by Shannon Graham | Apr 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
An automobile manual will provide you with a list of numbers about your car or motorbike. One of them is the compression ratio. In the case of of my KZ 305 LTD, that number is 9.5. The number that my compression tester gives me is 145 psi in each cylinder of the...
by Shannon Graham | Apr 2, 2012 | Uncategorized
Back at school for my third semester of Computer Systems Tech. I’m taking a moment on my lunch break to reflect on what, if anything, I learned last semester. 1. PHP. This is an interesting language. The constant feeling that you’re building a house out of...
by Shannon Graham | Mar 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Edit: I figured it out. Here’s a tutorial that helped me. Here’s my post about some further adventures. I’ve got my little website, you’ve probably seen it if you’re reading this. All the HTML and CSS skills they taught me in...
by Shannon Graham | Feb 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
I just did this, and I don’t want to forget how. This explains how to set up a public authentication key and make it executable First, create your public key. Open the terminal. Navigate to the directory where you want to keep your key. You will have to run your...
by Shannon Graham | Feb 5, 2012 | Uncategorized
In school, we sometimes get group assignments. Someone always becomes the leader of the project group, and it’s usually me. It’s always an organic process – there’s no election, or special “Boss” hat that I seize by force. But when...
by Shannon Graham | Jan 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
Robert Zubrin has asked, how much is an astronaut’s life worth? The answer according to NASA turns out to be about 5 billion dollars. That was the justification for deciding not perform some repairs on the Hubble that would extend it’s life for another 10...