Ok, just to join in on this latest elitist anti newbie conversation, I just recently started participating in this thread after buying a used E4, however I have been following it off and on for over 6 months. In a way I think I can see both sides of this, as a new E4 owner looking to upgrade its performance, I would like to find reasonably clear instructions on how to do this, and to be honest there are not any, a few people have tried to compile a rough step by step, but give no reference into how to do this with steps like install the v0.4.zip hack.... The problem is as a new owner one has to then go spend hours locating this zip file, and this assumes they have the skills to know that to do with it when it is found. The other problem is these so called step by step instructions get get buried dozens of pages back from the current page, and get out of date. The end result is you have to be at least part way into the "in crowd" to perform the hack, you get there by pouring over hundreds of pages of messages, going back and forth within the thread, filtering out a lot of junk, and out dated information, and once you get done you find that the necessary information could have easily been compiled into a one page post that included links not just obscure references to a handful of files. If such a reference, perhaps in the form of a wiki, or locked thread existed then maybe we could do away with so many newbie where do I start messages. I also don't blame the newbies for asking, I posted a similar sort of question a few weeks ago, but only after reading hundreds of messages in this thread, after all these people have spent hundreds of dollars on an E4 and don't want to turn it into a brick due to lack of information..
Now can we please stop arguing over what dues people need to pay to participate in this thread, give the newbies a reasonable and up to date real step by step guide that is linked off of message number 1, and get back to exploring the workings of the E4. I had planned to explore the dates on the files in my 1.2L updated to 2.3.13 E4 this afternoon, but instead I find myself spending my time reading over all this junk, and writing the above message.