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I have a Samba shared directory with full 0777 access to all and I have the Sticky bit turned off so that anybody can delete each others files (thats how ...
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Users cannot delete new files - Samba shared directory
Anyways, for existing files in the shared everything is fine, but when someone places a new file from their desktop into the shared directory, it gets put into their name as the owner, group 'Nobody', but nobody else can delete the file and it becomes read only. The file's attributes are 755 all of a sudden
How do I set it up so that files placed into a shared directory can be deletable by others?
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Try to set an umask option in your /etc/samba/smb.conf file under the share that you have shared on your linuxbox, that will do the trick. Then all the files that will put on the share get the same permissions.
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You may also try these settings
force create mode = 760
force directory mode = 775
Please change the values as per your needs
Hope this helps.. Also as suggested by andutt umask will do the trick as well
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I have a similar problem, and it must be global sinse it affects all my shares. My users can't delete files. We can write, modify, and change the name of files, but not delete any files.
Any ideas for this newb?


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If you want to go to the Key is HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ CLSID\ {00028C03-0000-0000-0000-000000000046}, simply select the Hive "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\" and type in "CLSID\{00028C" and it will take you to the closest Key.
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Hello - I have just started taking some mock tests for my PMP exams prep, came across this question, while the test paper had the right choice at the end, it did not have the approach. Can someone help me with this?
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A company has to make a choice between two projects, because the available resources in money and kind are not sufficient to run both at the same time. Each project would take 9 months and would cost $250,000.
The first project is a process optimization which would result in a cost reduction of $120,000 per year. This benefit would be achieved immediately after the end of the project.
The second project would be the development of a new product which could produce the following net profits after the end of the project:
1. year: $15,000
2. year: $125,000
3. year: $220,000
Assumed is a discount rate of 5% per year. Looking at the present values of the benefits of these projects in the first 3 years, what is true?
1.Both projects are equally attractive.
2.The first project is more attractive by app. 7%.
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What is the best use for this herb? I know they used this plant after the Boston Tea part as a tea but what does it taste like? I also herd that it can be use as an herb in cooking? Thanks |
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Hi, I am planning on growing this herb later this summer. You are correct, the Native Americans used to drink this tea (called Oswego Tea) and it was a popular substitute during the British protest. The flowers are edible and can be used in salads. As for the taste, depending on your plant, it tastes either like spearmint and peppermint or lemony. It also has a slight undertone of oregano. You can use this herb in cooking in place of mint or with mint. The flowers are fragrant and attract lots of beneficial insects. |
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March 2, 2007 Joe Volpe, former manager of the Metropolitan Opera, spoke about his career last week. The talk was given in the chapel, a humble venue for a man who deals intimately and regularly with greats like Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo. Joe, whose casual and unpretentious demeanor welcomes the use of his first name, began his career in the unglamorous world of set-design, a far cry from the position that would later allow him to take in performances with dignitaries like Rudolph Giuliani.
While the talk was engrossing and refreshingly informal, my thoughts soon drifted. The sight of Joe, who without a suit could easily be mistaken for a school teacher or social worker, suddenly made the world of opera seem more accessible. I began to fantasize about my debut on the stage. Before long I was whisked away to Covent Garden where I found myself singing alongside Maria Ewing. The opera: Carmen; the role: Don José; the performance: brilliant! As the curtain falls and the crowd roars with applause, Maria Ewing looks deep into my eyes and tells me that if I were only a little older, she might allow me to be her real-life Don Jose. I savor the compliment but only for a moment; does she mean that in other circumstances I might be her fatally jealous lover? "What the hell," I figure, "it's Maria Ewing. No matter what she says I'll still be smitten."
The fantasy swells into a compendium of glamorous affairs, family struggles, and several triumphant comebacks from the inevitable drug addictions and publicity nightmares. Right when my children are vying for my attention—the greedy son, to encourage a negotiation with EMI, the fawning daughter, to urge my return to rehab—I hear the cheers of a real audience. I found myself back in the chapel and sadly devoid of my imagined stardom. Joe Volpe took a final bow and the talk was over.
Why would a young American student choose an opera fantasy over the more typical rock star fantasy? For one thing, the duties of an opera singer fulfill the New Year's resolutions of most educated people: learn a few languages, read more, travel the world, cultivate the artist within, etc. Besides, few other professions would put me in the company of Maria Ewing. While Joe Volpe was responsible for eliciting my most recent fantasy, I blame Hamilton for introducing the idea in the first place. The famed Opera Sophomore Seminar, taught by Lydia Hamessley and Peter Rabinowitz, opened my eyes to the expansive and fascinating world of opera. Given the opportunity to repeat my fours years at Hamilton, taking the opera seminar would be one of the few decisions I'd leave absolutely untouched. But I will work on changing my fantasy; instead of singing alongside Maria Ewing in Bizet's Carmen, I'd rather perform with her in Strauss' Salomé. Take the seminar if you want to know why.


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I beleive I've setup samba correctly, but whenever I attempt to access my linux machine from windows, it requests a username/password. I cannot figure out what I should be using ...
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If I open up Network Neighbourhood, and select 'View Workgroup Computers', i can see the linux machine listed, and when I try to open it is when I'm prompted for the credentials I don't have.
My question is, how can I add and manage samba users? I've tried to validate by entering using username 'root' with the root password, as well as my linux user account, but neither worked.
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It was such a catastrophic conflict that was underway by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved most of the world's nations including all of the great powers eventually forming twoopposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilised. In a state of "total war" the major participantsplaced their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities at the service of the war effort, erasing the distinction between civilian and military resources. There were such significant eventsinvolving the mass death of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it is the deadliest conflict in human history, resulting in 50 million to over 70 millionfatalities.
Although Japan was already at war with China in 1937, the world war is generally said to have begun on 1 September 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, andsubsequent declarations of war on Germany by France and most of the countries of the British Empire and Common wealth.
The war ended with such a successful victory of the Allies over the Axis in 1945. World War II alteredthe political alignment and social structure of the world. The United Nations(UN) organization was established to foster international cooperation and prevent future conflicts. The Soviet Union andthe United States emerged as rival superpowers, setting the stage for the COLD WAR, which lasted for the next 46 years.
Most countries whose industries had been damaged moved towards economicrecovery. Political integration, especially in Europe, emerged as an effort to stabilise postwar relations.
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Going Diamond in the music business means selling 10 million or more of a single or album. Pusha made $10 million dealing drugs off his cell phone!
"Cell" sounds like "sale" which would also be a reference to him selling drugs
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Spin Cover Story: Pop for Art's Sake Goes Varoom!
Pop for Art's Sake Goes Varoom!
From Lady Gaga to Kanye and beyond, musicians exploit the art world to expand their brands, court controversy, flaunt their affluence, and in some cases, express something genuinely artistic ---J. Escobedo Shepherd
The cover photo of Lady Gaga's fourth album ARTPOP depicts a nude, statuesque Gaga straddling one of Jeff Koons' electric-blue "gazing ball" sculptures, and on Sunday in New York, her ARTRAVE revealed — among other things — a larger than life, original Koons statue replicating that. But this was not our first clue that Gaga would hinge her new record cycle on the visual art world as a way of pushing her aspirations to loftier realms.
Before Koons, there was Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadinh. The Dutch duo created the art for first single "Applause," depicting Gaga's face layered with makeup — smudges of yellow smeared across her lips and blue cascading from her eyes like watercolors — so it appeared to be a particularly vigorous painter's palette. The work of Inez and Vinoodh has been pushing fashion photography into a new era of visual art, and with their assistance, Gaga seemed to be saying that whether or not she lives for the applause, she herself is the canvas.
"One second I'm a Koons, then suddenly the Koons is me," she sang. "Pop culture was in art, now art's in pop culture in me!"
Of course, this art and music moment didn't just pop up out of nowhere: Even before Andy Warhol slapped a peelable banana on the cover of 1967's The Velvet Underground and Nico, pop music and pop art have been intermingling, informing, and referencing one another. And bless Lady Gaga, but it ain't just her: In the past five-plus years, we have entered a new era of musicians interacting with formal art disciplines and formal artists nodding to music, from Madonna's prison-protest song at the Gagosian Gallery to Jay Z's totally unexpected Marina Abramovic performance-art flip for "Picasso Baby." British feminist artist Tracey Emin created George Loves Kenny, one of her celebrated neon signs, for friend George Michael and his partner Kenny Goss; painter Rita Ackermann and multimedia artist Jess Holzworth were in a band with Gang Gang Dance's Lizzi Bougatsos and Brian DeGraw, latter both visual artists in their own right. Santigold's last album cover was an original painting by Kehinde Wiley; Solange has collaborated with the visual artist Mickalene Thomas; Yoko Ono exists; it's all happening.
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Hey Everyone, Im hoping to get some help from my friends on the Hoya Forum. Im going to be traveling to Houston this week. I was wondering if anyone can give me the name of places that sell Hoyas in town? I have heard of one place called "Another place in Time". Does anyone have reviews of them or can recommend another place thats better? I appreciate the help! I posted this 2x. Then twice it was erased! For some strange reason I kept having trouble posting my question! |
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Hi Teisa! I was in the San Antone/Houston area last year and was not able to find anything outside of the big box stores. Make it a journey! ~ Mary |
Mary, I was hoping for better circumstances. I had heard "Another Place in Time". I called them and they do have Hoyas. I ask what varieties and they told me they come to them unmarked!!! So I guess I'll be trying them but I'm not too optimistic in finding a great plant variety! I was hoping Leslie might see this post and could help out. |
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Craig Pfunder knows all about nostalgic displays of embarrassing excess. But he's not about to hack off PETA or reintroduce dance moves like the Bus Stop -- hopefully. He's just a good Southern boy who makes good dance music.
As one of four energetic members of VHS or Beta, a Louisville, Kentucky-based quartet that combines techno-romance, robo-thump and loads of wicka-wicka-wah-wah guitar effects into a contemporary blend of synthetic rapture, Pfunder throws himself on the mercy of the beat. He pleads insanity to roto-toms and infectious grooves and heeds the siren call of French cosmopolitan chic like Daft Punk, Bob Sinclair and the Ass Funkers. By extension, Pfunder finds himself a willing human conduit between new ears and old sounds: smooth, black urban pop, the string-induced Philly-based glide and strut of Gamble and Huff. Donna Summer. The righteous grit and hot-buttered soul of Isaac Hayes. And -- oh, yeah, baby -- even the seductive cornball shlock of Barry White.
From all appearances, it's the down-and-dirty D-word we're talkin' about, duckies. So pull down your pants and dance!
"I know some of the press is leaning towards pinning us down as disco," Pfunder concedes from a hotel room in Seattle. "But I don't think it's a rehash of disco, considering that we grew up on so much rock music. The people out there are seriously considering what we're doing. Even in some of the glossies, not one of them has said, 'You know, this is a bad rerun of K.C. and the Sunshine Band.' I think the tones and the textures and the other elements that are happening in the music make it more of a dance band. There's definitely disco in there, but I definitely wouldn't want to rehash a disco band."
Yeah? Then what's with the dark shades and plastic jumpsuits, baby? Though horribly uncomfortable, Pfunder and the rest of the band -- guitarist Zeke Buck, bassist Mark Palgy and drummer Mark Guidry -- once donned such thermostatic togs on stage.
"That was a thing in the past. We felt like it was nice to get up there and dress up a little. People would be able to look at [us] and not associate it with people," Pfunder says. "It was just something fun that we decided to do. It wasn't too serious. But touring with those things was too hard. They're too hot. I mean, they're plastic."
No longer a slave to fashion (and what is fashion but the pursuit of looking ridiculous in order to not be thought ridiculous?), VOB exudes a glaring lack of irony with regard to its entire retro-future vibe. Instead, Pfunder -- arguably still in fashion's employ to some degree -- offers a brief, hair-splitting lesson in musical history.
"Disco got shut down 'cause punk came along," he points out. "A handful of guys starting producing music on equipment that allowed them to not be a band, and that turned into house. And the same thing happened in Detroit, and that turned into techno. Sometimes we get indirectly influenced by disco because of house. A lot of people who listen to house music can hear that. They can hear Chic bass lines, probably because they straight-up sampled it, and then took the feel of disco and sped up the tempos. And instead of it being a live drummer, it's a drum machine."
Playing actual instruments rather than activating pre-coded machinery -- utilizing duel six-strings, keyboards, sparse vocal harmonies and a rhythm section tighter than Phyllis Diller's face -- VOB's members think like producers. Utility player Chea Buckley handles vocoder, program changes and filter sweeps, allowing the group to bring the seamless production values of its recorded backlog to live settings.
"We're really doing everything we can to be a live band," Pfunder says, "and not be someone that goes up there and pushes 'play' on a DAT machine or a MiniDisc or something like that. If there's anything live we'd like to achieve, it's that arena-rock-band feeling. We love the idea of Queen and Journey and Boston, just because there was so much power in what those people were doing. They were writing songs particularly for that group feeling when everyone was in that arena together. The video for [Queen's] 'Radio Ga-Ga,' when everyone was clapping at the same time, was a really cool thing. At home we could play to about 800 to 1,000 people, and that's definitely not an arena, but it feels really good to have everyone in the same room on the same page."
Besides squalling hair metal and rock operas, VOB has drawn inspiration from an unlikely range of musical influences over the years. The band actually started out in the mid-'90s as -- get this -- a structured-noise collective. "We used to listen to a lot of Chicago no-wave stuff," Pfunder says. "The kind of stuff on Gravity Records and Skingraft Records. We all grew up on Sonic Youth and punk rock and college radio back when it was good -- like Dinosaur Jr and My Bloody Valentine. I'm a huge fan of Echo and the Bunnymen, too. And Joy Division and the Smiths. Sometimes it's a good thing when you can't pin down someone's influences by what they're doing."


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Pure filtered water plays a vital role in healing psoriasis, by helping to remove toxic residue from all the various body organs. Drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration. Doing this will help keep moisture in the skin and will reduce the chances of further flare ups.Therefore, if you have psoriasis keep in mind that you're primary fluid intake should come from pure chlorine free water.
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Even before the president roared elatedly into the microphone ... "Hello, Chattanooga!" ... his opponents were already casting doubt about the proposal. Their claim was that the president's plan is too similar to one brought to the table last year, and which was battered into inaction by partisan naysayers whose focus — understandably — is more on deficit reduction than it is increased spending.
To the commander in chief's credit, he brought his message Tuesday to a state whose political lean is decidedly Republican. It has been for years. It likely will be for many more, especially in this new era among Washington, D.C, lawmakers of non-negotiation. Days of good-faith bartering in the nation's Capitol appear to be a time gone by, yet everyday Americans — such as the fading middle class — deserve the right to be heard and the chance not only to survive, but yes ... to prosper.
To accent his point, President Obama chose as his backdrop a setting where U.S. manufacturing thrives and in a building where opportunity has spawned success — the Amazon.com Inc. fulfillment center in Chattanooga, and not more than a long stone's throw from a sister facility in north Bradley County near Charleston.
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We started at the wrong end. The whole automotive industry made the intellectual mistake of thinking EVs were all about maximum range, so we all started with small vehicles that are basically very economical anyway. Yes, you do save fuel. You can use a smaller battery, but it makes less sense to take a 40 mpg vehicle and make it electric than it does to take a full-size pickup or SUV, which in town realistically gets 11 to 12 mpg. If you take that to 100 mpg, now you're really saving money and saving a scarce natural resource and reducing CO2 emissions drastically.The idea here being that the economic savings from larger vehicles would have been more enticing to consumers than the fuel savings of owning a smaller sedans that are already relatively efficient.
Why the Chevy Volt should have been a truck
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Sure, and start with postral service vehicles. Fedex and I think UPS already have some trial EVs deployed.
However, auto companies are in the business of making $, so the markup on cars may be the driving force here.
The man is absolutely correct. The auto industry made a huge blunder by going with electric cars instead of Trucks, SUVs, and Vans, especially when it comes to the urban markets, ...but we all must remember 1976, "Who Killed The Electric Car?" Great documentary that explains how the oil industry pretty much is responsible for a great many wows of the world today.
By holding back technologies that really could have propelled humanity towards a much more viable position for economic sustainability and controlled growth, the oil companies have effectively squeezed, ...backed humanity into a preconceived corner of no return, ...Always reliant upon oil, like a drug addict and the manufacturer/dealers of today. I believe both are referred to as "Cartels?" Every product made throughout the world needed some form of oil to produce it, transport it, and then use it via oil, including the above analogy of drug manufacturing and usage.
As the global population continues to grow meaning our hunger for fossil based fuels will continue to increase. By 2060, something called Peak Oil that began in the 1980's, will come to pass. There will be no more oil for a global economy based entirely on oil. What do you think is going to happen with 10 billion hunger mouths to feed and oil is the only viable way for food production and distribution? Mad Max at Thunder Dome!
If we do not drastically begin right now, actually 20-30 years ago more realistically, to curb our consumption of energy, or at least relentlessly seek more efficient means to extract the most proficient means of utilizing energy, ...we as a species will be going the way of the dinosaurs. Our shortsighted greed will lead to our own extinction within the projected next 100 years.
At best, we as a species will revert back to another dark ages of time with about the same amount of people as it was 2,000 years ago. Why do you think there is a global effort providing underground seed and DNA genetics banks throughout the world, not to mention the data storage facility being constructed in the desert of Utah that's (4x) the size of Washington DC?
I just bought a brand new 2013 Toyota Prius 3 that gets 50 mpg. I originally was going to get a Toyota Tacoma truck but the gas mileage sucks (18-20) at best. I investigated throughout the market for a hybrid truck and there was absolutely nothing to be offered. That is ludicrous in this day in age when we only have maybe 46 years of realistic oil left. The oil companies don't really seem hard pressed to encourage the car industry to think conservation. What does this say?
If VIA Motors already had the vehicle today, and if it got 35-40 mpg. while allowing the batteries to be charged via a solar power roof, braking aspects, and or charging plugin, looked similar to a Toyota Tacoma with extra cab, and the big gas savings came with the stop and go town or urban traffic, I would have bought it hands down! No Question, because it is exactly what I was looking for. I'll just have to wait 5 more years for VIA Motors to get the job done. Hallelujah!!!
I take my hat off to VIA Motors for their efforts. Keep it up and you will inspire the rest of the auto industry to get on board or become extinct like the future potentiality of the human race. This is not doom and gloom, it is a statistical fact of global sustainability. The numbers don't lie, ...People do. Just as guns don't kill, ...People do! It all comes down to choices we make and the consequences that come forth from our actions!
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It would have been even better had the first EVs been farm tractors as they do not have a range problem; have plenty of space for rechargeable battery packs and the lifting equipment needed to change packs; they need the weight of the batteries to replace the weight of the heavy diesel engine; and removal of the diesel engine leaves plenty of space for the battery pack as there would be four small electric motors in the four wheels. Further, farms have the space for solar PV and wind-turbines to recharge the battery packs as well as providing surplus electricity for the farmer to use at home, in the milking parlour etc some of which can be supplied by the same tractor battery packs on cloudy days or when the wind does not blow.
Spinetic Energy Ltd in the UK is designing wind-fences that capture wind energy at between 4m and 6m elevation and can be sited along existing stock fences or hedgerows without any loss of farmland. They do not need special tracking and the 2m tall VAWTs can be changed from the back of a tractor without needing a crane. These will be at least twice as cost effective as sub 500kW wind-turbines and, at 6m height and matt green, have less impact on the landscape.
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Lutz is only stating the obvious and it's already been said for years. It's not too late. Trucks could also use much smaller engines if they had electric boost to get moving. Locomotives have always worked this way taking advantage of electric motor's ability to generate torque at one rpm.
This is an utterly bad idea for SUVs. SUVs of today aren't much bigger, if at all, than regular mid-size cars. Yes, they do have slightly bigger trunk space, but, most of the time, they're empty or don't carry that much more than the trunk of a regular car. Most SUVs of today are the same size of 5 passenger cars, and the main difference is in height of the vehicle, and in the rear gate. Thus, they're basically regular cars disguised as SUVs.
Trucks are a different story, but, electric engines will turn them into expensive local distance vehicles. That's very dumb. People would be paying more to get less. Not practical at all. Perhaps it would make a slight difference with small pickup trucks, but there again, people would still be paying a lot more for very little gain.
Mr Lutz is simply second-guessing the decisions of the past, and there is nothing at all to indicate that making electric SUVs and trucks would have made any difference. If that is the route they had taken, then someone else, or Mr Lutz himself, would today be arguing about how the EV industry should've concentrated on putting the technology into automobiles, rather than into SUVs and trucks. The coulda/woulda/shoulda people will always be around to point out the mistakes of the past, but only because their ideas of the past were given time to work and didn't.
I'm all in favor of electric vehicles, I own a plug-in, but fleet operators already have the option of purchasing trucks that run on cheaper, cleaner natural gas. They also have the option of converting existing vehicles. Those seem like better 5-10-year plans while giving battery technologies more time to improve.
I've been screaming this year years now; By focusing on range issues, EV proponents are killing the EV. EVs are not going to be competitive with vehicles requiring long range, at least for the foreseeable future. Charging stations on every corner isn't going to change that.
Lutz may be right. Low-mileage utility vehicles which travel short distances on a daily basis might have been a better bet.
But ultimately, I blame this on politics. A large contingent of the EV lobby are car-haters anyway, and the idea of a 100 MPG SUV would have been anathema to them anyway.
Totally Agree with this article.
I've been saying this for years. Trucks & SUVs have the space to stuff a big battery under that huge body (to make up for the extra size + weight). Voila', a vehicle that is substantially more efficient than its internal combustion (IC) counterpart. Add in the fact that these vehicles are more likely to be driven less than 60 miles per day (soccer moms & Good-Ole boys who love to drive their pickup to work), BANG ... a usable vehicle void of "consumer angst" about mileage.
Win - Win scenario.
Please don't call the Chevy Volt an electric car; it is clearly a hybrid as it has battery power and an internal combustion engine. You are perpetuating a lie that Chevy promoted leading up to the Volt's introduction, namely that it is an electric car with fantastic range, it is not, it is a hybrid with a range that is typical of other hybrids.
Hi neil.postlethwaite,
Intuitively making a heavy vehicle like a truck all electric does sound dumb but, thanks to regenerative braking technology weight is not as big a disadvantage as one might think. Yes it takes huge amounts of electricity to get a heavy truck moving but with regenerative braking much of that electricity is put back into the batteries when the brakes are used. You are right in that the rolling resistance of a heavy vehicle is a disadvantage and regenerative braking can only return a percentage of the energy to the batteries still, many cities are experimenting with electric busses with some success.
I like Lutz, but you have to take him with a bit of salt. Plus, he is representing VIA...
This is an utterly dumb article, that should have been cut at editorial review.
Why not an EV truck ? - because they are too damn heavy and energy consuming - because they 'are trucks'.
Shame you can't get much Turbo Diesel car action in the USA, as something in the Prius size category like a 2013 Honda Civic 1.6iDTEC in the UK will give a combined 78mpg with a conventional engine.
The same engined 2013 Honda CRV small SUV is about 60+mpg too.
@schaeneman The boogeymen are always the oil companies to you ignoramuses.
Look, EVs have been around for over 100 years, and there have been many cycles where EV advocates and makers did try to get EVs to market. Each time they failed, and each time, you anti-oil ignoramuses blamed the oil companies.
Here we are again, with EVs being made by many companies, and a huge variety of them being made. You people continue ignoring the inherent problems with electric vehicles, namely the high prices of them, the range anxiety, the length of time to recharge, the lack of recharging stations, and a few others. And, if a vehicle cannot be purchased without government subsidies to assist in the purchase, then it's a vehicle which is not consumer friendly. If a consumer cannot afford the vehicle, then it doesn't belong in the market. Those are the problems we have today with EVs, and they're the same problems that existed in prior attempts to get people to like them. It didn't work in the past, and it's not working now, and wont work for the foreseeable future.
And, NO, the problem wasn't that the makers didn't concentrate on trucks or SUVs or tractors. In fact, if electric SUVs and trucks and tractors had been tried first, you can be sure that virtually all of them would have been left on the dealers' lots.
And, that nonsense about "peak oil" has been around for around 100 years, and we are still discovering new oil deposits and extracting more than ever before in history. The "peak oil" nuts will still be uttering the peak oil nonsense some 100 years into the future, while the world continues finding new oil.
BTW, I'm for EVs and hybrids, but not with the inherent problems which I mentioned above. Get rid of those problems, and the world will stop using oil. It's that "simple".
I recently purchase a Ford SUV, but that's after 2 months of searching for a good MPG vehicle. I researched the EVs available, as well as several hybrids, including the Prius. None of them met my criteria, and I had to settle for an adequate MPG vehicle which met most of my other needs. So, to re-iterate, the problems are not with the manufacturers, nor with the oil companies; the problems are with the technology which is still not ready for prime time. It's that simple.
@skf Locomotives work because they only have to start moving one car at a time. The coupling between cars is loose enough so that one car starts moving an inch or two before it starts tugging on the next car in the train. That way the locomotive(s) don't have to overcome the static friction of the whole train.
@rstoeber I think fleets are the only ones who can do any of the fuel changes easily.That's why they can do the natural gas. Building one charging station for ten cars/trucks has got to be more cost-effective than building one new charging station for each new vehicle.
But if you're investigating new tech to address CAFE standards, then trucks don't work because they are exempt (hence that's another reason they have such bad mileage today).
If you want this sort of change, Peugoet of France already make this sort of thing with their 3008 Hybrid4 SUV cross-over. it has your a traditional Hybrid combustion engine, though a more frugal turbo diesel one just for the front wheel drive, with the Electric Motor's powering the real wheels to give a pseudo 4x4 effect.
Novel, as first diesel hybrid, novel by simplifying the mechanicals by not having a heavy traditional 4wd transmission and diff and mixing the combustion drive with the electric drive wheels - whilst maintaining the 4wd benefits. This is the sort of step-change in thinking manufacturers need, not fruitless pie in the sky thinking of eTrucks and eSUV's where the tech (esp batteries) is decades off.
Hopefully the tech will advance in further leaps and bounds, with the move to heavy use of regenerative tech from 2014's Fomula 1 season - often a testbed for this sort of auto mechanical stuff, with the money no real object.
London Buses are already piloting this sort of F1 derived tech, and no reason why not applicable to trucks either - the eTruck/eSUV talking up is missing the point.
I'm still skeptical and unable to square the circle on how they claim that the combustion engine will only be used as a 'peak efficiency' battery generator, and the electric motors power the drive-train - giving 100mpg in normal driving conditions.
actually you are wrong in your assertion. Yes
the trucks are heavy and energy consuming, BUT properly designed an
electric TRUCK is more economical and environmentally friendly than an
electric CAR. because they are heavy and energy consuming.
Many tracks are driven a lot of miles in town(less fuel economical environment)
using stop/go mode. an electric motor have much more torque power from the get-go over ICE+Transmission
so it will save some fuel/energy when starting to move the truck when ICE will need to be reved-up to engage the transmission.
electric truck will not need to be left idling in cold weather(with some
exceptions) thus saving fuel and eliminating emissions.
all of this of course applies to
cars as well but most cars are simply driven to/from a specific
destinations and are off most of the day where trucks are used all day
every day.
Not always the case. If a locomotive is parked with the last few cars on a grade, those cars will pull the other cars so their linkages are tight. And modern linkages don't have the play in them the old style linkages do. So in many cases, the locomotives must break the static friction lock on all the cars at basically the same time. To do this requires that the engines produce maximum torque at 0rpm. Only electric motors have that capability which is why diesel-electric drive is the most common system in frieght locomotives.
@neil.postlethwaite@Kevin D. Jackson
Train engines work pretty well using the motor to generate electricity that drives electric motors on the drive wheels. Adding regenerative braking will increase the efficiency.
The article says trucks, vans and SUV's and EV's not hybrid's... As the refered article goes on to mention "The VIA Motors VTRUX can travel 40 miles as a pure electric vehicle" - it kinda says it all no use to anyone - was this with a useful load in the back, or empty ? Give us some real world useful info. What is the charge time.
If you want eVan, then look back (not too far) into the history with the established Modec (Coventry, UK) vans, which went bankrupt and the IP was bought by Navistar as they were already partners with the eStar electric van range from 2011 - already shipping, not real soon now from Bob Lutz.
If you want an eSUV, look at the eRange Rover - 200 miles range, but with a horrendous price-tag of £GBP95-150K, from Liberty, also involved with the carcass of Modec. If we could get a suggested date when we could get a small SUV like a Toyota Rav4 or Honda CRV with a mileage >200 miles and price comparable to a traditional engine powered one, then the public might wake up and be interested. By comparison with established best of breed petroleum powered ones, a current 1.6 iDTEC diesel Honda CRV gives around a combined 60mpg (Uk gallon) > 600 miles for a 60 litre tank range.
The info is already out there, and not hard to find, but the lazy journo's at SP either can't be bothered to do any basic article context or supporting research, don't do any fact checking or common sense challenge, or don't have the time to spare as they are too busy at the churnalising articles/press releases factory.
@mheartwood @zackers @skf That's why in such a case as you mention the locomotive simply backs up a few yards. The slack in the linkage works both ways.
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Take a look above your electric train, or indeed many City trams, and what do you see - Vast Pantograph, cable, associated steelwork infrastructure and electrical substation and control units holding it up, carrying very high voltage/high current mains electricity - with sufficient electrical power to drive the heavy duty motors in trains (smaller ones in trams or trolley buses) moving these drive wheels.
Take a look above your Via eTruck, or a larger Big Rig what do you see - Nada. A turbo-diesel engine with 100+L fuel tank is it, to generate the power.
@neil.postlethwaite @JohnMcGrew @Cape Cod Richie @vl1969 You neglected "pay to play" using GPS technology that would track the miles you drive, and send you a bill.
Is it any surprise seeing that a state with a huge technology economy tried to tax ALL technology services.
@JohnMcGrew@Cape Cod email@example.com@vl1969
There are only really 4 choices here...
1. Central State Funding via general taxation
2. Central State funding via a vehicle excise duty (as in the UK, though money gets siphoned off to other uses).
3. Tax (Sales and or Duty) on fuel (again gets siphoned off to other uses)
4. Road Usage Tolls (universally hated, esp. when you are fleeced)
None of the above are palatable, but someone needs to pay for the road.
@Cape Cod Richie @neil.postlethwaite @vl1969 But this is inevitable. As more vehicles transition to alternative fuels, states and the Federal government are going to have to go after alternative funding for roads and highways. The only question is how.
Any hope of EV in Massachusetts (taxachusetts) is doomed as they want to regulate (tax) the electricity used at charging stations since it's a vehicle use. Unbelievable. Pour in the petrol.........


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Hello all,
Was looking to get some of your opinions of planting potatoes in containers. I went to our local farm store today since they just got their Kennebec potatoes in a few days ago. Very impressed - only 31 cents a pound! So for the first question. Since they sold the potatoes by the pound, I opted to get the smaller potatoes instead of large potatoes. The smaller potatoes had 3 - 4 eyes on them on each side of them - so I can cut them in half or thirds. The larger potatoes also had maybe 6 - 7 eyes on them - but were mostly all clustered together so I could still only maybe cut them in thirds or fourths. Therefore, I was able to get more eyes for the price with getting the small potatoes. Was this a wise decision - or is it better to get the larger potatoes? I wasn't sure if this is the same kind of thing like saving seeds - where you want to use the seeds from the better producing potatoes (therefore getting the larger potatoes as seeds to be used to get larger potatoes). So, it was just under $3.00 with tax for 8.5 pounds. We then went to the dollar store right down the road and I found these 20-quart wash-tubs for $1 each. I got home and put about 10 holes in the bottom of each. My thought is to plant a potato in each of these. The bins are about a 14" wide at the top and about 10 inches deep. Do you believe these will work OK for planting potatoes? I plan to put the seed potato almost at the very bottom (maybe an inch or two up) and then fill the container half-way. Then once the potato plant needs "hilling", I'll then fill the container the rest of the way up. |
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- Posted by engineeredgarden 7, nw Alabama (My Page) on Sat, Feb 27, 10 at 16:44
I'm doing potatoes in containers also, and I think those in the picture will work great. Mine are mostly 3 gallon... EG |
- Posted by ribbit32004 (My Page) on Sat, Feb 27, 10 at 18:36
I'm doing the same thing. Tilting the pots helps to get the sun down in there until the potatoes have grown and you've filled them all of the way up. |
Thank you for the replies. I figured these would work well. Too bad they are $1 each otherwise I'd have 30 of them! There are many places around the yard where I could put these (or on the driveway) without making a raised bed - but $30 is a bit extreme to grow potatoes :) |
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- Posted by greenbean08 5 CO (My Page) on Sun, Feb 28, 10 at 2:52
I did potatoes in containers last year. I used large (big tree sized, maybe 20-30 gal?) nursery pots. I put a layer of straw in the bottom to help retain moisture, added a few inches of compost, nestled the potatoes into the compost and mulched with straw as they grew. My production was NOT good. When I dug the potatoes, the compost was dried out but because the straw on top and on the straw on the very bottom seemed moist, I thought the rest was too. If I were to do the pots again I would not use just compost and would do a lot more depth for the planting medium. Please keep in mind that I live in a dry climate (though we did get a lot of rain last summer) at high elevation (7000') so you may get much better results than I did. I hope you do. |
What does "hilling" mean from the OP? I've never grown potatoes. Ron |
- Posted by ribbit32004 (My Page) on Wed, Mar 3, 10 at 18:26
Hilling in this case means adding additional soil to cover some of the green leaves as the plant grows. |
I had good success with potatoes in pots last year. My pots were a little larger than what you have and I planted 3 or 4 in each. Used only compost in the pot and watered and fertilized well. One advantage with the pots was that I could start them early in the green house and then take outside when it had warmed up. We had good nugget potatoes from one pot by the end of May! |
- Posted by greenbean08 5 CO (My Page) on Thu, Mar 4, 10 at 14:04
bobb_grow, How deep would you say your compost was (how deep under the seed potatoes)? Did you hill yours with more compost? I'm a little tempted to try again -maybe with just one pot this time to see if I can get a better result. |
greenbean, The compost was 3 or 4 inches under the seed potatoes. I didn't fill the pots with compost right away but added it as the plants grew. Potatoes do need regular water once they are growing, probably more so when they are in pots. |
- Posted by greenbean08 5 CO (My Page) on Sat, Mar 6, 10 at 1:59
Thanks. I think I might have been better off hilling the pots with compost than straw (though I'll still use straw for in-ground potatoes). Last year was my 2nd year with potatoes. I did one bin in 2008 but DH overwatered (and killed) them while I was out of town. We got an unusual amount of rain last summer and when I'd try to check the moisture in the pots it was misleading b/c what I could feel was wet but it wasn't wet enough farther down. :-( |
I am searching for a thread that talks about the two types of white taters. 1 only grows taters on the bottom of the stem, the other will grow up the side of the buried stem & is the ones that give you 200-1000% per the buzzzzzzzzzzz. |
@jolj Did you ever find out what these potatoes are? |
- Posted by CraftyHobbyHouse 9a (My Page) on Wed, Nov 7, 12 at 11:47
Does anyone grow potatoes in their SFG boxes? I am new to SFG but it seems youd need pretty tall boxes to support them! Would love to hear some experiences! Thanks :) |
- Posted by CharlieBoring 7 (My Page) on Wed, Jan 23, 13 at 9:24
This year I plan to grow "garbage bag" potatoes. I am looking for a source for the blue/purple (inside) potatoes without paying exhorbant shipping costs. I live in N. VA. Can you buy those types of potatoes in stores, such as Asian food stores? |
I've grown potatoes in my SFG for years. Done right you should get 5 pounds per square. |
This year will be my first to try potatoes, I plan on making a circular container out of wire 2X3 inches, 4foot hi. A light material around edges to keep soil in, the develop the growth as it matures. I got this idea out of a gardener's book, sounds good. Hopefully it will work, I have a friend who grows enough potatoes each year for his entire family, he will help me... |
I just found this about planting potatoes in a container. I watched 3 hours of this fella's you tube video's last night. This one is interesting for anyone growing potatoes in a pot.. I'm gonna try it anyway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27W-rI6BmL4 |
- Posted by blindingbrown 6b (My Page) on Thu, Apr 4, 13 at 15:16
I notice that you have the same kind of helper that I have with my potato containers. If you want a little fun break, watch the video of my cat helping with out potato pots. And don't worry, I'm not a spammer, this is rated G. |
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