So I'd need boltcutters, or at worst a dremel and a few cutt-off wheels. Man, it could take minutes to reset the bios with the jumper. Most of the time you can punch out a few of the 5 1/4 bay covers, then MAYBE have to wobble some metal covers off of the bays before reaching in and resetting the bios jumper. A lilo password is going to be a real pain in the ass until I boot Leka on a floppy and mount the filesystems anyway. There is always a way around an obstacle. Always.
Isn't the fact that Windows's vulnerabilities are well known a product of its widespread use? I mean, this just sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
Nope. You should probably read the article. It explains the flaw in your logic. To save you some time, here are the relevant parts.........
We've all heard it many times when a new Microsoft virus comes out. In fact, I've heard it a couple of times this week already. Someone on a mailing list or discussion forum complains about the latest in a long line of Microsoft email viruses or worms and recommends others consider Mac OS X or Linux as a somewhat safer computing platform. In response, another person named, oh, let's call him "Bill," says, basically, "How ridiculous! The only reason Microsoft software is the target of so many viruses is because it is so widely used! Why, if Linux or Mac OS X was as popular as Windows, there would be just as many viruses written for those platforms!"
Of course, it's not just "regular folks" on mailing lists who share this opinion. Businesspeople have expressed similar attitudes... including ones who work for anti-virus companies. Jack Clarke, European product manager at McAfee, said, "So we will be seeing more Linux viruses as the OS becomes more common and popular."
Mr. Clarke is wrong.
AND THESE BULLITS....
**Windows software is either executable or not, depending on the file extension. So if a file ends with ".exe" or ".scr", it can be run as a program (yes, of course, if you change a text file's extension from ".txt" to ".exe", nothing will happen, because it's not magically an executable; I'm talking about real executable programs). It's easy to run executables in the Windows world, and users who get an email with a subject line like "Check out this wicked screensaver!" and an attachment, too often click on it without thinking first, and bang! we're off to the races and a new worm has taken over their systems.
**Microsoft's email software is able to infect a user's computer when they do something as innocuous as read an email! Don't believe me? Take a look at Microsoft Security Bulletins MS99-032, MS00-043, MS01-015, MS01-020, MS02-068, or MS03-023, for instance. Notice that's at least one for the last five years. And though Microsoft's latest versions of Outlook block most executable attachments by default, it's still possible to override those protections.
**Further, due to the strong separation between normal users and the privileged root user, our Linux user would have to be running as root to really do any damage to the system. He could damage his/home directory, but that's about it. So the above steps now become the following: read, save, become root, give executable permissions, run. The more steps, the less likely a virus infection becomes, and certainly the less likely a catastrophically spreading virus becomes.
Those are just a few points from the article. So the real issue has much less to do with market penetration and a lot more to do with Microsoft building an Operating system that seems to be meant to be insecure.
Since you are already using Firebird, you might want to look into Thunderbird. Even though it's young, I have had no problems with it. I've got it connecting to 3 different mailboxes with SSL IMAP and I'm amazed at how easy it is to manage everything.
Very true. You are pretty much stuck with PIREPS (Pilot Reports) for certain altitudes during flights across the "pond" to fill in the data gaps. You could request them with your written weather briefing and if the pilot felt like it, he'd call you on the radio and let you know what his instruments say. Things like icing and clear air turbulance were things we'd want the pilot to call us on.
When you are talking about the sky it works like this. Clouds are reported in layers based on sky coverage and height. Lets say I had 3/10ths of the sky covered by some stuff at 1000 feet, 3/10ths altocu at 9000 feet, and some highcloud1 at 25000. The sky coverage would look like this:
10 SCT 90 BKN 250 BKN
A webcam isn't going to be able to do that.:) Perhaps some futuristic steroscopic webcam with the most amazing resolution possible and intense contrast sensitivity.
"Delmarva" has a lot more then 3 local broadcasters. The entire area is called "DelMarVa" and kinda shares a bunch of em.
You feel silly now doncha. The radio channel guys are the worst about blatantly lifting a TAF. The coolest thing about Deleware was having Joe, the guy that lived in the trailer at the beach, call us up to let us know when fog was rolling in. It made us look really good. It's hard to forecast fog accurately.
Wow, pretty insightful considering that's basically what's already happening.:) Although the reporting stations aren't every mile. That would be kinda overkill I think. When I was a weatherman (10 year ago), there were somewhere in the neighborhood of 550-600 reporting stations that did hourly weather observations syncronized with ZULU time, aka UTC, aka GMT. Some weather reporting stations are completely automated, but they are limited. There are some things like skycover and accurately representing highly variable conditions that an automated weather station simply can't do. Other than the hourly observations that are taken and disseminated, there are "special" observations that are taken when special conditions are met. I don't have an FMH-B handy, and I can't recall them all off the top of my head, but it's for things like radical changes in wind direction, speed, ceiling height, visibility, thunderstorm activity, etc. Most weather reporting stations are near airports because weather is very important for forcasting flight weather condition. That and a majority of weather stations are USAF or other military. All that data ends up in a system called AWDS (Automated Weather Distribution System) that has 3 super computing "hubs". If I'm not mistaken, two of them are here in the US, and one is in England. Those numbers are then turned into NGM's and GSM's and other Nested Gridded Models that are still not perfect and need corrected slightly by a good forecaster. With that data the 6 hourly forecasts are generated and issued so that local TV Weatherman can steal them and use them. I can remember one time in Deleware, we intentionally put a forecasted high temp for the day 6 degrees too high and watched 3 of the local channels quote it.
Those of us that used to make redboxes ended up paying 25 bucks for the 33 memory tone dialer and another 5 for the new quartz timing crystal. When I was busy making and selling about 50 a week, I found a better source at asiansources.com and started getting them from the same place RadioShack ordered them from for 3 bucks a piece quantity 100 without the lame RadioShack logo on them. The quartz timing crystal I found for 49 cents a piece but I can't remember where. It's been too long. I never could find a great price for mercury switches (the only way to do it right) but my boxes looked completely normal from the outside so they were worth it.:)
Significant? Probably about an extra 5 cents a month factoring in kilowatt hours. In 10 years he'd feel bad. Of course, in 10 years he more than likely won't have either computer anymore. 'lectricity isn't as 'spensive as you'd think.
Considering the customer is a power user, and specifically wasn't happy with the linksys (it's death was suspicious) I'd say he got exactly what he wanted. I turned him on to the proper man pages, and he's already got an apache2 server up and running with webmin on his own with no help from me.
My case of beer cost him 16 bucks. The machine used was free It will cost him nothing to operate and maintain his new freebsd based router. He will have an order of magnitude higher configurability and just gee whiz stuff he can do with his new freebsd router.
*I* am in business. I balance what the customer wants against security against their budget against their needs. I can usually talk someone out of using old ass redhat/plesk and switching to either my homegrown FreeBSD/webmin solution that is easy as hell to keep secure or my Gentoo/webmin solution that is easy as hell to keep secure. I offer them a support contract and I keep the machines up to date and patched for a tiny fee monthly. Some customers are SICK of linux/apache because they aren't smart enough to know how to update it, and have no desire to pay someone to do it. They just want it gone. They DEMAND a Microsoft solution because it's what they got rid of in the first place and they miss it. That's when I bring up Windows 2003 Server Web Edition and I mention it's 400 bucks with unlimited license. I bring up the fact that if they are a commercial webhosting provider, they will not be able to get nearly as many customers per machine as they used too. But most of the people in this category aren't. They usually have a single T, and someone thought it would be a great idea to run their own website off of it. Sometimes it's a consortium of business people that are all owned by the same parent company that need something to server about 200 unique domains. Once again, if it simply MUST be Microsoft, it fits the bill nicely here also. I'm sorry, but the price is decent, the product isn't that bad (probably because it's the most UNIXlike Windows to date) and the performance, while still nowhere near *NIXville, isn't too bad either if you take the time to tune it and pick your hardware carefully. The most important thing from my perspective is I offer NO SUPPORT for it so once I set it up I don't have to care anymore. Seriously though. If it simpley HAS to be Microsoft, and it almost never does, you can't beat the licensing and pricing with this particular edition.
I had a client recently that had a linksys router get fried and wanted to know if I could make an old pentium 133 his new router. This is what I did...
Took a freebsd 4.9-beta cd over to his house. Put it in the cdrom drive. Did the minimal install. Visited the last minute options and set him a bizarre root password, disabled all services, and configured xl0 for DHCP and xl1 for a 192.160.x.x network.
Rebooted. Set his bios to ignore all errors on boot.
Rebooted. Done. Took me a total of about 25 minutes.
The machine has no ports open so he'll never have to worry about anyone getting through it. He'll never have to update it. A machine that was sitting in his closet for 6 years was turned into a replacement router for a case of beer (my fee) in 25 minutes flat. I was going to use picobsd or a single floppy router of some sort, but he said he may want to do some other stuff down the road. Adding port redirects is a joke also. It can be accomplished by doing a man 8 natd and skipping a few paragraphs down. Once you know how it takes about 30 seconds to set one up.
You'd have the benefit of being able to make badass gangsta rap from meetings notes. Imagine the joy of having a remix of your coworkers set to a drumbeat. You could go all strongbad and throw in the "meeley! meeley! meeley! meeley!" of a guitar solo along with the "DUH! DUH! DUH! DUH! GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!" of the rythem guitar along with the "BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM doot doot doot doot dooty doot doot" of trance/dance. You'd be a hit at office parties. Ted from accounting would love it.
Amen brutha. No matter what happens, it's going to be a hoot. Damn. I hope some smart bastard gets the movie rights. It would make an excellent mini-series starring:
John Bobbet as Daryl McBride
Giant Killer Robots With Nuclear Bombs For Balls as the IBM legal team
Wilford Brimley as the caring and passionate Judge
The cast of Friends as disgruntled Linux users
Ryan Phillipe as the young Eric S Raymond during a flashback scene
That chick from voyager as the evil SCO lawyer
Danny Bonaduce as the hotdog vendor out on the street who has keen insight and good advice.
And a cameo by Sean Connery as the old prison guard that comforts Daryl after his first pooper invasion in the prison scene at the end of the movie.
WOW. I actually like the WRX's a lot. It's one of very few "almost perfect cars from the factory". I had no idea people were getting them to go that fast. Here it's mostly pissed off mustang and camero and chevelle guys that have their panties in a bunch because they got smoked by a highly tuned honda (done right) or DSM. Given the proper budget to do it right, I'd get one and start ripping it apart. I'd be MORE interested in going nuts on an evo though. I love the lancer look. Of course, my wild wet dream is for Nissan to get a friggin american skyline gtr over here. Even though they are a teeny tiny bit too heavy, they make excellent drag cars. You can go the motorex route for 90 friggin grand. If they sold here as a regular import, they'd probably sell new for about 40-45 grand. The new model Galant VR4's are VERY intriguing though. They look AWESOME. I REALLY wish they imported those. Check out the specs.
It really comes down to that. I picked up the galant vr4 in bad shape for 3000. I've stripped the body to the frame and had it repainted black. I located a new creme leather interior. I picked the springs, shocks, and porsche big brake kit I wanted. I've got all the stainless steel lines and everything else I wanted. I've got the superturismo's I wanted. The tires I wanted. The 3 inch aluminum exhaust I wanted. Now I'm concentrating on the engine/turbo. I'm aiming for 20 pounds of street boost with a push to 40-45 on a dash switch using an electronic boost controller. I should see 10's with little effort. I'd also like to steal the fastest Galant VR4 title. I think the current fastest galant vr4 is 11.2. I'm going to try to do it non-nitrous and leaving the weight pretty much stock at around 3200. I'll probably have to add a roll cage and a fuel cell though. I'm going the DSM/Galant route because it's been done before. I've never really seen a 10 or even 11 second Subaru AWD. I'll let someone else figure that out.:) The end goal is a street car that isn't all lamed out like those hondas with huge tail spoilers that do NOTHING but look stupid. No gay neon. No gay stickers. Just a very well engineered sophisticated car that is comfortable and can obliterate a viper without really trying on normal boost, then go to the track and keep up with the rest of the insanely fast DSM's there. It has been done before with the Galante, so it's a safe way to proceed. I'm currently under budget and liking that.
I'll respond. It is COMMON knowlege that the older RX7's from the early 90's had problems. Specifically if you weren't insanely carefuly with engine mods. The rotaries on them simply died. Playing with turbo rotary engines is akin to voodoo. There are only a handful of guys on the planet that do it right. Mazda themselves elected to not bother with a turbo on the latest RX model. So you bet your ass I'd do the same thing this guy did and put a nice, reliable, easy as hell to tune american 350 small block in one. But I'd also look into doing something insane like an rb26dett or a supra motor also. One of the import mags had an rx7 with a supra motor in it a few years ago.
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So I'd need boltcutters, or at worst a dremel and a few cutt-off wheels. Man, it could take minutes to reset the bios with the jumper. Most of the time you can punch out a few of the 5 1/4 bay covers, then MAYBE have to wobble some metal covers off of the bays before reaching in and resetting the bios jumper. A lilo password is going to be a real pain in the ass until I boot Leka on a floppy and mount the filesystems anyway. There is always a way around an obstacle. Always.
Isn't the fact that Windows's vulnerabilities are well known a product of its widespread use? I mean, this just sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.
... including ones who work for anti-virus companies. Jack Clarke, European product manager at McAfee, said, "So we will be seeing more Linux viruses as the OS becomes more common and popular."
/home directory, but that's about it. So the above steps now become the following: read, save, become root, give executable permissions, run. The more steps, the less likely a virus infection becomes, and certainly the less likely a catastrophically spreading virus becomes.
Nope. You should probably read the article. It explains the flaw in your logic. To save you some time, here are the relevant parts.........
We've all heard it many times when a new Microsoft virus comes out. In fact, I've heard it a couple of times this week already. Someone on a mailing list or discussion forum complains about the latest in a long line of Microsoft email viruses or worms and recommends others consider Mac OS X or Linux as a somewhat safer computing platform. In response, another person named, oh, let's call him "Bill," says, basically, "How ridiculous! The only reason Microsoft software is the target of so many viruses is because it is so widely used! Why, if Linux or Mac OS X was as popular as Windows, there would be just as many viruses written for those platforms!"
Of course, it's not just "regular folks" on mailing lists who share this opinion. Businesspeople have expressed similar attitudes
Mr. Clarke is wrong.
AND THESE BULLITS....
**Windows software is either executable or not, depending on the file extension. So if a file ends with ".exe" or ".scr", it can be run as a program (yes, of course, if you change a text file's extension from ".txt" to ".exe", nothing will happen, because it's not magically an executable; I'm talking about real executable programs). It's easy to run executables in the Windows world, and users who get an email with a subject line like "Check out this wicked screensaver!" and an attachment, too often click on it without thinking first, and bang! we're off to the races and a new worm has taken over their systems.
**Microsoft's email software is able to infect a user's computer when they do something as innocuous as read an email! Don't believe me? Take a look at Microsoft Security Bulletins MS99-032, MS00-043, MS01-015, MS01-020, MS02-068, or MS03-023, for instance. Notice that's at least one for the last five years. And though Microsoft's latest versions of Outlook block most executable attachments by default, it's still possible to override those protections.
**Further, due to the strong separation between normal users and the privileged root user, our Linux user would have to be running as root to really do any damage to the system. He could damage his
Those are just a few points from the article. So the real issue has much less to do with market penetration and a lot more to do with Microsoft building an Operating system that seems to be meant to be insecure.
With the master? Somebody better call the doctor so he can tardis his ass in to help.
Since you are already using Firebird, you might want to look into Thunderbird. Even though it's young, I have had no problems with it. I've got it connecting to 3 different mailboxes with SSL IMAP and I'm amazed at how easy it is to manage everything.
Actually, there was evidence and ATI already apologized for it.
Very true. You are pretty much stuck with PIREPS (Pilot Reports) for certain altitudes during flights across the "pond" to fill in the data gaps. You could request them with your written weather briefing and if the pilot felt like it, he'd call you on the radio and let you know what his instruments say. Things like icing and clear air turbulance were things we'd want the pilot to call us on.
:)
:) Perhaps some futuristic steroscopic webcam with the most amazing resolution possible and intense contrast sensitivity.
When you are talking about the sky it works like this. Clouds are reported in layers based on sky coverage and height. Lets say I had 3/10ths of the sky covered by some stuff at 1000 feet, 3/10ths altocu at 9000 feet, and some highcloud1 at 25000. The sky coverage would look like this:
10 SCT 90 BKN 250 BKN
A webcam isn't going to be able to do that.
:)
"Delmarva" has a lot more then 3 local broadcasters. The entire area is called "DelMarVa" and kinda shares a bunch of em.
You feel silly now doncha. The radio channel guys are the worst about blatantly lifting a TAF. The coolest thing about Deleware was having Joe, the guy that lived in the trailer at the beach, call us up to let us know when fog was rolling in. It made us look really good. It's hard to forecast fog accurately.
Wow, pretty insightful considering that's basically what's already happening. :) Although the reporting stations aren't every mile. That would be kinda overkill I think. When I was a weatherman (10 year ago), there were somewhere in the neighborhood of 550-600 reporting stations that did hourly weather observations syncronized with ZULU time, aka UTC, aka GMT. Some weather reporting stations are completely automated, but they are limited. There are some things like skycover and accurately representing highly variable conditions that an automated weather station simply can't do. Other than the hourly observations that are taken and disseminated, there are "special" observations that are taken when special conditions are met. I don't have an FMH-B handy, and I can't recall them all off the top of my head, but it's for things like radical changes in wind direction, speed, ceiling height, visibility, thunderstorm activity, etc. Most weather reporting stations are near airports because weather is very important for forcasting flight weather condition. That and a majority of weather stations are USAF or other military. All that data ends up in a system called AWDS (Automated Weather Distribution System) that has 3 super computing "hubs". If I'm not mistaken, two of them are here in the US, and one is in England. Those numbers are then turned into NGM's and GSM's and other Nested Gridded Models that are still not perfect and need corrected slightly by a good forecaster. With that data the 6 hourly forecasts are generated and issued so that local TV Weatherman can steal them and use them. I can remember one time in Deleware, we intentionally put a forecasted high temp for the day 6 degrees too high and watched 3 of the local channels quote it.
Those of us that used to make redboxes ended up paying 25 bucks for the 33 memory tone dialer and another 5 for the new quartz timing crystal. When I was busy making and selling about 50 a week, I found a better source at asiansources.com and started getting them from the same place RadioShack ordered them from for 3 bucks a piece quantity 100 without the lame RadioShack logo on them. The quartz timing crystal I found for 49 cents a piece but I can't remember where. It's been too long. I never could find a great price for mercury switches (the only way to do it right) but my boxes looked completely normal from the outside so they were worth it. :)
But SCO could probably win an interactive fiction award. :) Hey mods, At least I didn't bring up Dubya. :)
Significant? Probably about an extra 5 cents a month factoring in kilowatt hours. In 10 years he'd feel bad. Of course, in 10 years he more than likely won't have either computer anymore. 'lectricity isn't as 'spensive as you'd think.
Considering the customer is a power user, and specifically wasn't happy with the linksys (it's death was suspicious) I'd say he got exactly what he wanted. I turned him on to the proper man pages, and he's already got an apache2 server up and running with webmin on his own with no help from me.
How do you figure?
My case of beer cost him 16 bucks.
The machine used was free
It will cost him nothing to operate and maintain his new freebsd based router.
He will have an order of magnitude higher configurability and just gee whiz stuff he can do with his new freebsd router.
*I* am in business. I balance what the customer wants against security against their budget against their needs. I can usually talk someone out of using old ass redhat/plesk and switching to either my homegrown FreeBSD/webmin solution that is easy as hell to keep secure or my Gentoo/webmin solution that is easy as hell to keep secure. I offer them a support contract and I keep the machines up to date and patched for a tiny fee monthly. Some customers are SICK of linux/apache because they aren't smart enough to know how to update it, and have no desire to pay someone to do it. They just want it gone. They DEMAND a Microsoft solution because it's what they got rid of in the first place and they miss it. That's when I bring up Windows 2003 Server Web Edition and I mention it's 400 bucks with unlimited license. I bring up the fact that if they are a commercial webhosting provider, they will not be able to get nearly as many customers per machine as they used too. But most of the people in this category aren't. They usually have a single T, and someone thought it would be a great idea to run their own website off of it. Sometimes it's a consortium of business people that are all owned by the same parent company that need something to server about 200 unique domains. Once again, if it simply MUST be Microsoft, it fits the bill nicely here also. I'm sorry, but the price is decent, the product isn't that bad (probably because it's the most UNIXlike Windows to date) and the performance, while still nowhere near *NIXville, isn't too bad either if you take the time to tune it and pick your hardware carefully. The most important thing from my perspective is I offer NO SUPPORT for it so once I set it up I don't have to care anymore. Seriously though. If it simpley HAS to be Microsoft, and it almost never does, you can't beat the licensing and pricing with this particular edition.
This reminds me of something....
/etc/rc.conf:
r ewall_type="OPEN"a ce="xl0"
I had a client recently that had a linksys router get fried and wanted to know if I could make an old pentium 133 his new router. This is what I did...
Took a freebsd 4.9-beta cd over to his house.
Put it in the cdrom drive.
Did the minimal install.
Visited the last minute options and set him a bizarre root password, disabled all services, and configured xl0 for DHCP and xl1 for a 192.160.x.x network.
Rebooted.
Set his bios to ignore all errors on boot.
Added this crap to his
gateway_enable="YES"
firewall_enable="YES"
fi
natd_enable="YES"
natd_interf
natd_flags="-dynamic -s -m -u"
Rebooted.
Done. Took me a total of about 25 minutes.
The machine has no ports open so he'll never have to worry about anyone getting through it. He'll never have to update it. A machine that was sitting in his closet for 6 years was turned into a replacement router for a case of beer (my fee) in 25 minutes flat. I was going to use picobsd or a single floppy router of some sort, but he said he may want to do some other stuff down the road. Adding port redirects is a joke also. It can be accomplished by doing a man 8 natd and skipping a few paragraphs down. Once you know how it takes about 30 seconds to set one up.
That's sat-tis-a-fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiyyyyyyyy-yeah!
Totally not mine. I just linked to it because I thought it rocked. :)
You'd have the benefit of being able to make badass gangsta rap from meetings notes. Imagine the joy of having a remix of your coworkers set to a drumbeat. You could go all strongbad and throw in the "meeley! meeley! meeley! meeley!" of a guitar solo along with the "DUH! DUH! DUH! DUH! GRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!" of the rythem guitar along with the "BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM doot doot doot doot dooty doot doot" of trance/dance. You'd be a hit at office parties. Ted from accounting would love it.
I was talking about the other chick. DUH!!!
Amen brutha. No matter what happens, it's going to be a hoot. Damn. I hope some smart bastard gets the movie rights. It would make an excellent mini-series starring:
John Bobbet as Daryl McBride
Giant Killer Robots With Nuclear Bombs For Balls as the IBM legal team
Wilford Brimley as the caring and passionate Judge
The cast of Friends as disgruntled Linux users
Ryan Phillipe as the young Eric S Raymond during a flashback scene
That chick from voyager as the evil SCO lawyer
Danny Bonaduce as the hotdog vendor out on the street who has keen insight and good advice.
And a cameo by Sean Connery as the old prison guard that comforts Daryl after his first pooper invasion in the prison scene at the end of the movie.
WOW. I actually like the WRX's a lot. It's one of very few "almost perfect cars from the factory". I had no idea people were getting them to go that fast. Here it's mostly pissed off mustang and camero and chevelle guys that have their panties in a bunch because they got smoked by a highly tuned honda (done right) or DSM. Given the proper budget to do it right, I'd get one and start ripping it apart. I'd be MORE interested in going nuts on an evo though. I love the lancer look. Of course, my wild wet dream is for Nissan to get a friggin american skyline gtr over here. Even though they are a teeny tiny bit too heavy, they make excellent drag cars. You can go the motorex route for 90 friggin grand. If they sold here as a regular import, they'd probably sell new for about 40-45 grand. The new model Galant VR4's are VERY intriguing though. They look AWESOME. I REALLY wish they imported those. Check out the specs.
Money.
:) The end goal is a street car that isn't all lamed out like those hondas with huge tail spoilers that do NOTHING but look stupid. No gay neon. No gay stickers. Just a very well engineered sophisticated car that is comfortable and can obliterate a viper without really trying on normal boost, then go to the track and keep up with the rest of the insanely fast DSM's there. It has been done before with the Galante, so it's a safe way to proceed. I'm currently under budget and liking that.
It really comes down to that. I picked up the galant vr4 in bad shape for 3000. I've stripped the body to the frame and had it repainted black. I located a new creme leather interior. I picked the springs, shocks, and porsche big brake kit I wanted. I've got all the stainless steel lines and everything else I wanted. I've got the superturismo's I wanted. The tires I wanted. The 3 inch aluminum exhaust I wanted. Now I'm concentrating on the engine/turbo. I'm aiming for 20 pounds of street boost with a push to 40-45 on a dash switch using an electronic boost controller. I should see 10's with little effort. I'd also like to steal the fastest Galant VR4 title. I think the current fastest galant vr4 is 11.2. I'm going to try to do it non-nitrous and leaving the weight pretty much stock at around 3200. I'll probably have to add a roll cage and a fuel cell though. I'm going the DSM/Galant route because it's been done before. I've never really seen a 10 or even 11 second Subaru AWD. I'll let someone else figure that out.
I'll respond. It is COMMON knowlege that the older RX7's from the early 90's had problems. Specifically if you weren't insanely carefuly with engine mods. The rotaries on them simply died. Playing with turbo rotary engines is akin to voodoo. There are only a handful of guys on the planet that do it right. Mazda themselves elected to not bother with a turbo on the latest RX model. So you bet your ass I'd do the same thing this guy did and put a nice, reliable, easy as hell to tune american 350 small block in one. But I'd also look into doing something insane like an rb26dett or a supra motor also. One of the import mags had an rx7 with a supra motor in it a few years ago.