Month: March 2019

An Open Letter to the FCC RE: “Net Neutrality”

March 20, 2019 Technology 0

  The Net Neutrality Debacle: A Submission To The FCC* An open letter to the FCC, transmitted to openinternet@fcc.gov, the FCC’s comment address for their “Open Internet” rulemaking process. Dear Mr. Wheeler; The recent debate on Open Internet has been entered by stakeholders on all sides.  Unfortunately, in my opinion, many of those presenting positions are failing… Read more

A Sad State of affairs

March 20, 2019 Family Fathers New World Order SJW 0

A young college couple sat down in the dunkin i was in working on various remote projects.  Listening to their interaction was depressing.  The dude was acting like a whipped pulpy and the female he was with was taking great joy in denigrating him and not only insulting him but also using the fbomb towards… Read more

More 737 MAX details emerge(Long post warning)

March 19, 2019 737 Aircraft Software Technology 0

Get ready for a long post folks with embedded links.  For previous posts please look in the 737 category.   Yesterday’s post gave some details about the 737 MAX issues.  Karl’s post yesterday goes into greater detail: Let me note up front — I’m not a pilot.  I am, however, a software and hardware guy with a… Read more

The 737 MAX is not the first aircraft affected by computer issues

March 18, 2019 737 Aircraft Software Technology 0

Quantas flight 72 nearly crashed after one of it’s sensing computers got inconsistent data from it AOA(angle of attack) sensors.  It seems that AOA sensors also cause a freekout of the MCAS software system aboard the 737 MAX series.  The reason the MAX has MCAS is the engines.  The engines on the MAX 737 are… Read more

the world grounds the 737 max aircraft, the faa doubled down to leave them flying so trump forces groundings.

March 13, 2019 737 Aircraft Technology 0

The 787 was grounded after battery fires and there were no fatalities.  While I think the rest of the world grounding or denying airspace to the 737 MAX series is partially anti-Trump,  I also think it is partially because for whatever reason two of these brand new jets have crashed within 5 months of each… Read more

taxing the rich via capital gains does no such thing

March 13, 2019 Finance Politics 0

The very multi-millionaires proposing this know good and damn wlel this will not impact them….otherwise they wouldn’t propose it.  Raising the capital gains will hit the middle class..sell your house?  That’s capital gains..which is what the middle class does more often as they try to stay afloat.  this isn’t a stealth attack on the rich..this… Read more

Time to Make some churchian heads spin

March 11, 2019 Christianity Church Churchianity Faith Family Fathers 0

  Can a Christian wife withhold sex as a way to change her husband’s bad behavior? August 1, 2015 / biblicalgenderroles Can sexual refusal be used by a wife to change her husband’s bad behavior? Does God allow sexual refusal as method for addressing wrong behavior on the part of a husband? Can bad behavior on… Read more

Is there a problem with the new 737-8MAX MCAS automation?

March 10, 2019 Technology 0

Two new 737-8MAX aircraft crashing within 8 months of each other.  I have been warning folks closest to me about the horrid quality of software these days.  Frankly even if i could fly right now I wouldn’t.  Self-driving cars?  No way.  My favorite operating systems(Linux and BSD) are not immune from poor coding.  It’s everywhere. … Read more

HOw much pain in moving to a single FreeNAS setup?

March 7, 2019 Technology 0

Not that much actually.  I looked around here and realized i now only have two machines utilizing a 12/core 24 thread monster server.  Because my FreeNAS is unix based like my Linux webservers I do not need to run a linux vm at all.  I have my firewall setup to only allow SSH connections from… Read more

Server Changes

March 7, 2019 General Technology 0

I have been trying to figure out how I want to change the rack to save power and reduce complexity.  Given i am switching away from ETC Maryland i do not need the massive amount of computing power i have sitting upstairs.  It just hit me..:)  My FreeNAS machine has the capability to hold everything… Read more

incoming: A ton of content

March 7, 2019 General 0

As i transition away from https://etc-md.com to https://emmanuelhosting.com I wanted to preserve the posts over the eyars from ETC Maryland.  I am going to pull the posts from ETC over to this site….it wil take a whle to clean them all up…but i did not want my decade of work to simply vanish..:)  Now i… Read more

Recycling was always broken…the greens are just now figuring out exactly how.

March 7, 2019 Environment 0

Recycling was flawed to begin with.  it can be done but not for the pricing it was at.  Why?  the recycling companies relied on a single point of failure….in this case…China.  We shipped most of our recycling overseas to get processed and used over there…most of this stuff never made it back over here…we were… Read more

15/hr Minimum wage. What are the costs?

March 6, 2019 Finance 0

Amazon is going to be the leader…and the costs are already apparent: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/06/whole-foods-amazon-cuts-minimum-wage-workers-hours-changes   This high minimum wage is going to mean the very folks who say they cannot live on minimum wage will not be able to live on the higher minimum wage because it will result in hourly cuts.  the minimum wage is… Read more