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The Acer was the first to have the screen broken. It started out with a black splotch in the bottom right corner. The laptop was still usable, but inconvenient since the menu to the bottom right was inaccessible. Unfortunately over time the entire screen became unusable. Then, last week the HP was stepped on and the top left instantly went dark.
HP Chromebook with bad upper-left corner & Acer Chromebook with entire broken screen
My first thought was, "Well, these are $200 – $250 devices, so it's not a huge loss. Plus, getting screens replaced is usually around $150+, so I guess we'll just buy a couple new Chromebooks."
Well, I figured I do some Googling on "chromebook broken screen" and see what I could find. I was pleasantly surprised to see some excellent Youtube instructional videos on replacing the screens for both models! A quick visit to Amazon showed that I could get both screens for about $50 each!
Acer C710 Replacement Screen: http://amzn.to/1c8fxYo
HP 14-c011nr Replacement Screen: http://amzn.to/1R8hJPe
BOOM! All Fixed!!! $100 and about a half hour for a fix vs. $450 for new laptops!
If you give this a try, please comment below!]]>
Well, last week I was looking at my data on my solar panels and I kept seeing this one panel consistently under-performing compared to the rest.
I of course know that different panels have different efficiencies from the manufacturing process, but this one panel had never been a problem before.
So, for the last few days I've been meaning to go outside and take a look at the panel to see what I could find, and I saw the reason! You can see the darker areas at the top of the middle panel where the dirt is causing the panel to be less shiny.
It turns out that this one panel isn't as clean as the others. I guess that when I cleaned my panels a few months ago, I didn't do a very thorough job on this one panel. It's obviously making a difference!]]>
Fortunately a couple brilliant people pointed me in a direction that led me to a really great option for storing my backups onto S3! Here are some links, details and steps that will hopefully help others in their search!
I get 5 GB of storage free on S3 for the first year. At most I'll probably use an additional 5 – 10 GB, but even this is only about $1 – $2 a month! I'll then backup maybe 10-30 GB to Glacier which is a whopping $0.01 per GB… YES, a PENNY PER GIG!
Total monthly backup cost: About $3.00
You can do your own pricing calculations using Amazon's calculator here: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
First I read and watched all the resources listed above. I also have a basic knowledge of PuTTY and unix commands.
Next I signed up with Amazon s3 and created a bucket (plenty of info on the web for this process. I suggest searching youtube).
After I was setup with Amazon I installed s3cmd on my VPS… well, I had my VPS techs do it, but here are the commands they used:
bash-3.2# cd /etc/yum.repos.d
bash-3.2# wget http://s3tools.org/repo/RHEL_5/s3tools.repo
bash-3.2# yum install s3cmd
Next I did some tests to make sure I could access S3 using s3cmd by doing simple commands like:
s3cmd ls s3://mybackupbucket
I then decided to dive in and sync one of my huge backup directories with a bucket on S3:
s3cmd -r sync /home/account/backups s3://s3cmd ls s3://mybackupbucket
Next thing I knew, I had files flying from my VPS over to Amazon S3! The only thing that surprised me was the speeds weren't nearly as fast as I would have liked / expected. I was transferring files at an average rate of 250 kB/s. I'm not sure if that a limit on Amazon's side or my VPS. I did notice that I could open up additional PuTTy sessions and run more sync commands which would run at 250 kB/s, so multiple threads running in parallel didn't seem to slow things down.
Right now I'm manually running the sync command, but my plan is to setup a cron job that will run the following commands nightly:
I'm far from being an expert with this stuff… which may actually help others that are at the same level of technicity that I am.
So, what do you think about this backup process and using this system for storing large files on Amazon S3? If you have any thoughts or comments on what I'm doing or how I'm doing it, please post them below!
The backup system is working great! My charges for the past few months have been:
That's CRAZY!
Here's a screenshot of my most recent bill:
You can see that most of the charge is from my usage in Glacier. What's crazy is that Amazon just announced a drop in storage pricing!
Here are my charges over the past year:
I've got a TON of old daily backups from a year+ ago that I probably don't need to keep, but deleting them is almost not even worth it to save $1 – $2 a month.
I've been SUPER happy with my Hyundai Elantra. I can't believe it's been over 12 years since I did my geeky car purchase calculations and bought it new!
Unfortunately over the past year I've noticed that it's been harder and harder to unlock my car and disengage the alarm using both of my keyless remote FOB's. At first I thought my batteries were dead. After a handful of futile attempts at replacing the battery, I realized there was another problem and I needed at least one replacement FOB.
I called the local Hyundai dealers and all of them wanted $180+ for a new remote and to also program it! I can get the units on eBay for $40, but I still have to pay the dealer $90 to program it. Yes, I know you can program these yourself. I've purchased and programmed these keyless remotes for other cars, but in all my research I discovered that for a handful of reasons, doing so with the Hyundai was a total pain. I figured I'd just eat the expense and get a new one from the dealer.
Well, since I'd be getting a new one, I might as well open up one of the ones I had and see what was going on. I disassembled the keyless remote and discovered that the super tiny SMT (Surface-mount technology) switch was no longer working. The little button on the switch wouldn't depress at all.
Could it really be just this tiny little switch that is keeping both of my $180 remotes from working? I've been so crazy busy over the last 4-5 years that I haven't done much of any electric work or soldering. The thought of fixing this itty bitty switch was just too exciting to pass up (click the picture to the left with a dime for size reference).
I went to Fry's Electronics & Radio Shack and neither had a switch even remotely close to being small enough. So, I do as I usually do in these cases… rush home to ebay! I was surprised that within 8 minutes of typing in "SMT Switch" into my search I found an absolutely EXACT replacement! I got 5 (yes FIVE) ""Tactile Push Button Switch Momentary Tact 4x4x1.5mm 4-pin SMD Surface Mount" of these from china for $0.99 + $1.50 shipping. Can you believe it… five of these shipped from China for $2.49… CRAZY!
I've never been great at soldering regular stuff let alone super tiny micro switches. Compounding the problem, I don't have a very steady hand. How in the world would I be able to remove the soldered switch and replace it with a new switch without damaging all the other stuff on the PCB?
I did what I always do in this case and went to YouTube! Here is a great video I found on desoldering and soldering tiny SMT parts.
Did I mention how small these switches are (next to a quarter)?
I was in the mood to do this right, so I went shopping and got a few extra bits:
When I finally had everything together I got to work! My plan was to practice on some old computer cards (network adapters) that I had kicking around. I worked on them in an attempt to hone my soldering skills, but my impatience got the best of me. I hate to admit it, but I've really screwed stuff like this up in the past by being impatient. I quickly learned that I wasn't going to become a small solder master any time soon, but more importantly I learned that I could possible use my tiny soldering snips to just remove the leads to the switch!
First I cleaned off the switch using the liquid flux and a toothbrush. I'm REALLY glad I did this since there was some green gunk all over the switch… possibly some kind of greese for the switch put on at the factory?
With my super geekly LED head magnifier on I slightly pried the switch up a super tiny amount using a sharp soldering pick tool. It was just enough to get my snip in there to clip the leg. Next I did the other side, and from there I was able to bend the switch up.
Once I had these two legs detached I thought I'd give removing them a try using the soldering iron… and surprisingly it worked great and I didn't (at least I believed) fried anything in the process!
Here is the board with the switch removed:
The next step was to position the new switch and solder it into place. This sounded simple enough, but trying to maneuver this tiny thing into the perfect position proved harder than I expected. Once again I added some flux and after a bit of finagling I was able to get the switch into place.
Using some tape to hold the whole board into place and my finger to hold the switch into place (I figured the threat of burning my finger would help keep my hand a bit more steady with the iron). Surprisingly, the legs of the new switch soldered down to the board using the previous switches solder without any problem at all… it was almost too easy!
Here are my final results:
I'm VERY pleasant surprised at how it turned out… especially that I didn't burn myself or destroy the board in my impatience!!
… of course, none of this matters if the thing doesn't work. For all I know, any number of things could have gone wrong, including
Almost holding my breath I put everything back together and pushed the button. The super perfect tactile response of the brand new button felt fantastic. The other still functioning original button on the board provided a great contrast between what a new button should feel like! Next it was out to the car for the real test!
It worked PERFECTLY! The car unlocked with such response I almost felt like the clicky clicky of my new button was somehow sending the unlock command faster than the original OEM FOB button! Seriously, I can't convey how nice the new button feels when depressed. In fact, it felt so nice that I was tempted to pull out the lock button and replace it too! Fortunately my sound mind prevailed and the adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" came to mind, so I left it alone!
What I did do to satisfy my craving for more fixin' was to grab my other remote with it's crappy unlock button and replace it as well. This one went even smoother and I was able to skip the clipping process and go directly to unsolder all four legs! This left me with an even cleaner surface with which to work!
So, I'm pretty excited and kinda proud of myself for pulling this off. This adventure definitely ended up being way more about the process and the "Hey, I fixed this!" than about the money, and I'm really glad I gave this a go!]]>
11 years ago I did what I never thought I'd do… I bought a new car. I wrote a blog post about my new car purchase calculator and how I made the decision on which car to buy.
Well, I went through a similar (but considerably less detailed) process again recently when buying our new family van. I still usually hold to my theory that many people shouldn't be buying new cars because of the depreciation right off the lot. With that said:
1. I hold onto cars for 10+ years usually
2. I buy cars that are usually pretty inexpensive and have good value (see my anal calculations on my Hyundai Elantra 10 years ago: http://www.nifty-stuff.com/hyundai-purchase.php )
3. I absolutely 100% HATE mechanics and worrying about getting ripped off. I'm willing to pay a premium on a car with a great warranty, even if I have to take it in more often, as long as stuff is covered. My 2001 Hyundai Elantra I got in 2010 is a great example. 5 year bumper to bumper, 10 year powertrain. I only had to take it into the dealer a couple of times and everything was covered. I still have the car 11 years later and it's still doing GREAT.
Again, I HATE mechanics! I remember a friend who was a retired mechanic said:
"9 out of 10 mechanics are crooked, and the 1 guy that isn't this time will either go out of business or be forced to be crooked the next time."
When looking for our new van I only had a handful of manufacturers and models I was looking into. Since we've been VERY happy with our Hyundai Elantra we were initially looking for a Hyundai van. Turns out they only made the Entourage for a few years and it was basically a Kia van (Kia is owned by Hyundai) branded and made for Hyundai. So, our final choices were Kia Sedona, Honda Odessey, and Toyota Sienna. I ran into the same questions and answers with the Honda's and Toyota's that I came across with my car purchase: These two manufacturers have a great track record, but their price premium reflects this and their warranties are pretty short. After some basic research we decided to go with the Kia Sedona… better price, more features, and a longer warranty.
I was SUPER tenacious when I purchased our van. I totally played the game and outlasted their attempts to squeeze me. I even did the "walk away" game which really changed the tone of the negotiations.
Before I went into the arena with the sales person I had a TON of info on hand, including some great offers from dealers on www.carwoo.com (now owned by Trucar). I was able to use these dealer's offers, plus all the price research I did at places like Costco, Truecar.com, Edmunds.com, KBB.com, and others as a baseline for negotiations.
I'm not a super negotiator, so I needed to get some basic skills ready before heading into the dealer. This video helped a lot (and is a fun watch):
Empowered with new negotiation tactics I was ready to go!
We visited about 3 different dealerships in the area trying to find the color, feature, and price combo that we wanted, and nobody had what we were looking for. I guess all the dealers have some system that tracks where the new inventory is and where it is going. From what I understand, they can make requests for specific inventory, but it has to be available – and nothing was that even came close to what we wanted.
We were about to give up on the search but then the dealer closest to our house called and said the exact model / color was on their lot. It either wasn't in their system or the color was entered wrong in the system which is why nobody knew it was coming. We told them we'd be over the next day.
My family and I went into the dealer around 10:00 am on a Saturday. We test drove the car and then started the process. I gave my number, they said there's no way they could do that, I held firm, they offered other incentives, trade-in deals, warranty deals, etc., but the total price was still too high. After 3 hours of this my family's complaints started getting louder and louder… they were starving for lunch… and this is where things got VERY interesting!
I told the sales person that I had to leave and get my family some food. The sales person said, "Go ahead and send your family and maybe they can bring you something back?" Sure I could have sent my wife to get food, but this was my big "walkaway" moment! She knew if we left there was a very high chance we wouldn't come back and all those hours were lost. I said, "No thanks, I'd like to go with them."
Sales response: "Ok, how about you take the van and pick something up?"
Obviously if I took the van they knew I'd have to come back, and they'd still have me. My response, "No thanks, we'll take our car."
I could tell that the sales person was starting to get a little panicky: "Um… how about we go buy lunch for you and bring it back?!?"
Me: "No thanks, we're fine to go get it ourselves in our car."
Sales: "Ok, but before you go, let me get my sales manager…"
Ugh… here come the big guns!
A large older man came into the office and said, "I understand we're having a hard time coming together on a price for the van."
Me: "Ya, it's been taking a while so we're going to go get some lunch."
Him: "Ok, what do we have to do to make this deal happen right now?"
… now we were in business!
Here are the stats online for prices:
|Market Avg
|Dealer Cost
The baseline price I was shooting for (based on all the various sites mentioned above) was around $26,000.
Here is where we ended up paying for our new van, a Kia Sedona EX:
|2012 Kia Sedona
|Price After Rebate
|Taxes, etc.
|Out Door
|Mazda 5 Trade In
|Extended Warranty
|Final Out The Door
Based on my research we probably could have privately sold our Mazda 5 for $7,000. It had some paint damage, cracked window, and some weird issues where the battery would just go dead even though the battery was tested in fine condition. If I traded it in I'd be leaving $1,000 on the table, but the thought of just being "done" and not having to deal with selling the car and feeling bad about the condition and the person being upset about the purchase felt surprisingly good!
Extended Warranty:
I NEVER buy extended warranties on stuff, but during the multi-hour negotiation with the dealer I gave in to a warranty as part of the larger deal. The main reason: over the life of the car the cost for this warranty was negligible and even if it is a false sense of security, it was worth it. Here's the warranty I basically paid $1,000 for:
Company: "Motor Warranty Services of North America"
Plan: "Platinum Plan" (basically is suppose to cover pretty much bumper to bumper for 10 years)
Cost: $1,000 (supposedly they try to sell it for $4.5k and online I've read if you can get them down to $2k you've got a good deal)
I've read some horror stories about these warranty companies piling up new accounts and then going bankrupt right before the majority of people start making claims. Again, I'm not sure how helpful the warranty will be, but for $1k I felt it was worth the gamble and (potentially fake) warm-fuzzies I get from thinking I won't have to shop for a mechanic for 10 years.
Not including the trade in and taxes, fees, etc., I got the van and the warranty for $25,500 which is $500 under my target price and $2,000 under the "market average"!
So, what do you think? Did I get a good deal? Did I go through a decent process? What's been you car-buying experience?]]>
In my last post, Cleaning Solar Panels – Does it make much difference, I briefly mentioned the 11 foot telescoping squeegee that I used to clean my solar panels. Basically the device looked just like this:
For the most part this device works fine for my needs, but I was very excited to get an email from a reader with some additional feedback and comments! Here is the first message I received from my friend Richard:
"This mail concerns a window washing brush that you might be interested in – possibly not interested at all.
Last year I bought from Amazon a bottom of the range telescopic window washing brush – extends to 3.0M (ten feet).
Here's my Amazon Feedback Review…
It arrived about three hours ago and now lays broken in the garden.
On the plus side my conservatory roof is clean and half of my greenhouse roof.
On the downside the big weakness is around the operator handle – firstly the plastic hose pipe union kept falling out – not becoming unscrewed but just pulling out of the threads. A generous application of PTFE tape helped a bit but not completely. In an hour's worth of use I have had to screw it back in three or four times.
That's the hose end of the operator's handle. The join between the handle and the aluminium tube has fallen apart – just pulled out and it will take a "bodge" to get it back together – and I am in two minds about even attempting it.
It works – it's far from perfect and I am highly suspicious of any rating higher than two stars.
If you buy one try not to hold the operator's handle when using it – the weight of a 10 foot tube full of water with a brush at the far end places great stress on this piece – the design of the join makes it bound to fail sooner or later.
Caveat Emptor applies…
Well – the conservatory roof needs another clean and I'm reluctant to struggle with my old contraption. I shall make my own!
The traditional design is just about OK for vertical applications but once the operator tries to use it in a horizontal fashion things start to go wrong.
I gave the matter some thought. Firstly there is no need to have it telescopic – full length at 10 feet and non-collapsible is acceptable for home use. Secondly there is absolutely no requirement to have the water supply running up a hollow centre (center). Neither is there an absolute need to have the water delivered through the bristles of the cleaning brush – close to is close enough.
My prototype is almost complete – the boom – a 10 foot plastic waste pipe – flexes a bit too much for my liking so I intend to screw a 2 Metre length of aluminium angle to it as a light-weight stiffener.
If it's the sort of thing that your followers on nifty-stuff might be interested in I can send a couple of photographs.
West wishes"
I was able to locate Richard's device and review on Amazon here. This device is significantly different from mine in that 1) It is just a brush and 2) it is water fed. Usually I hose down my panels, then run the sponge side of my squeegee over them, then hose them off again. I actually don't even use the squeegee side.
Well, I love DIY projects and was VERY interested in Richard's design. I have mixed feelings regarding the need for the unit to be telescoping / collapsible, but I'll need to do some tests with my device in the full extended mode to see if having it always at length makes much of a difference. I emailed back asking for more details and pictures and was excited to receive the following:
"How to make your own long-reach cleaning brush
There are two issues with telescopic, water-fed cleaning brushes. The inexpensive types are not very robust whilst the good ones cost a fortune. Secondly they can be very difficult to handle when used horizontally – the weight of water in the tube and the fulcrum point where you hold it make it very heavy to lift. And if you've bought at the bottom end of the market then you'll very probably get very wet.
Below are the images Richard sent over (plus my squeegee pic that got misplaced into the gallery) .
What do you think about this design? Any ideas or feedback?]]>
Well, I woke up one morning realizing that there may be a way to really test how cleaning the panels impacts performance! Our system provides fantastic visibility into how each module is producing. I can even export second by second output data on each and every module! My plan was to do the following:
1. Export all my data to excel for the past 2 weeks
2. Determine which 4 panels have the closest power output
3. All the panels are equally dirty, so cleaning a controlled set of 2 should help me see if there is any difference.
4. Check the results
If I wanted to get really controlled and detailed results I could fine 6 panels:
2 – keep dirty
2 – wash once
2 – wash weekly
Here is how the test went down:
I exported all of my data, (every 15 minutes) over the past 30 days. I discovered:
YAY!!! I LOVE controlled experiments and data!!!
I cleaned the two modules A1 and A7 at the end of day 7/21. Remember, I'm comparing these two panels to their neighbors A2 and A8
You can see the difference between the cleaned and dirty panels here:
I took the power output from 2 days before the cleaning and compared it to the power output after cleaning.
A2 was 0.3% higher than A1
A7 was 0.4% higher than A8
A1 was 1.2% higher than A2
A7 was 1.1% higher than A8
So if my data and my math are correct, cleaning has resulted in a 1.5% increase in one panel and 0.7% increase in another.
I took the output from the 35 days before cleaning and compared it to the 7 days after cleaning and here is what I got:
A1 is 1.76% more efficient since cleaning
A7 is 1.33% more efficient since cleaning
I'm not sure how consistent these results will be across time and across each individual module, but it's pretty interesting to see the results of this controlled experiment. I don't know how much this will impact my cleaning behavior. I suppose that I'll simply end up spraying them off a couple of times during the summer (more dust and no rain to wash away the dust) and may even use my new telescoping 11 foot pole squeegee window washing cleaner to really get them clean.
So, what do you think? Does my process and data look legit? What would you have done differently? If cleaning your panels would produce a 1.5% increase in power, how often would you clean them?
I also posted about this endeavor on my site www.SufficientSelf.com in my post here: Cleaning Solar Panels – Will it make much difference?
This is another great contribution from Ken. You can see his other creations, the Dirt Shaker & Power Barrow and the HomeMade Rotary Trommel Screen. He's got an amazing gift and we're glad he's willing to share it with us! From Ken:
I have fun building machines from found objects, right now I'm looking for something to build, as I have several loose engines, including a 3 hp and a 5hp with the 6:1 speed reducer. I have a friend, Rick, who is going to have to move several tons of crushed stone and bedding sand, several hundred wall blocks and 160 paving blocks 40 feet from the front to the back of his house, along a steep 24 inch wide path. His is a narrow lot with no other access. We built a tramway and a trolley that can be winched up the incline, just waiting for him to save up enough to buy the materials, which may mean next spring.
The tram is made of a 2×6 frame about 22″ wide and 5′ long. For the wheels, we dismounted the tires from tractor supply 3×10 wheels, mounted on 5/8″ axles. The rims ride on the top of the rails, which are made of used 2×6 pt lumber standing on edge. At the lower end of the track, we cut one side on a downward slope and fastened the cut wedge to the other rail, so that if the trolley breaks loose, it will be flipped over and not run loose down into traffic. Rick wanted to use a barrier attached to the rails to stop a runaway, I suggested the flip, as a loaded runaway trolley hitting a barrier could damage the rails, rip them apart. The trolley won't go far on its side.
It really doesn't require much of either, you just go about it. Surely, for a lot of what you have done, you started with no experience and little practical knowledge on the subject. If you make a false start, or a mistake, consider the cost as tuition, as you have learned something in the process. Even though I have welders and can weld, I lean towards bolted assemblies, so nothing is irrevocable.
I like using used materials, so even if what I build doesn't work out, there is little money lost, and the time is never lost because of what I learned in the process. When I built the shaker-screener, I moved the oscillator 3 times, looking for the best action. Likewise, the leg positions were changed several times to get the best angle, without having to lift the loaded shovel too high while still getting garden trailers or wheelbarrows under the discharge end.
On the donkey, I had to add the underside counter-shaft to lower the ground speed. That was an afterthought. I found I had to add 40 pounds of dead weight on the front to give the steering wheels enough traction to turn the loaded machine, as there is no differential on the rear driving wheels so the wheels, with chains, had to slip when turning. The first front wheels I used were to big around and would hit the frame as the front axle tipped and rocked on rough ground.
The sprockets I used came from tractor supply, they are flat plates which you have to weld ot their hubs. Rather than weld them, I clamped the hubs and sprockets together, then drilled and tapped them, centering the 2 holes 180 degrees apart on the circumference of the hole in the sprocket, and installed set screws that hold them together and act as keys to transmit the torque. That way, I can dismantle and reconfigure everything with a minimum of fuss.
One thing I should mention is that you should run a mower, preferably mulching, over the leaves to cut them up in little pieces. That will allow any sweeper to pick up about 5 times as much because, uncut leaves don't pack well, too much air space.
Growing up, my father stressed his belief that "any fool can improve on something." he also stressed that it was important to take on projects that I knew nothing about, that way I had a chance to learn something new. That way, when you have twenty years of experience, you don't actually having only one year's experience twenty times over.
When you have done something, it always seems you see where you could have done it better. That doesn't mean what you did isn't good, in product development, you first have to make a product to sell. Then you can make improvements and upgrades. You can't wait until you have perfected the product, as you will always see ways to make it better. There are times "you have to shoot the engineer and go into production".
Can you imagine a world where nobody manufactured computers, or any other product, until they were perfected?
As a product development consultant, I only took on projects the client had tried to develop and failed, and preferably in a field I knew nothing about. That way, I had a reason to learn a new discipline and had a chance to improve on the prior art. This approach always worked for me.
I made it a point to change fields every seven to ten years, or sooner if I felt I was just cruising on past accomplishments.
I was fortunate in that I was never in doubt of my ability to make a living, inflated ego, perhaps, but it worked for me and our family.
Back in the 60's and 70's, when I worked as a product development consultant, I would have designed a nice integrated machine to market. (I designed and held patents on automotive assembly tools and machines, air tools, including tools for building the manned lunar landers, an ultrasound imager that delivered a polaroid print and negative of 1/4 the cross section of a person or animal and one laser alignment machine that allowed a laser beam to be positioned through two points in space in less than 30 seconds.) All 14 patents were commercially successful, compared to about 1% to 3% of patents, worldwide.)
The patent office only digitized patents back to the mid 70's, however, my patents have been referenced in newer devices and by searching references, they can be found, at least in an abstracted form.
Frankly, building stuff from found materials is more fun.]]>
As many of my site visitors know, I own/manage a handful of internet forums including:
One of the constant problems with managing a forum is dealing with spammers. Spammers come in many shapes and forms, but here are the two main types:
Originally, I was just working to prevent the "Spam Bots" from registering and posting. Every day or so we'd see a human spammer come in, but it is usually pretty easy to just delete and ban them manually.
Well, that all changed around the first day of the new year 2011. All of a sudden we started to see a TON more spam… like a factor of 1,000 times more spam. On BYC, during the "slow months", we get about 50 new members a day. Well, during the first 12 hours of one day last week we saw 300+ new registrations. They hadn't posted yet, but we knew they were spammers by the totally irrelevant (and often inappropriate) links in their user profile signatures.
After deleting all the spammers, I embarked on a multi-day and very time/energy tense process of beefing up our anti-spam systems! Below, I'll list the anti-spam systems we have in place. These were not deployed or added in this order, but they are listed in the order a spammer needs to go through them to get access to spamming our community.
(Oh, a side note: The goals with any anti-spam system are to stop or slow down the spammers so they get frustrated and leave BUT also to not block or restrict legitimate users… not always possible, so compromises have to be made)
Lines of defense against forum spammers:
There are a few more things we could implement to stop or slow down spammers if they start to get through these systems, but the cost to the members begins to be a significant trade-off. For now I expect the automated systems to stop 99.701% of spam and the members and moderators to easily pick up the rest.
Why such a huge spike in spam all of a sudden? Well, check this out: Of the thousands of spammer accounts that we blocked and/or deleted, most are porn, affiliate sales, virus, buy my stuff online, etc. spam junk.
BUT I saw a handful of legitimate looking businesses. They had very good .com domain names and a presence online that looked legitimate with a physical location, telephone number, etc.
Well, guess what I did!? Today I spent a few hours calling a handful of them, told them I own some internet forums that are being spammed with their company name and URL. I asked if they were outsourcing their SEO / Link building and if they knew that their brand was getting tainted and that they possibly might get put on some internet blacklists. The replies from most were:
"Yes, we use an SEO / Link building company and we had no idea they were doing this!"
I'm betting that these legit companies think, "Wow, we don't want to bother with online marketing, so let's hire it out!" They find a company or individual that says, "Sure, we'll build your presence online for CHEAP!" and then they deploy spam-bots and/or hire cheap labor to spam all day long.
One company finally got me routed through 4 people until I got to their head of internet marketing. He said they purchase "link packs" off the internet that show "high quality" sites on which they can promote their products. They then have contractors "participate" on these forums and promote their stuff.
So, it's a pretty crazy spam war out there! Unfortunately there are some legitimate companies that are paying "professionals" to market their sites, but those professionals are just turning around and using "black-hat" spamming systems and processes.
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One of the community members on BYC posted a topic called "upside down fire building for wood heat". I read through the thread and was pretty surprised by the claims:
It is better to build your fire upside down: Put the paper on top, then kindling under that, then the bigger wood at the bottom.
Seemed pretty crazy to me… I mean, HEAT RISES, right? When I'm lighting fireworks candles I always try to put the fuse wick above the flame. I figured this is the same thing you do with fires. Start it burning at the bottom, let the flames (which rise up) lick the wood above and "I HAVE MADE FIRE!"
So I did some research, and it turns out that there are plenty of believers in this "Build your fire upside down" movement. You'd think after all those years at Scout Camp, receiving the Firem'n Chit card, and becoming an Eagle Scout, that I'd be fully aware of any and all possible ways to effectively start a fire, right… RIGHT!?!? Well, in all my research I learned that while heat does in fact rise, the heat radiating from a fire is what really gets things cooking, and since heat radiation flows in all directions, it doesn't matter that each subsequent layer of fuel being ignited is below the one burning.
Ok, so it is an interesting idea, but "so what"? Well, here are the reasons why many have converted to this new way of starting fires:
Well, being a lover of experimentation and trying new things, I decided I had to give it a go!
In an effort to do an apples to apples comparison, I did the following: Tonight I built a fire with the exact same materials and quantity that I usually use when I'm doing the "standard" fire building process. Usually my "standard" setup is a modified "teepee" or "log cabin" with paper on the bottom, then some cardboard, add kindling, then larger wood on top. With my "upside down" configuration, here is the order of materials (from bottom up):
Here are some progression pictures of the setup:
Two large splits with the old 4×4 on top
Added the rest of the kindling
Added cardboard, paper, and some dryer lint (stuff lights up SUPER easy)
A single light to the "dryer lint" and within minutes things are looking really good! During each "stage" the radiant heat lights the "stage" below the first. Also the burnt pieces fall as they burn and help to ignite the pieces below them.
Here is the fire only two minutes after being lit:
About 15 minutes into the burn and I'm very impressed! The kindling has taken really well and it looks like the 4×4's are about to take too!
Approximately 35 minutes into the burn and the 4×4's are engulfed in flame and starting the large splits!
50 minutes into the burn:
Almost 2 hours after ignition I've got some great looking coals!
Well, I'm converted to this new way of starting fires!!
I couldn't find any cons to starting the fire this way. The only thing I noticed is that the fire didn't seem to start up and heat up as quickly as my standard method. Honestly, it wasn't really an issue and I figured it could be a function of a bunch of factors like fuel, configuration, air intake, etc. I plan on doing more experimenting with less kindling, different configurations of the wood, and other factors. I'd be pretty impressed if I can start a super good fire with less kindling than I've been doing up to this point.
By far, all the pros listed in the beginning of this post are spot-on, and I'm definitely starting all my fires with this new configuration! Please give it a try and report back with what happened!]]>


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Here is what I need to accomplish. I have a Windows 7 Desktop computer. I also have a cluster of RedHat servers that provide services to my users. All of the RedHat servers back up to one of the servers in the cluster and I need to get the backups off of that server and onto my Windows system using WinSCP.
Here is where the problem comes in. All of the traffic to my cluster is proxied through a single IP address/hostname/device. The Unix system that is porxying all the traffic has a routable IP and I'm currently hopping from/through that server to the backup server, coping the backups to it via scp (the routable server) and then using WinSCP to move it to my Windows box and onto an external hard-drive. The problem is that the server that I'm using as a go-between to move this data no longer has the drive capacity needed.
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The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is the Washington, DC-based organization representing 2,800 local public health departments in the U.S. These city, county, metropolitan, district, and tribal departments work to protect and promote health and well-being for all people in their communities by coordinating programs and services that make it easier for people to be healthy and safe from public health emergencies.
NACCHO provides leadership, up-to-date information, subject matter expertise, and other resources to strengthen local health departments' program work in a wide array of public health and safety areas including the following:
- Community Health topics such as chronic disease prevention, tobacco control, health and disability, infectious disease prevention and control, immunization, injury prevention, maternal and child health, adolescent health, and health equity.
- Environmental Health topics such as the public health effects of climate change, food safety, environmental health tracking and assessment, and environmental justice.
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- Public Health Preparedness topics such as local readiness for pandemic influenza, Medical Reserve Corps, Project Public Health Ready, and Strategic National Stockpile.
Local health departments look to NACCHO for the following:
- Grant assistance for emergency preparedness, food safety, HIV/AIDS prevention, and other programmatic work taking place at the local level. Resources and easy-to-use tools in many subject areas, including accreditation, epidemiology, healthy community design, influenza, emergency preparedness, and quality improvement.
- Regional and national training courses, meetings and conferences that help local health department staff connect to and learn from one another.
- Access to marketing and branding materials, such as the public health logo, that can help them raise the visibility and perceived value of governmental public health. Local health departments are encouraged to use the public health logo in their own communities to link their work to other health departments across the country.
- Advocacy with federal policymakers about the importance of allocating adequate resources for local public health; passage of sound public health legislation, and support of sensible policies to address the myriad of health challenges facing communities.
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To be a leader, partner, catalyst, and voice for local public health departments.
The history of NACCHO dates back to the 1960s, with the formation of the National Association of County Health Officials (NACHO), an independent affiliate of the National Association of Counties. As the U.S. federal, state, and local public health systems continued to expand, NACHO combined with the U.S. Conference of Local Health Officers, an organization affiliated with the United States Conference of Mayors, to form the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) in 1994. This unified organization more closely represents all governmental local health departments, including counties, cities, city/counties, districts, and townships. In 2001, NACCHO expanded its scope to include tribal public health agencies serving tribal communities on reservation lands and in 2012 to include counties and cities in the U.S. territories. Today, active membership in NACCHO continues to grow with about 1,500 local health departments.
NACCHO is governed by a 27-member Board of Directors composed of health officials from around the country elected by their peers, a representative for Tribal health departments, and ex officio members representing the National Association of Counties, of which NACCHO is an affiliate, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The Board of Directors meets four times a year. The NACCHO Executive Committee includes four NACCHO officers and three Board members representing different geographic regions and population size. Approximately 380 NACCHO members serve on 40 committees and workgroups. Most committees meet by conference call and have one face-to-face meeting each year
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LaMar Hasbrouck became the executive director of NACCHO on February 10, 2015.[1] A graduate of the University of California-Berkeley's School of Public Health, UCLA School of Medicine (Charles R. Drew-UCLA Program), and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital's Internal Medicine Residency Program, Dr. LaMar Hasbrouck is currently the executive director of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) in Washington, DC. NACCHO is the national non-profit organization that represents the country's nearly 2,800 local health departments. As the executive director, Hasbrouck leads the association's mission to be a leader, partner, catalyst, and voice for local health departments to ensure the conditions that promote health and equity, combat disease, and improve the quality and length of all lives.
Prior to joining NACCHO, Dr. Hasbrouck was the director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, where he managed an agency with 1,100 staff, 200 programs, and an annual budget of more than $600M. He collaborated with nearly 100 local health departments to protect the health and improve the lives of the state's 13 million residents. Among Hasbrouck's achievements as director, he developed a five-year strategy, implemented various aspects of the Affordable Care Act, applied for voluntary national accreditation by the Public Health Accreditation Board, and built successful partnerships to pass a state cigarette tax increase. Hasbrouck also led the development of statewide blueprints for health workforce expansion and population health-healthcare integration, two key initiatives of the Governor's Office for Health Innovation and Transformation.
Prior to his appointment as the "Top Doc" for Illinois, Hasbrouck was Public Health Director of Ulster County, and the only county official in New York State to simultaneously lead both the public health and mental health departments. Before that, he spent 11 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the nation's premier public health agency, where his impressive record of service included co-authoring the first Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence (2001) and the active engagement in two of the largest global health initiatives in history: polio eradication with the World Health Organization and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), where he served in a diplomatic assignment as the CDC Director in Guyana, South America.
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Funeral services for Velma Mullins, 88, of Hartley, who passed away on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007, at the Community Memorial Health Center Mann Wing in Hartley, will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, at the United Methodist Church in Hartley.
Visitation will be held from 3-8 p.m. today, with family present from 6-8 p.m. at the Hartley Funeral Home in Hartley.
Velma was the sister of Evelyn Roberts of Spencer.
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Hello everyone,
I am using Standard theme, and I have placed the widget - but as you can see at the link below (it is lower on the page until I can get it fixed), it is using the theme's default font settings for style, color, size and spacing - and it is both chunky and very hard to read.
I have a couple of questions regarding the ability to change these elements:
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Performing over 200 shows a year, Wil Anderson's comedy is a densely written, high-speed ride through one of the most wonderful comedic imaginations in the world. He has won three "GQ Man of the Year" awards for Comedy and Media Performer, won the prestigious Rose D'Or (Europe's equivalent of an Emmy), and nominated four times for a Helpmann award for best live comedy performance!
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Located in what was once Denny's on Highway 5 and the I30 service road in Benton, the Icehouse Grill is well worth an effort to satisfy your culinary curiosity. We had breakfast. I had a breakfast platter known in my family as the "Roger Special." Contents: 2 eggs scrambled, country sausage, hashbrowns, whole wheat toast, and gravy on the side. Thelma had her own special which was a sandwich made of bacon, a hard fried egg, and cheese on Texas toast. She had a helpin' of sliced pickles on…Continue
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Reasons Why The English Language Is Hard To Learn:
1 The bandage was wound around the wound.
2 The farm was used to produce produce.
3 The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4 We must polish the Polish furniture.
5 He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6 The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
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This is a playback of a tribute I wrote for my Dad some years ago (1988). Our Pastor, Bob Marble, included it in his Fathers' Day message today at Mabelvale United Methodist Church. Bob asked me to assist in its presentation.
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My daughter, you may know her as Shelli of MySaline, gave me a book she rescued from The Blue Suede Shoes Antique Mall. The title is "The Most of George Burns". It is too good not to share a little. I decided a blog on MySaline.com might be a good way to do it. Having said that, here are a couple of teasers to get us started. They are numbered in reverse order so that subsequent entries will be on…Continue
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Cape Bolinao merges the most desirable tourist destination in my province Pangasinan Aside from hundred islands. The beauty of Waterfalls, caves, white sand beaches, hills, and ancient artifacts are one among the reason why visitors want to see the place.
This place is just 45 minutes from my Hometown Alaminos City although it is far for those coming from Manila and the way to its beaches is a real dusty adventure.
Together with my highschool friends we decided to have a get together on this remote western part of Pangasinan specifically Patar beach and this is one among the gatherings I won't forget with my friends.
I will visit more once I have a long vacation...
Approximately 6 hours from Manila (via Camiling)
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* Take North Luzon Expressway and exit at Dau.
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* At the Siesta Court (Victory Liner & 5 Star Bus station) junction in Tarlac, turn left towards Camiling and Bugallon.
* At the Sicony junction past the town of Bugallon, turn left towards Labrador, Sual, Alaminos, and Bani.
* At the Municipal Hall of Bani, turn right towards Bolinao.
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It seems to have bounced off its highs - I wonder if it will begin to settle in the 30's or high 20's in a few weeks ... definitely a high multiple on sales in the high 40's. Where do people see this in the next few weeks? I could go either way ... frothiness hasn't stopped CRM, but ... still a lot of uncertainty in the market/politics, etc.
He's likely been paid with stock options, so of course he's happy the stock is up 70%. If you were an owner of the company yesterday, and just realized you left another 70% on the table, I doubt you are grinning ear to ear today.
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Definición de replete en inglés:
1Filled or well-supplied with something: sensational popular fiction, replete with adultery and sudden death
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- The combination of the flood of people hitting the pit, and the absence of a barrier, resulted in an insane dance floor, replete with gratuitous crowd surfing and lost brain cells aplenty.
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filled, full, well stocked, well supplied, well provided, crammed, crowded, packed, jammed, stuffed, teeming, overflowing, bursting, brimful, brimming, loaded, overloaded, thick, solid, charged, abounding
informal jam-packed, chock-a-block, chock-full, chocker
1.1Very full of or sated by food: I went out into the sun-drenched streets again, replete and relaxed
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- The full effects of public repleteness are not yet known, but new studies show that it can lead not only to sort-of sleepiness and lethargy but also to slight nausea and, in a majority of subjects, not being able to eat another thing.
well fed, sated, satiated, full, full up, full to bursting, satisfied;
glutted, gorged
informal stuffed
archaic satiate, surfeited
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- With progressively more disease states manifesting GSH deficiency, repletion is a viable preventive, therapeutic, and anti-aging strategy.
Late Middle English: from Old French replet(e) or Latin repletus 'filled up', past participle of replere, from re- 'back, again' + plere 'fill'.
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I'd like to replicate the sticky behavior of the search bar in the iPhone Contacts app.
When the user scrolls the view down, the search bar also comes down along with the view:
If the user scrolls up, the table scrolls accordingly, with the following two behaviors:
(1) the search bar remains fixed at the top, and
(2) the subsequent section header stops appropriately below the search bar:
When the next section header comes, the previous header disappears below the search bar:
Note: the section index control (a-z on the right hand side) appears on top of the search bar as well. Ergo, fiddling with the
contentInset will push the section index control down along with it.
I've created a custom
UIViewController, added a
UITableView, set its
contentInset to the height of the search bar. I created a
UIView, added the search bar as its subview, and then added the
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with pricing power unseen in Natural Foods Reed is rapidly buying market share! With distribuition nationwide for Kombucha the hottest selling beverage in category it would be wise for Reed to be bought out now on favorable terms before more pricing power damage is done. 2 for $2.79 13.5 ounce versus $3.00 to $3.69 for 16 ounce is a huge marketing ploy. With Kombucha flying off shelves Reed is building massive revenue. My guess is profit margins are similar to bottled soda only for Reed. With competition much larger in selection and as much as 100% plus higher in retail cost Reed is using KISS theory. Keep it simple stupid!
I have not seen the 2 for 2.79 in california. The cheapest i have seen in area is 2.49 for 1 bottle which still undercuts the 3.50 isn for gt. Are you sure on the 2 for 2.79?
update on pricing "Earth Fare" which is not a discount organic grocery store continues the sale on "Reed's Culture Club" till end of January. As for sales: "Reed," was sold out of cranberry, lemon had a few bottles, and grapefruit was we'll stocked. Obviously that is order of sales in this location. "Reed," is still being understocked by looks of shelves. Promotional pricing is working. All the other brands we're we'll displayed and full inventory. "Earth Fare," does a good lunch time crowd and I expect a lot of sales are from not only grocery shoppers but the workers in the area. The difference of $3.00 to $3.69 on the competition to $1.40 is driving sales. As for the taste it is reported on "You Tube," that the taste is "Yummy," In fact I left two bottles in fridge and was awoken this morning by a surprised wife trying to get me up to drink Kombucha as she seemed ecstatic over the cranberry. it was my first buy-in and I was cautious as she is normally not the profile of a "Reed," consumer. Fact is it looks like "Red Bull," maybe out! For the better!
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The company revealed that only 19 percent of the requests were made with a search warrant, while 60 percent were with subpoenas and 11 percent relied on court orders.
Twitter said it requires police to obtain a search warrant to access the contents of users' tweets and direct messages. The company said police can use subpoenas, which generally do not require a judge's approval, to seek basic subscriber information, such as the email address and a log of IP addresses used to access the account.
The Hill reported last week that Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and Facebook all began demanding in late 2010 or early 2011 that police obtain a warrant to access private user content.
Those policies go beyond the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a 1986 law that only requires police to obtain a subpoena to read emails, instant messages and other forms of digital communication that have been opened or that are more than 180 days old.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick LeahyPatrick LeahyTop senators want details on probe of DNC breach The Hill's 12:30 Report NBA pulls All-Star Game from NC over bathroom law MORE (D-Vt.) is pushing legislation that would update ECPA to clarify that police need a warrant to seize electronic messages, regardless of how old they are.
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I am working on a site where the posts have all been tagged with really long, and in my opinion unhelpful, tags causing the tag cloud to be so large it's pointless.
The client wants all the tags and wants them cross-referenced. Example: if you click on "psychoanalytic thought" it will bring up posts tagged "psychoanalysis" and "psychoanalytic theory" as well. My thought was to create a category called "psychoanalysis" with all the relevant posts in it and use the category cloud widget instead of the tag cloud.
My question is this. Is there a way to have something like:
Currently viewing posts in the "psychoanalysis" category
See also: psychoanalytic thought, psychoanalytic theory
where the 'see also' options are tags not categories? I would prefer to not have to go back and re-categorize all the posts. If that is the best/only option I guess I will have to do it though.
I have managed to get it to work by hardcording the "get_tag_link"
<?php if (is_category('Psychoalanysis')) { ?>
See also: <a href="<?php echo get_tag_link('108'); ?>">psychoanalytic
<?php } ?>
but if the tag name changes I will have to go back in and edit the template. I am hoping for a solution where I can use get_tags(); or something to get the tags by ID and dynamically print the links.
There is probably a really easy solution, but for some reason it is escaping me. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


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A car travels three quarters of a lap on a circulartrack of a radius R. (a) The magnitude of the displacement is (1)less than R, (2) greater than R, but less than 2R, (3) greater than2R. (b) If R=50m, what is the magnitude of displacement?
Can someone show me the steps?


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Jake Cracraft seems unaffected by this kiss from Nadeah Reese during a graduation celebration from the United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley's Success by Six program at Struthers Elementary School. The ceremony was Thursday. The program prepares children for kindergarten.
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