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1835 miles of driving with the dialogue manager under constant use...
So... I finally worked out my vibration issues with the hard drives -- first by switching to laptop hard drives, then by adding some creative engineering:

and special foam and at first things were better than before, but not quite good enough for all the various road conditions out there.

The problem?

The computer needs to be rigidly mounted. Bungee cords weren't enough, and because I was tinkering with things so much, I had removed the wooden panel framing the computer as seen in this pic:

I put that panel back in, and with the computer now firmly held in place, ALL my vibration problems were solved. I tested this on my drive back from Seattle to San Francisco and throughout the Seattle and SF Bay areas as well, and everything worked great! I wonder if this setup would hold up on Laguna Seca...

Published Tuesday, February 28, 2006 6:52 AM by ajjuneja

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# re: 1835 miles of driving with the dialogue manager under constant use...@ Thursday, April 26, 2012 11:39 PM

Hi Al,Thanks for your research on VSP.  Yours is the only site where you can get news and croaentmmy on the company's  quiet  business moves.  It's sad to see how most ECP's are completely blinded and/or scared to death as to the real objective of VSP's slow but steady policies to  protect  independent ODs. Unlike Mr.  No Thanks , I have experienced first-hand the detrimental effects these profit grabbing initiatives/policies have had on net income.  I worked for an independent optometrist for more than 8 years, and her VSP exam reimbursements were never increased (not even indexed to inflation!). During the same time, CL pricing and CL exam fees for VSP patients were reduced as well as our dispensing fees for frames and lenses.  Unfortunately, I believe that VSP as used the independent optometrist and has now become so big that it can dictate terms and on top of that sell software, services and hardware to a  captive audience . ODs obsession with independence and competition with each other (as oppossed to collaboration) in the end works against them and in favor of VSP, Eyemed et al, since they have also  bought  their biggest association (AOA).  I belive nowadays only the AOS is fighting the good fight. Keep up the good work.

Aron

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