I work part time for a school bus company, so here goes. Until about a year ago, they had a ton of the boxes they install on the buses, but only 2 cameras to put in these boxes to go around. To get an idea this bus company has ~200 buses, but not all the buses have a box in them. I'd say about 1/2.
Because of this, only the real problem buses got the cameras. The cameras recorded onto a tape that looped every couple of hours, so unless they pulled the tape out of the bus for review it just recorded over itself.
One some buses, there was a switch on the dashboard that would turn the camera on and off. Sometimes it was unlabeled, other times it had some nonsense label like "Landing Light" or "Sign Light" or something like that. Other buses simply ran the camera when the ignition was on. The blinking red light would blink regardless of switch position, camera installed or not.
Sometimes they would tell the driver there was a camera in the bus, sometimes they don't. I think this was to keep the drivers on their toes more than anything else, because the cameras can also record what the driver does. Nevertheless, the driver does not have keys to open the box.
In the last year or two, all the new buses they have purchased come with cameras preinstalled. Unlike the old buses with a one way mirror, these buses you can clearly see the camera behind the glass. The trick though is that under the dashboard there is a box that holds a VCR, and they only have so many of these VCRs to go around. So while each new bus clearly has a camera, not all are recording.
I have seen footage from the new bus cameras and it is quite good too. The old ones weren't so hot. I think the new ones are digital but I'm not sure (haven't asked).
"3. Buy a Toyota Camry second-hand off a rental company."
Oh yeah, buy some random rental beater that has been abused the last 25,000 miles. That's real smart. You ever see how people drive those cars? Or how the company takes care of them?
I'd just get a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and rinse the blades off with it after you use them. Isopropyl is cheap, certainly much cheaper than replacing blades all the time.
A couple of years ago, my mother was visiting Rolla Missouri, had her car parked in front of a Walmart when some vandals smashed the back window in. Surprisenly it was during the day, and the car was parked close to the front of the store. She noticed that there was a camera pointed right at her car too. When she went into Walmart to inquire about footage from the camera, they were most rude and unhelpful, and told her that those cameras "weren't even on". Uh huh. Even the police were worthless, only acknowledging that there have been problems with vandals in the area - probably because they wouldn't get off their fat lazy asses and do anything about it.
On the good side, the local Nissan dealership who she brought her car to was very kind and sympathetic and got her back on her way very quickly. And luckily the insurance paid for the replacement.
Programs like Partition Magic can hide partitions. I have had this problem, I just tagged the D: partition as hidden, reinstalled, unhid D:, and continued on my way.
Another solution may be to convert that partition to something like NTFS, Win 98 will not assign it a drive letter because it does not recognize it, the after you are done convert it back to FAT32. But that could be very risky.
AFAIK, All that you need is a Windows 95OSR2 or 98SE Bootdisk with fdisk and format on it. Create and fdisk your partition in FAT32 with the bootdisk. Start up Windows XP Setup, and tell it to install on that drive, and NOT to convert it to NTFS. Done.
Also, anyone else notice that a lot of the OEM computers (atleast the ones with smaller drives) use FAT32?
The sad thing is, those 8" Floppies are probably still more reliable than a brand new 3.5" I bought from the store yesterday. They just don't build them like they used to.
Lets see, this vulnerbility has been in Windows since NT was released, and it's now July 2003 and they are just getting around to patching it?
Oh, you mean the turnaround time until it is *discovered* and the patch.
I guess the point is, with open-source software such as Linux, the chance of big gaping security holes hanging around for years is much less. People look in the code and get them fixed up fairly quickly. This hole had been in Windows for years, and thus virtually every Windows server on the planet could be a victim. I doubt that could happen in Linux.
So people like you are responsible for all those websites out there that only work in IE. Yeah, I know there is IE for the Mac, but that really is a different browser and has a totally different set of quirks than IE-Windows.
I guess it's up to you, but if you want to piss off the non-IE Windows users, and leave the Mac/Linux/??? people out in the cold, go ahead. They'll just go elsewere.
Since KDE and Gnome are open source, anyone who is so inclined could yank Konqueror and Gnome out of their respective desktops. Not so with Windows/IE.
And I'm that a lot of people who do this browsing end up buying the CDs of bands they would of otherwise never discovered. Thus, this feature will probably reduce the number of CDs the average file sharer buys. (and yes I know some do buy 0, but others do purchase some/many CDs)
How come it seems no matter what the RIAA shoots at, they always end up hitting their own foot?
Like most people, I have a fairly large download pipe (about 1mbps) while a tiny upload pipe (128kpbs). Thus, I have a rather large collection of files people want. Whenever I go onto P2P networks, my upload pipe is almost always maxed with lots of people qued up waiting to upload.
What this article says is not entirely true. While the leechers do not harm or take anything away from me, they do take bandwidth away from the people who are not leeching. And I do not have infinite bandwidth, because even if I left my computer on 24/7, more people will que up and try to upload than I ever could upload to.
Since I cannot upload to everybody, it is in my best interests to upload to the people who share. Because the people who share are the only one who will actually make the network grow. Also, when they share a file they uploaded from me, it also makes that file more available on the network and takes a little bit of the load off myself.
So there are practical reasons to kick freeloaders , besides just the moral ones. If I truly had infinite bandwidth (I interpet that as enough bandwidth to send my files to everyone who wants them, regardless of them sharing or not), then maybe I wouldn't care about freeloaders. But since I don't, I will continue to block leechers from uploading from me.
I haven't cut back, though I don't do much file sharing in the first place (it's much more productive to hang around alt.binaries, and leech). I did consider changing what I share from mp3's to music videos, as the RIAA seems to not care too much about those, but in the end I didn't. The way I figure it, the RIAA is probably going to try to nail those people who leave their machines on the network 24/7 first, but who knows.
Opera is just fine. They may never hit it big, but like Apple they have a small, loyal, user base that is willing to fork out some money for their product. As long as they put out a quality product like Opera 7.11 is now, they will be continue to be a (minor) player.
I think it's just a marketing move. Microsoft is tired of people happily running Windows 98, etc. They want people to upgrade to the next version of Windows. They already cut off Windows 95, and now they want cut off everything upto and including XP. The line about not being able to improve the browser due to the underlining OS is just bull. It's not that they can't, it's that they won't.
What is going to happen is you'll see ads like "Windows 2004, now with Pop-Up blocking! Upgrade now." We will all know you can get these features in old Windows 95, etc. with Mozilla/Opera/whatever but most people will just be clueless.
I know, Opera is great. Version 6 was almost good enough, and now they have it down to a fine art with Version 7.11. Very few broken websites do not load in Opera (and send me screaming and kicking back to IE).
I know someone else mentioned that Opera will never make it because you have to pay for it (or put up with an ad in the corner), but when it's as good as Opera I don't have a problem forking out some money.
Sadly, the cost is the reason Opera is not going to make it big. However, it seems that Microsoft is going to try to make people pay for IE 7 (as in you can only get it if you fork out $???.?? for the next version of Windows). It really seems that Microsoft has a huge problem with people sitting around with older versions of their software, perfectly content, and not willing to upgrade. And I don't think this move is going to change things for them either.
The way I see Opera is that they have a big enough user base that is willing to pay them money, so as long as the programmers are getting paid, I don't see Opera going away any time soon - even if they don't ever hit it big.
My car, a "clunker" is a 1988 Nissan Stanza. It is well maintained mechanically, and it passes inspections easily. http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/4 410.shtml It puts out 7.70 tons a year of greenhouse gases with average driving, getting ~25MPG (I get around 27MPG myself, but I may drive more highway)
Lets take a modern SUV, like a 2003 Ford Explorer V6: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/18170 .shtm l It puts out 11.30 tons of greenhouse gases, and gets 17MPG.
Looks like my old clunker wins.
Too bad the site doesn't go further back than 1985, but even a 1985 Cadillac Seville: http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/ 435.shtml With a 4.1L V8 is only putting out 10.30 tons a year of greenhouse gases, so it is still beating the SUV. And lets not even get into super SUVs like the Chevy Suburban.
So I say there is no problem with older cars on the road, provided of course that they are well maintained.
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I work part time for a school bus company, so here goes. Until about a year ago, they had a ton of the boxes they install on the buses, but only 2 cameras to put in these boxes to go around. To get an idea this bus company has ~200 buses, but not all the buses have a box in them. I'd say about 1/2.
Because of this, only the real problem buses got the cameras. The cameras recorded onto a tape that looped every couple of hours, so unless they pulled the tape out of the bus for review it just recorded over itself.
One some buses, there was a switch on the dashboard that would turn the camera on and off. Sometimes it was unlabeled, other times it had some nonsense label like "Landing Light" or "Sign Light" or something like that. Other buses simply ran the camera when the ignition was on. The blinking red light would blink regardless of switch position, camera installed or not.
Sometimes they would tell the driver there was a camera in the bus, sometimes they don't. I think this was to keep the drivers on their toes more than anything else, because the cameras can also record what the driver does. Nevertheless, the driver does not have keys to open the box.
In the last year or two, all the new buses they have purchased come with cameras preinstalled. Unlike the old buses with a one way mirror, these buses you can clearly see the camera behind the glass. The trick though is that under the dashboard there is a box that holds a VCR, and they only have so many of these VCRs to go around. So while each new bus clearly has a camera, not all are recording.
I have seen footage from the new bus cameras and it is quite good too. The old ones weren't so hot. I think the new ones are digital but I'm not sure (haven't asked).
"3. Buy a Toyota Camry second-hand off a rental company."
Oh yeah, buy some random rental beater that has been abused the last 25,000 miles. That's real smart. You ever see how people drive those cars? Or how the company takes care of them?
I have no idea where you live, but maybe you should check out Simon Delivers?
http://www.simondelivers.com/
I'd just get a bottle of isopropyl alcohol and rinse the blades off with it after you use them. Isopropyl is cheap, certainly much cheaper than replacing blades all the time.
Or just get an electric.
A couple of years ago, my mother was visiting Rolla Missouri, had her car parked in front of a Walmart when some vandals smashed the back window in. Surprisenly it was during the day, and the car was parked close to the front of the store. She noticed that there was a camera pointed right at her car too. When she went into Walmart to inquire about footage from the camera, they were most rude and unhelpful, and told her that those cameras "weren't even on". Uh huh. Even the police were worthless, only acknowledging that there have been problems with vandals in the area - probably because they wouldn't get off their fat lazy asses and do anything about it.
On the good side, the local Nissan dealership who she brought her car to was very kind and sympathetic and got her back on her way very quickly. And luckily the insurance paid for the replacement.
Programs like Partition Magic can hide partitions. I have had this problem, I just tagged the D: partition as hidden, reinstalled, unhid D:, and continued on my way.
Another solution may be to convert that partition to something like NTFS, Win 98 will not assign it a drive letter because it does not recognize it, the after you are done convert it back to FAT32. But that could be very risky.
AFAIK, All that you need is a Windows 95OSR2 or 98SE Bootdisk with fdisk and format on it. Create and fdisk your partition in FAT32 with the bootdisk. Start up Windows XP Setup, and tell it to install on that drive, and NOT to convert it to NTFS. Done.
Also, anyone else notice that a lot of the OEM computers (atleast the ones with smaller drives) use FAT32?
The sad thing is, those 8" Floppies are probably still more reliable than a brand new 3.5" I bought from the store yesterday. They just don't build them like they used to.
Lets see, this vulnerbility has been in Windows since NT was released, and it's now July 2003 and they are just getting around to patching it?
Oh, you mean the turnaround time until it is *discovered* and the patch.
I guess the point is, with open-source software such as Linux, the chance of big gaping security holes hanging around for years is much less. People look in the code and get them fixed up fairly quickly. This hole had been in Windows for years, and thus virtually every Windows server on the planet could be a victim. I doubt that could happen in Linux.
That sounds more like someone's extreme case mod to me. Did you check to see if there was an overclocked 486 running in the freezer?
So people like you are responsible for all those websites out there that only work in IE. Yeah, I know there is IE for the Mac, but that really is a different browser and has a totally different set of quirks than IE-Windows.
I guess it's up to you, but if you want to piss off the non-IE Windows users, and leave the Mac/Linux/??? people out in the cold, go ahead. They'll just go elsewere.
Since KDE and Gnome are open source, anyone who is so inclined could yank Konqueror and Gnome out of their respective desktops. Not so with Windows/IE.
You mean something like this?
This doesn't happen to have anything to do with station wagons full of harddisks, now does it?
Holy crap. Now that is well worth the download!
And I'm that a lot of people who do this browsing end up buying the CDs of bands they would of otherwise never discovered. Thus, this feature will probably reduce the number of CDs the average file sharer buys. (and yes I know some do buy 0, but others do purchase some/many CDs)
How come it seems no matter what the RIAA shoots at, they always end up hitting their own foot?
Like most people, I have a fairly large download pipe (about 1mbps) while a tiny upload pipe (128kpbs). Thus, I have a rather large collection of files people want. Whenever I go onto P2P networks, my upload pipe is almost always maxed with lots of people qued up waiting to upload.
What this article says is not entirely true. While the leechers do not harm or take anything away from me, they do take bandwidth away from the people who are not leeching. And I do not have infinite bandwidth, because even if I left my computer on 24/7, more people will que up and try to upload than I ever could upload to.
Since I cannot upload to everybody, it is in my best interests to upload to the people who share. Because the people who share are the only one who will actually make the network grow. Also, when they share a file they uploaded from me, it also makes that file more available on the network and takes a little bit of the load off myself.
So there are practical reasons to kick freeloaders , besides just the moral ones. If I truly had infinite bandwidth (I interpet that as enough bandwidth to send my files to everyone who wants them, regardless of them sharing or not), then maybe I wouldn't care about freeloaders. But since I don't, I will continue to block leechers from uploading from me.
And sadly, after looking at the beta... they got *a lot* of work to do.
I haven't cut back, though I don't do much file sharing in the first place (it's much more productive to hang around alt.binaries, and leech). I did consider changing what I share from mp3's to music videos, as the RIAA seems to not care too much about those, but in the end I didn't. The way I figure it, the RIAA is probably going to try to nail those people who leave their machines on the network 24/7 first, but who knows.
Opera is just fine. They may never hit it big, but like Apple they have a small, loyal, user base that is willing to fork out some money for their product. As long as they put out a quality product like Opera 7.11 is now, they will be continue to be a (minor) player.
I think it's just a marketing move. Microsoft is tired of people happily running Windows 98, etc. They want people to upgrade to the next version of Windows. They already cut off Windows 95, and now they want cut off everything upto and including XP. The line about not being able to improve the browser due to the underlining OS is just bull. It's not that they can't, it's that they won't.
What is going to happen is you'll see ads like "Windows 2004, now with Pop-Up blocking! Upgrade now." We will all know you can get these features in old Windows 95, etc. with Mozilla/Opera/whatever but most people will just be clueless.
I know, Opera is great. Version 6 was almost good enough, and now they have it down to a fine art with Version 7.11. Very few broken websites do not load in Opera (and send me screaming and kicking back to IE).
I know someone else mentioned that Opera will never make it because you have to pay for it (or put up with an ad in the corner), but when it's as good as Opera I don't have a problem forking out some money.
Sadly, the cost is the reason Opera is not going to make it big. However, it seems that Microsoft is going to try to make people pay for IE 7 (as in you can only get it if you fork out $???.?? for the next version of Windows). It really seems that Microsoft has a huge problem with people sitting around with older versions of their software, perfectly content, and not willing to upgrade. And I don't think this move is going to change things for them either.
The way I see Opera is that they have a big enough user base that is willing to pay them money, so as long as the programmers are getting paid, I don't see Opera going away any time soon - even if they don't ever hit it big.
Why don't you guys look up some facts?
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My car, a "clunker" is a 1988 Nissan Stanza. It is well maintained mechanically, and it passes inspections easily.
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/
It puts out 7.70 tons a year of greenhouse gases with average driving, getting ~25MPG (I get around 27MPG myself, but I may drive more highway)
Lets take a modern SUV, like a 2003 Ford Explorer V6:
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/1817
It puts out 11.30 tons of greenhouse gases, and gets 17MPG.
Looks like my old clunker wins.
Too bad the site doesn't go further back than 1985, but even a 1985 Cadillac Seville:
http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes
With a 4.1L V8 is only putting out 10.30 tons a year of greenhouse gases, so it is still beating the SUV. And lets not even get into super SUVs like the Chevy Suburban.
So I say there is no problem with older cars on the road, provided of course that they are well maintained.
After you hook all those babies up to a giant linux beowolf cluster....**RING**
"Hmm... the phone"
**ZAP!!!!**
Yeah, just be sure to not accidently point it at the goatse guy.