At the risk of asking a really stupid question: Couldn't you just lift the car straight up, using some form of hydraulic jacks, slide it on a flatbed, and drive off with it that way?
Certainly take a few minutes longer than the tilt and haul method, but no tilt, no dead ECU?
Lol, that's kind of funny because me and my dad did something similiar on the c64 back when he was still into computers as something other than a career. I don't remember what the game was called but it was one of those text-based dungeon crawls. I just remember constantly getting to this one maze area and being unable to figure out what to trigger next (and with no save function you had to get up to that point each time, hard when you only had an hour or two before you got to bed.
As to women in gaming, I've known a few, however the majority tended to be 'social gamers', and never seemed to share similiar titles in their library with me, so no MP gaming love;.; Plus most of the one's I've met recently are WoW freaks and it just doesn't float my boat.
I actually ran into that with a local 'surplus' computer store I'd been going to for like ten years. Had needed some SDRAM to fix a friends computer, and I actually went to them and bought *BRAND NEW* memory, since they had a small side-business of new parts as well. Got it home and found out it was the new non-standard 4 chip SDRAM, that only worked with like the last year or two of SDRAM chipsets. Mind you at the time I just thought I'd gotten bad memory. Went back and tried to return it, and they told me they couldn't take it back for replacement/refund. That I'd probably broken it myself, and then finally spent a half hour trying to get a 'test computer' running to test the memory, which wouldn't boot up:P In addition they told me I'd have to wait 2 weeks for them to send it back to their Santa Clara store to have *THEM* test it before I could get said replacements.
Anyhow let's just say I was not amused, and didn't go back for a good 3 years (And haven't bought anything since, given that at least half the merchandise HASN'T CHANGED IN ALL THOSE YEARS!). And having heard stories from an ex-employee there, I'm not real motivated to ever start up again (Unless it's buying something that actually *WOULD* be worth the money, something they haven't had in a good 5 years.)
Honestly, around here it's because the small box stores have *WORSE* return policies, charge way too much for service and whatnot, and generally treat their customers as bad or worse than the big box stores.
At least that's been my experience. Best thing to happen to me was having Fry's move in here back in '99. Had a defective mobo that turned out to have been a return, as well as being sold a Rage IIC (Something I didn't figure out until much later, and hadn't returned, heh.) which after having the employees tell me they couldn't take back, led to speaking to the manager, who basically stated he didn't have to do anything, he'd only take it back for store credit, blah blah. This finally led to my dad coming in, having left the item in the car, convincing the guy to take it back (he was assuming we'd have to make another trip, and could pull this BS again.) and returned the item for cash.
Long story short, went to fry's, got a new mobo, fought through a 2 hour opening week line, and came home happy (with a *MUCH* better mobo for the same or lower price!). I've had plenty of hassles at Fry's themselves, but as long as you don't buy a warranty, watch out for open box tags (which they at least *USED* to put on everything returned.), and don't mind the wait, they tend to handle their returns VERY effectively with a minimum of hassle (After about the third return they'll look at you funny, but if you're on the third return of the same defective type item, you're best off getting your money back anyways! Just make sure you test the item ASAP since I think it's a 7 day return policy on electronics.)
You missed a decimal there: 300Mb/s should read 30.0Mb/s:) That's one of the reasons they take so long to boot up, the rest prehaps someone else can elucidate on.
You know the real irony here? I have a buddy who spent 3-4 years working towards an Associate degree part-time. The kicker? After a bunch of failed attempts at jobs (he got used as a 'temp' for regular workers on vacation in the field he was trying to break into at the time), and some personal problems, he ended up taking one of those Learn to truck drive in 40 days type things, and three jobs into it (over a span of maybe a year?) he's making more money than I would likely earn in 5 years assuming I had a BA in CompSci, or a similiar technical field. Owns his own house, and has more docked from his paycheck in taxes per month than he was MAKING at any of his previous jobs. And people are trying to tell us going to college will get you something above and beyond finding a field where the money is, and just jumping in?
Kind of leaped offtopic there, but there reason there are so many more dumb truck drivers is because it's far and above a more lucrative business position than most of the other jobs after 4 years in college. I mean c'mon, you get the best of the army and management, you sit on your ass all day and see the world!:)
Out here in Cali, you've got more to worry about from the SUVs, rich sobs (oftentimes in said SUVs), and the occasional ditzy kids/streetracers/cops. I've personally seen very few squirrelly maneuvers from semis out here, and I've got about 15k of cross-country driving under my belt, in addition to another 30-40 in-Cali driving. With the exception of some of the quieter sections of 80 out of state, by far the biggest dangers driving tend to be personal trucks/suvs, followed by various ineptly driven passenger vehicles.
Having that game (Which was actually Bethesda's Sea Dogs 2 rebadged before release.) It had a *TON* of files with it, although I think they were lua-scripts or something, not actual c-code. Regardless they had a lot of options available in them for modifying core components of the game. You could change your characters starting stats, name, ship type, etc. Given the somewhat frustrating land-side swordplay, I ended up having more fun tweaking the game than playing it.
Having reminded me, I may have to dig it out sometime soon and see what else it's got going.
That's because the warden no doubt is running with admin privileges, either by loading as a system level daemon, or device driver, same way those seccd.sys or whatever files worked. (Securom v1?)
Just because an app runs unprivileged doesn't mean it's not capable of running or accessing administrative level processes (the admin-level procs are SUPPOSED to ensure that's not allowed, but if a malicious or improperly coded one DOES allow it, you've suddenly got a security issue, and all the user-level privileges around aren't going to help you.)
I'll give you a great example of what's bleeding non-corp types dry: Health Insurance.
If you're keeping yourself insured and don't have a nice big company backing you, it's EXPENSIVE. As an example, I've got about 220 dollars per month in combined gas/insurance costs.
Health insurance for that same period is 278 dollars/mo, and getting dropped end of this month.
Combine that with minimum wage, and well you can see why I wouldn't be living on my own. Only other option is to sell out and pick a 'career' job, assuming you can find somewhere that'll hire you on full-time, and provide health care benefits (last job wouldn't either way, and given that it paid a buck and a half less than my prior job, it wasn't worth it!)
Well obviously 'he', the robot didn't have a bustline!
More seriously though I remember seeing a lot of this back when I was a little kid.. Mind you there were also vaguely sociopathic kids, who'd bite or hit you, sometimes AFTER stealing your toys. (I remember at least two different instances of this, I'm just glad it never made it through the skin, like EWWWWWW!) But a lot of kids would have special toys at the preschool, or home that they'd take care of, or find a bug or frog or what have you that they'd catch and protect for a while (and hope it acted like the one's on TV, talking or semi-intelligent or what have you.) Then usually end of the day or whatever let it go (And not just because their parents saw it and told them to either!)
I haven't actually dicked with setting it up, but there's actually a security model in linux now for ALLOWING processes to be bindable to 'root' ports, either via SELINUX or seperately (It's in the kernel source, but since I'm too lazy to actually go through and set up policies and tools of ANY kind I haven't looked much beyond that.) But regardless the support is intended for EXACTLY this sort of setup, keeping processes unprivileged while allowing them the tools they need to operate properly.
40 cents per message via Verizon (I don't honestly know what my plan is, being that it's a family plan).
I had 5 of these (2 incoming, 3-4 outgoing) first month of service. Now my only question is: Can I have all incoming messages blocked, so I don't get charged for non-Verizon advertising Messages incoming? I mean shoot a couple minute phone call is cheaper than that SMS rate, and I can probably say more in that period.
I can't talk about 20 year old hardware, since my 386 isn't currently running (And I need to swap in a 16 bit ISA EIDE controller card to replace the MFM card and hard disk I lost the bad sector remapping for.) But I've got 2 10 plus year old servers chugging away right now with 128 megs (4 cpu server) and 256 megs (2 cpu workstation/server), and both of them are still running serious applications under linux as we speak. I have another that if I had the spare power cable to attach it, would be chugging away with FreeBSD within 5 minutes of powering it on. Nevermind that my parents are currently using a Single Proc Celeron that I went through 2 mobos with that is currently running Fedora Core 7, and while it's a little slow starting up, it handles their web browsing and email needs just peachy, and can play Q3 at between 20 and 40 fps (depending on if I bump it from 10x7 to 16x12, and if I swapped in a newer video card it could probably peg at 90 in most places, and in fact HAS when I've had a 9800 in there, so imagine a more modern card, like an X1650, or GF7600, or HD2600Pro AGP.
Disrespecting old hardware is foolish. A lot of older hardware, esp server grade stuff is fully capable of running until many of us are old or dead, depending on working enviroment (keeping it below 85F if possible, maintenance (Not letting the whole fsckin case fill with dust/hair/crud), and new hard disks (the singular largest point of failure in systems, esp old ones. You'll have some disks last for 20 years, and some barely last one. I've had both, I've got a half dozen 9 gig scsi hard drives that have been chugging for at least the last 2 years straight (and were purchased a good 4 years ago) I've had a few 9/18 gigs fail suddenly. I've had a few smaller and larger IDE drives fail as well. But I've also had more than a few last. Personally I think if you really want to keep your older hardware running for a long time, transitioning to current gen Compact Flash, and IDE to CF adapters is the way to go, since unlike hard drives they're unlikely to fail COMPLETELY at once, and hopefully usually during write, rather than read.) The only other major failure point is the potential for caps to go bad, and as long as you can catch it before it damages something else, you can always take the time and track them down and swap 'em out. Nothing like a twenty or thirty year old system you can say 'I not only have had it running all these years, but I've made sure it'll stay running for my kids to use.
Just my view on it, YMMV, but I'm sure there are people here with their C64's and VAX's and other oldschool hardware that still have it running, and maybe even have repaired it a few times to keep it doing so. Newer hardware I've had a lot more issues with dying, be it heat, or cold solder joints (no lead, woohoo!;.;), or just cheap components.
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At the risk of asking a really stupid question:
Couldn't you just lift the car straight up, using some form of hydraulic jacks, slide it on a flatbed, and drive off with it that way?
Certainly take a few minutes longer than the tilt and haul method, but no tilt, no dead ECU?
You mean you should've been a politician? :P
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FYI, it wasn't Zork, but it was the same style game. Zork was actually one of those games I'd always wanted but never gotten :)
Lol, that's kind of funny because me and my dad did something similiar on the c64 back when he was still into computers as something other than a career. I don't remember what the game was called but it was one of those text-based dungeon crawls. I just remember constantly getting to this one maze area and being unable to figure out what to trigger next (and with no save function you had to get up to that point each time, hard when you only had an hour or two before you got to bed.
;.; Plus most of the one's I've met recently are WoW freaks and it just doesn't float my boat.
As to women in gaming, I've known a few, however the majority tended to be 'social gamers', and never seemed to share similiar titles in their library with me, so no MP gaming love
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And the options were referred to as backslash so and so.
At least that was the terminology as I learned it when I was 8 or 10 or so.
All I can say is: Somebody actually WATCHED that? I took one look at the ads, and commented to my friends on how much it sucked :)
I actually ran into that with a local 'surplus' computer store I'd been going to for like ten years. Had needed some SDRAM to fix a friends computer, and I actually went to them and bought *BRAND NEW* memory, since they had a small side-business of new parts as well. Got it home and found out it was the new non-standard 4 chip SDRAM, that only worked with like the last year or two of SDRAM chipsets. Mind you at the time I just thought I'd gotten bad memory. Went back and tried to return it, and they told me they couldn't take it back for replacement/refund. That I'd probably broken it myself, and then finally spent a half hour trying to get a 'test computer' running to test the memory, which wouldn't boot up :P In addition they told me I'd have to wait 2 weeks for them to send it back to their Santa Clara store to have *THEM* test it before I could get said replacements.
Anyhow let's just say I was not amused, and didn't go back for a good 3 years (And haven't bought anything since, given that at least half the merchandise HASN'T CHANGED IN ALL THOSE YEARS!). And having heard stories from an ex-employee there, I'm not real motivated to ever start up again (Unless it's buying something that actually *WOULD* be worth the money, something they haven't had in a good 5 years.)
Honestly, around here it's because the small box stores have *WORSE* return policies, charge way too much for service and whatnot, and generally treat their customers as bad or worse than the big box stores.
At least that's been my experience. Best thing to happen to me was having Fry's move in here back in '99. Had a defective mobo that turned out to have been a return, as well as being sold a Rage IIC (Something I didn't figure out until much later, and hadn't returned, heh.) which after having the employees tell me they couldn't take back, led to speaking to the manager, who basically stated he didn't have to do anything, he'd only take it back for store credit, blah blah. This finally led to my dad coming in, having left the item in the car, convincing the guy to take it back (he was assuming we'd have to make another trip, and could pull this BS again.) and returned the item for cash.
Long story short, went to fry's, got a new mobo, fought through a 2 hour opening week line, and came home happy (with a *MUCH* better mobo for the same or lower price!). I've had plenty of hassles at Fry's themselves, but as long as you don't buy a warranty, watch out for open box tags (which they at least *USED* to put on everything returned.), and don't mind the wait, they tend to handle their returns VERY effectively with a minimum of hassle (After about the third return they'll look at you funny, but if you're on the third return of the same defective type item, you're best off getting your money back anyways! Just make sure you test the item ASAP since I think it's a 7 day return policy on electronics.)
Obviously one with a really high uptime for Windows :)
Three obviously :)
:) Maybe we're all just too old and Gen-Xy :)
Shoot, most people I know here refer to it as Cali
You missed a decimal there: 300Mb/s should read 30.0Mb/s :) That's one of the reasons they take so long to boot up, the rest prehaps someone else can elucidate on.
You know the real irony here? I have a buddy who spent 3-4 years working towards an Associate degree part-time. The kicker? After a bunch of failed attempts at jobs (he got used as a 'temp' for regular workers on vacation in the field he was trying to break into at the time), and some personal problems, he ended up taking one of those Learn to truck drive in 40 days type things, and three jobs into it (over a span of maybe a year?) he's making more money than I would likely earn in 5 years assuming I had a BA in CompSci, or a similiar technical field. Owns his own house, and has more docked from his paycheck in taxes per month than he was MAKING at any of his previous jobs. And people are trying to tell us going to college will get you something above and beyond finding a field where the money is, and just jumping in?
:)
Kind of leaped offtopic there, but there reason there are so many more dumb truck drivers is because it's far and above a more lucrative business position than most of the other jobs after 4 years in college. I mean c'mon, you get the best of the army and management, you sit on your ass all day and see the world!
I have one character array and a float for you: 'gcc-' '2.96'
Enough said.
Out here in Cali, you've got more to worry about from the SUVs, rich sobs (oftentimes in said SUVs), and the occasional ditzy kids/streetracers/cops. I've personally seen very few squirrelly maneuvers from semis out here, and I've got about 15k of cross-country driving under my belt, in addition to another 30-40 in-Cali driving. With the exception of some of the quieter sections of 80 out of state, by far the biggest dangers driving tend to be personal trucks/suvs, followed by various ineptly driven passenger vehicles.
Just my 2 cents.
Having that game (Which was actually Bethesda's Sea Dogs 2 rebadged before release.) It had a *TON* of files with it, although I think they were lua-scripts or something, not actual c-code. Regardless they had a lot of options available in them for modifying core components of the game. You could change your characters starting stats, name, ship type, etc. Given the somewhat frustrating land-side swordplay, I ended up having more fun tweaking the game than playing it.
Having reminded me, I may have to dig it out sometime soon and see what else it's got going.
Sounds like a plot for Japanese Lesbian porn :)
That's because the warden no doubt is running with admin privileges, either by loading as a system level daemon, or device driver, same way those seccd.sys or whatever files worked. (Securom v1?)
Just because an app runs unprivileged doesn't mean it's not capable of running or accessing administrative level processes (the admin-level procs are SUPPOSED to ensure that's not allowed, but if a malicious or improperly coded one DOES allow it, you've suddenly got a security issue, and all the user-level privileges around aren't going to help you.)
That's because my family dropped Cobra and went to individual plans :P We actually got better rates HMO direct X.X
I'll give you a great example of what's bleeding non-corp types dry: Health Insurance.
If you're keeping yourself insured and don't have a nice big company backing you, it's EXPENSIVE.
As an example, I've got about 220 dollars per month in combined gas/insurance costs.
Health insurance for that same period is 278 dollars/mo, and getting dropped end of this month.
Combine that with minimum wage, and well you can see why I wouldn't be living on my own.
Only other option is to sell out and pick a 'career' job, assuming you can find somewhere that'll hire you on full-time, and provide health care benefits (last job wouldn't either way, and given that it paid a buck and a half less than my prior job, it wasn't worth it!)
Mardi Gras 2005: :)
Go for a dive in '05!
Well obviously 'he', the robot didn't have a bustline!
More seriously though I remember seeing a lot of this back when I was a little kid.. Mind you there were also vaguely sociopathic kids, who'd bite or hit you, sometimes AFTER stealing your toys. (I remember at least two different instances of this, I'm just glad it never made it through the skin, like EWWWWWW!) But a lot of kids would have special toys at the preschool, or home that they'd take care of, or find a bug or frog or what have you that they'd catch and protect for a while (and hope it acted like the one's on TV, talking or semi-intelligent or what have you.) Then usually end of the day or whatever let it go (And not just because their parents saw it and told them to either!)
I haven't actually dicked with setting it up, but there's actually a security model in linux now for ALLOWING processes to be bindable to 'root' ports, either via SELINUX or seperately (It's in the kernel source, but since I'm too lazy to actually go through and set up policies and tools of ANY kind I haven't looked much beyond that.) But regardless the support is intended for EXACTLY this sort of setup, keeping processes unprivileged while allowing them the tools they need to operate properly.
40 cents per message via Verizon (I don't honestly know what my plan is, being that it's a family plan).
I had 5 of these (2 incoming, 3-4 outgoing) first month of service. Now my only question is: Can I have all incoming messages blocked, so I don't get charged for non-Verizon advertising Messages incoming? I mean shoot a couple minute phone call is cheaper than that SMS rate, and I can probably say more in that period.
I can't talk about 20 year old hardware, since my 386 isn't currently running (And I need to swap in a 16 bit ISA EIDE controller card to replace the MFM card and hard disk I lost the bad sector remapping for.) But I've got 2 10 plus year old servers chugging away right now with 128 megs (4 cpu server) and 256 megs (2 cpu workstation/server), and both of them are still running serious applications under linux as we speak. I have another that if I had the spare power cable to attach it, would be chugging away with FreeBSD within 5 minutes of powering it on. Nevermind that my parents are currently using a Single Proc Celeron that I went through 2 mobos with that is currently running Fedora Core 7, and while it's a little slow starting up, it handles their web browsing and email needs just peachy, and can play Q3 at between 20 and 40 fps (depending on if I bump it from 10x7 to 16x12, and if I swapped in a newer video card it could probably peg at 90 in most places, and in fact HAS when I've had a 9800 in there, so imagine a more modern card, like an X1650, or GF7600, or HD2600Pro AGP.
;.;), or just cheap components.
Disrespecting old hardware is foolish. A lot of older hardware, esp server grade stuff is fully capable of running until many of us are old or dead, depending on working enviroment (keeping it below 85F if possible, maintenance (Not letting the whole fsckin case fill with dust/hair/crud), and new hard disks (the singular largest point of failure in systems, esp old ones. You'll have some disks last for 20 years, and some barely last one. I've had both, I've got a half dozen 9 gig scsi hard drives that have been chugging for at least the last 2 years straight (and were purchased a good 4 years ago) I've had a few 9/18 gigs fail suddenly. I've had a few smaller and larger IDE drives fail as well. But I've also had more than a few last. Personally I think if you really want to keep your older hardware running for a long time, transitioning to current gen Compact Flash, and IDE to CF adapters is the way to go, since unlike hard drives they're unlikely to fail COMPLETELY at once, and hopefully usually during write, rather than read.) The only other major failure point is the potential for caps to go bad, and as long as you can catch it before it damages something else, you can always take the time and track them down and swap 'em out. Nothing like a twenty or thirty year old system you can say 'I not only have had it running all these years, but I've made sure it'll stay running for my kids to use.
Just my view on it, YMMV, but I'm sure there are people here with their C64's and VAX's and other oldschool hardware that still have it running, and maybe even have repaired it a few times to keep it doing so. Newer hardware I've had a lot more issues with dying, be it heat, or cold solder joints (no lead, woohoo!