If it's a newer car that speaks OBD-II, the port will always be under the dash on the driver side. Some codes are generic, some are specific to a particular car. To figure out what they mean, you'll need to get yourself a service manual for your car (or a generic OBD code book). Check any auto parts store and you'll find the books, as well as the box you plug in to get the codes.
Older cars will typically let you flash a light or something to get the codes, but now you need a special box to do it. I looked into desigining my own, but found virtually no information on the J1850 PWM spec (used by Ford). Tons of info on the VPW modulation though. Oh well....
Yup, we can see people brutally killed, but god forbid we see a nipple. I love when there's some news story about cancer or something and they show the entire breast with a little black dot in the front...
Thanks guys. Way to think of the children. Christ people are retarded.
Well, I've been told you can make your resume more than one page, but make damn sure the important stuff's on the first one, because there is a *very* good chance that the second page will never be read...
It didn't come down to this, but I would have *gladly* taken a 5th year of school rather than a quarter of summer school and missing internship experience.
That said, you don't need to work to have connections, you just need to have friends. Most people I know who got jobs had friends of friends of friends who were looking to hire....
Bear in mind that it's only 852x480 (as opposed to 1920x1080 in real HDTV)....
Another "HDTV-compatible" plasma that downconverts the signal...
But Plasma's trouble anyway. My friend's got a Fujitsu one (1024x1024), couple years old, given to him by a ridiculously rich friend. Looks great, and definitely makes me question my manhood seeing that in his place and a 27" trinitron in mine.
But the burn-in is out of control. Staying on a tv show for 30min is long enough to have the logo burned into the bottom right for a while. And most programming is 4:3 so you've got the bars on the side. They're black, but you can see the burn in from the rest of the picture contrasted with the black space, so the color gets kinda weird if you go widescreen afterwards. You could zoom or stretch, but both those settings drive me nuts (everyone looks fat or you chop of heads)
And forget about video gamse. The status and menus will stick around for a good hour or so after you stop playing.
Maybe they've gotten better now, but I'd be hesitant to spend much money on a plasma....
I've had dsl in a few places (both thru Verizon and SBC/PacBell) using 768/256, 1500/256, and 1500/384. Ok so uploads are slow. I can deal with that. But when I *do* decide to upload, not only is that slow, but I get *major* slowdowns on my dowloads and typically start getting packet loss too. Am I just *that* unlucky or is there some reason that uploads just blow? Makes it so I can't ever have people ftp into me cuz suddenly the other guys who share my connection start bugging me because the internet stopped working. And god help you if you open up BitTorrent....
Things are probably different in Europe (never taken a train there personally), but in the USA with our super-ghetto trains, it almost always takes longer to take a train than to drive. For commuting trains, I can take CalTrain from my house to my work. Takes about 20 min longer than driving, since it makes an obscene number of stops along the way. The only reason I'd take it is so I can read the paper while commuting. But a time saver it ain't (especially when you factor in time to get to and from the train stations).
Subways are better. BART's decent, but they'll probably never make it down to the South Bay...
As for "real" trains, all we've got is Amtrak. When I was in school, I thought about taking the train from Santa Barbara back home to San Jose. Thats about a 300 mile drive. Driving typically takes about 4-4.5 hours. The train takes (literally, I just looked it up) EIGHT HOURS and costs $82. I get 30mpg in my car so I can make the drive in about half the time and for half the cost. Hell I could *fly* to LA for about that and be there in 2 hours.
It really sucks, since I'd be totally willing to take trains to work or down to LA if they could ever manage to match a car for cost and speed...
Uh you got modded a troll for saying we shouldn't blame the spammers. Yeah, the net has problems but that doesn't mean everyone who exploits its weaknesses should get a free pass to do so because we had it coming.
Back to the same cliche analogy, just because I forget to lock my front door doesn't mean you can come on in and take my TV (although maybe my insurance wouldn't cover it in that case you could still go to jail)
That said, we have SMTP AUTH. It's used on every SMTP I've used or maintained for a few years, I have no idea why others don't use it. It's not like it's hard to set up. It intergrates nicely with postfix (and probably sendmail, but I never deal with that anymore).
Yup, my friend's got the home theater with a plasma and has stopped going to the movies altogether (and so have I since I have leech priviliges:). Given that you can get a DVD for about $10 while 2 movie tickets is $19 it just doesn't make sense anymore.
There are a few exceptions - matrix, LotR, etc., but typically only when it's an opening night thing or whatever.
Anything that forces users to get off POP3 and use something halfway decent (IMAP anyone?) is a good thing in my book.
It beats having to deal with people who get all their email stuck on their laptop and end up loosing all synchronization with the server and their other systems. With IMAP everything stays on the server, you only download the *headers* you want, you get info on what you've replied to and read, you get multiple folders...
Seriously, why is POP even supported anymore? I don't think I've touched a POP server in about 3 years....
So tell your friends to hit that IMAP button instead of POP and lets let POP die already...
Yup, FPGAs are great. The biggest barrier there is getting it mounted, as most FPGAs come in BGA packages (which ain't exactly solder yourself material). Too bad none of the fancy ones come in PLCC so you can't use a thru-hole socket:(
But once you have a board with the chip on it, you can even get all the development software for free from Xilinx and the programming hardware's not too expensive (last I checked anyway, I was always able to use my school's stuff).
I always thought it was pretty nifty to compile a CPU and upload it into a chip using nothing but my laptop...
Well...actually we get them too (in California anyway)! They say to keep it as evidence that you're registered, but most people throw them away and nobody ever asks for them. Our tax dollars at work.
Also, here (in both Santa Barbara and San Mateo Counties anyway) we vote with big scantrons (fill in the bubble). No punch or anything either.
Ok, this doesn't solve the SMTP problem, but aren't *all* of the other problems you mentioned solved by IMAP?
Everything's on the server. You only need to download headers. Message state (read, responded to, etc) is saved on the server. You get folders galore. You can check quotas and share folders between users, and it's *not* any more difficult to run than a POP server.
I truely don't understand why that god-awful ghetto-ness that is POP even exists anymore....it makes sense if you're paying for your internet connection by the minute and want to read everything offline, but for any other situation it just blows.
Hell, aside from my current job (where the guy who does IT just doesn't want to deal with it) I haven't touched a POP server in *years*.
I've been told that it's because you have to pay for your state ID/DL. So if they require you to show it, it's considered a poll tax and therefore illegal. Yeah, it's retarded, since nobody should really be without some sort of ID anyway (if nothing else, so if you get hit by a bus somebody can figure out who you are...)
Seems like there should be *some* way to legally require some form of ID to be shown. You can't have a decent election system if you can just walk into any polling place and say you're "John Smith" and drop in your ballot...hell you should at *least* be required to bring in something with your name on it (your voter registration card or sample ballot or *something*). At least then you'd have to have contact with the person you're impersonating.
Holy shit, has it been that long? CS was great and all, but nothing compared to playing TF on Quake 1 back in the day. Best game ever. Somehow TF on HL just never seeemed the same and I just couldn't get into it and switched to CS...:( Of course now I haven't touched a game on a PC since about 2000...
That said, I like how that news page says that the developers started work full-time on TF2 in 98. I guess it'll come out the same time as Duke Nukem Forever.
Hell, if you're in engineering, you can usually get it for *free*. Every engineering school I know participates in MSDN-AA (although it typically takes some effort to track down your MSDN admin to get access to the goods - teh schools I've dealt with seem to *try* to keep the program they're paying for a secret from students). You get free copies of XP, 2003 server, VS.net, visio, pretty much everything but Office. You can typically either download ISOs for free or get CDs for like $5. I just go with the ISOs since it's not like I can't find another one if I need it. Hell all I did was change my cracked serial number to the one MS gave me and did a legit activation without even reinstalling:)
As for reinstalling, I think you *can* but you have to contact your MSDN admin to get a new key. Dunno what hoops you have to jump thru to do it. Probably not too many if you're going thru an IT guy at school and not someone at MS' anti-piracy dept.
Agreed. But (and I don't know wtf I do to my computers for this to happen, nobody else seems to have any trouble) I'd say about half the time I've run an RPM-based system on my machine, at *some* point I end up in a state where I try to access the RPM database it just hangs. About half the time I manage to recover the database (but usually have dependancy problems for the rest of the life of the machine) and half of the time I just never get it to work again and have to just install everything from source.
That damn database is worse than my XP box's registry (but not much...)
Well, no matter what, the money for that phone is coming from me somehow. I've never paid a termination fee (and I don't think most people do) so it must be coming from our monthly fees.
So how about they stop subsidizing the phones, let us buy the phone online for $200 or whatever, lose the contract and lower our monthly fees.
Yes, companies are driven by the bottom line. They exist to make money (although I fail to see why that's a bad thing...)
Anyway, ok, suppose they outsource. They'll pay the new IT guys less than before and their IT quality might get better (hey, it could happen), stay the same, or get worse. Then it's just a question of how the IT quality affects efficiency and sales.
If there's a negative effect on profits from outsourcing, then the suits will do something about it, since it's hurting their (and the stockholders') bottom line.
If there's *not* a negative effect on profits, then the new IT situation has just shown itself to be at least as good as before, no matter how it has been implemented.
That's something many people here don't seem to get: you could pay some guy to spout smoke signals to communicate with other sites. Productivity will probably go down, but the only IT cost is for a minimum wage worker, some wood, and a blanket. Weigh that against a higher productivity (but expensive) setup with satellites and frame relays and MIT PhDs and whatnot. Which is better? It depends completely on the situation.
It's all tradeoffs - the cost of implmenting a good IT infrastructure versus the losses of not having one. It's the PHBs' jobs to find the sweet spot and where that spot is today may or may not be what it is tomorrow.
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If it's a newer car that speaks OBD-II, the port will always be under the dash on the driver side. Some codes are generic, some are specific to a particular car. To figure out what they mean, you'll need to get yourself a service manual for your car (or a generic OBD code book). Check any auto parts store and you'll find the books, as well as the box you plug in to get the codes.
Older cars will typically let you flash a light or something to get the codes, but now you need a special box to do it. I looked into desigining my own, but found virtually no information on the J1850 PWM spec (used by Ford). Tons of info on the VPW modulation though. Oh well....
yes, it is. Just north of LA county, in the hell-hole that is the Antelope Valley.
(spent six friggin years there. ugh.)
Yup, we can see people brutally killed, but god forbid we see a nipple. I love when there's some news story about cancer or something and they show the entire breast with a little black dot in the front...
Thanks guys. Way to think of the children. Christ people are retarded.
Well, I've been told you can make your resume more than one page, but make damn sure the important stuff's on the first one, because there is a *very* good chance that the second page will never be read...
This is why summer internships are key...
It didn't come down to this, but I would have *gladly* taken a 5th year of school rather than a quarter of summer school and missing internship experience.
That said, you don't need to work to have connections, you just need to have friends. Most people I know who got jobs had friends of friends of friends who were looking to hire....
Bear in mind that it's only 852x480 (as opposed to 1920x1080 in real HDTV)....
Another "HDTV-compatible" plasma that downconverts the signal...
But Plasma's trouble anyway. My friend's got a Fujitsu one (1024x1024), couple years old, given to him by a ridiculously rich friend. Looks great, and definitely makes me question my manhood seeing that in his place and a 27" trinitron in mine.
But the burn-in is out of control. Staying on a tv show for 30min is long enough to have the logo burned into the bottom right for a while. And most programming is 4:3 so you've got the bars on the side. They're black, but you can see the burn in from the rest of the picture contrasted with the black space, so the color gets kinda weird if you go widescreen afterwards. You could zoom or stretch, but both those settings drive me nuts (everyone looks fat or you chop of heads)
And forget about video gamse. The status and menus will stick around for a good hour or so after you stop playing.
Maybe they've gotten better now, but I'd be hesitant to spend much money on a plasma....
Somewhat unrelated, but maybe someone knows...
Why are ADSL uploads so f'd up?
I've had dsl in a few places (both thru Verizon and SBC/PacBell) using 768/256, 1500/256, and 1500/384. Ok so uploads are slow. I can deal with that. But when I *do* decide to upload, not only is that slow, but I get *major* slowdowns on my dowloads and typically start getting packet loss too. Am I just *that* unlucky or is there some reason that uploads just blow? Makes it so I can't ever have people ftp into me cuz suddenly the other guys who share my connection start bugging me because the internet stopped working. And god help you if you open up BitTorrent....
Never had that problem when I was on cable...
Now....I'm a geek and seriously not trolling here - but I have to ask...WTF do you use all those machines for???
I could see a workstation, a laptop, and a server. But I count 14 machines there. What do they do?
Things are probably different in Europe (never taken a train there personally), but in the USA with our super-ghetto trains, it almost always takes longer to take a train than to drive. For commuting trains, I can take CalTrain from my house to my work. Takes about 20 min longer than driving, since it makes an obscene number of stops along the way. The only reason I'd take it is so I can read the paper while commuting. But a time saver it ain't (especially when you factor in time to get to and from the train stations).
Subways are better. BART's decent, but they'll probably never make it down to the South Bay...
As for "real" trains, all we've got is Amtrak. When I was in school, I thought about taking the train from Santa Barbara back home to San Jose. Thats about a 300 mile drive. Driving typically takes about 4-4.5 hours. The train takes (literally, I just looked it up) EIGHT HOURS and costs $82. I get 30mpg in my car so I can make the drive in about half the time and for half the cost. Hell I could *fly* to LA for about that and be there in 2 hours.
It really sucks, since I'd be totally willing to take trains to work or down to LA if they could ever manage to match a car for cost and speed...
Uh you got modded a troll for saying we shouldn't blame the spammers. Yeah, the net has problems but that doesn't mean everyone who exploits its weaknesses should get a free pass to do so because we had it coming.
Back to the same cliche analogy, just because I forget to lock my front door doesn't mean you can come on in and take my TV (although maybe my insurance wouldn't cover it in that case you could still go to jail)
That said, we have SMTP AUTH. It's used on every SMTP I've used or maintained for a few years, I have no idea why others don't use it. It's not like it's hard to set up. It intergrates nicely with postfix (and probably sendmail, but I never deal with that anymore).
Agreed. Nothing pisses me off more than sitting down at a computer (be it running XP, Linux, or Mac OS) and seeing my mouse doesn't have a wheel.
Actually, what pisses me off more than that is brainded apps somehow written to not respond to the wheel...
That's fine except trucks get their own limits (usually it's 65 for cars, 55 for trucks/cars with trailers).
Yup, my friend's got the home theater with a plasma and has stopped going to the movies altogether (and so have I since I have leech priviliges :). Given that you can get a DVD for about $10 while 2 movie tickets is $19 it just doesn't make sense anymore.
There are a few exceptions - matrix, LotR, etc., but typically only when it's an opening night thing or whatever.
Ok, I'm probably trolling at this point but....
Good.
Anything that forces users to get off POP3 and use something halfway decent (IMAP anyone?) is a good thing in my book.
It beats having to deal with people who get all their email stuck on their laptop and end up loosing all synchronization with the server and their other systems. With IMAP everything stays on the server, you only download the *headers* you want, you get info on what you've replied to and read, you get multiple folders...
Seriously, why is POP even supported anymore? I don't think I've touched a POP server in about 3 years....
So tell your friends to hit that IMAP button instead of POP and lets let POP die already...
Step 1) Yes, you do download it. As Verilog source code (or *gag* VHDL)
Step 2) Synthesize (and simulate if you don't trust the guys who designed it)
Step 3a) Upload to FPGA (the coolest EE toy *ever*)
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Step 3b) Send to fab of your choice (along with a big wad of cash) to be put in "real" silicon
Step 4) Enjoy your new chip
Yup, FPGAs are great. The biggest barrier there is getting it mounted, as most FPGAs come in BGA packages (which ain't exactly solder yourself material). Too bad none of the fancy ones come in PLCC so you can't use a thru-hole socket :(
But once you have a board with the chip on it, you can even get all the development software for free from Xilinx and the programming hardware's not too expensive (last I checked anyway, I was always able to use my school's stuff).
I always thought it was pretty nifty to compile a CPU and upload it into a chip using nothing but my laptop...
Unless you're a student, then it's only $99 to get the student developer discount (15% or so)
Well...actually we get them too (in California anyway)! They say to keep it as evidence that you're registered, but most people throw them away and nobody ever asks for them. Our tax dollars at work.
Also, here (in both Santa Barbara and San Mateo Counties anyway) we vote with big scantrons (fill in the bubble). No punch or anything either.
Ok, this doesn't solve the SMTP problem, but aren't *all* of the other problems you mentioned solved by IMAP?
Everything's on the server. You only need to download headers. Message state (read, responded to, etc) is saved on the server. You get folders galore. You can check quotas and share folders between users, and it's *not* any more difficult to run than a POP server.
I truely don't understand why that god-awful ghetto-ness that is POP even exists anymore....it makes sense if you're paying for your internet connection by the minute and want to read everything offline, but for any other situation it just blows.
Hell, aside from my current job (where the guy who does IT just doesn't want to deal with it) I haven't touched a POP server in *years*.
I've been told that it's because you have to pay for your state ID/DL. So if they require you to show it, it's considered a poll tax and therefore illegal. Yeah, it's retarded, since nobody should really be without some sort of ID anyway (if nothing else, so if you get hit by a bus somebody can figure out who you are...)
Seems like there should be *some* way to legally require some form of ID to be shown. You can't have a decent election system if you can just walk into any polling place and say you're "John Smith" and drop in your ballot...hell you should at *least* be required to bring in something with your name on it (your voter registration card or sample ballot or *something*). At least then you'd have to have contact with the person you're impersonating.
Holy shit, has it been that long? CS was great and all, but nothing compared to playing TF on Quake 1 back in the day. Best game ever. Somehow TF on HL just never seeemed the same and I just couldn't get into it and switched to CS... :( Of course now I haven't touched a game on a PC since about 2000...
That said, I like how that news page says that the developers started work full-time on TF2 in 98. I guess it'll come out the same time as Duke Nukem Forever.
Hell, if you're in engineering, you can usually get it for *free*. Every engineering school I know participates in MSDN-AA (although it typically takes some effort to track down your MSDN admin to get access to the goods - teh schools I've dealt with seem to *try* to keep the program they're paying for a secret from students). You get free copies of XP, 2003 server, VS .net, visio, pretty much everything but Office. You can typically either download ISOs for free or get CDs for like $5. I just go with the ISOs since it's not like I can't find another one if I need it. Hell all I did was change my cracked serial number to the one MS gave me and did a legit activation without even reinstalling :)
As for reinstalling, I think you *can* but you have to contact your MSDN admin to get a new key. Dunno what hoops you have to jump thru to do it. Probably not too many if you're going thru an IT guy at school and not someone at MS' anti-piracy dept.
Agreed. But (and I don't know wtf I do to my computers for this to happen, nobody else seems to have any trouble) I'd say about half the time I've run an RPM-based system on my machine, at *some* point I end up in a state where I try to access the RPM database it just hangs. About half the time I manage to recover the database (but usually have dependancy problems for the rest of the life of the machine) and half of the time I just never get it to work again and have to just install everything from source.
That damn database is worse than my XP box's registry (but not much...)
Well, no matter what, the money for that phone is coming from me somehow. I've never paid a termination fee (and I don't think most people do) so it must be coming from our monthly fees.
So how about they stop subsidizing the phones, let us buy the phone online for $200 or whatever, lose the contract and lower our monthly fees.
I don't see how that's really a problem.
Yes, companies are driven by the bottom line. They exist to make money (although I fail to see why that's a bad thing...)
Anyway, ok, suppose they outsource. They'll pay the new IT guys less than before and their IT quality might get better (hey, it could happen), stay the same, or get worse. Then it's just a question of how the IT quality affects efficiency and sales.
If there's a negative effect on profits from outsourcing, then the suits will do something about it, since it's hurting their (and the stockholders') bottom line.
If there's *not* a negative effect on profits, then the new IT situation has just shown itself to be at least as good as before, no matter how it has been implemented.
That's something many people here don't seem to get: you could pay some guy to spout smoke signals to communicate with other sites. Productivity will probably go down, but the only IT cost is for a minimum wage worker, some wood, and a blanket. Weigh that against a higher productivity (but expensive) setup with satellites and frame relays and MIT PhDs and whatnot. Which is better? It depends completely on the situation.
It's all tradeoffs - the cost of implmenting a good IT infrastructure versus the losses of not having one. It's the PHBs' jobs to find the sweet spot and where that spot is today may or may not be what it is tomorrow.