Gas Money Saving Gadgets and tips

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I am so upset with gas prices right now, Heck I even made a bumper sticker.

As you can see, I wasted a little bit of time while at work today. But the main goal was to see if I can find a mod for my car that would allow me to reduce my consumption of fuel. Everything is getting so frickin costly these days and the value of a dollar is down so dang far. why are people not getting paid more yet? You hear of these stupid monster sized oil companies who report extreme profits. Go to the nearest gas station that you know has an employee working there that has been in the cashier spot for more than two or three years. Ask that cashier if they are making anything better than what they where making back when gas prices where less than half what they are now. The answer will be no. Clearly it will be no. The place where you sell the most price rising necessity and the c.o. group does not even lay some relief on their cashiers.

Sure you can tell yourself “it’s their fault for getting a crummy job”. That statement or thought makes you a worthless piece of $%^& !!!!!! Do not judge someone by your standards, your standards are not what make the world. And if they did, no one would be standing there to sell you gas or listen to you cry about it. Now leave the cashier alone before the word “postal” gets renamed.

Ok enough with that rant.  Let’s see what it is that we need.

In my theory if we could increase horse power without a physical modification other than software or a simple trick Then we are in the right direction. I drive a 40o+ v8 car that gets me to work three days 18 miles away, per tank of gas. So I need a simple trick to try that makes it less fuel bogging to increase my power. See I figure if I can do that, then it will not take as much gas to get me going. Getting going is the roughest part.

What I found
How To Save Money on Gas

FUEL Alternatives
Break Through?
hybrids dooshmobiles
Very Well stated methods to saving gas
Use water not gas? are these dudes mental?…. we can live without gas!

more stuff to read -This thing looks retarded

“The Elektro-Karb is a high-performance electronic device.

Its precisely-made parts, the Frequency Generator,

Harmonic Resonance Cavity, Waveguide and “Elektrol”

Economizer all work in close harmony to produce powerful

and efficient sonic vaporization ” <— bs useless mumbo

jumbo. harmonic resonance cavity? means it’s hollow… right?

saves gas?

“Tight supplies and high prices for natural gas are

likely to boost home energy bills for air conditioning

and electricity in summer and heating in winter”

Gas saving rules to live by

“Always have your car tuned-up regularly.
Maintain a steady rate when driving you car.
Schedule buying your gas during the cool hours
Close you car windows when you are driving on the highway.
Minimize the use of air conditioners
Lessen your car’s load.
heck if tires inflated accordingly”

There are a million and one links when you do a search, but nothing really worth using except I think two so far and they just tell you to take off slow and steady and not go past 60mph. To me that is the best advice out there I guess I was looking for some magical metal thing I bolt on somewhere that makes my gas mileage better. I do not see that, no where. But I do look. I do not want to downsize anything I have or restrict anything infact I would like to be less restrictive so air and fuel flow easier, hopefully causing less need for use of at least one of those two resources.

There does not seem to be any legit techy device out there as of yet.

Hasn’t happened yet, guess I will park the machine and get a ricer fart car dooshmobile.

Phishing For Suckers

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 Ok I got junk mail from a scammer, So I decided to share
this with you. I advise that you do not respond to this
trash in any way shape or form. I surely will not. I hope
you see that I am posting this so you can see a type of
phishing scam that comes up all the time. Never ever do
what they ask, this is total crap. If you have ever
fallen for this scam or one of it's kind Please post here.
I really want to know that you exist.








"Hello Dear Friend,

Your name and e-mail address came up in a random draw conducted by
our law firm, (Adetokunbo & Co. Law Chambers.) in Lagos , Nigeria . I
am Barrister Adetokunbo Kayode (Esq), the legal adviser and counsel
to a deceased expatriate contractor,who used to work with
Chevron/Texaco Nigeria Limited here in Nigeria thereafter shall be
referred as my late client. On the 27th of January 2002, my client,
his wife and their three children were involved in Ikeja bomb blast
here in my country. Hence I contacted you.

Please view these websites below to confirm what I am telling you.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2698081.stm

I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money and
property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or
declared unserviceable where these huge deposits were lodged.
Particularly, where my client deposited US$3.7Million Dollars. I was
issued a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account
confiscated within two weeks. All I require is your honest co-
operations to enable us see this deal through.

You should send to my private email address  adetokunbo44@gmail.com
Your full names: -
Your private phone number/ fax (if any): -
Your age: -
Your occupation: -
Your home address: -

I am particularly interested in securing this money from the bank,
because they have issued a notice instructing us to produce the
beneficiary of this will within two weeks or else the money will be
credited to the government treasury as per law here. It is my utmost
desire to execute the will of our late client in your favor and
therefore, you are required to contact me immediately to start the
process of sending this money to any or your designated official
account, I urge you to contact me immediately for further details
bearing in mind that the bank has given us a date limit.

Regards,
Adetounko Kayode (Esq)."






Oh, I did report this as phishing to my email carrier.

									

			
			
		

	



			
				


	

		
		

			

				
Anti-Social Networking


				
					
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The group from “Wayn.com” are really making me upset. I never originally signed up to that place. but I started getting invites from people  who had the same names as some of my friends. Of course it was always the hot chicks I remembered from back in the old days. Hell no it’s some skank who plays model for the “wayn” group. I swear this is a bigger scam than  what that one place does  match.com or what ever those fake lumps of internet crap are.


I have deleted myself from that place like 5 times now and it will not let me go.


Maybe it’s when they send me that link that says “stacy sent you a message” well since I know a stacy I think it might be her telling me she found me.  So I click that stupid link and since it has been a year or so since I unsigned, that click re-enlists me to that piece of scum sight.


Really it should be a law that when people opt out of spam, unsubscribe and un-enlist to your site, YOU SHOULD NOT SPAM THEM with crap that checks their memory because it has been a fricken year .


Tell me this isn’t deceptive business.


TruXter


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Domain Split Sorrows


				
					
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Well i got the new domain name, and my current domain name has been looking a bit a.d.d. for a couple years now. Well I decided to make the iworkwithpeople.com  all about just work careers and employment.  If you know me you have to be wondering ” How the hell are you gonna restrain and prevent yourself from talking tech there?” Well my friends or just that random dude that ran through here and read this article…… I bought a new domain name, iworkwithtech.com    :-D tell me that does not  fit ?


Ok now comes the issues… I have to split that. i have no idea where to begin with it. I mean I have so much stuff already indexed in the search engines, Like my busiest page on the iworkwithpeople  section, is a grand theft auto on linux . I mean if you search in google this exact phrase ” gta on linux” if I am not still right there on top, I am on the first page.. The way I have things set up now you can get to the exact same pages by replacing the word “people” with the word “tech” and vice versa. My main plain is to jjust stop linking to the popular/tech pages through the work site. I am pretty sure that I ran off alot of people looking for a work related site, because when they got there, it was full of tech tips.


You see I fought for a while trying to get that freaking site noticed and well, now that it’s noticed I am redefining it. I know bold/stupid move. I really have to though because those are two totally different sites and topics. I want them to look exactly the same at all times, because I want it known to those who always go to the “people” domain, that I am still the same dude on the tech domain.


I really love talking tech . I really love it when people  listen to me and enjoy my help. I hope you see why I had to do this. Now I have to figure out how to make google and yahoo and msn see me  without repeated linking and looking like I am gaming the systems.


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New domain for $5.99


				
					
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I bought a domain name for $5.99 from netfirms.com


My new domain name, get this  is  iworkwithtech.com


I will be helping you with what ever tech support I can give.


I am also running a tech news and updates section, along with a tech news posting area that will be ran with php and a forum that will also be ready for your statements news help and  of course questions.


I will be welcoming anyone  that comes in . I hope you all enjoy my work.


Not such a bad find on the domain name, since I already have iworkwithpeople.com


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How Can I Use A Hosts File To My Advantage?


				
					
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[tags]ip adress,malware,virus,trojan,security,computer,hack,intrusion,backdoor,safety,privacy,protection,prevention[/tags]


A hosts file is a file located in the ETC folder of almost every operating system (with some  exceptions).  The hosts file is a file that is scanned at the first accesses of a network.  Be it a program that you expect to go to the internet or not.  Your computer will first try and resolve the dns with the host.  It does this by checking the hosts file.


In your hosts file, you can tell your computer what IP address to assign web addresses.  By doing this, you bypass all network look ups on the internet for specific addresses.  It is impossible to knock out every single website there is.  You can how ever knock out all sites submitted, reported, and confirmed as malware sites.


You can also stop your kid from hitting sites you do not want her/him going to.  The way it works is you move to the lowest section in the hosts file and type in the IP address you would like that website to go to.  Like this:


127.0.0.1        a_site_you_do_not_want_to_go_to.com


This blocks that site from ever loading on your computer.


If you have a program that goes to  “a_site_you_do_not_want_to_go_to.com” by default, the program will not be able to update.  This can be used to your advantage if the site that the program is trying to connect to is a virus site, and the program is a virus, trojan or a malware notification type program (like a spider).  We call them adware and spyware these days, the program will not be able to contact it’s owner, this hides you from the owner and increases your security.  Some malware updates itself by connecting to its owner’s location, unless it is specificly assigned an IP address to connect to.  That, of course, would be a mistake on the writer’s part.  Much easier to locate that way, and you could actually block that IP address if you took the time.


I use mvps host    because he has a much larger list than I do.  I just add my stuff to his when i download it and set up my hosts file.  If you have a list of bad sites, do what I and a few others do, email it to mvps site.  I do suggest that you read everything on the wiki and mvps site before you do anything to change your hosts.  Really, if you block yourself from the interenet (god only knows how that could ever happen) you just clear out all IP addresses and domain names in the list and you are back to the way it was.


If you have any questions related to this topic feel free to ask them.


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How Safe Is Mobile Internet?


				
					
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From Whistle Blowers:


“A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier’s systems, exposing customers’ voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003.”


Verizon has a finger pointed at it.


This information I got from Slashdot Review.


Of course, I followed up with a search in Google.


Doesn’t sound good and doesn’t sound like a right to privacy.


The part that gets me the most is the government’s ability to track you.  Then again, it has been able to track your cell phone for years.  Maybe, this will just get swept under the carpet, forgotten, and/or never mentioned again.  I’m assuming we will hear nothing of this again.


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Re-Evaluation of Dr.Web


				
					
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After years of not touching Dr.Web, I could not remember, in full, why I did not like it. I could not remember why I did not trust it. It has been at least five years since I tried it and someone I see is trusted by quite a few people recommends it. I gave it a go. Well the first download is 14 MB. Quite tiny and happens in a blink — although the file downloaded was actually just a tool to download the actual program. After the download was complete and the install was nearly finished, it asked for a verification key (I did not have one). So the program allowed me to press a button and have a key automatically inserted. Why?  Dunno. The scan seemed pretty smooth; I didn’t see the scanner get hung up on anything. The list of files being scanned was pretty steady. Boots and reboots of the system were smooth and there was no delay or hang time from Dr.Web.


I consider any program that you have to find a program from a second party to remove to be malware. If the program does not allow me to see the size of the actual install until after it is finished installing (I had to navigate to the folder it was contained in), I consider it to be deceptive.


Granted, this is a workplace computer. I am not the first employee to use this computer and formatting it is not an option. I did find traces of Limewire once installed on this machine, so you should have a pretty good idea how beat down this machine is because of misuse. Since this program found nothing and ran smoothly, I decided to break out some of the tried and true programs: Ad-Aware, Spybot, and A-Squared. All three found something, and no, it was not all cookies. Ad-Aware found what it labeled as a w32.novarg.a@mm (aka MY DOOM) file. A-Squared found a few hijackers, and Spybot found, like, 60 things.


Now here comes the issue. I decided I do not need this program to start when I start my computer. Since it never found anything, I was not impressed enough that I could leave it on the workplace computer throughout the trial period. I went to un-install Dr.Web, but it wasn’t happening.  The un-install actually tries to install the program again. I went through the whole step of seeing if it would say “before we can install you must un-install; would you like to un-install?” Never happened. Full install right over the current.


So I did a Google search on it. The best information I found was sad and scary, all in one. Delete all registry entries and then go back to the directory of install and delete all signs of Dr.Web. I really do not suggest you do that. I mean, it did not damage this machine. I booted fine afterwards with no errors, but if you are new to ‘regedit,’ stay out. It is much safer that way.


After 14 years of doing this online and nine years on local networks (before the Internet), you would think I learned my lesson. Well, I have learned that sometimes you just have to try stuff and be prepared to put things back together. Good thing I do and can.


Here’s an alternative.


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The Odds of GTA IV On PC


				
					
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We all want to know ” Will Grand Theft Auto IV come to the computer?”


Let’s look at the odds by looking at the past games that have come out.


Grand Theft Auto and GTA2 came out on PC before they came out on console. GTAIII changed the pattern with it’s release for the Sony Playstation.  Grand Theft Auto 3 and the Rockstar and take two families allowed the console gamers to get first crack at the world of Liberty City.  The game makers just dropped them into a world of free roam with nothing but their thumbs mashing the controls, doing things that people used to do with all ten fingers. Right away, issues became noticed.  The problems where stuff like the A.I. would lose control or just get stuck on simple obstacles they could have just walked around.  Users also noticed what is called “pop-ins.”  A ‘pop-in’ is when you are moving through this world, then suddenly a bush or a bridge just appears from nowhere, “bam, now it’s just right there” and it was not there a second ago.  So Rockstar games amazed everyone with the announcement of GTAIII for the PC.  The PC version had a better draw distance and I.A. was tweaked.  The question is, did they make a PC version just to shut people up and make more sells?


Grand Theft Auto Vice city came out for the PS2 before it came out for the computer game players.  There wasn’t any announcement of a PC version until two months before it’s release.  Again, the game was tweaked and looked better on the PC.  In my opinion, Vice City was a duller game than GTAIII since Rockstar stripped so much out of the GTAIII engine that it removed most of the ambiance.  The items removed where all atmosphere and did bog down consoles and video cards.  Nowadays, computers and consoles are finally strong enough to handle that much stress.  Again, I ask “Did they make the PC version just to sell more of the same game, even to repeated customers?”


San Andreas, they never even told us it would come out for the computer.  While working on San Andreas to be released for the computer (nearly a year after the console version), Rockstar games was also working on Liberty City Stories.


Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories where first announced to be created exclusively for a portable gaming console called “playstation portable,” aka PSP.  Six months after both were released, news was announced both would be released for the Playstation2.  Neither one have yet to be released for the PC.


So far, there is no announcement of a Grand Theft Auto IV coming out for the personal computer.  This next game is now set back to be released on April 29th of this year.  If things would have been on schedule (agreements with console makers, etc.), the once again revisit to Liberty City would have been on time, and we would have already heard the news about a computer version.  Since the console version was delayed, could it be that the PC version’s news was also delayed, or pushed to be released one year from the original release date of the console version?


Since we have not received a PC version of Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories, nor any news of GTAIV on anything but Xbox360 and Playstation3, I can only expect that Rockstar games would much rather put the “Stories” games and San Andreas out for the Wii console.  Long before we will ever see a PC version of any, especially the newest.


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E.A. puts in bid to buy out Take Two Interactive


				
					
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The owners of the Rockstar franchise and game, Grand Theft Auto have been offered a multi-billion dollar offer from E.A. to buy them.


So again, we see a similar but smaller, attempted, hostile take over.  The same as we saw in the attempt of Yahoo purchase from Microsoft.


Take Two said “No, We are worth more.”


Notes


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