On Thursday 25 January 2007 19:38, Ric Moore wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 07:41 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 06:05 -0800, David Boles wrote:
Would know if Freespire has the same security flaw that Linspire has? Everything by design in Linspire is run as 'root'. The GUI desktop. The applications. The whole thing. Just like Windows does.
Like Ric & Gene
Craig
You just had to go there, huh? <chuckles>
Of course, he never misses an opening like that. :)
Gene, Les, Tim and I must have been separated at birth, so our coinciding use of the root user is just a sign of that. That plus older vehicles with no computers nor smog controls on them, just belching excess gas and carbon into the ozone the way God intended an American Make to do; though side-pipes to scorch the pavement, a proper gear-ratio to spin the tires and to scare the neighborhood into a hasty retreats while shooing the children to safety. All of that while stone-cold sober. OOH-RAH!
Humm, my last set of side pipes were cut through the rear frame rails just in front of the rear tires of a 49 mercury. The daughter that was born while I was building that engine is now 40 something. It almost had some mufflers. Serious squat & dig for the first 90 mph.
Next, my old 52 Saratoga with a 331 hemi in it had a 2.5" 10 foot length of emt connecting the manifold Y to the air, actually running under the rear axle to about 3" past the bumper. That hemi didn't cackle all that bad, in 100k miles that way I never got a ticket for loud pipes. And with a 3 speed od tranny & a dry clutch where the old M6 used to live, it was 30mph/1000 rpms in high overdrive. 3300 rpm flat out across the prairies of South Dakota=99 mph on flat ground and 19 mpg. That was a great car, in a straight line, but hell on door handle chrome going around corners, its front end geometry made it roll worse than usual.
I'd like to have that engine/powertrain combo in a modern aerodynamic vehicle, I'd bet on 30mpg at 100 mph. The carburetion wasn't stock of course. I do know a couple of things about those...
I've had some other now jurrasic fast cars too, but none could make that kind of mileage at speeds they could do for a full tank of gas, covering 410 miles on a 19 gallon tank many times.
<Hi-fives Gene + Les> + <smirks> Ric
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