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Wanted to note that after tuning the nitrous (just setting it to the maximum value) the Minolta pulled an 8.14 on the very next pass. Best lap at trial mountain so far is 1.07 but that was with a horrible spin before the finish line coming around the last bend. Put it in reverse and backed up over the line. Excited to see what it will end up at. As I recall in GT3 the formula 1 cars were around 2:10 for a 2 lap race. Does that sound correct? Shout at me.

Oh my god. This car is unbelievable. First time at the strip I pulled 8.35 and was so dumbfounded by its power I forgot to hit nitrous til I was two thirds of the way down the track. Second pass was an 8.2 and I had yet to tune the nitrous settings or anything for that matter (mind the virgin oil change and stage 4 turbo). I am pretty sure I have found the new king of GT4, non formula king that is. That car is a long way off.

Well my dad sent me a link to a linux distro called whoppix (a knoppix knock off designed for network penetration). It is actually pretty cool. My thinkpad 770 seemed to run quite fast on it. It would be nice to setup a dual boot on that machine with linux/win2k on a decently larger hard drive. Granted it is only a P2 400 which most people would scoff at but unless your system is really jacked up 400 million cycles per second should be more than enough to display a web page or compile c at a decent rate. Some of the most processor heavy software I have written was done on a P75 and P133 using windows GDI and I still had more than enough power left over to listen to winamp in the background with AOL IM online. Of course should I ever need more power I can always go over to my PC. Only thing that made me unhappy about Whoppix was that my linksys 802.11b wireless card did not get picked up. It seems if you have the version 4 card they switched chipsets and they are no longer supported by most linux distros. Fortunately the Netgear MA401 is a meer 13 bucks on ebay so I picked one up right quick. Wonder how many of those WEP networks in my apartment building are vulnerable. Oh and possibly the coolest thing that has happened in a while a old friend of mine got in touch with me today and reminded me he owed me like 100 bucks. Hmm…newegg..hardware..hard drives..price max 100…oooo 200GB sweeeet.. I think I found a resolution to my failing 40GB main drive. I can actually afford to make a computer purchase and buy food in the same week!

For some reason yahoo is really in love with my site lately. If you do a search for GT4 b spec I am the number one site in the world!

Looks like I will be taking myself a cruise to FLA and the Bahamas this summer for my honeymoon. Looks like a lot of fun. I will be taking Norwegian Cruise Lines in a suite with an ocean view. AAA rules by the way. They were very friendly and helpful to get this planned and were able to offer some great discounts on some packages. I would recommend seeing your local AAA agent if you ever intend to plan a similar trip. I noticed a few things in my log yesterday. If you do a seach for like gt4 b-spec races or gt-4 b-spec mode my site comes up as like one of the number 1 results. Yesterday gt4 b-spec races I was number 1 but it looks like I have fallen to the 2 spot. Oh well still pretty cool to see that.

I have started finishing up the other license exams that I had yet to complete. IA license was awesome. The Yellow bird section at trial mountain was a lot of fun sliding the Ruf through the S turns as well the last 2 exams. First a stock 190E mercedes at the nurburgring with all driving assists disabled following an R34 pace car and then some amazingly fast car at what seemed to be some sort of test track with no assists either. One thing I have noticed about GT4 is there a much greater sense of speed as opposed to GT3. Doing 235 on the straight of that course, which seems to be just some city streets, is insane. The car is bumping all over the uneven road, the dashed white lines on the road begin to form a solid line and it seems like the scenery on the narrow road is really rushing past you. So after sitting on rev limiter at 235 for what feels like and actually is close to a minute you come to a HARD right turn. This car is incredible. It slows from 235 to second gear in moments get it around the bend as you start to power over exiting the turn upshift and spin through 3rd, then fourth, fifth and you are +200 again before you know it except there is a easy fourth gear turn immediately followed by a hard second gear to another second gear and your done. Now assuming you did not destroy your car somewhere along the way by braking too late and flying off course or power oversteering way more than was required you can now call yourself an IA driver. I started on S license but it is not much fun yet. First level was some civic doing a lap around fuji i believe. Not particularly hard. Ah well I will get furthur along tonight. The last level is supposed to be incredibly difficult to get gold. The E190 on the ring again. Except this time its a highly modified E190 race car with no traction systems from what I have heard with a target time of sub 20-30 seconds real world Porsche Carrera GT times. Should be fun.

Well I found out this is actually a pretty cool development enviornment. Borland did a pretty good job. It is a shame that I never looked into it until now. The ability to package all required files inside your exe that are needed to execute the program and still have it compile to less than 300k sub 200K when UPXd is quite an amazing feat for a language and IDE that is as broad feature wise out of the box as it is. I used to want to write ASM for standalone EXE aplications but this might be a much better solution. Of course ASM still is performance, speed and compiled size (well assembled) crowned king no doubt about that.