The grumpy thread

[Negative Creep]

thanks - been searching by device ID for the last hour or so with no joy. Just lots of dead links, wrong files and dodgy Russian sites. Toshiba don't even list it on their site anymore

[philibusmo]

thanks - been searching by device ID for the last hour or so with no joy. Just lots of dead links, wrong files and dodgy Russian sites. Toshiba don't even list it on their site anymore

 

Do you have the serial number of the toshiba laptop, I'm posative I will be able to find your drivers.

[Negative Creep]

thanks - been searching by device ID for the last hour or so with no joy. Just lots of dead links, wrong files and dodgy Russian sites. Toshiba don't even list it on their site anymore

 

Do you have the serial number of the toshiba laptop, I'm posative I will be able to find your drivers.

 

 

I've managed everything bar the ethernet controller. It's a Satellite m50 with serial z5179477k if that helps

[philibusmo]

thanks - been searching by device ID for the last hour or so with no joy. Just lots of dead links, wrong files and dodgy Russian sites. Toshiba don't even list it on their site anymore

 

Do you have the serial number of the toshiba laptop, I'm posative I will be able to find your drivers.

 

 

I've managed everything bar the ethernet controller. It's a Satellite m50 with serial z5179477k if that helps

Here, try these...

 

Marvell LAN Driver:

http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/lan-20081124141816.zip

Toshiba Modem Driver

http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/mdm-GB-20080703090430.zip

Toshiba Hardware Setup:

http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/thws-20080819100311.zip

[Negative Creep]

Here, try these...

 

Marvell LAN Driver:

http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/lan-20081124141816.zip

Toshiba Modem Driver

http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/mdm-GB-20080703090430.zip

Toshiba Hardware Setup:

http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/thws-20080819100311.zip

 

Thanks. I couldn't get it to work but not really a problem since I'll just use the wireless/ Both my computers have basically been on their last legs for years now, and I'll just keep them going until they break.

 

On another rant, iTunes. I backed up the entire My Music folder before formatting, yet the only library it will now load is 18 months old. So that's 18 months of new files, ratings and playcounts gone

[TimothyClaypole]

The two top pc tips I have are:

 

1. Get an SSD drive as your Windows/boot drive.

 

2. If you can get it in your area some form of BT Infinity malarky.

 

Both have made using the pc and the net a delight.

 

 

 

 

Don't spend hundreds of pounds on a new video card that just makes your pc squeal like a pig...

[Guest]

Oi, MX-5 'true driving enthusiast'.

 

Baulk me again on my favourite road and I will run you off it, you little cunt.

 

I'm in the Volvo and driving down my beloved country road stretch. Not interested in hammering it because I'm tired, you understand.

Alas, no. Roaring up from the background comes BACK ROAD MASTER trying to move me over, full beams ablaze before pushing past on the opposite side of a blind bend. I know he's trying - I can hear his engine over mine, and over Fu Manchu.

 

He squeezes past with about 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of an inch to spare and nearly carves a chunk out of my door. Had he overtaken me on a stretch with good visibility, I'd have left him to it.

 

Unfortunately, I saw my arse at this point, and decided to see how good he thought he was. I hammered the 460 in third and hit the red line, driving the thing on its door handles. I close the gap very quickly and push him a lot faster than he wanted to go through the remaining bends. I hit all of my lights - full beam, fogs, the lot.

 

At the last bend of the stretch he takes it far too fast and very nearly loses it. Suddenly his hazards come on and he coasts to the side of the road. I slow right down and indicate past at a greatly reduced rate of knots.

 

Stupid? Yes.

 

But he fucking started it. He could have gone round me on a straight bit of road. I want my Ferrari F1 hat. I like spirited driving*. My car is evo, too. Can I join?

 

*In fact I'm a bit ashamed, because I was being as big a bell-end as he was.

[Ross_K]

I'm still trying to keep my ancient PC and laptop going, so recently reinstalled XP on both.Problem is I now don't have the drivers . for the video card and ethernet connector respectively, have no software so no idea what is actually installed. Therefore I can't search for the correct drivers

 

Download Unknown Devices from here: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=3908 - it'll tell you what drivers you need.

[Pete-M]

Oi, MX-5 'true driving enthusiast'.

 

Baulk me again on my favourite road and I will run you off it, you little cunt.

 

I'm in the Volvo and driving down my beloved country road stretch. Not interested in hammering it because I'm tired, you understand.

Alas, no. Roaring up from the background comes BACK ROAD MASTER trying to move me over, full beams ablaze before pushing past on the opposite side of a blind bend. I know he's trying - I can hear his engine over mine, and over Fu Manchu.

 

He squeezes past with about 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 of an inch to spare and nearly carves a chunk out of my door. Had he overtaken me on a stretch with good visibility, I'd have left him to it.

 

Unfortunately, I saw my arse at this point, and decided to see how good he thought he was. I hammered the 460 in third and hit the red line, driving the thing on its door handles. I close the gap very quickly and push him a lot faster than he wanted to go through the remaining bends. I hit all of my lights - full beam, fogs, the lot.

 

At the last bend of the stretch he takes it far too fast and very nearly loses it. Suddenly his hazards come on and he coasts to the side of the road. I slow right down and indicate past at a greatly reduced rate of knots.

 

Stupid? Yes.

 

But he fucking started it. He could have gone round me on a straight bit of road. I want my Ferrari F1 hat. I like spirited driving*. My car is evo, too. Can I join?

 

*In fact I'm a bit ashamed, because I was being as big a bell-end as he was.

 

Funny thing is, if he'd been driving an S2000 you wouldn't have attempted to kill both him and yourself, you'd be congratulating him on his driving and this would be in the 'grin' thread.

 

This whole "only wankers drive xxxx" thing is going to end up with someone being getting badly hurt if this is the reaction. Ok, it does sound like he's driven in a twattish manner, but he's probably thinking "only wankers drive Volvo 460s" so no different from your MX5phobic self.

 

Makes me nervous being out on the road sometimes. What happens if someone out there doesn't like metallic red 604s? Am I gonna end up in a ditch for having chrome bumpers? The cars in work have DRLs that can't be switched off without plugging the car into a computer - will someone take offence and ram me off the road for destroying their retinas by driving during the day with a couple of 21w filament bulbs lit?

 

Chillax, man. It's not worth killing random folk because you don't like their car.

[Guest]

Mate, had he been in an S2000, he would have still been a cock-end. Just a cock-end in a car he didn't deserve. I wouldn't have tried going after him, because I wouldn't have got close.

 

I was minding my business on that road and hardly going slowly - about 10 mph short of NSL on the straight bits. I'd backed off before that bend he nearly spun on, it was just this 'FUCK OFF OUT OF MY WAY I'M IN A PROPER SPORTSCAR' shit that boiled my piss. He was determined to hammer on down the road regardless of what I did.

 

He picked the absolute worst fucking place to overtake as well. There's plenty of straight bits that I was cruising on beforehand relative to the speed he wanted to do. He could have easily gone round me there. There was ample opportunity. I was in on the left and there was loads of room. Instead he tailgated me, stood on his horn, weaved about, hit his full beam, and acted the prick. And then chose the stupidest place on the entire stretch of road to try and push past and nearly punted me off the road. Yes, I should have let him go. In the future, I will do.

 

And no, I don't want to ram everyone else off the road. It was a stupid passive - aggressive response to a tit in a fake MGB who thought he could bully me out of the way.

[Pete-M]

I was minding my business on that road and hardly going slowly - about 10 mph short of NSL on the straight bits. I'd backed off before that bend he nearly spun on, it was just this 'FUCK OFF OUT OF MY WAY I'M IN A PROPER SPORTSCAR' shit that boiled my piss. He was determined to hammer on down the road regardless of what I did.

 

You can tell exactly what other drivers are thinking when you're driving...? That's a talent I wish I had. Then again, I don't seem to end up in 10% of the road rage incidents you do, so maybe it's better not to be able to read other drivers minds and thought processes.

 

Dude, if it's an NSL road you enjoy and someone's doing 10 mph below the limit you'd be tempted to pass 'em wouldn't ya? Maybe not in the way he did, but there's fuck all wrong with overtaking folk who're driving under the speed limit.....

 

He picked the absolute worst fucking place to overtake as well. There's plenty of straight bits that I was cruising on beforehand relative to the speed he wanted to do. He could have easily gone round me there. There was ample opportunity. I was in on the left and there was loads of room. Instead he tailgated me, stood on his horn, weaved about, hit his full beam, and acted the prick. And then chose the stupidest place on the entire stretch of road to try and push past and nearly punted me off the road. Yes, I should have let him go. In the future, I will do.

 

As I said, he was driving badly as well, but quite possibly thinking "VOLVO DRIVER = DITHERING CUNT", which is no different from you thinking he's some sort of faux-Schumacher "DRIVING ENTHUSIAST".

 

A little bit of Devil's advocate, I'll admit, but this whole judging people by what they drive shit isn't good.

[hairymel]

What happens if someone out there doesn't like metallic red 604s?

 

every thread i have looked at today has had some bloke complaining about 604's

 

 

[Ross_K]

I can out-drag and out-handle 110bhp convertibles in the Xantia (and probably do the same in the wife's 307) but I do confess to being tempted by a supercharged jap import MX5.

 

The only problem is that I don't work in the hairdressing industry or own a yappy little dog that fits in my man-purse, so I'll stick with what I've got for now...

 

Chill. At least it wasn't some cock-end in a BMW - they're usually the ones that pull shit like overtaking on bends.

[Ross_K]

And another thing - what the fuck is Johnny Rotten doing pimping butter on the telly? Fucking twat.

[autofive]

the mx5 is built for skinny small people to drive

 

'nuff said

[vulgalour]

A dog has got in my garden and pooped on the lawn. I don't know where this dog has come from, but it must have jumped over the fence specifically to poop on my lawn, and then jumped back over the fence to get away again as there's no other way it could have got in... at least I hope it's dog poop, could be a revenge poop from the vandals/would-be-theives.

[Guest]

With regards to WATT and his driving antics, if the guy had stuck all his lights on and was holding the horn down I can understand being a bit wound up about it I guess, sounds like a tit.

 

Watt, here's a word of friendly advice from a man as equally angry as you - it's much less risky and much more satisfying to irritate them further by slowing down to provide a safety margin for their tailgating antics. The best way to do it to just let off the accelerator completely and gradually coast down slower and slower - they'll either sit there angrily stewing about it or they'll go for an overtake (which is the preference). If you can get rid of them, they won't be crashing into your car, which is the priority really. Then you can have a chuckle at them hammering their car into the distance and make out in your head that they're FURIOUS because you've slowed them down, which works for me. If they fork you or something it only makes it funnier.

[Pete-M]

How's about this for timeliness. Just got in and over the course of the two mile journey home I've been cut up by a 12 plate Golf (for no reason whatsoever) and had a Seat Bocanegra thing near take itself out on a roundabout in front of me. Both quite possibly because I was driving the Impreza.

 

Triple lane dual carriageway, at a set of lights at a crossroads. I'm in the middle lane because the left one is just for turning left. Golf pulls up on the right, Seat on the left. Lights change, Seat guns it away and goes straight. I pull away normally, Golf decides that it's going to see if it can beat the Seat. Left lane narrows ahead because cars park in the left lane. Seat pulls into middle lane - there's plenty of space because I'm not playing their game, I'm just driving normally.Golf is giving it beans in right hand lane but the Seat is four or five car lengths ahead. I'm doing 40 mph (limit on this stretch), Seat probably 55, Golf after a long run up is probably approaching 55-60, Seat pulls in front of Golf and gives it some welly, so the Golf pulls right in front of me for no reason, aquaplanes on the ruts in the middle lane, hits the brakes slides a bit and then puts his foot down and heads off in a cloud of diesel fumes. 15 seconds later we're a a set of red lights. Seat in left lane, Golf in right lane, me approaching slowly as I'm just watching to see what these two idiots will do next. Lights change and the Seat doesn't move, Golf races off, and I'm sitting behind the Seat that is just sitting there. I pull into the other lane and trundle on down toward the roundabout. Seat still sitting there. I move back into the left lane as I'm turning left at the roundabout when the Seat, probably doing 60 mph overtakes me on the right then cuts me up by swinging to the left to get the racing line in a vague hope it'll make it around he roundabout, in the wet, far too quickly. It made it, just, but the thing was lurching all over the place and it was blatantly more to do with the skillz of the ESP / TC than any input from the driver.

 

This has got bugger all to do with me, all I'm going is quietly driving home from a friends house listening to a bit of Bowie, but quite possibly because I'm in an old Scooby the Seat has shot off from the lights, which has goaded the Golf into also driving like a twat which resulted in me being cut up twice in half a mile and both of 'em nearly crashing into each other.

 

WTF? People need to calm down out there. It's pissing down.

[Cavcraft]

With regards to WATT and his driving antics, if the guy had stuck all his lights on and was holding the horn down I can understand being a bit wound up about it I guess, sounds like a tit.

 

Watt, here's a word of friendly advice from a man as equally angry as you - it's much less risky and much more satisfying to irritate them further by slowing down to provide a safety margin for their tailgating antics. The best way to do it to just let off the accelerator completely and gradually coast down slower and slower - they'll either sit there angrily stewing about it or they'll go for an overtake (which is the preference). If you can get rid of them, they won't be crashing into your car, which is the priority really. Then you can have a chuckle at them hammering their car into the distance and make out in your head that they're FURIOUS because you've slowed them down, which works for me. If they fork you or something it only makes it funnier.

 

Works for me, too.

Seriously considering having a sticker made for the back window that says 'The closer you get, the slower I go'. If these wankers can't get up in time in the morning, or haven't sold enough paper clips that month, it's their sodding lookout.

Another (small, childish) trick with these knobwipes is to gradually drop your speed off then if turning left off the road your on to really welly your car as you do so (if safe, obv.) to show them you were only going slowly to annoy them. Check your rear view mirror as you do so, most of them go a bit mental about this and offer some sort of hand gesture.

There's a good bit of road on the way to work where there's sod all chance of overtaking and when you get to the end of the road (a lane) there's a set of lights and it splits into two lanes. I like slowing down to about 40-45mph then getting in the left lane at the lights and keeping the clutch on biting point. As soon as the lights change I'm off like a scalded cat and in the right car usually manage to put considerable distance between my car and cockwipe.

[Wilko220]

Seriously considering having a sticker made for the back window that says 'The closer you get, the slower I go'.

 

Nice idea!

[loserone]

the slower I go'.

 

As a real driving enthusiast in a fake MGB who rarely bothers to try overtaking anything when I'm driving it, I can safely say the lettering wouldn't need to be very large.The other thing MX5s do well is encourage people with extremely bright lights to drive 4 inches off your arse - presumably because as a driving enthusiast I should be driving faster than they can, and they can see over the top of the car, so it's safe innit? The light entering the cabin at eye level is my problem as a skinny short person.

 

Seriously though, the chap you encountered sounds like a twat Wat. As has been pointed out, there seems to be a lot of them around at this time of year, much like after the first snow. Best ignored and avoided where possible.

 

I may occasionally overtake on (straight bits of) the twisties, but the only thing which really frustrates enough to warrant main beam is people who insist on slowing to 45 in a 60 because there's a speed camera. They always seem to be doing 65 by the time there's room for overtaking though. I've thought about taking a camera flash unit with me, so they can even think they've been done.

[RoadworkUK]

I'm as guilty as anybody at being goaded on by the HID and limited distance perception brigade, every time I'm tempted into responding I have to fight the urge with every bone in my body.

 

In my case it's probably born of my own inferiority complex, and my guesswork that the guy in the 12-plate 318D 9 inches from my rear bumper a) doesn't own the car that he's ramming up my arse, he's earning more money than me despite obviously being interlectually inferior, and c) he thinks he's being clever.

 

And in thinking all this stuff I'm being really fucking stupid. Furthermore, he has no idea who I am, I have no clue who he is, and we'll probably never meet anyway.

 

So, these days, I just make sure I wave a quick wanker sign at him to satisfy myself legally and safely.

[Wilko220]

The BBC sob story running this morning about the NatWest customer who "can't transfer money into the account of her soldier husband who is deployed in Afghanistan".

 

Must be a real bummer for him, that - not being able to drive down to his local Sainsbury's to get his shopping, or pop into the Gereshk branch of Yates Wine Lodge for a swift half and a game of darts.

 

I count myself as a supporter of the Armed Forces but it really pisses me off when people raise their association with them, completely out of context, in a bid to attract sympathy. Your bank has made a cock up and it's a pain in the arse - the fact you happen to be an Army wife is neither here nor there.

[richardthestag]

Car insurance, getting awkward to get cover for an LPG converted vehicle lacking an installation certificate. If the insurers were to insist on an engineers report that would be fine by me, but now seem to require a certificate from an lpg installer, fine in principle, but in reality the qualification to certify is having been on a weeks course and paying a sub. This explains why I've seen comedy installs with all the right paperwork.

For years I've merely rung various insurers, ask if they want a cert, keep going until I gather a few who are cool and go with the cheapest. Now it seems 90% and rising are insisting on a cert, insured with Adrian Fux, who then changed their mind, and wound up wasting 3 hours ringing around ending up with some obscure outfit called Stavely Head.

On asking the internet of this predicament, it appears that the lpg association charge their members an extortionate amount, and do very little or nothing for them, started loosing members and have retaliated by replacing / enhancing the paper cert with an internet database, and have been busy lobbying insurance companies to insist on registration, a clever move, and thanks to the bastards I'm going to have to be arsed to get 2 cars inspected. Anyone know of any LPG guys in the South Herts N. London area?

 

Tinleytech sell bit and kits, they were happy to inspect my home install and as it met the standard gave me a certificate of compliance

 

http://www.tinleytech.co.uk/

 

They are south of Cambridge if that helps - near Huntingdon

 

Dunno if they will give certificates for stuff they didn't sell

[willswitchengage]

Being overtaken rant

 

I try and do this on my bicycle whenever a tractor overtakes me - last week on a sustained downhill I got my childish revenge

[ashmicro]

Small-ish 70s/80s motorbikes are GR32 for pissing off blokes driving sports cars. 1992, a 19 year old me on an RD350 in primer (the Yam, not me) vs some 50 something bloke in a new Esprit Turbo, trying to impress his 20 something bird. Traffic lights grand pix. That was some bike, even with my MASSIVE 9 stone laid over the tank, I still couldn't keep the front wheel down. Oh, and Microns FTW.

[autofive]

rd350 faster accelleration than an esprit turbo?

 

are you sure you didnt dream that?

[Richard]

I can believe that, in a traffic light GP situation anyway. Even my 100cc Yamaha RX-S could beat most cars away from the lights.

[Station]

The two top pc tips I have are:

 

1. Get an SSD drive as your Windows/boot drive.

 

2. If you can get it in your area some form of BT Infinity malarky.

 

 

3. Await SSD drive fail in two weeks.

[ashmicro]

rd350 faster accelleration than an esprit turbo?

 

are you sure you didnt dream that?

 

 

Piece of piss mate. Mine wasn't even going right. Admittedly, the Lotus driver probably had a bit of a WTF? moment which may have hindered his progress.

 

Just checked, the RD is quicker by a second over a standing quarter.