doom'd net

still mucking around with the ol'computer


Some Testing with BTRFS

BTRFS is a new filesystem with some interesting features. 

It’s still new but has been supported for a while in Fedora, but I’ve just recently decided to play with it.

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Removing an Oil Pan from a KJ Jeep Liberty WITHOUT Removing, or 'Lifting' the Engine!

Oil Pan

The Jeep KJ Liberty is a relatively easy vehicle to work on. The biggest obstacles tend to be rust and the sometimes wacky documentation. The later of which can sometimes be a bit overdone. Take removing the oil pan. The factory service manual for the Liberty says you have to remove the engine (wtf??).  The other repair manuals have some poppycock about lifting the engine. It’s Crazy!

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Can Someone Pass the SAT, or Anyother Filling the Bubble Type Test, by Randomly Answering Each Question?

The What If? blog recently asked What if everyone who took the SAT guessed on every multiple-choice question? How many perfect scores would there be?

This got me thinking.  Since using the Monte Carlo Method is one of my favorite methods to solve problems, it seemed that this would be a perfect problem to solve.

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What Really Happened at Roswell in July, 1947?

It is generally accepted that something crashed in the desert outside of Roswell NM around July 7th, 1947. My original thought was that NOTHING crashed there, But now, I think something was intentionally crashed by the air force. What I'm thinking happened was that they crashed some kind of weather balloon or some kind of simple aircraft - maybe something made to look like a flying disk. It was staged on a night when there was a thunderstorm to make it easier to fake, and cover up. Then they issued a fake press release, making wild claims. Followed with them promptly trying to cover everything up. They even went so far as to plant some fake evidence in the national archives to be uncovered more than 1/2 a century later.

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