Well, just as long as you go for the occasional motorway long drive to burn all the stuff out, you should be fine, the problem is if you leave it to clog. The particle filter will only clear at high temperatures, like long high-speed journeys. So as long as you somehow do that, the car won't complain and it should go without any issues.
Unfortunately the marketing for diesel cars, at least in Europe, failed to sell the point of the diesel car, hence a bunch of eejits deciding that illegally removing the particle filter would be a good idea: Diesel cars are great for long journeys! If you use them to go to the shop, never exceeding 60km/h and with the engine barely reaching the optimum temperature, it'll clog the particle filter on the long run. But no, people still were following the other sheep because "diesel is better" (which is debatable, depending on your usage pattern of a car).
As for unreliable test results, VW scandal aside, there's been plenty of news around that auto car makers do cheat on those to get better figures: over-inflated tires, cars somehow stripped down of normal components/features, duct tape covering panel gaps, etc. The testing standard is really not the best. My suggestion: do a 5 minute drive on all the different speed limits of your country/location/state, with a standard version of a car. Calculate the average between all the different limits, voila?
Well, as a portuguese, I also wasn't aware of this... weird thing, if you want to prepare your IRS offline, you have the application available in Windows, Mac and Linux (I even bother myself to send an e-mail to them, just to congratulate them about having a linux version of the app). Anyway, I can browse the e-financas.gov.pt and other websites just fine using firefox in linux...
Freeport? Oh c'mon people, give me a break... 7 in 10 that talk about it just talk about it like casual conversation... Keep that for the gossip newspapers, this is slashdot!
Hey, remember the first FIFA game!? Now THAT was a revolution! And those great graphics and game play of the latest Sonic games!? And classics like Golden Axe, Streets of Rage.... Oh those good old times.... I agree 100% with you when you say that 16Bit was it, after that, I also kind of put gaming a part...
Hi there. I think that most of the comments saying that NES and SNES were the best consoles are from users not from Europe (I say this, because - for all I know - the Sega Mega drive done in Europe what Master System couldn't do: win the 8Bit and 16Bit War). I had an Atlantis TVGame (LOL), then after my parents got me the Mega Drive, I was the happiest kid in the world... So many days, so many hours... I personaly loved Sonic (Sonic3 & Knuckles was THE BEST!), but I would simply play anything just to be with my Mega Drive. Then I had a Sega Saturn (not as fun as Mega Drive, thus more advanced), then a PSX, and now, a Wii...
From all this consoles (oh, and plus the PC), Mega Drive was simply the one that gave me that playing pleasure. Sure, back then I had more time to play and more patience too, but the Mega drive WAS the Mega Drive...
Just wondering, would all this happened if you had Vista installed? I mean, from what you said, from the time you said the word "Gentoo" or "Linux", things changed... So, if you went to the store, show of your Vista pre-installed laptop with all tipically average user stuff (cute wallpaper, most beautifull Aero theme, pirate copy of Office2007, and some spyware due to the click on the banner "Get free smiles"), I supose that the guy would smile and take the machine in? Is Linux that scary!? Most funny thing is that this happens everywhere... I live in Portugal, if you buy a computer in a big store and then take it back because of some problem, you got to calm de "pseudo-tech-guy" after he presses the power button because he won't see what he is used to, and becauase of that, your possibilities get limited (if it's a Windows OS, any Joe Sixpack can check for viruses or do a CheckDisk, update drivers, etc; On linux, forget it - at least it's good for my privacy!!!)
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Well, just as long as you go for the occasional motorway long drive to burn all the stuff out, you should be fine, the problem is if you leave it to clog. The particle filter will only clear at high temperatures, like long high-speed journeys. So as long as you somehow do that, the car won't complain and it should go without any issues.
Unfortunately the marketing for diesel cars, at least in Europe, failed to sell the point of the diesel car, hence a bunch of eejits deciding that illegally removing the particle filter would be a good idea: Diesel cars are great for long journeys! If you use them to go to the shop, never exceeding 60km/h and with the engine barely reaching the optimum temperature, it'll clog the particle filter on the long run. But no, people still were following the other sheep because "diesel is better" (which is debatable, depending on your usage pattern of a car). As for unreliable test results, VW scandal aside, there's been plenty of news around that auto car makers do cheat on those to get better figures: over-inflated tires, cars somehow stripped down of normal components/features, duct tape covering panel gaps, etc. The testing standard is really not the best. My suggestion: do a 5 minute drive on all the different speed limits of your country/location/state, with a standard version of a car. Calculate the average between all the different limits, voila?
Well, as a portuguese, I also wasn't aware of this... weird thing, if you want to prepare your IRS offline, you have the application available in Windows, Mac and Linux (I even bother myself to send an e-mail to them, just to congratulate them about having a linux version of the app). Anyway, I can browse the e-financas.gov.pt and other websites just fine using firefox in linux... Freeport? Oh c'mon people, give me a break... 7 in 10 that talk about it just talk about it like casual conversation... Keep that for the gossip newspapers, this is slashdot!
Hey, remember the first FIFA game!? Now THAT was a revolution! And those great graphics and game play of the latest Sonic games!? And classics like Golden Axe, Streets of Rage.... Oh those good old times.... I agree 100% with you when you say that 16Bit was it, after that, I also kind of put gaming a part...
Hi there. I think that most of the comments saying that NES and SNES were the best consoles are from users not from Europe (I say this, because - for all I know - the Sega Mega drive done in Europe what Master System couldn't do: win the 8Bit and 16Bit War). I had an Atlantis TVGame (LOL), then after my parents got me the Mega Drive, I was the happiest kid in the world... So many days, so many hours... I personaly loved Sonic (Sonic3 & Knuckles was THE BEST!), but I would simply play anything just to be with my Mega Drive. Then I had a Sega Saturn (not as fun as Mega Drive, thus more advanced), then a PSX, and now, a Wii...
From all this consoles (oh, and plus the PC), Mega Drive was simply the one that gave me that playing pleasure. Sure, back then I had more time to play and more patience too, but the Mega drive WAS the Mega Drive...
Just wondering, would all this happened if you had Vista installed? I mean, from what you said, from the time you said the word "Gentoo" or "Linux", things changed... So, if you went to the store, show of your Vista pre-installed laptop with all tipically average user stuff (cute wallpaper, most beautifull Aero theme, pirate copy of Office2007, and some spyware due to the click on the banner "Get free smiles"), I supose that the guy would smile and take the machine in? Is Linux that scary!? Most funny thing is that this happens everywhere... I live in Portugal, if you buy a computer in a big store and then take it back because of some problem, you got to calm de "pseudo-tech-guy" after he presses the power button because he won't see what he is used to, and becauase of that, your possibilities get limited (if it's a Windows OS, any Joe Sixpack can check for viruses or do a CheckDisk, update drivers, etc; On linux, forget it - at least it's good for my privacy!!!)