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I just noticed that the SG website now has info on the xgauge feature. There is also a list of some enhanced PIDs for Ford and GM. When I finish scrubbing my FEH list, they will probably post it there, too.

Deep link:
http://www.scangauge.com/support/

Any others?

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Today I went to look at the xgauge document at the scangauge
site, and got
http://techno-fandom.org/~hobbit/pix/xg-error.gif
in "xpdf" under freebsd, which isn't particularly helpful.
This stems from choosing relatively nonstandard fonts when
creating documents, so I've sent off a suggestion to the
support addr to use more vanilla character-sets and possibly
also maintain the list as a straightforward HTML table on
the website. I also can't read the main manual due to the
same problem.
.
No, the right answer isn't "download a different reader". I
read PDFs in this one all the time.
.
_H*

Hi Hobbit:

___Adobe offers the latest Acrobat reader for Windows, MAC, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Can you build a Windows or other box just for viewing the web the way the various sites intended it to be viewed? Fonts that can be seen from any of the above OS’ sound like a relatively standard format but your xpdf reader appears to be out of date?

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Wayne and Hobbit, I use the linuxulator (Linux compatibility layer) to run acroread for Linux. This has solved most of my PDF viewing issues? (Great to see there is another FreeBSD user out there!! I run that for my personal computing needs at home)

I understand if you would rather use the open source xpdf. I think there is at least one other open source pdf viewer if this is the case...

Either way, it doesn't hurt to urge a site to use standardized tools, formats, fonts, etc. Many people simply do not have the option to use something other than what they currently have.

This is going to be a bit of a departure, but frankly
viewing internet content "as the site intended it to be
viewed" is like driving a Hummer with no airbags or seatbelts.
You may have no idea of the extent of today's level of hazard
inherent in client-side bells and whistles, but you don't
have to look very far to understand how it's bloated beyond
belief and full of holes despite TWO DECADES of people working
to try and promote secure coding techniques. There are many
reasons for hanging carefully behind the curve and keeping
things as small and simple as possible -- it's lean and
efficient, for one thing, and whaddayaknow, by and large it
leaves the user much safer overall. Sound familiar? The
presiding complacency about this is why over 80% of the email
that flies across the internet every day is useless spam --
sent by those Hummers whose owners strive so hard to be higher
and mightier than the next guy that they miss almost everything
that's going on under the covers. [the russian mafia loves us.]
.
No, this has nothing to do with xgauge, which itself is a
refreshingly small, simple and modular/expandable approach to
a relatively sticky problem, but perhaps someone has gone a
little astray while deciding how to document it.
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"Curmudgeonly" is never having to update your antivirus suite.
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_H*

Hi Al:

___I don’t drive a Hummer or a vehicle w/ no air bags or seat belts but do view the web as it was intended. As far as I know, I have never received a SPAM E-Mail from you nor do I believe you have received one from me? Let us both hope it stays that way?

___As for viewing a pdf at SG-II on a Windows box, do you think SG, CleanMPG or PC are malicious sites ready to attack a Windows or Freebsd box?

___Good Luck

___Wayne

Sorry for my ignorance but what is XGauge?

do not trust the "updated date" on this page:

http://www.scangauge.com/support/xgauge.shtml

click on the link for the actual x-gauge pdf. they are not updating the date when they put new info on the pdf.

tonka: x-gauge is the "eXtended" set of gauges that can be programmed into the latest version on the scangaugeII. it comes with 12 (not all will work in any given car), but you can now add up to 25 additional ones. so far i have added horsepower to mine. the insight uses a whopping 13 hp to go 55 mph!

Thanks.

Man you got some NASCAR level power there dude.:D