Monthly Archives: July 2006

More tools

2006-07-29 – 17:34

I went to ACE Hardware again — I realized the old rotor was rusted to the hub so I wanted brake component grease and anti-sieze to put on the surfaces after cleaning to prevent this problem if there is a next time I have to work on the brakes, and I needed a c-clamp to [...]

By frank | Posted in D.I.Y. | Comments (1)

Tools and waiting

2006-07-29 – 08:59

I pulled one of the wheels off the car using the new socket set, breaker bar, and jack I bought last week. My plan was to jack up the car using the lift point under the very front of the frame, then put a jack stand under the one behind the front wheel, then jack [...]

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The Do It Yourself Dilemma

2006-07-29 – 07:43

Or, how I’m trying save money and increase my self-reliance by doing things myself, but because I’m relatively new to it, I’m spending much (most?) of the monetary savings on tools.
For example, the Saab was recently up for spark plug replacements, so I ordered the spark plugs and did that job. While I [...]

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Panther Server’s Open Directory forgot how to authenticate me

2006-07-18 – 12:07

So I was sitting at my desk this morning, more or less happily working away. I needed to ssh to the xserve a couple of times for some reason or other. The last time I did it this morning, I was unable to authenticate. It asked for my password, strange enough in itself since I [...]

By frank | Posted in Geek | Comments (0)

MORE COFFEE!

2006-07-15 – 06:54

Another coffee shop opened up in Evans. This one is in a new strip mall with a nice facade across from the Super Wal-Mart, in the same strip as American Dream Machines and a bunch of empty storefronts. It’s less than a mile down the road from Serendipity, and less than two miles from the [...]

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