers,
Syd.
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 07:35 PM |
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There was also a time in the 70s when the cars ran large tanks of water to act as 'brake cooling'. The water was a consumable, so was
allowed to be added to the car weight at the end of the race allowing the car to run lighter.
All the cooling was carried out on the first few laps.......
atb
steve
quote:
Originally posted by timf
quote:
Originally posted by Rob Lane
Certainly driver safety wasn't an issue, there's definitely at least two in the collection that have ali fuel tanks in cockpit as seat
sides!! One a Lotus! Colin Chapman, looked after his drivers, I should say so!! Not.
IIRC there was rumours in the f1 teams during the late 70's that at least one team had filled the onboard fire extinguishers with nitros and
would use them in an attemp to gain places at the end of the race.
how else did the team explain a huge gain in acceleration down the main straigts for one lap only.
now that is dangerous.
[Edited on 6/8/03 by stephen_gusterson]
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Wadders
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 08:11 PM |
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Mmmmh, have always liked a mystery, so thought i'd undertake some digging, suprisingly we seem to have around 112 members beginning with
"J", although only a small percentage of these are active posters.
Any chance of a further clue?
As for pet hates, peeps that insist on posting blurry out of focus images that look like they were taken by a pissed chimpanzee, using a pinhole
camera.
Al. 
]Originally posted by stephen_gusterson
This wouldnt be from someone with a psudonym beging with J would it?
I got a very personal and attacking email from this person a month or so ago, which he ended with the very adult 'dont send an answer back cos I
will ignore you'.
A real grown up!
atb
steve
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Originally posted by Syd Bridge
Not to worry too much Rorty, I've had the emails as well. Sad individual.
Cheers,
Syd.
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JoelP
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 09:04 PM |
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well it wozznt me!
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 09:34 PM |
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i wouldnt want to embarrass the guy any further. Got his rantings on record tho.
atb
steve
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chrisg
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 09:50 PM |
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Sorry Steve!
Cheers
Chris
I get that sort of thing all the time, do you want a list!
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 10:01 PM |
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Chris dont begin with J.......
didnt you get thrown off an almost defunct list once?
12 difference and counting.....
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chrisg
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 10:12 PM |
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Not for Nasty E-Mails I hasten to add!
Cheers
JChris
Note to all: I really don't know when to leave well alone. I tried to get clever with the mods, then when they gave me a lifeline to see the
error of my ways, I tried to incite more trouble via u2u. So now I'm banned, never to return again. They should have done it years ago!
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andyjack
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| posted on 6/8/03 at 11:48 PM |
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One of my pet hates on forums in general is when someone askes a perfectly valid question. And you get someone who has been posting on the forum for a
good while giving a realy impatient answer that goes along the lines of "god that old chestnut how may times do we have to answer the same old
questions, try doing a search dummy!"
Only problem is, if you dont happen to fluke the exact title of a previous post it always comes up with diddly squat on a search. Or are new members
supposed to read the entire forum archive in full before they earn the right to ask a question? Just in case they inconvenience some one by holding up
their day by 30 seconds while they read a repetitive post.
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Rorty
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 03:41 AM |
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Simon:
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Perhaps you should think about doing the same, so we all know who it is!!
I don't think it's worth it. I think he's such a thick skinned individual, any retort would be water off the duck's
proverbial.
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".. and not feeling well)"
Hope it's not too serious and you're well soon!
Cheers M8.
protofj:
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Kids - can't stand the little buggers.....
Kids are like farts; you can often tolerate your own.
stephen_gusterson:
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This wouldnt be from someone with a psudonym beging with J would it?
No. Suffice to say, he's a really twisted, obstreperous character, and I deleted the lengthy email as it was merely vindictive, vile junk. I
also barred his email address to prevent any further onslaught.
Cheers, Rorty.
"Faster than a speeding Pullet".
PLEASE DON'T U2U ME IF YOU WANT A QUICK RESPONSE. TRY EMAILING ME INSTEAD!
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James
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 10:08 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Wadders
Mmmmh, have always liked a mystery, so thought i'd undertake some digging, suprisingly we seem to have around 112 members beginning with
"J", although only a small percentage of these are active posters.
Any chance of a further clue?
As for pet hates, peeps that insist on posting blurry out of focus images that look like they were taken by a pissed chimpanzee, using a pinhole
camera.
Al.
Curiouser and Curiouser! Go on- gizza clue!
I know the top 3 posters beginning with 'J' (one of them is me! ) and I'd be excessively surprised if it was any of us!
I don't know if anyone's geeky/bored enough to read http://www.grc.com but there's an interesting (if long!) article on there about
how he tracked down a hacker that was killing the access to their servers:
http://grc.com/dos/grcdos.htm
Loads of stuff about zombies, bots, zombie masters, DDOS, etc. etc.
Mildly entertaining on a boring day...
Cheers,
James
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andyjack
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 04:22 PM |
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Not connected with this site in any way shape or form, but I was reciving Emails with viruses attached on a daily basis. The sender was using my known
freinds and associates displayed Email addreses. Fortunatly my freinds all have private Email addys that they normaly use to send me mail so I was
alerted straight away.
It turns out that you can change the header of an Email to make it display any sender name you wish. But it is fairly hard to actualy change the
header. If you right click on a Email and select properties then details it will display the header. Within the header you will find a section where
it says Xfrom after that it will display the true Email address of the sender. I started to send the viruses back and the sender soon got the message.
Apparently if you realy know your stuff and know where to look it also shows the ip address of the sender and the servers used to route the Email as
well.
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Spyderman
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 06:56 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by andyjack
Not connected with this site in any way shape or form, but I was reciving Emails with viruses attached on a daily basis. The sender was using my known
freinds and associates displayed Email addreses. Fortunatly my freinds all have private Email addys that they normaly use to send me mail so I was
alerted straight away.
It turns out that you can change the header of an Email to make it display any sender name you wish. But it is fairly hard to actualy change the
header. If you right click on a Email and select properties then details it will display the header. Within the header you will find a section where
it says Xfrom after that it will display the true Email address of the sender. I started to send the viruses back and the sender soon got the message.
Apparently if you realy know your stuff and know where to look it also shows the ip address of the sender and the servers used to route the Email as
well.
Virus's are usualy passed on from another victim.
The people that create these things are a little smarter than that unfortunately.
The virus will usually send copies of itself to everyone in your contacts list, so all you have been doing is sending the poor sod who got infected
more infected files.
And as you stated you can be traced and could be prosecuted for distributing the virus.
Don't make yourself part of the problem!
[Edited on 7/8/03 by Spyderman]
Spyderman
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andyd
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 07:30 PM |
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Also a great deal of people who deliberately write/distribute virii (sp?) cover themselves by hacking someone elses mail server and getting it to send
the emails. This means that although you could trace it back to the source, it isn't necessarily the users of that server that actually are to
blame (apart from their slack security that is! )
Like all spam these days it's not easy to stop it once it starts and sending stuff back is a) pointless because they won't stop and b)
just adds to the amount of bandwidth being used by useless crap (a bit like this )
I'll get my spanner...
Andy
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Ian Pearson
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| posted on 7/8/03 at 07:46 PM |
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Smart arses who feel they have to answer every post regardless of their ability to answer the question. I some times feel there should be a shadow
site, for those that aren't actually interested in building, but like the look of their own typeing!
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andyjack
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| posted on 8/8/03 at 12:21 PM |
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Yes I am aware how viruses are distributed these were not random viruses generated through address books. They were viruses all coming from one Email
address, ip and using the same server and route each time, but made to look like they had been sent from friends. I sent a copy of the headers to a
profesional body to confirm all this before I did anything. Unfortunatly I cant remeber the name of the people who dealt with this as it was a long
time ago, although I could find out. So in this case the viruses were returned to the true sender.
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Spyderman
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| posted on 8/8/03 at 12:49 PM |
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Pet Peeves
People who ask for advice and/or help and then proceed to pick apart any suggestions you make!
Spyderman
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Rorty
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| posted on 14/8/03 at 04:43 AM |
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Just remembered another pet peeve; people who won't help themselves!
I'll bend over backwards to help anyone...as long as they reciprocate by equalling my efforts (or at the very least, show willing).
What I can't stand, is people asking for help, and then standing back expecting me to actually do it all for them. Some even have the gall to
complain or criticise my efforts.
This morning someone wanted advice, and then came back wanting me to do their job for them!
How's about I heat up the end of a length of chassis tube and ram the ragged cold end up your ar5e, so you burn your hand pulling it out too!
Bah!
Cheers, Rorty.
"Faster than a speeding Pullet".
PLEASE DON'T U2U ME IF YOU WANT A QUICK RESPONSE. TRY EMAILING ME INSTEAD!
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