Month: July 2005

Unless your buying it straight out, it’s was better to buy it last week, than this.
It’s funny, since Ford and Chrysler were both offering Employee discounts to the general public, GM had to follow suit, or risk losing even more money.
Before (After):
Interest rate 0.9% (3.9%)
Residual Value 38% (36%) @ 48 months
damn the fine print. 🙂
Also, as of friday, GM stopped the petro gas money incentive. Don’t forget another $500 off with the gas card.
The new price is $17,633 @ 3.9% x 48 months = $20,604.70. While the old price is $19,795 @ 0.9% x 48 months = $20,520.33
So unless you’re buying, you’re actually better off with the old program.
The difference of $84.37 just in interest alone. Now add that gass difference. $584.37
So, now… lets look at that fun stuff.

I started to use computers since MS-Dos 3.1 days… earlier if you include load "*",8 for the commodore 64 to load games when I was 4 yrs old (maybe younger)
I’ve been struggling with linux for a little bit. Without google, I’d be lost.
But for those commands, that you’re so used to… like copy, move, and stuff, I’ve had to create aliases to make the transition easier.
What’s thrown into my “~/.bashrc” file.
alias cls='clear'
alias del='rm'
alias dir='ls'
alias e2w='sudo cp /usr/local/emc/generic.ini ~/gcode/generic.ini'
alias eg='sudo nano /usr/local/emc/generic.ini'
alias emc='/usr/local/emc/generic.run'
alias ls='ls -Ail --color=always'
alias w2e='sudo cp ~/gcode/generic.ini /usr/local/emc/generic.ini'
alias untar='tar -xvzf'


Well, looking and seeking for a plugin to do what I want, has been a time waster for the most part.
I think I’ll take two plugins that I’ve seen kicking around, and modify them both, (giving credit where credit is due), and forging a new plugin that lots of people are looking for. (more…)