Explain your usernames.

Thanks for the lesson Sir:D :p
Oh and Ouch!!!!:buck

I think Dark matter is just the gravity from objects in different branes propagating into ours. :D

Now THAT is off topic :hehehe:

CBass, because my name is Connor(aye, good Irish name), and I resemble the redneck stereotype of Sea Bass, the really big tall guy, who is constantly looking pissed off(although I'm not).

That was before I mellowed out and started dressing like the middle class white guy I am ;) I may not have mentioned my legendary status of cool either... :D

desi means indian

ganksta means gangster

Everybody here in L.a with a texturizer, says there mixed with indian, Then they got the nerve to know the name of the tribe:p
How do live on Florence and Normandie and know what tribe your from:huh:

Originally posted by Cbass
Now THAT is off topic :hehehe:

CBass, because my name is Connor(aye, good Irish name), and I resemble the redneck stereotype of Sea Bass, the really big tall guy, who is constantly looking pissed off(although I'm not).

That was before I mellowed out and started dressing like the middle class white guy I am ;) I may not have mentioned my legendary status of cool either... :D


So it has nothing to do with that infamous line from Dumb and Dumber????:finger:

definition of a hybrid-A functional unit in which two or more different technologies are combined to satisfy a given requirement. (a cross between an ITR and a delsol, in this case)
sol- my car is a delsol.
pretty self explanatory.

BlaxicanYIIK?


Well....

I'm Black, Italian and Mexican.

YIIK - I am named after my father and I joined this forum in 2000.

well...

Menu dei Motori is an italian magazine printed by lamborghini.
limited of 5000 peaces and it comes out once a year. only vip´s recieve it and if you find one and want to buy it for expample on ebay you pay 300-500$.
about 200 pages super high quality photo print with pictures mostly of lamborghini´s but also of other supercars like ferrari´s, edonis, bugatti, pagani zonda..

welllllll

Origionally I was going to be paladin...but thanks to problems with af, I couldnt have that name....it wouldnt let me log in with the password I was given, and Igor never responded to my desperate crys of help *...not sayin crap, I know he was busy :uhoh: *

So I chose a name I've had for a team I didnt have at the time, well...it started growing and...well...its there...we aint big, but we got some decently random cars.

And as for the name itself...there was a game called Terminal Velocity, I was badass at it, noone could touch me on it. And the name always stuck me as majorly badass, and sence noone knows of it...well, noone takes the name but me.

soooo... :bandit:

I know terminal velocity; that game was thorougly awesome! I played it on a 100mhz 486 back in the day:D I kicked ass!

YES!

HARDCORE someone else played it!

Rember the tunnels? Hard as hell :p

Antonio
seven= A pretty cool number.
Not much though, huh? Iused to be tonio7 on NFS-Hot Pursuit but Yahoo! already had a tonio7 so I spelled 7 instead.:grey:

Replicant comes from the Ridley Scott directed motion picture 'BladeRunner' - you can hunt down the definition with google if you are interested.

As for 008... in the original screenplay, there were definitely seven Nexus 6 replicants... I would imagine Ci5ic could hunt the names down.

However, there has been a lot of conjecture about whether there is an eighth replicant, which lead to the handle/username of Replicant_008.

Originally posted by replicant_008
Replicant comes from the Ridley Scott directed motion picture 'BladeRunner' - you can hunt down the definition with google if you are interested.

As for 008... in the original screenplay, there were definitely seven Nexus 6 replicants... I would imagine Ci5ic could hunt the names down.

However, there has been a lot of conjecture about whether there is an eighth replicant, which lead to the handle/username of Replicant_008.

Great film.. One of my favs :)


My Nickname... this is the most boring one ever. I just made it up for some online game I played back in the day and I've never bothered to change it because every one on the net either calls me GonthraX. Or Gonzo if you know me :D or my real name if you know me well. Or Pinkie if you mistake me for someone else. or...

Originally posted by Chris
I know terminal velocity; that game was thorougly awesome! I played it on a 100mhz 486 back in the day:D I kicked ass!

Well was it 100mhz or 486? I am not being an a-hole but just wondering how you got 100 mhz out of a crappy 486. (mine only ran at 33 mhz with upgrades) I played terminal velocity to.. it was the shit for the old school days. Remeber when Wolfenstein 3D came out in DOS. Boy those were the days

Simply Put, Zippy. When I get my car coming up this summer, It will be Zippy :p

Thats about it.

Like it or not, its pimp. :flipa:

Originally posted by jgillham


Well was it 100mhz or 486? I am not being an a-hole but just wondering how you got 100 mhz out of a crappy 486. (mine only ran at 33 mhz with upgrades) I played terminal velocity to.. it was the shit for the old school days. Remeber when Wolfenstein 3D came out in DOS. Boy those were the days

The DX ran at 66mhz standard. With a big sucker heat sink and heat transfer goo all over the place, my DX chip used to run at 100mhz. My first overclocking adventures. Then I put in a p100 chip and ran it at 150. :p lol. Good memories. My current chip is 1200 running stably at 1389mhz.

I am pretty sure it what stock; i was in grade 8 when we ditched it, and i think it is in a dump now. But it said 100mhz on the boot, and it was a 486. Yeah, the DX2's ran at 66mhz, so i am myself a little mystified at the comp. My mom bought it from a friend, so it could have been overclocked. It had 16mb RAM:D

I actually found the tunnels not too bad, but the boss in the tunnel was pretty hard. All I did was follow the little arrow:rolleyes: It was cool, tho; you could fly up into the clouds to lose guys following u. It was awesome!

I sucked at the tunnels :( :(

after my favorite kind of subwoofers, kicker solo barics

Originally posted by Oz


The DX ran at 66mhz standard. With a big sucker heat sink and heat transfer goo all over the place, my DX chip used to run at 100mhz. My first overclocking adventures. Then I put in a p100 chip and ran it at 150. :p lol. Good memories. My current chip is 1200 running stably at 1389mhz.

I am pretty sure it what stock; i was in grade 8 when we ditched it, and i think it is in a dump now. But it said 100mhz on the boot, and it was a 486. Yeah, the DX2's ran at 66mhz, so i am myself a little mystified at the comp. My mom bought it from a friend, so it could have been overclocked. It had 16mb RAM

Yeah I don't doubt you guys it has been awhile since the 386.. and 486..'s I remember once actually paying some guy to upgrade the memory in my 386dx to a whopping 8mb I think it cost me like a hundred fifty bucks! LOL

Originally posted by kicker1_solo
after my favorite kind of subwoofers, kicker solo barics

What's the 1 there for?????????:confused:


As for my NEW name- it's how people adress me at work- It's odd but I don't really care:p

My first PC was a 8088XT - ran @ 8MHz with the big green back-lit 'Turbo' Switch on and 4.77 MHz on standard. It had a whopping 640k of RAM, ran a CGA 640x480 card, ran a 5 1/4 floppy drive with 720k capacity and had a 20 MByte SeaGate Hard Drive.

I had MS-DOS 3.11 on it, had Lotus 1-2-3! version 2.01 and WordPerfect 4.2 and it got me thru my bachelors degree in commerce. To cut and paste figures and pictures into my assignments you used scissors and glue.

Someone had loaned me a Commodore 64 before that which I once spent days cutting machine code to emulate PACMAN and saving it onto 360k 5 1/4 floppies.

While I was at University, when I wasn't waiting tables, pouring wine and beer, working in the kitchen, driving trucks, laying concrete, selling strawberries, picking tomatoes I did some desk work writing spreadsheet models in Microsoft Excel 1.0A on a Macintosh Plus.

The funny thing was up until a few months ago, numerical modelling on Excel was the main skill used in my working life...

Originally posted by replicant_008
Someone had loaned me a Commodore 64 before that which I once spent days cutting machine code to emulate PACMAN and saving it onto 360k 5 1/4 floppies.

I knew it was a matter of time before someone brought up a C-64. I can't even remember the software I had for that thing. I do remember the bulky external 1541 3.5 drive for that thing tho. Who could forget the noise it made while loading a disc.LOL

:bloated: Oops did I say 3.5 I meant 5x1/4.:flash:

Originally posted by Jimster


What's the 1 there for?????????:confused:
I think I tried to join a site somewhere and it was taken so I added the 1 and then just stuck with it on every site since then.

Originally posted by jgillham


I knew it was a matter of time before someone brought up a C-64. I can't even remember the software I had for that thing. I do remember the bulky external 1541 3.5 drive for that thing tho. Who could forget the noise it made while loading a disc.LOL

Hehe the C-64 was my first computer. With the Pascal disk :D

Then it was up to the big dog Tandy 1000:sun:

Originally posted by Gonthrax
Then it was up to the big dog Tandy 1000:sun:

Heh, I did not have a Tandy. Wasn't that a Raido Shack Comp?

The c-64 lasted until my dad brought home the 386dx "magitronic" we even had windows 3.1 and solitaire :flash:

I am *so* glad WinXP fixed solitaire. It was designed for teh 386/486 speed, so when u won, u could see the card falling nicely. The, with computer breaking 1ghz, the cards moved in less than 1sec; hello, its not a race!
But WinXP slows it down; ahhh, gratification for beating solitaire:D

That was after I discovered the cassette tape drives were not particularly reliable for larger files and had spent several hours writing code, saving it onto a C-15 Compact Cassette and then discovering the bloody C64 couldn't read the file on playback.

For those kids out there, we used to save files to cassettes using tape drives - the same things we used to dub our vinyl records onto to prevent them wearing the records out. Played back thru a cassette player it wasn't unlike the sound of a modem trying to synchronise...

ahhh, gratification for beating solitaire

ROTFL:jump:

The Texas Instruments TI 994/A? That was my first pc then I moved up to a Commodore VIC-20 then an IBM PC XT. I guess I'm revealing too much about my age, huh?!

:flash: NOW THATS AN EASY ONE
IT'S ALL IN THE SIG.

Originally posted by TAFIREHAWK1
:flash: NOW THATS AN EASY ONE
IT'S ALL IN THE SIG. You should look up Hawk_312; his was #312 but not sure about the year. You can usually find him in the car modelling forum.:)

Originally posted by TAFIREHAWK1
:flash: NOW THATS AN EASY ONE
IT'S ALL IN THE SIG.


Well if it aint me old CF buddy TAFIRE!!!!!!!!! Hows it going mate


Good to see you chose AF as your home after the closure of CF :D What about Soliz, ground_pounder and the rest of the crew- What happened to them???

When I was signing on, I was listening to the "Broken Arrow" movie score by Hans Zimmer. One of my all time favorit movie, where John Travolta plays Vic Deakins.

Originally posted by tonioseven
You should look up Hawk_312; his was #312 but not sure about the year. You can usually find him in the car modelling forum.:)

i looked at some of your threads ...you really are a master @ building the models .....they look great!!!:jump: :)

Originally posted by Moss1O6GTi



Well if it aint me old CF buddy TAFIRE!!!!!!!!! Hows it going mate


Good to see you chose AF as your home after the closure of CF :D What about Soliz, ground_pounder and the rest of the crew- What happened to them??? -

hey mo,looks like youv'e been here for awhile..i]v beenlooking arond for a new place tto hang out..this place is huge...Soliz, ground_pounder and the rest of the crew are still looking for a home.i'm at slp a lot have been for a long time...

erk....this thread has gone all geeky!:eek:

There's another thread about the 'good old days' of computing....let's keep this one on-topic,eh?:D

ci5ic is a name adapted from a Neal Stephenson novel entitled "Snow Crash". One of the character's names in the book is Da5id, and I always thought it was interesting....

Anyways, since "V" is the roman numeral for 5, they were switched, and so I used the same conversion on "civic" as was used on "david".

Viola!


Oh, and if you haven't read "Snow Crash" or any other Neal Stephenson novel, you should. Actually, he is credited with coining the term "Avatar" as it relates to the graphical representation of online persona's, much like the ones we use on this forum.

Other books by Neal Stephenson:

Zodiac
Cryptonomicon
Snow Crash
The Diamond Age
The Big U
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line

He also has several short stories floating around on the net.

Originally posted by Heep
I was really into Star Wars a few years ago. Anyway, "The Great Heep" was, in the cartoon Ewok movies (I think), a big pile of junk (not s***, I've gotten that one many a time before :D) that could talk and stuff. Kind of like the "All Knowing Trash Heap" on Fraggle Rock. Anyways, I've always been a fan of talking junk heaps for some reason, so about 6 years back I used "TheGreatHeep" as my username for everything, especially IRC. People got tired of typing "TheGreatHeep" and so it got shortened to "Heep". I've just kept that since.

Just bumping this up for all the newbs :D

Originally posted by Heep


Just bumping this up for all the newbs :D

Although I am not a n00b(I accidentley typed b00b there- just a bit of useless info)

I was always mystified by what your name meant :D


Same goes for ci5ic

Wank...aka wanker which is my name so...i guess im explained

Damien used to be my nickname for a good while but now it's been upgraded to Lucifer so....I'm sure the names themselves are self-explanatory.

:devil:

Originally posted by Damien
Damien used to be my nickname for a good while but now it's been upgraded to Lucifer so....I'm sure the names themselves are self-explanatory.

:devil:


So Damien isn't your real name ????? :confused:



WaNk- Your parents must have hated you :finger:

Upgraded to Lucifer??????:devil: :devil: :devil:
He said it so normal is what got me!!!

Just a reminder. Mine is my name.

My name is Arthur Franklin; that's why I have "AF" in my username. :)

well, back in the day of the budding auto customizing scene... WAY back.. like 1995-1996 (lol) i sold auto accessories and did concept renderings for custom trucks.

one day i was at a car show and one of my clients introduced me to his girl. he said "this is my custom guy, hes a guru."

it kinda stuck and ive been using it ever since

Then who is Jay?

Chris = my name
Dont plan on changing it, either :)