[Sussex] Worth a read

Dominic Clay dominic.clay at cardinus.com
Mon Nov 10 10:36:28 UTC 2003


I have to say, I have no idea....  

and  like many people with their PC's I have no interest in finding out!  

Engines hold no fascination at all to me. As long as I can drive a car, I will pay some one 
to fix it!

Dominic

-----Original Message-----
From: "Mark Harrison" <Mark at ascentium.co.uk>
To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties" <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 10:05:45 -0000
Subject: Re: [Sussex] Worth a read

> > some sort of new-fangle thingummybob
> 
> Quite the opposite :-) It's on a 1980 Morgan... which was basically
> designed
> in 1968...
> 
> I'm not going to tell what it is until a few more SLUGgers have either
> said
> they know, or they don't... My contention was that 80% of SLUGgers
> wouldn't
> know what one was... Nik believes that the majority will.
> 
> I think that the best way to determine the truth about what people know
> is
> to ask.
> 
> M.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony Austin" <tony at gigaday.com>
> To: "LUG email list for the Sussex Counties"
> <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [Sussex] Worth a read
> 
> 
> >
> > > To say that "we should understand coding" is like saying "we should
> > > understand car mechanics". I know how to drive, and I am proud of
> my
> > > recent
> > > acheivement of changing 8 spark plugs and the bush on the otter
> switch
> on
> > > my
> > > car... however, I am willing to bet that 80% of SLUG members have
> no
> idea
> > > what an otter switch is, let alone where the bush fits it...
> >
> > Well, I guess I qualify to be the parent's generation of some of the
> LUG
> > group members, I'm 58.  And, I have stripped down several car and
> > motorcycle engines to the bare components.  But I haven't a clue what
> an
> > otter switch is - must be some sort of new-fangle thingummybob, I
> suppose
> > - there's no mention of it in my Haynes Nisssan Primera manual.
> >
> >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Tony Austin
> > Gigaday Computing Limited
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> > tony at gigaday.com
> >
> >
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