Yeah, but I'd hope it's a little more aerodynamic than my truck. And your tires must see less mileage (friction).
Very cool, I'd love to build an airplane. However, the weight of anything which I would use for a powerplant would immediately push me out of ultralight class, and then it's just too much work - licensing, etc.
They just want to make their pansy little box or car look faster.
Exactly. For clarity to those who don't know cars:
There's nothing like having some loser describing to you how quickly he can make his 1.6L Honda Civic go.
Imagine if you owned a Cray supercomputer and some child implied that his "tuned" 400MHz Celeron was in the same ballpark.
As the saying goes, there's no replacement for displacement. An engine is an air pump, the more air you suck through it per revolution, the more fuel you can mix with the air to achieve complete combustion. The more combustion, the bigger the explosion pushing the piston down, and the more power you get from the engine.
A 1.6L or whatever Honda is laughable in the face of a common Chevy 350 (5.7L) like you find in a Camaro or Caprice Classic, or in the face of a Ford 302 (5.0L) like in a Mustang, much less the Chrysler 440 (7.2L), Chevy 454 (7.4L) and King of Big-Blocks, the Chrysler 426 Hemi of the musclecar days.
Street racing is acceleration from a stoplight. That's called drag racing. There's a reason why those long and skinny drag racing cars with the huge fat tires (the cars are called "rail cars", the class of racing is Top Fuel drag) are rear-wheel-drive with big V8s, not front-wheel-drive with whiny little 4-cylinder engines.
Those racecars share more in common with my daily-driver 1976 Dodge pickup truck than does a typical ricer's car. My '76 Ram has a 400 (6.6L) V8 driving the rear wheels. With a curb weight of 4,000lb, it's about twice the weight of a Honda Civic. But 6.6L / 1.6L = 4.125 times more engine, and all other things being equal, 4.125 times the power. Into only twice the weight.
Needless to say, when an Integra with a big stereo pulls up beside me, I enjoy stomping on the gas pedal and showing him my taillights.
Modern EFI, overhead cams, combustion chamber design, etc., make incremental differences to improving the power, but a street car's engine is still built for gas mileage, durability and emissions, not for power, and the modern requirements for gas mileage and emissions choke the power potential of these modern improvements.
Those of us with real machines are quite content with our beige cases (in my case, a older, but still fast as all hell compaq proliant 8000 which was picked up dirt cheap from a dot com gone bust) and sleeper cars (also in my case, an Alpina).
Indeed! My truck is forest green with rust and primer spots. Someday, I'll get around to painting it so that it looks nice again, but there won't be silly aftermarket rims or little blue lights on the windshield washer jets or clear tailights and big aluminum spoilers.
The car is either fast, or it isn't.
My truck gets 7 miles per gallon on the highway. The HC emissions are ~2 PPM, which is better than lots of 1986 cars, let alone 1976 trucks. I'm burning all that fuel. Where do you think it all goes?
Final thought. I tried Carroll Shelby's old trick. I taped a $20 bill to my dashboard, just in front of the passenger's seat. I had a disbeliever get in. I told him that, when the stoplight turned green, if he could grab that $20, it was his. He didn't get the $20.
This meant no headlights, turn signals, radios, and no guages. Nothing. Which meant that the odometer didn't rack up miles. Perfect if you plan on selling the thing.
Heheh...
I imagine though that it would probably be just as easy to disconnect the cable in a normal odometer if you wanted to deceive. I'm not positive though.
Older cars had a speedometer cable coming from the transmission tailshaft or transaxle to the gauge. The cable was merely a concentric cable in jacket, kinda like bicycle brake cable but meant to spin. For the most part, you could simply reach up behind the dashboard, feel around to the center of the back of the speedometer, and unclip the speedo cable from the gauge. A warning: this is a lot more difficult than it sounds, the contortions required to get your hand back there are nasty, there are probably live wires with some current (ie. headlight circuit, ammeter, etc) back there so make sure you take off any metallic jewelry, and stuff back there is fragile and expensive (big labor) to fix.
Don't disconnect the speedo cable at the transmission. The cable is usually driven directly by a gear, and it's kept lubricated inside the transmission oil. When you take off the cable, if you don't plug the hole in the transmission well, dust will get in there and lunch your transmission (to say nothing of the big leak messing up your driveway).
Because speedometer cables are expensive and heavy and the fuel injection system likes to know the car's speed so that it can better understand the engine load, most cars since about 1985 will have a Vehicle Speed Sensor. The VSS is attached to the side of the transmission exactly where the speedo cable would have come out. It uses optical sensors, hall effect sensors or magnetic pickup coils to create a pulsetrain relative to the speed of the car. The pulsetrain is then sent to the computer, the computer usually sends that on to the speedometer. Sometimes they're simply paralleled.
You could disconnect the VSS just by unplugging the wire. Most cars won't even notice it until there's an engine load (vacuum is lowered, throttle position and engine speed aren't idle) which could only be explained by movement. At that point, your Check Engine light will light up, and it probably won't go away until you reconnect the sensor. Sometimes it won't go out until you visit the dealership. And, unless the EFI computer reads the data coming from the ABS computer as a backup to the VSS, it's very unlikely that it will generate a signal to drive the speedo or the tach - though, based on engine speed and knowing what gear you're in, the computer could calculate and drive the speedo/odo to display accurate speed and mileage.
My best advice is, if you want to play with the EFI system (and VSS/Speedo/Odo as a consequence), find yourself an earlier (mid-80s) fuel-injected car on the way to the junkyard. Chevy Celebrity / Pontiac 6000 are common, cheap (about $200 if you find one with expired plates rusting in someone's laneway), durable and relatively easy to fix. The GM multiport and throttle body EFI systems are well documented all over the place because they're so popular, and variants were used across the entire product line in a given year.
Buy the car, take it home, start it up, and start pulling sensors to see what they all do!
Silly -- the TTL field in TCP has a maximum value of 255, so you could only send insecure credit card data through 254 routers. And the default TTL is usually 64 on Linux and FreeBSD, though it is higher on Solaris and Windows.
Yeah. Hyperbole.
Realistically, however, less than 30 hops by traceroute.
Realistically and conservatively you should only expect to be able to send your insecure data through about 60 routers. You'd need multiple routes or multicast to exceed 255 routers, so you may want to consider mass email or mass Usenet posting instead.
Calling Mastercard: "Hi, I'd like to cancel my card. No, I didn't lose it... I accidentally spammed over 1.3 million e-mail addresses and 40,000 newsgroups with it. Yeah. I think you can expect a little activity on that number over the next few years...."
Is it possible (easy?) for someone to register a domain name using someone else's information? That could be an explanation for Verisign sending you a letter about a domain you never registered...
Uhh... yeah. I guess you've never bought a domain.
Okay. For *.com, *.net and probably *.org:
Type the name of the domain you want.
Read the message that it's already been taken.
Choose a new domain name.
Repeat 1-4 until you hit paydirt.
Type your name, country, address, telephone, e-mail address. Note: this e-mail address will be spammed, and all this other info will be visible in whois.
Whip out your credit card. Pay $35/year. Make sure your browser is using HTTPS before you click the form submit button and send your credit card across 400 unsecured routers.
Enter the hostnames of your nameservers. If you're hosting the site yourself, you will need to create a host record including name and IP address for each of your primary and secondary DNS.
Wait for confirmation e-mail, telephone call, etc.
Look your domain up in whois and find yourself!
Wait an agonizing two days or so before top-level DNS servers catch up with the whois database and people can see your Apache test page.
Professor David Goodstein of Caltech has a very interesting paper on the physics of cold fusion and the history of the initial "discovery". He doesn't predict Mr. Fusion reactors strapped to the backs of our DeLoreans anytime soon.
Aibo, go fetch the vaio! Let go! Bad dog! BAD DOG!
Stupid product and a computer with a stupid name.
You know, I just don't get it. Why would you want a synthetic dog?
There's something about the Japanese culture that I just don't get. Hello Kitty is a perfect example. Why do they like Hello Kitty?
How did they get the bow to stick to Hello Kitty's ear? I tried that on my own cat, but the taper of the ear as it reached the extremity wasn't conducive to holding a bow, much like pants will be self-adjusting on the rotund. Besides, she flicked away the bow then attempted to sever my femural artery. After I got back from the emergency room, I thought about using the staple gun, but Hello Kitty doesn't appear to have pierced ears. Unfortunately, I was out of hot-melt glue sticks, so I was unable to investigate that possibility.
Why do anime characters always have two teeth? (One on top going all the way around from molar to molar, and one on the bottom going all the way around from molar to molar.) Does Japanese toothpaste include spackle, or am I missing something? Why these one-piece monolithic teeth? The monolith is a fissure-free, gap-free symbol of strength. Which is ironic from a people who have been living in one of the world's most active seismic zone and yet persist in building paper houses with stone roofs.
[sigh] I long for the good old days, when the Japanese were quiet, reserved, and Sony built battle-wagon open-reel VTRs instead of CanCon pop music CDs.
We tried out with a similar copy protected CD on a Linux box. It doesn't play. If you try to make a CD image using cdread the task hangs and you have to kill it.
Icky.
The problem is that the computer CD drive obviously tries to find out what sort of CD you have inserted and since this CD is not fulfilling any standard it fails.
Can this not be solved simply by forcing the CD-ROM drive to treat it like an ordinary CD? I know less than nothing about device programming, so can you even toss instructions like this across IDE/SCSI? Work around the drive's on-board disc type detection?
I used Napster to audition music prior to purchase. Since the RIAA shut down Napster, I've stopped CD shopping. Now it looks like I'll be giving The Sony Store a big miss, too. Pity for them - I was in the market for a new Digital VHS VCR for the living room.
Last time I looked, F=dp/dt so for constant mass F=mdv/dt=ma, not mv^2
Oops, yeah. Heh. I tried to avoid studying kinetics as much as possible (the only thing more boring is fluid dynamics), and it's apparently just come back to haunt me. I think I tried to cross it with acceleration.
For a second there, I thought you were getting into calculus, until I realized the "d" is for "delta", not Leibniz notation.
While your point you are trying to drive home (pun intended)is valid, your math sucks.
Yeah, well, I can (and do) use a sliderule. So there.:)
Funny cause I knew this mechanic who worked at a Ford dealership, but drove a Honda. He was smart. Drive one of the most reliable and work on one of the most unreliable.
Sure. But I know lots more mechanics who drive old RWD Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler products, but swear off the Japanese stuff.
The rationale is that they prefer a car which will actually last to 300,000 miles with good maintenance and the occasional stupid stuff like an alternator ($50), rather than a car which will be perfectly reliable for 160,000km then blow $400 CV joints and $200 Nippondenso alternators like kernels of popcorn.
Why do you think it is that cop cars and taxi cabs tend towards being full-size rear-wheel-drive American cars? How long would a Camry last as a cop car? How expensive is it when you bump a curb during a high speed pursuit and damage the lower control arm?
Ford LTD/Crown Victoria: 1978-2001 use the same control arm. $25 at any good wrecking yard. Toyota Camry - changes every year, probably only available at a dealership. I know for a fact that it's over $400 for a 1997 Nissan Maxima. Yeah, $400 for a single piece of stamped steel, without even having a balljoint or bushings pressed in. Ouch.
Wheel bearings for my 1999 Dakota: tapered roller bearings, off the shelf at any auto parts place, including inner and outer bearings and grease seals, about $14 for each front wheel. My Dak needed wheel bearings because I knocked off the dust cap out in the bush and got sand into them. Wheel bearings for a friend's 1997 Civic? Front $62 each, rear $47 each. Sealed units, you can't clean or grease them any more than you can refill a Bic lighter. Worn out (cupping tires) after 75,000 miles.
Never mind that my hands are too big to fit into a Civic's engine bay and dig out the alternator because it's so inconveniently located. I had to angle a shop light and two inspection mirrors so I could see what I was doing when I was connecting the harness. I find Fieros easier to work on, and they're a nightmare.
Never mind the fact that a Honda's 24-26 gauge steel rusts through a lot faster than a car which is actually built for this climate and has 20-22 gauge steel. Surface rust caused by bad paint is a lot easier to fix than rustholes caused by paper-thin sheetmetal. At minimum, surface rust requires a can of Tremclad, and perforations require a plasma cutter, a welder, and a can of Tremclad.
Also, F=mv^2. Remember that next time you cut off a Caprice Classic with your Civic.
Thanks. I'll stick with my American battle-wagons.
Not that this has any relation whatsoever to M$ versus real operating systems... wait. *NIX is robust and old-school, a proven concept and design, like a full-size RWD car. Windows is like the silly little tinfoil Honda buzzing around until you remind him of his place in the world by plowing his taillights into the back seat with your chromed steel front bumper. Ahhh, a metaphor I like.
I don't know about you, but fiddling with the settings of my linux box quickly goes from "fun" to "I'd pay someone good money if I didn't have to bother with this". Usually sometime around 3am.
I know the feeling.:) I quickly got over it, though. My webserver and firewall do their own things independently of anything else. I don't touch 'em except to do patches. The electricity usage is still less than $xx/mo for hosting, and the benefit (in the winter, anyway) is that the electricity they consume still contributes to heating the house... even if heating electrically is more expensive than heating by oil. Typically, I have to heat for 8 months of the year, one way or another - mid-September through mid-May.
In my case, anyway, it makes perfect economic sense. And, another benefit is that I can use Samba to drag and drop large stuff to my webserver so that friends can download it conveniently. (Main machine still runs Windows, unfortunately.)
Well, yahoo is a rather nice email service as far as webmail goes. Much better than hotmail, certainly. Looking at all the.com corpses, I don't blame them trying to make profit.
Yup. But $20/year seems a little steep for POP3 access, especially given the above.
Personally I use another service, which is even more expensive than yahoo. But they have fascist spam filtering and IMAP among other things.
Read the report, please. Sez jet fuel only a factor in setting rest of building contents and plane cargo ablaze, and alone would not have caused structural failure. Addtionally sez approximately 1/3 of the fuel payload caught fire. Fire control systems not intended to extinguish fires, only to keep building cool enough to remain standing until fire consumes available fuel. Like I said, you might want to try reading the actual report.
Okay. Here's a little science project for you. Unfold a paperclip. Put 50 pounds of tensile force onto the wire. This simulates the structure of the WTC. Measure the length of the paperclip. Now, go to the hardware store, get a gallon of kerosene, and light it under the paperclip. After everything is cooled, measure the paperclip. Compare. The jet fuel is significant.
There's not much stuff in an office which will burn as hot as kerosene - paper is about the only thing. The problem, however, with a liquid fuel is that it gets *everywhere*. A burning filing cabinet stays mostly where it was. 300 gallons of burning kerosene tends to spread out and share the warmth. As more liquid puddles out, more of it is exposed to air, and more of it can therefore burn at once.
The amount of paper in an office building, let's face it, is rather insignificant compared to a waterfall of burning kerosene. I'm wondering if part of the purpose of this report is to help quell panic about the inexorability of such a disaster. Note that Trump just sold the Empire State Building for $57 million - it cost $17 million to build in 1930s, that's not such a good return on a real estate investment or a national landmark...
My experience in the matter comes from melting iron to make my own castings, for fun. I burn kerosene (jet fuel) in a furnace blower, and it's quite hot enough that I can melt iron and steel very easily. I've also got a welder which will make a 3/8" thick piece of plate steel glow red hot in a few seconds, using only 120V at 15A. P = I x E. Compare that to the *gigawatts* cited in the article.
Marty McFly could've gotten home off that kind of energy.
Imagine the uses, spraying it on electric cars. Even though spray paint and solar energy don't go well together :/
Well, the primary problem with solar cells is that it takes more energy to make them than they'll ever be able to harness from the sun. In other words, it takes more fuel to run the crystal furnaces which are used to make them, than they'll ever be able to pay back.
If spray-on solar cells don't have to be fired, that must reduce the energy required to make them. Further, if they're spray-on, they probably won't be so hard once they're set. Hard = brittle. Brittle = breaks during thermal cycling, ie. day/night transitions eventually crack them.
While you are at Netcraft also check out the info on uptime. Last time I checked M$ was not listed as running on any of the top 50 servers in order of longest uptime.
Windows zealots defend that by arguing that Windows 2000 with IIS hasn't been out as long as the current top 50. Fine. But Windows NT has been... too bad for them that every upgrade or patch requires a reboot...:)
I guess this is thier last chance to screw you before they have to stop using the "its a free service" excuse.
Free service? Not POP/SMTP access or forwarding of Yahoo! Mail... I've been quietly abandoning my (previously useful) Yahoo accounts. I suppose they remain useful, but not at $20/year. Call me Scottish, but for only twice that, I can register another domain and have thousands more e-mail addresses.
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But it would be interesting to see if you can see my comp through the router because according to the manual the way I have it setup should prevent you from contacting my machine directly.
Hey Tom. I know the manual you're talking about. It's the roughly-translated-from-the-Taiwanese manual on waxy paper which was packaged with your router when you bought it at Network Supply on Colonnade.
Yeah, big companies spend millions of dollars a year attempting to hack-proof their infrastructure, but I-can't-pronounce-it-in-English-Router-Company-of- Taipei has come up with a remarkably easy-to-configure router:
"Router have two mode: USEFUL an SECURE. On front panel adjacent to power switch, please to find large chrome toggle switch and turn it to whichever direction serves your needs. This conclude security configuration instruction. Enjoy meditation: Blade of grass that bends with wind will bring thousand happiness to potter who also breeds chickens. Thank you and best wishes from I-can't-pronounce-it-in-English-Router-Company-of- Taipei."
Also from his site... Yeah you heard right I am pro-MS. Why? Because nobody else is. Wow.
Oh my. Tom, you are a kindered spirit.
I'm pro-cancer. Yup, you read it right. Every one else, including medical researchers and Ph.D.s, thinks cancer is a bad thing, so I felt badly for it and decided that I'd be pro-cancer, because nobody else is.
[sigh] Simpleton.
Tom is the kind of kid that you get when you raise your children in a city (Kanata) that dictates the color you can paint your house ("Earth tones only, please!"). He's deathly afraid of not conforming.
I would be interested in seeing that article... When you find it, how about Slashdotting it??
Drop me a private e-mail and it will eventually appear in your IN box.
The Ionovac was (and still is, I guess) the most theoretically pure tweeter ever designed. Hmmm... One of my Celestion (Ditton 44 Series 2) speakers has a mismatched tweeter...
Did it say the speakers are 250W or the amp is rated at 250W? It's all about marketing. Tell a kid you have 500W speakers in your car and he will be impressed. Just don't tell him you are driving it with a 10W amp.
Feh. A real honest-to-goodness 10W amp is sufficient for inside any car.
I keep on wanting to build sibilance projectors on the underside of my truck. Anytime some silly home-boy who doesn't know which way to wear a baseball cap pulls up beside me with the stereo going thumpa-thumpa-thumpa, I want to be able to flip a switch and drive a couple of hundred watts of bass-filtered Jimi Hendrix guitar solo right into a collection of piezoelectric tweeters pointed at his car.
I'll have to get into the habit of keeping ear protection and aspirin in the truck.
What does "done lead sound for Garth Brooks" mean? Are you a FOH engineer? Did you design the front end or monitor mix? What?
System design and co-ordination; technical crew chief for sound, in particular doing location liason with their guys. They brought enough sound to fill the field - it was up to me to fill the rest of the stadium.
Garth - and many other big names - have their own guys travel with them to do the mix. They tend to be incredibly picky about having people they know doing stage monitors (for obvious reasons), so if there's any one place they won't trust the house staff or local road techs, it's there.
I have just received a suggestion which would allow these speakers to output significantly more than 250W albeit for a short period. Just set fire to them! Does this count?
Well, since they state a peak MUSIC power output, they must be claiming that will be an energy emission in the form of sound. Light and heat do not count toward that total, I'm afraid.
If we were to set fire to the people who propagate these lies, then we might achieve their claimed audio output power.
The voice coils are inductors; there is no real way to eliminate all inductance from a traditional loudspeaker. Planar/ribbon transducers and electrostatics are another thing entirely.
Oooh! Ionovac, that was so cool.
It was a speaker which worked (somehow) on ionized air - no diaphragm mass, no inductance, etc... I'll have to dig through my old Popular Electronics magazines; it was on the cover once in the early 1960s and it was a concept I wanted to try.
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My plane gets 18 mpg at 150 mph.
Yeah, but I'd hope it's a little more aerodynamic than my truck. And your tires must see less mileage (friction).
Very cool, I'd love to build an airplane. However, the weight of anything which I would use for a powerplant would immediately push me out of ultralight class, and then it's just too much work - licensing, etc.
They just want to make their pansy little box or car look faster.
Exactly. For clarity to those who don't know cars:
There's nothing like having some loser describing to you how quickly he can make his 1.6L Honda Civic go.
Imagine if you owned a Cray supercomputer and some child implied that his "tuned" 400MHz Celeron was in the same ballpark.
As the saying goes, there's no replacement for displacement. An engine is an air pump, the more air you suck through it per revolution, the more fuel you can mix with the air to achieve complete combustion. The more combustion, the bigger the explosion pushing the piston down, and the more power you get from the engine.
A 1.6L or whatever Honda is laughable in the face of a common Chevy 350 (5.7L) like you find in a Camaro or Caprice Classic, or in the face of a Ford 302 (5.0L) like in a Mustang, much less the Chrysler 440 (7.2L), Chevy 454 (7.4L) and King of Big-Blocks, the Chrysler 426 Hemi of the musclecar days.
Street racing is acceleration from a stoplight. That's called drag racing. There's a reason why those long and skinny drag racing cars with the huge fat tires (the cars are called "rail cars", the class of racing is Top Fuel drag) are rear-wheel-drive with big V8s, not front-wheel-drive with whiny little 4-cylinder engines.
Those racecars share more in common with my daily-driver 1976 Dodge pickup truck than does a typical ricer's car. My '76 Ram has a 400 (6.6L) V8 driving the rear wheels. With a curb weight of 4,000lb, it's about twice the weight of a Honda Civic. But 6.6L / 1.6L = 4.125 times more engine, and all other things being equal, 4.125 times the power. Into only twice the weight.
Needless to say, when an Integra with a big stereo pulls up beside me, I enjoy stomping on the gas pedal and showing him my taillights.
Modern EFI, overhead cams, combustion chamber design, etc., make incremental differences to improving the power, but a street car's engine is still built for gas mileage, durability and emissions, not for power, and the modern requirements for gas mileage and emissions choke the power potential of these modern improvements.
Those of us with real machines are quite content with our beige cases (in my case, a older, but still fast as all hell compaq proliant 8000 which was picked up dirt cheap from a dot com gone bust) and sleeper cars (also in my case, an Alpina).Indeed! My truck is forest green with rust and primer spots. Someday, I'll get around to painting it so that it looks nice again, but there won't be silly aftermarket rims or little blue lights on the windshield washer jets or clear tailights and big aluminum spoilers.
The car is either fast, or it isn't.
My truck gets 7 miles per gallon on the highway. The HC emissions are ~2 PPM, which is better than lots of 1986 cars, let alone 1976 trucks. I'm burning all that fuel. Where do you think it all goes?
Final thought. I tried Carroll Shelby's old trick. I taped a $20 bill to my dashboard, just in front of the passenger's seat. I had a disbeliever get in. I told him that, when the stoplight turned green, if he could grab that $20, it was his. He didn't get the $20.
This meant no headlights, turn signals, radios, and no guages. Nothing. Which meant that the odometer didn't rack up miles. Perfect if you plan on selling the thing.
Heheh...
I imagine though that it would probably be just as easy to disconnect the cable in a normal odometer if you wanted to deceive. I'm not positive though.Older cars had a speedometer cable coming from the transmission tailshaft or transaxle to the gauge. The cable was merely a concentric cable in jacket, kinda like bicycle brake cable but meant to spin. For the most part, you could simply reach up behind the dashboard, feel around to the center of the back of the speedometer, and unclip the speedo cable from the gauge. A warning: this is a lot more difficult than it sounds, the contortions required to get your hand back there are nasty, there are probably live wires with some current (ie. headlight circuit, ammeter, etc) back there so make sure you take off any metallic jewelry, and stuff back there is fragile and expensive (big labor) to fix.
Don't disconnect the speedo cable at the transmission. The cable is usually driven directly by a gear, and it's kept lubricated inside the transmission oil. When you take off the cable, if you don't plug the hole in the transmission well, dust will get in there and lunch your transmission (to say nothing of the big leak messing up your driveway).
Because speedometer cables are expensive and heavy and the fuel injection system likes to know the car's speed so that it can better understand the engine load, most cars since about 1985 will have a Vehicle Speed Sensor. The VSS is attached to the side of the transmission exactly where the speedo cable would have come out. It uses optical sensors, hall effect sensors or magnetic pickup coils to create a pulsetrain relative to the speed of the car. The pulsetrain is then sent to the computer, the computer usually sends that on to the speedometer. Sometimes they're simply paralleled.
You could disconnect the VSS just by unplugging the wire. Most cars won't even notice it until there's an engine load (vacuum is lowered, throttle position and engine speed aren't idle) which could only be explained by movement. At that point, your Check Engine light will light up, and it probably won't go away until you reconnect the sensor. Sometimes it won't go out until you visit the dealership. And, unless the EFI computer reads the data coming from the ABS computer as a backup to the VSS, it's very unlikely that it will generate a signal to drive the speedo or the tach - though, based on engine speed and knowing what gear you're in, the computer could calculate and drive the speedo/odo to display accurate speed and mileage.
My best advice is, if you want to play with the EFI system (and VSS/Speedo/Odo as a consequence), find yourself an earlier (mid-80s) fuel-injected car on the way to the junkyard. Chevy Celebrity / Pontiac 6000 are common, cheap (about $200 if you find one with expired plates rusting in someone's laneway), durable and relatively easy to fix. The GM multiport and throttle body EFI systems are well documented all over the place because they're so popular, and variants were used across the entire product line in a given year.
Buy the car, take it home, start it up, and start pulling sensors to see what they all do!
Silly -- the TTL field in TCP has a maximum value of 255, so you could only send insecure credit card data through 254 routers. And the default TTL is usually 64 on Linux and FreeBSD, though it is higher on Solaris and Windows.
Yeah. Hyperbole.
Realistically, however, less than 30 hops by traceroute.
Realistically and conservatively you should only expect to be able to send your insecure data through about 60 routers. You'd need multiple routes or multicast to exceed 255 routers, so you may want to consider mass email or mass Usenet posting instead.Calling Mastercard: "Hi, I'd like to cancel my card. No, I didn't lose it... I accidentally spammed over 1.3 million e-mail addresses and 40,000 newsgroups with it. Yeah. I think you can expect a little activity on that number over the next few years...."
Is it possible (easy?) for someone to register a domain name using someone else's information? That could be an explanation for Verisign sending you a letter about a domain you never registered...
Uhh... yeah. I guess you've never bought a domain.
Okay. For *.com, *.net and probably *.org:
It's really not very difficult.
Professor David Goodstein of Caltech has a very interesting paper on the physics of cold fusion and the history of the initial "discovery". He doesn't predict Mr. Fusion reactors strapped to the backs of our DeLoreans anytime soon.
Let go! Bad dog! BAD DOG!
Stupid product and a computer with a stupid name.
You know, I just don't get it. Why would you want a synthetic dog?
There's something about the Japanese culture that I just don't get. Hello Kitty is a perfect example. Why do they like Hello Kitty?
How did they get the bow to stick to Hello Kitty's ear? I tried that on my own cat, but the taper of the ear as it reached the extremity wasn't conducive to holding a bow, much like pants will be self-adjusting on the rotund. Besides, she flicked away the bow then attempted to sever my femural artery. After I got back from the emergency room, I thought about using the staple gun, but Hello Kitty doesn't appear to have pierced ears. Unfortunately, I was out of hot-melt glue sticks, so I was unable to investigate that possibility.
Why do anime characters always have two teeth? (One on top going all the way around from molar to molar, and one on the bottom going all the way around from molar to molar.) Does Japanese toothpaste include spackle, or am I missing something? Why these one-piece monolithic teeth? The monolith is a fissure-free, gap-free symbol of strength. Which is ironic from a people who have been living in one of the world's most active seismic zone and yet persist in building paper houses with stone roofs.
[sigh] I long for the good old days, when the Japanese were quiet, reserved, and Sony built battle-wagon open-reel VTRs instead of CanCon pop music CDs.
We tried out with a similar copy protected CD on a Linux box. It doesn't play. If you try to make a CD image using cdread the task hangs and you have to kill it.
Icky.
The problem is that the computer CD drive obviously tries to find out what sort of CD you have inserted and since this CD is not fulfilling any standard it fails.Can this not be solved simply by forcing the CD-ROM drive to treat it like an ordinary CD? I know less than nothing about device programming, so can you even toss instructions like this across IDE/SCSI? Work around the drive's on-board disc type detection?
I used Napster to audition music prior to purchase. Since the RIAA shut down Napster, I've stopped CD shopping. Now it looks like I'll be giving The Sony Store a big miss, too. Pity for them - I was in the market for a new Digital VHS VCR for the living room.
Last time I looked, F=dp/dt so for constant mass F=mdv/dt=ma, not mv^2
Oops, yeah. Heh. I tried to avoid studying kinetics as much as possible (the only thing more boring is fluid dynamics), and it's apparently just come back to haunt me. I think I tried to cross it with acceleration.
For a second there, I thought you were getting into calculus, until I realized the "d" is for "delta", not Leibniz notation.
While your point you are trying to drive home (pun intended)is valid, your math sucks.Yeah, well, I can (and do) use a sliderule. So there. :)
Funny cause I knew this mechanic who worked at a Ford dealership, but drove a Honda. He was smart. Drive one of the most reliable and work on one of the most unreliable.
Sure. But I know lots more mechanics who drive old RWD Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler products, but swear off the Japanese stuff.
The rationale is that they prefer a car which will actually last to 300,000 miles with good maintenance and the occasional stupid stuff like an alternator ($50), rather than a car which will be perfectly reliable for 160,000km then blow $400 CV joints and $200 Nippondenso alternators like kernels of popcorn.
Why do you think it is that cop cars and taxi cabs tend towards being full-size rear-wheel-drive American cars? How long would a Camry last as a cop car? How expensive is it when you bump a curb during a high speed pursuit and damage the lower control arm?
Ford LTD/Crown Victoria: 1978-2001 use the same control arm. $25 at any good wrecking yard. Toyota Camry - changes every year, probably only available at a dealership. I know for a fact that it's over $400 for a 1997 Nissan Maxima. Yeah, $400 for a single piece of stamped steel, without even having a balljoint or bushings pressed in. Ouch.
Wheel bearings for my 1999 Dakota: tapered roller bearings, off the shelf at any auto parts place, including inner and outer bearings and grease seals, about $14 for each front wheel. My Dak needed wheel bearings because I knocked off the dust cap out in the bush and got sand into them. Wheel bearings for a friend's 1997 Civic? Front $62 each, rear $47 each. Sealed units, you can't clean or grease them any more than you can refill a Bic lighter. Worn out (cupping tires) after 75,000 miles.
Never mind that my hands are too big to fit into a Civic's engine bay and dig out the alternator because it's so inconveniently located. I had to angle a shop light and two inspection mirrors so I could see what I was doing when I was connecting the harness. I find Fieros easier to work on, and they're a nightmare.
Never mind the fact that a Honda's 24-26 gauge steel rusts through a lot faster than a car which is actually built for this climate and has 20-22 gauge steel. Surface rust caused by bad paint is a lot easier to fix than rustholes caused by paper-thin sheetmetal. At minimum, surface rust requires a can of Tremclad, and perforations require a plasma cutter, a welder, and a can of Tremclad.
Also, F=mv^2. Remember that next time you cut off a Caprice Classic with your Civic.
Thanks. I'll stick with my American battle-wagons.
Not that this has any relation whatsoever to M$ versus real operating systems... wait. *NIX is robust and old-school, a proven concept and design, like a full-size RWD car. Windows is like the silly little tinfoil Honda buzzing around until you remind him of his place in the world by plowing his taillights into the back seat with your chromed steel front bumper. Ahhh, a metaphor I like.
Yep, you're a weenie.
Well, Wesley is a weenie, but thanks to Wil, at least he's a cute weenie.
Now that he's what - thirty? - hopefully he will have weathered those raster-burns and keyboarding callouses well. Too bad he's straight. [sigh]
All the best, Wil. Now got get yourself an Emmy.
You can have your domain, yeah. Setting up and maintaining software to run email server is free?
Sure. I've already got a high-speed static IP for $34.95/mo, and the server running, so it's only a couple of lines in the /etc/files.
I don't know about you, but fiddling with the settings of my linux box quickly goes from "fun" to "I'd pay someone good money if I didn't have to bother with this". Usually sometime around 3am.I know the feeling. :) I quickly got over it, though. My webserver and firewall do their own things independently of anything else. I don't touch 'em except to do patches. The electricity usage is still less than $xx/mo for hosting, and the benefit (in the winter, anyway) is that the electricity they consume still contributes to heating the house... even if heating electrically is more expensive than heating by oil. Typically, I have to heat for 8 months of the year, one way or another - mid-September through mid-May.
In my case, anyway, it makes perfect economic sense. And, another benefit is that I can use Samba to drag and drop large stuff to my webserver so that friends can download it conveniently. (Main machine still runs Windows, unfortunately.)
Well, yahoo is a rather nice email service as far as webmail goes. Much better than hotmail, certainly. Looking at all theYup. But $20/year seems a little steep for POP3 access, especially given the above.
Personally I use another service, which is even more expensive than yahoo. But they have fascist spam filtering and IMAP among other things.Who? Fascist spam filtering sounds interesting...
Read the report, please. Sez jet fuel only a factor in setting rest of building contents and plane cargo ablaze, and alone would not have caused structural failure. Addtionally sez approximately 1/3 of the fuel payload caught fire. Fire control systems not intended to extinguish fires, only to keep building cool enough to remain standing until fire consumes available fuel. Like I said, you might want to try reading the actual report.
Okay. Here's a little science project for you. Unfold a paperclip. Put 50 pounds of tensile force onto the wire. This simulates the structure of the WTC. Measure the length of the paperclip. Now, go to the hardware store, get a gallon of kerosene, and light it under the paperclip. After everything is cooled, measure the paperclip. Compare. The jet fuel is significant.
There's not much stuff in an office which will burn as hot as kerosene - paper is about the only thing. The problem, however, with a liquid fuel is that it gets *everywhere*. A burning filing cabinet stays mostly where it was. 300 gallons of burning kerosene tends to spread out and share the warmth. As more liquid puddles out, more of it is exposed to air, and more of it can therefore burn at once.
The amount of paper in an office building, let's face it, is rather insignificant compared to a waterfall of burning kerosene. I'm wondering if part of the purpose of this report is to help quell panic about the inexorability of such a disaster. Note that Trump just sold the Empire State Building for $57 million - it cost $17 million to build in 1930s, that's not such a good return on a real estate investment or a national landmark...
My experience in the matter comes from melting iron to make my own castings, for fun. I burn kerosene (jet fuel) in a furnace blower, and it's quite hot enough that I can melt iron and steel very easily. I've also got a welder which will make a 3/8" thick piece of plate steel glow red hot in a few seconds, using only 120V at 15A. P = I x E. Compare that to the *gigawatts* cited in the article.
Marty McFly could've gotten home off that kind of energy.
Imagine the uses, spraying it on electric cars. Even though spray paint and solar energy don't go well together :
Well, the primary problem with solar cells is that it takes more energy to make them than they'll ever be able to harness from the sun. In other words, it takes more fuel to run the crystal furnaces which are used to make them, than they'll ever be able to pay back.
If spray-on solar cells don't have to be fired, that must reduce the energy required to make them. Further, if they're spray-on, they probably won't be so hard once they're set. Hard = brittle. Brittle = breaks during thermal cycling, ie. day/night transitions eventually crack them.
Free service? Not POP/SMTP access or forwarding of Yahoo! Mail... I've been quietly abandoning my (previously useful) Yahoo accounts.
Off-topic, but does anyone know of any scripts which will automate the retrieval of webmail messages and queue them in your regular mail spool?
While you are at Netcraft also check out the info on uptime. Last time I checked M$ was not listed as running on any of the top 50 servers in order of longest uptime.
Windows zealots defend that by arguing that Windows 2000 with IIS hasn't been out as long as the current top 50. Fine. But Windows NT has been... too bad for them that every upgrade or patch requires a reboot... :)
Hey... this Staypuft guy isn't so bad... He's a sailor... he's in New York.... We get this guy laid, we got nothing to worry about...
Winston: This job is definitely not worth $11,500 a year.
I guess this is thier last chance to screw you before they have to stop using the "its a free service" excuse.
Free service? Not POP/SMTP access or forwarding of Yahoo! Mail... I've been quietly abandoning my (previously useful) Yahoo accounts. I suppose they remain useful, but not at $20/year. Call me Scottish, but for only twice that, I can register another domain and have thousands more e-mail addresses.
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But it would be interesting to see if you can see my comp through the router because according to the manual the way I have it setup should prevent you from contacting my machine directly.
Hey Tom. I know the manual you're talking about. It's the roughly-translated-from-the-Taiwanese manual on waxy paper which was packaged with your router when you bought it at Network Supply on Colonnade.
Yeah, big companies spend millions of dollars a year attempting to hack-proof their infrastructure, but I-can't-pronounce-it-in-English-Router-Company-of- Taipei has come up with a remarkably easy-to-configure router:
"Router have two mode: USEFUL an SECURE. On front panel adjacent to power switch, please to find large chrome toggle switch and turn it to whichever direction serves your needs. This conclude security configuration instruction. Enjoy meditation: Blade of grass that bends with wind will bring thousand happiness to potter who also breeds chickens. Thank you and best wishes from I-can't-pronounce-it-in-English-Router-Company-of- Taipei."
Also from his site...
Yeah you heard right I am pro-MS. Why? Because nobody else is.
Wow.
Oh my. Tom, you are a kindered spirit.
I'm pro-cancer. Yup, you read it right. Every one else, including medical researchers and Ph.D.s, thinks cancer is a bad thing, so I felt badly for it and decided that I'd be pro-cancer, because nobody else is.
[sigh] Simpleton.
Tom is the kind of kid that you get when you raise your children in a city (Kanata) that dictates the color you can paint your house ("Earth tones only, please!"). He's deathly afraid of not conforming.
I would be interested in seeing that article... When you find it, how about Slashdotting it??
Drop me a private e-mail and it will eventually appear in your IN box.
The Ionovac was (and still is, I guess) the most theoretically pure tweeter ever designed. Hmmm... One of my Celestion (Ditton 44 Series 2) speakers has a mismatched tweeter...
Did it say the speakers are 250W or the amp is rated at 250W? It's all about marketing. Tell a kid you have 500W speakers in your car and he will be impressed. Just don't tell him you are driving it with a 10W amp.
Feh. A real honest-to-goodness 10W amp is sufficient for inside any car.
I keep on wanting to build sibilance projectors on the underside of my truck. Anytime some silly home-boy who doesn't know which way to wear a baseball cap pulls up beside me with the stereo going thumpa-thumpa-thumpa, I want to be able to flip a switch and drive a couple of hundred watts of bass-filtered Jimi Hendrix guitar solo right into a collection of piezoelectric tweeters pointed at his car.
I'll have to get into the habit of keeping ear protection and aspirin in the truck.
What does "done lead sound for Garth Brooks" mean? Are you a FOH engineer? Did you design the front end or monitor mix? What?
System design and co-ordination; technical crew chief for sound, in particular doing location liason with their guys. They brought enough sound to fill the field - it was up to me to fill the rest of the stadium.
Garth - and many other big names - have their own guys travel with them to do the mix. They tend to be incredibly picky about having people they know doing stage monitors (for obvious reasons), so if there's any one place they won't trust the house staff or local road techs, it's there.
I have just received a suggestion which would allow these speakers to output significantly more than 250W albeit for a short period. Just set fire to them! Does this count?
Well, since they state a peak MUSIC power output, they must be claiming that will be an energy emission in the form of sound. Light and heat do not count toward that total, I'm afraid.
If we were to set fire to the people who propagate these lies, then we might achieve their claimed audio output power.
The voice coils are inductors; there is no real way to eliminate all inductance from a traditional loudspeaker. Planar/ribbon transducers and electrostatics are another thing entirely.
Oooh! Ionovac, that was so cool.
It was a speaker which worked (somehow) on ionized air - no diaphragm mass, no inductance, etc... I'll have to dig through my old Popular Electronics magazines; it was on the cover once in the early 1960s and it was a concept I wanted to try.