Anybody has cared to check the vacuum's bags?

*1950s build quality... oops

Usually no.

I don't go up to big chains like McDonald's, as they're set with their service contracts... plus the oil is already in the pick-up company's container (so it is at that moment, their oil... not mine, nor McDonald's).

Yet small restaurants, Chinese food places, etc., they're all super cool.
They're all like "um.. yeah. Sure!"

I always pick-up the oil in the "carboys", those square containers (5 gal).

If you're thinking about it, GO FOR IT!
And I can't say enough about the WVO Designs' centrifuge.
That thing is amazing.
Astonishing build quality (yay! We're back to the 1050s build quality!).
The oil comes out of it looking like light beer... freaking clear!

=)

Long time /. reader here.
This is cool news... just because!
I own a 1995 Dodge Ram 2500 with one of those 5.9 Cummins engines (CTD = Cummins Turbo Diesel).

Mine has the legendary Bosch "P-Pump".
These engines last over a million miles with proper maintenance.
The only electrical thing in those engines are:::
Starter
Fuel Solenoid (cuts off electricity = cuts off fuel = engine dies)

I freaking love my truck.
I constantly get around 19-20 mpg.
Love the sound, love the turbo whine.

Oh, and did I mention that I run it on vegetable oil?
Just go to any restaurant, offer to pick it up... get the best looking one... and drop it in the bed.
Then go home, I filter it via a centrifuge (awesome USA product: WVO Designs' RawPower centrifuges!)... then drop it in the tank.
The exhaust smells like BBQ (not so much "french fries", as it is commonly believed).

Differences between dyno-juice and veggie-oil?
Absolutely none that I can feel.
Same power... same milage... same everything.
In fact, engine runs quieter and smoother with the veggie oil.

This truck is cool!
Final geek cred: Who went to pick-up the new POWER6 as/400 full-rack, with new tape drive, one disk array, and the HMC, to the dock, when the delivery company dropped the ball?
A '95 Dodge Ram with the CTD.

Shout out to the cool people over at CumminsForum.com!

Do you know what the word "relatively" means?

Relatively speaking, no.

Please add: http://www.gandhicam.org/

I recently came across this app, and although it needs work, there's the basic idea.

I have mod points, yet I wanted to second the Lenovo.

At work, we support over 200 laptops... all of them Lenovo ThinkPads.
(( ok, there are some still going around that are IBM ThinkPads ))

From my hands-on experience, they are very well engineered and constructed.
They're "solid".
The service is excellent (although we're a big customer... so obviously we get "quick help").
We rarely see problems with them... other than the sales guys (and girls) dropping them and spilling the occasional coffee over the keyboard.

You can't beat the LED light on top to illuminate the keyboard during the night! (awesome)
The other good thing we find with them, is their "restoration" software.
If the machine is full of crap installed by the user, we just boot it up, take out the important data to an external HDD (Desktop, My Documents and two company software folders), and boot it.
During boot-up, press F8 key, go into the Lenovo restoration software (or some name of the sort), and it installs Windows from scratch.
CD key and everything already registered.
Then it's just a matter of patching it up with Windows Update... re-install our software, dump their data back... and wish the little lady luck on the road.

Great, great machines.
Hope this helps!

I like it.
Thanks for sharing!

SatPhones -- Why Can't They Make It Work?

I don't know what you're talking about.
I'm using a satmodem right now, and clearly

Thanks for the link!
Now I know more than before.
Very informative, and without a doubt, that's were the local surgeon copied his idea from.
Have a good day! =)

I live in Puerto Rico, were a big part of the "Chupacabras" myth started.

1st, there are no coyotes in Puerto Rico.. so WTF.

2nd, this is just urban legend... crap you tell at 2 in the morning. Then the news pics up on it.

Years ago (1970s?) there was a local surgeon that "manufactured" these odd "Cara de Diablo" (Face of the Devil??) things. Nobody had ever seen such a thing.

He left them around for everybody's amusement (especially the media).
Big uproar about the Cara de Diablos and what they were.

When the guy came out of the woods, he explained: They were stingrays, he would cut-off the "wings" in a diamond pattern... then stitch them up with his superb abilities.

Chupacabras doesn't exist people.

That's a good direction for software.
Found this for hardware:
Crayola Kids PC Trackball
http://www.amazon.com/Micro-Innovations-Crayola-Kids-Trackball/dp/B00004W40X

and a "Microsoft Easyball", which looks very cool, yet isn't manufactured anymore. (yet they're acquired online)

That page is nice.
Thanks!
I placed in my website's address, and to my amazement, there we are!!

The smallest of the possible favicons, yet there we are!
FTW!
I really, really feel proud of this.
We're part of Alexa's top 1,000,000 sites! =D

Much thanks to the NMAP team for this image!