I have done this for years as my specialty did not allow for not showing up.
You need to make friends with the local Snap-On and MAC Tools guys and buy the proper diagnostic tools and you can usually get a good deal on the used ones. The data for new cars tends to be expensive but if you have a 2-3 year old car the $1200 2004 cartridge will be $200 for the 2000 cartridge which was $1200 new. Remember the st^H^Hdealer charges $100+ for just reading the codes once.
The average/. er with good mechanical skills can take it from there. If you can build a robot you can fix a modern car.
And the reason some of us drive the hated SUV is the abysmal maintenance of the public highways. I loved my VW quantum turbodiesel it had cargo space and great mileage 40+ MPG however I could not afford $600-800 for suspension repairs evey couple of months due to pothole damage ( I live in the sticks ) So I bought the hated SUV where even at $4.00 Gal gas is still cheaper than the repairs on a "green" car and I do not need to bring it into the shop frequently.
What I really want is comprehensive rail service so that I only need a car for trips to the station and vacations.
Like the original Airbus at the Paris air show where the computer decided that the pilots stick input for climb were incorrect and the plane flew right into the ground.
Cisco also makes a product called the 3200 Mobile router. Which they sell to the Police, Military, Delivery and Field service companies
It uses both celluar and WiFi technologies so that vehicles are always networked in some fashion and for these customers GPS probably would be a big win.
Back in the early Unix days CC when it compiled login.c would insert a back door for the developers.
Enteraysys/Cabletron devices all have back door passwords for when the user loses their passwords and these are burned into ROM and not changeable or fixable.
Do not attribute to malice what stupidity will adequately explain. In this case I think the backdoor was stupidity inserted by a developer as I recall an experience where a Cisco SE was locked out of one of these boxes and needed to use the password recovery mechanism to get in (yes the HSE and WLSE both have a power it on and apply secret handshake mode) to recover lost passwords.
A developer probably inserted this while testing the login modules (there are 5 authenticators only one of which is active at any given time) for these boxes so if they failed they could still get in and subsequently forgot to remove the backdoor.
Yes I have given up too much of my life configuring these boxes! and I am having a bad month when I do not get at least 1 bug per week listed on CCO.
Your files are available anywhere you have a standard web browser.
The iFolder client is nice if you have a M$ box as it will make your iFolder look and act like a CIFS folder on your box but the iFolder client is NOT needed.
Considering that Kodak provides the CCD's and support electronics for the majority of Space and Military applications and has done so since long before there was a market for digital cameras. This is where Kodak developed the technology and the patents that protect it.
Remember Kodak has the lead in professional digital imaging systems.
As part of the campaign to ensure homeland security the DOJ will be mandating the installation of camera's in every room in the US. These cameras will be used to ensure that all US laws and moral codes are observed at all times and to gather evidence for subsequent prosecution of offenders.
This cost of the installation will be deducted from your tax refund as your contribution to homeland security.
With this new technology the RIAA and DOJ will be able to ensure that the music you are listening to has been sourced from a Govt/RIAA approved vendor.
As a duly licensed ham radio operator. I feel compelled to point out that Ham radio's mission in life is to provide emergency communications in times of national emergencies or natural disaster. The fact that we get to play with slices of spectrum is a nice benefit but not the primary rationale for Ham Radio.
During 9/11 Ham Radio was the only viable wide area communications system which still worked after the loss of the facilities located on the WTC.
Most governental radio systems were kaput.
This is just another example of the current administration selling out the average citzens welfare for the benefit of moneyed interests.
It appears there is a lack of experience with the construction/transportation sector of the economy.
These guys use cash for _everyting_ their unofficial motto is "God gets credit everybody else pays cash" I've been to auctions (going since I was a kid) where the hauler types would pay 20K in cash for their new purchases. The wad was 3" thick.
These guys n' gals still remember their grandparent's stories of the 1930's and how anything other than cash is worthless.
Oh and by the way they trust the 'Gummint even less than the average/. 'er they make us look like GWB syncohants in comparison. It does not suprise me in the least that a hauler would try to remove any method by which the 'gummint could see how much money they had on them.
As an aside the logbooks the DOT makes them use to detail their activities are called "swindle sheets".
The local governments should own the infrastructure and lease it to the operator(s). When I was a Govt. employee we needed DS3 lines for 911 service.
The local ILEC who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty could/would not provide the DS3's because of "Lack of Facilities" this is a catchall phrase telling the customer that the ILEC cannot be bothered to make the CAPEX to provide the desired service.
Every rate case that came up the ILEC said the additional money would go into broadband or ISDN deploys where the money actually went was stock dividends and executive bonus packages.
Publicly operated roads,airports , waterworks and electric companies seem to work nicely. FedEx and UPS make a nice profit delivering packages over publicly operated standardized roads. You do not have to wait 12-18 months to get your water service "provisioned" do you?.
If we leave this to the ILEC's we will see the Big Bamboozle and Joe Ratepayer will be stuck with the Big Bill for Vaporware
In my neck of the woods MediaOne->ATTBI->Comcast blocks IPSec unless you purchase a _business_ account for 2-3X the cost of the basic plan.
I have DSL and Satellite because I refuse to do business with said crew of pirates.
When MediaOne bought our local cable provider they changed the billing so you were billed for 2 months for every month of service this was "in case you did not pay your bill" but they would refund the charges when you terminated your service yeah sure and if you belive that I have a nice tower in paris which is being sold for scrap.
I had them physically remove the drop from the pole to our house and lived without TV until the advent of DirectTV. This was nice because it _cost_ them money! and removed any avenue for them to complain about "cable piracy"
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Most cars have this. It's called OBD II all you need is the interface starts at about $100US and some software and you can monitor all the parameters of your car. there are even palm versions of this interface (more expensive) of course the Govt had to force the US and Japanese manufacturers to play nice unlike VW/Audi who did it on their own.
Now the feds will have a new argument for _requiring_ key escrow "to protect IP" just wonderful. and the broadband providers will have a new excuse for blocking VPN connections on residential circuits. Which will make it really inconvenient and _expensive_ for those of us who need these tools for productive work. Ahh the tragedy of the commons writ large
I just wish for once people would think about the consequences for the rest of us before rolling out a commercial service.
The place to fight the DMCA is the courts and we do have some judges on our side. Does anyone remember the Cartervision case where Hollywood wanted to ban VCR's the judge in that case found while the VCR's could be used to infringe copyright they had substantial 'non-infringing' uses which is the same tack the judge in the p2p case is taking. Let's not give _big media_ any ammo for their view of the world.
Or the Kodak 14n at 56M per shot. But these are not consumer devices and the users are not quite as sensitive to price. If you are paying your models 5k+ per hour and possibly renting a location any time you save _not_ changing storage devices goes right to the bottom line.
Havent been to YHZ recently so it probably has improved since my last visit. another example of a fun airport before its major facelift was MHT (Manchester NH) . You walked across the tarmac to the waiting aircraft andboarded it with a hand positioned set of stairs.
When you returned the rampies would open a overhead door and dump your luggage into a sloping stainless steel bin. However you could watch your luggage being unloaded and transferred to the baggage trains. At least you could not lose your bags at MHT!.
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You have to work for a Airline at least once to appreciate the true humor of your comment.
My wife and I have been through many unknown airports with limited "amenities" You havent lived till you have flown through PQI (Presque Isle, Maine)or YHZ (Halifax NS).
As an employee you often need to do "creative" routing to get to your desired destination. So a choice for free WiFi could make the trip pleasant for myself and my wife while waiting to go elsewhere.
Or you can sit in a MX (Maintenance _not_ mail exchanger) breathing JET-A fumes or you can go to a place with free WiFi and surf while waiting for the next segment on the way to Hawaii.
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From a traveller's point of view 'free' wireless access will influence the traveller's choice of airport so the airport authority will benefit indirectly by attracting more passengers.
In theory "Free Trade" is a good thing however in practice it has led to a global race to the bottom for wages in all countries.
What modern megacorporations have forgotten is the social contract which allowed them to exist in the first place. Simply stated the corporation would be allowed to accumulate capital and generate profits for its shareholders in exchange for creating jobs for workers in its marketplace.
In the past the management of the corporation lived in the community they could see the effect of their policies on the community. Hence in times past when times got tough salaries would be reduced but people would retain their jobs because the management actually saw these people every day. Now since employees are nothing but an abstraction on an excel spreadsheet the management does not see them as people but as chattel and acts accordingly.
In the Reagan years the watchword became "Maximization of shareholder value" and the implied contract dropped off the map we are now reaping the whirlwind from the seeds sown in the Reagan era. We are now seeing the rebirth of lasse faire" capitalism which caused the economic disaster known as the 1890's.
History has shown us repeatedly that "pure" socialism does not work and "pure" capitalism does not work. Both systems benefit a small minority of the population in the first system the commissar's or the nomenklatura benefit in the second the Investor's and the top echelon of management benefit. In both cases the middle class is destroyed and the economy tanks.
In closing the only way to fix this is to vote the miscreants out of office. It is convenient to blame the Bushies but each senator and representative needs to be examined on a case by case basis and YOU need to find out WHO is funding their campaign's.
In Florida for instance the congresscritters from both parties were on a junket to Mumbai funded by a outsourcer. In this case I would say that they ALL need to be voted out of office posthaste regardless of party affiliation since by their actions they seem to acting against the interests of the people they supposedly represent.
As a previous poster noted the range for RFID tags is generally under 15" however range is limited only by the inverse square law.
f you can generate a RF field with sufficient energy to activate the RFID tag you can read it from almost any distance.
Example a small boat radar which costs less than 1500 US generates an X band pulse of 3.5 KW and the emitter is 8" in diameter by 3" high.
So with this in mind I do not buy the argument that one needs physical proximity to read RFID tags.
Technology is neutral it is the use of technology which determines whether an application is for good or evil. However the framers of the constitution realized that there is always a minority who lust for power and control and will use any means to achieve those goals hence the balance of power.
If you are a _licensed_ ham radio operator the scanner bans do not apply in 99.9% of the cases. There are some exceptions especially in the washington DC area.
There are also areas in maryland where transmitters are barred as well and along a certain portion of the canadian border you are limited in modes/power
This is no big surprise, OSS is simply a reversion back to the bronze and iron age of computing where IBM and the BUNCH (Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data and Honeywell)
GAVE THE SOFTWARE AWAY w/souce code to help sell the computer. They then went to step 3 Profit! by supporting the _system_ as a whole.
Ever wonder why there are still IBM 1401 (Circa 1961) emulators running on IBM's newest hardware. Open Source never dies!!!! as long as there are people willing to support it.
No I am really not that old but my first boss was and I learned quite a bit about the history of computing from him. (Thanks Chet)
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I have done this for years as my specialty did not allow for not showing up.
/. er with good mechanical skills can take it from there. If you can build a robot you can fix a modern car.
You need to make friends with the local Snap-On and MAC Tools guys and buy the proper diagnostic tools and you can usually get a good deal on the used ones.
The data for new cars tends to be expensive but if you have a 2-3 year old car the $1200 2004 cartridge will be $200 for the 2000 cartridge which was $1200 new.
Remember the st^H^Hdealer charges $100+ for just reading the codes once.
The average
And the reason some of us drive the hated SUV is the abysmal maintenance of the public highways. I loved my VW quantum turbodiesel it had cargo space and great mileage 40+ MPG however I could not afford $600-800 for suspension repairs evey couple of months due to pothole damage ( I live in the sticks ) So I bought the hated SUV where even at $4.00 Gal gas is still cheaper than the repairs on a "green" car and I do not need to bring it into the shop frequently.
What I really want is comprehensive rail service so that I only need a car for trips to the station and vacations.
Like the original Airbus at the Paris air show where the computer decided that the pilots stick input for climb were incorrect and the plane flew right into the ground.
Cisco also makes a product called the 3200 Mobile router. Which they sell to the Police, Military, Delivery and Field service companies
It uses both celluar and WiFi technologies so that vehicles are always networked in some fashion and for these customers GPS probably would be a big win.
Back in the early Unix days CC when it compiled login.c would insert a back door for the developers.
Enteraysys/Cabletron devices all have back door passwords for when the user loses their passwords and these are burned into ROM and not changeable or fixable.
Do not attribute to malice what stupidity will adequately explain. In this case I think the backdoor was stupidity inserted by a developer as I recall an experience where a Cisco SE was locked out of one of these boxes and needed to use the password recovery mechanism to get in (yes the HSE and WLSE both have a power it on and apply secret handshake mode) to recover lost passwords.
A developer probably inserted this while testing the login modules (there are 5 authenticators only one of which is active at any given time) for these boxes so if they failed they could still get in and subsequently forgot to remove the backdoor.
Yes I have given up too much of my life configuring these boxes! and I am having a bad month when I do not get at least 1 bug per week listed on CCO.
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The Junior Officer's Version of the Incomprehensible Algorthmic Language
Yes it can,
Your files are available anywhere you have a standard web browser.
The iFolder client is nice if you have a M$ box as it will make your iFolder look and act like a CIFS folder on your box but the iFolder client is NOT needed.
Can you say file transfer on the zaurus...
Nah..
Schoolboard does not have enough money left over for microscopes after paying for sports equipment.
After all sports is much more important than rectifying the techological and scientific illiteracy which run rampant in schools.
The possibility of another George Washington Carver is lost in the trasitory noise of "Our star foward could be another LeBron James"
Sigh...
Considering that Kodak provides the CCD's and support electronics for the majority of Space and Military applications and has done so since long before there was a market for digital cameras. This is where Kodak developed the technology and the patents that protect it.
Remember Kodak has the lead in professional digital imaging systems.
Their reasoning is based on the assumption that people will be willing to pay for the content rather than find alternatives.
Also with all the jobs going to India and China who is going to be able to pay for the content...
Patriot Act III
As part of the campaign to ensure homeland security the DOJ will be mandating the installation of camera's in every room in the US. These cameras will be used to ensure that all US laws and moral codes are observed at all times and to gather evidence for subsequent prosecution of offenders.
This cost of the installation will be deducted from your tax refund as your contribution to homeland security.
With this new technology the RIAA and DOJ will be able to ensure that the music you are listening to has been sourced from a Govt/RIAA approved vendor.
As a duly licensed ham radio operator. I feel compelled to point out that Ham radio's mission in life is to provide emergency communications in times of national emergencies or natural disaster. The fact that we get to play with slices of spectrum is a nice benefit but not the primary rationale for Ham Radio.
During 9/11 Ham Radio was the only viable wide area communications system which still worked after the loss of the facilities located on the WTC.
Most governental radio systems were kaput.
This is just another example of the current administration selling out the average citzens welfare for the benefit of moneyed interests.
It appears there is a lack of experience with the construction/transportation sector of the economy.
/. 'er they make us look like GWB syncohants in comparison. It does not suprise me in the least that a hauler would try to remove any method by which the 'gummint could see how much money they had on them.
These guys use cash for _everyting_ their unofficial motto is "God gets credit everybody else pays cash"
I've been to auctions (going since I was a kid) where the hauler types would pay 20K in cash for their new purchases. The wad was 3" thick.
These guys n' gals still remember their grandparent's stories of the 1930's and how anything other than cash is worthless.
Oh and by the way they trust the 'Gummint even less than the average
As an aside the logbooks the DOT makes them use to detail their activities are called "swindle sheets".
The local governments should own the infrastructure and lease it to the operator(s). When I was a Govt. employee we needed DS3 lines for 911 service.
The local ILEC who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty could/would not provide the DS3's because of "Lack of Facilities" this is a catchall phrase telling the customer that the ILEC cannot be bothered to make the CAPEX to provide the desired service.
Every rate case that came up the ILEC said the additional money would go into broadband or ISDN deploys where the money actually went was stock dividends and executive bonus packages.
Publicly operated roads,airports , waterworks and electric companies seem to work nicely. FedEx and UPS make a nice profit delivering packages over publicly operated standardized roads. You do not have to wait 12-18 months to get your water service "provisioned" do you?.
If we leave this to the ILEC's we will see the Big Bamboozle and Joe Ratepayer will be stuck with the Big Bill for Vaporware
In my neck of the woods MediaOne->ATTBI->Comcast blocks IPSec unless you purchase a _business_ account for 2-3X the cost of the basic plan.
I have DSL and Satellite because I refuse to do business with said crew of pirates.
When MediaOne bought our local cable provider they changed the billing so you were billed for 2 months for every month of service this was "in case you did not pay your bill" but they would refund the charges when you terminated your service yeah sure and if you belive that I have a nice tower in paris which is being sold for scrap.
I had them physically remove the drop from the pole to our house and lived without TV until the advent of DirectTV. This was nice because it _cost_ them money! and removed any avenue for them to complain about "cable piracy"
Most cars have this. It's called OBD II all you need is the interface starts at about $100US and some software and you can monitor all the parameters of your car. there are even palm versions of this interface (more expensive) of course the Govt had to force the US and Japanese manufacturers to play nice unlike VW/Audi who did it on their own.
Now the feds will have a new argument for _requiring_ key escrow "to protect IP" just wonderful. and the broadband providers will have a new excuse for blocking VPN connections on residential circuits. Which will make it really inconvenient and _expensive_ for those of us who need these tools for productive work. Ahh the tragedy of the commons writ large
I just wish for once people would think about the consequences for the rest of us before rolling out a commercial service.
The place to fight the DMCA is the courts and we do have some judges on our side. Does anyone remember the Cartervision case where Hollywood wanted to ban VCR's the judge in that case found while the VCR's could be used to infringe copyright they had substantial 'non-infringing' uses which is the same tack the judge in the p2p case is taking. Let's not give _big media_ any ammo for their view of the world.
Or the Kodak 14n at 56M per shot. But these are not consumer devices and the users are not quite as sensitive to price. If you are paying your models 5k+ per hour and possibly renting a location any time you save _not_ changing storage devices goes right to the bottom line.
Havent been to YHZ recently so it probably has improved since my last visit. another example of a fun airport before its major facelift was MHT (Manchester NH) . You walked across the tarmac to the waiting aircraft andboarded it with a hand positioned set of stairs.
When you returned the rampies would open a overhead door and dump your luggage into a sloping stainless steel bin. However you could watch your luggage being unloaded and transferred to the baggage trains. At least you could not lose your bags at MHT!.
You have to work for a Airline at least once to appreciate the true humor of your comment.
My wife and I have been through many unknown airports with limited "amenities" You havent lived till you have flown through PQI (Presque Isle, Maine)or YHZ (Halifax NS).
As an employee you often need to do "creative" routing to get to your desired destination. So a choice for free WiFi could make the trip pleasant for myself and my wife while waiting to go elsewhere.
Or you can sit in a MX (Maintenance _not_ mail exchanger) breathing JET-A fumes or you can go to a place with free WiFi and surf while waiting for the next segment on the way to Hawaii.
From a traveller's point of view 'free' wireless access will influence the traveller's choice of airport so the airport authority will benefit indirectly by attracting more passengers.
Also - first post
In theory "Free Trade" is a good thing however in practice it has led to a global race to the bottom for wages in all countries.
What modern megacorporations have forgotten is the social contract which allowed them to exist in the first place. Simply stated the corporation would be allowed to accumulate capital and generate profits for its shareholders in exchange for creating jobs for workers in its marketplace.
In the past the management of the corporation lived in the community they could see the effect of their policies on the community. Hence in times past when times got tough salaries would be reduced but people would retain their jobs because the management actually saw these people every day. Now since employees are nothing but an abstraction on an excel spreadsheet the management does not see them as people but as chattel and acts accordingly.
In the Reagan years the watchword became "Maximization of shareholder value" and the implied contract dropped off the map we are now reaping the whirlwind from the seeds sown in the Reagan era. We are now seeing the rebirth of lasse faire" capitalism which caused the economic disaster known as the 1890's.
History has shown us repeatedly that "pure" socialism does not work and "pure" capitalism does not work. Both systems benefit a small minority of the population in the first system the commissar's or the nomenklatura benefit in the second the Investor's and the top echelon of management benefit. In both cases the middle class is destroyed and the economy tanks.
In closing the only way to fix this is to vote the miscreants out of office. It is convenient to blame the Bushies but each senator and representative needs to be examined on a case by case basis and YOU need to find out WHO is funding their campaign's.
In Florida for instance the congresscritters from both parties were on a junket to Mumbai funded by a outsourcer. In this case I would say that they ALL need to be voted out of office posthaste regardless of party affiliation since by their actions they seem to acting against the interests of the people they supposedly represent.
As a previous poster noted the range for RFID tags is generally under 15" however range is limited only by the inverse square law.
f you can generate a RF field with sufficient energy to activate the RFID tag you can read it from almost any distance.
Example a small boat radar which costs less than 1500 US generates an X band pulse of 3.5 KW and the emitter is 8" in diameter by 3" high.
So with this in mind I do not buy the argument that one needs physical proximity to read RFID tags.
Technology is neutral it is the use of technology which determines whether an application is for good or evil. However the framers of the constitution realized that there is always a minority who lust for power and control and will use any means to achieve those goals hence the balance of power.
If you are a _licensed_ ham radio operator the scanner bans do not apply in 99.9% of the cases. There are some exceptions especially in the washington DC area.
There are also areas in maryland where transmitters are barred as well and along a certain portion of the canadian border you are limited in modes/power
This is no big surprise, OSS is simply a reversion back to the bronze and iron age of computing where IBM and the BUNCH (Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, Control Data and Honeywell)
GAVE THE SOFTWARE AWAY w/souce code to help sell the computer. They then went to step 3 Profit! by supporting the _system_ as a whole.
Ever wonder why there are still IBM 1401 (Circa 1961) emulators running on IBM's newest hardware. Open Source never dies!!!! as long as there are people willing to support it.
No I am really not that old but my first boss was and I learned quite a bit about the history of computing from him. (Thanks Chet)