[geeks] KVM for Sun Sparc Servers with USB keyboards

[Phil Stracchino]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> The root cause of many of these problems is that people don't know how 
> to drive their cars.  There are quite a few more AWD cars on the road 
> today.  When the weather gets bad, there are quite a few AWD cars in 
> ditches.  Why?  A lot of the people driving them learned on FWD cars, 
> and bought AWD cars assuming that AWD > FWD.  AWD *will* help you stay 
> on the road, *iff* you know how to drive them.
> 
> If you're beginning to understeer on a FWD car, you lift off the gas and 
> the front will bite in.  With an AWD car, you have to balance the 
> throttle and steer into the slide.  If you lift off completely and 
> suddenly, you'll oversteer and spin.
> 
> I think driving skill was more widespread when people had been forced to 
> learn how to drive in the snow in a RWD car...

Personally, I would choose RWD over FWD every time.  I hate driving FWD
cars.  They just don't drive right.

Having now owned an AWD drive car, I think any time I lived anywhere
with a real winter, I'd just as unhesitatingly take AWD over RWD.


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