Firestone Helper Air Bag Installation
Damn You Apple! Damn You Microsoft!
Yesterday my littlest one had a dance/recital/show at his preschool. I took videos on my iPhone of the event, and then promptly spent the better part of last night trying to get my iPhone to act as a USB storage device so I could copy the two movies off. My…
Acura/Honda Navigation Downgrade Procedure
I ran into an issue with the navigation system on our MDX. Long story short, the DVD got scratched, and while Navteq was kind enough to replace it, I knew we would be without any maps for a couple weeks. Fortunately I still had our old map update disc. Unfortunately,…
10 Reasons I Hate Server Name Changes

There’s been a, um, heated discussion at my work about our current server naming standards. Personally I hate our naming scheme. However, a lot of people have become accustomed to it, and a lot of applications use the standards in their configurations, often to automate management. So when the idea…
Finding ECC memory errors on HP servers
A little perl utility to help you find failing memory in HP servers.. This utility parses hpdiags output to report the value of the ECC memory error counters in the spd registers since the last boot. This utility will report errors even when memory prefailure notification (which would otherwise log…