The Walking Dead
I haven't been more excited about anything since Tommy Maddox joined the Steelers
http://blogs.amctv.com/the-walking-dead/
For the uninitiated, the upcoming AMC TV series The Walking Dead is based on the Image Comics Series of the same name;
From AMC's update;
Close your windows, lock your doors and clear your schedules. Come this Halloween, you'll have more to fear than trick-or-treaters. AMC has announced that its newest original series, The Walking Dead, will premiere on Halloween night, Sun., Oct. 31 at 10PM | 9C. The Sunday night series will debut with a 90-minute premiere episode. Subsequent episodes will be one-hour long presentations.
NOW - hit this link for the trailer. And get excited. It's zombie Season
Get yourself a copy of this. Ignore females, as they will ridicule you
Don’t Call It a Come Back
This is to all the Club Hertzog haters:
We are back and better than ever. Hell we don't even live together anymore and we are making more posts than we ever had. Get ready internet b/c we've got a lot of changes coming. We're starting a music section first of which being for the Band Courier and we are going to have a feature blog that won't involve any of this nerdy stuff that Nigel loves so much. That's going to be featured at Nate's site. So take that suckas.
By the way LL Cool J has something to tell you haters...
Jeep TJ 2006 – Skyjacker 7000 Hydro Installation
So with my 2006, 0" lift mall crawlin TJ reaching ~ 55k miles. I decided it was time to change out the blown out stock shocks with a new set of Skyjacker's Hydros due to the $35 rebate offer they were having & quadratec was pimping a couple months ago.
Old & Busted
Anyways, front install went well, stupid PA winters ensured that a can of PB Blaster was well used to soak in everything, when it came to the back, despite liberal amounts I snapped a bolt off on the driver side rear. The passenger rear went on without issue, I had to drill out the driver side rear and dropped down two bolts to replace the broken bolt.
New & Shiny
In any event, once hitting the road, I noticed that the ride in the front is fantastic, but in the rear it feels like I wasjumping all over the place whenever I hit a bump, almost like the spring is the only thing holding me down.
At first I thought it might be due me maybe mounting the shock upside down? However looking @ Quadratec's product page, I have the rear's mounted & lined up in a similar manner (tube facing the top)
Quadratec Configuration
After putting about 20 miles on it driving around, I realized that something was amiss - pinged off of JeepForum.com and I took them off and threw the back on in the opposite configuration.
Wrong way for a hydraulic shock
I knew it was right - I added the sticker
Bam. Problem solved.
Conclusion:
I noticed an immediate improvement in steering response over my old and busted OEM shocks, and my stopping distances seem to be shorter than before. For a total price of around $100, this wasn't a bad deal
What to do when your computer crashes – HARD – or how to fix your Master Boot Record in Windows XP
So, the other day we're just working along at the ClubHertzog West HQ, and all of a sudden, the desktop freezes. . . .HARD.
Vicious
Knowing full well that hitting the cntl+alt+delete combo only results in your computer exploding in a post 911 world (see this documentary), I sighed and shut it down. But upon booting back up, the Gigabyte Motherboard hung at the POST check. Staring blankly back at me like a friend you leave stranded in the wilderness. For whatever reason, I've been backing up images of my main HD on a second disk, using some open source tools and a identical drive mounted through this goofy & hot swappable bay adapter. Spooling up that disk, the machine booted up, though sadly almost half a year out of date . . . due to my failure to remember to do this for the last several months. In any event, this lead me to assume that windows XP Master Boot Record is toasted.
Apparently the crash lead to Bill Gates code just writing willy nilly all over my HD. Real quick - some background - what is your Master Boot Record?
"The MBR is not located in a partition, it is located at a main boot record area in front of (with a lower LBA sector number than) the first partition.
When a data storage device has been partitioned with the MBR partition table scheme (i.e., the conventional IBM PC partitioning scheme), the master boot record contains the primary partition entries in its partition table. The partition table may also contain entries for other, secondary partitions which are stored in extended boot records (EBRs), BSD disklabels, and Logical Disk Manager metadata partitions that are described by those primary entries.
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Though it is possible to manipulate the bytes in the MBR sector directly using various disk editors, there are tools to write fixed sets of functioning code to the MBR. Since MS-DOS 5.0, the DOS-mode program fdisk has included the (undocumented, but widely used) switch /mbr, which will rewrite the MBR code. Under Windows 2000 or later, the Recovery Console can be used to write new MBR code to a hard disk using its fixmbr command. Under Windows Vista and Windows 7, the Recovery Environment can be used to write new MBR code to a hard disk."
If you find yourself in this situation - give this a shot;
- Scrounge up a Windows XP Install Disc
- Set your PC to boot from CD (BIOS option - you access this menu by hitting delete/f10/f12 . . . depending on your motherboard configuration)
- When prompted, search for the ANY KEY to enter Windows XP Setup
- After a fair wait - which includes the option to configure a raid controller . . . . which I should have done instead of my stupid image plan - You will be presented with 3 options. Type R for Recovery Console
- The machine will kick over to the actual recovery console, you will be asked which installation of windows you would like to repair - pick your install - I only had one option
- You will be prompted for your admin pwd (typically left blank)
- Now you'll have a DOS style command prompt. Enter the command fixmbr
- You'll be thrown a warning - something about if you don't intend to do this it'll cause irrepable damage . . blah blah blah . . . just press Y
- BOOM you're done. Type Exit, pull the XP install CD and you should have all of your problems fixed.
Until then;
Yippee Kayee My Friends
Category Explanations
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Attention Internet Audience
That means you dude wearing ski mask & mini-skirt
We're changing our category structure, in addition to having updates, we're going to include links to our individual writings & reports, mechanical stuff we've worked on (busted knuckles) - and general nerd stuff (twitchy eye) that should get thrown out into the public domain.
As they say in MXC
GET IT ON
What-Up-Suckas
When we let this thing go dark in December 2008 we figured we'd come back sooner rather than later. Well - Now it's later- AND WE AREN'T GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE
Either way. Internet, it's been way too long. Prepare to have your computer box rocked.
You've been warned.