Recent content by jeffreydbrown

Greetings, all. Until recently, all of my oil changes were performed at a dealership, with OEM filters. I haved moved to an area where that's no longer convenient. While I'm going to continue with the same oil, the hassle of obtaining Toyota filters doesn't seem justified. While OCIs will stay...

I just "upgraded" from an old, anemic Gateway netbook to a T410 w/ Nvidia graphics adapter ~ $220 on Ebay with XP installed. First order of business was installing Debian GNU/Linux. I haven't made the switch to SSD, because I need reliability more than speed. Spinning rust is the devil I know.

Originally Posted By: Gary Allan Oh, you want real time data! Sorry. That can be very expensive. Good luck! Thanks. It's looking as though it may become a project for another day. Probably cheaper just to buy a post-1996 car!

Originally Posted By: mechtech2 Reading codes is not data logging. I would look in specific car forums [performance]that relate to your car. Thanks. I hadn't considered a performance-related forum for a 4-cylinder Camry, but anything is possible!

My comment made no mention of APC's customer service, which is above reproach, especially if you're an enterprise user. I simply said that you'd get more protection for your money in the "home user" space. You'll spend less for a low-end UPS with AVR from, say, Minuteman than from APC, unless...

I saw them here in Atlanta last year for the first show of the Snakes and Arrows tour. Judging by the dates they have publicized so far, Atlanta will be the last date of the tour, as well. Pretty huge for me.

Greetings all, I have a 1991 Toyota Camry, and I'd like to obtain and log data from the engine's sensors. Since I'm pre-OBDII by a few years, I need another way. I have a laptop running DebianLinux that will remain in the vehicle and serve as a digital dashboard and GPS display (from a Magellan...

Originally Posted By: SecondMonkey Originally Posted By: Pablo 1) Place your composter where you can p on it comfortably. LOL...glad I'm not the only one. LMAO Same here. Works especially well on nitrogen deficient piles (leaves, etc).

Schmoe, Some of us obviously differ as to the "best" setup, but I don't think any of the advice you've gotten is bad. There's just more than one way to solve the problem. I tend to look at things through enterprise "belt and suspenders" glasses, but I have often thought about using USB for a...

I used to work as an IT director for a city government (now in private consulting/managed service practice), so let me offer a somewhat different viewpoint: IT generally doesn't sit there and watch what you're surfing, but every site you visit ends up in the firewall/gateway system logs. While...

Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn Originally Posted By: Iain BTW, what happened to Red Hat? It seemed to be quite popular at one time. Red Hat still is immensely popular and by far is the preferred distro in many circles whether it's RHES, CentOS or Fedora. Although Red Hat still...

Originally Posted By: tmorris1 Originally Posted By: jeffreydbrown You can set up a RAID1 (mirrored) array with two drives, one of which is removable. With a spare drive in a second removable enclosure, you can swap them out daily. When you swap the removable hard drives, one goes to a safe...

Thanks for the information re +P in the Model 15. I have avoided it since I didn't want to find out by experimentation and I'm not the original owner of this weapon.

I respectfully think that, for home defense purposes, people are over-thinking the ammunition except for the question of over-penentration. The typical scenarios for which I prepare are a burglar who happens to be armed or a known-armed home invader He/she is not after me personally, he's...

Our legislature and governor just strengthened our concealed-carry law by broadening the places one can legally carry (restaurants and other public gatherings that were previously excluded).