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Time Sharing Cars

Posted by samzenpus on from the imagine-the-late-fee dept.

timmy_walker writes "This article from the associated press talks about new car time share services from ZipCar and Seattle-based Flexcar, where "Customers make reservations via computer or telephone, and the company uses remote-access systems to control who can use the car when.""

4 of 298 comments (clear)

  1. Hey Vince! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You ZipCar Whore! First Post!

  2. Time Shifting Cars by neko9 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    wow... it's 4:37 in the morning... i'm going to sleep.

  3. Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu/FreeBSD GZIP problem by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just switched from Ubuntu from FreeBSD. Before switching I had made and tested a tarball of my home directory. It would extract successfully using the command 'tar -zxf'. I'm now in FreeBSD and completely unable to extract it.

    me@computard $ tar -zxf home.tar.gz
    tar: Unrecognized archive format: Inappropriate file type or format

    me@computard $ gunzip home.tar.gz

    gunzip: home.tar.gz: not in gzip format

    So, it looks like it's no longer a valid gzip?
    I also tried from WinRAR in Windows with no luck.

    The file seems to start with a few pages of one character, a page of "3", then a bunch of other characters with no plain order.

    Anyone know any gzip recovery techniques, or how I might be able to get some of my data back?

  4. Re:Sex by TheCrawlingShadow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's just too bad you never get any!!!