Octane ratings are not along the lines of "if the numbers higher it's better". Octane ratings are in relation to it's characteristics during burning, and how controlled it is. A higher compression engine requires high-octane fuel to avoid "pinging" because the lower octane will detonate pre-maturely. It has nothing to do with fuel economy, unless the engine is specifically geared toward utilizing a higher compression ratio to achieve the higher fuel octane. In a nutshell, putting 98+ octane in your engine does not equal putting nitrous oxide under your hood. My old Camaro (well, still have it) required 89 octane because the heads were milled down to provide a higher compression ratio.
American fuel comes in (usually) 3 different octane ratings: 87, 89, 93. 87 being cheapest, and 93 being the more expensive. If American cars had a 12:1 compression ratio, and utilized higher octane fuel, sure there could be a performance gain and a fuel economy increase. However, the prices would be that much higher, considering the difference right now between 87 and 83 is close to 30-40 cents per gallon.
As far as emissions requirements, catalytic converters are by far not the only piece of emissions control on any car. They are so late 70's/early '80's. Emissions control on American cars includes computer-operated recirculation of a certain percentage of fuel, PCV valves that recirc into the throttlebody, carbon canister neutralization of hydrocarbons (well, most of it), computer-controlled fuel ration regulation at normal driving speeds to optimize leanburn, and so on.
Mind you I am by far not an expert, however I've been under cars since I was 15. I've studied and understand the operation of automobiles up to where the computer part comes into play... then it's complete fog to me on how the whole shebang works other than ratio and statistic caculations.
Also, you might want to add the words "more expensive" when you say "better fuel" too:)
35-40 mpg in America is upper limit in America. It's getting higher as technology improves, however. Remember, the car has to still be able to carry the emissions equipment to stay on par with Federal and State mandates on pollution control.
So yes... 20-25mpg is considered halfway decent fuel economy for carrying a family of 3 over mountain terrain:D The only vehicles in America that get high fuel economy anymore (high being relative to 40 or so mpg) have the torque of a dead beaver.
Think about this: why would the same company that gets such a high amount of fuel economy in a foreign country (read: volkswagon) end up lowering it in America? It's the same car... except for the pollution control mechanisms. That's a good reason why BMW and Mercedes are so much better on the Autobahn than in America.
My new 1.6L Turbo Capri (91 Capri XR2) gets approximately 30 mpg, so look at the size of that engine in comparison to the Volkswagon Golf/Jetta.
I can speak from experience working at a company that has a few NT4 boxes still on our production floor. What do they do you ask? BDC operations, and Print Serving lol... the primary backbone of our Windows operations are done on Windows 2000 machines for PDC, Exchange, Veritas backup, and fileserving. Though, we're phasing them out with Linux fast-like. We have 40 servers which isn't alot by some standards, and I'd say about.. 10 of them are Windows. I think that might be an overestimation, but it's close. We use samba now in alot of situations, and nearly every production server we have that means anything is run on Linux. Exchange is the biter... We need to find something that has the power of Exchange. It's a great program for what it does.
Of course you do realize that the two cars that you drove are considered by many to be "mom and pop" cars because of their size, right?
Most Americans (from what I've seen) live in 3 categories: *Can't afford much, so go with the older cars with usually bigger engines like old Camaros or Novas, unless they bump into an old Honda or something when they are shopping *Travel to work daily, so they get something like a Honda Civic, or Ford Escort or (insert other vehicle sold here that has a 4-cylinder and gets decent highway mileage) *Have a family and carry people around alot. These people usually get something like a Minivan, SUV (I *Hate* the stereotypes of SUVs as gas guzzlers), or other vehicle with high occupancy room.
Myself, I currently fall into the first category.. at least until sunday when I'll fall into the second:) Just because an SUV is big, doesn't mean it's a gas guzzler, just FYI. My Grand Cherokee got approximately 20-25 MPG in the city, mainly because it was rolling most of the time and not needing to be revved continuously. I currently have an 83 Camaro with a V8 4-bbl (barrel) carb, and it takes 10-15mpg. 16 gallon tank, at that.
On that note, I'd also like to point out that America has a very stringent emissions program sweeping the nation since the early 90's/late 80's. Nearly every vehicle must meet strict guidelines set by state officials. (tested every 2 years, most of the time) Note that there are some states within America that do not have emissions testing, but it's changing. As time progresses, and technology improves, along with legislation strangling the emissions amount allowed, things are going to only get better. But, cars are by far not the only polluters... nor are they the biggest.
Besides, the last I checked, Europe had a very lax emissions program, if any...
I'd have to agree with you on the Vegas/Phoenix (and vice versa) travel. Having a vehicle that doesn't require you to be at >3000rpm at 60mph is definately a nice thing on this trek.
I live in Phoenix, myself... drove my (previously owned) Grand Cherokee V6 from Phoenix to Vegas and back and didn't think anything of the hills. Next trip, I drove my wife's 4-banger Mercury Tracer which is peppy as hell normally... the hills were kinda rough on it, as it was downshifting and staying at >3000 rpm the entire trip, almost. Except the checkpoints at Hoover Dam:)
Somehow, I actually pictured a guy sitting on the martian soil, alone on a dune with a laptop playing quake3, with this HUGE rock behind him with craters all over it, a pile of magnets right beside him, a nuclear detonation device in a briefcase, all while wearing a pair of longjohns.
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Walking around is definately a 3d endeavour, my friend. If you close one eye and attempt to walk for any length of time, you'll notice your depth perception is a necessary thing to judge how far items are away from you. 3D things aren't hard to do, if you learn how to work in a 3D world at an early age. Now, if your mother and father kept you inside in front of the TV/Computer the early parts of your life, I guess that would definately gear you towards a purely 2D world. However, the rest of us work in a 3D fashion.
A bounty is a price paid to anyone who apprehends, and brings the person in. I think the poster was going more for the "price on their head" approach:) Hitman style...
I'd have to agree with you completely. Though I have ran both kernels 2.2 and 2.4 on my firewall/router running Coyote Linux (used to run BBIagent, great system but I wanted full commandline control), I find 2.2 to "feel" much nicer when it comes to lesser powered hardware. I run my firewall/router on a 486dx/66 with 24mb of ram. Right now, it's Coyote Linux because it was the first thing I ran across after wanting to migrate away from BBIagent. With no harddisk, and no moving parts other than fans, it's almost bulletproof. Though, I really need to find another distribution that fits on a floppydisk, because Coyote is missing some *very* rudimentary tools such as that really advanced one called netstat:)
Basically, if it does port forwarding, protection of the machines behind it, along with filtering and logging, your good to go.
Why? Between OpenSSH and X forwarding why bother to mount NFS? What does it offer?
That's about like asking why use Diesel in a truck, when 89 octane would work fine. (with retooling, etc.)
Those are different technologies for different outcomes. An SSH tunnel with XForwarding allows you to run the application on the server. NFS shares the disk to another machine, allowing the processing to be done on the client.
For that application, NFS is precisely the answer. Samba is great for normal file xfer if your stuck with a windows machine on the other side. But, NFS from Linux server-wise... it really has a bit to be desired. I thought everyone was a crack addict that said NFS was good until I became a Solaris administrator and saw NFS in the real world.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a Linux administrator now, I administer Linux only. We do have NFS servers, but we monitor them, and our machines are fault-tolerant IBM xSeries systems. Err.. well, fault tolerant fan and disk-wise.
My advice: Stay away from Monster and other job boards. Get friends who are working at the companies you're interested in to submit your resume for you. If you have no contacts in a particular company, hand deliver your resume, or send it US mail. At least, your resume will stand out this way.
I have to agree that sending it out via snail mail or hand delivering is a very good (if not *THE* best) way to get your resume reviewed, don't discredit Monster.com. I just got a job after close to 2 years of being unemployed and beating the streets for a job. You know how it happened? I updated my resume on Monster.com to show that I am currently a student at DeVry University (freshmen year). No, I didn't lie:) But that update alone got me probably around 4-5 calls from headhunters/contracting firms. I landed a job as a *LINUX* administrator. Just when you lose faith, something pulls aruond, I guess. But, it was because of Monster.com, and some hungry firms:)
That's the beauty of LVM, raid, and striping. You can set all the drives up in LVM, then stripe across them. That's about the closest you can come to making all the disks act as one, lifespan-wise.
I use AbiWord on my P133 laptop with 32 megs. It's all I have mobile-wise, and it works quite nice when I'm typing out a paper for school and want to spend time with the wife and daughter in the livingroom. Of course, I also use Window Maker, which in itself saves one hell of alot of ram in comparison to KDE and Gnome lol...
I'd much rather use FreeDOS on, for example, one of the hundreds of cheap-as-to-be-disposable 486/33 or/40 laptops out there, than to try to wedge GNU/Linux on it.
WEDGE?! I *started out* on a 386dx/40 with Linux. I've had low-end 486's running Linux without a problem. The harddisk and ram are the factors on those machines, as 8-16 megs was alot back then, and harddisks weren't exactly a buck a gig as they are today. Linux is perfectly usable on a 486. Just don't put KDE or Gnome on it, and you're good to go.
I know it's redundant, and everyone else has said it.. but anywho. This is a very sad day, and it hits me even harder than knowing that someone died because these were fellow geeks who were in this for knowledge, exploration, and possibly intellectual reasons of their own. I normally am hardened to death of people, but this is enough to make me feel sad inside. I've always wanted to go up there, and I'm sure alot of people here have also. It's a geeks dream to touch the stars:) I sure hope they didn't feel anything.. I know it's a far shot, but it's a nice hope.
I also hope that political individuals don't use this as a reason to halt all space exploration and focus elsewhere. We were so close.. so close... At least we lost them while they were doing something they wanted to do.
The game pretty much has the feel of having two american armies attacking each other in different scenarios. There are no towel-headed people, or anything like that. Sure, the colour differentiation looks like black and white people, however if you notice there are some that do appear Asian. (have to get a closeup shot, you know.. when your dead and waiting for 4 minutes to play again lol)
It's a fun game.. I enjoy it. I downloaded it to see what it was about, and it's really enjoyable! mind you, the basic training part gets a bit annoying since you can't do squat unless you get past that, but other than that, it's a great game. It reminds me alot of the Navy Seals: Covert Operations mod for Quake 3. Though, more realistic IMHO.
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Octane ratings are not along the lines of "if the numbers higher it's better". Octane ratings are in relation to it's characteristics during burning, and how controlled it is. A higher compression engine requires high-octane fuel to avoid "pinging" because the lower octane will detonate pre-maturely. It has nothing to do with fuel economy, unless the engine is specifically geared toward utilizing a higher compression ratio to achieve the higher fuel octane. In a nutshell, putting 98+ octane in your engine does not equal putting nitrous oxide under your hood. My old Camaro (well, still have it) required 89 octane because the heads were milled down to provide a higher compression ratio.
:)
American fuel comes in (usually) 3 different octane ratings: 87, 89, 93. 87 being cheapest, and 93 being the more expensive. If American cars had a 12:1 compression ratio, and utilized higher octane fuel, sure there could be a performance gain and a fuel economy increase. However, the prices would be that much higher, considering the difference right now between 87 and 83 is close to 30-40 cents per gallon.
As far as emissions requirements, catalytic converters are by far not the only piece of emissions control on any car. They are so late 70's/early '80's. Emissions control on American cars includes computer-operated recirculation of a certain percentage of fuel, PCV valves that recirc into the throttlebody, carbon canister neutralization of hydrocarbons (well, most of it), computer-controlled fuel ration regulation at normal driving speeds to optimize leanburn, and so on.
Mind you I am by far not an expert, however I've been under cars since I was 15. I've studied and understand the operation of automobiles up to where the computer part comes into play... then it's complete fog to me on how the whole shebang works other than ratio and statistic caculations.
Also, you might want to add the words "more expensive" when you say "better fuel" too
35-40 mpg in America is upper limit in America. It's getting higher as technology improves, however. Remember, the car has to still be able to carry the emissions equipment to stay on par with Federal and State mandates on pollution control.
:D The only vehicles in America that get high fuel economy anymore (high being relative to 40 or so mpg) have the torque of a dead beaver.
So yes... 20-25mpg is considered halfway decent fuel economy for carrying a family of 3 over mountain terrain
Think about this: why would the same company that gets such a high amount of fuel economy in a foreign country (read: volkswagon) end up lowering it in America? It's the same car... except for the pollution control mechanisms.
That's a good reason why BMW and Mercedes are so much better on the Autobahn than in America.
My new 1.6L Turbo Capri (91 Capri XR2) gets approximately 30 mpg, so look at the size of that engine in comparison to the Volkswagon Golf/Jetta.
I can speak from experience working at a company that has a few NT4 boxes still on our production floor. What do they do you ask? BDC operations, and Print Serving lol... the primary backbone of our Windows operations are done on Windows 2000 machines for PDC, Exchange, Veritas backup, and fileserving. Though, we're phasing them out with Linux fast-like. We have 40 servers which isn't alot by some standards, and I'd say about.. 10 of them are Windows. I think that might be an overestimation, but it's close. We use samba now in alot of situations, and nearly every production server we have that means anything is run on Linux. Exchange is the biter... We need to find something that has the power of Exchange. It's a great program for what it does.
It's a 486...
putting 128megs in that thing is impossible, much less greater than 640mb...
It currently has less than 32 megs.. I can't remember the exact amount, I think it is 24 megs. And all of the slots are full.
Might be a good idea for something Pentium related, that has the ability to pop in over 512mb of ram.
Of course you do realize that the two cars that you drove are considered by many to be "mom and pop" cars because of their size, right?
:)
Most Americans (from what I've seen) live in 3 categories:
*Can't afford much, so go with the older cars with usually bigger engines like old Camaros or Novas, unless they bump into an old Honda or something when they are shopping
*Travel to work daily, so they get something like a Honda Civic, or Ford Escort or (insert other vehicle sold here that has a 4-cylinder and gets decent highway mileage)
*Have a family and carry people around alot. These people usually get something like a Minivan, SUV (I *Hate* the stereotypes of SUVs as gas guzzlers), or other vehicle with high occupancy room.
Myself, I currently fall into the first category.. at least until sunday when I'll fall into the second
Just because an SUV is big, doesn't mean it's a gas guzzler, just FYI. My Grand Cherokee got approximately 20-25 MPG in the city, mainly because it was rolling most of the time and not needing to be revved continuously. I currently have an 83 Camaro with a V8 4-bbl (barrel) carb, and it takes 10-15mpg. 16 gallon tank, at that.
On that note, I'd also like to point out that America has a very stringent emissions program sweeping the nation since the early 90's/late 80's. Nearly every vehicle must meet strict guidelines set by state officials. (tested every 2 years, most of the time) Note that there are some states within America that do not have emissions testing, but it's changing. As time progresses, and technology improves, along with legislation strangling the emissions amount allowed, things are going to only get better. But, cars are by far not the only polluters... nor are they the biggest.
Besides, the last I checked, Europe had a very lax emissions program, if any...
I'd have to agree with you on the Vegas/Phoenix (and vice versa) travel. Having a vehicle that doesn't require you to be at >3000rpm at 60mph is definately a nice thing on this trek.
:)
I live in Phoenix, myself... drove my (previously owned) Grand Cherokee V6 from Phoenix to Vegas and back and didn't think anything of the hills. Next trip, I drove my wife's 4-banger Mercury Tracer which is peppy as hell normally... the hills were kinda rough on it, as it was downshifting and staying at >3000 rpm the entire trip, almost. Except the checkpoints at Hoover Dam
The only way that could occur would be if hydrogen was to act as a catalyst increasing efficiency of the burn in your car
That was kinda the point of it all...a catalyst.
Not to mention that diesel is just another petroleum product.
The same limitations apply to diesel as do gasoline...
Somehow, I actually pictured a guy sitting on the martian soil, alone on a dune with a laptop playing quake3, with this HUGE rock behind him with craters all over it, a pile of magnets right beside him, a nuclear detonation device in a briefcase, all while wearing a pair of longjohns.
:-)
I fear for colonization after visualizing that
That pretty much hit the nail right on the head.
*ducks*
Walking around is definately a 3d endeavour, my friend. If you close one eye and attempt to walk for any length of time, you'll notice your depth perception is a necessary thing to judge how far items are away from you. 3D things aren't hard to do, if you learn how to work in a 3D world at an early age. Now, if your mother and father kept you inside in front of the TV/Computer the early parts of your life, I guess that would definately gear you towards a purely 2D world. However, the rest of us work in a 3D fashion.
Free from the shackles of the HTML dinosaur?
Don't you mean free from the shackles of industry standard web-readable information...
If it has to be passed to a plugin, it's not a website.
So he had a sarogate parent? :)
CoralDraw and the stuff that comes with it isn't original?
A bounty is a price paid to anyone who apprehends, and brings the person in. I think the poster was going more for the "price on their head" approach :)
Hitman style...
I'd have to agree with you completely. Though I have ran both kernels 2.2 and 2.4 on my firewall/router running Coyote Linux (used to run BBIagent, great system but I wanted full commandline control), I find 2.2 to "feel" much nicer when it comes to lesser powered hardware. :)
I run my firewall/router on a 486dx/66 with 24mb of ram. Right now, it's Coyote Linux because it was the first thing I ran across after wanting to migrate away from BBIagent. With no harddisk, and no moving parts other than fans, it's almost bulletproof. Though, I really need to find another distribution that fits on a floppydisk, because Coyote is missing some *very* rudimentary tools such as that really advanced one called netstat
Basically, if it does port forwarding, protection of the machines behind it, along with filtering and logging, your good to go.
Why? Between OpenSSH and X forwarding why bother to mount NFS? What does it offer?
That's about like asking why use Diesel in a truck, when 89 octane would work fine. (with retooling, etc.)
Those are different technologies for different outcomes. An SSH tunnel with XForwarding allows you to run the application on the server. NFS shares the disk to another machine, allowing the processing to be done on the client.
Client/Server versus Thin-Client.
For that application, NFS is precisely the answer. Samba is great for normal file xfer if your stuck with a windows machine on the other side. But, NFS from Linux server-wise... it really has a bit to be desired. I thought everyone was a crack addict that said NFS was good until I became a Solaris administrator and saw NFS in the real world.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a Linux administrator now, I administer Linux only. We do have NFS servers, but we monitor them, and our machines are fault-tolerant IBM xSeries systems. Err.. well, fault tolerant fan and disk-wise.
My advice: Stay away from Monster and other job boards. Get friends who are working at the companies you're interested in to submit your resume for you. If you have no contacts in a particular company, hand deliver your resume, or send it US mail. At least, your resume will stand out this way.
:) But that update alone got me probably around 4-5 calls from headhunters/contracting firms. I landed a job as a *LINUX* administrator. Just when you lose faith, something pulls aruond, I guess. But, it was because of Monster.com, and some hungry firms :)
I have to agree that sending it out via snail mail or hand delivering is a very good (if not *THE* best) way to get your resume reviewed, don't discredit Monster.com. I just got a job after close to 2 years of being unemployed and beating the streets for a job. You know how it happened? I updated my resume on Monster.com to show that I am currently a student at DeVry University (freshmen year). No, I didn't lie
That's the beauty of LVM, raid, and striping.
You can set all the drives up in LVM, then stripe across them. That's about the closest you can come to making all the disks act as one, lifespan-wise.
I use AbiWord on my P133 laptop with 32 megs. It's all I have mobile-wise, and it works quite nice when I'm typing out a paper for school and want to spend time with the wife and daughter in the livingroom.
Of course, I also use Window Maker, which in itself saves one hell of alot of ram in comparison to KDE and Gnome lol...
I'd much rather use FreeDOS on, for example, one of the hundreds of cheap-as-to-be-disposable 486/33 or /40 laptops out there, than to try to wedge GNU/Linux on it.
WEDGE?!
I *started out* on a 386dx/40 with Linux. I've had low-end 486's running Linux without a problem. The harddisk and ram are the factors on those machines, as 8-16 megs was alot back then, and harddisks weren't exactly a buck a gig as they are today.
Linux is perfectly usable on a 486. Just don't put KDE or Gnome on it, and you're good to go.
There's no way in hell I'm gutting my servers to move to a *nix,[snip]
Let me guess... not stable enough for you?
I know it's redundant, and everyone else has said it.. but anywho.
This is a very sad day, and it hits me even harder than knowing that someone died because these were fellow geeks who were in this for knowledge, exploration, and possibly intellectual reasons of their own. I normally am hardened to death of people, but this is enough to make me feel sad inside. I've always wanted to go up there, and I'm sure alot of people here have also. It's a geeks dream to touch the stars:) I sure hope they didn't feel anything.. I know it's a far shot, but it's a nice hope.
I also hope that political individuals don't use this as a reason to halt all space exploration and focus elsewhere. We were so close.. so close...
At least we lost them while they were doing something they wanted to do.
MOD THIS UP for gods sake!
THIS guy is correct.
The game pretty much has the feel of having two american armies attacking each other in different scenarios. There are no towel-headed people, or anything like that. Sure, the colour differentiation looks like black and white people, however if you notice there are some that do appear Asian. (have to get a closeup shot, you know.. when your dead and waiting for 4 minutes to play again lol)
It's a fun game.. I enjoy it. I downloaded it to see what it was about, and it's really enjoyable! mind you, the basic training part gets a bit annoying since you can't do squat unless you get past that, but other than that, it's a great game. It reminds me alot of the Navy Seals: Covert Operations mod for Quake 3. Though, more realistic IMHO.