I’ve been a member of my local gun club for a while now, and have managed to use my membership for some great practice. An indoor 100yd range comes in handy in the middle of the winter, I tell you. But finding that there are only so many drills and ways of practicing that I [...]
Hats off to Luc at www.virtu-al.net for this incredibly useful PowerShell script to identify the display names of VMs and any that don’t match their folder structure. If you’ve ever unregistered a virtual machine in vCenter and sort of spaced where it lived on your datastores, trying to find a VM’s hostname in a bunch [...]
I suck at scripting. I have this big vSphere PowerCLI poster sitting next to my desk that I’m only now learning to reference. But PowerShell is quickly becoming my go-to tool of choice to quickly find out how my vSphere infrastructure is doing. To that end, Quest software released an awesome get-your-feet-wet-with-PowerShell tool called PowerGUI, [...]
I remember when my father purchased a station wagon to haul us kids around in. If I recall correctly, it was an early 80′s Buick Century, and GM was so amazingly awesome in those days that they didn’t offer windows that opened in the rear, somewhat forcing you to purchase A/C as an additional option. Yes, [...]
Little known fact about me: I’m pretty damn good with a weapon or two. But not even remotely as good as some of these guys (mostly military): Some comments from glin1216′s YouTube page: danshyu: Heh, I’ve always thought those Magpul fore grips are nothing but a gimmick, do they actually make any difference or are they [...]
EDIT: for an update on how I feel about Mint.com these days, please see this post. Web service fave of mine Mint.com just released a pretty nifty update this morning in the form of Goals – although there is a curious lack of that news on the update blog at mint.com. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m [...]
Why, a 1977 SAAB 99 Turbo notchback. Being a mere mortal, I owned the non-turbo version of this car in high school. No, this particular car is one of just four notchback 99 Turbo sedans brought into the U.S. as early test cars, part of an overall fleet of 40 99 Turbos. While everyone waits [...]
This, my friends, is what true stardom should mean: This is the multifaceted tale of Bill Caswell, a man who bought a crapcan off Craigslist to run against the $400,000-plus rally cars in a World Rally Championship race. It is a tale of a guy who had a welder, a bunch of credit cards, and [...]
via Jalopnik: Tyler Shipman loves Pontiac Fieros so much he posed for his senior picture with one he bought for $150. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He’d need a miracle to finish his project car. And boy, did that miracle show up in a big way. Watch the video above for the [...]
This is huge for anyone who owns an Apple product and has ever dealt with having to fix, say, a keyboard that your cat puked on (ask me how I know this…): iFixit has released it’s fixit guides for iPhones, iPods, Macbooks, and Mac desktops under a Creative Commons license. For the average person, this [...]