We are drifting away from original question, but hey its Friday and
the last day for me at my job ;)

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:18 AM, Rocket J Squirrel
<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/28/2009 5:03 PM Mike S wrote:
>
>> At 06:58 PM 10/28/2009, Janne Ruohom�ki wrote...
>>>
>>> Well, I already have 2 lines of fibre optics going from front to rear
>>
>> Why? You can probably run twisted pair parallel to ignition cable with
>> no/minimal interference, and 10G copper will go much more than the
>> length of a Vanagon.
>
> It's cooler. And can withstand EMP. Coolness and ability to continue to
> move bits after the imminent nuclear holocaust are worth consideration.
> Never mind the fried driver.

But yes it is way cooler, TP and copper are so last year ;) And my
engine already can take huge EMP without damage, other than maybe the
coils in started motor in extreme cases. Now only if I got my hands on
those optical CPUs somehow..

When Teh day comes I will pass Your vans, which the EMP has
immobilized, with a great tan in my face and huge add in my vans rear
end: "Get Yourselves free intternjet here!".

But really, I use those during winter also and is can get very cold
and snowy here. Salt is of cource everywhere also. I have so far used
grease of somekind with RJ45s and USB connectors (the ones that are
fixed to my van). Kinda funny when I fix network stuff in my van my
hands are as greasy as after working with the engine. I used to think
network stuff was kinda clean job ;)