No kidding on the mac, though I probably will save the hugs for my wife
and kids :)
I seldom have pains with computers, but after a while I will see a
crashed drive (this has happened to me 4-5 times now) even a raid
crashed out on me in pairs one time :)
My Mac book Pro... Its drive gave up the ghost about 3 months ago.
Panic, this was my work laptop and I had a seminar to give in 1 week!
I bought a new drive. Put it in. Reinstalled OSX, and it asked me if
I wanted to restore my settings (it saw my time machine backup drive).
I said yes. It said 3 hours. I came back in 3 hours. Everything.
Every setting, every email, document, icon on the dock/desktop,
wireless networks it knew. Everything was back as if nothing had
happened. Took about 4 hours to fix it. 5 if you count the trip to
best buy.
Often I view the every 2 year HD crash as a reason to upgrade the whole
box but for the family (especially the wife) and mission critical...
Mac all the way. Definitely the way to go for easy and painless user
experience. You want to play games though? Get a PC or boot camp a
Mac.
BR,
Mike
Robert W. Garven Jr. wrote:
working on these carbs have een the most rewarding thing I
have ever done. I 4-5 weber books and never understood a word after
taking 4 or 5 apart I am finding out that i am getting a keen
understanding of these magnificent pieces of Italian artistry. They are
not as complicated as I thought
and I feel that the car will run better now that I really know
what they do............
I know I sound like a broken record buy anyone here with
computer probelms should seriously consider a mac. I am no expert but
use a pc and sun at work and when I get home everynight i hug my 27"
quad coe imac, no viruses, no spyware, no probelms, no crashes,
automatic backups mean no lost data. I could go on.....
Rob
Robert W.
Garven Jr.
"The
Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and
for most people it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few".
Enzo Ferrari
On Jul 24, 2010, at 7:44 AM, Mike Fleischer wrote:
Ah I wish there was a like button for some of these :)
But I think the hard part here is putting it back together and having
everything run smoothly? This is a great before picture :)
And nope couldn't do that level of tear down without some help :)
I did replace my rear brake pads in 15 minutes last night though :) I
love a car you can jack up on one corner and get 3 wheels in the air
(with the targa roof removed)!
Have fun though, I wish I had time to restore an old F car, one day...
Robert W. Garven Jr. wrote:
Talking about the stick how many out there can do this!!!
BTW there are way more Ferraris out there with sticks than I can ever
even dream about owning......
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Robert W.
Garven Jr.
"The
Ferrari is a dream - people dream of owning this special vehicle and
for most people it will remain a dream apart from for those lucky few".
Enzo Ferrari
On Jul 23, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Michael James wrote:
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Agree - the article makes a weak attempt to tie youth
driver-ed/apathy to the decline of the clutch pedal. That link isn't
there, sorry. There are LOTS of other factors going-on to discuss why
only 30% of 16 year olds have a DL. Anyone price auto insurance lately
for a 16 year old? Or the average car price has climbed to well-north
of $23K? Or highway fatality statistics regarding deaths in that age
group? Or the economy/jobs situation?
The basic premise I agree with, however. The manual is
in
decline - we'll all be driving paddle-shifters in the future, but they
DO help you get around the racetrack faster. Drivers/Customers will
have to decide which is more important - a clutch pedal, or shifts that
happen in microseconds.
M
From: Mike Fleischer <themightytoe [at] gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] NFC: Save the Manuals!!
To: "Michael" <Cavallino_Rapante [at] yahoo.com>
Cc: "The FerrariList" <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 11:22 AM
OK
I am all for this clearly, but when I read the article suggesting 30%
of 16 year olds are getting their licenses and the rest think driving
is lame...
Not sure what to make of that? On the one hand I am happy there will
be fewer drivers out there crowding the roads, on the other hand these
kids will eventually be living in Mom and Dad's basement since they
lack the mobility, on the other hand they will eventually learn to
drive much later in life, so even less experienced drivers, on the
other hand if they did that, then they likely would not go through
"driver's ed" and would have gotten a real instructor and lessons,
making them overall better drivers...
But really how dare Ferrari... When I think about it really. This is
a company that used to make sports cars, now they make very fast cars
for old men who can't shift or parallel park. They have become the
gold chain standard with this move to elecro-fit every vehicle such
that all you need to do to go fast is mash the pedal and steer... I
read something like 6% of lamborghini's being sold last year had a
manual also... If I wanted that I'd use my PS3 controller and lean in
my chair a lot. What a sad testament to driving overall.
Sad sad sad. I was at Lake Forest Sports cars this week for a car club
meeting. They had a lot of very pretty cars, including an SLR and an
MC12. The only new cars there that you could row your own in were the
Lotus's... AM's? nope, Maserati's? nope, Ferrari's? nope, not a one
had 3 pedals on the floor. Not one. If you wanted that, you would
have to purchase a used vehicle. And they had 4 new Scuderia's on the
floor, gray, white, black and red... The nicest F car they had was an
older 512 TR, that thing was beautiful, and they had a 246 Dino also
that was very nice.
BR,
Mike
George York wrote:
I wouldn't say it makes the car
more economic on Gas as the engine size and how you floor the pedals to
get that adrenaline rush is what its all about my friends! Here Here on
Manuals!!!!!!!!
GEO
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 7:46 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] NFC: Save the Manuals!!
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/10q3/save_the_manuals!-car_and_driver
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