Ping Mother, Austin et al - cheap Alvis!

As much as i need a fully water compatible load carrier, i doubt Jane would see the funny side! Expecially given i juststarted up the KTM in the garden next to her!! Loud isnt the word, best not do that again as i reckon you could have heard it a mile away.

Nige

Crikey, was that you? I though there was another thunderstorm coming :-)

What a hopeless waste of web resources - nice vehicle tho

You wanna hear it, f*ck me sideways it's noisy. The exhaust even has big letters 'OFF ROAD USE ONLY'

That'll help us fight past the NERC bill then!

What a load of arse! HTML is not about what is best to view a certain page, it's about presenting information which can be accepted by anything connected to the Internet. Whether it be a full-on graphical browser with all the bells and whistles, a search-engine-bot or even a device to read out the content of a website for blind people.

"In addition, your browser does not have the JavaScript option turned on and that is necessary for the website to work."

No it bloody well isn't! FFS! I don't even want to waste any more time with this site despite seeing from the other replies that it is about my favourite vehicle.

Heh, don't worry, it's more to do with off-road bikes being sold in that kind of state that gets me, you'd think that sellers might try to help keep the market for the bikes buoyant by avoiding them being so damned loud in the first place. It's hard not to be anti-social on ear-breakingly loud bikes.

As for the bobble-hats, just riding it's enough, I was out on a photo trip some time ago and a pair of bobbles walked past, at the same time as a motorcyclist was coming the other way. He slowed down to a gentle jogging pace but they were still making signs at him to slow down. Lane was wide enough for two landies side-by-side.

No I don't, and I don't tell them every time I'm going to drive across their drive (access to the back of my house is via a RoW over their driveway), considering that at 7:00 AM *every* morning my neighbour is out sweeping the damned drive, I'm surprised they've not moaned yet! It's not mucky, but every morning, 7:00 AM on the dot, sweep sweep. Quite scary actually.

Blimey chill out mush ;-)

Don't worry, I've not bought playboy or owt like that since my teenage years, where I was the one who was sent into the garage to buy it as everyone else broke under the strain! ISTR Penthouse being the mag of choice back then.

You might appreciate the last few days of User Friendly. But, as Erwin points out, it takes a long time to do a search-and-replace on the whole Internet.

I get a bit of amusement gently taking the mick out of the young lads that come into our shop buying them. Watch them all having their council of war to decide who's going to have to go into the shop, and then when the unlucky one walks thru the door I hand him what he wants without him asking and watch him go red and start to stutter and splutter.

Give him a copy of play*girl* next time, I'll bet he'll be outside the door before he notices!

indeed - anyone who can see that site right off without modifying their = =

config may as well post a note at the local black-hat chapter (junior =

section) with their IP and admin/root pw.

Just what I was thinking.

BTW, in your sig., is that a reference to The Prisoner or Danger Mouse? (or both?)

Stuart

"David G. Bell" uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Will it make my eyes water? Go on... you now have my full attention :-)

Lee D

Most unusually, I can.

that's truly evil - I'll do it :-)

The idea is that a light probe is a picture of the light falling on a scene, so that ray-tracing goes from the virtual camera to the object and then to the light probe. This can replace an array of virtual light sources, and includes the effects of coloured objects outside the camera's view.

The hard part is getting the brightness range, since you only have 8- bits out of most cameras. You can do things by putting a camera on a tripod and combining under and over-exposed shots.

The trick of a light probe is to have a reflective sphere, or maybe one that's a light grey. A Christmas Tree bauble, sprayed with grey primer. And you take a picture of that, getting as large an image as you can.

It also helps to get pictures from opposite directions. Some rays of light from the other side will just skim the ball, but most of the light from the far side will be recorded in a very narrow ring.

Really big bearing balls are also good, as long as the chrome's in good condition.

Questions are a burden unto others, answers a prison for oneself.

On or around Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:21:07 +1200, EMB enlightened us thusly:

All it does here is get a page whinging about updating my browser. NS6, IE4 or firefocks 1.0.

Mine is mozilla and is up to date TYVM. Feckin' muppets.