My rudimentary searches say that that car has an automatic hill-start system that means that you don't need to hold both the brake and accelerator at the same time to pull off on a hill.
I have never seen a car without a handbrake. Even pretty old cars like the austin mini and the triumph spitfire have handbrakes. (I am British, however, and I admit that American cars may be stupider).
Some automatics need the brake pedal pushed before they'll go into gear, but those essentially do the hill start for you, as you release the foot brake.
Strangely, I do drive a manual. 'round here, most people do. I learned to drive in an (old) mini, which, being a multiple-times rally champion car, handled a little differently to American tanks. I know all about proper driving. But I guess, your "own sense of right and wrong" tells you otherwise.
I live on a hill that has had the fence at the bottom of the street replaced at least twice, and the handrail outside my place replaced once. Since just before Christmas alone. It might just be quite steep, and I may just know what I'm talking about with a hill start.
Oh sure, it might be something to do when racing. But if you do any racing whatsoever it should be on a track and with cars which don't have anti-driver-stupidity protections anyway.
I have a Sony Ericsson "candybar" phone. Every time my carrier offers me a new phone on my contract, I get another, because they are virtually indestructible.
My T610 was thrown hard against a brick wall (don't ask). The battery cover came off, but the battery was still in and the phone was still on afterwards. Just clipped the battery cover back on and then used the phone for the next two years or so.
In most cpus you'd implement the kill as a highest-priority interrupt, so the cpu would have to be inside the highest-priority interrupt (i.e. killswitch code) already for it to ignore it. IIRC, most cpus will service hardward interrupts even if they are in a hung state, as long as the interrupt table is ok.
I said things have got older. It could well be caused by general deterioration of components, e.g. capacitors are well known to have a limited lifetime, and cause all sorts of interesting effects as they degrade.
Get an engineer in to test the line. If he finds nothing wrong, seriously consider that your precious pfSense box could be kaput.
I know if I contact them, they'll argue that it's my equipment (it's not - nothing has changed on my side of the network for a couple of years now), and they'll never admit to it being their problem...
Except one thing has changed. Your equipment has got older.
It also sounds like you're more stubborn than they are.
True. However, it hasn't been down during the times I've been using it in those 100 days, or probably at all as my non-static IP hasn't changed.
I haven't seen an ADSL connection that doesn't need the modem rebooting at least once a week (though in a lot of cases, it's the router's fault, not the connection).
I'm on their 10Mb service and getting close to what they advertise. Specifically my cable modem is reporting that it is connected at 10240000 bits/sec.
I have seen downloads (normally from steam) hit 1.2MB/s.
Even better, my cable modem's uptime is currently 108 days 18h:11m:16s, my (admittedly custom) router's uptime is 107 days, 12 hours, 12 minutes. I've never seen an ADSL connection stay up that long.
The new steam beta window is HUGE. A lot of people used the old compact mode (most of the time), so that steam was just a menu of games, not a "gaming portal" or whatever other buzzwords.
I did not know that (the limits thing). I thought they were still just each guaranteed to be at least the size of the previous one, with no absolutes. It was like that in C89, right?
Still, in my example I don't think I needed a 64-bit int in the end anyway, as I changed from storing number of bytes to number of gigabytes. A 64-bit int for storing "5" is a bit overkill, don't you think?
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My rudimentary searches say that that car has an automatic hill-start system that means that you don't need to hold both the brake and accelerator at the same time to pull off on a hill.
Correct?
I have never seen a car without a handbrake. Even pretty old cars like the austin mini and the triumph spitfire have handbrakes. (I am British, however, and I admit that American cars may be stupider).
Some automatics need the brake pedal pushed before they'll go into gear, but those essentially do the hill start for you, as you release the foot brake.
It would be nice if they did release enough of the software for us to be able to repair it.
The only automatics I've driven do this, and also have a real handbrake.
I've never seen a car whose parking brake is under the dash, I assume that only really really old American cars have this?
Strangely, I do drive a manual. 'round here, most people do. I learned to drive in an (old) mini, which, being a multiple-times rally champion car, handled a little differently to American tanks. I know all about proper driving. But I guess, your "own sense of right and wrong" tells you otherwise.
That's what the handbrake is for.
I live on a hill that has had the fence at the bottom of the street replaced at least twice, and the handrail outside my place replaced once. Since just before Christmas alone. It might just be quite steep, and I may just know what I'm talking about with a hill start.
Oh sure, it might be something to do when racing. But if you do any racing whatsoever it should be on a track and with cars which don't have anti-driver-stupidity protections anyway.
We already have a solution - Cut the power when the break is pushed
How do you left-foot brake if pressing the brake cuts the power?
You don't. It's not something you should be doing anyway.
For windows standard modal dialogs, you don't have to (can't in fact) highlight the text, so no ctrl+A.
I have a Sony Ericsson "candybar" phone. Every time my carrier offers me a new phone on my contract, I get another, because they are virtually indestructible.
My T610 was thrown hard against a brick wall (don't ask). The battery cover came off, but the battery was still in and the phone was still on afterwards. Just clipped the battery cover back on and then used the phone for the next two years or so.
We are talking about the embedded cpu you'd find in a car here.
But yes, I'm pretty sure you could still implement the kill outside the car's control unit's cpu.
In most cpus you'd implement the kill as a highest-priority interrupt, so the cpu would have to be inside the highest-priority interrupt (i.e. killswitch code) already for it to ignore it. IIRC, most cpus will service hardward interrupts even if they are in a hung state, as long as the interrupt table is ok.
I said things have got older. It could well be caused by general deterioration of components, e.g. capacitors are well known to have a limited lifetime, and cause all sorts of interesting effects as they degrade.
Get an engineer in to test the line. If he finds nothing wrong, seriously consider that your precious pfSense box could be kaput.
I know if I contact them, they'll argue that it's my equipment (it's not - nothing has changed on my side of the network for a couple of years now), and they'll never admit to it being their problem...
Except one thing has changed. Your equipment has got older.
It also sounds like you're more stubborn than they are.
Hahahahah.
No, they don't advertise an upload speed of 10Mb, in fact it's only 0.5Mb upload on the "L" package. However, I do get that too.
I get 512 kbps. Bit slow at times, but it beats the pants off of the 256 kbps upload "up to 8 Mb" ADSL connections.
If you define "10Mbps" as "10,000,000 bits / second" then I'm getting 2.4% more than they advertise.
True. However, it hasn't been down during the times I've been using it in those 100 days, or probably at all as my non-static IP hasn't changed.
I haven't seen an ADSL connection that doesn't need the modem rebooting at least once a week (though in a lot of cases, it's the router's fault, not the connection).
Mod very informative!
This is the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01NHcTM5IA4
I'm on their 10Mb service and getting close to what they advertise. Specifically my cable modem is reporting that it is connected at 10240000 bits/sec.
I have seen downloads (normally from steam) hit 1.2MB/s.
Even better, my cable modem's uptime is currently 108 days 18h:11m:16s, my (admittedly custom) router's uptime is 107 days, 12 hours, 12 minutes. I've never seen an ADSL connection stay up that long.
Oh, I think they've noticed. It's in one of the stickies.
The new steam beta window is HUGE. A lot of people used the old compact mode (most of the time), so that steam was just a menu of games, not a "gaming portal" or whatever other buzzwords.
I did not know that (the limits thing). I thought they were still just each guaranteed to be at least the size of the previous one, with no absolutes. It was like that in C89, right?
Still, in my example I don't think I needed a 64-bit int in the end anyway, as I changed from storing number of bytes to number of gigabytes. A 64-bit int for storing "5" is a bit overkill, don't you think?
Not guaranteed to be 64 bits though. No stock C++ types are guaranteed to be any size, which is actually horrible for cross-platform code.