Re: FW: WTT: 1.5G of PC2700 for 1G of PC100

[Jonathan Katz-2]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster@...>
wrote:

> VW/Audi aren't the only ones that get hacked like that.  I've seen it on
> M-B and Jag too.
>

Almost any car that is forced-induction can be easily tweaked to add HP
these days....
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[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jonathan Katz wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:57 PM, <wa2egp@...> wrote:
>
>>> Usually the various forums have good info...
>>>
>>> No experience here, but it could help you out...
>>>
>>> http://mazdaforum.com/
>> That looks company sponsered.  They are not going to let anything out. :)
>>  Too many MPVs from 2000-2006 have the same problems that it looks like a
>> recall was in order but they are not going to do it.  Our mechanic got so
>> frustrated that he asked if he could use the car as a guinea pig to find the
>> problem and he did not charge anything for parts and labor for the last
>> problem (leak in the evaporative emission control system).  After a few
>> thousand, my Protege is working find. :)
>
>
> Anything is possible, but sign up and get a post deleted, first! Also,
> http://forums.mazdaworld.org/index.php (found via google.)
>
> I learned all my Audi stuff from audiworld.com.

I'm on AudiWorld too.  What forum(a) do you frequent?

Peace...  Sridhar
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[Sridhar Ayengar]

wa2egp@... wrote:
> Unforch, in NJ, any reset shows on inspection and they automatically
> fail you because the computer can't be read until you run the car a
> certain number of miles and the system resets.  Sometimes a
> "disconnected the battery" might get you by but they are getting wary
> of that.

Same applies to New York, but you can selectively reset codes in the
VAG-COM software, without resetting the statistics.

Peace...  Sridhar
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[Jerry Kemp]

All vehicles in the US, domestic or import, MY1996 or later must have an
ODB-II interface.

Some earlier vehicles had it, but all MY1996 and later are required to.

Jerry


On 05/13/08 17:16, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Jonathan Katz wrote:
>> The cost of entry isn't too bad. Just something like an ODB-II scanner
>> that

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[Dan Sikorski]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Much of that information is indeed available to the public.  I bought
> a copy (on CD-ROM) of the shop manual for my car.  It had everything
> down to test point voltages and proprietary OBD codes and settings.
>
Where did you buy it from?  If they don't sell manuals for Mitsubishi,
do you know of someplace that does?
> Of course, I then had to pick up a OBD cable and software to hook my
> laptop up to my car, but I can pretty much diagnose any problem,
> including the electronic ones.
>
> I am aware that some manufacturers don't make that kind of
> documentation available, but many still do.
I took my dash apart to add an ipod kit to my stereo.  (OEM Infiniti
Stereo in a 2005 Mitsubishi Endeavor, OEM ipod kit that was made
available for later models.)  While i was in the dash, i must have
bumped, or indirectly pulled enough on some of the cables for the airbag
to cause it to trigger the SRS light to come on on the dash.  After
identifying the SRS control box, and verifying that all the cables were
connected well, i unplugged the battery for several hours, but still
have the SRS light on.  The OBDII scanner shows nothing wrong.  I'd like
to fix it (given that i can be fairly confident that there isn't really
a problem) without paying the dealer to clear it for me.  Any suggestions?

    -Dan Sikorski

(copied to geeks, since this should probably be there.)
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[Nadine Miller]

J. Alexander Jacocks wrote:

> Shannon Hendrix <shannon@...> wrote:
>>  Well, I'm comp-sci and do a better job with admin than most of the admins I have met.  I frequently have to do my own admin work if I want anything to work right.
>>
>>  A good computer science degree is a superset of what you need for being a good system administrator.  It's mostly a matter of do you want to be an admin, or would you rather stick to more traditional comp-sci jobs.
>>
>>  It is more efficient in many cases to separate those jobs, but only if each side is competent and understands the needs of the other.
>>
>>  Most sysadmins I've worked with who just had vocational training are terrible.  They might really know the material they were taught, but have a really hard time when you get away from that.  Worse, it is impossible to explain to them why some of their decisions are a disaster for the software and running it efficiently.
>>
>>  Certainly an admin can self-teach themselves that knowledge, but the point is they do need to do so somehow, in order to be effective machine managers.  All of the good admins I've met went well above just vocational training, or they consulted the comp-sci guys as needed.
>>
>>  The ones who don't absolutely suck to work with unless the work is easy.
>
> I couldn't possibly disagree more.  Sure, some folks with CS degrees
> are good admins, and some lacking degrees aren't.  But the degree,
> itself, is neither here nor there.  What is required to make a good
> admin is the right mindset.  I have found that people are either
> logically and systematically thinking, or they are not, and no amount
> of instruction can change from one to the other.  Another thing that
> is required to be a good admin is someone who is dedicated enough to
> spend the time that the job requires.  Not only the maintenance
> windows, on-call, etc., but also the time at home spent keeping up
> with the technology and the current best thought, in the field.  9-5
> SA's are useless, IMO.
>
> The only area in SA work that I have found, where CS is directly
> applicable is in shell scripting.  There is no question that proper
> variable naming, efficient coding practices, and good documentation
> are critical, there.
>
> I'd have to say that experience writing (technical writing),
> presenting (speech), and dealing with others (business) are just as
> important, if not more, than a CS background.  Because, an SA who
> can't express themselves, or convince management/customers of the need
> for the proper technical solution, are unlikely to be successful, in a
> business environment.  And I have met plenty of technically-competent
> SAs, who got nowhere, due to lack of personal skills.
>
> Were I to make a college recommendation for someone who intends to be
> an SA, I'd say that they might even want to take a business degree,
> with CS courses as electives.  They should spend spare time working on
> systems, for sure, but their classes should be in areas that won't be
> picked up, in the business world.  The best SA that I have ever worked
> with has a degree in psychology, by the way.
>
> By the way, I _do_ have a CS background, though not a degree, so I'm
> not just talking out of my ass, here.  I've been a mostly Solaris SA
> for 13 years, until I switched to consulting.

A late reply, but I have to weigh in with Alex here.  The two best SA's
I know are a MS in Math turned MA in Psych (he's still working as an SA
due to some family health problems which impede him starting his own
practice), and a French Literature major.  The latter never was very
good at the social aspects, but he had plenty of support from his
co-workers to help him overcome that--they all knew his solutions would
work--until he retired.  After SA, he did stand-up and cabinet-making.
Many of the other people I'd place in my top 20 SA's are also not CS folks.

Having said that, the face of "SA" is changing.  My Math/Psych friend
tells me they are 80-90% automated deployment, and just take systems out
of the load-balanced environment rather than trouble-shoot.  It's either
to bring new machines on-line than to fix broken stuff.

Software development is more intrinsic to the "new" SA and will be more
so as it evolves, especially in large enterprises.

=Nadine=
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[Sridhar Ayengar]

Jerry Kemp wrote:
> All vehicles in the US, domestic or import, MY1996 or later must have an
> ODB-II interface.

It's not really the OBD-II interface that costs the most.  It's usually
the software for talking to all the proprietary diagnostic locations.
Talking to the common stuff is easy.

Peace...  Sridhar
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[Joost van de Griek]

On 14/05/2008, Erie Patsellis <erie@...> wrote:

> VAG (Audi, VW, Porsche)

Common mistake. Porsche are not a VAG (Volkswagen) subsidiary. Quite
the contrary: they own a majority of VAG shares.

.tsooJ
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[Ethan O'Toole]

> Gee, point me in the right direction.  After all the crap we've gone
> through with my wife's MPV.  Would you believe the factory misprogrammed
> the car computer and one cylinder was injecting fuel during the exhaust
> part of the cycle.  Took out the catalytic converter and we had to buy a
> new computer (luckily we got one from some one (who crashed their MPV
> and was parting out the car) for peanuts compared to a new one.

One of the people from #hack days.. 96-98... I've seen his stuff. He has
factory software that isn't supposed to be out there running in VMWare
with an external wrapper that catches the calls to their hardware and
pushes it through his hardware... Crazy stuff. He's doing it with a
popular european car now, I'm hoping he does the software for the japanese
car brand that I roll next.




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[Brian Deloria]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Dan Sikorski <me@...> wrote:

> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>> Much of that information is indeed available to the public.  I bought a
>> copy (on CD-ROM) of the shop manual for my car.  It had everything down to
>> test point voltages and proprietary OBD codes and settings.
>>
>>  Where did you buy it from?  If they don't sell manuals for Mitsubishi, do
> you know of someplace that does?
>

For at least the fords you could buy a cd, any cd at that and it would have
the manuals for all of cars prior.  These were pretty common on ePAY as they
were updated I believe monthly and getting one that was only a few months
old for about $20.
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[Robert Darlington]

Helm manuals are affordable to the tinkerer ($2-300 for a FULL service
manual).  They come in print or CD.  If you get the CD version, you
can print the pages for the job you're doing, and throw them out when
you're done if they're greasy.

On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Brian Deloria <bdeloria@...> wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Dan Sikorski <me@...> wrote:
>
>  > Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>  >
>  >> Much of that information is indeed available to the public.  I bought a
>  >> copy (on CD-ROM) of the shop manual for my car.  It had everything down to
>  >> test point voltages and proprietary OBD codes and settings.
>  >>
>  >>  Where did you buy it from?  If they don't sell manuals for Mitsubishi, do
>  > you know of someplace that does?
>  >
>
>  For at least the fords you could buy a cd, any cd at that and it would have
>  the manuals for all of cars prior.  These were pretty common on ePAY as they
>  were updated I believe monthly and getting one that was only a few months
>  old for about $20.
>
>
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[wa2egp]

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster@...>

>
> wa2egp@... wrote:
> > Unforch, in NJ, any reset shows on inspection and they automatically
> > fail you because the computer can't be read until you run the car a
> > certain number of miles and the system resets.  Sometimes a
> > "disconnected the battery" might get you by but they are getting wary
> > of that.
>
> Same applies to New York, but you can selectively reset codes in the
> VAG-COM software, without resetting the statistics.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar

Well, I don't have the laptop/software hookup, just one of those cheap devices which gives you the reset all or shut off engine light options.  Guess I'll have to upgrade. :)

Bob
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[Nadine Miller]

Robert Darlington wrote:
> Helm manuals are affordable to the tinkerer ($2-300 for a FULL service
> manual).  They come in print or CD.  If you get the CD version, you
> can print the pages for the job you're doing, and throw them out when
> you're done if they're greasy.

Often you can find the common problem pages posted in forums as
attachments.  My bro is a 4-wheel tinkerer, and that's how he found info
for a problem he was having with the Toyota he purchased for his wife.

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