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blackbird9 said:
That xeon zbook is a cool laptop. I used to have a mate with a Bonneville, had a few rides on the back of it, although some bikers nicked it in the end. He woke up one morning and they'd loaded it onto a truck during the night and driven off, the bastards.
Have fun :-)
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Not Cool. Since I don't know Liam Neeson, I had to resort to hiding airtags in them and would rely on my own "particular set of skills", should anyone be so bold... err... so stupid... to actually try to take one.

In the sea of Harley's that are here this week (Laconia Bike Week), they draw a lot of looks and no matter where I stop, everyone I meet wants to tell me about how they either miss owning or riding one. I'm really old, so I get it. The only downside was that I didn't want to come home last night and face this laptop/firewall project. There is no layer 7 filtering required on the back roads of New Hampshire.



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Yeah, a bike is quite an easy thing to steal. Even if you chain it up, an angle grinder or other tools will go through the chain like butter. Another friend ended up buying a kind of hardened steel shed to keep his BMW touring bike in, which is pretty ridiculous lengths to have to go to. In the case of my friend who lost the bonnie, I believe he said they cut a couple of chains and then manhandled the bike onto a trailer and drove off with it; maybe they had a truck with a hoist, who knows. He was sleeping in the house and didn't hear a thing. Someone told him months later that it was the local biker gang who had taken it, I don't think he ever got it back. 😟

Another favourite trick over here is they jack up your car when you're away, or have left it in a car park, get underneath and saw off the catalytic converter, then sell it for scrap value (they contain platinum, rhodium catalyst). Apparantly they go after petrol vehicles rather than diesel, possibly why I've been lucky so far. This is an older article, but it still goes on today. Of course that's annoying but not as bad as losing a nice bike.
www.dailyecho.co.uk

Thieves take shine to catalytic converters

They can be removed in six minutes and sell for £120
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I found a video for Laconia bike week, looks great! A lot of nice looking bikes, I wonder if you ever get any British bikes turning up? :-) I guess it's going to be mostly Harleys, Buells etc in the States. We actually have a Harley dealership in Southampton near where I live, I occasionally see one riding around.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDVpQRAgQY8
 
blackbird9 said:
Yeah, a bike is quite an easy thing to steal. Even if you chain it up, an angle grinder or other tools will go through the chain like butter. Another friend ended up buying a kind of hardened steel shed to keep his BMW touring bike in, which is pretty ridiculous lengths to have to go to. In the case of my friend who lost the bonnie, I believe he said they cut a couple of chains and then manhandled the bike onto a trailer and drove off with it; maybe they had a truck with a hoist, who knows. He was sleeping in the house and didn't hear a thing. Someone told him months later that it was the local biker gang who had taken it, I don't think he ever got it back. 😟

Another favourite trick over here is they jack up your car when you're away, or have left it in a car park, get underneath and saw off the catalytic converter, then sell it for scrap value (they contain platinum, rhodium catalyst). Apparantly they go after petrol vehicles rather than diesel, possibly why I've been lucky so far. This is an older article, but it still goes on today. Of course that's annoying but not as bad as losing a nice bike
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I once had a bicycle stolen from the apartment building where I used to live. The miscreants unbolted the whole bicycle rack from the concrete foundation while everybody was asleep.

I remember garages like this one:
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Just having a steel shed to deter theft and vandalism, as well as protection from elements - that was not overkill at all, but very practical considerations that reflected reality of what the neighborhood and city are really like. Although some of those sheds were actually used to store stuff other than cars.
 
I guess the 3 series BMW that the thieves drive has a converter that is difficult to get to... low clearance, and the underside actually has no visible parts, just a flat panel! I know that, because I drive the same model...
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I guess if they drive around and hit 10 cars in one night, and each cat is worth 100 pounds, they have 1000 quid to share between them. It's a scumbag thing to do though. Yes, maybe putting the covers on the underside of the car helps put them off.
 
I grew up on the classic flat seat style bikes.

RD400, GS-1000, various Yamaha two stroke twins.

Graduated to multiple Harley over the years for more power but seating was never as comfortable as my flat saddle Japanese bikes.
 
The truth is, motorbiking is getting to be too damn dangerous around here, in the south of england. The traffic density has gone up enormously, cars and trucks zooming around everywhere, you need eyes in the back of your head, and the roads are in terrible condition, full of potholes, ruts, deep puddles, etc. Same goes for cycling. Its so easy for someone not to see you on a bike, you're such a small visual target. Even in a car, a lot of drives seem like doing an assault course. It must be nice in the US or Aussie though, or in France, where you've got lots of space and wide open roads. I remember driving round Normandy a few years ago and couldn't believe how quiet the roads were.
 
When I think to something different of Linux I think to the BSD and FreeBSD. When I think to an alternative to Systemd I think to the way that FreeBSD manage the services. These are the two main reasons why I use FreeBSD. I am retired and have all the time to do whatever I want on my computers.
 
blackbird9 said:
It must be nice in the US or Aussie though, or in France, where you've got lots of space and wide open roads. I remember driving round Normandy a few years ago and couldn't believe how quiet the roads were.
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Driving around in New York is gonna drive you crazy - traffic jams, toll booths, and yes, potholes. There are places with plenty quiet roads - if you get away from major population centers. But surprisingly, Seattle area was not bad for driving around.
 
astyle said:
Driving around in New York is gonna drive you crazy - traffic jams, toll booths, and yes, potholes. There are places with plenty quiet roads - if you get away from major population centers. But surprisingly, Seattle area was not bad for driving around.
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I'm sure New York city itself would be a nightmare, like any of the big British cities! I've never been to Seattle, maybe being a more modern city it was planned out better. Many UK cities have road systems that developed over the last 500 years and are totally inadequate for the sheer volume of modern traffic. We have plenty of traffic jams, luckily we don't have many toll-booths, I think only on a few bridges.

There are quiet areas here too, but you have to get over towards the west country, to wales, or up into scotland to really find them. The south-east corner of England in particular, by which I mean a radius of say 100 miles from London, is very densely populated and very busy. It's true, that if you get away into the country lanes at the right time, like on a sunday morning, you can still find some quiet areas, but it's becoming increasingly difficult. It has changed radically since I was a teenager, the population of the whole UK has grown from 55 million in 1970 to 70 million now, mostly due to mass immigration, with almost all of that growth being in England itself. Driving around Normandy, it reminded me of how country areas in England used to be, years ago.

New York state is almost the same size as the whole of England (not including NI, Wales and Scotland); according to wikipedia, NY state is 47000 sq. miles of land, whereas England is 50000 square miles of land. While NY state has a population of 20 million, England has a population of 58 million. Basically, imagine NY with three times it's current population, crammed into the same land area, and you begin to get the picture.

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astyle said:
Driving around in New York is gonna drive you crazy - traffic jams, toll booths, and yes, potholes. There are places with plenty quiet roads - if you get away from major population centers. But surprisingly, Seattle area was not bad for driving around.
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In NYC I am more concerned about the Kamikaze drivers weaving in and out of lanes at 100 mph.

I actually consider it a good thing to have a slight traffic jam around Manhattan when I drive from Philly to Boston.
 
cracauer@ said:
In NYC I am more concerned about the Kamikaze drivers weaving in and out of lanes at 100 mph.

I actually consider it a good thing to have a slight traffic jam around Manhattan when I drive from Philly to Boston.
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The worst place (where I've driven) is Rome.
But the worst place I've seen (without driving myself) is India; you really have to be used to it.
 
AFAIK rcd won't run as pid 1. Though I am not a fan of lua.

Shouldn't all the discussion that doesn't fit the "Introduce yourself" topic be carried out elsewhere?
 
cracauer@ said:
des@ suggested making it pid 1. I am looking at his views favorably.

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Ultimately. May be. But before then it should be properly vetted & we should gain considerable experienced using it etc.

I still wouldn't feel comfortable with an embedded general purpose programming language in init. I'd rather have a constraint based or declarative config language (unknown start state -> known end state with constraints satisfied) but one can make pro/con arguments about that as well...
 
bakul said:
Ultimately. May be. But before then it should be properly vetted & we should gain considerable experienced using it etc.

I still wouldn't feel comfortable with an embedded general purpose programming language in init. I'd rather have a constraint based or declarative config language (unknown start state -> known end state with constraints satisfied) but one can make pro/con arguments about that as well...
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Is there a thread somewhere else in the Forums? Sure seems like there should be.
 
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