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So, as you know, I’ve been working on figuring out so major problems with my car; between the exhaust and the driveshaft and the gaskets, and just general maintenance altogether, it’s just been one fight after another.

Today, I solved one problem, and found a bigger problem.

The problem I solved: The annoying rattle behind my dash.  The solution: A piece of double foam tape to secure the HVAC pipe to it’s proper location (it was wiggling loose and rattling against the back of the dashboard, so I just taped it there).

The problem I found: My passenger side brake caliper is seized up.

F***.

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So, I’ve been having some weird issues with my 2008 Ford Escape (3.0L) and Dan nudged me in a direction to take a look.

The issues were largely limited to acceleration and power: namely we had two hot as dickens days last week and my car shuddered hard during acceleration and certain idle periods.  It was really quite scary.

Dan suggested that I look at the Throttle Body on my Escape, since the last time he had this issue it was as simple as using some throttle body cleaner on it.

So, I did.

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Pic not relevant to the discussion, admittedly. >_>

So, I’m a bit behind on posts this month because of dealing with landlord and contract negotiations, as well as studying for my boat safety certificate exam. Sorry about that!

Today we bring the question about apache and auth: why is it peculiar?

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So, today at work I was working on a mileage tracking webform (more on that another day).  I took a brief break to clear my head, and stumbled across a very interesting tweet.

I, of course, did not bookmark it at the time because I thought it was a trivial question and a trivial answer.

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Or, how Mike wasted a Friday evening in vain.

I bought some new drives for home use, because a drive in my LG NAS went bad.  Womp womp.

I got home, and popped them in.  As expected: they did not work.  They only showed 2TB, despite being 3TB drives.  This is expected, because my NAS is old and only does partitions and sectors in the older MBR style.

Well, MBR does not have support for drives > 2TB (technically, 2 and change, 2.2TB usually) for some archaic reason.

What followed, was drive reorganization, and more understanding and explanation than I ever thought I would need to know.

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