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From tomos' link above:You bought it, you should own it. Period. You should have the right to use it, modify it, and repair it wherever, whenever, and however you want. Defend your right to fix.
Damn Straight!!!-Stoic Joker (November 24, 2015, 03:43 PM)
From here:
http://ifixit.org/bl...7007/farm-equipment/
And a snippet from there:Aside from using it, there’s not much you can do with modern ag equipment. When it breaks or needs maintenance, farmers are dependent on dealers and manufacturer technicians—a hard pill to swallow for farmers, who have been maintaining their own equipment since the plow."
"[DIY repair] is cheaper than calling out the technician. But that information is just not out there," Dave explained to me.
The cost and hassle of repairing modern tractors has soured a lot of farmers on computerized systems altogether. In a September issue of Farm Journal, farm auction expert Greg Peterson noted that demand for newer tractors was falling. Tellingly, the price of and demand for older tractors (without all the digital bells and whistles) has picked up. “As for the simplicity, you’ve all heard the chatter,” Machinery Pete wrote. “There’s an increasing number of farmers placing greater value on acquiring older simpler machines that don’t require a computer to fix.”
The problem is that farmers are essentially driving around a giant black box outfitted with harvesting blades. Only manufacturers have the keys to those boxes. Different connectors are needed from brand to brand, sometimes even from model to model—just to talk to the tECU. Modifications and troubleshooting require diagnostic software that farmers can’t have. Even if a farmer managed to get the right software, calibrations to the tECU sometimes require a factory password. No password, no changes—not without the permission of the manufacturer.
John Deere, in particular, has been incredibly effective at limiting access to its diagnostic software. Which is why I wouldn’t have been able to tweak the programming on Dave’s tractor, even if I had been able to hack together the right interface. John Deere doesn’t want me to. The dealer-repair game is just too lucrative for manufacturers to cede any control back to farmers.-Renegade (April 23, 2015, 09:40 AM)
Ideally we should be looking
at another API such as maybe Weather Underground's API-mike000 (November 24, 2015, 12:23 PM)
Dell installs self-signed root certificate on laptops, endangers users' privacy Computerworld-Arizona Hot (November 23, 2015, 10:31 PM)
Update: cworklog.com has gone open source and you may visit http://github.com/relipse/cworklog to download to your own machine.
Also, the ANDROID App is now working again
and cworklog.com now has SSL so you may visit https://cworklog.com-relipse (November 22, 2015, 03:40 PM)
I like very much a music video Cranberries "Zombies"! Maybe it's very sad video but with sense!-LisaSharp (November 20, 2015, 04:00 AM)
Interesting Israeli band by the name of Project RnL.
...-40hz (November 19, 2015, 03:28 PM)
Very nice. I'm not big on prog-rock ... but this was enjoyable.-Edvard (November 19, 2015, 09:15 PM)
The General (1926)-panzer (November 19, 2015, 03:56 AM)
The first time I saw Keaton ride that connecting rod I laughed my ass off. Classic sight gags.-MilesAhead (November 19, 2015, 09:13 AM)
My beautiful Tigger is gone! Her 19 1/2 years were wonderful and we are heartsore! At least we could let her go peacefully as she went downhill very fast and did not suffer...-CleverCat (November 17, 2015, 01:59 AM)
and what is the benefit? Why should I use SC and not start the other app?I dont know -- I'm not familiar with the other app, so I cannot say.-cadillac (November 12, 2015, 02:49 PM)
Will there also be a text-capture (OCR like) in future?
i.e. a screenshot with text - the text is OCR'ed and then copy pasted into something else
Again not currently possible, though it has come up before. You can easily add tools to SC menu to launch external processes, which should make it possible to use a 3rd-party OCR tool, but im not sure anyone has done this yet..-mouser (November 08, 2014, 03:19 AM)
mws reader should do it in backround. so that I use only SC-cadillac (November 12, 2015, 02:49 PM)
Is there by now an easy way to upgrade from a computer with OEM win8 pro to a clean install (not upgrade on top of win8) of win10 pro? I.e. extract a key from my win8, put a win10 iso on a USB, format the harddrive and then clean install win10. Has anyone here done it? Did you run into any issues?-Nod5 (November 12, 2015, 01:12 PM)
WinPatrol is the type of application that tries to detect changes to these setting from external causes, not the Windows built-in screens & features.-Ath (November 11, 2015, 01:28 AM)
hmm i changed association as a test, and winpatrol did nothing?-jadekitten5425 (November 10, 2015, 02:18 PM)
Phil Woods and Herbie Mann-MilesAhead (November 09, 2015, 04:42 PM)
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells-MilesAhead (November 09, 2015, 05:23 PM)
James Cotton-MilesAhead (November 09, 2015, 05:29 PM)
Managing File Types & Associationshttp://winpatrol.com/filetype.html
WinPatrol will monitor registered file types and alert you if a change has occurred. There are two useful reasons to monitor file types.
A malicious program may modified standard types causing you to run dangerous program when you perform normally safe operations. Many virus programs, for example, have been known to change the action taken when a user clicks on an .EXE file.
A new legitimate program may reassign file association of file types without your permission. The result: instead of your preferred media program opening, another media program opens instead to view media files. For example, if you quickly install a new photo program it may re-assign the program association for your JPG and GIF files without your permission. WinPatrol will alert you and allow you to change back to your original program association.
WinPatrol allows you to view information about file types and if required restore them to their previous association.
I'm confused about transaction fees. I've read that they're completely optional, but I can't figure out how to make a transaction without including transaction fees. Maybe that's because the client I'm using (Bitcoin Core) doesn't allow that? It has an option I've checked to "send as zero-fee transaction if possible" but when I click send the confirmation screen shows the fee added in there automatically anyway.
The fees are fairly minimal. But when I'm only sending a few cents (in USD) anyway to get a feel for how it works, it kinda sucks losing even a penny of it in fees. Feels kind of like handing a dollar bill to a friend, then having him hand it back and it only being worth 98 cents.-Deozaan (November 09, 2015, 11:52 AM)
Also, the initial sync was brutal. Over 50GB of blockchain data. If I had known then what I know now, I'd have chosen a different, "lightweight" bitcoin wallet software.-Deozaan (November 08, 2015, 11:16 PM)
And so now here's my favorite:
[ Cat Power - Ramblin' (Wo)man ]-mouser (November 07, 2015, 06:06 PM)