Camry tire questions (tires stolen from Chicago park district lot!)

There's a special tool for the job. I had occasion to use one on the lock lugs of a Bronco a friend bought without the matching key. It's basically a friction-fit gizmo that grabs the circumference of the lug nut. Not easy to get unless you know your tool man.

LOL! Oh, OK...

And, I did some 'testing'. On some news readers, you do get a long string of characters, beginning with the "ISO" to mark the character set. On some, you get 4 or 5 square blocks, and on some, ????

Interesting. Some of the folks with OE are able to see it correctly; on one machine I'm running Vista, and the embedded Newsreader that comes with Vista sees it just fine. However, on the machine running XP, Outhouse Express didn't know how to handle it, either! I tried changing the character set to Unicode, but that didn't help either.

I'm also running Pan for windows on that machine, and Pan didn't know how to handle it, either. But, on this machine running SuSE, it came through just fine. Interesting. It must have to do with the Character set settings, but I can't determine which one. This newsreader is set to UTF-8 and seems to work just fine...

Tool man? I don't think so, Tim! ;)

Did you once live here in chicago and took a minimum wage job in the kitchen of a chicago restuarant?

Well, I hadn't noticed THIS before. I generally don't look up to the old, copied text. Very interesting how your Newsreader is treating my Japanese text.

I had copied that from a Japanese phrase page that just happened to have mention of my Corolla, and I copied and pasted it into my Posting Profile. I was kind of surprised my self when it (for the most part) worked.

But I haven't seen anything that has mishandled it THAT badly!

What are you using for a newreader? Perhaps I can get a copy of it that might work with Linux (I am not a Linux expert by any means, But I have been able to get things to work when the system told me it wouldn't...)

Did it again! What character set do you have your reader set to?

LOL! Never been any further west than...Toronto Ontario!

I could be wrong, but I was told it's a BSD-ish flavor.

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This is a very interesting page:

Hmmm...if Linux/Unix programs can be compiled to run on OSX, then...

And, I did see (I think on the page I listed) some BSD and Debian tools for OSX.

Ever hear the world's funniest joke?

Did you know that it's actually Japanese?

And, you can use what I'm using!

yer throwing some wacko flags here

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LOL! But it IS! I just copied and pasted the Jap characters into my Profile!

Man, I been giving myself a headache. I found a few pages on hacking OSX to run on my MoBo/CPU combo. Some versions run very well.

This could get interesting...I'm an Operating System geek...I can't make a computer usefully do much but I can make OSs do a LOT.

Hmmm....new project...?

just go to craigslist and buy a used mac.

why f*ck around reinventing the wheel? there's so many other things that would be more fun.

If you haven't figured it out yet, I make my living in IT. Mostly Windows, Windows Server, Exchange, etc etc etc. But, at home I run Linux. Your OSX is based on BSD, which is/was a proprietary Unix OS, but is available as FreeBSD. I haven't tried it because it is more text based that GUI. However, I guess Apple has solved that problem.

I'm also an Operating Systems freak. I have tried almost every Operating System ever written. Except OSX, cause Apple doesn't want to release it to the Great Unwashed, and hacked versions can be unruly, to say the least. I started about 20 years ago with DOS, a CP/M hack that ran on an old machine I had, and DEC (Digital) VAX and PDP systems...

Not really 'wacko', perhaps a bit, um...enthusiastic? I have the same 'enthusiasm' for my cars (mostly Toyotas) and playing Bass (Mostly Alice in chains, STP, Green Day, Live and Audioslave).

Too many 'hobbies', not enough time...

Pine is a Unix/Linux based Newsreader from the 'old days', it's run in a terminal window.

I have it, but I use the editor function like the old dos EDIT command. It's simple and straight forward, and when I get into 'trouble' and the GUI doesn't start I can usually get things running by using "Pico" (the text editor) and editing my configuration manually.

They also have Pan for OSX, which is what I'm running under Linux, and I like it.

This brings up an interesting idea. I read last night that the tradional GUIs for Linux are 'drying up', the General Public has decided Linux is NOT for them, so development of KDE and GNOME (The two big GUIs for Linux) has slowed to a crawl. Now, if Apple would unass some of it's code and TRULY step up to the Open Source plate (Shoot...MOST of their system is BASED on Open Source), then this could be really interesting.

Looking at what you wrote, and my 'rant' above, I must come across as a k00k...! Like I said, I'm a bit 'enthusiastic', and you've given me plenty to think about!

I guess my idea of fun is different from yours! My specialty is taking something someone has sadi, "That'll never work" and MAKING it work. Or at least make a Noble Effort!

And as far as what would be more fun, like...? I like playing bass...

woo boy.

I'm not sure where to start?

chasing asian pussy?

Well, yeah...there's that, too!