The VW motor was designed to be entirely air cooled, including the crankcase, that's why the cylinders have all those fins and stuff on 'em with a big fan blowing over, but the oil overheated, so they added an oil radiator external to the crankcase in the blower housing, just like you see on some high performance,four stroke air cooled motorbikes.
I fail to see how this adds up to being oil cooled, or at least any more so than a water cooled engine with an oil cooler is oil cooled.
One could, in fact, argue that subsequently the #3 cylinder was oil heated, as the heated exhaust air from the oil radiator blew over it and the cylinder was designed to be air cooled.
Changing the oil regularly is the key to keeping any engine going. The VW Beetle isn't in any way special in this regard, and it doesn't matter how many times you change the oil (which doesn't change the heat transference properties of the oil) that #3 exhaust cyclinder is going to pop its little head off sooner or later.
The Americans always think there's some sort of magical technical solution to something they have always been extremely crap at - guerilla warfare.
It is one of history's little ironies that later events have overclouded the fact that Benedict Arnold was one of the most brilliant leaders of guerilla warfare in history.
The capturing of Fort Ticonderoga in order to procure its cannon and how those cannon subsequently made their way to Boston. The Battle of Beemis Hights (I spent last night in the home of Gen. Philip Schyler who deployed Benedict in that action). Coming, literally, within yards of conquering Canada for America (and would have done so but for the lack of a pair of walkie-talkies).
Washington weren't half bad either. Why did he cross the Deleware (in secret, at night, in winter when such a move couldn't be expected)? To attack the endentured rear guard holding a barracks after the main army had marched out and then . ..run away! Run away!
America once stood as the object model for how guerilla fighters in a third world country could stand up to and prevail over a superpower (with a wee bit of help from . ..France and Mssr. Lafayette), but it seems it has forgotten its own history.
The working poor are a different issue than those who are poor because they are in a "developing" country and are not typically business users (unless they are working poor because they run their own business).
Around here the working poor go to the Salvation Army or the City Mission and buy old hardware with Mandrake preinstalled. These orginizations love the shit out of Linux and the GPL.
Yes, I found it very interesting that they spent about the first half of the article rationalizing why they didn't actually test a distro of Linux that will actually run on anything, like the single floppy I boot my 486 laptop from, which subsequently runs the system from rather meager memory.The entire "test" is founded on misrepresenting the claim that "Linux will run on anything."
I also always get a kick out of the "poor people are idiots who can't learn to run the system" argument as well. That'll really get them on your side and buying your products.
Dear Bill,
Let me give you a hint. Poor people have more time than money and expect to have to do things the self-sufficient hard way. Many of them even take pride in being able to do so.
And the local library is full of things called "books" and people who know how to read them. Like, computer books. That's where I went to read Kernighan & Ritchie. They've got a full set of Knuth too. Not to mention that computer training is a standard part of library science these days.
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Next it will be asteroids, and then space aliens . . .
.and people who say "There's nothing to fear but fear itself."
. .
Up against the wall you terrorist motherfucker.
KFG
. . .that #3 exhaust cyclinder . . .
.that #3 cylinder exhaust valve. . .
. .
The VW motor was designed to be entirely air cooled, including the crankcase, that's why the cylinders have all those fins and stuff on 'em with a big fan blowing over, but the oil overheated, so they added an oil radiator external to the crankcase in the blower housing, just like you see on some high performance,four stroke air cooled motorbikes.
I fail to see how this adds up to being oil cooled, or at least any more so than a water cooled engine with an oil cooler is oil cooled.
One could, in fact, argue that subsequently the #3 cylinder was oil heated, as the heated exhaust air from the oil radiator blew over it and the cylinder was designed to be air cooled.
Changing the oil regularly is the key to keeping any engine going. The VW Beetle isn't in any way special in this regard, and it doesn't matter how many times you change the oil (which doesn't change the heat transference properties of the oil) that #3 exhaust cyclinder is going to pop its little head off sooner or later.
Because it gets too hot, because it's air cooled.
KFG
The Americans always think there's some sort of magical technical solution to something they have always been extremely crap at - guerilla warfare.
.run away! Run away!
.France and Mssr. Lafayette), but it seems it has forgotten its own history.
It is one of history's little ironies that later events have overclouded the fact that Benedict Arnold was one of the most brilliant leaders of guerilla warfare in history.
The capturing of Fort Ticonderoga in order to procure its cannon and how those cannon subsequently made their way to Boston. The Battle of Beemis Hights (I spent last night in the home of Gen. Philip Schyler who deployed Benedict in that action). Coming, literally, within yards of conquering Canada for America (and would have done so but for the lack of a pair of walkie-talkies).
Washington weren't half bad either. Why did he cross the Deleware (in secret, at night, in winter when such a move couldn't be expected)? To attack the endentured rear guard holding a barracks after the main army had marched out and then . .
America once stood as the object model for how guerilla fighters in a third world country could stand up to and prevail over a superpower (with a wee bit of help from . .
Not to mention its raison e'tre.
KFG
The working poor are a different issue than those who are poor because they are in a "developing" country and are not typically business users (unless they are working poor because they run their own business).
Around here the working poor go to the Salvation Army or the City Mission and buy old hardware with Mandrake preinstalled. These orginizations love the shit out of Linux and the GPL.
KFG
And a librarian who has read them.
KFG
The issue is that you can prune down most distros and still get a very usable OS on old hardware.
Better yet, just download and install a pruned distro. No technical wizardry required.
The 2.0 kernel and FVWM are still supported by the community.
Wither Windows 3.X?
KFG
Yes, I found it very interesting that they spent about the first half of the article rationalizing why they didn't actually test a distro of Linux that will actually run on anything, like the single floppy I boot my 486 laptop from, which subsequently runs the system from rather meager memory.The entire "test" is founded on misrepresenting the claim that "Linux will run on anything."
I also always get a kick out of the "poor people are idiots who can't learn to run the system" argument as well. That'll really get them on your side and buying your products.
Dear Bill,
Let me give you a hint. Poor people have more time than money and expect to have to do things the self-sufficient hard way. Many of them even take pride in being able to do so.
And the local library is full of things called "books" and people who know how to read them. Like, computer books. That's where I went to read Kernighan & Ritchie. They've got a full set of Knuth too. Not to mention that computer training is a standard part of library science these days.
Nice try.
Yours,
KFG
Ed, man! !man ed
ed is the standard editor.
KFG
. . .if you're not one of the 0.01% of people that buy silver, uni-directional cables. . .
i.e., not a wingnut.
KFG
don't look down at the corporate jet
.when we have a meeting a long ways away, saying, "I think I'll just walk."
That's your father's tool. Yours is video conferencing.
. .
I bicycle.
KFG
I can only wonder if Robocop was filmed with decent quality equipment. . .
.mp3 files on DVD audio disc?
It's called "film."
It's very old movie - it was made in 1989.
It's called "recent."
Isn't it kinda like putting
It's called "capacity."
It doesn't make any sense.
Ahhhhhhhh, it's called "troll."
IHBH
KFG
God help City Lights and Modern Times.
KFG
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=robocop%2Bcla ssic&btnG=Google+Search
KFG
This is no longer our father's web so why should our tools be our fathers?
Because they work.
KFG
just wait 'til you see what the Optical Society cooks up for this guy's grave!
"Help me, Obi Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope."
KFG
Am I missing something here?
Zonkification.
KFG
So she's only got a few years left in her. I wonder if she's going to run or not.
Welcome to the future.
KFG
Is she hot? What's her number?
Come oooooooon, you can't leave us hanging like this.
KFG
How right you are:
http://members.tripod.com/~Edison_1/id7.html
(Warning! Do not click link unless you have popup blocking enabled or if you object to Slashdoting a Tripod site)
KFG
If you read the blurb carefully you'll note that the "kid" is a man.
KFG
. . .be accessible regardless of a corporations intelectual property. . .
And, perhaps, more to the point, it allows the citizens of the state the same.
KFG
Well hey, at least I got the early 70s part right. :)
Thanks for the link.
KFG
I fooled him Grandma. I didn't wear any underwear.
KFG
Thank you.
KFG