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My company does most things right. Our management is very supportive, listens and generally funds the technology that makes sense for the best interest of the organization. We have good redundancy, HA and disaster recovery in place that fit our objectives. Still, as they say, bad things can happen to good people. This weekend we did have an outage despite our best efforts, and that's the reason for this post. It went pretty well for my team, all things considered, but we'd put in a lot of preparation.
If you work in this industry it's very likely that you will be hit with something like this at some point. It'll come when you don't expect it, in a way you probably didn't imagine. What separates the women from the girls, so to speak, is how ready you are for the unexpected when it happens. In sports there's a technique called "positive visualization" or "mental rehearsal" where a skier, or other athlete goes through his or her whole run beforehand, imagining each gate and how they will successfully navigate the course. As far as I have seen it's quite effective for creating the right mindset to have a successful run, and it's something I use in planning for failover or disaster recovery. I thought I'd take a minute, fresh from my recent hair-graying experience, to remind everyone to go through this exercise.
For this to be effective, you have to really go through it in detail, like the skier imagining every gate. You get a phone call, and find out every server in your primary datacenter is offline, and no one knows exactly why. (I am altering the scenario here a little to respect the privacy of my company, but in reality the reason doesn't matter.) Let's say the UPS caught fire, or the sprinklers went off, or someone forgot to put diesel in the generator, or there was an earthquake, or a meteor. Fact is, you had a highly redundant infrastructure with failover clusters and backup power and RAID and dual power supplies and redundant everything and still your whole site went down.
It happens. A lot.
First, are you in a company that has not invested in a DR strategy and is totally unprepared? If so, then I would strongly suggest going through this exercise, at a high level, with your boss. An outage like this can and does put whole companies out of business, and if you have a CIO, he or she might not be the CIO afterward.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that your datacenter will be partially offline for four days (I am improvising here, and you can too, but make it realistic). Run through these visualizations, and imagine how you handle it in your environment:
The answers to all these questions will be different for you, but the importing thing is that there should be real, working answers. In the middle of the night, sitting at the keyboard, you can't be figuring this stuff out.
I am pretty happy with what we have built at my office – though I am careful not to get complacent. We use a combination of mirrored failover clusters (that is, failover clusters in two datacenters, with database mirroring synchronizing them over our WAN) and de-duplicated backup files that are SAN-replicated offsite to provide two channels of offsite backup. For some older systems we are still on log shipping, but plan to advance those to mirroring as soon as our ISVs and budgets permit. We use some custom SQL Agent/PowerShell jobs to propagate logins and jobs between the sites – which jobs we had to actually use this weekend for the first time. I am happy to report, they worked. Whew.
On the other hand, I came from a company that was much more reckless, and effectively had no failover strategy whatsoever. They were frankly just too cheap to do it. Looking back, it terrifies me, because I know how simple it could be for them to lose their whole business.
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With the earthquake in Japan, this is in the forefront of many people's minds today. Please have a look at these other posts, esp. Paul Randal's survey:
Could be a good time to approach the boss about this important topic.
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Great article. As the first full time dedicated DBA at the company I'm working at, I'm working on DR from the database side of things. I have yet to find a willing partner on the application side of things. But I do know that I have reliable data offsite that can be brought up as needed. Most of the systems in place now are vendor purchased off the shelf type systems, so in the worst case were the primary datacenter might be offline for days or weeks, we could stand up some VM's and enlist the support of our vendors to bring the applications up and pointing to the recovered databases.
I am just now working with management and the business to identify which applications need to be mirrored or log-shipped to a warm-standby system. Once that list is created, we can then work with the vendors to get the application side set up before a disaster. The problem is weeding out the business claim that EVERY APP NEEDS TO BE READY AT A MOMENTS NOTICE!!!! omg! Once we start sending the quotes for redundant hardware and warm-standby for every application they use, that changes things a lot and they start thinking about work-around that would keep the business runnning for a day or two on most applications.
How is the mirroring over WAN working for you? do you have a high dedicated bandwidth between the databaseservers? Or tunneling via vpn over the internet?
Do you use the high safety mode? Any negative impact on raw transaction volume the server can process?
We are looking into multiple datacenter solution right now, and I'm a fan of mirroring.. Did not have to do it over a WAN solution..
Jason - sounds like a good start. We have a tiered system categorizing apps into four groups with different recovery point / recovery time objectives.
Hj, it's working. We do use async (knowing the risk) because of bandwidth, but we watch the send queues carefully with SCOM. It's not a dedicated connection. That whole issue is an important consideration.
Fantastic article. Quite frankly, I wish people would do this exercise at least once a quarter. If you could practice, even better. I worked in a place paid for hardware but didn't put too much emphasis on DR. They relied too much on VM and SAN replication.
Every time I brought up bandwidth and storage I was blown off. As luck would have it, there was a failure and people were scrambling left and right. We eventually got things recovered and finally the rest of IT started to see what I had been trying to get at.
Personally, I don't even think it's possible to have a DR plan without first visualizing and performing scenario walkthroughs. Good post!


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Quote from: The Prophet on March 29, 2011, 06:07:34 PMPeach, have we considered this Mumbai sighting?http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23690.msg580196.html#msg580196Yes of course. I think it boils down to the fact that it isn't all that easy to get out of Varanasi.Delhi and Mumbai are two flight options.The best lights into Vienna in the early morning are from Delhi...SO IF all the flights into Delhi were fulll from Varanasi, and teams had to go V>Mumbai>Delhi, then the timing is possible. But makes much better sense to go V>Delhi>Vienna. And IIRC, apskip found some Bangkok routings that also work.And while I found the source for the Delhi sighting of the Cowboys completely reliable ...this one seems not so much.Not enough to rule it out, just...funny.
Peach, have we considered this Mumbai sighting?http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,23690.msg580196.html#msg580196
Want to tell the world I might be on tv!I was in Mumbai airport before. I saw cameraspeople running to the desks. Cowboys, blonde,Asians
Anyway I saw they were carrying these envelopes marked amazing race. I was curious. Some sort of race? Hope I was on tv!!!
Clutch mentions the incense being from the detour in Lijiang. I can't remember it that specifically, but I seem to recall seeing it somewhere in the Lijiang leg. However, I may be recalling the speculation here from before that episode.I agree with the others about the bull being in Varanasi. They are everywhere in Varanasi, at least in the pictures I looked through. In the roads and streets, in the narrow alleys, even along the ghats and banks along the river. No doubt making dung a overly abundant and cheap building material.
And while the dung can be used as building material, the little cakes they're making are probably going to be used as a source of fuel. In place of burning wood in a stove, people burn the dung cakes or whatever you want to call them. Always give the food a uniquely special taste.
Then why are they plastering it to the wall?
Is someone appointed to watch for it to fall off?
From what we have for now, I am going to go ahead and guess that the cowboys or Ron and Christina are eliminated this leg.
Quote from: JETandCORDfan on March 30, 2011, 01:59:43 PMFrom what we have for now, I am going to go ahead and guess that the cowboys or Ron and Christina are eliminated this leg.what do you have?
[Agreed.There's not any evidence as to what team was eliminated.
Quote from: kinibug on March 30, 2011, 08:07:30 PM[Agreed.There's not any evidence as to what team was eliminated.But there is evidence as to who should be safe this week.We know from spoilers that The Cowboys, Kisha and Jen, and The Trotters are all almost certainly confirmed as being seen further down the way.
Can't really help, but cap #5 and 6 - one of the signs behind the Sadhu seems to be a political ad for someone named Arun Sahu and the store next to it says "Priya Hair Dresser" The rest of the Hindi is harder to read as it's blurry and I'm about 15 years out of practice.
I don't have a lot a faith in that Mumbai spoiler.
Quote from: georgiapeach on March 30, 2011, 09:02:55 PMI don't have a lot a faith in that Mumbai spoiler. So you are saying Ron/Christina is next since you know the bootlist
Quote from: jiajia12 on March 31, 2011, 04:58:21 AMQuote from: georgiapeach on March 30, 2011, 09:02:55 PMI don't have a lot a faith in that Mumbai spoiler. So you are saying Ron/Christina is next since you know the bootlistI didn't read that anywhere in what Peach said.
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These prototype chips utilize digital silicon circuits inspired by neurobiology
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Freespire, the free as in beer version of the Linspire Linux distribution, this month released Freespire 2.0, the first version of the operating system based on the popular Ubuntu distribution, and the first to contain proprietary codecs and drivers. Despite its attractive appearance, it left me with mixed feelings.
You can boot the Freespire image as a live CD or go straight into the install. It's always advisable to try the live CD option first to test hardware compatability. When you do, the tasteful and professional silent boot splash whisks you into a short setup setup routine. A full-screen framebuffered dialog first presents a long and involved license agreement that would require a lawyer to decipher. Then you are asked to confirm, adjust, or troubleshoot the volume of your sound system. I raised the volume on my Hewlett-Packard dv2105 notebook test machine, and the test music confirmed my sound was working. The KDE 3.5.6 desktop briefly appears before a configuration window opens that contains buttons to set various system settings, including screen resolution, networking, dial-up, timezone, language, and keyboard. Once finished, you have a lovely KDE desktop dressed up with pretty wallpaper and slick icons. Freespire looks good.
I couldn't tell Freespire is built upon Ubuntu until I used the command line or the native package management system. Under Ubuntu, many commands required the use of sudo to gain superuser privilege. I find it easier to use su to become root once than to use sudo for every command, so the first thing I do in a Ubuntu-based distro is set a root password.
On the desktop is an icon for starting the hard drive installer. The installer walks you through the usual steps, such as choosing your keyboard, naming the root partition, and setting up a user account. It gives you the option of allowing it to take over the remaining portion of disk that Windows is not occupying. My partitions aren't numbered in disk order, so it took me a few minutes to decipher which partition I wished to use with Freespire's atypical naming conventions. For example, the partitions are referred to such as Primary 1 or Logical 8, and it ignores the swap partition, so all partitions beyond the swap are pushed back one number. I still wasn't really sure I'd chosen the right one until the first of two confirmation screens, which use the traditional /dev/sdXx or /dev/hdXx names.
Another thing I found inconvenient was Freespire's method of making or editing partitions. According to the information stanza on the partition step page, after all the previous configuration, if you needed to make partitions for the install you would have to stop the install, reboot the machine, and choose the third boot option, CREATE or MODIFY partitions on this computer's hard drive. However, the real third option is Start Freespire in safe graphics mode, which indicates that the information in the installer hasn't been updated for the new release. The 2.0 live CD comes with the GNOME Partition Editor, so I could have used that if I needed to manually manipulate my partitions.
The install procedure offers no package selection options; it installs the same set of software for everyone. Any customizations you make in the live CD environment are lost in the hard drive install. I chose to have Freespire install the GRUB boot loader, and it discovered and included most, if not all, of the other operating systems installed on the machine.
The same boot splash as seen on the live CD gives way to an understated and attractive login screen. The first time the KDE 3.5.6 desktop starts, Firefox tries to open the user login page for Linspire's Click-N-Run (CNR) software warehouse, which offers one-click software installation.
One of the new additions in this release is the inclusion of proprietary hardware drivers, including more than a dozen for wireless Ethernet chips. Unfortunately, none worked with mine. I still had to resort to Ndiswrapper, but that functioned well, installing and utilizing the Windows driver. The KDE Network Manager wouldn't connect to my router with Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) or Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) enabled, but I could connect to WEP at the command line. WPA wouldn't work at all.
I found some quirks with my graphics configuration as well. By default, I had my desired 1280x800 resolution using the "nv" Xorg driver. Since the Nvidia accelerated driver is available in Freespire 2.0, I wanted to use that. When I changed to "nvidia" in the Screen Resolution startup configuration screen, I was offered only a 1024x768 desktop, but I was able to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file manually to achieve the optimal resolution. Also X-related, my touchpad worked acceptably but with a lag sometimes, and many times holding my finger steady caused the cursor to inch right on its own.
The advanced power-saving features of CPU scaling and suspend to RAM worked well out of the box, but suspend to disk didn't. That option would start the screensaver and require a password to return to the desktop instead of putting the laptop to sleep.
Sound worked well for all applications out of the box. Another addition in this release is proprietary multimedia code and codecs. I tested KPlayer with several video and audio formats and all played well -- clear video and crisp sound with no lag or dropped frames. I was able to use Firefox to watch Google and YouTube videos, enjoy Gamespot and Apple trailers, and utilize other Flash- and Java-coded sites.
Freespire doesn't come with a large selection of applications, but it has enough to get started. They include NVU, Lphoto, Gizmo, Pidgin, Lsongs, OpenOffice.org, Firestarter, Kiosk Admin Tool, K3b, several other KDE apps, and a few KDE games (such as KSmileTris and KBattleship). The OS ships with a low-latency preemptive 2.6.20-16 kernel and Xorg 7.2.0. In addition to KDE, the ION/PWM2 window manager is available as well. Many users will have to spend time installing their favorite applications, but that shouldn't be too difficult using either apt-get or CNR.
When I updated the apt-get package database at the command line, I could see the Ubuntu Feisty repositories being updated in the standard output. Unlike Freespire 1.0, 2.0 lacks the Synaptic front end, but apt-get at the command line works fine. In fact, I installed Synaptic using apt-get, as I like it for searches.
I speculate Synaptic's absence is probably due to the presence of CNR. I wasn't able to test the service, as it is still not operational because it's currently being updated, but generally speaking it lists software you can browse under various categories. If you find an application of interest, the utility downloads and installs it, and places an entry in the menu. Basic service is free; a Gold subscription costs $50. I can't personally see any reason to pay the fee and use the service when I can use Synaptic or apt-get, but perhaps someone coming from Windows who doesn't know about apt-get might use it.
After working with the distribution for a while I had mixed feelings about Freespire. It has a pretty boot splash, lovely wallpaper, and modern colorful icons. The installer is a bit confusing and a little less user-friendly than some of its competition. Hardware support was acceptable, even if I had to drop to the command line to configure or tweak some of the settings myself. Power-saving features were also acceptable, though some users may miss the suspend to disk option. Included software is a bit sparse, but it includes something for most common tasks. Some of the application versions were a bit older than those in other distros released recently, but both they and the OS itself were stable and had acceptable performance.
I personally liked Freespire, but it may not be the best choice for a person coming straight from Windows, as I found some previous Linux experience necessary in order to fully enjoy it. For those users, I recommend giving SimplyMEPIS, PCLinuxOS, or Stux Linux a look. I can run any of these without ever opening a terminal thanks to their graphical configurations and package management systems.


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This is slightly embarrassing but my power outlets are…grodie. Doesn't it look like it's crying out? It would be one thing if it was hidden behind the sofa but this is in plain view above the stove. However with a little elbow grease (about the amount of a Smurf) it's clean, clean, clean.
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Ford Ranger Owner Experiences
I just got an 04 ranger with a 3 liter 11000 miles
and was wondering if anyone has one with lots of miles. would like to know if u noticed a power drop or anything like that. i run this one hard like 5 and 6 rpm and it feels like it has hurt the motor. thanks
and was wondering if anyone has one with lots of miles. would like to know if u noticed a power drop or anything like that. i run this one hard like 5 and 6 rpm and it feels like it has hurt the motor. thanks
jneal Posts: 247If it feels like it has hurt the motor then it probably has......0
billingsley Posts: 69I keep hearing rumors that this might be the last year for the Ranger, because it's "old school" now. No crew cab, and Ford doesn't seem to put any money into it anymore. Any word on the street about that?
scotspitch56 Posts: 3i've got a 98 ranger with only 82000 miles and have had it since it came out and never had any problem w/ loss of power. and on the deal about the discontinuation of the rangers..... i wouldn't doubt it since it seems like every line of cars is being discontinued for a "new" car even though they can't sell the one's they already have.0
KCRam Mt. Arlington NJPosts: 3,516Ranger will never have a crew cab model as long as the Explorer Sport Trac exists. They fill the same need.
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barbara_b Posts: 1I MADE MY 16 YEAR OLD SON PAY HALF WHEN I BOUGHT THIS TRUCK 3 MONTHS AGO WITH 128000 MILES. AFTER OUR FIRST OIL/FILTER AND AIR FILTER CHANGE THE ENGINE HAS STARTED TO IDLE MUCH FASTER TO THE POINT WHERE I AM CONCERNED HE WONT RIDE THE BRAKE ENOUGH AND HIT SOMEONE. I CHECKED THE THROTEL CABLES AND TRIED TO ADJUST IT DOWN, IT DIDN'T HELP. ONE TIME ITS TOO FAST THE NEXT ITS JUST RIGHT. A HINT FROM A FRIEND WAS THAT IT MIGHT BE THE FUEL FILTER WHICH IS SOMETIMES INSIDE THE TANK ON THESE FORDS. I REALLY DONT WANT TO MESS UP MY NEW MANICURE TAKING THE GAS TANK OFF PLEASE HELP.0
I have a '91 Ranger 2WD 2.3L EFI. My fuel gauge is erratic (mostly indicates empty) at various fuel levels. Any suggestions?0
I have a '91 Ranger 2WD 2.3L EFI. My tachometer displays an erroneous rpm(always lower than actual). Any suggestions?0
yetti8 Posts: 7i am thinking on buying a 97 ford ranger with 240,000 miles is it a smart thing?0
clintonjohn Posts: 99There are a million variables associated with making a used car purchase decision. You've given two-age and mileage.
To offer a more informed opinion, knowing such things as price, maintenence/maintenence records, type of driving done by the owner, was it a northern or Arizona car, 4 cylinder vs. 6, etc. would help. For instance, given the mileage and age alone without knowing anything else, I would say not to buy it. However, if the truck was driven primarily cross country through the southwest, meticulously maintained, and going for $500, I might still question it because of the low price makes it look like the owner is trying to get rid of it fast.
Thus, not only do you have to consider many variables, but also how much weight to give each variable-high mileage might not necessarily be bad versus a truck with 30k miles that was driven only in stop and go traffic and only for 5 miles at a time even though both trucks are the same age.0
arcturus Posts: 4I just bought my 4th Ranger since 1992. I have never had a seconds trouble with any of my Rangers. My latest Ranger is the Sport model with the 3.0 V-6 and automatic. It has a smooth, solid feel and seems to be the best built Ranger yet. My only regret is the high ride height. My previous truck was a 2001 Dakota and I loved the low stance and great cornering. I'm afraid to push my Ranger in Corners for fear of tipping over. Other than that, I love the truck. I looked at a number of small trucks before going back to Ranger again, and none was as good a value. I loved my Dakota, but Dodge dropped the regular cab and changed the styling to the squared-off, blocky look that does not appeal to me.0
arkainzeye pittsburgh paPosts: 473i just recently went to my ford dealer looking at the rangers ( i used to have a 4x2 1994 3.0litre) well this time i wanted a 4x4 i was shocked at how bad their fuel economy was! i thought a little truck would get better than that. I even stopped and asked ranger owners at gas stations what they got. the average i have heard was 12-14mpg city and this was in 2 wheel drive withOut hauling anything. to be thats silly.. my friend with a full size silverado gets 14 mpg city! anyways my point is the ford dealership said ford recognizes the problem with very poor fuel economy of the rangers and they claim is not willing to do anything about it. the dealer was talking about ford getting rid of the ranger OR doing a completly new redesigned model from the ground up. He (the manager) said fords technology is way out of date and it shows in their fuel economy! when i had my ranger it lasted 135,000 miles before i got rid of it. i had NO problems with it at all. but this was in the 90's and we didnt worry about gas mileage back then. and from what the dealer said its the same technology from back then driving the rangers still...0
chillin669 Posts: 9I had a ranger for 12 years(loved that truck) with 4.0V6. other then the fact it was a standard cab long bed with stick rarely ever got below 16mpg. The only time i got 13-14 is when i had a Paxton supercharger on it and gunned it all the time. I gave it to somebody, and that thing is still running strong with 180k on it too. I do think it is time for a redo though. You used to see them all over with everybody driving them. Now everybody drives the Tacoma or Nissan, which both pretty much outclass the Ranger.0
eddiek47 Posts: 1That would be great if your a junk dealer and the price is right0
wantmorempg Posts: 4My story is as follows: I drive a Ford Ranger 1998 4 cylinder with approx. 180,000 miles, pickup as a courier for an Environmental Analysis Lab. I drive about 850 miles per week. I increased my MPG from an average of 27 mpg to 29.8mpg. It works out that for every .07 cents I spend on the additive I save about .22 cents. That's good economics. If you'd like more free info; you can contact me by email which is listed in my profile. The EPA mileage est. are 24 mpg to 28 mpg on the new ones with a 4 cylinder.
What are your driving habits? Maybe the pre 1998 models did only get around 14 mpg. I'm puzzled. :confuse:0
Are there specialty shops for Ford Rangers in San Fran or LA area?
I have a '92, 2x4, 5 spd, 3.0, super cab w/ 350k miles that needs to be brought back to zero time w/up-graded parts.
I'll have to change my trans, gears, A/C, maybe a 3.0 to a 4.0, turbo, part time 4x4, and interior.
Q. I understd there is an American made transmission for a 92
super cab? I've gone through three already and I understd the
Japanese companies stopped manufacturing 92
transmissions. My second and third trans were used.
Q. What do you think of the 4.0, compared to 3.0? My gas
milage has been at 16 to18 mpg, even w/ dual exhausts.
Q. Anyone with a part time 4x4, what do you think of your unit_
gas milage? Is it worth getting it?
Thanks for the help. I hope to run my Ranger for another 17 yrs.0
Hello everyone. After reading through some posts, it looks like I'm in the right place. I am considering buying a 1995 Ford Ranger XLT, but I am having some reservations because of a few problems it has. I was wondering if someone out there could look over the problems, and give me some sound advice as to whether I should buy this truck. Here's the situation:
1995 Ford Ranger XLT
4X4 Automatic Transmission
137,000 Miles
$3,750.00 asking price.
Interior looks like a new truck.
Exterior in good condition.
Engine clean and looks great.
I can tell it has been well-cared for.
All service records were kept and are available.
Overall, it's a nice looking truck that seems to be well cared for.
THE BAD (potentially)...
1. After driving for a long period of time (1-2 hours) in high outdoor temperatures (above 85), the owner says that the transmission slips when shifting from 2nd into 3rd. He says it doesn't do it in the winter, and not very often in the summer. The owner says it's been doing this for the last 60,000 miles, and that I shouldn't worry about it.
2. Once again, after driving for a long period of time (1-2 hours) in high outdoor temperatures (above 85), the owner says that when you come to a stop, like at a convenience store, that the truck will not idle at low speeds. It sputters and dies. Once the truck cools, everything is fine again. And once again, the owner says it's been doing this for the last 60,000 miles, and that I shouldn't worry about it.
3. When I took it for a test drive, I noticed a "clunk" in the back when coming to a complete stop, and then again when starting again. It kinda feels like there something in the bed that's rolling around.
Well, that's about it. I'm worried about buying the truck because of the problems listed above. What do you guys think. It's a good-looking truck at a fair price - just not sure what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!0
safedad Posts: 1I am considering purchase of used (2002 - 2006) Ford Ranger. Will be driven primarily by my teenagers. Anyone have any experience about how well the rear end sticks to the road? I know some pick-ups can easily fish-tail. We live in northern climate, so snowy roads are occasionally part of the picture.0
Most pickups have terrible front/rear weight ratios. And, with rear wheel drive, this is even more troublesome under slick road conditions.
The bed of a pickup can be loaded with weight (Bags of gravel, sand, etc from the local home store. I recommend at least 200 pounds.) which will help.
But I think the average teenager can easily slide a Ranger off the road, with any amount of weight, under any road conditions.
Ok, being a little less smart-a**, the worse vehicle I've ever driven was my father's 1966 Ford pickup. I got it stuck on almost level ground in wet, slick grass. When Dad was no longer able to drive, I took it. I put all-weather tires on it, not Mud/Snow knobbies, and loaded it in the winter with two rows of firewood across the rear tires in the bed. This took me to work for several years, sometimes in the worse freezing drizzle Oklahoma weather could throw at me. My drive was on mostly level ground, but light rain at about 30 degrees produces a road surface akin to a skating rink, and this old truck got me through it.
I traded up to a 94 Ranger with a fiberglass cap which weighed at least 100 pounds. I loaded the rear with about 150 pounds of gravel bags, and it also got me to work ok. I did stick it trying to make a turn onto a country driveway in about 8 inches of snow.
So, with weight in the bed, a pickup can be a somewhat reliable vehicle in snow, etc. Tires with good tread also make a big different.
The second worse car was a 1979 Chevy Malibu with V8 motor in front. I stuck in on almost level ground on packed snow in a parking lot. Third worse, was my 1972 Corvette. I drove it unknowingly out into freezing drizzle. It wasn't frozen when I started, but one mile away on a hill it was freezing. I almost lost it over a huge embankment before I got it turned around. That car, on a slick street, would crab sideways while in gear, stopped, idling. It might have actually been the worse than the Malibu, but most of its years, after getting married and having another car available, I made every effort to never drive it on slick roads.
You really don't know about vehicles until you try them in bad weather. A 84 Olds Tornado, a front wheel drive tank, would 'go' good, but when stopping, the rear disk brakes always locked up and would throw the back of the car into the adjoining lane of traffic.0
I'm looking at a used 2006 4.0 liter 4x4 with 44k miles. I have always had Toyota trucks but I like the looks and ride of this Ranger. Any thoughts on this truck and the reliability of the 4.0 liter? Thx in advance.0
I have a 98 ranger, bought new, 156k miles, has rusted off the frame hangers under the bed and been welded back. Right now, the muffler is rusted off, the 4x4 is dodgy at best (sometimes goes in, goes in/out, sometimes won't go in at all), has trouble starting in park (something to do with the gear shift, if I take it out/in a couple times, it usually eventually can start). This is a farm truck (as in routinely carries a lot of weight, muddy/dusty conditions, etc). I'm getting a new job where I'll have to travel and need a reliable vehicle. I took the truck to the dealership asking for estimate to get it spiffed back up and the guy said that he wouldn't put any money into it. He was real nice about it, but he said that "156k miles is a lot of miles for a ranger" He also said that if I haven't already done ball joints, then they will likely go soon.
I'm used to getting far more than this out of a vehicle. Yes, this truck has been used as a truck, but are Rangers really at death's door at 156k miles? The engine is strong and has no problems. Its just the body that's falling apart. The blue book on it (as a poor condition vehicle) is around $2k.
Would you put (likely) $2k into repairs or just look for a new vehicle? My biggest issue is that I need a reliable vehicle that will get me through snow, etc, etc. for work.
Oh, and MPG sucks on it @ 11MPG. So I am looking at some Hondas. But I'm still amazed that a Ford dealership would say the truck is on its last tires. I'm wondering if they weren't just trying to sell a car off the lot or something.0
swykes Posts: 2I built a frame out of 2x6 to create an area between the wheel wells -xtend the 2x6 a little past the narrowest point in front and back of the wheel wells - looks a little like #, but straighter. I fill this area with patio stones. They're flat so they don't hinder loading the box with other stuff, and the homemade frame keeps them centred right over the rear wheels. I've got about 250 lbs in there now and it makes a big improvement - of course replacing the all-season tires on the back with some good winter tires would make an even bigger difference0
pktrrm Posts: 2I know a guy who's still running his ranger with over 412000 miles on it. He says he'll quit driving it one of these days, but it keeps going...0
robin2226 Posts: 14>>> I know a guy who's still running his ranger with over 412000 miles on it. He says he'll quit driving it one of these days, but it keeps going...
Why doesn't he call FORD company , to do an advertisement on that . If he said he does not know how to then sell the Ranger (with 412000) to me , so I will do it .
BTW what year is that Ranger ??????????0
Any comments pro or con on this shortbed single cab.It has 108,000 miles and the fellow is asking $2800 for it.What should i look out for.It's a 5 speed stick.Heard there way underpowered but I dont carry any big loads,ecept myself.anything to lookout for?0
They are way underpowered.
A shaft in the heater 'door' breaks, and dash must be removed to fix.
I don't know anything about 4x4, but there is a LOT of complaints about the RAnger one not working. Grease hardens up and will not shift?
That's a base truck. No extended cab. Is it at least an XLT? Is it in great shape inside and outside? Does it have a lot of options? Otherewise, it seems a little high. Almost 15 year old truck.0
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Sneijder had not featured since September and De Boer, who won 112 caps with Oranje, thinks that regular first team football will only improve his performances for the Netherlands.
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Quote from: MichaelMeissner on Aug 23, 2013, 01:48 amI bought such a bag from a different seller, and it took me some period of time to figure out what some of the components were.If you think about it, that's not a bad thing. I did the same thing when i first started and purchased a "grab bag" from Ebay with Resistors, caps, and diodes with like 1000 pieces. After a week of sorting, I pretty much memorized the color codes on resistors..
I tend to be less forgiving. If a vendor sends me stuff in a single unlabeled bag, and did not list that it was a grab bag, I will not buy from them after that. I could possibly understand if it was just resistors or capacitors, where you have to use the color codes (though I prefer to have capacitors properly labeled, since I am slightly color blind, and I have had troubles telling some resistor bands apart.
I have been impressed by dipmicro.com, adafruit.com, sparkfun.com, pololu.com, and robotshop.com that do label all of their components, and have data sheets for just about every part. In the case of adafruit.com and sparkfun.com, they also have example code. So, I tend to go back to vendors that go the extra step, even if they are slightly more expensive. If they are much more expensive, then I have to weigh the pros and cons of where I buy.
I do have Ebay vendors that I return to quite often for the same reasons. I use Digikey for the rare parts, love their shipping times. As well as Sparkfun. I use Sparkfun because of their open source and customer service. I like keeping businesses like that working.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration has raised concerns about the value of China's currency but declined again to accuse Beijing of manipulating it. But it had sharp criticism for Germany, a traditional ally, saying that country needs to do more to rebalance growth in Europe and the global economy.
The administration said Wednesday that China's currency, the renminbi, remains "significantly undervalued." Officials said, however, that China's actions do not meet the legal requirements for the country to be designated a currency manipulator. That designation would trigger intensive negotiations and could ultimately lead to trade sanctions.
The administration criticized Germany for maintaining a large trade surplus throughout the euro-area debt crisis. The report said that Germany's surplus was larger than China's trade surplus in 2012 and this is causing trouble for its European neighbors.
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The report also cautioned Japan about its currency policies. Japan's central bank this year launched a new effort to bolster the country's economy. That effort has weakened the value of the Japanese yen and could widen the US-Japan trade gap.
U.S. manufacturers have long contended that China is manipulating its currency to gain trade advantages. A weaker Chinese renminbi and a weaker Japanese yen make goods from those two countries cheaper for American consumers and U.S. goods more expensive in those markets.
Treasury said it would discourage South Korea's government from intervening in currency markets unless such action is needed to stabilize disorderly markets. Seoul intervened to sell its own currency, the won, this year and last year to keep the value of its currency from rising.
The Obama administration has now declined to brand China as a manipulator for 10 straight reports. It has argued that it the U.S. is more likely to make progress on economic issues through negotiation than confrontation.
America's trade deficit with China has for years been the largest with any country.
The last time the United States named any country as a currency manipulator was in 1994 when the Clinton administration made that accusation against China.
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While researching for my book ("Malware : Writing Malicious Code"), I came across this-
Now my question is-Some malware goes so far as to avoid importing any functions from available
DLLs. Instead, it emulates all of the APIs it needs. This means that you cannot list the
functions, so you cannot easily set breakpoints on them, as all API calls will just be
a part of the malware code.In some cases, malware authors even use this to trap reverse engineers: they
may import functions that are never used (having used the emulated ones instead).
How can I emulate an API, for example, How can I write code that'll manipulate windows registry without using win32 api ? In other words, how can I write win32 api without using win32 api.
While researching on web for this idea, all I found was either emulation of win32 api on linux boxes (wine etc.) or the "new" technology AVs that emulates win32 api to fool viruses.
Please share any ideas you may have on the problem.
Maybe these viruses use native api(s) to emulate win32 api, but I don't think so(for obvious reasons).
or if you've heard of any virus that emulates API, give me its name. The rest (like, retrieving the API emulating code from the virus) I'll manage.


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MORRISON – An attempted first-degree murder charge was dropped against a Peoria man who was sentenced in Whiteside County Court to 6 years, 6 months for fleeing from police and possession of cocaine.
Dontee L. Brown, 31, was given credit for 246 days served. He will be on supervised release for 3 years.
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When police tried to arrest the pair, Brown sped off and crossed the opposite lane of traffic, climbed a curb, drove into a yard and nearly hit Sterling Police Detective J.D. Sanders, who was not injured.
Money from the drug sale was found on Brown when he was arrested, according to documents and testimony.
Dragojevich pleaded guilty Aug. 22 to delivery of a controlled substance. The state dismissed two charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. She was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 4 years of probation.
Brown was convicted in 2006 in Whiteside County Court of aggravated fleeing and obstruction of justice. In 2009, he was convicted in the same county of obstruction of justice and manufacturing or delivering cocaine.


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Get those fingers warmed up as you are going to need quick reaction times for this game. Run Like Hell! is a platformer pitting your running, jumping, and sliding skills to the test. Leaderboards, five endless levels, story mode, and free updates make this a time consuming monster. It is to damn cold outside to be running in real life, so why not enjoy it virtually?
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Mice are tricky little creatures. No matter how strategic you get with mousetraps, they always seem to find a way to avoid them. Catcha Mouse takes this mouse hunting frustration right to your iOS device. You have to stop a mouse from escaping through one of the many mouse holes on the screen. If you are stuck on one level, skip it and try a different one, as all levels are playable. It will take skill and brains to capture this clever furry rodent.
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Pokki is a start menu replacement for Windows - and it has already been downloaded 1.5 million times for Windows 8. "Since the launch of Windows 8, we've seen over 1.5 million Pokki downloads on the new OS itself and users opening the Pokki Menu an average of 10 times a day. These early numbers demonstrate that users enjoy being able to instantly access and discover apps, straight from the desktop." And this is just one of the countless replacements. Microsoft should've never kept the traditional desktop in there - they've given users the ability to escape Metro, and this will only hurt the new environment.


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I love computers,i also love building my own desktop computers/gaming rigs rather than buying the set built,why ?? most of you would know so skip the part below,but if you don't,here are my main reasons ⇩⇩⇩
1- Pricing . Its ALOT cheaper if you are building your own gaming computer with the latest components than,buying that beautiful costly Alienware (beautiful brand) with the same specs.
2- Satisfaction . Whenever you want something,you want it for satisfaction,and you'd obviously be satisfied by picking your own components,rather than being forced into getting something you don't want instead. (like brands using non-removable batteries,which i'm not ok with)
3- Satisfaction (after a fail of finding a suitable synonym decided to use it again),however satisfaction is so important,and i get satisfied when i use what I've built with my own hands,feels like you've achieved something that makes you really proud of.
MAIN TOPIC ⇩
So Wouldn't it be awesome if you could build your own Droid device from scrap,like choose its form factor,display size (2.5-inch phone to a 10-inch tablet),display technology (OLED,LCD,etc..),processor (Exynos,Tegra,S4,etc…),battery life,storage size,camera,and so on.
I know that's not gonna be possible any time soon,and might not even happen in the future,but lets say it was possible,would you support it ?? if no,why ?
…and if yes,post a comment of what you'd pack in your dream phone/tablet (try not to exaggerate though).
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Personally i'd choose The Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro(cuz i'm a big fan of physical keyboards) ,packing a Tegra 3 processor,RAZR MAXX's battery life,a super AMOLED HD display,HTC One X's camera,decent front facing camera and stock ICS on board.
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WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- Call it diner diplomacy: U.S. President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered up some burgers and fries for lunch at Ray's Hell Burger Thursday.
The two world leaders sat at a two-seat table in the crowded Washington-area burger joint in their shirt sleeves. Their translators, seated at the next table, had to lean in to do their jobs.
Word from the White House was Obama ordered cheddar-cheeseburger with onions, lettuce, tomato and bread-and-butter pickles, and an iced tea to drink. Medvedev also ordered cheddar-cheeseburger, only with onions, jalapenos and mushrooms and a cola.
The two shared an order of fries.
Obama picked up the tab, the White House said.
During a post-lunch news conference, Obama thanked Medvedev for his hospitality when the Obamas were in Russia last year.
"Our daughters will never forget having tea in the winter garden of the Kremlin," the president said. "And, Mr. President, I hope you'll remember having a burger at Ray's Hell Burger today."
Medvedev pronounced his lunch "tasty" through a translator.


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Larry Clark: UntitledFrom Teenage LustPhoto courtesy of the artist and International Center of Photography
Larry Clark presents a comprehensive overview of the artist's work in photography, collage, video, bookmaking, and film.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1943, Clark is known for his frank explorations of various themes in American culture: the exploitation of teenagers in American mass media (teen idols as pinups and sex objects); the confusions created for teen viewers by images of intense violence and sexuality; the responsibility borne by adults, especially parents, for the problems faced by young people; and the double-edged and largely unexplored aspects of the construction of masculinity in American culture.
Beginning with his book Tulsa (1971), Clark represents the transition from the documentary-style photojournalism of the 1950s to the more personal and investigative photographic explorations of the 1970s and 1980s. His early black-and-white photography (Tulsa) is rooted in the era of W. Eugene Smith, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus, and has influenced the work of later photographers such as Nan Goldin and Richard Prince and inspired such films as Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese, Rumble Fish by Francis Ford Coppola and Drugstore Cowboy by Gus Van Sant.