On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:23 PM, OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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I copy (via automatic program) all changes to the folders I'm interested in
(photos, documents, music, etc.) from the primary disk to a second disk in
the PC, then again to an external disk. and on one of our
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Not that I know, but then again, I buy enterprise grade drives for my
RAIDs. I guess the consumer grade stuff could be wonky like that.
Enterprise grade fails too, but shipping mixes them up so customers
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Rick Knoble via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
For what it's worth, Sansa portable audio players, and BlackBerry phones
are able to play FLAC files.
(Another excellent reason to ditch Android and Apple).
I've played FLAC on Android. I normally use MX
Thanks Don for the synchronicity tip and Tim for the heads up about online
storage. Is the online storage a problem with linux also? I am assuming
so because most of the web servers are linux.
Oh, sorry, in the context I meant online as in always connected, not as
in over the internet
On Nov 29, 2014 2:09 AM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
difference. Wound up getting an open box 24 Insignia 1080 job for $80
(nice picture!), so if you're near a BB, stop by in person. They usually
You can usually see open box items online, though of course
On Nov 21, 2014 1:17 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I feel like the right has done itself a disservice by claiming that
global warming is a myth. They could accurately claim that man-made causes
of global warming is a myth but the earth is warming and sea levels are
On Nov 20, 2014 2:12 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com.
Is that the case across the U.S.?
Sam's is still $120 with a three year warranty, at least here in NC.
Best,
Tim
Thanks,
Craig
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On Nov 18, 2014 4:32 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Excellent suggestions. I think I have a set of new mounts I got with the
other SD so can take them next week when I see the car again. Can also
order a shock and I guess check the other items.
I don't look forward
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:54 PM, OK Don okd...@gmail.com wrote:
Where are you getting those numbers? I just found the base TDI Passat at
$26,825 on www.vw.com. My SE with mandatory hole in the roof is listed as
$28,840 now, about the same as I paid in 2012.
vw.com, models, Passat, detailed,
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
We almost never see more than $0.50 spread which considering how much more
you spent on your Prius than I spent on the Jetta will but a helluva lot of
fuel...
I'm curious how you arrive at this
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Mitch Haley mi...@mitchellhaley.com
wrote:
Curt has a $1500 Jetta TDI.
Ah! Well, yes, used is usually cheaper than new. :)
Best,
Tim
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Adding my ditto. A very sincere thanks to all of you for your
willingness to serve for the rest of us.
Sincerely,
Tim
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 13:48:46 -0600 Rick Knoble via Mercedes
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
They charge exactly double for a brake booster line compared to Autohaus
AZ.
But you'll have to order a new one from Autohaus if the first one doesn't
work.*
I've used FCP a number of times, mostly
On Nov 9, 2014 6:56 PM, WILTON via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Unemployed, 54-year-old son, (former land surveyor, welder, restaurant
cook) who lives near Spring Hope, NC, (40 miles or so east of Raleigh, NC)
is needing a job badly; unemployed for a year now since the restaurant
On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I swear that gingko boosts mental quickness. Been taking it for years. I
My anecdote, ginkgo gave me headaches. So in my opinion it destroys minds.
:)
ObScienceOnTheThing:
On Nov 6, 2014 6:50 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I get a kick out of people down here who are freezing to death when it
drops below 50F. When I worked at an elementary school and it was in the
50s or colder, it was fun to watch the kids come in with their parkas,
!
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On Nov 2, 2014 7:40 PM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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Dan Penoff via Mercedes wrote:
He said they had a few members who donated nice older cars that brought
very little, and the donors were not happy about it.
It's a Mercedes, by golly. Expect them to sell it for
On Oct 25, 2014 10:17 AM, WILTON via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Well, I don't really have it solved. I'm still where I was when I asked
the question - I don't know what features I may be missing by using the old
keyboard, and still can't see the new one well enough to use it easily.
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Just leave it out there, but enable security. WPA for sure, as WEP has
been compromised for years. Change the admin account credentials to
something secure. Use good password practices (8 character
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
So 10 years ago at Okie acres 1, I had a wireless internet provider that
ran 1mbps. After the trees grew up I could not get the signal anymore and
they came out with excede, which was super fast but
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Anyone have the cooling system pressure tester to loan?
Autozone has one they will loan (i.e. sell and return, up to 90 days I
think). The included cap fits. I have run with it on, not sure whether
that
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
What Rich says.
I have used the 3M kit for doing it by hand on the wife's 2005 Mazda 6 and
the results are acceptable. Just realize that once the plastic starts
breaking down there really little you can
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I'm betting it's a pay up front and we're betting you forget or never
come back sort of thing.
I can't see anything unique about the process that would make theirs last
longer. No matter who is doing it,
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Need a front bumper cover for the S420. I've seen a few on eBay, but they
all have the Parktronic sensor holes in them. None of the local
recyclers have any, either, although for as cheap as these appear
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Exactly.
If you have a wifi OBD reader does that mean you can't connect using a wifi
AP (e.g. a mifi or the like) at the same time? I admit I've never tried to
have two wifi connections at the same time on a
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 6:45 PM, clay via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I had an LG bar phone that was only able to hook/synch to winblows. Sucks
to use with a mac. I worked around it by doing blutooth to get at photos
and to load the media files. The iphone is a dream on a mac
On Oct 4, 2014 9:06 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Mark Blevins in Columbia SC offers
injector cleaning/testing/balancing for $20 per injector; he found that
two
of the injector bodies were cracked, so I had to source two more used
Bummer, sorry about that. If you
On Sep 29, 2014 7:44 PM, Mountain Man maontin@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.ramseyelectronics.com/b/6290123011
not portable but probably could be used 12VDC?
Now that is cool. Looks like it is powerful enough to squash annoying
radio stations for quite a distance, from the reviews. The
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I'd lean toward $2k depending on the rust. Last year when I bought my TDI
I found that you couldn't get much car for $1500 anymore. About the lowest
price I saw for anything running and driving was $2,000.
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:43 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Tim wrote:
I'm not trying to start a war on the concept of international trade, just
trying to help out with a situation I've been through.
It's not against the okiebenz rules to delve in to
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
buttons but they have no effect. Any ideas what might be the cause of this
problem?
Is the head engaging when the cassette goes down? Maybe it got forced back
when someone tried to recover a stuck
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com
wrote:
If a tape had previously jammed I doubt the cassette would engage/eject,
play in fw/reverse, and FF and RW to memory. Peraps I just need to run a
cassette head cleaner?
Hard to say, usually the head doesn't
On Sep 28, 2014 6:36 PM, MountainMan via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Some schmuck like Romney/Rounder/Gates/Jobs makes the millions
sourcing chink products we want and pay pennies - they reap profits.
You know, on eBay you can source directly from China/Taiwan/Korea.
I'm afraid my
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:29:44 -0400 Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Can't you just disassemble a digital camera and take the IR filter out?
\So, if you can get the IR filter out of a
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
For what I do (and you too I'd suspect) 11 is entirely sufficient. I
don't send emails from my webhost which I guess is a problem for some. Its
super cheap, I think I pay $18 or $20 a year...
I just
On Sep 3, 2014 7:36 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I had been using an EVGA 256-P2-N751-TR Geforce 8600gt 256mb 128-bit, but
got tired of rebuilding the NVidia proprietary driver each time the
kernel changed, so I removed the card and am using the on-board graphics
On Aug 30, 2014 11:54 PM, Archer75--- via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I need the biggest smartphone screen available. Currently looking at a
Coolpad with a 7 screen. It's made by a major Chinese manufacturer and
their phones are supposedly number three in popularity in China.
On Aug 30, 2014 12:20 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I've played with swipe type a little but while its neat I don't know if
I'll ever really get into it.
I became a total Swype convert when I realized I was able to type without
looking at the keyboard. By starting
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
My Suburban is acting up, finally threw a code last night so now I can try
to fix it. In doing some research I found these cheepcheep unit for either
Android ($8 or so) and IOS (more like $20) and this app
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I am looking at Torque v. DashCommand. Both apparently require buying
sub-apps for each vehicle or vehicle type or something to get all the
data streams? I would want to run the app on my 2000 Suburban
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I am still working on this farm deal and need to raise some more cash for
the move. I am fixing to crush about 10 cars unless somebody needs them.
Some of them have good engines, tons of good parts
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I was wondering if anyone here has used Wordpress for putting a web site
together. It looks like it's pretty user friendly and it's platform
agnostic for the most part as well, since everything takes place
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 6:19 PM, OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I started to use it for the build log for my Tailwind amateur built
experimental aircraft, and didn't find it all that user friendly for what I
want to do. I guess I should find a tutorial or something, but I
On Aug 21, 2014 4:40 AM, Fmiser via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Yeah. But it can be overdone too. One thing I find worse than
silence is an attaboy for every little task especially when it's
doled out without merit by someone without a clue. Hand them out
Hey, nice job expressing
On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 1:55 PM, WILTON via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Tim, what's the latest with the 300/350SDL?
It's been sleeping for several months, I kept having to ferry the kids
during summer. The kids go back to school next week so hopefully things
will calm down. It's
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 7:49 AM, Archer75--- via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
The German city of Munich, which famously adopted Linux and open source
across its operations, may be about to reverse that decision.
German newspaper /Süddeutsche/ reports http://www.sueddeutsche.de/
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
In other words, how would they resolve my domain name to my personal
account?
They don't, and they never did. You were using a mail forwarding service
before. It captured mail to your address, stuck it in
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
As one might expect, when the DNS changes propagated, it broke my mail,
as the MX records didn't match in DNS.
[cronet@usencorzimd3c nfstests]$ dig penoff.com any
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;penoff.com.
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Yeah, I got it sorted out by changing back to the MX server address at
1and1. All seems to be well at this point.
Ah, that explains my results in reply to Craig.
The real rub is the proper sequence of
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I am looking at a couple of current HTML editors that do a much better
job, with which I will redraft the web site, keeping a lot of the points
you made in mind.
To echo Philip, I can't view the site at
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Mitch Haley mi...@mitchellhaley.com
wrote:
Tim Crone wrote:
On Aug 17, 2014 9:50 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com mailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
My laptop has been sluggish lately, and somehow it lost bluetooth
capability, so
On Aug 17, 2014 9:50 AM, Mitch Haley via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
My laptop has been sluggish lately, and somehow it lost bluetooth
capability, so I did a 'minimal factory restore' (I forgot how much stuff
came with that, maybe I should have dug up my Windows disk and done a true
On Aug 11, 2014 2:22 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
I think there was also a state rebate of some sort that was a matter of
controversy, in addition to the fed rebate.
My manager just leased a Leaf for $278/month, with a $2000 down payment
(paid in trade). He is very
On Aug 10, 2014 4:10 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Got them. I was looking for something for my Mac Pro.
If you subscribe to the craigslist RSS feeds for your searches, you can
accomplish this with any number of RSS readers. If you use a hosted service
like Feedly,
On Aug 1, 2014 9:19 PM, OK Don via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
a claimed top speed of about 217mph and would accelerate from zero to
62mph
That's not unreasonable for an electric car. Of course you are paying for
that in range, but I gather it is a lot of fun... :)
seconds.
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
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On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 08:15:49 -0700 Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
All in all a simple oil change took just over 4 hours...
It's frustrating when that happens, but congratulations on
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
You have been warned!
http://jalopnik.com/i-really-should-hate-this-retro-ized-
mercedes-more-1614591457
Facebook reports:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
I *think* the one I'd use is the Straight Talk one though, its similar
money and they don't spam the crap out of your email. I was also very
unhappy with how un-straightforward Freedom Pop's website is.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:17 PM, WILTON via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Melt in place. ;)
In fairness, if you're going to say they advance then it makes sense to
say they retreat. ...
Best,
Tim
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
I didn't mean to go offlist, good catch.
T-mobile IIRC uses the ATT network which my wife has been reasonably
happy with. Actually it looks like just by switching to t-mobile I could
save $30/mo while getting 1GB more
On Jul 14, 2014 12:35 PM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
Forgive my ignorance, I brought my iPhone to my Verizon plan, does that
mean I'm locked into a contract?
If you can upgrade, you are probably not on contract. You won't get into
contract again until you leave and return, or buy
On Jul 13, 2014 3:27 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com
wrote:
Who was it that had Republic wireless?
I don't, but multiple friends have recommended it. It is local (Cary NC)
but I've never actually met anyone who works for them.
I've been thinking of making the switch,
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