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  • Anyone looking for a decent second hand car should not go past the Audi S3. This car was released in Australia and the UK in right hand drive and in left hand guise for Europe, unfortunatly for any americans out there – this car was not sold in the US.

    What is it?

    Its a “sporty” version of the A3 series, with some serious grunt.
    It has a similar sized 1.8L Turbo charged engine as found in the A3-1.8T, but rather than the 110kW at the fly found in that engine it outputs 154kW at the flywheel stock. This translates to 122.7kW or so on the ground which is delivered via the haldex based quattro system for some serious grip.

    Internal features include Leather/Alacantra, Climate, Sunroof and BOSE sound system which make driving this car a pleasure both when your pants are on fire as well as getting out and about the town in a more sedate fasion.

    Features include – Xenon low beam headlights, cruise control and 17″ Alloy’s as standard.

    All in all this is a lot of car with a lot of go – it does not attract the attention of the boys in blue and its styling is very very subtle.

    And today you can pick up one of the 400 or so that landed in Australia for between 30,000 and 40,000. You will want to make sure that the timing belt has been replaced (800-1400) on time and probably want to get it on the VAG-COM to ensure that the MAF and 02 sensors are happy with life (500ea) you will also want to make sure that it does not have a boost leak (grrr).

    Here are some pictures (pics) of my MY00 (June 2000 build, Nov reg) S3.

    Side shot of S3
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    Interior shot
    Front View
    Another front shot
    Side shot next to a passat

  • Wanting to prevent directory listings that were enabled on my server I needed to do a good google.

    The result for prevent apache directory listing or “disable apache directory listing” was that the option Indexes allowed directory listing and placing -Indexes in its placed resolved the issue.

    M

  • WEP Key Generator

    Needing to generate a wep key thats easy to remember – base it on a phrase and use this site to convert it into hex.

    Intel Proset accept ascii for the passphrase but some routers (like the DLink G604T with current ADSL2/2+ firmware) do not. Easy type your ascii phrase in, click generate and presto an hex wep key for your router.

    M

  • Internode have placed in their advisory and outage’s list one for the exchange that I am currently connected to with 1500/256 ADSL service.

    I will soon be cut over to ADSL2+ which will give me (theoretical) speeds of 24MBit/1MBit – but more realistic for me (based on distance from exchange) would be 3MBit/0.5MBit which is still an upgrade.

    I am oh so happy right about now 😀

    I must download and install the ADSL2 firmware for my router soon http://www.dlink.com.au/Default.aspx?ArticleID=1427

    M

  • Currently having an issue with “openxchange” running inside a VServer – guest instance of Fedora Core 3. Issues were as follows:

    ldap and other services :- referring to localhost but it (127.0.0.1) is unreachable – no loopback interface. Rather than working out WHY there was/is no loopback interface, I modified /etc/hosts so that 127.0.0.1 was altered to the IP address of the VServer’s IP ie:
    127.0.0.1 severname localhost localhost.localdomain
    //became//
    192.168.0.5 servername localhost localhost.localdomain

    this left a few issues with some services: httpd (apache2) would no longer start – the fix was to insert the ServerName paramater into /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf as follows
    ServerName 192.168.0.5

    postgresql was then unhappy with life due to security reasons – so we added the following line to /var/lib/pgsql/data/pg_hba.conf
    local all all trust
    host all all 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 trust
    host all all 192.168.0.5 255.255.255.255 trust

    **Please note – the ip addresses used in this example are NOT real IP’s on my network but used to make reading this solution/fix slightly better.

    My solution is probably NOT the way to go about it, but hey, it works and its “good enough” for now.

    M

  • Well as you might be aware I used to have a 2.0L MkIV Golf (8-Valve engine) which in it stock form did not go all that well in terms of outright speed. I looked seriously at various options for improving its performance.

    The options I found were
    1) Replace the engine
    2) Turbo or super charge the engine
    3) Chip (modify the ECU)
    4) Suspension

    Replacing or force inducting the engine really cost a lot of money and cause issues with resale, insurance and registration – its a hassle and its bloody expensive.

    Chipping the car only gains approx 5kW if you are lucky and warranty is not happy, insurance can get grumpy with you but it has some potential to improve the driveability in the mid range – force induced cars seem to fare much better with chipping.

    Suspension – believe it or not this is probably the best place to spend your money with your 2.slow! In stock form it has woeful body roll (the chassis is not very stiff) and this can cost you severly on and in the corners.

    My solution: Test drive lots of cars (Renult Clio Sport and the ilk) and settle on buying a MY00 Audi S3.

    The S3 is a 1.8L Turbo Charged (K04) outputting 154kW (122.7kW @ wheels) in stock form 3 door hatch weighing in at 1488kg’s but having the haldex based quattro system providing excellent traction when you need it – full review to follow at a later date.

    M

  • Puma Racing Main Menu Page – flow development, engine building, technical and tuning articles

    Confused by Torque, Power what mod to do to improve your car? I was, well really I still am – but after having a read of this site above I certainly knew enough to tell me that anyone suggesting that a 1.6L petrol engine produces more torque than a 2.0L Diesel engine by lowering the gearing and upping the rev’s is most certainly full of that which makes plants grow well and comes from bulls.

    Enjoy – it will help resolve the whole torque (Nm/ lb/fp) vs power (kW/bhp) issue for a while.

    M

  • Subway sell various cookies available for sale near you.
    All 5
    This review pertains to the “cookies” (aka Biscuits for .AUians) sold at the O’Connell Street Subway in North Adelaide South Australia. The palate cleanser used between each cookie is Coca-Cola(tm) .

  • #1 – Double Choc

    • double choc
    The double-choc is a chocolate biscuit base with while chocolate chips inside. Todays example is cooked slightly too much as it has lost some of that lovely “dough” like texture. Flavour however is nice, if a little on the sweet side.

  • #2 – Anzac

    • Anzac
    An Australian favourite made by grandma’s everywhere! PERFECT softness. It is missing the rolled oat goodness – and a bit of the golden-syrup tang is missing, however it does not have the bi-carb of soda flavour sometimes associated with home made versions. Very nice!

  • #3 – M&M

    • MnM's
    What could be better than a normal choc-chip cookie? Well one with M&M’s shoved in it is a pretty damn good start. First bite – what a dissapointment – its dessicated beyond belief. They have overcooked the M&M bikkie :(.

  • #4 – Macadamia

    • Macadamia Nut
    A macadamia nut is an Australian native – a delicious marble sized nut surrounded by about a foot of extremely hard wood like protection. For this one they have used mining equipment to extract the nut from its impermiable casing and shoved it in a biscuit the result – an over cooked but exremely delicous biscuit reminiscant of some peanut thing grandma used to make.

  • #5 – Choc Chip

    • Chocolate Chip
    Your normal old boring choc-chip biscuit – overcooked but tasty none the less.

    Well it does not matter what your taste preference is – you cant really go all that wrong at a subway!

  • AudiWorld News

    AudiWorld test various chips using a single vehicle to ensure that the comparison is accurate.

    Quite an interesting read. The S4 is a yummy car!

    A “chip” in automotive terms is a software program/settings that is uploaded to the ECU or replacs an existing chip within the ECU.

    M

  • SyncML – OPEN-XCHANGE Wiki

    Current project is to get a decent calendering application. Open Xchange is a nice calendering app, but it does not quite place nicely with SyncML and Syn4j just yet. Will post most as work progesses.

    M