Catching Up
Sunday, September 2, 2007, 04:45 PM - General, Tractor
Well, I have been remiss in my blogging duties. I have been faithfully restoring old red every weekend since I got her. About 3 weeks ago we pulled it around with the David Brown, only to find that the engine was siezed. We took off the head and found that piston #1 was rusted into place. While taking off the head, we busted off the top of the Oil Tube running from the block to the top where the rocker arms are.

A bottle of Marvel Miracle Oil and a little external force (aka Adam and I beating on it with a rubber mallet and a block of wood) and she was running free and clean. Dad picked up a cylinder hone, and Katy and I spend a sunday cleaning up the insides of the cylinders.

I ordered an engine gasket set off the web, and since I couldn't find a replacement part, I took the old pipe over to Glen and had him weld it. So far so good.



Katy, Dad and I bolted the head back into place, and put the rocker arms back in place, and with a little grinding and some more external force the oil tube slipped right into place.



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Un-Bricking my WRT
Monday, July 23, 2007, 06:03 PM - Technology, Linux
I had a linksys wrt54g v2.0 that I decided would be nice as an openwrt box, because I could run asterisk on it also. So, I loaded the kamikaze image, and all was well, except I couldn't log into the wireless. I tried for a while to get it to work, and decided to roll back to HyperWRT. That is where the problems started. I couldn't flash the right binary, I couldn't upload anything, and I thought I was stuck. I finally ran across some wiki pages, and here is what I came up with:

1. use wget to pull the latest HyperWRT .zip file into /tmp.
2. use "ipkg install unzip" to get the unzip package
3. unzip HyperWRT to a bin file
4. run "dd s=32 skip=1 if=hyperWRT.bin of=hyperWRT.trx" to convert the bin file to a trx file
5. finally, run "mtd -e linux -r write hyperWRT.trx linux" to flash the trx file into the flash memory.
6. after the router reboots, wait a couple of minutes and then reboot it again.

Like all things, this worked for me, hope it works for you, and if not, happy googling.

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My New Tractor - Old Red
Tuesday, July 17, 2007, 12:17 PM - General, Tractor
During my recent trip to Colorado I bought a 1954 Case SC tractor. I'm sure I'll devote a number of blog entries in the future to the restoration of this baby!



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TFS Addons
Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 03:34 PM - .NET
I found a nice blog today that lists quite a few tfs tools to make living with TFS a lot easier. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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TFS Notifications
Tuesday, June 19, 2007, 03:23 PM - .NET
If you are planning a Team Foundation Server (TFS) Extension using the Notification web service, this template is a great start. If you don't want to implement a web service, try this one which implements a local listener for the notifications.

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