Mobil1 to Motorcraft semi-synthetic Oil change causes higher coolant temps?

August 25, 2011

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After running my Vic on Mobil 1 for almost 10,000 miles, and carefully monitoring temps and pressures with my Torque OBD2 application, I changed the oil brand and went to a Motorcraft semi synthetic to try it. (saved $10) Immediately noticed that my average coolant temp went up by about 9 degrees. (190.4 on mobil1 […]

Hummingbird feeding

August 21, 2011

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I have  been feeding hummers for 3 or 4 years now… Here are some vids that I have captured…they are truly fun to watch and enjoy.  4 feeders up and running.    

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Technical trader..not a fundy

August 20, 2011

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I am a technical trader, none of that fundy stuff for me. Where do I think the market is going? Dow 9665 for a small bounce, then 7000 CMI  $63 bucks is support.

Posted in: StockStuff

Penguin award

July 26, 2011

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I recently received a complement for a very cool application that was written by a member of my System administration staff. It was a PHP (LAMP) application and noteworthy because our System administrators are not required to know application development.  This effort was taken on as a personal growth project. As a IT manager/CIO for […]

Posted in: FOSS GNU Linux

Zodiac code finally cracked…nice one!

July 25, 2011

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Nice one… http://tewksbury.patch.com/articles/tewksbury-native-ive-cracked-the-code-of-the-zodiac-killer   I worked on this for a while with no success….interesting !!  

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2004 Crown Victoria Autolock and horn chirp toggle

July 23, 2011

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501-14-1 Handles, Locks, Latches and Entry Systems 501-14-1 GENERAL PROCEDURES Autolock and Horn Chirp 5. Turn the ignition switch to RUN. The doors Programming will lock and unlock to confirm entry into program mode. NOTE: This procedure must be completed within 6. Press the UNLOCK button once to toggle the 30 seconds. autolock feature on […]

2008 Crown Vic toggle AutoLock and AutoUnlock feature.

July 23, 2011

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Autolock NOTE: This procedure must be completed within 30 seconds. 1. Close all the doors. 2. Turn the key to the OFF position. 3. Turn the key to the RUN position. 4. Press the UNLOCK button 3 times. 5. Turn the key to the OFF position. 6. Press the UNLOCK button 3 times. 7. Turn […]

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EMR, why so hard?

June 11, 2011

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How do we fix the poor success rates of EMR implementation in the USA? Some thoughts to ponder from my stack of opinions working in the IT Healthcare segment. 1. For-profit Health-Information-Vendors (HIS) have no incentive to make this easy..failures, delays, and re-engineering create corporate profits.  Predatory behavior is rampant in the Healthcare Information system […]

Posted in: FOSS GNU Linux

Network testing with iperf

June 2, 2011

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iperf is a neat little free open source FOSS network flow testing tool. Install to your Linux box like this, (debian based-including ubuntu)     apt-get install iperf Start up one end of the testing pair…server side from the command window like this: iperf -s -p5001 Begin the test from a client machine, from the command window […]

Posted in: FOSS GNU Linux

Virtualbox and XP failed to start

May 26, 2011

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Virtualbox 3.x and XP startup fail After a solid year or two running Ubuntu 904 and Virtualbox 3.x with 6 XP sessions running 24×7,  Myself and another coworkers encountered a failure on Tuesday 5/24/11. When starting up the XP session, we received a “breakpoint” error along with lsass.exe and services.exe error, then the AD login […]

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