GPSTI

Hmm, seems like a real adult response - you bash a forum member because he bashed another forum member, and then follow up with puerile insults. Why do you think you are entitled to act this way, and someone else isn't?

He's making up for his absence from here by going all out on the other one. Oh, wait - I'm permabanned from there, so I don't really know how I know that. Let me guess - circular arguments introducing new and irrelevant "facts according to Ray!" at every post, and resorting to insults when pinned to the wall. Weird, though - he threw out his banana on the other forum a few months ago, and came here to new, greener pastures. Seems he got stuck in the fence and went back? I didn't see what got up his nose here - did someone say nasty things to him?

Who said Jackaroo I loved mine, especially the build quality. Who said Jackaroo and taking on water in Nolans...... :D And, because I know it's a Patrol forum........

Maybe so, but It's Ray who's doing the kindergarten dummy spit. Yes he knows a lot about Patrols, and is willing to share. But it's tiresome to click on View New Content and see 90% of the new threads are Ray whinging about his hated Labour Gov't, or throwing links from the daily newspapers mainly covering more political crap. I have in the past challenged him directly to join the Liberal Party so he can really contribute to ending Labour and fixing all the ills he sees, but he declined this suggestion. Kind of "put up or shut up"

Nolans Brook has probably caught out more cars than any other on the Cape. It's deceptively deep, and my theory is if you don't leave at least 10 mins between vehicles for the sand on the northern side to re-pack you'll be owned. And it's full of snakes, too...

He also thinks tounge input will never happen (clearly he's a nerd and a virgin at that........) but he does accurately verbalise what the interveiwer was really thinking - "it’s disconcerting to have the person sitting next you go blah, blah, blah, blah"

If you need to lock at slow speeds, such as when descending steep tracks, the brake disconnect would be counter-intuitive; I can't say for sure, because I can't do it at the moment, but when descending in low low the engine would probably still provide insufficient braking to keep you crawling slowly, so the brake would still be required. If following someone downhill or just being cautious, you'd get pisssed off with having to unlock every time you want to stop or ease over a ledge. I think the proper solution is reduction gears for this sort of stuff, doubly useful if you run 33" for off-road rather than standard 31" H/Ts. Even better would be to run 4.6 diffs with 33" and then the T/C would lock up much better by itself. I run 32" highways, and even they bugger up the factory lockup due to the higher engine load being used by the ECU to decide when to lock. Pity a set of 4.6s and reduction gears is around $2300 plus installation

Yes, you could put a switch between pin 30 and +12v, so that would completely override the speed switch and allow full lockup any time. I plan to add this extra switch as well.

Speed sense is an excellent way for disengaging, especially on long trips when your brain goes into auto-pilot - if you have to stop for an eagle or brolga heading for your screen, you don't have time to disengage the manual switch, leading to stalling. That would be worse for the clutch IMO. I found that in practise I usually flicked the switch to off after it disengaged, so the re-engag at 60ks didn't happen too often. Acceleration was non existent at 60 in 4th with the T/C locked. Can't really say that it helped fuel economy, either. Best stage I got on the trip returned 11.5l/100, the worst was Oodna to Birdsville at 17.3l/100.

I built this version using the above as a base, but did not fit the led shown near Pin3. Basically you can't engage the lock until the vehicle is above 60kph, and even if the switch is on, ot will disengage below 55kph. This means you can't stop and stall the engine. If you solw down below 55 and then accelerate gently back to cruising it will re-lock without too much thump, but it's not good if you accelerate heavily. It's really good when cruising outback roads where you are on and off the throttle a lot at around 75-90kph - without the override the T/C locks and unlocks and becomes really bloody annoying.

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I remember once driving at night with a pro photographer, and being tailgated by some lamebrain. He told me to grab a flash unit from the back, charged it up, and I aimed it out the back window and let it rip. We didn't see the nuisance again........

I like Panadeine Soluble.

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GPSTI, on 19 July 2012 - 09:26 PM, said: Answer: Nothing. Question: What use is Linux?

"People who run compilers, virtual environments software testing, code debugging whatnot" Erm, what makes those people superior to people who use " MS office spreadsheets or watching crap tube video snipets or searching for cooking recipes or worse playing Solitaire card games or use said navigational software. Answer: Nothing. So far, as I've said before, the geeks who "run compilers, virtual environments software testing, code debugging whatnot" haven't produced a usable utility or program in Linux that isn't already covered even better and more user friedly than in Windows. Come to think of it, I've never seen anyone "run compilers, virtual environments software testing, code debugging whatnot" on Linux while genuinely living life, but I've seen plenty of people using Navi software on Windows

Hmm, Sputnik1 burned up after 3 months when it came down to earth.......... Ya gotta love the way the geeks keep saying Linux will run on cheap, low powered hardware - if you really want to get a dose of head-banging frustration, install Linux on some cheap old hardware and see how it needs just as much power as Windows to be usable. But again, usable for what, exactly? Web browsing and E-mail. I can do that on Windows, plus I can run all my accounting software, and I can run Office too, and easily do VPNs and RDP sessions to customer servers and desktops to solve problems (well, not any more sinece I sold the business haha). I can run navigation programs like OZI, Memorymap, Trackranger and easily run D/R programs like Todo backup. Can anything else do all these things easily - no.

Security Essentials has become very good, but it still isn't as good as the best. I've just upgraded mine to Bitdefender Internet Security 2013, and it's using less resources than before.

I've used Paragon a lot since Acronis went away from the simple interface of V9 and below. After that you need a degree to work it out and I found many bugs in the bits where you try and save 5 backups and then progressively delete. Paragon is very slow, however, and the interface is also a bit obtuse, particularly when restoring. Of late I've used EaseUS ToDo which pretty much gets back to a simple interface like early Acronis. It takes the image at twice the speed of Paragon, and does not need a reboot after installation. I've tested it in restore mode, and it's very simple and reliable for that most critical function - and it has an option to restore to SSD and also to dissimilar hardware. I haven't tested the last bit. Paragon P2P driver injection works fine, I've used that a lot, so if the Todo one doesn't work too well a quick boot into Paragon will get the job done. I agree with you about Symantec stuff - Ghost worked perfectly when the NZ boys ran it, but when Norton/Symantec bought them out the product went sideways and then downhill. Symantec Antivirus again bluescreened thousands of XP users with a buggy update only a few weeks ago. Go Bitdefender for AntiVirus/Security - the only clients I worked for that ever had virus infestations were those who specified Symantec. Those who took my advice and ran Bitdefender have never had even an hour lost due to virus. One shop with Symantec got infected through their WAN (started in Malaysia from an infected laptop) late on a Friday - Symantec id's the threat but let it do it's damage anyway. We opened a Ticket with Symantec, then sent it to a contact at Trend who confirmed it for us but before he could write a tool for removal he had to fight the same battle for their own clients who were also attacked. It was late Sunday night before Symantec finally fixed it with a definition update - more than 48 hours !!!!! Trend had a patch out 2 hours after we sent them the files, but that didn't help us. Made a motza that weekend Getting more performance from SSDs is indeed a lottery. Many systems won't boot faster or perform better with an SSD. I think it's to do with the SATA interface performance of the system - many are designed for SATA1 so installing a SATA3 SSD will leave you with the same bottleneck you had before. Only cached stuff will load faster, or stuff that can be prefetched (such as maps) when the program itself uses system RAM to load stuff, like an adjoining map on a moving map program. Probably the major advantage in a laptop/tablet is better battery life, less heat, and silent operation. Some laptop drives make some atrocious sounds, not really loud but annoying.

Not for the desired price point - Glort said around $1500. The cheapest 17" alienware with 256gb SSD, 6gb RAM is $3200ish.

That's a hard one to answer. There seem to be fewer options than there were a while ago. You have to decide what features you want - eg High storage capacity with slow 5400rpm SATA2 drive, or fast performance with SSD and SATA3. Note that there are many SATA2 disks still being used in slow bus laptops and desktops. Shared video memory or dedicated graphics card. Blue-Ray or just DVD ESATA, or ESATA/USB combined port (gives power over ESATA), or USB3 port. You need a special cable to run power over ESATA - I use it on my laptop to back up to a modded USB2 enclosure with a 7200 SATA2 drive in it. Backup speed thrashes the crappy USB2 480mbps. Note that there are many USB3 external storage devices getting about, that promise to give up to 5Gbps data speed, BUT they have a 5400rpm SATA2 disk inside which cuts speed to 3.0GBps I haven't seen one yet that's SATA3 (6.0GBps) AND has a USB3 interface. Warranty - 1 year or 3 years or upgradeable via package. I wouldn't buy a laptop that doesn't have or can't be upgraded to 3 year warranty. Brand preference? - Lenovo, HP, maybe ASUS. Many don't have 17" any longer, eg Dell.

I'm working from memory re the USB problems, but I think XP may have preceded a working USB in the timeline of things. USB1.0 and 1.1 are not considered "working USB" in my view. I can remember fixing a problem for a once only client who was running an ISA sever and using a USB modem as the device to access the internet - remember those days? Of course we scrapped that and put in a serial port modem which was as close to reliable as technology allowed without spending a motza. The client was a cheapskate, too - I fixed his problem and took ages to get paid, but that's another story Back in those days having multiple USB devices would frequently cause trouble - one device would corrupt the other with its implementation of port drivers, so if you plugged in a new printer, your modem would stop working, and so on. Sadly, if you are trying to use advanced features on USB in XP, you are asking for trouble. In the pooling scenario, you are asking for the USB "stack" to perform like the network stack, which it was never designed to do - it's a one device at a time thing with higher throughput than the old COM ports. XPSP3 on USB 2.x was as good as XP got in terms of being able to plug in multiple devices without corruption, but you could still not use multiple devices concurrently - and that's exactly what you are doing with pooling. I'm not surprised that you are exasperated with this setup.

I'm getting the feeling that my front springs have sagged a bit, so I've hunted high and low to get the measurement of the factory suspension from centre of hub to bottom of wheel arch. Can't find it anywhere. I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that the later GUs are slightly lower than the earlier ones. Either they've sagged, or we undercalculated the affect of the extras. Either way I want to correct the issue. Can anyone point me in the right direction or can someone with a standard - no bullbar, no dual batteries - GU7 or GU8 vehicle measure for me. Top of hub to under wheel arch would be great, or centre to wheel arch also great.

Your problem is trying to assign a priority to a pooled printer. Priority is designed for multiple printer drivers pointing to one physical printer. Priority means the spooler will send the highest priority jobs first - a low priority job may in theory not print for hours. Pooling is designed for one printer driver pointing to 2 or more physical printers. Pooling means you let the OS define the priority depending on which physical printer is idle. So if you try and use priority to direct jobs to a specific printer in a pool, you are using a sieve to gather water from the well - it's not going to work. As an aside, if you have your pooled printers connected to the XP laptop via USB, you are guaranteed to have problems as USB sucks in XP, especially so pre SP3.

I don't believe that the creek at Lion's Den is the last safe swimming place - Twin Falls, Elliot Falls, and a number of other creeks are safe to swim. I read a recent report that Lakefield Park was closed, may be open now.