On Aug 19, 2013, at 7:05 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
Dave Cavner wrote:
namebench is an open source utility to help you locate the fastest DNS
servers for your area. Works with WIN, Mac and Unix.
https://code.google.com/p/namebench/
Reran it at 10pm, and ATT's DNS is a good bit of my trouble.
Do it the way you oughta,
add the acid to the watah.
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On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:22 PM, Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
IIRC it's the other way around. Never add water to sulfuric or nitric acid
as it will splatter.
Andrew's certainly right
Silly Jabba, hard drives aren't optical, CDs and DVDs are optical...
Spinning disk drives have a lot of life left in them, especially in server
environments. They last longer in high usage environments and offer much more
storage at much lower cost. We're selling systems in the petabyte range,
I'll believe it when I see it. I'd love to see it but I've been shown so many
cool things over the years (look up the Mighty FC concept truck) by Chrysler
that I'd have bought if they ever actually produced it, then they don't...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 17:41:30 -0500
From: Randy Bennell
USB drives are a LOT slower than a real drive.
That said if you'd been paying attention last month I did this very thing. I
ran Puppy Linux as my sole OS for 2 weeks when the Windows installation on my
laptop failed abruptly on day 2 of a 14 day trip. It ran swimmingly, for a home
user Puppy
the lifespan increases exponentially with size.
Did you use the term exponentially when you meant relative? I don't think
that buying a 2x sized drive would give me 10x lifespan. I would expect it to
give 2x lifespan due to write leveling and such but not 10x. The other problem
I see is that
Wrangler? 240hp and 450lb ft of torque in a Wrangler would be amazing. If
they're saying 30mpg in the big truck 35-38 in a Wrangler shouldn't be
impossible. Thats about what I'm getting in my 190D 2.2l auto now...
-Curt
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:47:47 -0700
From: Alex Chamberlain
There was a diesel Ranger too, a 2.0l Mazda diesel maybe?
I passed on a 1980 IH Scout diesel a maybe 10 years ago. Manual transmission
4wd, no rust. Dude inherited it and didn't know anything about diesels. Nissan
3.0l turbo diesel, terribly underpowered at 101hp but fairly drivable. I coulda
They didn't make many, 2005/2006? Maybe 2500 a year. In typical Chrysler
foolishness they sold all of them and said well we only sold 2500 a year, we
can't make any money on this.
Fuel economy wasn't great 19/23 vs 15/20.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 22:35:59 -0500
From: Dieselhead
I saw a technology whitepaper with RAID SSDs producing 10GB/s total system
bandwidth across 10Gb Ethernet to a client each client could have 450MB/s.
These were actual usable numbers not just theoretical maximums. Price was
something like $1.50/GB which on a 32TB system is not inconsiderable...
There was a diesel Ranger too, a 2.0l Mazda diesel maybe?
I passed on a 1980 IH Scout diesel a maybe 10 years ago. Manual
transmission 4wd, no rust. Dude inherited it and didn't know
anything about diesels. Nissan 3.0l turbo diesel, terribly
underpowered at 101hp but fairly drivable. I coulda
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Scott Ritchey ritche...@nc.rr.com wrote:
Win 7 has features (like no defrag) for compatibility with SSDs. XP does
not. I don't know what that means but maybe others here can say.
Linux can easily be tweaked to play nice with SSDs. (Some distributions
more
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:25 AM, Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com wrote:
The linux snobs of course hate it, I think because its too easy. I like
it because nothing is locked out like you'd get with Ubuntu.
You don't set up ordinary Windows users to have Administrator privileges,
so why
SSD's are excellent, wherever modest size, lots of seeking, and
nearly read-only usage patterns are the rule. Perfect, in other
words, for software and OS storage. Unless all of these are
true, though, they are the _wrong_ choice.
Make it your boot drive, if you can, but make sure that _all_
Why not? You don't trust yourself not to screw up your OS?
-Curt
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 07:35:57 -0700
From: Alex Chamberlain apchamberl...@gmail.com
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] Ancient hard drives on USB
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This one appears to be actually coming this fall.
My only concern is the price tag.
I would love to have a new crew cab 4X4 pickup and a Dodge would be ok.
The diesel would be nice, if it holds up. Being new, it is a bit of a
gamble.
However, I do not want to mortgage my soul to get one.
Why not? You don't trust yourself not to screw up your OS?
I've been working on these things for 30-odd years.
Of course I don't!
-- Jim
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Enough with all the diesel talk. I need to share last night's spontaneous
okra-potato-zucchini curry recipe.
I went out to the back yard last night and picked a bunch of okra, a purple
cayenne pepper (first of the season) and a good sized striped green
zucchini. Went inside and chopped up a
Curt wrote:
Anyway a lightweight OS will indeed work off a USB drive. Puppy
in particular runs great. At some point I'm going to repurpose my
old laptop to be my new desktop/media center machine with Puppy
on a key. Most of the computing we do is just watching video
anyway so it'll work
A hardy thanks to Curt for his recommending EcoBlend
http://www.ecoblends.com/ to keepmosquitoes and the like away.
After checking the contents, I decided to try some. I don't like
bites - but I like DEET on my skin less. I have tried some other
natural repellants, and in general they seem to be
AVG said:
Threat was blocked. File name: www.econblend.com
Threat name: Exploit black hole Exploit kit (type 2310)
From: Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com
A hardy thanks to Curt for his recommending EcoBlend
http://www.ecoblends.com/ to keepmosquitoes and the like away.
After checking the contents,
When I clicked on the link.. I got a virus warning for Exploit black hole
virus.. doesn't sound good, what ever it is.. the computer anti virus
caught it..
Be so advised.
Grant...
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com wrote:
A hardy thanks to Curt for his recommending
CORRECTION: Misspelling. Wrong website.
Gerry
From: Gerry Archer arche...@embarqmail.com
AVG said:
Threat was blocked. File name: www.econblend.com Threat name: Exploit
black hole Exploit kit (type 2310)
From: Fmiser fmi...@gmail.com
A hardy thanks to Curt for his recommending EcoBlend
TigerDirect had Samsung 120G SSDs on sale for $80 (after rebate) so I
decided to try one in the notebook PC I use around the house. I keep most
of my data on a NAS so HD capacity is not a big factor for me. The old hard
drive was 75G of which only 25G was in use. I backed up the hard drive
Yuck! You can keep Okra, zucchini and Curry.
Randy
On 20/08/2013 11:34 AM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
Enough with all the diesel talk. I need to share last night's spontaneous
okra-potato-zucchini curry recipe.
I went out to the back yard last night and picked a bunch of okra, a purple
Gerry wrote:
AVG said:
Threat was blocked. File name: www.econblend.com
Threat name: Exploit black hole Exploit kit (type 2310)
Huh. Like you said, spelling error. But when I tried to go there
(no, I'm not foolish - probably - I used a text-only browser that
doesn't have javascript,
Do the cloud of bugs test, find a big cloud of bugs and open the bottle. In my
tests the skeeters SCATTER. They want nothing to do with that stuff.
I clicked on the link and it went though fine, of course Macs are pretty bad
stuff resistant but Chrome usually keeps an eye out...
-Curt
Date:
Speaking of computers -- I bought a Lenovo (IBM) laptop from costco last
april - it slid off the bed and landed on the corner where the AC plug
attaches and I am unable to duct tape the 2 case halves so I get a
connection. I am searching for another bottom half of the case. Not
fining any
This might be stretching their goodwill, but Costco seems to have a very
liberal return policy.
Randy
On 20/08/2013 4:04 PM, Larry T wrote:
Speaking of computers -- I bought a Lenovo (IBM) laptop from costco
last april - it slid off the bed and landed on the corner where the AC
plug
Not sure about the curry, but okra and zucchini are tasty and very healthy.
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On Aug 20, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca wrote:
Yuck! You can keep Okra, zucchini and Curry.
Randy
On 20/08/2013 11:34 AM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote:
Enough with all the
Drove the e300 around a bit today and notice the glow plug light
comes on at random while driving, sometimes goes out quick,
sometimes stays on a while. I tested all the plugs and they were
fine when I did the harness. I would assume it has to be
something in the relay? I do not want it
As some of you may vaguely remember I have been in need of a new rear
muffler for my 300TE (that's a six banger petrol powered car) anyway I
managed to pick up a muffler for a 230TE (four cylinder petrol), turns
out the muffler is a bit smaller, well the pipe work is, haven't
measured the box
H F.
How do you tell the flavor of a lollipop?
Suck it and see.
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Diesel preferred.
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To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2013 6:46 PM
Subject: [MBZ] Does size
Columbus is in Indiana, about 40 miles from where I live.
COLUMBUS — Cummins Inc. revealed plans to supply a Columbus-built V8
turbo diesel engine for an upcoming Nissan pickup truck Tuesday, a move
that could drive the Indiana manufacturer to add up to 500 jobs in the
city where it is based.
Depends of if you will every push 6 cylinder amounts of exhaust
through a 4 cylinder sized exhaust.
I would expect significant and troublesome back pressure.
Get the proper sized one.
Peter
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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.comwrote:
On 270 almost to Rockville, heading to 95 south. If ya see our big ugly
green crew cab Chevy give us a beep or a wave. Here' a pic of the truck we
are going to get. Wish us luck.
Mike
how far of a drive is it for you?
On 8/20/2013 8:12 AM, Michael Canfield
wrote:
On 270 almost to Rockville, heading to 95 south. If ya see our big ugly
green crew cab Chevy give us a beep or a wave. Here' a pic of the truck we
are going to get. Wish us
to where i live? not far at all. i can walk it even!
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.netwrote:
how far of a drive is it for you?
On 8/20/2013 8:12 AM, Michael Canfield wrote:
On 270 almost to Rockville, heading to 95 south. If ya see our big ugly
If money didn't matter, then yeah I would spend $500 on a proper one but
I have 20 dollar special sitting here (well outside) and we never really
use more than 50% of the available power of the engine, we do have speed
limits which seem to be getting lower and lower.
My thinking is that MB
If they can get a solid trans behind that 5L Cummins, that might be a
damn good truck.
Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL
'98 ML320 Max (169,xxx mi)
On 8/20/2013 5:55 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
Columbus is in Indiana, about 40 miles from where I live.
COLUMBUS — Cummins Inc. revealed plans to
Displacement * rpm is a good volume estimate. My guess
is that the noise abatement might be sub-optimal, due
to mis-tuning of sonic considerations, but that it will
work just fine enough for the 25x reduction in price.
There could possibly be a bit of loss of peak power,
but will that bother
Sounds tasty but zukes are fairly bland. The idea of throwing the curry powder
in the hot oil is interesting.
--R (sent from my miniPad)
On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:34 PM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote:
Enough with all the diesel talk. I need to share last night's spontaneous
My grandmother was a Cummins -- I must be related somehow.
--R (sent from my miniPad)
On Aug 20, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Allan Streib str...@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
Columbus is in Indiana, about 40 miles from where I live.
COLUMBUS — Cummins Inc. revealed plans to supply a Columbus-built V8
turbo
Check Thinkpads.com
http://forum.thinkpads.com/index.php?sid=224e942dde3ae58806c9c7bcd4adc0fb
Greg
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To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: Re: [MBZ] My SSD
If they can get a solid trans behind that 5L Cummins, that might be a
damn good truck.
But will it bear any resemblance to the 4B/6B of old,
or will it be a much lighter V8 thing like the Isuzu?
Still could be interesting, but probably not the
300-400kmi engine that the 6BT is. (Or was, since
About 1200 miles. A long ride in a truck that doesn't like any more than
70mph and prefers 60..lol
Mike
On Aug 20, 2013 7:18 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
how far of a drive is it for you?
On 8/20/2013 8:12 AM, Michael Canfield wrote:
On 270 almost to Rockville,
Just south of Florence, SC. Gotta stop for a little sleep. Only 5 hours
or so to go!
Mike
On Aug 20, 2013 9:25 PM, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote:
About 1200 miles. A long ride in a truck that doesn't like any more than
70mph and prefers 60..lol
Mike
On Aug 20, 2013 7:18
Hmmnh, don't think noise is a worry, considering the old muffler has a
few holes.
As I said we never use the full potential of the engine, it's nice to
have the extra torque of a six but that comes in at lower revs.
Hendrik
who is needing to figure out a way to fit it
On 21/08/13 10:48, Jim
Hendrik wrote:
As some of you may vaguely remember I have been in need of a new
rear muffler for my 300TE ... I managed to pick up a muffler for
a 230TE
So the question is, will it matter being a bit smaller? I am
thinking that the size of the system is designed for maximum
revs, for
On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:37:49 -0500 Kaleb C. Striplin
ka...@striplin.net wrote:
Drove the e300 around a bit today and notice the glow plug light
comes on at random while driving, sometimes goes out quick,
sometimes stays on a while. I tested all the plugs and they were
fine when I did the
So you are going 1200 miles one way for a truck? Could not find one closer.
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On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Michael Canfield slozuk...@gmail.com wrote:
About 1200 miles. A long ride in a truck that doesn't like any more than
70mph and prefers 60..lol
Mike
On Aug 20,
Kaleb,
I've owned two of those '95 E300D's. They both exhibited the random glow
plug lighting.
But it would only occur for a few weeks then not happen again for a long
time, maybe even years.
Then it would happen again for a few days or weeks. Never seemed to damage
the glow plugs. Never did
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013, at 09:21 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
But will it bear any resemblance to the 4B/6B of old,
or will it be a much lighter V8 thing like the Isuzu?
Still could be interesting, but probably not the
300-400kmi engine that the 6BT is. (Or was, since
the 5.9l is now retired.)
IMHO, Cummins is the leader in medium and large diesel engines. I'd
expect a new engine to be as good or better than ones that it replaces.
Luther KB5QHUForest Park, IL
'98 ML320 Max (169,xxx mi)
On 8/20/2013 8:21 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
If they can get a solid trans behind that 5L
I was taught this trick by an Indian Fijian who lived upstairs from us
Peace Corpse volunteers in Suva, the capital city. You fry the onions
first until translucent (the onions, that is), then throw in the curry
powder and cook it awhile.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Rich Thomas
http://tulsa.craigslist.org/grd/4014726787.html
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Ahh well I'll just have to livewithout being able to say that I
calculated it work using the theory of relativety.
Anyway the old muffler is pretty much on it's last legs, so I'll have to
try the little one.
Hendrik
who is doing some renovations for Fay
On 21/08/13 11:08, Fmiser wrote:
I got thinking maybe the close assist may be sucking the door stuck. Not been
on the job the last few days, had to do clean up on rental property in hopes
of filling it in the next week. Will have to check locking system pump as well
as the close assist
clay
On Aug 19, 2013, at 5:57 AM,
Needs new injection pump? You don't say!
Fred Moir
Lynn MA
Diesel preferred.
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Just park the thing and use it to repair the E300 you buy off me. It does not
have the issues you have with yours. Will want a front fender and driver side
strut installed. Good rubber, well cared for engine with 186k, and a good
transmission. No ac, but no trouble with heat. Bring a
On Aug 20, 2013 8:07 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin ka...@striplin.net wrote:
http://tulsa.craigslist.org/grd/4014726787.html
Looks like a Chinese cheapie. I've heard nothing good about them and lots
of bad. Stories about engines that conk out after a few hours, and are
found on disassembly to be
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:47:09 -0400 Mitch Haley m...@voyager.net wrote:
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Anybody got ATT uverse? Apparently it is now available to my address
and is quite is less than half the price I am paying for sat for a
24mb connection rather than the 12 I have now with limited
On Aug 20, 2013 3:30 PM, dsereta...@yahoo.com wrote:
Not sure about the curry, but okra
and zucchini are tasty and very
healthy.
I don't need any excuse to eat curry, but there's some evidence, I believe,
that spicy food lowers blood pressure and cholesterol.
Alex
That's a very good idea. You could wire an LED in series with a
resistor
and connect it between one of the glow plug's wire and ground so it
lights up when the glow plug has power. That would show you whether
power
is making it to the plugs.
+1. The classic reason for glow while driving, if
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