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#229900 - 05/08/2004 07:14 Sad. Never compete again in Amersfoort.
Happy Birthday rowitech
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Registered: 22/09/2002
Posts: 249
Loc: Germany, Cologne
It took some days until I realized that after selling my car I will never compete again for the worst install. If you can't remember, look here: http://www2.rowi.net/empeg/worst2003.php. Probably most of you can't understand why I'm so proud of a price for the worst install. Well, it's my price and I worked so hard for this price. Never touched any of these cables twice, never removed an old cable. Just before selling the car I removed everything: Empeg with sled, tuner, GPS-System, Radio-System for transmitting the position and so on. It took me a complete evening and I put everything in a big bag - it's full. Full of cables, full of Empeg-stuff. My new car (a Mercedes CLK - http://lisa.rowi.net/clk) will never be like my old car ( http://www.corradovr6.de ). And it will be hard to realize the same things in the new car, since optical CAN- (and CAN-NOT-) buses have taken place in the newer cars.

One thing would be of interest: Did Amersfoort spend a price for the worst install this year?

Rolf


Edited by rowitech (05/08/2004 07:18)
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#229901 - 05/08/2004 07:25 Re: Sad. Never compete again in Amersfoort. [Re: rowitech]
andy
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Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5916
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
One thing would be of interest: Did Amersfoort spend a price for the worst install this year?

No, there was no worst install prize this year. Which is a shame because I was all ready to compete with my tape adapter and cabling held together with gaffa tape...
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#229902 - 05/08/2004 12:08 Re: Sad. Never compete again in Amersfoort. [Re: rowitech]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14493
Loc: Canada
One more note for your momento web page: the Worst theme continues with the date (year) on the trophy actually being incorrect.. it was 2003 not 2002.

Don't ever write code with that thing in the same room!

Cheers

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#229903 - 05/08/2004 13:13 Re: Sad. Never compete again in Amersfoort. [Re: rowitech]
wfaulk
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Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
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If you think there are big fat misspellings, please let me know.
It's "prize", not "price". Nothing else too big to speak of.

Oh, and while I'm on the subject, it's "memento", Mark. :P
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#229904 - 10/08/2004 06:23 Re: Sad. Never compete again in Amersfoort. [Re: wfaulk]
Happy Birthday rowitech
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Registered: 22/09/2002
Posts: 249
Loc: Germany, Cologne
Ok, second try to write this, the first try was interrupted (just as I wanted to press the submit button...) by a dead browser. So before I start: Don't give such a trophy to Mark, we will never ever get new stable releases of Hijack. Don't cry if you do, I told you that. There is some Voodoo in it...

>One more note for your momento web page: the Worst theme >continues with the date (year) on the trophy actually being >incorrect.. it was 2003 not 2002.
Seems like I need another prize for the worst website about empegs. I didn't know that this wasn't in. Or dou you look at your own websites? ;-)

>Don't ever write code with that thing in the same room!
Too late, I already did. Maybe I will install an Ethernet jack to the trophy and am able to control it. Until I know what happens I would first test it with the word Microsoft.

Update: Just installed an Ethernet jack and put the word Microsoft in it. It seems to work, can you see any functional software from them? It's not my fault, just tested it out... :-))

>It's "prize", not "price". Nothing else too big to speak of.
It's the Voodoo inside, I could have seen it in big letters on the prize itself... Changed it, thanks!

>Oh, and while I'm on the subject, it's "memento", Mark. :P
Memento, I had to translate it. "Andenken" is the german word for it. Never heard about that, hope it wasn't a must to know this word .
>No, there was no worst install prize this year. Which is a shame because I was all ready to compete with my tape adapter and cabling held together with gaffa tape...

You had a chance to win, maybe next year if there is a next year...
But be aware of the Voodoo inside it. If you can't control it, it will control you...

>Remind me to install one of my empegs in a car one day

Mee too, but you easily could use the jaffa tape, it's easy to install everywhere :-).

Rolf

P.S.: ROTFL! Just have seen that one smiley has a german codeword: : durchgeknallt : is for (I am not able to translate this word, it's like a lightbulb exploding)
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#229905 - 10/08/2004 07:51 Re: Sad. Never compete again in Amersfoort. [Re: rowitech]
peter
carpal tunnel

Registered: 13/07/2000
Posts: 4180
Loc: Cambridge, England
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http://www2.rowi.net/empeg/worst2003.php.

Shame that's a Mark 1. If it were a Mark 2, you could now have the last laugh by compiling an NFS-root kernel and running the Receiver Edition on it...

Peter

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#229906 - 10/08/2004 10:27 Re: Sad. Never compete again in Amersfoort. [Re: rowitech]
sn00p
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Registered: 24/07/2002
Posts: 618
Loc: South London
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Mee too, but you easily could use the jaffa tape, it's easy to install everywhere :-).



mmmmmn. jaffa tape.

Adrian

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