I am getting ready to dive into my 4R70W 2001 transmission to perform a very tasty modification. I have always been fascinated by Auto Transmissions, Sun and planetary gears. Here is a good video of a basic view of a 4 speed auto trans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=917-styYIyc A “JMOD”, as it is called is a internal modification […]
May 4, 2011
HI am experimenting with a Android app called Torque, and using my Bluetooth Scantool.net reader. The Torque app works great (free or 4.95 extra feature version..NICE!) on my Nook Color, but if you want to play in the command line, I am using alOBDTerminal but there are others….here are a few examples of the […]
April 16, 2011
My Chief Medical Officer took a look at my 7 inch Nook Color Android tablet today, running MedScape. He exhibited a high level of interest. I am setting up my Gingerbread Nook Color tablet with a few more medical apps for my Docs to check out… Epocrates for one. SkyScape (after installing this one, my […]
April 14, 2011
Botnets exist, far and wide, here is a quick graph for a few of them. http://av-school.com/blogs/comment/mp/288 Rimecud, Aureon, hamweq, Pushbot Storm Botnet info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_botnet http://www.itworld.com/security/155773/doj-gets-court-permission-attack-botnet 2.3 Million Microsoft bot machines silenced, 4/14/11 The DOJ seizes servers and serves search warrants in an effort to take down the long-running Coreflood botnet http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0506/FBI-set-to-kill-secret-stealing-Russian-botnet.-Is-your-computer-infected Want to make […]
April 11, 2011
Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Exponentially Weighted Moving Averaging is a well-documented statistical data processing technique that is used to reduce the variability on an incoming stream of data. Use of EWMA does not affect the mean of the data, however, it does affect the distribution of the data. Use of EWMA serves to “filter out” […]
April 10, 2011
Hard to Imagine what life would be like without Linux today. I would have probably quit the IT profession without it helping to hold things together! 🙂 A shout out Thank you to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds. I am a proud member of the Linux Foundation, and they produced a little video commemorating the […]
April 9, 2011
After discovering Android being installed on a Nook Color, 3 or 4 of my coworkers took the plunge and bought one, and performed the conversion…ok….NICE!! I have an upcoming birthday and just got Nook’d too. ($249 – all my B&N gift cards laying around, got it out the door for under $200) I ordered a […]
April 2, 2011
To shut of the ding of the seatbelt warning light, do this. btw, I am not recommending driving without your belt, but you sit in the vic with it running sometimes, without a seat belt, and the buzzer/ding is annoying. Here is how you turn off the ding, (the light still works/flashes). Set parking brake, […]
April 2, 2011
Bought a clean 2001 Vic from a dealer, with no keyfobs. Went online, bought a couple from cheap online vendor claiming to be for a 2001..they didn’t work, so went to the dealer and got em. Works fine..imagine that! Not much more expensive either. They might look all the same but they are not totally […]
March 28, 2011
Ubuntu Fresh Install By: jsanders at at at at at linux.com I have been asked to outline some of my tweaks or steps, that I use AFTER doing a base ubuntu (or Debian) install..will focus here for now: This is not a keystroke for keystroke guide, but a guideline.. Might be a few mistakes…I’m human, […]
May 8, 2011
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