Well...whatever happened...was computer related I'm guessing.
You guessed wrong. This was an older model BMW, and the problem was with the power door locks. I know, because this happened to me. Something shorted in the PDL wiring causing the engine to stall and the the PDL solonoids to force the doors locked making it impossible to unlock by hand. They can still breathe, they just panicked, and the windows only require a screwdriver to break.
I had the same problem in an old Chrysler. Got in the car, sat down, tried to start the car, and the locks went down. I tried to open the door, but it was jammed. This is where my case is much worse. I hear a buzzing, but its not elecrical, its a friggin wasp! A damn wasp gets trapped in the car with me just as my power door locks go whacky, great. Luckily the wasp is in the back of the car, so I just reach over to the passenger side door, rip the armrest cover open that holds the power window/door lock switches, and yank the PDL switch. Doors are unlockable, I get out and get rid of the wasp.
It's probably good for anything except reliable data transfer. I think its like cat5, but without the twists, allowing the signals to interfere with each other.
Not if it has dozens of little holes in it. From what I hear, instead of cutting and crimping new connectors on the ends, they usually cut a hole into the cable and clamped a special tee onto them to add new nodes.
This would be OK for cat5 or maybe even even RG58/10BASE2 (can be reused for low power HAM and CB), but who is going to buy cat3 or that old thick coax?
If Japan and Germany would have won WWII, we wouldn't be chatting about the ethics of videogame makers, we'd be slaving in some labor camp chatting about which group has the best gruel.
No, wait. I'm German, so I'd be telling you all to shut up or spend the night in the box. Arbeit! Macht schnell!
Yeah, filthy karma whore repost of parent, but the mods don't browse at -1 like they're supposed to, so this will never be seen otherwise. I'm prolly at the cap anyway.
It's not pinin'! It's passed on! This OS is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! *BSD is an ex-operating system!!
I took a trip to Home Depot and got 4 10" x 5' pine boards, plus some furring strips for the edges. I butted 3 together with some flat aluminum plates and reinforced the edges with the furring strips. I sanded the edges, lightly stained it and sealed it and I had a decent surface to start with.
I then snagged an old 2 drawer file cabinet from work, welded up a pair of adjustable legs, and made 2 pedestals for the 4th board. The file cabinet holds up the desk on one side, the legs on the other, and the pedestals hold up the "shelf" (4th board), which I use for the printer and fax machine. Since the pedestals are just hollow square steel boxes, they also hold a bunch of ethernet jacks on one side, and a switched outlet on the other.
Lots of room for crap. 2 17" monitors. an old Pentium machine acting as a firewall, tons of old cds, an old laptop, empty coffee cups and pepsi cans, papers, pens, etc.
Your way is actually the Right Way(tm). Nobody I know with children would even think about putting a computer with internet connectivity in their child's room. They want games? Fine, give them a computer with no internet access. Deathmatch junkie? Be the uber-cool dad and host a server behind the firewall. Make sure you practice lots and give the kid a good whuppin once in a while.
I'm no parent, but I know enough about the internet to say it's no place for children to navigate unsupervised. Period.
I remember reading a story where an old satellite came back to life after 20+ years. Aparently the batteries failed "short", draining any voltage developed by the solar cells. Eventually the shorted cells disconnected for some reason, enabling the sat to send signals for short periods of time when it was in sunlight.
Another little tip if you have to use dd for a drive image: Before installing anything, boot with knoppix and fill the entire disk with zeros, then partition, format, and install. The image will compress a lot more than if it had random data still on the drive. I've done this with fairly small disks (4 - 8 GB) and it only takes about 10 -15 minutes on older hardware.
I see your point, but what happens if there's a fire or natural disaster and all those records are destroyed? At least if its scanned they'll still have the information somewhere, hopefully backed up in a remote location.
Surviving the test of time should be trivial, as long as open standards are used.
I know a guy that's pretty good with Ford mass air flow systems. He can usually tell what sensor or component is bad just by listening to the engine, and if not, he knows how to use the code reader. The problem is, he knows nothing about carburetors, and even less about ignitions that use points instead of electronic.
Get a second opinion. That car should be covered by OBD standards, so there should be at least some aftermarket solution. I have 2 rules:
1. Never trust mechanics
2. When someone tells me a certain mechanic can be trusted, refer to rule #1.
They will rob you blind if given the slightest chance they can get away with it.
IMO, late 70s to mid 80s automotive computers were crap. They were basically a computer controlled carburetor, with some timing adjustments. The EFI systems at the time were a little better, but not much. Try another mechanic, search salvage yards for the parts you need, or consider buying a newer car.
Moreover, IBM is more likely to allow others to use this technology without filing patent infringement suits than some other company like amazon.com with its one-click shopping.
Unless you piss them off, then they let the lawyers loose like they're doing to SCO.
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...except it's built into my underpants. When it's time to change them, they turn brown and yellow.
Its too bad they didn't have any of those instruments on the surface to see how much radiation gets through Mars' atmosphere.
Well...whatever happened...was computer related I'm guessing.
You guessed wrong. This was an older model BMW, and the problem was with the power door locks. I know, because this happened to me. Something shorted in the PDL wiring causing the engine to stall and the the PDL solonoids to force the doors locked making it impossible to unlock by hand. They can still breathe, they just panicked, and the windows only require a screwdriver to break.
I had the same problem in an old Chrysler. Got in the car, sat down, tried to start the car, and the locks went down. I tried to open the door, but it was jammed. This is where my case is much worse. I hear a buzzing, but its not elecrical, its a friggin wasp! A damn wasp gets trapped in the car with me just as my power door locks go whacky, great. Luckily the wasp is in the back of the car, so I just reach over to the passenger side door, rip the armrest cover open that holds the power window/door lock switches, and yank the PDL switch. Doors are unlockable, I get out and get rid of the wasp.
I know! Ted Kennedy! Do I win a bottle of chivas and a Barney suit?
It's probably good for anything except reliable data transfer. I think its like cat5, but without the twists, allowing the signals to interfere with each other.
Not if it has dozens of little holes in it. From what I hear, instead of cutting and crimping new connectors on the ends, they usually cut a hole into the cable and clamped a special tee onto them to add new nodes.
This would be OK for cat5 or maybe even even RG58/10BASE2 (can be reused for low power HAM and CB), but who is going to buy cat3 or that old thick coax?
If Japan and Germany would have won WWII, we wouldn't be chatting about the ethics of videogame makers, we'd be slaving in some labor camp chatting about which group has the best gruel.
No, wait. I'm German, so I'd be telling you all to shut up or spend the night in the box. Arbeit! Macht schnell!
Internet Archive is going to host the files
Yeah, filthy karma whore repost of parent, but the mods don't browse at -1 like they're supposed to, so this will never be seen otherwise. I'm prolly at the cap anyway.
It's not pinin'! It's passed on! This OS is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! *BSD is an ex-operating system!!
Oops, that was the wrong Dead * Sketch.
I made one, it's simple, but effective.
I took a trip to Home Depot and got 4 10" x 5' pine boards, plus some furring strips for the edges. I butted 3 together with some flat aluminum plates and reinforced the edges with the furring strips. I sanded the edges, lightly stained it and sealed it and I had a decent surface to start with.
I then snagged an old 2 drawer file cabinet from work, welded up a pair of adjustable legs, and made 2 pedestals for the 4th board. The file cabinet holds up the desk on one side, the legs on the other, and the pedestals hold up the "shelf" (4th board), which I use for the printer and fax machine. Since the pedestals are just hollow square steel boxes, they also hold a bunch of ethernet jacks on one side, and a switched outlet on the other.
Lots of room for crap. 2 17" monitors. an old Pentium machine acting as a firewall, tons of old cds, an old laptop, empty coffee cups and pepsi cans, papers, pens, etc.
Your way is actually the Right Way(tm). Nobody I know with children would even think about putting a computer with internet connectivity in their child's room. They want games? Fine, give them a computer with no internet access. Deathmatch junkie? Be the uber-cool dad and host a server behind the firewall. Make sure you practice lots and give the kid a good whuppin once in a while.
I'm no parent, but I know enough about the internet to say it's no place for children to navigate unsupervised. Period.
Win9x is punishment enough.
I remember reading a story where an old satellite came back to life after 20+ years. Aparently the batteries failed "short", draining any voltage developed by the solar cells. Eventually the shorted cells disconnected for some reason, enabling the sat to send signals for short periods of time when it was in sunlight.
He doesn't know, because these "hacker circles" routinely get their "Debian Boxen" rooted without their knowledge.
I prefer to call it "Spiritual Pollution".
Another little tip if you have to use dd for a drive image: Before installing anything, boot with knoppix and fill the entire disk with zeros, then partition, format, and install. The image will compress a lot more than if it had random data still on the drive. I've done this with fairly small disks (4 - 8 GB) and it only takes about 10 -15 minutes on older hardware.
No, those are for regular broadcast TV. You know, the kind that's free as in "Free Beer, not Freedom from bad Programming"
They don't work.
My question is, now that we can have TV anywhere we want, will they actually put something on that's worth watching?
I see your point, but what happens if there's a fire or natural disaster and all those records are destroyed? At least if its scanned they'll still have the information somewhere, hopefully backed up in a remote location.
Surviving the test of time should be trivial, as long as open standards are used.
There were dupes that year too.
July 4th
December 14th
The links are long dead, but the stories are basically the same.
I know a guy that's pretty good with Ford mass air flow systems. He can usually tell what sensor or component is bad just by listening to the engine, and if not, he knows how to use the code reader. The problem is, he knows nothing about carburetors, and even less about ignitions that use points instead of electronic.
Get a second opinion. That car should be covered by OBD standards, so there should be at least some aftermarket solution. I have 2 rules:
1. Never trust mechanics
2. When someone tells me a certain mechanic can be trusted, refer to rule #1.
They will rob you blind if given the slightest chance they can get away with it.
IMO, late 70s to mid 80s automotive computers were crap. They were basically a computer controlled carburetor, with some timing adjustments. The EFI systems at the time were a little better, but not much. Try another mechanic, search salvage yards for the parts you need, or consider buying a newer car.
They played "Froggy went a courtin' he did ride c-c-c-c-c-c-crambone!", and when they broke a string they plucked it off of the nanocat.
Moreover, IBM is more likely to allow others to use this technology without filing patent infringement suits than some other company like amazon.com with its one-click shopping.
Unless you piss them off, then they let the lawyers loose like they're doing to SCO.