528i Parking Light Madness
After the front end of the 528i got smashed in it needed new headlights, so I bought a set of aftermarket lights with Angel Eyes in them. I didn’t want to...
Tag: PITA
Recent Computer Trials and Tribulations
I’ve been having a rough week with my computers. It started out alright on Saturday when I successfully upgraded my main Ubuntu server. The upgrade consis...
Gumption Trap!
There I was, cruising along, building the fence for my new router table… I was working off some plans I found on the internet but I needed to change some ...
The Hack is Alive Again
My sidecar rig konked out on me during my Minnesota 1000 ride this year. It was acting like it had a bad coil and only running on 2 or 3 cylinders. I parked it ...
Holy Bend-Me-Over Batman!
It’s starting to sound like the CV joints on the van are dying. It makes a nice crunka-crunka noise when you turn right and a tick-tick noise when you ste...
onsale.com sucks ass
On January 25th, The Consumerist posted a link to a deal listed on SlickDeals. Onsale.com had a backpack for laptops on sale for $30 with a $30 rebate. I was ge...
Looks like we got hacked…
My face is red… My friend Sean got hacked a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was pretty funny. I saw evidence of the same hack attempts on my server, ...
A Whole Hornets Nest of Crap
or Tim Learns Four Lessons Holy crap was THAT a huge pain in the ass. I had a couple of hours this morning, so I thought I’d do some preliminary testing b...
RAID Harddrive Test Results
Well, I have tested all six Western Digital WD800 drives using the WD DLGDiags tool and the one Samsung SP8004H drive with the Samsung HUTIL tool. Of the six WD...
MegaRAID Update
So, just because I didn’t have anything else to do this morning I did the following to my Openfiler box: Replaced the power supply (an old ‘Sparkle&...