Lee DeRaud
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Not surprised: they certainly got enough complaints about the wind whistle on the C5/6.

Did not know that. It's a slick feature: the only foolproof way I've seen of sealing the side windows on cars without full window frames (e.g....

There's "dead battery", as in "I can't start the engine", but the windows, door locks, and things like that usually still work. Then there's "DEAD...

Well, that's lame. My Boxster was smart enough to lower the window 1/2" to clear the molding when you opened with either handle. Microswitch and 8"...

I'm almost afraid to ask where he put the fuel tank...

When did that happen? My (admittedly bottom-end) 2021 Samsung A01 has both headphone jack and micro-SD slot. (The latter isn't obvious: it's on the...

I've got the smallest smartphone Samsung makes (A01). With a thin silicone case, it fits front pocket of my jeans with no problem, standing, seated,...

I'm beginning t think that at least 50% of all the Teslas (Teslae?) in this country are within 10 miles of my house.

Unless it's grossly miss-wired, the photo beam should make a closing door reverse and will do nothing to an opening door. Your symptoms sound more...

I've always been partial to the Herbie Mann version, since it was my first real introduction to jazz in the mid-1960s....

The Earth's rotation is slowing due to tidal forces from the moon, so every day is longer than the one before it. (Not a LOT, mind you, but over...

Yeah, after a dozen or so trips to mine when I was doing the kitchen, I now know all the (unmarked) shortcuts. :)

If I have two things to buy at Home Depot, I can pretty much assume they will be at opposite corners of the store...and it's the 2nd-largest HD in...

I'm looking at that, and in Win10 that checkbox isn't with the USB device, it's with the USB controller. To determine which one a particular device...

LOL, don't think so. :) My question was more to the point of whether the (mechanical) drive was really going to sleep, or if it was making...

Before we get too deep, I suppose just adding a USB3 board to the Win7 machine wasn't an option?

First step is determining whether they're really going to sleep...got a stethoscope handy?

I see two things wrong with it: 1. I'm not sure I see how the process scales up to commercial sizes and quantities. 2. And if it does, it will...

I wonder how many sightings resulted in calls to the local cops and then to the DEA. That sucker looks like it could smuggle a LOT of dope. :) (If...

The thing that turned me off to command-line stuff (after a couple decades working in Solaris/VxWorks/etc) is spaces in egregiously-long folder/file...

I seem to recall hearing those exact words used to describe the 'vi' text editor, sometime in the 1980s, preceded by a conversation of the form:...

That's hard enough to do on a large aircraft. On something as tightly stuffed as an F14, it becomes like doing an LS engine swap on an MGB. And the...

Can't hurt to ask, but that's not how I read it. If so, the membership could be "inherited" in perpetuity, as long as no one breaks the chain.

Pretty much the only way to make money woodworking, innit? :)

I suspect a lot of things changed in the foreign-sales approval protocols after the Shah was deposed: Iran is pretty much the poster child for "Hey,...

Enlisted (active or with honorable discharge) yes, spouse/children yes, grandchildren no. ('CIC' is Casualty Insurance Company, BTW.)

For some very low value of "anyone": it's still just active military, veterans, and their spouses/children. I've never had USAA insurance, but I have...

Being in an accident with someone with the same brand insurance is pretty much a worst-case scenario: "your" insurance company is basically...

How does the car end up with a salvage title if you don't let the insurance company take it? There is no change of title in that scenario.

The question of determining the local timezone is already an issue, but it looks like there are some solutions available:...