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 > > > >-- >================================================ >My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: >"There are two Great Sins in the world... >..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. >Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. >Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ >http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar >http://www.wayward4now.net >================================================ -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
