THE PLEDGE I’D LIKE TO SEE ALL POLITICAL CANDIDATES TAKE
THE POLITICAL CANDIDATE PLEDGE I, ________________________________________, upon signing this document, do hereby swear and affirm under penalty of forfeiture of office and wages, that I shall: 1.) Make no public statement which demeans, denigrates, or defames any active member, unit, or branch of the U.S. armed services, or the military as a whole, except in cases where an individual soldier or group of soldiers has been tried and convicted of committing a criminal offense or offenses.
2.) Never draft, endorse by signature or vote, or lend support in some other way to any piece of legislation which affords illegal immigrants any legal rights other than basic human rights, or extends to them any employment opportunities within the United States, or public services other than emergency medical assistance. Read more…
What you would know about Greenhouse Gas is you stayed awake in Chem Class
Q: “Greenhouse gasses” are bad, right?
A: Wrong. Without them we would freeze to death. There are a number of popular misconceptions about the greenhouse effect, notably that it is a bad thing. Greenhouse gases allow much of the Sun’s shortwave radiation to pass through them but absorb or trap the longwave, infrared radiation emitted by the Earth’s surface. Without greenhouse gases in the air, surface air temperatures would be well below freezing. The warming influence of greenhouse gasses is literally a matter of life and death. It keeps the average surface temperature of the planet at 15 degrees Celsius or 59 degrees Fahrenheit. Without this greenhouse effect, the average surface temperature would be -18 degrees Celsius or 0 degrees Fahrenheit; a temperature so low that all water on Earth would freeze, the oceans would turn into ice and life, as we know it, would not exist. Read more…
Posted by admin Date: Friday, February 29, 2008
Categories: Cause I love my kids, Political
Tags: Global Cooling, Global Warming, Greenhouse gasses
Coming Soon from VW: A 69.9 MPG Diesel Hybrid
It’s official – Volkswagen is unveiling a hybrid to challenge the mighty Toyota Prius. And not just any hybrid, but a diesel-electric hybrid it says will deliver 69.9 mpg.
VW’s been experimenting with hybrids of the gasoline-electric variety since the early 1990s, but the Golf hybrid it will unveil next month at the Geneva Motor Show is the first production model the German company’s rolled out. Volkswagen isn’t offering much in the way of details, but the car is expected to have a parallel hybrid drivetrain with a 2.0 liter engine. Look for it to have an all-electric mode at low speed, start-stop capability, regenerative braking and a 7-speed DSG double-clutch transmission, according to Auto Express and AutoBlog Green.
What’s all the techno-jargon mean? The Golf Hybrid will get almost 70 mph while meeting Europe’s stringent Euro V and America’s Tier 2 Bin 5 emissions standards, making it green enough even for California. The car is said to emit just 89 g/km of CO2. (For comparison, the Prius emits 104 g/km and Honda Civic Hybrid emits 116.)
The hybrid Golf may be just the start.
According to Britain’s Channel 4, VW is considering the hybrid drivetrain in a Jetta and Audi A3. DailyTech says it also could appear in the VW Tiguan and Audi Q5 crossover utility vehicles.
Auto Express says the Golf hybrid will be offered for sale in Europe by the end of next year. No word yet on when we might see it on this side of the pond. VW hasn’t released a picture of the hybrid, so we’re offering a shot of its diesel Golf Bluemotion.
Posted by admin Date: Friday, February 29, 2008
Categories: Volkswagen
Tags: VW: A 69.9 MPG Diesel Hybrid
Volkswagen Microbus Concept
VW Appears to have dropped the ball on this one…I will attempt to make it a reality. Phil…
The New Beetle allows us to relive the days of feeling young, politically oppressed and penniless, albeit with modern mechanicals and reliability. Sort of. Today’s Beetle isn’t priced to accommodate those without some means, even on the used market. And a lot of the people who buy the new bugs know very little about anything that happened in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Nor do they care. You can expect the same from whatever version of the Microbus concept arrives in the United States are reconditioned nostalgia for a price.
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An early look at how Clinton deals with crisis
newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-usark245589997feb24,0,2670956.story
from Newsday.com
BY GLENN THRUSH
February 24, 2008
In a presidential campaign focused on the future, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama spend a lot of time talking about their pasts.
Both lean heavily on tales of early, formative experiences – she running a law clinic in Arkansas, he as a community organizer in Chicago – to show they understand the problems of average people.
Now the race for the Democratic nomination is coming down to its decisive contests, with Clinton locked in a do-or-die struggle to wrest that prize from an increasingly confident Obama, who appears poised to make history.
Voters in battleground states such as Ohio and Texas are still trying to take the measure of the two contenders – and for both candidates, these vignettes are a critical part of forging bonds with fellow Democrats.
How to Name a FireWall
Pick a good story/theme and go for it. I will choose Konatcica for my firewall’s name.
An Apache Legend
Long, long ago, animals and trees talked with each other, but there was no fire at that time. Fox was most clever and he tried to think of a way to create fire for the world.
One day, he decided to visit the Geese, te-tl, whose cry he wished to learn how to imitate. They promised to teach him if he would fly with them. So they contrived a way to attach wings to Fox, but cautioned him never to open his eyes while flying. Read more…
Posted by admin Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Categories: Linux
Tags: American Indian Legend, Firewall Name, Fox and Firefly
Linux Firewall – SmoothWall.org
I must say I am impressed by the SmoothWall firewall. It has a fantastic interface and it was an easy install. A little reading ahead of time and an understanding of firewall zones helped get my firewall knowledge converted to Smoothie talk.
I started with a PIII-400c Compaq, 256 MB RAM and a 1.5 GB HD (I will replace that with a CF card when the IDE-CF adapter comes in), 1.44 Floppy, a CDROM and 3 NIC’s. After a video card swap (AGP1 not AGP 2) and a few CDROM swaps, I found one that worked…why do I keep the broken ones…and the install went with out a hitch.
Since I have web/email servers, wifi and hardwired clients, I choose the GREEN + ORANGE + RED configuration. This was probably the hardest choice of the install. Read more…
Perfect Biscuits
What could make a better breakfast on a chilly winter morning than a few steaming hot biscuits slathered with fresh butter? Not much, say I. And come to think of it, a hot buttered biscuit is a pretty good way to break your fast at any time of year.
As I generally do when the focus of this weekly sermon turns to baking, pastries and such, I consulted my bride and resident baking expert, who’s been making great biscuits for a long time but nevertheless keeps on searching for ways to bring the next batch even closer to perfection than the last.
This morning’s results may have been her best yet: Tall and light, delicate in flavor and feather-light in texture, they almost floated up from our plates to bounce around on the ceiling.
Create a Linux Failover Router
Now that the Web server is running and the database is being backed up it is time to create a failover webserver. I had grandiose dreams back in 2006 when my main web server took a dive and I needed to buy a new server. Why not get 2 identical servers and run them in parallel, I don’t have that kind of money that’s why! So along came this tiger catalog (I wont say their full name…) Look I can get 2 computers for the price of one Dell!!! BIG MISTAKE!!! One system went up w/o a problem, but the other has a new power supply, memory, MB and CPU and still it sits in my closet, I believe the MB is giving another error code, I will never buy an ABIT MB again.
After investigating the how to create failover systems, I came upon 2 articles below that are good foundations for the principle. Linux-HA is a great website that reads like a dictionary, not a how to site. So I am looking for a few articles that will guide me through the process. Here are a few: Read more…
Now for a Linux Router
The next task for me is to put in a real router, I have 5 IP addresses and I am currently running with 3 off the shelf Linksys Home routers. I would need to buy 2 more to use all 5 IP's, the cable router is a 4 port Cicso which makes it impossible to use all 5 IP's. The capabilities of these home routers are extremely limited and I have maxed out each one with how many rules they can have (20). One old PC, LRP and webmin can solve this issue for me. I have been "Mind-Planning" this for some time and this article from Linux Journal gave me the inspiration. FYI: LRP, Linux Router Project, went off-line in 2005ish. I used LRP disks for years (1998-2006) as Seti@Home clients. I booted old computers from the floppy and loaded a Seti client from another disk and let them do all the calcs in memory. When ever the power went out I had to re-launch all systems.
