The Rigged-Up Net

It used to be that when buying two new tires, they would go on the front. New research shows that they’re better placed on the rear:

If the rear tires have more tread depth than the front tires, the front tires will begin to hydroplane and lose traction on wet roads before the rears. This will cause the vehicle to begin to understeer (the vehicle wants to continue driving straight ahead). Understeer is relatively easy to control because releasing the gas pedal will slow the vehicle and help the driver maintain control.

However, if the front tires have more tread depth than the rear tires, the rear tires will begin to hydroplane and lose traction on wet roads before the fronts. This will cause the vehicle to begin to oversteer in which the vehicle wants to spin. Oversteer is far more difficult to control, and in addition to the initial distress felt when the rear of the car starts sliding, quickly releasing the gas pedal in an attempt to slow down may actually make it more difficult for the driver to regain control, possibly causing a complete spinout.

Rest of article:
Where to Install Pairs of Tires?

They cut spending and laid off 17 people from a staff of around 100, and were soon in the black. The result: the firm remains privately owned, and has no debt. The second setback dates to late 1999. Concerned that its increasingly extensive levels of customer service were leading it away from its roots in the do-it-yourself market, Rackspace decided that a bare-bones offering might make sense, recalls Richard Yoo, one of the three original founders. So a subsidiary was set up that sold just web servers.

ServerBeach was founded in San Antonio by local entrepreneur and businessman Richard Yoo.

Peer 1 Network opens data center to support ServerBeach

Apple won the green light to subpoena amateur publishers for their confidential sources, a Californian Judge ruled today. Apple Computer, which wants to discover who leaked product information to three web sites, can now proceed with its subpoena against one of the ISPs hosting two of the websites, Santa Clara county court Judge James Kleinberg has ruled, as well as the websites themselves

Bloggers must reveal sources – judge

If you’re going to swtch from one blog software to another, make a post that says something like “Hey, I’m changing the software so make note of the new RSS URL”… or something like that a day before.

For whatever reason, the vmail button on the Treo650 may have been mis-configured… this is how you fix it:

1. Hard reset the phone.
2. Setup phone until you get to Dial Pad.
3. Remove SIM card.
4. Turn Phone on.
5. Dial Voicemail – using Favorite button.
(Here, my phone promts me to enter in a Voicemail number)
6. Type in your number – (xxx)xxx-1234 – and save.
7. Turn off Phone.
8. Insert SIM card.
9. Turn on Phone

Enjoy!

I bought my 2nd and 3rd WRT54GS routers for a project this past week… one was a re-furb (unit A) and the other was brand new (unit B). It would be safe to assume that A was probably an older unit than B, but from the markings on the unit you’d never tell the difference as both were marked clearly with “v1.1”.

A fllashed fine with Sveasoft Alchemy-pre7a but flashing B with it resulted in a response of “Firmware upgrade failed” and turning into a brick.

Which sucked. 🙁

The good news is that once you turn a WRT54GS v1.1 into a brick, the bootloader will configure the unit to listen on 192.168.1.1 and accept a TFTP put for up to two seconds after power on…. so simply uploading the stock linksys firmware results in a functional unit again.

The bad (or really just confusing) news is that you have to flash the newer v1.1 units with Sveasoft Alchemy-6.0rc5a FIRST before you can upload the newest Alchemy-pre7a which I haven’t explored to try to understand – but whatever.

Now that A and B are both working with the latest Sveasoft firmware, on with my project… TTFN

Rackspace Managed Hosting successfully completed a rigorous scrutiny by independent auditor Ernst & Young that determined the company’s managed hosting services comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for enterprise customers.

Rackspace earns certification for Sarbanes-Oxley Act compliance

Forget “The Big Apple.” New York now wants to be known as “The World’s Second Home.”

NYC seeks to trademark a new slogan

Feeling romantic? Don’t write that love letter just yet.

It’s good to commit, just not pen to paper

Gizmondo Europe Ltd, subsidiary of Jacksonville, Florida-based Tiger Telematics Inc (OTC: TGTL; OTC: TGTL.PK), today confirmed signing with Rackspace Managed Hosting Europe for the hosting of the official website (www.Gizmondo.com), which in turn will manage many of the end user personalized services and applications for the Gizmondo handheld
multi-entertainment device.

Tiger Telematics(R) Racked Up for Launch

Leading IT company brings e-mentoring to Hayes and Harlington school

Rackspace offers helping hand to local school children

“It’s getting close to the point that you have to have a hurricane to be able to remove that heat,” said Paul Froutan, vice president of engineering for Rackspace Managed Hosting. The San Antonio firm manages big data centers for customers.

Data Centers’ Quest For Cool: Heat Issues Put Servers At Risk

Regular marijuana use can harm memory and the ability to make decisions, according to Jean Cadet at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, Maryland, US. To find out why, he monitored the flow of blood through the brains of 54 marijuana smokers, among whom the heaviest user smoked 50 joints every day.

Marijuana makes blood rush to the head

From a purely financial perspective, it’s premature to write an actual obituary for the company. In the most recent quarter, the company still had $88.5 million in cash on hand, with $7.3 million in debt.

The Tivo Drama Plays On

International Domain Name [IDN] support in modern browsers allows attackers to spoof domain name URLs + SSL certs.

The state of homograph attacks

In ads and on packages, McNeil Nutritionals claims “Splenda is made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar,” according to the Sugar Association. However, the association says the final product doesn’t contain sugar.

Texas consumer group is sour on Splenda sweetener

After living with PalmOne’s latest creation for a few weeks, I’ve given serious thought to hanging up on it too.

A Month With the Treo 650

Evidentally, I have a fan! 🙂

One of my favorite parts of the weekday shows are when Richard Yoo is on. (My apologies for bad spelling on his name.)

Poll RE: D Lawrence Please vote.

A taste for meat prompted early humans to wean their children at a young age. The idea explains why we now wean our infants years earlier than other great apes.

Taste for meat made humans early weaners

Mass-market hoteliers are finally waking up to a fact that frequent travelers have long known: The bed matters.

Marriott’s fresh look puts bedding concerns to rest

They’ve never met a padlock – or six-pin paracentric cylinder – they couldn’t crack. Live, from the lock-picking championship of the world.

The Lock Busters

TiVo ToGo MPEG2 Decrypting

http://www.evillabs.net/tivo/

Men and women use different brain areas to achieve similar IQ results, UCI study finds

Intelligence in men and women is a gray and white matter

The government has a plan to help speed the arrival of digital TV and let you dump your cable box. It’s called CableCard, and it’s poised to come out from the wings, if not take center stage, in the cable TV market this year.

FAQ: CableCard? What’s that?

Scientists at Okayama University in Japan have rather agreeably discovered that unidentified compounds in lager and stout may help to prevent DNA damage leading to cancer.

Beer fights cancer: official

I got new tires… Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-D3 – all the way around.

The good news is that they ride much firmer than my old Firestone Firehawk SZ50 EP’s, but I’ve only driven on them for 15mins or so.

The bad news is that the installers used an impact-wrench and destroyed my locking lug nut key, so I have to get a new set which will get here later this week… furthermore I’m driving around on only 4 lugs out of 5 which nobody seems to be bothered by (including the dealership) except for me.

New European pedestrian safety rules could spell doom for those menacing beasts, winged ladies and interlocking letters that are among the few remaining car hood ornaments

Classic hood ornaments cave to safety concerns

Some of the sharpest minds on Wall Street are betting that you’ll make more money in metals than Microsoft the next few years. The new bull market is in stuff, not stocks, they say.

Real assets create real riches

Atari’s CIO looks at Linux as historic cost-saving opportunity.

Game Maker Atari Now Playing With Linux

Managed Web host Rackspace Managed Hosting Europe (rackspace.co.uk) announced on Thursday that it has awarded Approved Reseller status to independent UK network service provider Connectology.

Connectology to Resell Rackspace Europe

Flash storage manufacturers SanDisk and M-Systems are slated to announce Friday at CES a new USB standard called U3, which enables users to carry, store and launch applications directly from a USB flash drive without installation. ICQ will be one of the first adopters of the platform, and the instant messaging software will come enbedded on devices from participating vendors.

ICQ, Others Back New U3 USB Standard

This document describes how malicious or unwanted comments (‘comment spam’) affect weblogs, the techniques spammers use to abuse weblogs, and the tactics that can be used to prevent and defend against these attacks. Also included is a review of the strengths and weaknesses of each tactic, instructions for implementing them on your weblog and ones which we recommend for the best protection.

Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam

Consumers scrambling for sexy new flat-panel televisions may want to tune in to this less-publicized feature of the trendy boxes: They don’t deliver pictures as clearly as traditional tube TVs do.

Flat-panel TVs can’t topple tubes–just yet

Rackspace Managed Hosting, the fastest-growing managed hosting provider, today announced that it has signed a hosting agreement with Atari Inc. (Nasdaq:ATAR), one of the world’s largest and best-known developers of interactive entertainment. Rackspace also announced a new business alliance with Internap (AMEX:IIP), the market leader for intelligent route-control solutions, and together the companies will provide hosting and network performance solutions for all of Atari’s consumer-facing web and selected intranet sites.

Rackspace Selected by Atari to Host Game Maker’s Global Web and Intranet Sites

The service will also allow recorded content to be pushed to mobile devices, such as two new personal media players from FIC and GoVideo. While the new players can connect directly to DVD recorders and other devices through their integrated USB ports to download movies, the players will apparently need to use a PC as a middleman to download TiVo content.

TiVo Hits The Road With Portable Players

So you just bought a superb ultra-flat 25″ LCD monitor, but it looks like there are a few ‘spots’ on it. Depending on how many and it’ll mean return to the vendor or live with it. Or you could be about to buy one in a store and want to make sure there aren’t any dead pixels. Just come to this page

Dead Pixels Test

My god, of all the poeple with the same name as me… why did this guy have to make such ugly things?! [sigh]

http://www.rakuten.co.jp/coolstyle/486445/526321/

In Phase 1, EMI consolidated roughly 100 EMI sites hosted at the two largest providers by moving those Web environments to the new Web infrastructure at Rackspace. The project team built out two fully redundant IIS Web farms, a high-availability SQL 2000 database cluster, load-balanced .Net application servers and one-plus terabytes of online storage for digital assets, Brady says. The number of servers remains consistent at 19, but Rackspace has standardized on high-end Dell PowerEdge servers that give EMI “tremendous overall improvement in performance and scalability” over the old servers, Brady says.

Web harmony at EMI

Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen’s blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo. For free video-on-demand, just click here.

The BitTorrent Effect