 ropeguruPremium
join:2001-01-25
Grafton, WV | reply to SUMware
Re: Automotive Gauge Cluster Design Runs Linux You know, all these computer controlled gadgets in in cars now are great until you run into the rogue EMP.
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SUMwarePremium
join:2002-05-21
kudos:2 | If the EMP was strong enough it would also kill the engine and batteries. |
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ropeguruPremium
join:2001-01-25
Grafton, WV | said by SUMware:If the EMP was strong enough it would also kill the engine and batteries. And the engine would be.... Computer controlled...  |
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SUMwarePremium
join:2002-05-21
kudos:2 | reply to ropeguru
Re: Automotive Gauge Cluster Design Runs Linux True. But a strong EMP will also terminate operations of old non-computer controlled cars. EMPs neutralize electricity. Also one of the 'side benefits' of a thermonuclear pulse. |
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 EUSKill cancerPremium
join:2002-09-10
canada | reply to ropeguru
Back to relays and fuses? |
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 usa2kBlessedPremium,MVM
join:2003-01-26
Canton, MI
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1 edit | said by EUS:Back to relays and fuses? Horse and carriage. 
But keep the cluster as a secondary information device!  |
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 neonhomerKK4BFNPremium
join:2004-01-27
Edgewater, FL
·RoadRunner Cable
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said by ropeguru:You know, all these computer controlled gadgets in in cars now are great until you run into the rogue EMP. Then what do you do? Chuck electronics in favor of a mechanical fuel pump, carburetor, and a points distributor.... basically, anything that was built without computers will become popular again!!!
Now if you excuse me, I need to go charge the battery in my Beetle....
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U is for Uranium...... Bombs...
N is for NO SURVIVORS!!!!!" Sheldon Plankton |
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SUMwarePremium
join:2002-05-21
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I deleted this. Please recycle. |
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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by SUMware:said by ropeguru:You know, all these computer controlled gadgets in in cars now are great until you run into the rogue EMP. Then what do you do? In a Microsoft controlled vehicle you'd get the dreaded 'BDoD'. The Blue Dashboard of Death. Then you'd need to call MS, convince them that you are the vehicle title owner, and get permission from them to restart it. As opposed to Linux, where you'd have to post in a forum, wait 3 days for a reply, only to be told the EMP recovery feature is going to be added in the next release. In the mean time feel free to code the feature yourself.
Seriously though, have you used Sync? It's really slick and the execution is quite impressive for a MS product. Hopefully we'll see some alternatives start to arrive on the scene that are executed equally as well. |
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Carr
join:2003-06-20
Mobile, AL | Yeah Matt I think you're right......and after an oil change or tires or brake pad replacement then you would have to re verify the Windoze installation and if it failed then you would spend 4 hours on the phone with someone in some other part of the world swearing that you were who you were supposed to be and the car wasnt a pirated clone.......
OTOH I ve got to get out of here... I ve been worried about EMP for a while and brain waves from cellular towers and my tinfoil hat itches in this heat! A good dose of EMP would reduce a lot of this useless stuff we all follow back to some pretty shelf ornaments and it would be back to points, condenser and capillary tube gauges..... simpler way of life eh? I wonder what EMP would do to dental fillings... |
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MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | said by Carr:Yeah Matt I think you're right......and after an oil change or tires or brake pad replacement then you would have to re verify the Windoze installation and if it failed then you would spend 4 hours on the phone with someone in some other part of the world swearing that you were who you were supposed to be and the car wasnt a pirated clone....... I feel like the "Windows Defender™" sometimes, but let's be fair. Out of hundreds (or perhaps thousands) of installs I've done, I've had to call Microsoft for one machine and the whole process took all of 5 whopping minutes. And they have no idea where or how you've installed it, only that the hardware hash doesn't match. I've used my laptop's XP OEM key across all sorts of machines I play with at home and yet, not a single problem having MS re-activate it. Same with the original Office 2007 key I have. I activated it numerous times throughout the history of my machines, yet I've never had them deny me a re-activation. (And to be honest, it's been activated a few times on machines that aren't even mine. You get 10 activations before you have to call.)
If you have an issue with Microsoft requiring you to activate your software, deride that based upon its own merits, but when you (not literally you, a figuratively you) exaggerate how horrible the activation process is, you make it harder for me to suggest an open source product for a project because it creates a bad perception of Linux as a whole. I've run into this first hand numerous times in my career and had to fight to implement the Linux solution. I won all of them minus a single Fortune 500 company. I wasn't allowed to mention open source (the word Linux specifically) when I described the technical aspects of the project. I almost had to deploy JBoss on Windows Server because of it. Yikes! |
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Carr
join:2003-06-20
Mobile, AL | LOLOLOLOL. Yep.....
Well.... I run Linux and have run both Linux and Windows for many years.... I stay out of the flame wars...I like SUSe but there are a lot of good distros out there.... as we speak Im loading XP Pro on VMWare on my Linux laptop. Ah well.
I dont have a dog in the fight |
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