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Comment on On the Home Front: Ryobi and Batteries by Wesley R. Elsberry

Wesley R. Elsberry — Wed, 23 May 2012 03:12:10 +0000

Well, both of the lithium batteries I bought are still working fine and driving the Ryobi gear we have. Maybe they will die tomorrow, but I’m willing to feel better disposed toward the Ryobi gear with lithium batteries than I ever was with the NiCd batteries. For someone who hasn’t yet invested in the tools, considering the experience I’ve had may well shift them to something else. The Ryobi battery-powered chainsaw in particular has been worthwhile to us, though, and I’m not sure what alternatives might be available.

Comment on On the Home Front: Ryobi and Batteries by Some Guy

Some Guy — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:28:17 +0000

Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on on me. Ryobi did not solve the problems with the new lith batteries. Do not be fooled twice. Run wires out of the battery pack to a 12v car battery if you refuse to trash them. But do not get suckered into buying any solution from Ryobi. They should be sending free replacements and apology letters. Its a national issue…read post anywhere! Check yourself on the web. There is no solution using Ryobi batteries. Do not invest another dime in Ryobi stuff or you will be fooled again!

Comment on Fuz Rana: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire by CALHALL

CALHALL — Sat, 19 May 2012 07:55:37 +0000

Rana begins, seductively, with seemingly state-of-the-science details of evidence supporting mainstream human evolution. He doesn’t open questions about why a god “created” humans more than once, nor why scriptures don’t present such.

Later, an agenda seems to insinuate itself, clandestinly at first, then, in style reminiscent of bait’n'switch, we are in a conclusory rush to selectively come to the preordained but veiled goals of,not induction,but philosophical deduction.

Why do these delusions seem to haunt chemists, especially biochemists?
All this must be superficially satisfying to an uninitiated fundamentalist-absolutist cult, especially those with political predispositions, but for this writer it’s, despite our extensive education, baffling to sort thru the shotgun blast of asserted facts covering multiple disciplines.

When we Googled F.”Fuz”Rana, we got 9 pages of Wiki-biased links in RTB-leaning/creationism sites before the first contrarian site…this one was about a dozen “nexts” in. WAZZUP?!!

Comment on Personal Research and the Budget by Wesley R. Elsberry

Wesley R. Elsberry — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:22:24 +0000

Well, I’m ready to compromise on a lot of things, but one thing I’m not prepared to do is to use an MP3 format for my recordings. The minimum entry-level for a recording has got to be a lossless representation, either the raw sample data or something like PCM in a WAV container.

Comment on Personal Research and the Budget by Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:51:30 +0000

In 2008, i picked up 3 Sansa Clip mp3 players for about $40 – about $13 each, from woot.com. OK, the sale is over. But consider this. There’s a RockBox port to the device. RockBox has a C API for plugin apps. It currently has a metronome and electronic instrument tuner, etc. It has a half meg of RAM, 2 GB of solid state disk, a pretty fast CPU,9 buttons, a screen, a microphone, sound out, and can be powered while running via USB. Sounds like you could just start writing code.

Comment on Verizon FIOS Doesn’t Talk to Verizon FIOS? by Wesley R. Elsberry

Wesley R. Elsberry — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:40:11 +0000

The somewhat longer explanation is that Verizon FIOS network links don’t all use the industry-standard Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) setting of 1500. They sometimes use a shorter MTU of 1492. This appeared exactly once in any official part of the Verizon FIOS site, on a page describing their Speed Optimizer tool, where it says:

MTU (Maximum Transmission Units) – The MTU defines the largest single unit of data that can be transmitted over your connection. The FiOS network requires an MTU of 1492 bytes.

Apparently, none of the Verizon tech support people knew a thing about this. I only found out because a friend happens to be a network guru and he looked over packet-capture logs as a favor. He suggested looking at the MTU settings, and after that I was able to find the reference on the Verizon site. I’ve requested the highest-ranking tech person I talked to at Verizon to add the MTU information to the FIOS documentation more prominently and to have it included in FIOS tech support scripts. I can’t tell that any of that has happened yet.

Not all FIOS pathways enforce the restricted MTU settings, which explains the stochastic nature of the problem. So far as I know, the Actiontec routers provided by FIOS don’t have the MTU=1492 restriction in them. I was able to change MTU on my clients and restore access, then followed it up with changing MTU on the servers. I suspect that it may be the case that some FIOS pathways restrict the MTU to a smaller size than 1492, which might be the case for your issue. If that’s so, please comment again with the MTU size on your client machine that gets you access again. I’ll switch the servers to use that.

Comment on Verizon FIOS Doesn’t Talk to Verizon FIOS? by Wesley R. Elsberry

Wesley R. Elsberry — Sun, 06 May 2012 00:19:10 +0000

Try setting your MTU for packets to a value of 1492 or lower. I thought I had that set on the servers. I’ll have to check that.

Comment on Verizon FIOS Doesn’t Talk to Verizon FIOS? by Doug Viggato

Doug Viggato — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:43:41 +0000

Have you found a solution to this issue? i believe it is Verizon residential which is the source of the problem. On my side its Verizon residential fios to ATT business server location. Myself and other employees with Verizon home fios service are able to connect to server remotely via VPN, but MS exchange will not communicate with remote computer. I am confident that it is a Verizon issue because all other staff remote computers via other ISP have no connectivity issues.

Tracing route to baywing.net [71.123.242.56]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 24 ms 1 ms 1 ms Wireless_Broadband_Router.home [192.168.1.1]

2 6 ms 4 ms 5 ms L100.DLLSTX-VFTTP-48.verizon-gni.net [71.123.176.1]

3 5 ms 5 ms 6 ms G3-3-748.DLLSTX-LCR-07.verizon-gni.net [130.81.107.16]

4 * * * Request timed out.

5 * * * Request timed out.

6 * * * Request timed out.

7 * * * Request timed out.

8 * * * Request timed out.

9 * * * Request timed out.

10 * * * Request timed out.

Comment on Florida: Idiots Driving by Wesley R. Elsberry

Wesley R. Elsberry — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:23:22 +0000

You don’t have to quote what I just wrote in the post.

Those do not “make it sound” anything of the sort. That’s just your over-active imagination.

Comment on Florida: Idiots Driving by ToSeek

ToSeek — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:36:14 +0000

My apologies for reading too much into it (or maybe too little), but this is pretty much all you said about your relative positions and status:

“We were traveling at just about the same speed, and had been for a while.”

“The Honda was maybe five feet further ahead than we were as we approached 54th Ave. South.”

Maybe I’ve done too many math word problems in my life (where the information you’re given is all you’re supposed to consider), but it did make it sound as if you’d been cruising in their blind spot.

Anyhow, glad to hear I was mistaken and that you and your vehicle survived unscathed.