From owner-diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Fri Feb 11 22:59:40 2005 From: diesel-benz-digest diesel-benz-digest Saturday, February 12 2005 Volume 01 : Number 1741 Forum for Discussion of Diesel Mercedes Benz Automobiles Derick Amburgey Digest Coordinator Contents: [db] Linux ports? RE: [db] Tranny problem [db] administrivia: digest finance report Diesel Benz Digest Home Page: http://www.digest.net/diesel-benz/ Send submissions to diesel-benz-digest-at-digest.net Send administrative requests to diesel-benz-digest-request-at-digest.net To unsubscribe, include the word unsubscribe by itself in the body of the message, unless you are sending the request from a different address than the one that appears on the list. Include the word help in a message to stag-digest-request to get a list of other majordomo commands. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:36:10 -0500 (EST) From: john Subject: [db] Linux ports? we don't need no steekin' computers... ;) at least not on Diesels or FSJs... xj's and wj's however... just say no to microsoft and we should be ok. :) john ---- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** http://wagoneers.com ** ** http://freegift.net ** Snohomish, Washington USA - where Jeeps don't rust, they mold. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: bull-at-eskimo.com NEW STUDY WARNS OF CAR VIRUSES A report by IBM Security Intelligence Services predicts that viruses spreading to mobile phones, PDAs and wireless networks could infect the embedded computers that increasingly are used to run basic automobile functions. The average new car runs 20 computer processors and about 60 megabytes of software code, raising more opportunities for malfunctions. In addition to the threat facing vehicles, the report noted the fastest growing threat last year was phishing -- a method of deceiving computer users into revealing personal information -- and predicted that activity would grow more serious in 2005. (Reuters/CNet.com 8 Feb 2005) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 22:19:19 -0600 From: "Alec Cordova" Subject: RE: [db] Tranny problem >From one of the masters of stupid questions: When was the last time you changed the fluid and filter in the tranny (including fluid in the torque converter)? Oh, and how many miles on the car/tranny? Alec > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-diesel-benz-at-digest.net > [mailto:owner-diesel-benz-at-digest.net]On Behalf Of Carballo, Rico A. > Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 12:59 AM > To: diesel-benz-at-digest.net; mercedes-at-mercedeslist.com > Subject: [db] Tranny problem > > > Hello, > > Problem with my 79 240D's tranny is that when cold, it shifts very slow. > No amount of pedal pushing or release will make the tranny shift up. It > does this for the 1st 5-10 mins of use. After, the tranny shifts > normally (when maybe the ATF or tranny is already "hot"). ATF level is > normal, vacuum lines and linkage bushings are OK. Am I looking at > something major here? It's been doing this for the past year or so. > Thanks. > > Rico ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 22:53:06 -0500 (EST) From: Richard Welty Subject: [db] administrivia: digest finance report this is mostly going to be a "this is where contributions to the digest go" report, not very formal. followups and discussion should be on offtopic-at-digest.net basically, the monthly recurring costs of digest.net and krusty-motorsports.com are now covered by income from the google adsense campaign on my racing web site, http://www.na-motorsports.com/. the race track directory there gets excellent google placement and is earning tolerably well by post-tech bust standards for banner advertising. so where do contributions go? they go for hardware. we are currently on the third generation server. the first two servers were white box PCs built out of consumer grade hardware. the newly deployed "krusty0" server represents a major shift in approach -- it is a dual processor IBM x330 with hardware RAID (redundant disks for the non-geeks); instead of consumer grade disks we are now using real 10,000 rpm U160 SCSI drives. i've had this server for a while, but deploying it left me with no comparable backup, and it has a little less disk than i am comfortable with, so i'm in the midst of a new round of hardware acquisitions -- i have acquired a second X330 off of ebay, and an additional hardware RAID controller (this one with battery backup for the write cache, so i can turn the safeties off and really let it rip.) i particularly want to draw everyone's attention to the fact that since we've graduated out of the consumer grade of hardware, that things aren't as cheap as they once were. i'm buying a lot of used stuff, so it's not that painful, but i do tend to want to buy new disks rather than used disks of uncertain hours and condition from ebay, just as an example. so the contributions matter, and they're not just paying for vacations in Aruba. richard - -- Richard Welty rwelty-at-averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security ------------------------------ End of diesel-benz-digest V1 #1741 **********************************