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good job...at least you passed.
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so, my ute got serviced last week. We noticed it had a flat, but it was a slow leak, so I kept pumping it up and asked Toyota to fix it. They took it off, said it was fine and put it back on. This morning it is totally flat. I've spent the last hour with the service book and searching online. The ute is parked in mud. The tyre is underneath. It won't come off without a tool on the jack ( which I need in any case ). The jack is, according to the manual, under the back seat. No part of the manual tells me how to lift the back seat. I've been trying to lift it for a good 30 min and can't work it out.
Oh, and I wrote an abusive email to Motors, then realised they are Holden, it's Co-op I am mad at.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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When I read the subject line, my mind interpretted it as Fat Tire[^], not flat tire. Now I'm disappointed.
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Try this tool[^] or maybe this one[^] to get the back seat out.
I'm curious, have you ever in your life done anything that worked out right the first try?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Well, marriage was not it. Playing guitar was not it. Having kids was, tho. And, I believe the chook shed at my old property was the first one I built, still standing.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: Well, marriage was not it.
Been there, done that.
Christian Graus wrote: Playing guitar was not it.
I can play the radio and an MP3 player. 
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Christian Graus wrote: marriage was not it.
But did you get it right THIS time? I bless my x's black little heart.
If she hadn't married me and then decided to cash out, I would not have been in the right place and time to meet my wife.
God uses pain to build us and put us in the right frame of mind for what He wants us to do.
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Get a good grip and pull the seat part forwards.
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Turns out a different part of the manual explains how to feel around in the middle and find a string, and pull it. THEN I needed to build a pole out of the parts, poke it through a hole in the car, find a slot, and lower the spare. It was plain ludicrous.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: The jack is, according to the manual, under the back seat. No part of the manual tells me how to lift the back seat. I've been trying to lift it for a good 30 min and can't work it out.
On our old toyota 4runner there was a cloth strap I could pull to lift the seat.
And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
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Yeah, that's basically what it was. I just had to find it. It was about as intuitive as the mechanism to 'lower' the spare tyre and unhook it.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Yeah, mine too, but it gets stuck. 
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I guess the learning point is not to park a slow leak in the mud. 
Opacity, the new Transparency.
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Sadly, that's my only option. I wrote back to the concrete guy saying I accepted the quote, and got no response.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: No part of the manual tells me how to lift the back seat. I've been trying to lift it for a good 30 min and can't work it out.
I was unable to find the power ON button on my new Samsung monitor, and the manual wasn't helpful. Then I realized it was a touch switch (where I supposed the power ON LED be)... 
I'm getting old.
If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
-- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
This is going on my arrogant assumptions. You may have a superb reason why I'm completely wrong.
-- Iain Clarke
[My articles]
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If you do ls —help in Linux/Mac you get
ls [-ABCFGHLOPRSTUWabcdefghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [file ...]
Notice only a few letters of alphabets are missing in the available options. Of course no sane person can remember all the options. But still interesting to see how a simple directory listing command line tool can grow in complexity.
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I was amazed once with the find command.
I wanted to remove all .DS_Store files on my Mac, and found out that the find command is my best friend in that situation.
sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -depth -exec rm {} \;
was the magic word
We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours!
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sudo find / -name ".DS_Store" -delete
Don't want to fork all those rm processes now, do we Don't need the -depth with -delete either…
find is awesome...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
CodeProject MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
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My implementation uses
find / -name ".DS_Store" -remove!
The bang makes it more exciting than a plain old -delete.
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When I used that I had no idea that -delete was an option at all... Just used what google suggested and people said it works 
The point is... find is awesome
We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours!
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It certainly is...I use it in several bash based utilities I run on my Mac most days...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
CodeProject MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
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Just curious if you use a ll alias or do you type out ls -l? After getting used to ll, going back just seems tiresome. I won't do it.. nevaaar!
Jeremy Falcon
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I don't for ls.
I have lot of other aliases, eg:
sshl -> to log on to a linux box
cddia -> to go to my development directory
Of course, rm is aliases to rm -i
aplog -> view apache log files
The nice thing is that the tab autocomplete works very well even for aliases (in Windows Command prompt it does not work that well).
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ll will spoil you I say! I think I'm gonna steal your dev dir one btw. :evil grin:
Jeremy Falcon
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Rama Krishna Vavilala wrote: Windows Command prompt
As a command line buff, did you try Powershell?
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