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Howdy, I am replacing my 2.4 2000 Pontiac Sunfire engine. Would Anyone know if a 1998 2.4 Cavalier engine would fit?
Call a local salvage yard. They have an interchange book.
They were basically the same car with some different sheetmetal, the engine should interchange with no problem since it's a Chevrolet/GM corporate engine.
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somebody else ask a similar question... this is part of the answer i piled together in a big heap..the 2.4 dual overhead cam motors came in a LOT of gm front wheel drive cars....so you have help your self junk yards.... full service junk yards...new from GMthere are a lot of engine rebuilders that have these also...if you are swapping to the 2.4 from the 2.2... you will need to buy a complete car for the swap to save money...there are a LOT of differences... so you will need significant numbers of parts to make it run... and it will probably need to come from a 96 model... not anything earlier.. or you may have problems accessing the computer with a scan tool.... do to differences in connectors under the dashboard...what are you planning????if you pick up a used motor .... you might before you put it in... want to pull the front timing cover and replace the chain driven water pump..... if the motor has a lot of miles on it... you might want to do not just the water pump... but swap on a new head gasket... and use hylomar on both sides of the head gasket..... that is one of the major failure points on a 2.4... i hate having to do a head gasket twice... don't you.???there are several GM power books from the 90's on building that motor up to serious levels of power...there might even be a few... in one of the magazines on this site... yep!!!http://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/engine/oldsmobile_quad_4_combining_parts/index.htmlhttp://www.hotrod.com/techarticles/engine/hrdp_0907_gm_ecotec_bolt_ons/index.htmlhttp://quad4rods.com/this link has some good infohttp://www.bookrags.com/wiki/GM_Quad-4_enginetext from this linkThe Quad 4 (called Twin Cam after 1995) was a DOHC and SOHC straight-4 automobile engine produced by General Motors' Oldsmobile division. It was a modern engine for the time, but was criticized for roughness as well as its longevity. Many Quad 4 engines did not see over 120,000 miles due to connecting rod issues. Balance shafts were added in 1995, also known as a transitional year from the Quad 4 to the renamed TWIN CAM variant, in 1996 2.4L (LD9) the complete engine makeover was accomplished. The name is derived from the engine's four cylinders and four valve per cylinder layout. There was a single overhead camshaft variant that was produced for a brief time. The Quad 4 used an iron block and an aluminum head. The Quad 4 debuted in 1987 and was replaced after 2001 by the Ecotec. Quad 4 engines were produced at GM's Delta Engine Plant (Plant 5) in Delta Township, Michigan. In recent years, it has gained a minor following in hot rodding circles as a period style engine (which looks like a 1930's Offenhauser twin cam unit).Contents[hide]1 Quad OHC2 LD23 19954 LG05 W416 LD97 External links8 Technical Issues9 See alsoQuad OHCA SOHC variant of the Quad 4 was intended to replace the Tech IV. Debuting in 1992, this Quad OHC was an 8-valve engine and produced 120 hp (89 kW), 40 hp (30 kW) less than a Quad 4 from the same era. Torque was 140 ft·lbf (190 N·m). Although power and economy were much better than the pushrod Tech IV, the Quad OHC was retired after 1994 when the DOHC version became standard.LD2The LD2 was the standard version of the Quad 4. The LD2 was the first incarnation of the Quad 4. It is known as the low output version of the Quad 4 when compared to the LGO or High Output Quad 4. There was a transitional version of the LD2 in 1995.1995For 1995, a balance shaft-equipped version of the 2.3 L version was produced. A clever arrangement ensured a constant load on the shafts: The crank drove one shaft, which drives the second, which drives the oil pump. However, the shafts spun at twice the engine rpm, forcing the redline to be reduced from 6800 to 6500 rpm. Output was 150 hp and 150 ft·lb. This was the only Quad 4 family engine produced in 1995. This was known as a transitional year for the engine family. Applications:1995 Pontiac Sunfire GT1995 Chevrolet Cavalier Z241995 Pontiac Grand Am SE1995 Oldsmobile AchievaLG0The High-Output 2.3 L LG0 version produced 180 hp (134 kW) from 1990 to 1992, and 175 hp (130 kW) in 1993 and 1994. Major changes included a higher volume intake manifold, and more aggressive camshafts. Applications:1990-1991 Oldsmobile 4421990-1993 Chevrolet Beretta GTZ, 180 hp (134 kW)1994 Chevrolet Beretta Z26, 170 hp (127 kW)1989-1994 Pontiac Grand Am1990-1991 Pontiac Grand Prix1989-1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Calais and Supreme1992-1994 Oldsmobile Achieva SCW41The W41 version was the highest-output Quad 4 at 190 hp (142 kW) in 1991 and 1992, and 185 hp (138 kW) in 1993. The additional 10hp came from longer duration cams and a different PROM. Applications:1991 Oldsmobile 4421992-1993 Oldsmobile Achieva SCXLD9The LD9 Twin Cam was a 2.4 L Quad 4 variant with balance shafts, debuting in 1996. Bore was decreased from 92 mm to 90 mm and stroke increased from 85 mm to 94 mm for better torque, and power was increased to 150 hp (112 kW). This engine received a minor update halfway through the 1999 model year that eliminated the EGR, increased the compression ratio from 9.5:1 to 9.7:1, and switched from low impedance fuel injectors to high impedance. Applications:1996-2001 Chevrolet Cavalier Z241996-2001 Pontiac Sunfire GT1996-2001 Pontiac Grand Am1996-1998 Oldsmobile Achieva1999-2001 Oldsmobile Alero1997-1999 Chevrolet MalibuExternal linksQuad4Forums.comYahoo group QuadFourm mailing listTechnical IssuesThis entire section does not cite reliable and notable references or sources.You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.The Quad 4 was plagued with blown headgasket issues almost from the introduction of the engine. The problems primarily arose from the fact that the cylinder head was built from aluminum and the block from cast iron, which caused the two parts of the engine to heat unevenly. At approximately 80,000 miles the headgasket would begin to leak, and despite numerous redesigned headgaskets, the engine would begin to leak and progress to engine overheating. This could account for a lack of early Quad 4 engines still in operation today. A blown headgasket can be identified by white smoke exiting from the exhaust pipe and an oily residue in the coolant return tank next to the radiator. Once the headgasket was replaced by a quality aftermarket piece, the engine proved reliable. Victor-Reinz was the OEM gasket supplier, Fel-Pro is the preferred aftermarket gasket maker. Engines identified by the Twin Cam label currently haven't earned the earlier reputation of the Quad4. The Quad4 had many cases where users would experience a failure of the timing chain around 70,000 miles with no history of abuse. Timing failure lead as one of the highest occurring problems with the Quad4. This is due to a poorly spec'ed chain which was longer than the typical chain GM used. The extended length was due to it being a single loop that linked both cams. Most V6's would use two separate and shorter chains to connect to the cams. The failure of the timing chain wasn't seen as a huge problem to the general consumer but a high number of cases are reported daily to aftermarket timing component companies (Call Cloyes for verification).and i know there is at least one article on rebuilding the 2.4 quad 4... what fits what... you might look at the section i posted in bold.... and note that there is a slight difference between engines with and without EGR...
here is another section..yes... but you have to stick with the 96 to 2002 models from a car with the 8th digit is a ***there are so many differences in the 2.4 quad 4 motors... you have to stick with the same model engine... VIN T.....you will need a motor from a VIN T car... 1996 through 2002...here are the various casting numbers... in a list...quad four casting numbers by year and vinhere is the full article..http://www.enginebuildermag.com/Article/2485/rebuilding_the_gm_quad_4.aspxthere are places to get reman engines... gm will have a stash of these new.. and possibly reman also....you can find a junk yard with a network... they have a radio and a tellatype system set up for parts finding between junk yards.... i would not install a used motor without spending the time ... pulling the front cover.. installing a new water pump... pulling the head and installing a new head gasket with a coating of hylomar.. there are also engine core suppliers around the nation that may have some of these engines in CORE form.. that have been removed and are dirty.. ready for rebuilding... not runnable.. this is the basis for many rebuild motors or some of the parts that are used in rebuilt motors..you have posted the same question before...that model also came with other motors...1996 Chevrolet Cavalier: Available engines4 Cylinders 4 2.2L SFI OHV4 Cylinders T 2.4L SFI DOHC1996 Buick Skylark: Available engines4 Cylinders T 2.4L SFI DOHC6 Cylinders M 3.1L SFI OHV1996 Pontiac Sunfire: Available engines4 Cylinders 4 2.2L SFI OHV4 Cylinders T 2.4L SFI DOHC1996 Pontiac Grand Am: Available engines4 Cylinders T 2.4L SFI DOHC6 Cylinders M 3.1L SFI OHV1996 Oldsmobile Achieva: Available engines4 Cylinders T 2.4L SFI DOHC6 Cylinders M 3.1L SFI OHVmost of these models had the 2,.4 VIN T motors available through 2002...since your cavalier was also available with a 2.2 motor... if you can find a complete wrecked 2.2 car.. from 96 or newer... you should be able to swap all the parts over to make yours run again.... the engine.. motor mounts.. complete engine control wiring harness... and complete exhaust.. will have to be swapped.. might as well do the transmission also... as there are differences in the stall speed of the torque converter... the torque converters are swappable... each torque converter has a plastic tag on it.. describes exactly what converter it is...the worst case... is just writing off your car... spending the money on another that runs... or put it on NON OPERATION.. so the registration fees will not continue to add up... until you find a motor...but again.. it might come down to EGR or no EGR... and that will turn on the check engine light and reduce power and fuel economy ... so be careful on what you have and what you are thinking about putting in...the hollander interchange that IDJ is a great place to look also.. i just don't have a hollander interchange manual to study ...
one last thing...... if your engine is just running rough.... not loosing coolant or compression...rip the coil pack assembly off... tear it apart... examine the coils for signs of high voltage leakage... examine the bottoms of the holes in the cap... under the springs.. look for discoloration.. and burning...examine the spark plug boots...these coil packs... spark plug boots... HAVE to be assembled with a thin coating of dielectric tune up grease to prevent high voltage leaks along the sides of the various insulators...DO NOT use dielectric tune up grease on the spark plug threads... use spark plug antiseize...if you do.. you will not get the spark plugs out without damaging the threads in the head.. dielectric tune up grease has dissolved sand in it.. get it hot.. squeeze it... the sand becomes sand again.. locks up tight... preventing high voltage arcing is one of the things that dielectric tune up grease is designed for.. it had thermal properties that allow the ignition modules to transfer the heat generated by the switching of the voltage to charge the coils to the distributer housing so it can be radiated to the air stream.. without it under a module.. the module will overheat and the electronics will lift off the circuit board keeping more heat in them until they fail... backstory.. in a shop i worked at.. the bosses kept putting new caps and coils on this one quad 4 car.. it would last about 6 weeks... i kept telling them to use this dielectric tune up grease... eventually.. they let me put a new set on.. it never acted up again.. i did find plastic flash at the bottom of the holes under the springs on top of the coils... this created a spot to arc also.. created a LOT of heat and burned through to the conductor next to it.. just thought you should know... you can verify head gaskets and combustion chamber sealing with just a few items before tear down. if you need instructions .. post...
no because GM switch the LD9 2.4i block knock sensor there will two different knock sensors one built 1996-99 is without the cord which is one wire leading to it and the other that was built after 2000-up has two wires built on to the sensor. trust me my dad had his replace at auto repair shop and didn't know tell 6 yrs after the fact. when I was replacing the water pump I saw the knock sensor just hanging off the block and it doesn't fit because the dumb asses got the wrong block. I was think taking it in and have the GM make the two wire knock sensor work with the computer someone told me that it would cost more than $850.00 be careful when replacing the block it would affect the cars performance if one sensor not doing its job and it would cost you a new engine. and there's a another thing to make shore that your engine does have or it doesn't have the EGR Valve System some didn't came equip with and some did.
Another 3 year old thread dug up by a first-timer.
Yes a 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 - 2.4 would drop in correctly & bolt in correctly. I have a 98 Z24 that has the 2.4 motor in it, but when i got the car the motor was seized up, the 5 speed manual tranny was junk & the clutch was too far gone. i purchased a 2000 sunfire gt 2.4 liter to replace seized motor. I tore the gt motor apart & rebuilt it to a bit more fun. but anyways yes the motors can swap out. any questions give me a shout, i'll walk you through the process step by step. I'm a GM Mechanic, so i can walk you through the process, explain & give you actually hands on photos of some of my work. BEFORE you do this project though I hope you know that removing a 1998 Chevy Cavalier Z24 motor is no small task, its not a job for a person with little experience - also people with no experience will be way out of their league with this motor tear down


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|What does your contract say about refund/replacement?
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I agree with the court , make sure you have documentation of EVERYTHING..
Did you get any kind of written contract??
You can always call AKC, but I seriously doubt they'll do anything, they are just a "registry".
You can always post about them/your experience on RIPOFF.com , then when someone googles the kennel name/breeder it will pop up..
|You'd probably be better off in court but that will also depend on the contract/agreements, if any.
I agree with Gwenhwyfair...take this piece of garbage to court....the AKC probably means little to her.
Hitting these creeps in the pocketbook is one of the only ways which might get their attention but most likely they will continue their dishonest practices. I would also investigate the potential for exposing them to criminal practices and fraud charges involving their "business"....this might slow them down more than a monetary loss. Your actions just might prevent something similar happening to the next individual who chooses to buy a dog from her.
Yes, maybe the AKC might direct you in some fashion as I am certain this ploy regarding "full AKC registration" is a scam they are quite familiar with....
Sorry to hear the pup's health is compromised but I have this belief that dogs show up on our "doorsteps" for all the right reasons...no matter the hardship which comes with the dog....
Some of our breeders may be along shortly to give you ideas on what the AKC can or will do but I'm thinking the only thing would be revoke registration on dogs illegally registered.
My suggestion would be to take the breeder to small claims court. File complaints with the USDA for poor breeding practices too.
Put some reviews on rip-off reports online where you can use her full name, including kennel name.
If you can win a court case the case becomes a matter of public record.
I'm just wondering, she forged signatures right in front of you? What did you do at that time?
Reporting a bad breeder to AKC?
Has anyone ever reported a breeder to AKC? How often do they shut down bad breeders/scammers?
We purchased a puppy with full AKC registration last year, but never received the papers. When the breeder told us we couldn't get papers, by then the dog was 10 months old, fully obedience trained and prepping for service work. When we asked for a refund/partial refund/replacement puppy due to the lack of papers, she refused to give us anything, and instead offered to buy the fully obedience-trained dog back for $200. Yeah right.
The dog was diagnosed with a life threatening disease just before she turned 1 year old, making her unable to be a service dog. She will die early from it and obviously cannot be bred. It is genetic, too, not just bad luck like cancer. We asked again for a refund/replacement and the breeder said no. She also said she wouldn't have pups available again until late in the year, but her website says she has pups due next week.
I messaged her threatening to go to AKC, but she's ignored my email.
So, has anyone complained to AKC before? The puppy we bought had seizures on her first night home due to severe worms. The breeder is a dog flipper, a scam artist (selling an absolutely untrained dog as an "obedience-trained service dog" for $2500 for example). She forged her husband's signature on AKC documents in front of me, using her husband's name for all AKC documents and contracts, though I've never seen him and she manages everything. She just sold another dog to someone, and refuses to give them papers too, so I am staying in contact with them.
If anyone has any input, or suggestions, please let me know. I am going in blind here.
Am I wrong for wanting a refund/replacement?
What all would AKC like to know?
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i recently had justdashes re do my 1960 cadillac eldo dashpad. it cost me $1.1oo. bucks.when my dash was ready i picked it up and installed it. it did not fit..i then looked under the dash and found they gave me some one elses dash pad. ok that's why it did not fit. well..i talked to them they offered to do another dash pad. at my cost for the core; 175 bucks. i found one that fit nicely. they took it and re did it. so after two weeks i go to install the other dash and ..wow...it did not fit at the speedo assembly. the cavity was to small for the unit to slide in to it. i then looked closer and saw blue vinyl...hmmm. that's funny my dash is black. i then relized the horrific reality of the situation, they simply re coverd right over my old worn and cracked core. they did not tear down all the old padding and vinyl. there website will clearly say they take all worn cracked material off. well the the build up of new vinyl with my old worn vinyl reduced the size of my dash cavity. i was accused of being a whiner by erwin. he actually had the nerve to tell me that it is the option at justdashes to remove the old worn materials that they clearly state on their site as bien crap. so they go over it? they do not ever say they have the option to use four decade old materials for a foundation.has anybody ever had any problems with justdashes? i will meet with erwin on monday the 11th of feb. i will let you know if they take care of me or drag me through crap. if you send them your dash make them earn your money by doing what they promise. tear all the old stuff off. if you send them a dash tear it down to the metal and engrave your name on it. will let you know monday.
I had the dash in my '86 Monte Carlo done by Just Dashes. It looks fine, although I didn't know they where going to dye or the paint the vinyl in order to get match the original color. I was a little disappointed in that, it doesn't match, but it's close, but for what they dare charge they should dare to do thier best. If you look back through the archived posts you'll find one that has about a thousand responses about this very issue, and there seems to be alot of bad relations between Californians and the rest of the Country.
Wow! I'm glad I saw this. Thanks for the info. They won't be getting my money. I'll just strip and recover it myself. I think I can probably do it better anyways. Thanks again.
Wow, talk about old! This thread is nearly geriatric! Put it in a home!!!
Holy crap chevfreak, I just looked at the original date on this after you said that. Wow, lol definately did not catch that at first.
Yeah, it's old. It still served a purpose though. I was thinking of sending my dash to get recovered with Just Dashes. Not now.
I was considering using Just Dashes... but not now. Anyone ever try spraying a cracked vinyl padded dash with that Rhino bedliner stuff?
Check out this web site: www.coverlaymfg.com. They make contoured plastic dash overlays molded specifically for each car style. If you need to match a color, you can spray it with SEM. Much easier. Good luck.
There are lots of that type product out there... BUT
not for classic cars, muscle cars or hot rods. My apologies to the owners of 1985 Oldsmobile Omega hot rodders everywhere. Dash caps also makes some... but not for my 68 Cutlass S.
This thread has been around for awhile....You may want to post your dash for sale in the classifieds, if you haven't done so already. Sounds like a good deal for someone.
Around awhile???? Like 9 years old!!!
Classified ads are NOT allowed in the forums. Please read the rules.
The OP never posted the outcome, this thread is worthless without the "rest of the story"
They went out to the street to settle things right, only one came back.
Things have changed...
Hi Hot Rodders,
Just Dashes has been in the classic automotive restoration industry for 30+ years, and we've gone through management and process changes since this post was created. I can assure all our future customers that we have a very strict restoration and quality control process. With regard to our restoration process, we NEVER make a core swap without consulting our customer first. As soon as a package comes into our shop the first thing we do is write our customer's name on the parts and photograph all contents of the box.
Every restoration job is unique and handled a little differently from the next. For Late 50's to early 60's Cadillacs specifically we take off ALL the old material (vinyl and foam), and bead blast or deep clean the frame depending on the frame condition. After bead blasting we lay down a new foundation of high density polyethylene foam and then vaccuum form a skin of vinyl around the newly foamed structure. From there we put the parts through an extensive vinyl dying process, to make the part whatever color our customer needs. If our customer is not happy with a color we mix for them, we are more than happy to take care of the issue and get them what they want.
I hope I've addressed any and all issues that have been brought up here. I'll be keeping my eye on this post, if any of you have any questions.
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welcome...thanks for posting and answering some very old questions (original post is 10 years old)......However, commercial advertising is not allowed on the board...thanks
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I've been meaning to reply to this thread for several days, but did not have time. I see some reference to possibly navigating using base maps instead of marine charts. Based on my experience that would be a big mistake. I have a few pictures that you may find interesting.
First, last season my only real-time electronic navigation device was a little Oregon 400c handheld (although I just bought a GPSmap 640 today). I do not attempt to plot routes with the handheld, but I have plotted routes into numerous marinas and coves on my computer using SeaClear software and downloaded NOAA digital raster charts. I then use software (G7toWin and MapSource) to transfer these routes from my computer to the Oregon.
I get some comfort from plotting these routes on NOAA charts, then transferring the routes to other software and handheld devices, because I get a useful cross-check by overlaying the route plotted using the NOAA charts with the commercial maps provided by Garmin and others. So far, for the limited area where I sail, I've seen good agreement between the NOAA charts, Garmin charts, and my personal observations of shorelines, navaids, and depth soundings. Unfortunately that is not the case with MapSource base maps.
Here, as an example, is the route for a westward exit from my harbor as plotted on the NOAA raster chart with SeaClear. GPS is especially useful here because there are no markers for the channel, and there pretty serious mud flats over near the island:
When I transfer this route into the Oregon, you can see good agreement - the route follows the same relationship to the depth contours (note that North points right in this case):
When I look at this on Google Earth, I also see the route following the same path through the channel:
Finally, here is the exact same route overlayed over the base map that Garmin provided with my MapSource software. Note that your version of MapSource may have a better base map, or even be able to pull the marine charts out of your GPS. Unfortunately, the marine charts in the Oregon 400c cannot be viewed in MapSource, and I did not want to spend the $$$ to buy them, since I am perfectly happy plotting my routes in SeaClear:
As you can see, the MapSource base map shows my route going over land. I have checked the projection and datum for my charts, and have made every adjustment possible to get this fixed.
My basic point is that I would never use base maps to plot a course over water. However, if you have a GPS without marine charts and do not want to buy them, you could use software like SeaClear to plot routes and mark waypoints, obstacles and other POIs, then transfer those over into your handheld GPS to observe your real-time position vs. those POIs. In this case, the POIs would be probably more reliable than anything your base maps show.
Others here have pointed out the risk of dropping a handheld overboard. I alleviated this by buying a $10 bicycle handlebar mount for my GPS and attaching it to the top of my guard rail. That put the screen in a very convenient location that allowed me to glance at it occasionally without taking my eyes too far away from where they should be. I will mount the GPSmap 640 in the same place for next season.
|Got a waterproof pc on ebay. Has charts, navigation software and GPS. Fills all my needs along with paper charts. Between the two along with watching where I go, all is right with the world. The waterproof Pc was the best electronic buy I have made. I think the guy still has a couple on ebay.
Garmin 60csx
Been using a Garmin 60csx (discontinued handheld chartplotter) and paper in and around Casco Bay for the past 5 years. This combo has served me very well in all conditions. I'm not a "bells and whistles" type (probably because I don't have the coin) so this GPS has provided all the info and routing utilities needed.
Still available via retail, for around $200. Then you'll need the charts.
|Garmin handheld, lap top, Opencpn.org, NOAA nautical charts. Plug handheld into usb on lap top. Works GREAT! Very accurate. Through the barrier reefs coming into the Keys and the Hawk Channel I was able to call out depths to the helm to within 1 foot of accuracy. Even the old sailors were impressed. Great stuff and the price is right. (Opencpn and the NOAA charts are free!)
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Until a year ago, I had never used a gps or chartplotter and didn't see much use for them on a boat. I sail over most of the Chesapeake where most sailing is line of sight. snip...The bluecharts are much more detailed (depths, land and water features, etc.). The 441 came with the charts preloaded and I can't imagine having a unit that didn't have them.
It's also a great help in making decsions about the days destination. A chartplotter does a great job of reminding you if your speed made good isn't going to get you to your intended destination in an acceptable time frame so you can start thinking of a "Plan B" lest you have to enter an unfamilar anchorage at night although a mistake here on the Chessy is only likely to result in sticking your keel in the mud, vs smacking a rock or reef.
Originally Posted by bljones View Post
If i have had Lasik, do I not now have the Mark II Eyeball?
Until a year ago, I had never used a gps or chartplotter and didn't see much use for them on a boat. I sail over most of the Chesapeake where most sailing is line of sight. I used a little B&W handheld Garmin once in the fog and it allowed me to back out of my anchorage. Last spring I purchased a Garmin 441 and I love it. I now see numerous uses I never saw before. No, it doesn't replace charts or other basic tools of navigation (especially common sense including looking where you are going). But it is a fantastic tool.
I also purchased the new Garmin software "Homeport" that I loaded on my laptop. Homeport includes the Basemaps. I had to transfer the bluemap charts onto a thumb drive that I plug into my laptop to get the charts. The whole thing is a little cumbersome but it does give you a clear picture of the difference between the basemaps and the bluecharts. The bluecharts are much more detailed (depths, land and water features, etc.). The 441 came with the charts preloaded and I can't imagine having a unit that didn't have them.
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I used to think radar wasnt necessary until the day I got stuck in a pea soup fog in the middle of chesapeake bay with boats and ships all around that I could hear but not see. I wouldnt sail in a fog prone place like Maine without it, though you could get away without it in other places. I wouldnt want to rely on DR in a place with major tidal currents and fog. People do it but they are braver than I am (or maybe they have more insurance)
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If i have had Lasik, do I not now have the Mark II Eyeball?
Originally Posted by sailingdog View Post
Also, the Mark I Eyeball is usually your best and most important navigation tool.
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I am shocked that you as a bee keep would even consider raising the pest that would cause you and your bees so much grief.
The compost actually probably nourished as many wax worms as the comb did. ... Whether you have 1 or 200 moths, if you have a weak hive they can take over.


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What business are you in? What draws so many swarms to the plant?Mark
Quote from: mherndon on April 07, 2009, 09:43:51 AMWhat business are you in? What draws so many swarms to the plant?MarkI am in the environmental business. Our facility sits along the mississippi river with over 6000 acres of property inside our fenceline. Behind us is swamp and river bottoms. they keep the grass mowed every other month so we have nothing but fields of wildflowers. it is a bee paradise I guess. I had a swarm trap set up along the fenceline and the storm knocked it down a week ago.Health and safety wise the plant manager is leary about letting me place bait hives Keith


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Folate is an essential nutrient for many body processes, including hormone metabolism, DNA synthesis, homocysteine metabolism, and nervous system function.
FolaPro is one of the supplements included in the Simplified Methylation Protocol for chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and fibromyalgia that was developed by Drs. Neil Nathan, MD; Rich Van Konynenburg, PhD; Amy Yasko, PhD; and Jacob Teitelbaum, MD.
This group of supplements (FolaPro, ActiFolate, Perque Activated B-12 Guard, and Neurological Health Formula) has been selected and formulated to provide nutrients that the body needs to support normal methylation - a process that is critical for a host of the body's most important chemical reactions, from creation of glutathione (the body's 'master' antioxidant and detoxifier) to energy generation, DNA repair, and serotonin production.
Doses used in the Simplified Methylation Protocol trial* are as follows: Actifolate: 1/4 tablet (200mcg) daily [60 tablets in bottle] Folapro: 1/4 tablet daily [60 tablets in bottle] General Vitamin Neurological Health Formula: Start with 1/4 tablet and work up, very slowly, to 2 tablets daily [180 tablets in bottle] Activated B-12 Guard: 1 sublingual lozenge daily [100 tablets in bottle] Note: As Dr. Nathan's trial report suggests, another supplement considered beneficial but not central to the protocol is phosphatidyl serine.
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Wojciech Szczesny is convinced that Arsenal will secure a top-four finish this season despite the recent dip in their away form.
Arsène Wenger's side have let leads slip at Fulham and Swansea City in the past fortnight to lose ground on the Premier League leaders.
They now sit four points behind Chelsea - who currently occupy the final Champions League place - but Szczesny expects an upturn in Arsenal's fortunes very soon.
"I am confident we will get into the top four," he said. "We don't deserve to be outside the top four.
"We should be challenging for trophies every year and I believe the results will pick up and we will at least finish in the top four because we have the quality in the squad to succeed."
All the same, the Polish goalkeeper is at a loss to explain Arsenal's faltering form on the road.
"I have no idea why we can't win away from home," he said. "The results speak for themselves and we have been really poor away this season. I really can't explain it.
"We go everywhere and try to do our best but the results don't go our way. We have talked about it and cannot come up with an answer. We need to sort it out.
"We can't take many positives out of it [the Swansea match] because we lost the game and we are disappointed about it.
"Credit to Swansea - I thought they were fantastic all over the park, [but] I am very disappointed."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Union Latvia has called upon its members to boycott Chinese goods for two weeks in protest against policies in Tibet. The union has initiated a "Don't Buy Chinese" good campaign and uted stores, cafes and other business establishments to display a sign saying "We Don't Buy Chinese Goods." The campaign supposedly is an endeavor to indicate that "by buying each good made in China they(Latvians) morally and financially support human rights violations."
Ostensibly, the campaign is all about human rights issues related to China, but the union also has another agenda. It is claiming Chinese goods are of inferior quality and people should be buying goods manufactured in Latvia or in the European Union. Is it morality or money that is the issue in Latvia?


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Dover's Goal Helps Green Bay to Tie on the Road
VALPARAISO, Ind. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Jordan Dover (Ontario, Canada) scored his first career goal in the 59th minute and helped the Green Bay Phoenix men's soccer team to a 1-1 tie at Valparaiso (1-6-3) on Saturday evening. The Phoenix improved to 2-7-3 and 0-2-2 in Horizon League play.
Dover scored in the 59th minute to give the Phoenix the lead when Alonso Flores (Chicago, Ill.) found the freshman with a cross on the ground. Dover finished the pass at the far post to give Green Bay a 1-0 lead. Flores led the Phoenix with three shots fired and an assist.
Valpo tied the contest in the 79th minute when Jaymie Bullard scored off a pass from Stipo Zeba.
Senior goalkeeper Ryan Wehking (St. Louis, Mo.) made nine saves in the contest, including three in the second overtime, to preserve the tie for the Phoenix.
Green Bay returns to action next Saturday when the Phoenix travels to Chicago to face Loyola at 7 p.m.
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By Chris Harris
Laurent Koscielny paid tribute to Arsenal's sterling defensive display following their latest Premier League victory.
The France international was outstanding alongside Bacary Sagna, Kieran Gibbs and matchwinner Thomas Vermaelen as Arsène Wenger's side beat Everton 1-0 at Goodison Park to move into third place above Tottenham.
And Koscielny insists that the whole team deserves credit for keeping a determined Everton side at bay.
"It is not just the four defenders, it is all the team," he told Arsenal Player. "Robin [van Persie] put in a lot of effort to help us too so all of the team defend and we attack together too. We have to take that into the next game.
"We have had some difficult periods this season but we have some good players and a good team. In football it changes quickly and in three or four weeks we have won. We need to keep that and the most important thing is to keep in the top four."
Arsenal are one point clear of Tottenham and six ahead of fifth-placed Chelsea, and their London rivals meet at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. Koscielny knows this weekend could be a pivotal one.
"We know Chelsea had an important game against Manchester City [on Wednesday] and their next game against Tottenham so if they lost and we won it was good for the table," he said.
"Wednesday night was good but the most important thing is the next game against Aston Villa. If we win it is very good for us. It is very important, we are very happy but now we want to keep this place. It is important to continue to play well."
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Every advantage helps. 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh said Friday he might be getting only an extra "one percent" advantage by not divulging whom his starting quarterback is going to be for Sunday's game versus the Saints, but he'll take it. Harbaugh has declined all week, Friday included, to officially name a starter, calling it a "competitive advantage."
However, nobody told safety Donte Whitner about such an advantage. In a radio interview Friday, he said Colin Kaepernick will indeed start in New Orleans.
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Oops. Oh, well. It's not like Whitner's statement really surprised many people.
Are we done here? I was kind of outraged when I first heard the Wednesday report from Sports Illustrated's Jim Trotter that Kaepernick is going to be the 49ers' main man from here on out. Now I just want to get to Sunday. Alex Smith isn't even cleared to play yet, so he probably would have been out for this game anyway. Kaepernick was a revelation versus the Bears in Week 11. Now he gets a crack at the league's last-ranked defense. He's an easy top-15 QB in fantasy this week. FFToolbox has ranked him appropriately at No. 11.


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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 200, July 21, 2000
- 200 Issues!!!
- Hello From Mike Ess
- Meet Some T3E Users
- Meet ARSC's New User Consultant, Jeff McAllister
- ARSC Brown-Bag Lunches Continue, Wednesdays
- Massive Clusters on the Internet, For Hire?
- Quick Tip
200 Issues!!!
"200" is a number we just can't ignore.
We've decided to celebrate T3E users, as we did in the 100th Newsletter. We hope you enjoy the introductions to several members of the T3E community.
"201" is also an interesting number, as it might suggest new beginnings. In issue 101, the first Quick-Tip made its appearance: who knows what might happen in issue 201?
Hello From Mike Ess
[ Old timers will remember Mike Ess as the person who launched this Newsletter (originally the "ARSC T3D Users' Group Newsletter") in August, 1994. He wrote the first 87 issues. Thanks, Mike, for your note: ]
Congratulations! In the 100th Issue of the T3D Users Newsletter, I hoped that there would be a 200th Issue. Now this has happened because the T3D User's Newsletter fulfills a genuine need in the user community.
On high performance machines, "the speed of computation" has always been a nonlinear problem, small changes in the model, the code or the compiler could make a big difference in the speed. Information, as provided by the T3D User's Newsletter, has often provided that small change that makes a big difference.
Since leaving ARSC, I haven't been able to get parallelism out of my blood. At our house, I have the 3 Windows machines connected with Netgear and I run MPI on a collection of Linux PCs in the basement. (This is my BAN: Basement Area Network). I've converted my chess programs to run with MPI but I still never seem to have enough CPU cycles. I'm retired now, but while waiting for my simulations to complete I have a real job: I teach chess at the elementary schools.
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Meet Some T3E Users
[ For this special issue, we selected 10 ARSC T3E Users using a random pseudo-method, and asked them to introduce themselves. The T3E community isn't very large, and it's good to make connections and get to know each other.
We posed various questions, the most important being, perhaps, "What's your favorite ice cream?". The introductions appear below in the order received. Many thanks to the respondents! ]
-- Gero Schmidt --
> Introduce yourself: What do you do? physicist, researcher, teacher
> Where do you work & live? North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) and Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet Jena (Germany), that means I am traveling a lot between the US and Germany
> What do you on vacation? My favorite place for vacation is South Africa ( http://tourism.org.za/ ) and Namibia ( http://www.namibianet.com/ ). I love to observe the wild life in the huge national parks (Kruger Park, Etosha Pan,...), to hike in the mountains (Drakensberge), the quietness of the deserts (Namib), the beaches of the Indian Ocean,.....
> Home page URL? http://www.ifto.uni-jena.de/~wgs
> What are you studying on the T3E? Simulation of optical spectra of semiconductor surfaces
> How will your research affect science, computing, and/or mankind? Hopefully it leads to better methods of real-time-monitoring for semiconductor growth processes, i.e., cheaper and better electronic devices, faster computers etc. But there is still some way to go... > Make 1 prediction for the century. physics and computational science will solve the problems of biology
> Favorite ice-cream? Hagen Dasz vanilla
> Favorite web site? http://www.wcpe.com/
> Favorite Quote? ``Sch\xf6n ist das Schweigen der Weisen, um wie viel mehr das der Narren.'' I read that recently somewhere, if I try to translate it means something like ``Great is the silence of the wise men, it is even greater when the fools are silent.'' (I hope that makes sense in English??)
-- Don Morton --
As a former resident of Alaska I first heard in 1991 of the possibility of a supercomputing center at UAF. At the time, I was attending graduate school at Louisiana State University, specializing in scientific computing, and became very excited about future opportunities in Fairbanks. By 1993, when I was finishing up my graduate work, I began collaborating with the newly-formed ARSC by writing proposals and testing out the new T3D (denali). Upon graduation from LSU in May 1994, I began spending summers working at ARSC and academic years as faculty at Cameron University in Southwest Oklahoma, then The University of Montana.
I have spent the past six academic years at small universities, facilitating research and education in parallel computing through the use of Linux clusters, while continuing collaboration with ARSC to keep myself up to date in the world of high-performance computing. Additionally, I've pursued research and development activities in parallel, adaptive finite element methods and in various projects related to hydrological and thermal models in arctic regimes.
Other than scientific computing, my great interests in life are outdoor-oriented, particularly self-propelled activities.
-- Doug Marble --
Hello, my name is Doug Marble and I am a Naval officer and a Ph.D. student at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. I've been married a little over two years, to a wonderful woman named Claire, and we have two dogs (a yellow lab and a chocolate lab mix). We bought a house last year, so when I'm not crashing my program at ARSC, I'm working on the house and the yard.
I am a Lieutenant Commander, a meteorology and oceanography officer and I've been in the Navy fifteen years and have been having a blast. The Navy has sent me to school in Monterey twice now, plus it has taken me to quite a few places, some beautiful and some downright nasty. Prior to Monterey I spent three years on an aircraft carrier homeported near Seattle, 12 months of that in a shipyard and six months on a Persian Gulf deployment. Before that, I spent two years stationed in Yokosuka, Japan, and traveling to Thailand, Korea, Singapore and Guam. Before Japan was two and a half years in Monterey for a Masters degree in scuba diving, triathlons and hiking (physical oceanography and meteorology actually). Prior to that I was on an oceanographic survey ship, overseas for 18 months, mapping the sea-floor near Indonesia and visiting Surabaya, Bali, Ujung Pandang, Jakarta, Singapore, Subic Bay and Darwin, Australia. My first tour in the Navy was onboard a helicopter carrier home ported in Norfolk, VA, where I worked in Engineering and Operations and completed a six month Mediterranean deployment. That tour cemented my decision to leave the surface warfare community and become an oceanographer.
At NPS, I am working on a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography with a focus on numerical modeling and that's what brings me to ARSC.
My primary advisors are Dr. Bert Semtner and Dr. Wieslaw Maslowski and the guts of my project is developing and implementing the ocean model side of a 1/12 degree coupled ice-ocean pan-Arctic model. The work is a further evolution of an 18 km resolution model developed earlier at NPS. The 9 km model domain includes the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans and is on a 1280x720 horizontal grid with 45 levels in the vertical. The ocean model code is based on the Los Alamos POP code. My web page ( http://www.oc.nps.navy.mil/~dcmarble ) has more information on the ocean model development. I am working as a part of a team of researchers, who are developing the coupled ice-ocean model to upgrade the Navy's Polar Ice Prediction System (PIPS). Information on the PIPS project is available at http://www.oc.nps.navy.mil/~pips3 . When operational, we anticipate the new model will provide improved forecasts in the marginal ice zone, in ice concentration, convergence/divergence, lead orientation and upper ocean stratification.
As part of my dissertation, I will be working to determine freshwater, heat, salt and volume fluxes into and out of the Arctic Ocean from a high resolution model driven by realistic atmospheric forcing. An additional area of focus will be the improvements realized from increasing model resolution, in energetics, eddies, currents and representation of bathymetry and the resultant effect on topographically steered circulation.
My one prediction for the century? The Buffalo Bills will actually win a superbowl. Favorite ice cream - Any flavor of Dairy Queen Blizzard (not sure if that counts as ice cream, but what the heck). Still searching for that favorite web site. Favorite quote - John Wayne, Sands of Iwo Jima - "Life's tough, but its tougher if you're stupid."
Happy supercomputing, Doug
-- Mohamed Iskandarani --
My name is Mohamed Iskandarani. I am a Research Assistant Professor in the Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences of Rutgers University. My office is in New Brunswick NJ, but I live in Jersey City NJ, close to NYC where my wife works. Most of my research revolves around the development of a new ocean model based on the spectral element method, see http://marine.rutgers.edu . Vacation time is not what it used to be now that I am a father for 2 running toddlers and one crawling baby. My wife and I used to travel frequently to Europe or to visit my family back in Lebanon and do some tourism in the middle east (my wife is too fond of bazaars but she leaves the haggling to me). Nowadays, we design our vacations for maximal time with our extended family, so that first the kids get to interact with a variety of people safely, and second we can offload our parental duties onto the grandparents for a few hours.
> What are you studying on the T3E? Why is it cool? How will your > research affect science, computing, and/or mankind? Does your work > take you to exotic places? URL for your research? My work on the T3E consist of model development, testing and application. I will take the opportunity to extol the virtues of the T3E since I seldom get the chance to do it. I think it is a great parallel computer; it is particularly a well balanced parallel computer with its scalability still comparable to new machines coming to market. The programming tools available, f90 compilers, debuggers, and performance analyzers, are very useful, reliable, and were among the first to reach maturity.
We are currently testing the ability to couple a finite element coastal model to a basin scale spectral element model. The ultimate goal is to investigate the impact of the basin scale circulation on the coastal ecological system. Our primary focus is the Gulf of Maine region with particular emphasis on Georges Bank, an important spawning area for all sorts of fisheries.
> Favorite ice-cream? I like fruit flavored ice creams
> Favorite web site? Do not have much time for surfing the web anymore...
> Favorite Quote? A life lived in fear is a life half lived
-- Jules Lindau --
I am a research associate at the Penn State Applied Research Lab. I work in a group that is focused on the development of multiphase CFD tools, particularly for applications related to high speed supercavitating vehicles, i.e. underwater rockets. It is likely that these tools will have other uses as well, such as modeling flow in cavitating pumps, nozzles, high speed surface craft, fuel injectors, etc. Some of these applications have already been demonstrated. This work is exciting because it is rather new and few other people are getting the kind of high fidelity two or three phase Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes results that we are able to obtain. Because these flows are always unsteady on a relatively large scale, parallel processing such as on the T3E is critical to getting even two-dimensional results.
I live in State College with my wife, Marianne, 3 year old son, Zachary, and 6 month old Labrador Retriever, Theo. I enjoy spending time with Marianne, playing with my son and dog, cycling, mountain biking, and hiking.
-- Wieslaw Maslowski --
A group of us (Julie McClean, Doug Marble, Wieslaw Maslowski, Bert Semtner, Don Stark, Robin Tokmakian, Waldemar Walczowski and Yuxia Zhang) has been involved in modeling the Arctic and global ocean and sea ice. We are interested in improving our understanding of the ocean circulation, ice-ocean-atmosphere processes and interactions. Our ultimate goal is to integrate this knowledge into predictive models of the consequences of global change.
> Where do you work & live? We are at the Department of Oceanography of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California.
> Home page URL? www.oc.nps.navy.mil
> What are you studying on the T3E? Most recently we have developed and continue running a high resolution (1/12-degree and 45-level) coupled ice-ocean model of the ice-covered northern hemisphere.
> Why is it cool? This model will provide us with unprecedented detail of the sea ice and ocean circulation for operational and climate change studies. It will also allow for better interpretation of discrete measurements and guiding of future focused field programs. One of the main goals of this project is to provide the US Navy with an improved and more computationally advanced version of the Polar Ice Prediction System (PIPS) model for operational forecasts of ice and oceanic conditions for naval operations.
> How will your research affect science, computing, and/or mankind? Our research allows for investigations of the Arctic Ocean response to and influence on global climate change. More accurate operational forecasts of ice-ocean conditions on the other hand will result in improved skill and safety of naval operations.
> URL for your research? www.oc.nps.navy.mil/~pips3 www.oc.nps.navy.mil/sbi
> Make 1 prediction for the century. Routine daily-to-interannual forecasts of ice and oceanic conditions will become a daily part of life as weather forecasts are today.
> Favorite ice-cream? Rum & Raisins from HotLicks (Fairbanks, AK).
> Favorite Quote? Persistence can help you overcome many problems (unknown and rephrased).
Meet ARSC's New User Consultant, Jeff McAllister
[ Yes, we've gotten reinforcements. Jeff started replying to user questions this week, and is a welcome addition to the ARSC staff. Thanks to Jeff for writing this introduction: ]
Some of you may wonder "who is this new guy answering the Consult phone/mail?"
ARSC just hired me as a User Consultant at the beginning of July. However, I've been here before -- as a Research Assistant working with Sergei Maurits on his UAF Eulerian Parallel Polar Ionosphere Model as part of my MS in Computer Science. The option was open to stay in Fairbanks after graduation, but I wanted to go out and see the world. So I worked for a .com startup in Dublin, Ireland and then the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for a while. But I just couldn't stay away from Alaska, and I'm excited to be back.
Sergei and I have co-authored some articles on the UAF EPPIM project, and will continue to do so on the developments that have come out of it. It's pretty interesting stuff -- modeling the interaction of the Earth's ionosphere with the solar wind. It can be run on a workstation in real time using satellite input from approximately 1 hour upstream to provide forecasts, or in a parallel environment to view historical events at very high resolution. The EPPIM's home page is:
My part of the project was a complete re-engineering of the code. This included lots of scalar optimization, as well as enabling the model's domain to be split between an arbitrary number of nodes using MPI. Visualization was also a big part of the effort, requiring an alteration of Vis5D to work on the T3E. This resulted in the creation of a new format, dubbed Vis5DR (for Vis5D Repository) which is an ongoing project in facilitating visualization of the large datasets typical of supercomputing applications.
ARSC Brown-Bag Lunches Continue, Wednesdays
Users and ARSC staff have met for two brown bag lunches, so far. If you're in Fairbanks, join us, Wednesdays, 12 noon, at the picnic table in front of the Butrovich Building. We'll keep this going through August, at least. You might call 450-8602 just to let us know you're coming.
Massive Clusters on the Internet, For Hire?
The success of the T3E has been due to its extremely low latency, high bandwidth, fast processors, reliability and ease of use (for an MPP system), and smooth integration into established HPC centers. (Did I forget anything?)
On the T3E, you can run communication intensive, highly synchronized, advanced parallel codes, and solve some very difficult problems.
Other problems, like searches through independent parcels from a large data set, can also be parallelized, but require very little communication. Such naturally parallel codes can be run across slow, high-latency networks, like the internet. This is how the SETI@home ( http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ) project works. Radio telescope data is broken into small pieces and divvied out to PCs on the internet.
What's next?
At least three companies want your PC to be a node in their "supercomputers." Here are snippets from their web pages:
Distributed Science, Inc.:
Where earlier, large investments had to be made to acquire and maintain an expensive supercomputer, we are offering a cheaper, faster, more powerful alternative: fee-based distributed computing.
By dividing gargantuan computing tasks into manageable bits and utilizing thousands of ordinary personal computers to process them, a more powerful paradigm in massive parallel computing has been created.
Parabon Computation:
Parabon will buy idle computer time from individuals and businesses worldwide, then bundle and resell it as supercomputing power for business, science, and medical research.
United Devices:
Our company was formed to accelerate scientific progress by harnessing the unused processing power of every computing device connected to the Internet. As an added incentive, members who allocate a portion of their spare resources to support commercial ventures will receive special incentives. United Devices will sell this commercial processing power to companies ranging from pharmaceuticals to animation studios. Your computer may work on the next blockbuster animated film!
Quick-Tip Q & A
A:{{ What does the "R" mean? {{ {{ Rr-------- 1 freddy mygroup 2772992 Jun 28 07:30 core {{ {{ And, while we're at it, I have no clue what program I crashed to {{ create this core file. How can I find out? From "man ls," the R signifies that it's a restart file. Not all core files are restartable... see "man core" and "man restart" for more. From whence came this file? Try the "file" command: YUKON$ file core core: UNICOS/mk T3E core file (2 PEs) - version 2, from 'a.out' Q: I think someone has been spying on me, and they may have seen my SecurID Card PIN. And besides, I'm tired of those same 4 boring digits. Remind me, how do I create a new PIN?
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