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I'm sure I have mentioned more than twice that my original XJ was a 1988 XJ that I purchased new. I bought an XJ only because the MJ wasn't available in an extended cab version and I needed a bit more enclosed storage space than the MJ offered. Hypothetically, if an enterprising young lad (which I am not) had an MJ, an XJ or three, and access to some steel tube and plate, how would you lads go about creating an extended cab Comanche?

The later J-10s and J-20s all had that style roof rather than the military style, squared-off roof. One of the guys in the Javelin/AMX Sports Car Club of Connecticut, who worked at Stahl's AMC in Derby, had a really nice one.

Great video, and a super concept. When I was active in NAXJA I participated in a couple of trail clean-ups in the Pine Barrens in New Jersey, and one clean-up of a power line trail in Rhode Island. None of those were nearly the scale of the Gambler 500, but they were multi-club events. And yes, it's astonishing how much trash trashy people throw out. For the Rhode Island clean-up, one of the guys worked for a trash hauling company. His boss donated the use of a 40 cubic yard dumpster, including the tipping fees. We filled it -- and beside it we had a mountain of trash large enough to fill two more 40-yarders. Tires are a problem. I'm envious of 9 FREE tires per day. At my town's transfer station, they charge $10 per tire -- and the tires can't be on rims. Small wonder people just drop them on the side of the road.

More like 50 bucks for the whole set.

According to TP-Link, the dongle I have is version 2.2 and, despite what it says on the box, versions 1 and 2 do NOT support Linux. Version 3 does. I found a different dongle on Amazon that's plug-and-play for Linux kernel 4.4 and newer. My kernel is 5.1, so it should be good to go. I have ordered it (actually two, because I have another old machine I'm also setting up on Linux), and I expect delivery around Thursday.

Montana doesn't do it, unless they've changed. The '88 SporTruck I recently sold was registered in Montana. I bought it in Rhode Island, so I had a bill-of-ale but no title, becvause Rhode Island doesn't issue titles on vehicles more than 10 (15?) years old. I fixed up an '88 XJ for a former GF in Montana and drove it out there, so I took the paperwork for the MJ with me and registered it in Montana, using her address. No problem. Until it was time to renew. My check had my Connecticut address on it, so the Montana DMV declined to renew my registration. By that time I had a Montana title so I was okay, but I would have preferred to maintain the Montana registration. In retrospect, I should have sent the paperwork to the ex-GF and had her send it in from her mailing address and paying with her check with a local address. But that's the lesson learned the ghard way.

My '88 Chief has the factory tubular bumper (what's left of it -- they were pretty thin metal and rather worthless as a bumper) but I never looked at the brackets. Maybe the tubular bumper was only an option on the shortbeds?

Neither the oil pressure gauge nor the temperature gauge reads in percent. The oil pressure gauge reads in psi, and the scale is linear. The temperature gauge reads in degrees, and the scale is NOT linear -- it's logarithmic. Telling us the gauges read 'X' percent is meaningless.

Looks like we can't register our rescue MJs in Vermont any more.

?@?@?@?@? Thanks, but ... I know YOU know what that all means, but I don't have a clue. It's not your fault -- I know people who know this [bleep] have touble remembering what it wass like before they knew how to do it. To be honest, you might as well be speaking Greek to me.

And then what? Remember -- I don't know ANYTHING about Linux. And Linux ain't like Windoze ... If I can find the drive rand put it on a USB stick, then what?

I have figured out how to log in as "root" so I can install programs. I tried to install Thunderbird, but it's not available as a package in this distro of Debian. So how do I get Thunderbird onto this computer? I also found a reference to a TP-Link USB WiFi dongle that has a Linux driver. How would I install that driver to see if it will work with the dongle I have?

Tourist dollars at work. There's another steam train that runs up into the Rockies, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railway, from Chama, NM to Antonito, CO. Chama isn't a big city -- I don't know about Antonito. https://cumbrestoltec.com/

Doesn't work. The dongle is a TP-Link. Comes with a CD/DVD with drivers, but the instructions only discuss Windows and MacOS. I think I'm out of luck.

Back again ... Progress, of sorts. It's running on the Xfce desktop. I don't like it, but it may be more than I can handle to change it. I have determined that the LAN port is active, and I can open and use Firefox to access the internet. This computer doesn't have built-in WiFi. I have one of those USB WiFi dongles -- they are plug-and-play in Windoze, but will Debian recognize and configure it if I just plug it in? I would also like to install some "universal" fonts, such as Arial, Calibri, and Times New Roman. I know Debian and LibreOffice include equivalents, but I think people coming from other platforms might not be happy having those fonts available. There's a package called MSCoreFonts that's intended specifically for this purpose. However, when I tried to install it, I got an error message that I don't have rights to run sudo. So how do I get myself set up with admin rights? I would need the same thing to install an alternate desktop, so this is important. For now, I have the user password cleverly set as "password." If I'm going to adopt the machine out, there's no sense in me setting something more secure. How would an end user change the log-in password? Thanks, gents.

Great music to accompany views of ghost towns!

Those aren't Comanche taillights. Are they '97 XJ taillights grafted in?

10-inch rims are too wide for those tires. The ideal would be 8-inch, but all the factory XJ/MJ rims are 7-inch except for the base model wheels with the rectangular slots -- those are 6-inch, which are too narrow for 31 x 10.50s. The 7-inch Jeep rims work well with 31s if you have any of those.

Easy for you to say. Downloading or copying them to where? Remember, I know NOTHING about Linux. Even the file manager doesn't look like what I' accustomed to from Windows and MS-DOS.

There will be some tinkering. I really don't care for the Xfce desktop, or its wallpaper. I hope I can learn how to install the Lxqt desktop, and I hope that has some better wallpapers. Beyond that, LibreOffice carries with it a metric boatload of useless fonts, all beginning with "Noto ___." Those have to go. And the system doesn't have common fonts like Times New Roman, Arial, and Courier New. There's a pparently a Microsoft Core Fonts package out there that I need to track down and see if I can install. Then I need to install Thunderbird for e-mail. And, of course, I don't know yet if the Ethernet port is live and active. If not, that'll be another big hurdle to overcome.

Gents - Thanks again for saving the Asus laptop from the scrap heap (at least for a little while). There's no way I can explain how elated I was when the thing came to life again. That said, I'm not crazy about the Xfce desktop. I could learn to use it, but my goal here is to adopt this computer out, and to do that I would prefer a desktop that looks a bit more Windows-like. Which is why I was playing with Lxqt. The Lxqt desktop looks a lot more like what I'm accustomed to seeing, and I think it would probably be more comfortable for people to use. It's available as a separate download: https://lxqt-project.org/ How hard is it to install the Lxqt desktop on top of the Debian install that I have running now? Is that something you guys can talk me through without breaking the computer again?

Gentlemen -- The Asus notebook ... it's ALIVE!!! Continually hitting the ESC key while booting to get past the BIOS worked, and I was able to boot from the CD/DVD drive. It turns out my download of Debian Lxqt is totally corrupt. It won't run in live more (from the CD) either. So I tried again, with Debian Xfce, and that worked. It installed, and the computer runs. (Well, "runs" is a bit optimistic. "Crawls" is more like it.) It recognizes the CD/DVD drive and it sees the USB ports. And this distro already includes the LibreOffice suite and Firefox, so it's ready to go. I'm relieved. I really didn't want to leave it knowing that I had broken it irreparably. Thank you guys who came to my rescue. I need to do a bit more to it. Now that I know it runs, I will get some memory modules and bump the RAM to the maximum 2 GB. The machine doesn't have WiFi built in, so I'll try adding a compact USB WiFi dongle. I'll probably need help getting that configured. And I haven't tried connecting the computer to my home network yet, so I may ask for help with that, as well. Now that I know who to call, I use PM for more questions rather than tie up the forum. Thank you again. I appreciate the help and support.

The rock paintings are pretty interesting. It is a shame that people are so disrespectful that they had to erect that massive cage to protect the art, but that's better than seeing "For a good time call Suzy ###-###-####" in the middle of an archeological treasure. Are those painting Anasazi in origin?

It's F2 that gets me into BIOS Setup. I'll give a try with ESC and F8, if neither of those works I'll try every other F# key. If that doesn't work, it's off to the scrap heap. It's not for me. It's just that I'm a cheap S.O.B. and I hate to discard something that someone might be able to use. I have adopted out any number of older computers through the pastor at the church my late wife and I used to attend. It's an inner city church and the good padre knows who a computer. This one hasn't been promised to anyone so it's no great loss if it gets scrapped -- but it hurts my conscience to know that I broke it.

I'm able to interrupt GRUB before it starts, and get to a repair (or recover?) command prompt -- but at that point it only accepts a limited number of commands. And "sudo" isn't one of them, and I can't run Lilo, either. I think the thing is well and truly borked and I should probably admit defeat and take it to the transfer station.