I have a Nissan and these days the Check Engine Light just came on. It was just Tuesday, you know. So, if you are in the same situation then normally you would have two choices: get your car to a…
DTC code P0455 - Check Engine Light
DIY variable power supply
Few years ago I modified a salvaged ATX power supply to a fixed voltage bench power supply. It was very useful, I still use it, however it comes a time when you need other voltages than some fixed voltages (eg.…
Installing rear fog light on Nissan Murano
After installing the rear fog light on my Nissan Murano 2009 (USA model) I thought it would worth sharing my experience with you. First I should mention that my car had already installed the OEM front fog lights so I…
Trailer light tester - DIY
Continuing my last post on how I fixed a faulty AFC trailer converter I thought it might be useful sharing my thoughts about how I built a trailer light tester for one buck or less. So this is rather a…
Trailer AFC converter turn signals blink together
In case you are willing to wire yourself the trailer to your car and you notice that your trailer AFC converter turn signals blink together you should at first follow the steps mentioned here. But what if the problem is…
Automatic logon Windows XP Visa 7
In case you have a Windows system that runs in an isolated secure environment (eg: at home) where there is no point of having to logon manually into the system using an user and a password (eg. you are home…
Fix Firefox PGO on Linux
Background As of 2015-03-09 Mozilla Firefox is known as being the fastest web browser out there. Firefox is not only fast but it saves also more memory than Chrome although less than Opera. To make things better it is also…
Fix keyboard delay on KVM Windows guest
I have a KVM/Qemu 2.1.2 hypervisor installed on a Linux x86_64 system (kernel 3.18.8). On KVM I installed a Windows 2003 Server guest where usually I do my MS-SQL work. I noticed that while typing inside the Windows guest the…
Convert YouYube to MP3
Someone asked me if a YouTube clip can be saved locally (eg. as MP3 file). Being a Linux enthusiast I already knew that "on Linux one can do anything" so I gave it a try. On Linux make sure you…
Transparently download from Google Drive
Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by Google which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing. The storage limit for the free accounts is, at the time of writing, about 5GB. If you have…