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Blah, E39 had aftermarket projector headlights with halogen bulbs instead of factory headlights with factory HID. I did an HID retrofit, and went with 6000K. Dear fuck, why? It gave me a headache, and signs lit up blue. Ordered 4300K bulbs like I should have initially.

Blah, E39 had aftermarket projector headlights with halogen bulbs instead of factory headlights with factory HID. I did an HID retrofit, and went with 6000K. Dear fuck, why? It gave me a headache, and signs lit up blue. Ordered 4300K bulbs like I should have initially.

Good; thanks for choosing not-blue.

I have H4 (halogen, 9003) bulbs in my car since that's what the european headlamps used originally and I don't want to deal with diffraction indices or blinding people. Also, my car originally had these awful yellowing plastic US DOT headlamps (which used 9004 bulbs), so the (glass!) e-codes I switched to aren't technically "legal" here. Not that anyone will care, especially since I don't live in a state with inspections.

The H4/9003 has a brighter low beam and a sharper cutoff (so not to blind oncoming traffic), and also is behind glass so it won't turn opaque and yellow, which is a massive improvement.

You got any idea on my PSX question from last page? You're who I was really aiming that at, since you (iirc) are an amateur radio operator, which tends to be the hands-on type.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 27 2020, 17:48

My best guess would be trying to find a suitable diameter piece of music wire or stainless. Possibly a strand from aircraft cable, even.

Car has H7 for high beams and another set of H7 for low beams. I think the fogs might also be H7. OE fitment was 9005 high beams, and D2S low beams.
Only did the retrofit because car has projector optics to not blind people, and the operation of the lamps means they don't need to restrike when hot, and I can still have light if the low beams die.
Trying to decide if I want to put in the effort to wire the halos back up (they were fucking cobbed in and not even to the right light); I'd like to figure out what parts I need to put in dual filament turn signals like it also should have, and have the low wattage filament burn with parking lights.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Jul 27 2020, 17:50

My best guess would be trying to find a suitable diameter piece of music wire or stainless.
Car has H7 for high beams and another set of H7 for low beams. I think the fogs might also be H7. OE fitment was 9005 high beams, and D2S low beams.
Only did the retrofit because car has projector optics to not blind people, and the operation of the lamps means they don't need to restrike when hot, and I can still have light if the low beams die.

Yeah I wasn't trying to cast aspersions on your choice, since you said it came from the factory with projector types.

US DOT is retarded. Volvo made sealed beams and later plastic lamps for us all the way from '75 to '93, but the whole rest of the world got H4's in glass lenses almost from the start.
The sealed beams look pretty cool, at least, but their lighting is pretty poor compared to what everyone else was getting. Weird how the US has historically been an administrative fascist about car designs but nowhere else.

And they're worried about the positions of filiaments changing between installations, but they still insist on imperial units ironically which just make it harder to measure anything.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 27 2020, 17:55

These are dumb looking aftermarket ones that require amber turn signal lamps instead of clear. The right light assemblies and drivers are quite spendy, even as 20yo junkyard pulls.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Jul 27 2020, 17:57

These are dumb looking aftermarket ones that require amber turn signal lamps instead of clear. The right light assemblies and drivers are quite spendy, even as 20yo junkyard pulls.

Yeah mine have amber signal lamps as well, but that's because it's what they used in europe. I actually know some people in europe who do the reverse and swap non-amber signals onto their cars.

RIP wallets.

Yeah mine have amber signal lamps as well, but that's because it's what they used in europe. I actually know some people in europe who do the reverse and swap non-amber signals onto their cars.

RIP wallets.

The rules here require amber as well. There are also weird rules about the color of fog lights.

The rules here require amber as well. There are also weird rules about the color of fog lights.

I know they do; that doesn't seem to stop some people.
They just use amber bulbs in the clear housings instead of clear bulbs in amber housings.

This isn't related, but in the US, though, rear turn signals do not have to be amber at all. Lots of cars use red (which I hate).

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 28 2020, 07:16

Ah yes, i also have encountered the headlights coloration problem.

I got the bulbs and hood release cable to install, but now the ass end needs work. I suspect a strut is blown out- more specificly, the metal plate that stops the bottom of the spring against the shock tube. I noticed that corner sagged a bit prior, but thought it was just a weak spring.
Buying an aluminum racing jack today, as my existing hydraulic jacks are too tall, and too short of reach.
Got the rear seat out last night, and most of the things holding the parcel shelf in, but I couldn't get one of the center headrest bracket's bolts to turn. I still need to replace that passenger rear window regulator, too.

At least a buddy was able to me some service paperwork, I have all the info on the electrics, and DTCs, as well as a chart with proper lifting points. The latter is nice, because I read a 4 page thread on a BMW forum, with lots of angry people, and actually every poster minus one was wrong.

I was hoping I wouldn't have to do shit like this, but I knew I would- taking a 20yo vehicle that had sat and making it a daily driver will always have mechanical hiccups.

This post has been edited by Wayward_Vagabond: Jul 29 2020, 17:05

I was hoping I wouldn't have to do shit like this, but I knew I would- taking a 20yo vehicle that had sat and making it a daily driver will always have mechanical hiccups.

Mine's nearing 30 and i have the same issues. Can't find a working condenser for my A/C anywhere.

Lol as of April 1st, everyone knows how to use the Windows 7 backdoor updated for Windows 10 now.

Security through obscurity does not work if its a relatively similar method to before.

It also does not work if everyone since windows 95 knows that they always have at least one method to break in for federal agencies in the US.

Lol as of April 1st, everyone knows how to use the Windows 7 backdoor updated for Windows 10 now.

Security through obscurity does not work if its a relatively similar method to before.

It also does not work if everyone since windows 95 knows that they always have at least one method to break in for federal agencies in the US.

Did you post this in the wrong thread? It reads like a reply to https://forums.e-hentai.org/index.php?showtopic=240181
Guessing you're talking about _NSAKEY with respect to win95 btw.

As for the 7/10 backdoor, are you talking about the classic "replace an accessibility tool with the command prompt" bit? Or something more clever/original?
I still remember the commands I would use, I think… about 6 years later.

CODE

net user Administrator /active:yes
taskkill /f /im winlogon.exe

I don't remember if I had to blob that last one together with a command to make winlogon start again.
(this enables the "Administrator" account and relaunches windows login so it appears. Alternately the command prompt you get there is running as SYSTEM, so you don't really have to do this. I remember running firefox from the login screen.)

Wayward Vagabond:
Looks like MS declared it wouldn't support newer CPU's in 7 several years ago. [www.theverge.com] https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/16/10780876...cessors-skylake

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 30 2020, 07:11

Did you post this in the wrong thread? It reads like a reply to https://forums.e-hentai.org/index.php?showtopic=240181

Guessing you're talking about _NSAKEY with respect to win95 btw.

There were easier methods, like just making the password screen crash and let you in.

Big manufacturers had some hardware level shit for a long time, but that was about streamlining their processes at the cost of security. Similar to how all routers made in China have backdoors.

If i was paranoid enough I'd make sure my next PC had the NSA security bit enabled in the bios to disable the intel Management Engine. Its not even needed outside corporate PCs.

As for the 7/10 backdoor, are you talking about the classic "replace an accessibility tool with the command prompt" bit? Or something more clever/original?
I still remember the commands I would use, I think… about 6 years later.

CODE

net user Administrator /active:yes
taskkill /f /im winlogon.exe

Yeah its back, slightly different process but its basically the same. Everyone found about the win 7 one because there was a presentation to agencies in the US showing it. I think people just assumed it was there in a different fashion in win 10 and eventually found it. its so derp.

Wayward Vagabond:
Looks like MS declared it wouldn't support newer CPU's in 7 several years ago. [www.theverge.com] https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/16/10780876...cessors-skylake

I mainly assumed that would apply to AMD but potentially affects intel too. interesting. Intel hasn't changed much for so long, that I guess I didn't consider it.

There were easier methods, like just making the password screen crash and let you in.

My favourite was to click on help in the login screen, then right click and explore - and you were in. It got fixed eventually in 97 but came back to XP for a while in a very buggy SP1 update.

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back pain

and go to bed to rest the back pain for hours

Only started using a 2-channel speakers instead of headphones this year. Found this setting some time ago and finally figured out on my own on how to configure. Yay. No more abrupt few-second silence or inconsistent volumes, due to source's 5.1 sound channels.

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Only started using a 2-channel speakers instead of headphones this year. Found this setting some time ago and finally figured out on my own on how to configure. Yay. No more abrupt few-second silence or inconsistent volumes, due to source's 5.1 sound channels.

CODE

alias mplayer='mplayer -af pan=2:1:1:1:1'

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 31 2020, 11:02