I recently lost the transmission in my ‘99 Honda Odyssey van. When looking into this problem I decided I’d document some of the information I’ve found in case it helps others. Honda has a less than stellar reliability rating on transmissions, particularly on the 1999-2002 Odysseys and I’ve heard it affects some Accords and Acura models too of similar age. (Read more…)
This is pretty heady language, but pretty inspiring if you take the time to read it. Think if consumers actually did this.. we’d change the world.
From http://freeculture.org/manifesto/
Get involved over on their site.
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Manifesto
The mission of the Free Culture movement is to build a bottom-up, participatory structure to society and culture, rather than a top-down, closed, proprietary structure. Through the democratizing power of digital technology and the Internet, we can place the tools of creation and distribution, communication and collaboration, teaching and learning into the hands of the common person — and with a truly active, connected, informed citizenry, injustice and oppression will slowly but surely vanish from the earth.
We believe that culture should be a two-way affair, about participation, not merely consumption. We will not be content to sit passively at the end of a one-way media tube. With the Internet and other advances, the technology exists for a new paradigm of creation, one where anyone can be an artist, and anyone can succeed, based not on their industry connections, but on their merit.
We refuse to accept a future of digital feudalism where we do not actually own the products we buy, but we are merely granted limited uses of them as long as we pay the rent. We must halt and reverse the recent radical expansion of intellectual property rights, which threaten to reach the point where they trump any and all other rights of the individual and society.
The freedom to build upon the past is necessary for creativity and innovation to thrive. We will use and promote our cultural heritage in the public domain. We will make, share, adapt, and promote open content. We will listen to free music, look at free art, watch free film, and read free books. All the while, we will contribute, discuss, annotate, critique, improve, improvise, remix, mutate, and add yet more ingredients into the free culture soup.
We will help everyone understand the value of our cultural wealth, promoting free software and the open-source model. We will resist repressive legislation which threatens our civil liberties and stifles innovation. We will oppose hardware-level monitoring devices that will prevent users from having control of their own machines and their own data.
We won’t allow the content industry to cling to obsolete modes of distribution through bad legislation. We will be active participants in a free culture of connectivity and production, made possible as it never was before by the Internet and digital technology, and we will fight to prevent this new potential from being locked down by corporate and legislative control. If we allow the bottom-up, participatory structure of the Internet to be twisted into a glorified cable TV service — if we allow the established paradigm of creation and distribution to reassert itself — then the window of opportunity opened by the Internet will have been closed, and we will have lost something beautiful, revolutionary, and irretrievable.
The future is in our hands; we must build a technological and cultural movement to defend the digital commons.
I think this is a good list or qualities useful for an entrepreneur. A good reminder of why I’m frustrated with working for the great state of Idaho. I think I fit in the wanna-be entrepreneur category.
Read the full article at http://startupspark.com/top-10-ways-you-know-youre-an-entrepreneur/
About 1.5 years ago, I bought a used 1996 GMC Sierra pickup truck from Courtesy Ford in Pocatello. That transaction went fine, and I felt like I was treated fairly and got a good deal, they even threw in a free first oil change. That was uneventful. Since I bought the vehicle cheaply, I did compromise on knowing the full service history of the vehicle so I wanted to have it looked at to see what recommended service should be done. I even budgeted a little extra into the loan to take care of some service so I thought I’d see how the local GMC dealer was for service. Sounds reasonable, right? Read on to see how they did.
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Tired of your new computer coming loading with a lot of extra software you don’t need or want? Does your brand new PC feel cluttered?
http://www.yorkspace.com/pc-de-crapifier/
is a script that may be the answer. Use at own your own risk but it uninstalls many common programs preinstalled by OEMs like Dell in one shot. WhooHoo!
I think the coke Grand Theft Auto ad was the best… what’s your favorite?
See others’ favorites, or all the ads below.
New versions of the Upgrade version of Vista doesn’t allow new installations…
What does all of this mean on a practical level? Users who purchase upgrade copies of the aforementioned versions of Vista will find that they can only upgrade PCs that already have Windows installed. KB930985 clearly states: “you cannot use an upgrade key to perform a clean installation of Windows Vista.” According to Microsoft, this happens because Windows Vista does not check for upgrade compliance. If you do not have a previous installation of Windows available, Microsoft recommends that you “purchase a license that lets you perform a clean installation of Windows Vista.” And what does it mean to your wallet? More $$$ out of your pocket if you want maximum flexibility.
Look’s like google bought one of Paul’s famous toliets.
From Ron at Rondam Ramblings: For the geek turned entrepreneur, this list seems pretty right on. I think Ron does a great job describing the pitfalls of owning a geek business.
Some key points I took away from this article..
“It’s the customer, stupid” and never “It’s the stupid customer” You don’t make any friends by calling people names. If people can’t immediately grok what your product will do for them, you are fighting an uphill battle. Case in point, by using the word grok I’ve lost half of my audience of this blog post. Clickety, clickety, on your merry way. For example my interests probably only appeal to a pretty small niche, so I need to think about what my customer will be concerned with, and not how cool this would be to build. Not everyone wants to maintain a webserver in their house. It is ultimately about what the customer wants and it doesn’t matter how good your idea is.
If you don’t think that your business is worth giving up your nights and weekends for, how are you going to convince an investor that it is worthwhile. I think that this is true, there are no shortcuts, as much as I hate to admit it. There have been people a lot smarter than me (Brin and Page of Google, maybe?) and even they didn’t just have a great idea and then sit back and watch the money come rolling in. It hardly ever works like that, you’ve got to work for it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Toyota sees a future in plugging in vehicles - instead of simply pulling in for gas. Already a leader in the hybrid market with its Prius sedan, Toyota Motor Corp. plans to develop a hybrid vehicle that will run locally on batteries charged by a typical 120-volt outlet before switching over to a gasoline engine for longer hauls.
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