OBD-II is, I'm sure, sufficient for what most people want to do on their dashboards. But as I said, most of the cars which are interesting from a hacking standpoint, the cheap powerhouses, don't have even OBD-II, let alone will they have CAN.
If we were about 5 years earlier, I would agree with this, but the Import tuner scene is really coming on strong, and computers control all of their fuel injection systems. This also goes for the current US domestic sports cars (Corvette, Mustang, formerly the Firebird/Camero (RIP)). These are mostly driven (currently) by ODBII. The Toyota Supra (RIP) is one of the most tuneable machines made in the past decade (IMO), and can be turned into a monster HP machine without a tonne of work (it's amazing what you can force feed that 3 litre engine without it complaining). Dittoes with the Nissan Skyline, which we (unfortunatly) don't have in the US from Nissan. (Yes, I know that there is an importer, and there are ways to get it. Don't flame me for it.)
One of the cool things about having something like this is the lack of dependance on a proprietary computer that has a huge price tag for auto repair shoppes. I work with one currently, and they gave $5k US for their current diag box. Fortunatly, they got one that was current enough that it will be able to read CAN devices with only a firmware update (I believe that the cost of this is a couple of hundred as well, however), and won't need to purchase an interpreter box (which does exist, also a couple of hundred, by my understanding), or replacing the unit altogether.
Another is being able to adjust feul mix with the flip of a switch. Need more juice when you force feed the unit heavily.:)
Uhh, most vehicles that are produced currently and in the past 10 or so years have an ODB-II computer. This is an awsome project, but is unfortunatly behind the curve. CAN (Controlled Area Network) computers are here to stay. That's not to say that it can't be hacked in at a later date, but currently, it's usefulness is going to be going downhill from here on out. Faster now that cars are (being treated as) a disposable commodity.:(
allright, This may be a stupid question, but I know that Ampex still makes open reel tape for multitrack recorders. If the format were identical, could you run a new spool of tape onto an old spool and use it that way, or is there some vital piece of information that I'm missing here, aside from a spec on the 9track media itself, that I can't seem to find?
is that the funding was cut while the craft was being *built*, then was re-granted. The problem *now* is that there's not enough resources to do another launch in the current flight schedule, with everything for the ISS and such.
This decision came from NASA and it's schedule, not Congress.
erm... I did this already... took about 4 days for my Classic P233 to convert almost 3 gigs of MP3 to ogg.
Ah, the glories of Shell and PERL scripting.
Who cares what happens to MS's soon to be bankrupt corpse?
Ohh... lemme think... just *90%* of the people who use their boxen to play *VIDEO GAMES*!
I know that Wine has made some great steps in supporting DirectX, but unless a completly open alternative to D-X exists that can play nice on all platforms, video games will be Windows primarily, with ports by someone else or as an afterthought.
Almost every (if not every) mainstream game house is firmly entrenched in Windows and D-X. A bankrupt MicroSoft would eventually do one of two things... 1.) Games become written specific to the hardware like they were in the 80's and early 90's. Or, 2.) A D-X like standard comes into play. Neither of these will happen before the gaming industry grinds to a shuttering halt. I'm all for open standards, and playing nice, but let's look at the entire picture here.
While your network may not be an exception, it definatly isn't the rule. Most places that would have the $$$ for a mixed UNIX network usually won't have one, for a couple of reasons. It's easier to maintain a homogamous network. Patches and advisories are no brainers when you know exactly what you're working with on each box. There's (usually) no weirdness between each box. I'm not shure if many of the larger houses offer volume discounts, but one POC for a service contract is easy.
All in all, most places run a homogous network because it's simply easier. I can think of a few who simply *can't* run a homogamous network... Data recovery guys like SunGuard (damn, I hate that website), and some medical centres (from what I understand there's many binary only applications written for one platform only in the medical field), but when you're running something like ISP services, you don't need to move away from one platform.
That being said, need some more hands? Linux/Solaris admin looking for work!:)
Anyone else feel that the cube seems a bit oversized? I remember one "geeks in space" that discussed the fact that so many console units are so kludgy in their physical design... don't fit in the entertainment centre well, controller cords, etc. This seems to be more of the same.
The description of "Cube" seems to almost fit, tho.
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And of course the NYT supports the DMCA, once they start moving to whatever the next phase of digital news content is (and I don't mean just pay-subscription web stuff), the DMCA will be protecting them and their content.
From experience, I can safely say that most of the central states aren't real nice to live in unless you like large tracks of barren land.
IIRC, there's one major technology player in the area, Creative Labs has a building out in Stillwater, OK. Not exactly a techs greatest job market, of course, not many places are currently.
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It really makes me angry that the media isn't more concerned with the DCMA and the freedoms it takes away
The thing is that the media companies are what really pushed the DMCA into existance. Remember, most every publishing house, including newsprint, is owned by a much larger corperation that has fingers in many other sources.
NYT isn't one of those (they appear to have a large congomeration of things that they own), but understand that they, as a *publishing house* so they might be "playing nice" as well.
http://www.nytco.com/ (NYT comapany link)
Man, I'm starting to sound like a conspiricy theorist... and that scares me.
and email software needs to honor that request to stay competitive.
Umm... There are only a small number of companies that charge for an email client, and MicroSoft isn't one of them. Where does comepetition come into this picture? The email client is usually used *because* other programmes that many people like (as the afore mentioned Calendar) to use with it. The competition is in the suite of products, not the individual parts.
Other options include getting a burner at work (assuming work has a decent connection) and downloading large needed files there.
Not necessarily. One of the last places I worked the Corperate NOC watched bandwidth usage closely. When the techroom started downloading movies in DIVX, about a week later every single person in our location from management down got flamed for our bandwidth usage.:)
Too bad they're in chapter 11 now... Guess there might have been a reason for it.
Oh, BTW, it was an ISP as well.
"This outage is not indicative of Microsoft's ability to move forward with its.Net strategy," Visse said. "This was one isolated issue brought on by a series of extremely rare hardware failures."
I find this highly improbable. Any ISP worth it's service has either service contracts on it's hardware, or a closet of "critical spares" (hardware that the ISP couldn't function without, and therefore keeps a second piece or the parts to repair equipment), usually both.
A company the size of MS, this should be a foregone conclusion that both of these things should already have been covered. I know that the Messenger Service isn't quite as mission-critical as say a primary filesever, nor is the messenger service as important as many other ISP services (web, mail, authentication, etc), but come on! Hardware failure isn't an excuse for a mutiple *workday* outage. Not for a company the size of MS.
From what I understand (I don't work for a telco, however, so I may be misinformed) is that part of the issue is getting the DSLAM in the box on the corner. If there's not enough space in the green box on the corner of the street, no DSL for you.
I'd recommend everyone learning either C or asm as a first language; it makes you understand the computer, and how things work.
C or ASM? does anyone else think that someone should learn to learn proper programming style on a higher-level language first, then move closer to the machine?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people learning lower level code, but basics (such as logic, error catching, etc.) would be more easily taught and focused on with higher level languages such as Python, Java, or PERL.
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OBD-II is, I'm sure, sufficient for what most people want to do on their dashboards. But as I said, most of the cars which are interesting from a hacking standpoint, the cheap powerhouses, don't have even OBD-II, let alone will they have CAN.
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If we were about 5 years earlier, I would agree with this, but the Import tuner scene is really coming on strong, and computers control all of their fuel injection systems. This also goes for the current US domestic sports cars (Corvette, Mustang, formerly the Firebird/Camero (RIP)). These are mostly driven (currently) by ODBII. The Toyota Supra (RIP) is one of the most tuneable machines made in the past decade (IMO), and can be turned into a monster HP machine without a tonne of work (it's amazing what you can force feed that 3 litre engine without it complaining). Dittoes with the Nissan Skyline, which we (unfortunatly) don't have in the US from Nissan. (Yes, I know that there is an importer, and there are ways to get it. Don't flame me for it.)
One of the cool things about having something like this is the lack of dependance on a proprietary computer that has a huge price tag for auto repair shoppes. I work with one currently, and they gave $5k US for their current diag box. Fortunatly, they got one that was current enough that it will be able to read CAN devices with only a firmware update (I believe that the cost of this is a couple of hundred as well, however), and won't need to purchase an interpreter box (which does exist, also a couple of hundred, by my understanding), or replacing the unit altogether.
Another is being able to adjust feul mix with the flip of a switch. Need more juice when you force feed the unit heavily.
My nickel ($.02, adj. for inflation)
Uhh, most vehicles that are produced currently and in the past 10 or so years have an ODB-II computer. This is an awsome project, but is unfortunatly behind the curve. CAN (Controlled Area Network) computers are here to stay. That's not to say that it can't be hacked in at a later date, but currently, it's usefulness is going to be going downhill from here on out. Faster now that cars are (being treated as) a disposable commodity. :(
... games without fusing my naked retina to the screen.
You really should get that looked at. It can't be heathy.
Maybe this is only funny becuase it's so late on the East Coast of the US.
So we all just have to talk softer. :D
12.01 TB Email message for "Let's do lunch!". :)
Loudcloud working on something like this for a little while... something called "bitcasting"?
allright, This may be a stupid question, but I know that Ampex still makes open reel tape for multitrack recorders. If the format were identical, could you run a new spool of tape onto an old spool and use it that way, or is there some vital piece of information that I'm missing here, aside from a spec on the 9track media itself, that I can't seem to find?
Hearing aids. Not quite as mission critical as a heart, but still good to use as a sort of field test, IMO.
is that the funding was cut while the craft was being *built*, then was re-granted. The problem *now* is that there's not enough resources to do another launch in the current flight schedule, with everything for the ISS and such.
This decision came from NASA and it's schedule, not Congress.
erm... I did this already... took about 4 days for my Classic P233 to convert almost 3 gigs of MP3 to ogg.
Ah, the glories of Shell and PERL scripting.
Who cares what happens to MS's soon to be bankrupt corpse?
Ohh... lemme think... just *90%* of the people who use their boxen to play *VIDEO GAMES*!
I know that Wine has made some great steps in supporting DirectX, but unless a completly open alternative to D-X exists that can play nice on all platforms, video games will be Windows primarily, with ports by someone else or as an afterthought.
Almost every (if not every) mainstream game house is firmly entrenched in Windows and D-X. A bankrupt MicroSoft would eventually do one of two things... 1.) Games become written specific to the hardware like they were in the 80's and early 90's. Or, 2.) A D-X like standard comes into play. Neither of these will happen before the gaming industry grinds to a shuttering halt. I'm all for open standards, and playing nice, but let's look at the entire picture here.
While your network may not be an exception, it definatly isn't the rule. Most places that would have the $$$ for a mixed UNIX network usually won't have one, for a couple of reasons. It's easier to maintain a homogamous network. Patches and advisories are no brainers when you know exactly what you're working with on each box. There's (usually) no weirdness between each box. I'm not shure if many of the larger houses offer volume discounts, but one POC for a service contract is easy. :)
All in all, most places run a homogous network because it's simply easier. I can think of a few who simply *can't* run a homogamous network... Data recovery guys like SunGuard (damn, I hate that website), and some medical centres (from what I understand there's many binary only applications written for one platform only in the medical field), but when you're running something like ISP services, you don't need to move away from one platform.
That being said, need some more hands? Linux/Solaris admin looking for work!
Anyone else feel that the cube seems a bit oversized? I remember one "geeks in space" that discussed the fact that so many console units are so kludgy in their physical design... don't fit in the entertainment centre well, controller cords, etc. This seems to be more of the same.
The description of "Cube" seems to almost fit, tho.
And of course the NYT supports the DMCA, once they start moving to whatever the next phase of digital news content is (and I don't mean just pay-subscription web stuff), the DMCA will be protecting them and their content.
+1, Insightful
From experience, I can safely say that most of the central states aren't real nice to live in unless you like large tracks of barren land.
IIRC, there's one major technology player in the area, Creative Labs has a building out in Stillwater, OK. Not exactly a techs greatest job market, of course, not many places are currently.
It really makes me angry that the media isn't more concerned with the DCMA and the freedoms it takes away
The thing is that the media companies are what really pushed the DMCA into existance. Remember, most every publishing house, including newsprint, is owned by a much larger corperation that has fingers in many other sources.
NYT isn't one of those (they appear to have a large congomeration of things that they own), but understand that they, as a *publishing house* so they might be "playing nice" as well.
http://www.nytco.com/ (NYT comapany link)
Man, I'm starting to sound like a conspiricy theorist... and that scares me.
and email software needs to honor that request to stay competitive.
Umm... There are only a small number of companies that charge for an email client, and MicroSoft isn't one of them. Where does comepetition come into this picture? The email client is usually used *because* other programmes that many people like (as the afore mentioned Calendar) to use with it. The competition is in the suite of products, not the individual parts.
Eh, it made me WinCE anyway....
44.1khz/96bit (I think those are the numbers... someone verify me, please. I'm lazy tonight.) .wav file. Lossless digital media. Huge as hell, tho.
Oh... you mean from the microphone to the cdpress... well that's another story.
BTW, if you're reading this rot26 encrypted post, you're in violation of the DMCA.
Other options include getting a burner at work (assuming work has a decent connection) and downloading large needed files there.
:)
Not necessarily. One of the last places I worked the Corperate NOC watched bandwidth usage closely. When the techroom started downloading movies in DIVX, about a week later every single person in our location from management down got flamed for our bandwidth usage.
Too bad they're in chapter 11 now... Guess there might have been a reason for it.
Oh, BTW, it was an ISP as well.
"This outage is not indicative of Microsoft's ability to move forward with its .Net strategy," Visse said. "This was one isolated issue brought on by a series of extremely rare hardware failures."
I find this highly improbable. Any ISP worth it's service has either service contracts on it's hardware, or a closet of "critical spares" (hardware that the ISP couldn't function without, and therefore keeps a second piece or the parts to repair equipment), usually both.
A company the size of MS, this should be a foregone conclusion that both of these things should already have been covered. I know that the Messenger Service isn't quite as mission-critical as say a primary filesever, nor is the messenger service as important as many other ISP services (web, mail, authentication, etc), but come on! Hardware failure isn't an excuse for a mutiple *workday* outage. Not for a company the size of MS.
From what I understand (I don't work for a telco, however, so I may be misinformed) is that part of the issue is getting the DSLAM in the box on the corner. If there's not enough space in the green box on the corner of the street, no DSL for you.
Just as a point of reference, a standard rackspace is 1.75". 37" of rackspace would be just over 21 spaces.
I'd recommend everyone learning either C or asm as a first language; it makes you understand the computer, and how things work.
C or ASM? does anyone else think that someone should learn to learn proper programming style on a higher-level language first, then move closer to the machine?
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for people learning lower level code, but basics (such as logic, error catching, etc.) would be more easily taught and focused on with higher level languages such as Python, Java, or PERL.
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