Holy frozen parking break Batman. Peggy doesn't move too when the rear brakes are applied.

Again, it's still a matter of what kind of bend over you get used to.

Computer users that were weened on one OS typically find other OSs very frustrating.

Good morning guys.

Rick, frozen brakes are a pain, as you know very well. I went to a friends house once to help her move a pickup with the rear brakes frozen. After fighting with it for a while I just gave her a ride and waited for the weather to warm up.

As far as the Mac vs PC debate, I think RKDs comments are about right. It is mostly what you are used to. I prefer PCs because I have been using them since DOS 1.1. I still have my DOS 2.1 floppies.

In the last few days I have been setting up my iPhone & my wife's iPad. The Mac way of doing things is just screwy to me, but it does have some cool features. I set up two Apple TV systems and once again, that is some neat technology.

The new free Mobil Me app to find your phone is slick, but the setup is just stupid, and takes about three times through it to get it to work. Now I can go to me.com and find where my phone is and have it display a message & a tone, and even remotely wipe it if it is lost or stolen.

The parking brake will kill the motor on my 928.

One winter water froze in the starter and I had to push start my 914. Once it got warmed up and dried out it was fine.

Well I grabbed a heat gun and thawed the cables out, then filled them with speedo lube. I wouldn't be so mad if they weren't new cables.

Nothing more fun than stretching out under a pickup in a pile of snow on a cold a**ed morning to work on a truck.

Thanks Glen, I didn't realize that. What would I do without ya? :D

I guess you have been there done that at least once before.

Yup. My feet are still frozen. Something tells me that as long as I live in this type of environment today won't be my last time.
Wiper linkages are also a good repair in the cold too.

I guess it it the opposite of changing out a dead 914 battery on a 105 degree day in the middle of a black parking lot with no shade. BTDT.

Being a fan of heat I think I would rather do it your way, oh well Mac still sux. :D

Frozen brakes are loads of fun. My trailer suffers from this quite often. Usually when i have to leave at 2 or 3 in the morning.....15* below zero....6 inches of snow to crawl in. Put on the coveralls hold the flashlight in your mouth, hammer on the brake shoes with my 3/4 drive braker bar and a BFH. ARRRRRRRHHHH.

I was so mad I wanted to chuck the truck in granny gear and just drive till the shoes clearanced them selves.

I know the feeling.......but flat spotting $2400.00 worth of tires is not an option.
Todays fun project is rear strut replacement on the Highlander. This is going to be fun as it took me 2 hours to get the first one off last nite. I hate rust.

Back in the day...

My job was doing graphic layout and design and typesetting for the company literature. When I started doing the job the typesetting process was to type out the text on a typewriter and send it to a typesetter with the font, styles, column widths etc. The cost was $75 a foot for the type. You then had to cut an paste the type up onto a layout pasteboard. If there were columns you manually had to paste them onto the page. The page was then shot with a huge graphic arts camera to make the negatives to burn the printing press plates from. But before you could burn the plates the negatives had to be taped onto another layout sheet and the half-tone photo negatives stripped in also.

The first revolution in the process was with the typesetting. You could "code" your type and send it to the typesetters electronically. There were several advantages to this. The first was cost. It only cost $25 a foot for because the typesetter did not have to type in your copy. It also cost less because you could code your copy to output the type into a layout. No more type cut and paste. It also offered computer spell checking which greatly reduced errors, and again, cut and paste work.

The next revolution was still with typesetters. Apple Macintosh, Adobe Pagemaker, and Adobe Postscript on a Linotype imagesetter made it so you could do WYSIWYG layout on the computer, then simply print to the typesetting printer. And the cost was down to $10 per foot. This was when I made the switch to Macintosh computers. At that time you could do the same thing with a PC but the system cost was $25,000 instead of $3000 for a system Mac including the software. And with the PC type was not WYSIWYG, you would have to re-print pages to fix layout problems caused by a 10pt font not actually being 10pt on the PC and paragraph wrapping not printing like it was on the screen. And that is still true today! Just ask anyone that does true cross-platform web page design.

Well, that's the main reason I am a Mac user. Yes the initial cost for a Mac is higher, but there s a reason for it. For me, it's worth every penny.

Also, by the time my Macs have needed upgrading, yes they stay useable much longer, it is has been much more cost effective to replace the computer instead of trying to make do by upgrading components. Two words "Bus speed."

I figured I would make myself a little happier and take the targa out for a spin.........................................dead batt.
I think I am just gonna sit at home and surf porn all day.

Dewd, I am just yanking your chain. I don't use Mac, and I am not that familiar with it, so it gets frustrating at times. If it bothered me that much I would simply use a linux unit to program my ipod, and not bother with itunes.

Just strolling down memory lane. They are getting very similar on the user level so it really is just what you are most familiar with.

Did anyone else notice that once Apple went to using Intel chips instead of PowerPC the chip speed bumps just kinda quit happening?

No but I did notice that PC now uses ( for some time now) the ram like Mac