Had my hubcaps stolen today

BACK! BACK! You said Micro$haft! ARRRGGGGHHHHH!!!

Linux, 99.9% of the time, baby! I used to be a MS WHIZ, knew their OS's inside out, upside down and backwards. Also got sick of the Pop-Ups, the 'influenza', the people knocking on my backdoor (Firewall Alert:64.128.105.4 is attempting to access your system...), etc, etc...

But thanks for the tip! I've been using Linux for over a year, haven't really played around with it (trying to make sure this or that piece of hardware works properly; right now stands at about 99%...the ONLY concession I'll give to Windows...)

A little anecdote: I was working Tech Support for a Fortune Five company, and heard there was this thing called Chicago out. Sent an e-mail and asked to be put on the Beta test. Made it for the last two releases before the Real Deal.

Loaded it up on a Friday, played with it until Sunday afternoon, and then reloaded 3.11. Wednesday afternoon, on the way home, decided that it was a pretty cool OS afterall, and reloaded it that evening. Never looked back! Windows '95 OSR 2.5 was my FAVOURITE OS of all time, followed very closely by NT 4.0 SP 5. Don't know WHAT the hell MS did after that! Ran NT right up till I switched to Linux...

I run XP because I don't have time to set everything up in Linux. I am using AMD x64 with ATI 9800 Pro and ATI TV Tuner. ATI doesn't have everything for my setup for linux yet. When I can use the hardware I paid for without much problem, I will spend more time on Linux. At work I have a couple Novell Servers set up runing Apache, PHP, and MySql. Thought about micro$haft server, but Novell is so much better in my opinion. I have a copy of Novel Open Enterprise Server, which is Suse Linux, that I am going to try out, but right now, I am in the middle of creating a web based court system. I am using Macromedia Dreamweaver for HTML and PHP editing, and that doesn't run on linux, so I have to stick with M$. Also, Novell is just now finishing a Novell Linux Client.

Patrick ?Ô

That's what I'm running, SuSE. I tried a lot of the others, but SuSE seems the most stable, and it really isn't that hard to set up. And, you have YaST (Yet another Set-Up Tool)! Works fairly well.

You're obviously into it much more than I am. If MS would get their act together and leave out the 50,000,000 entertainment features, I might go back.

I mostly used win95, but the HD died and I now use win2K. Seems OK for what I use it for.

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"" wrote: > I had all four hubcaps stolen off of my Mitsubishi Galant > today. Why do > people steal hubcaps? > > Anyway, replacement factory hubcaps are way too expensive, but > I was looking > at some replic hubcaps online instead. Has anyone ever > purchased replica > hubcaps? Is the quality the same as a regular hubcap? > > Sorry for the crosspost.

Try E-bay when I can?t find it anywhere else at a cost I would like to pay thats where I go, but just make sure anytime you buy from E-bay that the seller has allot of feedbacks, I got screwed one time from not trusting my instinks and ordered an item from someone that had no feed backs, I lost a 110.00 other people lost allot more from that same person

No doubt true.

Not all of them - checkout the Peugeot 205 gti (1.6) alloys, i had some of them and they had no centre hole - had to find a special adapter to balance them.

Alloys with locking nuts are a) prettier and b) less likely to cause damage to others - ive dodged at least 2 flying cheapo ill-fitting plastic caps this year alone, one that nearly took out my windscreen on the motorway. Those who buy the cheap ones rarely get ones that fit properly, and those that realise they dont fit properly zip-tie them on and they look bloody aweful.

J

Windscreen? Motorway? Bloody? ;) I had no idea from you're previous posts you were British (?...) Esp with a name Like Coyoteboy, I had figured upper mid-west!

"Richard, do mind the pedestrian!" "WHERE!" "On the pavement, dear!" "Isn't that where a pedestrian's SUPPOSED to be?!"

Hubcaps...HUBCAPS..... Jeeps Don't have any stinkin' HUBCAPS!!!! LOL

But they have no reliability....

Natalie

Wickeddoll® did pass the time by typing:

Took a quick look, that place sells the same lights (elcheapo crown automotives that I've bought before) as many others, and at a price about 10-20 above the no-name resellers. They do have other parts, most likely the cheap, thin metal and refurbed wheels.

I'd have to do more research before buying anything from them. When it comes to aftermarket your better off going OEM unless you can visit the store and actually inspect the product. Too much overpriced crap out there.

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