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Browsing Posts published in September, 2006

As you may or may not be aware, Microsoft has something of an “open beta” going on for Windows Vista. Basically, a time limited version (good until mid 2007 I believe) known as “Release Candidate 1″ can be signed up for and downloaded for free from their website. Despite being called a “release candidate”, this [...]

Yet another how-to that should apply to most 1989-1991 Sprints, Fireflys, Metros, and Swifts. This was done on a 1.0L 3-cylinder, so those with the 1.3L are out of luck. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to take pictures during this procedure, but I’ll try and be as specific as possible. This was not performed on a [...]

If you find yourself driving down the road and hear a “crunch crunch crunch” coming from one of the back wheels of your car, there’s a good chance you’ve got bad wheel bearings. Actually, your bearings probably went bad long before you heard the crunching, but as with many other parts, they were nice enough [...]

For some reason or another, certain things from your past pop into your head at the strangest times. Here’s a program that came with my old Sound Blaster (way back in the day of 386′s and 486′s… back when computers didn’t have onboard sound and you had to actually buy a soundcard for $40-60).

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