Even though the 5861 is no longer offered by SBC I figured I might as well get around to documenting the process for replacing and purchasing a new power supply for the Efficient 5861/ Cabletron 255 / Flowpoint 2200 (all the same product ...at least as the power supply goes). If you need one order from Amperor.com, model AOF25-3030. Contact information:
NORTH AMERICAN SALES
Amperor Inc.
10601 Grant Road, Suite 101
Houston, Texas 77070
Main: (281) 807 - 3320
FAX: (281) 807 - 3324
email: Marcey Conley
marcey_conley@amperor.com Here's a picture of what I received when I ordered one:
Now why replace it? Two main reasons:
1. blinking green power light, signaling a power supply failure
2. the old power supplies made by Tiger were like little furnaces, ran very hot and that's why generally they fail. So, anyways, you can either order one from Amperor or scavenge one from a spare unit. Regardless here's the very simple method for replacing it, that only requires a #1 phillips screwdriver, and a small flat head one to pry some stuff: 1. Flip the unit over, using the flat screwdriver carefully remove the adhesive backed rubber feet. Then use the phillips screwdriver to unscrew the 4 exposed screws. You do not need to track them, they are all the same length.

2. Flip the unit back over (making sure to hold it closed) and gently lift the top off the unit. It should offer no resistance. Place it aside and now you'll see the inside. It should be fairly obvious that the power supply is in the lower right hand corner:

3. There are 4 screws to remove in each corner of the power supply (red arrows in the picture) and 2 cables you need to remove (red circles in picture). The top cable usually comes off easily, but the lower one might need some gentle prying which I've included a picture of how I achieve this.
Now that you've got it out, simply reverse the process for installation of the new power supply. That's it, pretty simple. One last general tip. When closing up the case the wires might offer some resistance due to your moving them. Don't worry about this as it's normal. Also, I always recommend when returning screws to their original threads in plastic that you turn the screw counter clockwise about a 1/4 turn until you feel it "pop" back into the original thread. That way you don't strip the plastic.

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wow. The kid actually lived according to this thread, and apparently it happened in Chicago.

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I might need an Okidata microline 390 turbo...anyone have one lying around?

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Busy day today...lot's to do. Picked up the Painkiller: Battle out of Hell expansion last night, but it says "need base game to play"....wtf does that mean? Do I need it installed, or do I need the CD? Crap....cause I have it still installed, but don't have the CD anymore...and you can just forget about trying to find out on their website, nobody mentiones it....but I seem to have found the answer elsewhere. Picked up a Dell Dimension 3000 for $377, not to bad but I have to put a larger hard drive in it to support the Alldata system :( Anyways that's what I'll be spending my day doing today, with any luck I'll finish before the end of time... Btw, had the freakiest experience yesterday at Dave & Busters. I was in the bathroom and I heard what sounded like this lady chiding her kid like repeating the same stuff 50 times ("not the women's, go in the men's") over and over again, so I finish my business, and then the same voice is saying "becareful, they have points on them" over and over again. Now keep in mind this sounds like a henpecking mother....turns out it was some pudgy 13yr old kid. Musta had OCD or something, but man it was freaky. It's just that the voice was so...real. And the best part is afterwards I see the kid on the floor and I swear to god his mother was fighting off greenpeace members who were trying to push her back in the water. Reminds me of a discussion me and Jen had earlier in the day about how parent's actions affect their children by teaching them bad habits without realizing it. Such as using terms like "don't be a jew" or "nigger rig"...that kinda stuff get's put in your head and you don't even realize it, or recognize it for it's true meaning. Really...a shitty thing to do to your kid's. Anyways, links: - The Mystery Machine Van from Scooby Doo. Somebody made a computer to look like it.
- Fat Boy Slim Video for The Joker. Don't like the song, but the video features kitties....so of course I have to link to it. Honestly though, his video's are usually at least artistic. Better than most prefabbed crap MTV shoots from it's ass.
- "Experts agree: Bin Laden either dead or alive." AHAAHAHA f**king morons.
- Man struck by car, responsible for damages to car.
- Dirty monitor? Get your screen cleaned for free.
- Family of faggot fans fly the flag. Seriously, I didn't make that up.
- MGM DVD settlement. Apparently they produced "wide screen" movies that weren't really "wide screen".
- Nice to see we're helping screw up Canada as well. Texas cops in Canada pull over driver for excessive eye blinking. New York cops woulda probably just shot him first....then called for backup and a helicopter.

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btw, credit goes to Donna for this one

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Well there was one good thing today, I found out that SBC employees get free copies of McAfee Enterprise AntiVirus (version 8) for as many personal, home computer they want. That's pretty cool. Also, yesterday I made a button for the beer website rather than just having a boring old text link:
Any comments are welcome, I decided to not animate it...unless you guys think I should. Tim, this is for you:

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wow. I just got off the phone, and I can only blame myself for answering it. See, we've been getting calls from some generic TOLL FREE CALL (888 858-9823) number for a while, and generally it's a bill collector with a wrong #. So I answered, and it turns out it's some Bank One person trying to pimp their protection plan. Now when I say pimp, I mean reach out through the phone, grab your jaw, yank your head back, and try to cram it down your throat like it's your first night in jail. I mean every smooth, like "all we ask is that you give it a try for 30 days and notify us if you want to cancel"...no mention at all of cost. All they talk about is how it'll help me by being able to defer a payment once a year, or suspending payments in a medical emergency. I had to say 3 times specifially that I don't want anything added to my card. I'm to polite...thats my problem, should have just hung up on these calls like I always do. Lesson learned...if it's important they'll leave a message. No more pavlovian answering the phone for me. - VW spoof or subversive advertising campaign? Either way pretty damn funny. Suicide bomber in a VW.
- Scottish sobriety test.

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*sigh* working on a computer for someone right now, 677 spyware entries detected, no wonder it wouldn't boot. Kept saying this was missing or corrupted: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM The solution is here. Not the most fun in the world....but I figured I'll clean the drive before I restore the backup registry. Hell at this point I would reformat if it was mine personally. Anyways, while it's scanning, here are some links:
- Annoying neighbors? Read some other people stories.
- Really cool animation of the Mars Rover's life so far.
- Portable rotary cellular phone. Which reminds me I have a rotary phone in my basement I keep meaning to wire up.
- The state of GA want's the speeding fines the city collects. The cities of course aren't happy and might not want to patrol so much if it passes. Of course none of this is about the money, it's all about safety....*cough*bullshit*cough*.
- Somebody took apart their new iPod shuffle.
- Welcome to Pen Island, or as everyone else notices, www.penisland.com
- Is your luggage safe at the airport? NO! Of course it's not safe, why do you think the overhead carryon fills up so fast lately. If you can't carry it on your body then consider it stolen.

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We have been having horrible problems with frost and condensation lately all over the house. One of the worst places have been the can lights in the kitchen over the counter. They were dripping water like freakin' crazy, and as it turns out this is a common problem with older style can lights that aren't air tight. I mean you could put your hand up there and feel a strong breeze blowing in. Probably because they were so close to the eaves of the house, and the insulation just wasn't helping seal them. So, honestly we decided to rip them out and put in a box for track lighting (to be installed later), so that's what we did saturday. Well I did this mostly (Jen helped) and while I was doing that she installed a foyer light when she wasn't handing me tools (having two people helps a lot). Here's some shots of the action. Let me tell you something, good living has not been healthy for me. I never liked to do attic work, it sucks very badly, but I also am older, less nimble, and heavier than I used to be so this little project wiped me the heck out... And here's the foyer light Jen installed while I was in the attic and crap:

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- Apparently the Eiffel tower is a portal to Hell. I would type more, but it's late and I am tired.

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- I thought my camera in an Altoid tin was clever, but an MP3 player in an Altoid tin? Man...that's some next level stuff there that I couldn't even do.
- Winning souls to Christ in The World of Warcraft.
- Wife drives husband having a heartattack to hospital. Cop stops her in the parking lot and gives her a ticket. Husband dies. Guess who's not happy about that.
- If you thought Blockbuster was evil, then you've never been to "I love Video" apparently. And if you have, then you have no soul....literally.
- Man arrested after creating fake Tsunami relief site and getting money. Now I have to comment on this. Of course this was a scummy thing for him to do, and there's no forgiving it, but read this quote:
When agents arrested Schmieder at his apartment yesterday, he initially said he "thought it would be OK to keep the funds for his own use if he gave some of the contributions to charity," wrote FBI Agent Marc Southland. um...THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT ALL CHARITIES DO ANYWAYS!!!! Seriously, I want to blame the guy, but there's so much corruption going on in charities it's just sad that nobody wants to pay attention. Here's a real interesting ad i saw for a VOIP provider:
- Ever hear of Holmes on Homes? Neither had I but the concept of the show is really cool. Basically he goes around fixing other contractors mess up's. There are a lot of incompetant contractors out there.

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I'd like to take a second to speak to the owner of the domain: absolu te-poker.fidelity funding.net You are a moron. Stupid slack jawed inbred goat humping moron who is so incompetent that you can't even successfully spam me but continue to try. I only pray you are sterile. moving on.... I tripped across this snow + ice + car video earlier and mirrored it here. You gotta watch it if for no other reason than to see a person try to stop their car by jumping out of it.
Jen sent me some funny bumper stickers earlier, so I made a single image of the best ones:
I changed the air filters in my car yesterday, turns out there are two of them. One is an engine air filter which is no big deal, the seconds is a cabin air filter just for the inside:

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Nothing really to say today. I'm just sitting here watching the squirels play outside and drinking my coffee while the kerosene heater works its magic on the garage. Later on I plan on replacing the filters on my car.
See, there are really two of them. One is an enginer filter and should take all of 5 minutes. The other is a cabin filter inside the car and might take a little longer to replace. We'll see....I'm sure I'll be able to figure it out with no problems really. Aside from cleaning the vacuum and maybe doing some vacuuming I don't have much planned for today. That reminds me, I beat Half-Life 2 last night.
What a screwed up ending...but I was able to find an amazing timeline history:
that led up to the story as we know it now. Very impressive actually. I miss it already...:( I'm sure there will be expansion packs coming out soon just like there was blue shift and opposing force.

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What a rip off!!!! Just got the taxes for the year on our mortgage and get this, only 25% of what we've paid has actually gone towards the principal loan!?!?! It's like highway robbery, and the best part is we pay extra towards the principle every month, so basically we're paying double the principle and we're still making shitty progress. So far only .2% of our original loan. What a joke, they literally screw you with escrow and interest payments everymonth. As soon as I get the chance I'm paying this damn thing off so they can kiss my white ass. here's a little hint...ya know those bullshit mortgate payment accelerator programs? Just toss in extra money to the tune of %10 of the initial value of the loan and you'll get the same result (paid off 6 years early) without paying them to do it for you (and paying more).

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There is nothing more fun than spending 1/2 a day on a conference call where you are the only person out of state. That can be no greater joy than listening to everyone eat their free lunches or argue loudly via the teleconference bridge while you sit isolated and desolate over 5 states away. every try to follow two groups of people who are video conferencing while you are only on a phone? It sucks. But really, I'm bummed about not only do they get free lunch, but I have to sit here listening to them eat. It reminds me of being a little orphen sitting outside a restaurant looking in at all the people laughing and gorging themselves.
- Speaking of things to eat, do not eat your iPod shuffle. No seriously, go down to the bottom and it literally says "Do not eat iPod shuffle. ".

- From Nick comes the biggest blue screen of death you will probably ever see.

- Alien Vs. Predator? No. Alien LOVES Predator

- Not just one "how to fold your t-shirt" but TWO "how to fold your t-shirt" websites. Actually...it's pretty cool.

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My employee discount finally came thru for my dish network plan, plus my back credits. It's nice to see that my company did something right when it comes to billing.

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Everynow and then I get something stuck in my head I can't get rid of until I do it. Usually it's some stupid little tweak for my site that nobody's gonna either care about or understand. The latest was a banner for the beer review website. Probably took a good 4 hours to figure out how to clip all the photo's and go through a few preliminary mock up's. A lot of that time was spent finding the right font and figuring out what exactly I wanted to happen. Not to mention the program I was using for animating gif's wasn't exactly very user friendly. Couldn't even enter the hex codes for the colors directly. Had to do all that in photoshop and then paste it into the animation using a custom palette. Something else you probably don't care about...finally fixed the css style sheet so that the hover color wasn't the same as the background. Meaning that when you put your mouse over a link, it no longer dissapears. Like I said, stupid little things that I think help make a better web experience. Jen's mom shipped some "forgotten" christmas presents to her yesterday. Inside was this little guy:

Now, i'm not sure who the toy's for the cats or me, but these are so cool it's sad. :) I've been having this annoying glitch with Outlook 2002 where it keeps blocking the *.url files I keep forwarding to myself at home for publication on my site. So a quick google site turned up this solution courtesy of Slipstick Systems: Outlook 2003, Outlook 2002 and Outlook 2000 SP3 (but not Outlook 98 or earlier Outlook 2000 versions) allow the user to use a registry key to open up access to blocked attachments. (Always make a backup before editing the registry.) To use this key:
Run Regedit, and go to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Outlook\Security (change 10.0 to 9.0 for Outlook 2000 SP3 or to 11.0 for Outlook 2003) Under that key, add a new string value named Level1Remove. For the value for Level1Remove, enter a semicolon-delimited list of file extensions. For example, entering this: .mdb;.url would unblock Microsoft Access files and Internet shortcuts. Note that the use of a leading dot was not previously required, however, new security patches may require it. If you are using "mdb;url" format and extensions are blocked, add a dot to each extension. Note also that there is not a space between extensions. Rock on! works like a charm. There's no reason in the world why microsoft couldn't have just put an option in the configuration to disable this.
Links? Why yes thank you:
- 2 for one deal, shoot a robber kill a serial rapist.
- FBI says watch out for fake tsunami relief scams.
- Great mobile homes of Mississippi. oh yeah, one last thing. I downloaded this great program today called Wallpaper Master. See I wanted to have a different wallpaper come up every time I boot my computer (I have a lot of really cool ones) and this does the job very nicely even with dual monitors. Highly recommended.

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Am I the only person who's ever thought about taking a crap in the cat's litter box? Ya know...just to remind them who's boss...is that strange? ;) I was remined of that because of a dinner converstation we had last night at a local brew pub (Emmet's) with some very strange people :) Actually the Victory Pale Ale was pretty good, but the celler cask ale really wasn't anything special in my humble opinion. Of course we had a good time though. You'll find that the right company can make any meal a good one, and no...I didn't steal that from an Olive Garden commercial. Ever hear of the Tweel? Apparently it's a tire that doesn't use air that the car industry is touting as the next generation. yeah.....right. I'll look for it right after I buy my next "never needs an oil change" car or my "runs on water" car. Seriously, there's no reason to put these out anytime soon and they know it. It's the same reason why they make parts out of plastic instead of metal. Planned obsolescence. Although, the reason I mention them is because I'd LOVE to get a set on my car. It would look so freakin' cool.
- Here's another reason why I don't let people work on my house if I can help it. Cable installer causes fire.
- need some new furniture? Try the FARTFULL work bench. And don't forget to pickup the complimenting PACKEDWITHSHIT stool that goes along with it.
- The 11 worst songs of 2004 from Maddox. Hilarious stuff really.
- Holy weird. Somebody built a robotic guitar over the LEMUR website. There's a really cool quicktime movie about it over there. Stolen from Dave's Blog. And from one extreme to another...a cute picture of Moxie:

Ralphie's new home on my desk:
I'm not sure, but i think we need more Magnetic Poety:

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So while I'm very happy with my car, it doesn't perform very well in the wintertime when the temp drops. So a lot of people have done a mod that redirects the air intake over to the catalytic converter in order to suckup the radiant heat that it gives off. Rather than the traditional air intake with is in front of the car. Originally I had thought about doing this using a 12v car heater and a temp sensor to keep everything stock, but this way (while kinda cobbled together) should be an interesting test. All it cost was 6 bucks and if it helps me get the car over 50mpg I'll be pretty happy. So here's a pic of what the engine compartment looks like generally:
And here's the tubing I picked up from a local autozone:
After some careful bending and stretching to expand the tube fully (I only got about 32" out of it....supposed to be 36") I routed it under and around the battery cage avoiding the transmission assembley:
And here's where you can see it terminate at the catalytic converter:
Pretty simple, all I did extra was use a zip tie to hold the end by the cat. Once the engine is warm the converter should put out a fair amount of heat which should improve the performance of the enigne....I guess we'll see.

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Subject: C-130 vs Runway Construction
Importance: High A lack of communication over in Iraq. Last week one C-23 Sherpas flew into a US operated airfield in Iraq during
the day and saw there was construction equipment on the runway.
Yet there was no NOTAM (notice to airmen). A trench was being dug in
the runway, and it was not marked. Its a long runway and they just
landed beyond the construction. They filed a safety hazard report
that was immediately forwarded to our higher headquarters and to the
Air Force wing based here. Well, it seems the construction continued and still was not marked or
NOTAMed or anything. A C-130 landed on the runway the night of the
29th and didn't see the construction. It wound up going through what is now a large pit on the runway.
A few pictures are attached. The C-130 was totaled.
There were several injuries to the crew and the few passengers that
were on board but luckily nobody was killed. Quite the set of failures
somewhere in the system regarding this improper construction and no
notifications about it. Shamelessly stolen from BBR.

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If there is a heaven, they damn well better let me in it for some of the crap I do in the name of kindness... Anways, Jen's mom sent me weaponry as a christmas gift. Now at first I wasn't at all impressed with the Bug Zapper. I figured it was a gag gift kinda that maybe i'd use once or twice just to be nice. I even thought it was cute how the label said "don't use on jen or the cats". Two nights ago, I was bored and opened it from it's unholy packaging. I then immediatly tried it on myself (as everyone knew I would). The bug zapper is the devil. I submit to you a picture taken of it's true and real form that the mortal eye cannot see:
All this time I foolishly assumed those double AA batteries were there to power the cute little toy. As it turns out they are they to power the pace maker you'll need after it feasts upon your human soul.
If I could only harness the immense power of this artifact of unholiness for the power of good somehow. Or at least get money back for the skin grafts I'm gonna need....

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I am so sick of hearing about the Tsunami. Now before you go ahead and judge me on this by just assuming that I am a cold heartless bastard, hear me out. Yes it is a horrible thing that happened. Yes generally as people we should help other people and that's great. But my freakin' god enough with the media coverage. Tsunami this and tsunami that. It's like the media creamed their freakin' pants when this happened and it's some type of violent news orgy over there. Case in point, this story right here about how a dog "saved" a little 7 year old boy. Gosh golly, boy that's a warm fuzzy story if I ever read one. Of course if you actually take the time to read it you might kinda be left wondering a few things. Here's a quote to illustrate my point. When Ramakrishnan saw the waves, he ran to the roof of the center and shouted down to Sangeeta to flee. That's when she made her agonizing choice. I mean com'n, if your close enough to yell then move your lazy sandeled ass and go grab one of the kids. My first thought at seeing a giant "clash of the titans" wall of water would not be to get on top of a building, it would be to get to my family. I mean all the wife had to do was walk up a hill, it's not like she held onto a tree with her teeth or something while clentching the children tenasiously with her buttox. The dog was great, but man what a lazy sack of crap husband. Maybe i'm being to hard, i'm sure Ramakrishnan was compassionate about everything afterwards and only beat her a little afterwards. And now we've got another fucking single coming out. Listen I grew up in the 80's and I remember the whole live aid and "we are the world" crap. Let me tell you something I don't know one person who bought that shit. Sure we had to sing "we are the world" in chorus or something equally lame (probably by whitney houston) but that was it. Sure everyone felt really great about themselves for a minute for acknowledging they should do something about world hunger for 4 minutes and 33 seconds. But the really messed up part is, nobody did anything. Singing about something doesn't do jack shit to help it. We're not trying to power santa's sleigh here by singing christmas carols. If you want to help with world hunger then get off your lazy ass and do something. At least some people are doing something to help that doesn't involve filabustering. Which brings me around to another point. Remember all that relief money India gave us for 9/11 and for the people who lost their homes to wildfires last year? Neither do I. Social security is almost as f'd up as the Illinios tollway authority, and medicare is even more messed up than that. But suddenly we can pull $30 million out of our asses to save them? Our country's so corrupt and politically controlled that it's a joke, but sure why not let's to save the damn world from itself because we're america and we're great and by golly we're gonna ride to the rescue of every backwards heathen country. It's like the midevil crusades again, except instead of christianity we're spreading americanity. Death happens. It's horrible and stunning and overpowering. We can't control it or stop it (mostly). I just hope that if I'm ever in the middle of something bigger than myself some asshole doesn't snap a picture and make me a banner for CNN.

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Just for the heck of it I did a google search for "jiffy lube sucks" the other day while I was bored. Tripped across a few sites like ripoffreport.com and this NBC expose about false services.
Then I found this website post about some guy discussing his Jiffy Lube experience (yes they always put to much oil in....pretty common). The real funny part is that somehow his blog entry has become the very nexus, nay mecca, for all Jiffy Lube complaints. I mean, it took me a serious hour to read all the posts. Poor bastard never saw it coming :) In other news:
- Do a crappy job, get paid $1.3Million a year pension. I mean you have to have some serious ass kissing skills to work that deal out. Nice to see that greed is an equal opportunity employer.
!!!WARNING DEAD CAT STORY AHEAD!!!
- Wal-Mart managers decided to shoot (dead) a stray cat because they couldn't catch it to get rid of it. Is walmart to blame? Not really, you can't force people to be complete assholes. All I ask is that we sterilize these guys before they breed, because there is a direct correlation on animal abuse to how a person will raise a child. The gene pool needs more chlorine.
- Ever see that episode of ER where Dr. Romano was having his arm amputated and wrote "wrong arm moron" on the arm he was keeping? Reminded me of this story. Doctor amputates wrong foot. Suddenly, a black sharpie marker and a few seconds of my time doesn't sound like a bad idea. Seriously....if I ever have anything amputated I'm doing this.
- Would you like to rate my kitten? I like this one :-P
- Catholic School student parents upset adopted child of gay couple allowed to attend school. They complain that it's against the teachings of the catholic church. Then again so is divorce, birth control and marriage outside the church, but hey catholics only follow the teachings they want to. and now for something completly different:

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Good morning welcome to 2005. It's just like 2004 but different. it's funny sometimes the items that inspire sentimentality. Silly little things you never really thought about but somehow engrained themselves to deeply into your world that being without them isn't an option. I present to you one of those things, a small insignifigant factor of my childhood that for a reason not understood by me must be in this house. I simply could not consider disposing of it. A brass eagle keyhook:
The problem is we're tying to strike out all brass in this house in exchange for brushed nickel/silver/chrome. Which reminds me, do you know how hard it is to find silver door hinges? I mean it's like freakin' impossible to buy them in bulk. Back to my main point, I decided to refinish it in an attempt to make it more astetically pleasing. So I took out the eagle and hooks, sanded the board down with 60 grit and restained it minwax "special walnut" and spray painted the eagle the closest color I could get to brushed nickel. Also, I bought some new hooks because honestly, if I tried painting the old cap hooks, it would just wear off quickly. So the end results:
I guess it looks better. I mean I know it does compared to what it was...but I'm not 100% happy with it. Perhaps Jen was right and we need to "antique" it a bit to bring out the texture on the metal. Of course I could be crazy. Just seems that lately everything's lost it's luster. Probably has to do with the fact that my mom's birthday was a few days ago, and honestly that kinda is depressing. I heard an interesting saying the other day "the only free thing in this world is a mother's love". I mean, i'm not completely depressed or anything..mostly because I know that the people that love us would never want us to be sad over them, but the whole death thing kinda sucks overall.
What a terrible thought. Moving on, I have some links that I have to put up since they've been sitting here since last year:
- Merry christmas you ungrateful bastards.
- Really fascinating article on what it's like to work behind the scenes at G4/Tech TV. Pretty much what you expect since the G4 takover, bullshit, hypocrisy and manufactured live calls.
- Chopping Block. Because serial killers are people too.
- This is scary. One doctors trail of mistakes. Pefect example of why to get different opinions before any major surgery is done.

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