1. What kind of embedded os they are running? I am at total loss with modern cars.
Most likely Windows Automotive 5.0, but could be very likely that what controls the engine/powertrain and what tells the doors to unlock is completely different software, just as it is very likely that the door locks tell the Microsoft PCU software to disable when the car is at a certain angle, as someone mentioned before.
Breezy had such notifications after a kernel update as well. And if I recall correctly (it has been a while) Hoary had them too.
Dapper just makes them look pertier.
This is certainly nothing new.
I've been running Dapper since about a week before the release of Flight 6 and so far I've been very impressed. The upgrade was very easy from breezy to dapper, only changing the relative entries in my sources.list and running apt-get dist-upgrade. The only problems I didn't forsee was the entries that automatix put in there were not compatible, such as a Breezy backport for KDE 3.5 (Dapper comes with KDE 3.5), so that had to be taken out. (Note to self: If ubuntu-desktop is not installed, X may not start on the next boot, due too a missing font server (my interpretation), so if you get headaches after your dist-upgrade, check that first). Other issues I had were a borked/etc/network/interfaces, the auto $IFACE entry was either nuked or duplicated, resulting in the interface not coming up on the next boot.
Other than those issues, my experience with Dapper has been great. I was using KDE 3.5 for the longest time, but ended up going back too Gnome 2.14. Can't tell you why really, KDE 3.5 was really sluggish on my TNT2 but now that I got the Radeon 7500 (shush!) working, maybe it should be snappier.
I'll also suggest using/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist to prevent certain modules from loading, say for example your computer insists on loading the OHCI USB subsystem when it actually needs the UHCI subsystem. May not solve your sound problem, but could prevent a myriad of other headaches if you insist on using hardware autodetection and your computer insists on being a stubborn ass.
reluctant to continue the OT-ness of this thread - let me just add that having been on Medicaid multiple times, it is in many ways very superior to managed care.
Considering how *my* (semi)-addicted WoW friends spent the last server "downtime" on the forums slamming the refresh button and flaming everyone and everything in sight, methinks this isn't the best idea.
Me? Why I'm an MMO virgin. Honest!
No... really I am...
Why are you looking at me like that?!
O.K. stop that! I'm going to go over here now. No, no! It's ok, you can stay right where you are...
My voicemail message is Invader Zim's message to the skool children in the first episode; "Hello friends. I am a perfectly normal human worm baby. You have nothing, absolutely nothing to fear from me. Just pay no attention to me and we'll get along just fine." Both legitimate and wrong numbers are really confused by that one! Especially the principal from that middle school in the Finger Lakes trying to get in touch with me "to talk to me about my son." HA! He only called twice before he figured that I wasn't the person he was looking for .
By surrendering to our fears our very own government has done far more damange to this nation than any single group or person wishing us harm could have ever dreamed.
And it is in that way that the terrorists have already won.
It depends on the player. The big advantage that MP3 has is that there's inexpensive hardware decoder chips available for it, so you don't even need much of a CPU in order to add MP3 playback to your electronic device. This is how most MP3 car stereos, portable CD players, etc. work.
Ogg has no hardware decoder, and to my knowledge, neither do WMA and AAC. So a portable device decoding any of these formats would have to use general-purpose CPU power to decode these formats, rather than idling the CPU and just feeding the stream to the (far more efficient) hardware decoder. Assuming, of course, that your player has a hardware decoder.
So, just out of curiosity, you couldn't use something like this(pdf ~>html over google) as the base for for your MP3 player?
I may be a lightweight bastard, but I cannot eat a single habanero without violently vomiting.
400 mg of Capsaicin is basically like eating pepper spray. Even if it's in capsule pill form you may vomit it up from your stomach. I wonder if there's any way for a local application to the prostate instead of standard ingestion.
I wonder how the mice were taking it. I'd hate to be the grad student cleaning out that cage.
I have a rather crappy SouthWestern Bell Freedom Answering System answering machine.
It stores your messages after the outgoing message on a single tape. If you happen to have a message and power goes off, it forgets everything. If somebody calls, it plays your messages back after the OGM.
If I'm at home in Atlanta and need to call 9-1-1 chances are my call isn't routed to New Jersey (a'la Vonage) before it's routed back to Atlanta where it terminates at a public access point for Cobb County Police.
"There is some kind of glitch in the 911 system," Tracy Simmons said. "His call was not answered locally -- it was transferred to Ontario County."
Tracy Simmons said the woman who answered her husband's 911 call informed him that she didn't know where Delaware County was and gave him the number for the Delaware County Sheriff's Department.
A glitch indeed. Anyone familiar with New York (and those not) should note that Ontario County is near Rochester, while Delaware county is at/near the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, nearly 180 miles, and 3 hours apart. This was done presumably without the help of Vonage, over POTS.
It leaves a foul taste in the mouth, much like this whole situation does.
The very fact that the Linux Kernel needs to be recompiled to extend it is a strong indictment against it.
Likewise, the fact the Linux kernel can be recompiled to remove support for hardware that a particular computer will never see (to reduce memory overhead, or boot-times perhaps), is a HUGE plus in some people's books. I see no particular reason for a particular linux kernel to support every single IDE or USB chipset under the sun for the sake of compatibility, when I only need it to support one (mine). That is can be more 'extending' then recompiling the kernel to add features. And yes, maybe a modularized kernel provides more flexibility, but sometimes a 'monolithic' kernel is more suitable. Like when the ni65 module refuses to load on boot for no apparent reason and you can't SSH into your sandbox server anymore.
One man's faults will always be another man's features.
fashion your own hardwood case using modifed podium from lecture hall,
having a chest height 303 on wheels... priceless
when you can't finish reading the article after skipping out to supper, you can also make an attempt at a witty retort to your own contribution to the discussion (and wonder... in a discussion about software 303s, why would a DIY 303 *REALLY* not respond...)
be gentle
Last I heard, it's back in a pre-order phase, after doing a round of orders (check the forums for some really cool mods to the design). Apparently they're having problems tracking down some of the parts, but they post instructions and parts-needed for everything (including USB interface, IIRC), if you wanted to build your own. (the orders were either for kits, or pre-builts, I don't recall which.)
I just went to the link, and it doesn't seem to work: Google Cache
Slashdot Mirror
Thank you! I haven't even gotten XII out of the damn shrinkwrapping yet!
shillings pound you!
i know i know...don't feed the trolls... but the above is kinda neat.. just wish it came in white.
Most likely Windows Automotive 5.0, but could be very likely that what controls the engine/powertrain and what tells the doors to unlock is completely different software, just as it is very likely that the door locks tell the Microsoft PCU software to disable when the car is at a certain angle, as someone mentioned before.
~o1
Dapper just makes them look pertier.
This is certainly nothing new.
I've been running Dapper since about a week before the release of Flight 6 and so far I've been very impressed. The upgrade was very easy from breezy to dapper, only changing the relative entries in my sources.list and running apt-get dist-upgrade. The only problems I didn't forsee was the entries that automatix put in there were not compatible, such as a Breezy backport for KDE 3.5 (Dapper comes with KDE 3.5), so that had to be taken out. (Note to self: If ubuntu-desktop is not installed, X may not start on the next boot, due too a missing font server (my interpretation), so if you get headaches after your dist-upgrade, check that first). Other issues I had were a borked /etc/network/interfaces, the auto $IFACE entry was either nuked or duplicated, resulting in the interface not coming up on the next boot.
Other than those issues, my experience with Dapper has been great. I was using KDE 3.5 for the longest time, but ended up going back too Gnome 2.14. Can't tell you why really, KDE 3.5 was really sluggish on my TNT2 but now that I got the Radeon 7500 (shush!) working, maybe it should be snappier.
I'll also suggest using /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist to prevent certain modules from loading, say for example your computer insists on loading the OHCI USB subsystem when it actually needs the UHCI subsystem. May not solve your sound problem, but could prevent a myriad of other headaches if you insist on using hardware autodetection and your computer insists on being a stubborn ass.
"If your try to fail, and succeed... what have you accomplished?"
does that make me a bad person?
do you have a torrent?
Spitzer is running for Governor... but I'm sure that has nothing to do with it.
reluctant to continue the OT-ness of this thread - let me just add that having been on Medicaid multiple times, it is in many ways very superior to managed care.
Me? Why I'm an MMO virgin. Honest!
No... really I am...
Why are you looking at me like that?!
O.K. stop that! I'm going to go over here now. No, no! It's ok, you can stay right where you are...
My voicemail message is Invader Zim's message to the skool children in the first episode; "Hello friends. I am a perfectly normal human worm baby. You have nothing, absolutely nothing to fear from me. Just pay no attention to me and we'll get along just fine." Both legitimate and wrong numbers are really confused by that one! Especially the principal from that middle school in the Finger Lakes trying to get in touch with me "to talk to me about my son." HA! He only called twice before he figured that I wasn't the person he was looking for .
And it is in that way that the terrorists have already won.
mod parent double plus insightful!
It depends on the player. The big advantage that MP3 has is that there's inexpensive hardware decoder chips available for it, so you don't even need much of a CPU in order to add MP3 playback to your electronic device. This is how most MP3 car stereos, portable CD players, etc. work.
Ogg has no hardware decoder, and to my knowledge, neither do WMA and AAC. So a portable device decoding any of these formats would have to use general-purpose CPU power to decode these formats, rather than idling the CPU and just feeding the stream to the (far more efficient) hardware decoder. Assuming, of course, that your player has a hardware decoder.
So, just out of curiosity, you couldn't use something like this(pdf ~>html over google) as the base for for your MP3 player?
I may be a lightweight bastard, but I cannot eat a single habanero without violently vomiting.
400 mg of Capsaicin is basically like eating pepper spray. Even if it's in capsule pill form you may vomit it up from your stomach. I wonder if there's any way for a local application to the prostate instead of standard ingestion.
I wonder how the mice were taking it. I'd hate to be the grad student cleaning out that cage.
And government software is a subscription based model, where you pay for each release.
It stores your messages after the outgoing message on a single tape. If you happen to have a message and power goes off, it forgets everything. If somebody calls, it plays your messages back after the OGM.
Not a virus, but definitely open.
Ma Bell owns the copper and fibre.
Ma Bell owns the switching offices.
Ma Bell owns the infrastructure.
If I'm at home in Atlanta and need to call 9-1-1 chances are my call isn't routed to New Jersey (a'la Vonage) before it's routed back to Atlanta where it terminates at a public access point for Cobb County Police.
Funny you should mention that...
From TFA:
"There is some kind of glitch in the 911 system," Tracy Simmons said. "His call was not answered locally -- it was transferred to Ontario County."
Tracy Simmons said the woman who answered her husband's 911 call informed him that she didn't know where Delaware County was and gave him the number for the Delaware County Sheriff's Department.
A glitch indeed. Anyone familiar with New York (and those not) should note that Ontario County is near Rochester, while Delaware county is at/near the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, nearly 180 miles, and 3 hours apart. This was done presumably without the help of Vonage, over POTS.
It leaves a foul taste in the mouth, much like this whole situation does.
The very fact that the Linux Kernel needs to be recompiled to extend it is a strong indictment against it.
Likewise, the fact the Linux kernel can be recompiled to remove support for hardware that a particular computer will never see (to reduce memory overhead, or boot-times perhaps), is a HUGE plus in some people's books. I see no particular reason for a particular linux kernel to support every single IDE or USB chipset under the sun for the sake of compatibility, when I only need it to support one (mine). That is can be more 'extending' then recompiling the kernel to add features. And yes, maybe a modularized kernel provides more flexibility, but sometimes a 'monolithic' kernel is more suitable. Like when the ni65 module refuses to load on boot for no apparent reason and you can't SSH into your sandbox server anymore.
One man's faults will always be another man's features.
Come to think of it,
track down the parts yourself, $150
fashion your own hardwood case using modifed podium from lecture hall,
having a chest height 303 on wheels... priceless
when you can't finish reading the article after skipping out to supper, you can also make an attempt at a witty retort to your own contribution to the discussion (and wonder... in a discussion about software 303s, why would a DIY 303 *REALLY* not respond...) be gentle
Last I heard, it's back in a pre-order phase, after doing a round of orders (check the forums for some really cool mods to the design). Apparently they're having problems tracking down some of the parts, but they post instructions and parts-needed for everything (including USB interface, IIRC), if you wanted to build your own. (the orders were either for kits, or pre-builts, I don't recall which.)
I just went to the link, and it doesn't seem to work: Google Cache
~electro1
Not to mention that inhuman poker face...
obligatory...
on Red Planet, water carves you!