Posted on October 1st, 2008 by Silicon Valley Dazed
If you send email posts through Gmail to WordPress, line breaks will be inserted into the post (line breaks aren’t inserted when sent in plain text format via Outlook 2007). In order to remove them, I installed the TinyMCE advanced plug-in and added the “Edit HTML Source” button to the editor. In order to remove the line breaks, I copy the text, click on the “Edit HTML Source” button, and paste the text in the editor box. I then uncheck word wrap, and the line breaks are removed. Press the update button to apply the change, and now the text has no line breaks.
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by Silicon Valley Dazed
I put the battery a little further back on the Pitts S2 this morning, and the glide was a little bit better. It’s definitely a floater plane, but because of the extra draw of 2 vs 1 wing on the Boom, I can’t really go as fast. I’m thinking of putting the BP 2212-13 back on the Boom since it gave so much power, and the Turnigy also makes a lot more noise.
Posted on October 1st, 2008 by Silicon Valley Dazed
After replacing a Slime tube in the rear tire of my Bianchi Axis twice in 7 days, I thought I would be okay with a new inner tube and Mr. Tuffy liner. During the day, I heard a loud hissing noise behind me which was the presta valve failing and releasing all the air in the tube. Fortunately, I had a spare tube, and I was able to replace the tube, pump it up with the frame pump, and make it home from work. I hope my run of bad luck is over now.
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Silicon Valley Dazed
Haile was already the greatest distance runner of all time, but his WR at the Berlin Marathon of 2:03:59 is unbelievable. Will I live to see a sub 2:00 marathon - unaided by artificial supplements of course?
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Silicon Valley Dazed
Although the gold Mr. Tuffy Liners specify a tire wide of 32 to 41 centimeters, I was able to insert them into my 28 cm Continental Ultra Gator Skin tires without any problem. I got rid of the slime tube which had been compromised by a shard of glass which had penetrated the tire and left a hole too big for the slime to fill. Now I’ll depend on the Mr. Tuffy liner and the tire instead of Slime to thwart any flats.
Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Silicon Valley Dazed
I maidened the MS Composit Pitts S2 biplane at RSA last Saturday. The take off went very well, but the plane was bit nose heavy because of the battery placement (I was running a 3S 1300 Mah), and I flew it too low and lost sight of it below the rise of the flightline. The damage to the plane was a broken prop, a rip in the rudder by the control horn, and some rips in the Epp lower aileron hinges. Fortunately, repair was pretty easy with some clear Gorilla Glue. I’ll mount the battery a bit more back for the next flight so that when I cut power, I won’t have to apply any up elevator to maintain level flight. The plane doesn’t fly has fast as the Boom, but that’s not bad since I plan to do more 3D than sport flying with this plane.
I was able to take apart the BP Hobbies 2212-13 that wasn’t spinning well after the Boom crash, and it looks like a small piece of one of the magnets around the edge of the inside of the bell broke off. I wonder if it would still work okay if I was able to superglue the small piece back.
Given that we would never have had the odious George W. Bush in the White House in the first place if it wasn’t for your blow jobs, Bill, it seems obvious that you owe it to the people of this country, and especially to the parents whose kids died in the Iraq War that Gore would never have started, and to all the parents whose kids would be killed in the WarFest that would be a McCain/Palin — sorry, Palin/McCain — administration to do everything in your power to get Barack Obama elected.
My thoughts exactly. It’s amazing how history changed because of this minor incident that was blown out of proportion.
but there are a few tweaks I had to do to get it to work on my WordPress installation on Mac OS X Server.
The first thing I had to figure out is that since my mail server requires a secure connection for POP connections on port 995, instead of listing the mail server, I had to use this format:
ssl://mailserver name
port:995
In order to automate the request for wp-mail.php, I put in a cron job to request this script every five minutes:
curl -N http://example.com/installdir/wp-mail.php
I used Cronnix as an easy way to create the cron job with 0-59/5 in the first field which tells cron to make the request every five minutes.
One other thing I learned is that email can only be interpreted if it’s sent in plain text format.
Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Silicon Valley Dazed
I’ve been flying the MS Composite Boom for two weeks now, and it’s a
quick and easy build which is very fun to fly. I used Futaba S3114
servos since they’re slightly smaller than the HS-55 sub-micro servo
size and were a little small for the drop in recesses on the Stevens
Aero Stik that I had purchased them for. With a 1300 Mah battery, it
really takes off. Originally, I had a BP Hobbies 2212-13 with a 10 X
4.7 APC Slowflyer prop on it, but I accidentally tried to take off
with flaperons down, and it made a big look and slammed into the
chainlink fence surround the baseball infield I take off from. The
engine was broken off and it didn’t turn anymore. I replaced the
engine with a Turnigy 2826 1350 kv with a 9 X 4.7 APC Slowerflyer
prop, and the plane is flying again. I think I might disable flaperons
on the plane since I don’t really use them.