Here’s a quick test I did related to a Home-Built camera mount for my motorcycle…
Tags: camera, highway, motorcycle
I’m in need of a new tire for my truck. It’s been flat for a while.. but not worried about it as I ride my motorcycle alot anyways. Its starting to get cold and possibly icy, so it’s time to fix up the truck for driving safely.
Here’s some research on tires and what those numbers mean on the sides.. (I found it while looking over at: http://www.ehow.com/how_107557_choose-tires.html)
Step 1 Look at your tire label. It should look something like this: P185/60R 14 82H
Step 2 Buy for a passenger car. In the tire label, “P” indicates passenger-car tire. Other variations are “LT” for light truck and “T” for temporary or spare tire.
Step 3 Determine how wide your tires can be. Different cars can fit different sizes. The “185″ in our example is the section width of the tire in millimeters. Shorter and narrower tires have lower numbers.
Step 4 Understand the tire type. In this case it’s a radial tire, as shown with the “R.”
Step 5 Figure out how to determine if the tire can fit your wheel rim. The wheel rim in this tire is 14 inches in diameter, indicated by the number after the tire-type symbol.
Step 6 Here, 82 is this tire’s load index, according to the industry standard Maximum Load-Carrying Capacity chart. This tire will safely bear 1,047 lbs. (475 kg). Four of these tires can carry a fully loaded car weighing a maximum of 4,188 lbs. (1,900 kg).
Step 7 The last letter (H in this example) is the speed rating: Q (99 mph/159 km per hour), S (112 mph/180 kph), T (118 mph/190 kph), U (124 mph/200 kph), H (130 mph/209 kph), V (up to 149 mph/240 kph), Z (more than 149mph/240 kph), W (168 mph/270 kph), Y (186 mph/299 kph). Speed-rating letters indicate the maximum safe speed the tire is capable of carrying under ideal conditions, for an extended period of driving. You might not feel a difference between riding on T-rated tires and H-rated tires, but you’ll save money on the former.
Hello everyone… well, another new product released by Microsoft. This one has potential though…
Windows Azure is basically an operating system for an entire data center. Yup, much like the OS on your desktop that manages the hardware for you as you write programs on-top… Azure manages the data-center tasks of distributed computing, load balancing, scalability, and more…
Now comes the question… how does this relate to me?
Well that one I’ve been pondering for a long time now. During my divorce at the beginning of the year, i set out to strip my life to the essentials, ridding it of all the annoying aspects that have plagued me over the past 10 years. As it turned out this was a business that didn’t give me the lifestyle I was wanting.
My job for a vendor at the worlds largest retailer, Wal-mart, did however. I now enjoy a simple 8 hour work day managing 4600+ windows servers in one of only a few data-centers of this scale.
In the process of simplifying my life, I have stripped away all projects and extra tech things to only one project. My Home Media Network… where i have near instant access to every movie, TV show, and video I have in my collection. This project is a rousing success… not a problem in the world… except the money to supply my need for entertainment… IE: buying new shows and movies to add to my collection.
Here’s the problem as I see it. I am an intelligent person, skilled in the aspects of business operations, technology and how it relates to a business experience.. but I don’t know what my next project should be.
I need an award winning idea to run with… give me something simple like the website Twitter or complicated like a picture sharing website… I need an original idea that i can grow into something.
Being an intelligent person surely I can devote my time and efforts into a project that will permanently shed the need for a Job to support my lifestyle… something that eventually takes on a life of it’s own. Something that will inspire the masses to contribute on a massive scale. Hey, something as simple as getting one penny from every man, woman, and child in America at least once a year…
I need a project!
Tags: Azure, business, Microsoft, potential, project, Windows
We are now surrounded with technology of all kinds. Microsoft and Apple all strive for a place on our desktops and in our homes. I believe in a well balanced approach to the technology I have chosen to bring into my home… and I would like to share that with you. My vision of a Home is a place where family lives, memories are made, and life just happens.
Traditional Computing
I would consider my home office setup a traditional one. My Fiancé and I have two desktop computers with attached web-cams. They are linked together via a 1Gbps Switch under our desks. Our systems are backed up nightly onto our HP home server which also stores all of the multimedia we own like family photos, videos, music, etc… We have a cable Internet connection and it is shared to all computers on our wired and wireless networks. I have installed a shared network printer which all computers in the house have access to.
This is a pretty standard setup and serves us very well.
Not so Traditional…
Digital Picture Frames
I deeply believe in family and have pictures all around our apartment. Our walls are decorated with both traditionally printed pictures and digital picture frames. These digital frames are linked into our wireless network and pull from the photos shared on the home server. This provides us with a wonderful mix of old and new imagery to enjoy.
Mounting the digital picture frames has one problem, the annoying little black power wire extending down to the floor. I plan to solve the power needs of these frames using a simple solution but I must wait because we currently live in an apartment complex, thus punching holes in the walls is not allowed. When we purchase our first home, my plan is to place electrical outlets hidden within the walls to accommodate the power needs of our picture frames. The power to these frames will be controlled via an X-10 network of power control relays and computer control programs.
Home Entertainment
Our entertainment is provided by our AppleTV, a rear projection 60″ television, an XBox 360 and a Wii. The XBox and Wii are both for gaming purposes, but the AppleTV is for pure television watching.
When we moved in, we chose not to signup for cable or satellite television. Instead we are using iTunes and AppleTV to provide all of our entertainment…
To get the thrill of channel surfing, I utilize the power of pod-casts. AppleTV provides the ability to flip through pod-casts like they are channels. This gives me, a man, the ability to get my thrills of flipping through a large variety of entertainment very quickly.
To satisfy our need for network television, we purchase the television series we watch from the iTunes library on my computer. The shows are automatically downloaded and stored on our Home Server and accessible to the AppleTV.
Lastly to get our movie entertainment, I have taken the hundreds of DVD movies that I have purchased over the years and ripped them into MP4 format using a program called Magic DVD Ripper. These MP4 movie files are stored for private use on our Home Server. (FYI: these movies are kept private for licensing reasons, don’t ask me to upload anything!)
Well, I hope you liked my little introduction into my home of the future. If you have other ways you use technology, I would be glad to hear…
Hello everyone… that’s right… Here’s a link to the source code to my most popular internet program… the LCARS Operating System Shell Source… completely FREE of charge… Do what you will with it… Just please mention where you got it… danielheth.com/p pThis source code is for Visual Studio 2008… has lots of warnings regarding functions not returning values because they should really be subs… but just ignore them… open the quot;LOSS Core.slnquot;#160; solution file… it links a bunch of different projects together… lots of DLLs.
Tags: LCARS, LOSS, operating system, program, shell, source code, stengineer
Moving to a new phone can be nerve wrecking… Use a highly experienced computer person and make ur migration extremely easy…
Tags: new phone
We took the motorcycle up to Springfield to see the Naturals play… Very fun trip, but hot.
Tags: baseball
This is THE snack food of champions… LOL
Hello all… Diana and I just got back and we’re playing around with a wonderful new toy. One that will make blogging that much easier… webcams. We found a great 1/2 price sale at walmart in Jacksonville. Couldn’t pass up getting two web cams for the price on one…
Here’s the first shot and a hole 8 megapixels to boot…
