Well I've gotten my city mileage down to 10.1L/100km (~23mpg) over a total measured distance of 1450km. I'll attribute this to 5W30 oil in warmer weather and a lot of driving in non-stop and go traffic. There may be a very minor amount of help from the battery change and sparkplug change. Also, the tires aren't plowing slush everyday. So, it's ( Read more... )

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Well, it finally happened.. I applied a patch from MS that broke a system - IE specifically.  A user came to me complaining that every time she went to gmail.com IE would crash.  Sure enough it did, and it did with any user that was logged on including Administrator so I knew we had an issue.  Unfortunately my maintenance routine went like this:  ( Read more... )

If you've never heard of The Creepshow, you need to familiarize yourself with them.

I got the itch to do something new on Sunday.. so I did.

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Wish me luck!

These two have been clearing up a lot of Windows problems for me lately:

1. Unregister then reregister cryptographic libraries:

regsvr32 /u softpub.dll
regsvr32 /u wintrust.dll
regsvr32 /u initpki.dll
regsvr32 /u dssenh.dll
regsvr32 /u rsaenh.dll
regsvr32 /u gpkcsp.dll
regsvr32 /u sccbase.dll
regsvr32 /u slbcsp.dll
regsvr32 /u mssip32.dll
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"His dick's just for pissing."
-- Ted Barbet (deadpan voice)

"Excuse me, Janis. I have to take some medication, do you think I could get a pitcher of water?"
-- The Queen

So, it's mostly been city driving with a smidge of highway driving since my drive to Wiky and I've been keeping track of my economy. I started around 11.5L/100km (20.5MPG) and since then I've changed the oil to Mobil1 5w50, inflated the tires to the Volvo max pressure specs, and installed new Denso Iridium IK22 plugs. On top of that I've also ( Read more... )

When you install a new anti-virus program you expect that when it installs a base set of definitions are included and that you have at least some protection.  After installation, you'd expect it to attempt to contact their update server and get the latest set of definitions and have you completely protected.  This is the way most AV programs ( Read more... )