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I had an old Fiat Panda when at university. It had beeny grandad's until he died.
Loads of fun, thrashed it all over the country until it fell apart.
Got caught by the police doing 97mph in it once.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Lovely cars, Panda 750 was slow but consumed less fuel than a cigarettr lighter - and its insurance and circulation taxes (which are proportional to the power of the car) were the lowest possible. The basic model hadn't even the internal paddings - you were driving in direct contact with the bare metal.
There there were Panda with FIRE engines - the most durable of them all. Specila mention to the Panda 4x4: I have one and it climbs any hill with any amount of snow where the modern off-road vehicles fail.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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Fiat 131 Super - Mirafiori - 2 litre Abarth twin cam engine.
Engine to die for, the body work rusted beyond belief.
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The dream car of the previous generation :P still a collector piece. Those cars had thick but corrosion sensitive steel, rust has always been a problem, mostly on poorly maintained cars.
That's why many old Italians treat their cars with overzeaolus care...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
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OriginalGriff wrote: and Volvos
In my experience it's always Volvo 
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In the US it's SUV's and the majority of the rest are SUV's.
Often bought by husbands to protect wives should an accident occur - which, apparently is going to be with another wife in her protective SUV.
All this assumes it doesn't flip over.
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I agree with you regarding the vans, but where I am Audis should be replaced with Saabs.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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Hi All,
Wandering around Boob Tube last night I came across EEVBlog and the rant about FTDI shipping an update that 'bricked' devices with a cloned (illegal) copy of some FTDI chips (It wrote the Product ID to 0 which prevents it from being initalised and used). I have a quanity of 'dead' devices I am now wondering if they have had that done to them. Now the hard bit is finding them and a similar device I can read the product ID out of and reflash the devices. I honestly have no idea if that will work but it's something to do.
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Cut your losses and get new ones. If they are integrated into a product then I would contact FTDI directly. Reviving "a cloned (illegal) copy" is just that, illegal. Using them opens your company to unnecessary risks.
FTDI has pulled that particular update, here's the official FTDI statement regarding the issue.
http://www.ftdichipblog.com/?p=1053[^]
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Oh I completely agree, however being in the PUB at the moment I kinda like problems like this as sort of busy work (yesterday I cleaned out my Trace Elliot and cleaned screws on my Jazz bass, I am now looking at the dust sucker/fan on my PC). Have you ever tried dealing with FTDI about parts for prototypes 'Yes, you can have the two chips you need at the end of the month"(!!!!) this was for a prototype that was being rushed to solve a problem. There stock level is odd to say the least! I mean I have little say in where the componets came from as we used a kitting company, so it's up to them to ensure legit parts get used.
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I'm curious what Boob tube is?
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Simple[^]
Please note I was actually thinking of this movie[^] but did not remember the correct title.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Love imdb localization, second movie's name in Swedish directly translated back to English: Stupid Jar
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That about sums up "The Groove Tube". Great movie to watch while drinking or as a teenager in the 1974. 
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Well it's Youtube.com but for all the idots out there. (Thank ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) it wasn't around when I was a child...)
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Typical of FTDI.
Lovely, capable hardware.
Software designed by committee and written by an intern majoring in child education at an online community college.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I was just amazed it happened and I was not aware of it. I do tend to use Prolific stuff more than FTDI. The grape vine in the PUB is not up to the job!
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I've written software for two projects using FTDI chips. It was an excruciatingly painful experience.
Software Zen: delete this;
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Wandering around Boob Tube last night
Please, keep such things to yourself! 
I know, we all do it, we just don't share in the Lounge 
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You are a bit late. FTDI published drivers one year ago that had the described behaviour but removed them after many protests (see http://www.ftdichipblog.com/?p=1053[^] and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTDI[^]).
You may find instructions in the web to re-activate devices using older drivers and an old version of the FTDI-Tool FT_Prog (I have only a German link).
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Oh, I completly agree, I mean was shocked, it just seems a good way of shooting yourself in the foot, I mean why not have a screen saying "You have bought a fake!" or something like that. Bricking it 
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Although I've net run into this problem yet I've been hearing about it fof some time. A lot of people are grumbling so maybe they'll recant?
New version: WinHeist Version Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye-
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Quote: A lot of people are grumbling so maybe they'll recant?
I was thinking that and by the looks of it have said sorry (nothing to with being included in a Microsoft Update), but I still want to see if I can bring back the dead, if I can find'em 
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When I first heard about it I did some research and there is a way around it but it's been so long even Mr. Google forgot about it.
New version: WinHeist Version Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't. -Bill Nye-
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The worst bit is I think I have probably written off a couple of prototypes due to this
WHAT were they thinking!!!
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