Yeah, I don't need all the fancy tech especially when my phone can do all that stuff. A stereo, bluetooth, and manual transmission is all I need. If it's RWD even better (almost mandatory).
I'd still rather do it myself than have some shit head torque my oil plug to 200lbs.
Amen to that brother!!!
Some dip shit at Easy Lube or whatever it's called at the Long Beach Town Center (yeah, calling you out!) put an oil filter for a 2.0L. Ford Focus on a 2.3L Ford Focus and subsequently killed the engine. Why? Because the 2.0L has a much longer oil filter, so when you put it on a 2.3L it catches on road hazards ripping it out.
I did the math at one point and realized it cost me money to change my own oil. The filters, oil and disposal cost me more than paying some one to do it.
You must not live in the US, because it's still cheaper to change it yourself and disposal is free. Just go to Walmart and buy a 5 quart jug of Mobil 1 synthetic (or to Costco when they have a 10 dollar off coupon for 6 quarts). Get your filter somewhere else, just don't get Fram. Wix are good though.
Most oil places charge you 70 bucks for full synthetic oil changes, but you can get 5 quarts of good synthetic for less than 30 bucks. A filter will be less than 10 bucks. So you're saving 30+ dollars. Also, oil disposal is free, just take it to Pep Boys, Jiffy Lube, O'Reilly, AutoZone, whatever. They take it. No questions asked.
Time? Takes no time at all. Because while the oil is draining you can inspect other items on the vehicle, such as tire pressure, power steering fluid, transmission fluid (if you're a girl and have an automatic transmission that is), and washer fluid. Stuff you need to do anyway. Once it's done draining, screw in the plug, change the filter (be sure to add a little fresh oil inside the filter and lube the seal - this is so that it fills quicker upon fire up), fire it up, and check for leaks. Done!
You should ask your parents what exactly they did to deserve the public revolutionary trials. As them how many people they tortured or killed, or how many were killed because of their denouncing to a corrupt military dictatorship drunk on the blood of countless people.
And don't be a fool, I visit Cuba regularly and have several friends over there, they even got me to "la cabaña", the place where the trials and executions took place. I even got the list of executions, and even while I disagree in principle to the summary trials, the numbers were quite lower than I expected based in the hype from the Miami crowd.
As for a joke, supporting 50 years of embargo against your won people with the explicit goal to create hardship and unrest is not even funny.
You've been to "La Cabaña"? Big deal. So have I. I went there with my cousins. Then even got me in at Cuban prices. LOL They told me the truth about the place. In hushed voices. Why? Because if someone overhead, he'd probably be in trouble. The "Cañonazo" was pretty interesting to watch.
I'm not going to argue with you, because unless you're of Cuban descent then you just really won't understand. You probably never grew up hearing about how great things were before Castro. You didn't grow up hearing about the stories and romanticism of pre-Castro Cuba.
Ask your friends what would happen if they stood out in the open and cursed Castro. They're probably wouldn't even think about it for fear of what could happen.
Castro's revolution had its flaws but he never openly tortured or killed his fellow citizens
That is flat out, 100% WRONG. One of my high school friends was from Cuba. Both his father and his uncle were tortured by the Castro regime because they didn't fight on the "right" side. They were lucky they weren't simply shot, but my friend's dad walked with a severe limp for the rest of his life. And Che was a murdering bastard who had a habit of shooting people he only suspected of not being loyal enough.
Know what those Che tshirts are good for? It makes it easy to spot complete morons.
True effing that! Damn kids wearing Che shirts. Bunch of ignorant idiots. It's offensive.
Here's the thing... The company I work for has a few sister companies in HK and China. I work for the U.S. office.
We recently (last year) upgraded our switches in the U.S. office. Previously, we were running 3Com switches of various types and models (3300's mostly of different kinds, and some 4200's). The decision to replace them was due to the fact they were getting old and the performance wasn't really there when you start daisy chaining 10 different switches to support over 200 ports.
When looking for new switches, I looked at Cisco and HP. Our overseas IIT guy tried to get us to go the 3Com route once again, since that's what they use in the HK and China offices. Actually, they use Huawei branded switches as well as 3Com braded switches. If you don't know already, they're basically the same thing. He really tried hard to get us to go that route, but I would not budge. I did everything to show that 3Com had very little market share in the U.S. and thus very little support.
Anyway, we ended up replacing the aging 3Com equipment with HP Procurve switches (5406 and 5412). We wanted to go with Cisco switches at first, but they were our of our budget. Next to Cisco, HP seemed like the most logical choice.So far, I'm happy with the decision.
I just find it ironic that after the acquisition, that whole power struggle over which switch to use will be moot.
Hah! I have you beat! I have been using FreeBSD since 2.2.2!
I would say that ever since FreeBSD 2.2.5 the install for me has gotten easier. Why? Because it supported my ATAPI CDROM. I have to say that sysinstall is a breeze. It's simple and to the point.
Those cry babies that complain that it's too hard to install have probably never had to install it from a DOS partition. Now that was a bitch! It also took forever.
I think I'll keep my 6-STABLE for awhile. I'll play around with 7.0 until 7.1 comes out, then I'll make the switch on my production boxes. I'm interested in giving ZFS a try. I have heard much about it, but I haven't had enough time to try it out.
Well, it's not that I don't have the time, it's just that all this shit doesn't seem to excite me as much as it used to. I'm getting tired of I.T. *sigh*
Cool. What's she like? Cuban moms can be a pain in the ass sometimes. Always meddling in your business. LOL Hopefully, she can make a mean batch of Arroz con Pollo.
Don't lump Cubans with being the same as the rest of the Hispanic population. Anyone who has taken Latin American History, would know that Cuban-Americans are different.
In Cuba, they're typically better educated and most, if not all, Latin American countries. Cuba also has a higher literacy rate than even the United States. There are plenty of good doctors that come from Cuba. As you already mentioned, Florida is full of Cuban politicians and lawyers. There are plenty of Cuban actors (Andy Garcia, Cameron Diaz, and more), singers (Gloria Estefan, Celia Cruz, and more), song writers (Emilio Estefan, and more) here in the U.S. as well, which makes them well represented.
Like you mentioned, unlike most the Hispanic population Cuban-Americans typically vote Republican. Why? Maybe because we're generally more conservative? Maybe because many Cuban-Americans are businessmen? Maybe it's because Republicans have done more for Cuban-Americans than Democrats? Cubans are pretty vocal and you can almost say fanatical about politics. You can almost say that the Cuban community is even tighter than most Hispanic communities. Maybe that is because there's so few of them here. Cuban-Americans are actually a very small population when compared to other Hispanic communities (i.e. Mexican-Americans).
Anyway, for all we know this whole resignation thing is probably because Castro is already dead and has been dead for a while. Who knows. No one has seen him in public in quite some time.
Bah! I went there straight from L.A. on TACAS airlines in 2004. The rule is that you can go go there every 3 years and it has to be part of an educational trip, missionary trip, and one other thing having to do with with immediate family. I went there due to the latter.
I can't wait to go back. It's a beautiful place full of warm people. I can't wait for the Castro regime to end. Maybe one day, it will be a 1st world country again. 50 years ago, it was one of the riches countries in the western hemisphere along with the U.S. (at the top) and Argentina. Now it's in ruins. It's a shame.
Anyway, I doubt that will happen overnight. May never even happen. Not easy to rebuild and economy, but it's possible. Cuba is filled with hard working, resourceful, and brilliant people.
You have pictures? I have pictures too! I have some pictures from Santa Clara, Ranchuelo, and La Habana. I have video from Varadero Beach - the one which Hemmingway proclaimed to be the most beautiful beach in the world. It truely is a nice beach.
You nimrod, why would you want to make it non-free? OpenBSD is as free as it gets. I love that they're replacing GNU tools with BSD tools. They're doing the world a great service.
They are producing great software which commercial and non-commercial entities can use in their products (wouldn't you rather them use secure software than building their own possibly insecure software?). The BSD license encourages this. BSD projects encourage this. Didn't your momma teach your to share?
I think IBM just jumped on the bandwagon. No more less. They're probably just hedging their bets by having one more supported platform.
What really have they contributed to Linux? I don't see Linux on par with AIX or OS/400. Hell they have the AIX code. They own it. What's stopping them from just injecting it into Linux to really improve Linux. How about getting Linux's spooling system (LPR/LPD) on par with OS/400's spooling system? That would be killer for heavy duty print shops.
They probably don't do it because it would take away sales of their big iron systems. It's all a business thing. It's all about the green. I can understand that. They got bills to pay and stuff.
I guess one of the few things they've done is make Linux run on an LPAR along side OS/400 and perhaps AIX. They've also ported some of their applications and software. Big fucking deal.
Sure, they have DB2 running on Linux. I've tried it out. It seems to work. Would love to have a printed manual to go along with it. Guess I'll have to hunt one down on Amazon or one of IBM's Redbooks.
I did have some problems with DB2 Connect and PHP accessing an iSeries DB2/400 datbase. I did get it to work, but at the time there were no scrollable cursors. That sucked for quick and dirty website development. Had to keep making queries to update my recordset. Don't know if it's gotten better.
I tried to install iSeries Client Access about a 2 weeks ago on Fedora Core 2. That failed to run. Bummer. If I had that I wouldn't need my Windows box at all.
Hmmm, I wonder if I can access the iSeries data from StarOffice on Linux? I probably can but that would require an ODBC driver (or CLI) which comes in iSeries Client Access. Oh wait, that failed to run. Bummer! I guess I'll have to try that again sometime later when I have time to waste.
I don't know, it just seems that there's alot more steamlining that IBM can do with it's Linux products. I expected alot more from such a large company.
What IBM needs to do is just make it's own damn distribution of Linux. That way all of their products work right out of the box.
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Agreed!!
Yeah, I don't need all the fancy tech especially when my phone can do all that stuff. A stereo, bluetooth, and manual transmission is all I need. If it's RWD even better (almost mandatory).
I'm pretty sure most online dating sites create fake profile with women that are way too good to be true just to sucker dudes into signing up.
I'd still rather do it myself than have some shit head torque my oil plug to 200lbs.
Amen to that brother!!!
Some dip shit at Easy Lube or whatever it's called at the Long Beach Town Center (yeah, calling you out!) put an oil filter for a 2.0L. Ford Focus on a 2.3L Ford Focus and subsequently killed the engine. Why? Because the 2.0L has a much longer oil filter, so when you put it on a 2.3L it catches on road hazards ripping it out.
I did the math at one point and realized it cost me money to change my own oil. The filters, oil and disposal cost me more than paying some one to do it.
You must not live in the US, because it's still cheaper to change it yourself and disposal is free. Just go to Walmart and buy a 5 quart jug of Mobil 1 synthetic (or to Costco when they have a 10 dollar off coupon for 6 quarts). Get your filter somewhere else, just don't get Fram. Wix are good though.
Most oil places charge you 70 bucks for full synthetic oil changes, but you can get 5 quarts of good synthetic for less than 30 bucks. A filter will be less than 10 bucks. So you're saving 30+ dollars. Also, oil disposal is free, just take it to Pep Boys, Jiffy Lube, O'Reilly, AutoZone, whatever. They take it. No questions asked.
Time? Takes no time at all. Because while the oil is draining you can inspect other items on the vehicle, such as tire pressure, power steering fluid, transmission fluid (if you're a girl and have an automatic transmission that is), and washer fluid. Stuff you need to do anyway. Once it's done draining, screw in the plug, change the filter (be sure to add a little fresh oil inside the filter and lube the seal - this is so that it fills quicker upon fire up), fire it up, and check for leaks. Done!
You should ask your parents what exactly they did to deserve the public revolutionary trials. As them how many people they tortured or killed, or how many were killed because of their denouncing to a corrupt military dictatorship drunk on the blood of countless people.
And don't be a fool, I visit Cuba regularly and have several friends over there, they even got me to "la cabaña", the place where the trials and executions took place. I even got the list of executions, and even while I disagree in principle to the summary trials, the numbers were quite lower than I expected based in the hype from the Miami crowd.
As for a joke, supporting 50 years of embargo against your won people with the explicit goal to create hardship and unrest is not even funny.
You've been to "La Cabaña"? Big deal. So have I. I went there with my cousins. Then even got me in at Cuban prices. LOL They told me the truth about the place. In hushed voices. Why? Because if someone overhead, he'd probably be in trouble. The "Cañonazo" was pretty interesting to watch.
I'm not going to argue with you, because unless you're of Cuban descent then you just really won't understand. You probably never grew up hearing about how great things were before Castro. You didn't grow up hearing about the stories and romanticism of pre-Castro Cuba.
Ask your friends what would happen if they stood out in the open and cursed Castro. They're probably wouldn't even think about it for fear of what could happen.
Castro's revolution had its flaws but he never openly tortured or killed his fellow citizens
That is flat out, 100% WRONG. One of my high school friends was from Cuba. Both his father and his uncle were tortured by the Castro regime because they didn't fight on the "right" side. They were lucky they weren't simply shot, but my friend's dad walked with a severe limp for the rest of his life. And Che was a murdering bastard who had a habit of shooting people he only suspected of not being loyal enough.
Know what those Che tshirts are good for? It makes it easy to spot complete morons.
True effing that! Damn kids wearing Che shirts. Bunch of ignorant idiots. It's offensive.
I think it's pretty hot! Rear wheel drive 4 banger? Interesting indeed. The only thing that kills me is the puny 2.0L engine.
I'd like to take it for a test drive when it comes out though. Seems like it would be a fun car to drive.
Yep, that made it much easier to get mine last year.
Here's the thing... The company I work for has a few sister companies in HK and China. I work for the U.S. office.
We recently (last year) upgraded our switches in the U.S. office. Previously, we were running 3Com switches of various types and models (3300's mostly of different kinds, and some 4200's). The decision to replace them was due to the fact they were getting old and the performance wasn't really there when you start daisy chaining 10 different switches to support over 200 ports.
When looking for new switches, I looked at Cisco and HP. Our overseas IIT guy tried to get us to go the 3Com route once again, since that's what they use in the HK and China offices. Actually, they use Huawei branded switches as well as 3Com braded switches. If you don't know already, they're basically the same thing. He really tried hard to get us to go that route, but I would not budge. I did everything to show that 3Com had very little market share in the U.S. and thus very little support.
Anyway, we ended up replacing the aging 3Com equipment with HP Procurve switches (5406 and 5412). We wanted to go with Cisco switches at first, but they were our of our budget. Next to Cisco, HP seemed like the most logical choice.So far, I'm happy with the decision.
I just find it ironic that after the acquisition, that whole power struggle over which switch to use will be moot.
Me too!!
Hah! I have you beat! I have been using FreeBSD since 2.2.2!
I would say that ever since FreeBSD 2.2.5 the install for me has gotten easier. Why? Because it supported my ATAPI CDROM. I have to say that sysinstall is a breeze. It's simple and to the point.
Those cry babies that complain that it's too hard to install have probably never had to install it from a DOS partition. Now that was a bitch! It also took forever.
I think I'll keep my 6-STABLE for awhile. I'll play around with 7.0 until 7.1 comes out, then I'll make the switch on my production boxes. I'm interested in giving ZFS a try. I have heard much about it, but I haven't had enough time to try it out.
Well, it's not that I don't have the time, it's just that all this shit doesn't seem to excite me as much as it used to. I'm getting tired of I.T. *sigh*
Cool. What's she like? Cuban moms can be a pain in the ass sometimes. Always meddling in your business. LOL Hopefully, she can make a mean batch of Arroz con Pollo.
Don't lump Cubans with being the same as the rest of the Hispanic population. Anyone who has taken Latin American History, would know that Cuban-Americans are different.
In Cuba, they're typically better educated and most, if not all, Latin American countries. Cuba also has a higher literacy rate than even the United States. There are plenty of good doctors that come from Cuba. As you already mentioned, Florida is full of Cuban politicians and lawyers. There are plenty of Cuban actors (Andy Garcia, Cameron Diaz, and more), singers (Gloria Estefan, Celia Cruz, and more), song writers (Emilio Estefan, and more) here in the U.S. as well, which makes them well represented.
Like you mentioned, unlike most the Hispanic population Cuban-Americans typically vote Republican. Why? Maybe because we're generally more conservative? Maybe because many Cuban-Americans are businessmen? Maybe it's because Republicans have done more for Cuban-Americans than Democrats? Cubans are pretty vocal and you can almost say fanatical about politics. You can almost say that the Cuban community is even tighter than most Hispanic communities. Maybe that is because there's so few of them here. Cuban-Americans are actually a very small population when compared to other Hispanic communities (i.e. Mexican-Americans).
Anyway, for all we know this whole resignation thing is probably because Castro is already dead and has been dead for a while. Who knows. No one has seen him in public in quite some time.
Bah! I went there straight from L.A. on TACAS airlines in 2004. The rule is that you can go go there every 3 years and it has to be part of an educational trip, missionary trip, and one other thing having to do with with immediate family. I went there due to the latter.
I can't wait to go back. It's a beautiful place full of warm people. I can't wait for the Castro regime to end. Maybe one day, it will be a 1st world country again. 50 years ago, it was one of the riches countries in the western hemisphere along with the U.S. (at the top) and Argentina. Now it's in ruins. It's a shame.
Anyway, I doubt that will happen overnight. May never even happen. Not easy to rebuild and economy, but it's possible. Cuba is filled with hard working, resourceful, and brilliant people.
Ummm....I hear that's bad for the head.
You moron, how can you steal what's free? The BSD license is meant for BSD licensed software to be *used* with few strings attatched.
You have pictures? I have pictures too! I have some pictures from Santa Clara, Ranchuelo, and La Habana. I have video from Varadero Beach - the one which Hemmingway proclaimed to be the most beautiful beach in the world. It truely is a nice beach.
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Here's my pictures. I went last year. They're mostly family pictures though. Not that interesting, but I have them. http://photobucket.com/albums/y161/joesedge/Cuba/
BSD is alot older than 10 years. It's probably 20+ years old.
You nimrod, why would you want to make it non-free? OpenBSD is as free as it gets. I love that they're replacing GNU tools with BSD tools. They're doing the world a great service.
They are producing great software which commercial and non-commercial entities can use in their products (wouldn't you rather them use secure software than building their own possibly insecure software?). The BSD license encourages this. BSD projects encourage this. Didn't your momma teach your to share?
If you're going to insult someone, at least check your spelling.
That's exactly what I thought too. It's pretty much a "people mover" of the future. I wonder how many people remember that ride?
Have you ever seen "Cider House Rules"? You might want to check that out. He didn't do so bad in that movie.
I think IBM just jumped on the bandwagon. No more less. They're probably just hedging their bets by having one more supported platform.
What really have they contributed to Linux? I don't see Linux on par with AIX or OS/400. Hell they have the AIX code. They own it. What's stopping them from just injecting it into Linux to really improve Linux. How about getting Linux's spooling system (LPR/LPD) on par with OS/400's spooling system? That would be killer for heavy duty print shops.
They probably don't do it because it would take away sales of their big iron systems. It's all a business thing. It's all about the green. I can understand that. They got bills to pay and stuff.
I guess one of the few things they've done is make Linux run on an LPAR along side OS/400 and perhaps AIX. They've also ported some of their applications and software. Big fucking deal.
Sure, they have DB2 running on Linux. I've tried it out. It seems to work. Would love to have a printed manual to go along with it. Guess I'll have to hunt one down on Amazon or one of IBM's Redbooks.
I did have some problems with DB2 Connect and PHP accessing an iSeries DB2/400 datbase. I did get it to work, but at the time there were no scrollable cursors. That sucked for quick and dirty website development. Had to keep making queries to update my recordset. Don't know if it's gotten better.
I tried to install iSeries Client Access about a 2 weeks ago on Fedora Core 2. That failed to run. Bummer. If I had that I wouldn't need my Windows box at all.
Hmmm, I wonder if I can access the iSeries data from StarOffice on Linux? I probably can but that would require an ODBC driver (or CLI) which comes in iSeries Client Access. Oh wait, that failed to run. Bummer! I guess I'll have to try that again sometime later when I have time to waste.
I don't know, it just seems that there's alot more steamlining that IBM can do with it's Linux products. I expected alot more from such a large company.
What IBM needs to do is just make it's own damn distribution of Linux. That way all of their products work right out of the box.
BSD. Yes, California should finally use BSD more than just a research project. Finally put their spent tax money to work for them. That's my opinion.