I picked up a large lot of SGI stuff that was about to be trashed, and have been working to restore everything back to fully functional condition and then listing it up online. If anyone is interested in an SGI Fuel or Octane and wants it personalized just let me know and we can work […]
It’s going to be a busy month!
New Online Shopping Cart has been setup! I have been working hard at getting a real online store front end setup on this site. To a point it is for testing and self education, if someone needs a site with a good online shopping cart and doesn’t want to pay a pretty penny, I have […]
Late January update!
SGI Fuels are now in stock! Well things have been kind of slow in the way of progress of personal projects because I have been busy trying to get my stuff together and listed on eBay. I recently made the next round of purchases of computer equipment and a bunch of it will be listed […]
Doogie, what the shibobbies are you doing to your site?
If you read my last post (if you were even able to) you’ll notice that things have been slated for a change here on the server. Before moving any other websites to the virtual host configuration scenario I must do some testing first. I figured in this case it would be easiest to just monkey […]
Vintage Computer Collection: Toshiba Libretto 50 & 70CT
I first picked up a broken one, then I was hooked and had to have a working one. After a couple of weeks of research I was ready to build my portable vintage DOS Gaming machine. I liked playing SimCity 2000, Simtower, Doom, the original GTA and the like. Modern windows does allow most of […]
Happy New Year! / Janurary Update
Happy new year! With 2013 now here and the fact that we’re all still alive, we can focus on things other than holiday stuff. Back to the grind. What’s up with me? It has been sometime since I’ve blabbered on about some sort of update. I thought about making a video one but at the […]
Initial Fuel Vaporizer design and testing
You’ve heard aboutfuel injection and carburetion, what about vaporization? Running an engine on nothing but fuel vapors is definitely not a new idea. People have experimented for ages (as early as 1930, maybe even earlier.) with various methods to optimal fuel delivery into an engine. The two most popular methods we use today to fuel […]
New DoogieLabs Solaris Tools!
DoogieLabs Solaris Tools v0.2 has been officially released! Solaris Tools now includes Solaris Backup Utilities version 0.93! After some more adjustments the program now sits just over 3,000 lines of code. most features are working and just needs further testing and ironing out of bugs. Actually short of the logging and a couple of minor […]
100 Posts! Old & New; Fuel Vaporization Experiment
Since December of 2009 I have been sharing my thoughts and projects using this website. It has come a super long way. It has become quite an archive of history, knowledge, and my abilities. Thanks for visiting, I hope that the information posted and provided here helps out people in their projects or adventures. A […]
Vintage Collection: Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000
Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000 [DoogieLabs Vintage Computer Collection] I picked up an Enterprise 3000 that had been sitting at the recycle for a few months. Everytime I saw it I passed it up because I couldn’t spend a great deal of money on something that’s well, useless. However, this very last time it was made […]
How your freezer fixes Hard Drives, and more!
Beware, this can cause damage to your drive just as much as you may find it helps: As outlined on page 2 of this article here. .. For those who want to lecture me about the condensation problem, see the very last tidbit. I have told many people over the years the successes I’ve had […]
Who wants the internet, and why?
So today a campaign launched to once again raise awareness that there are companies and groups fighting for the levers of power over what is known as the internet. We all know that piracy has been a main reason for the push for legislation, but what about free speech? As you may or may not […]
News and ramblings 11-27-2012
The site looks a little bit different? Indeed, I was actually able to take some time and get some material posted up which is very nice. I basically sat at home over the entire holiday weekend and messed around with computer stuff. I did some performance tweaking on the server, a little bit more programming, […]
Motorola MW800 Tour & Resources
Motorola MW800, Tour and Information Resources: Once in a while I am able to obtain a batch of these magnificent machines, and when I do I sell them. Here is some information I have to share: For those who cannot watch the above video; the Motorola MW series are mobile workstations commonly used in Police […]
Vintage collection: Apple Powerbook 1400cs
The Apple Powerbook was a series of laptops made in the late 80’s through the mid to late 90’s. They all feature either an old Motorola 68030, 040.. Or a PowerPC CPU. Apple was known for a number of innovations resulting from the powerbooks over the years. Including power eject PC-Card slots, and CD-Drives. This […]
Solaris ZFS Fun!
I have been working to make some fundamental changes to the DoogieLabs site and server. It was recommended to be by a friend to check out ZFS, he said I had no idea what I was missing. He was very right indeed, and after some research I uncovered something additional. No standard RAID 5 is […]
VIDEO: $25 46 inch Samsung Computer Monitor
VIDEO: $25 46 inch Samsung Computer Monitor1 other peeps rated this an average of 4.
1982 Yamaha XS 850 Cafe Racer Intro
So I got a new bike.. I put my stereo up for sale on Craigslist, and was offered the below as a trade. This picture is the original cell phone picture taken by the previous owner. After doing some quick research I decided to go for it and snagged a truck to pick it up. […]
Powerball Lottery Software Coming Soon
Every inspiring programmer needs good projects to sharpen his or her skill set. I decided that a lottery program would be a great way to play around with some new functions, and learn about the random number generator in c++. One night I was poking around the Powerball website and found the past winning numbers. […]
Stand up and FIGHT! Or we’re screwed!
I received an email in regards to the six strikes rule. It sounds like the Obama administration is side stepping the house and senate to pass internet censorship on their own via an executive order. This could mean the end of the internet as we know, ushering in a new generation of mega corporate owned […]
VIDEO: SGI Altix 450 Supercomputer Tour and Mini Demo
Welcome to the SGI Altix Museum page! SGI Altix 450 / 4000 series (Single IRU): 8x 1.6GHz Itanium2 Dual Core Processors for a total of 16 Cores, over 1MB of L2, 18MB of L3 Cache, 533 Frontside Bus. Codename “Montecito” .. 1.7 BILLION transistors per die! (IA-64 Arch) 8GB of DDR2 RAM per Node board, […]
DoogieLabs Solaris Tools
DoogieLabs Solaris Tools & Utilities Current Release: Download Solaris Tools v0.2 / December 2012 Older Releases: Download Solaris Tools v0.1 I have been using some of these tools with my Solaris box ever since I got it initially, and now that I’ve worked hard on a backup program I figure I can release it and […]
HOWTO: Setting up the RSC Console
Setting up the RSC Console Some sun servers include what’s called an RSC Card. RSC stands for “Remote System Control” and provides a way to “white switch” a server without actually having to be at the facility it’s located at. The RSC Card is basically a self contained computer containing serial ports, ethernet, and a […]
Upgrade for the V880!
I got the cable in that I have been wanting for a very long time. . I decided to make a video of the installation process, pretty neat! I ran a UnixBench routine at the end for a real world filecopy example. I have noticed that there is a slight performance hit when copying to […]
Late Sept News Part I and SGI Woes
SGI, HPC with cost as no object; but what did reliability cost? SGI has been a very interesting new road for me, it was the better part of 10 years before I was able to clinch ahold of Octane2 un-obtainium. After gaining a better understanding of how the Octane / Onyx racks work with their […]
News and Blog for September 5th, 2012
With the Sun Server at home, work has been a bit crippling especially when combined with moving. As some of you know, I have been using SunRays in my shop ultimately consolidating the number of full computers I would need running around the place. Now I have found myself in a situation where I’ll be […]
Automotive Performance Tip / Tutorial: Headerwrapping your DownPipe; the Why and How-To
When working on my buddy’s Corrado I decided to take the opportunity to teach everyone how to properly use header wrap when wrapping up your down-pipe or header. It’s my first real attempt a tutorial video hopefully it is easy to follow and entertaining. Definitely welcome to feedback. Cheers! Automotive Performance Tip / Tutorial: […]
pbzip2, Multithreaded bzip2 application
Since I have a MASSIVE amount of parallel processing at my disposal it can come in real handy when working with extremely large files. This week I recovered a full terrabyte drive that had a completely hosed NTFS partition on it. After dd’ing the entire disk into an image and recovering the files it’s time […]
A moment in vintage computers
One of the items that was included with my last pallet of stuff that I picked up was a new in box vintage IBM Thinkpad external CD-Rom drive. This is an option that you just don’t see anymore, so I figured I’d make up a video and share. I have another video coming up soon […]
Blog and news for Sunday, August 6th 2012
Well hello hello Not too much to report, started moving stuff out and scrapping that last of the junk that’s laying around here so I don’t need to take it with me anywhere. I have been working on potentially securing an office space downtown but with both bank accounts empty I really don’t know how […]
Blog and news for Friday, July 22nd 2012
Maintenance Notice! The Icebox server will be moved to a new location no later than August 31st, 2012. We expect the move to take a few hours and there will be minimal service interruption. We expect the move to take place on a Sunday evening. Please continue to check back and I’ll post an exact […]
White Corrado Lives Again!
After a few years of sitting waiting for some new parts, the car finally lives again! The car was a little grumpy to get started, after having issues with the fuel pump wiring, and replacing some missing relays it fired up. After it was warm and I checked for leaks I went ahead and shot […]
How to read and write data from and to tapes in Solaris / Unix / Linux
I did not write this myself, This lovely howto was originally located at: http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/staff/hvoss/TapeHowto.html .. However since it was wiped clean off their website I decided to re-post everything in its entirety here. Thanks Hauke for writing such a wonderful how-to probably a very long time ago. To everyone else, enjoy 🙂 This How-To describes […]
LCD Monitor has been repaired!
My Prized 25″ Flatpanel monitor lost it’s back light about a month ago. As it turns out, one of the CCFL tubes ended up getting a short in one end. The short caused the panel to get really hot forcing me to run the display at reduced overall brightness, and then the problem got worse […]
News and Blog for Monday, June 11th 2012
PAYPAL SHOPPING CART UPDATE: I have been made aware of an issue with the PayPal shopping cart where when you click on the checkout button you are left with a blank page. After combing the server logs on this issue and finding nothing, I finally caught a break last night when testing in the latest […]
News and Blog for Tuesday, May 22nd 2012
Working away getting more done. I have some new stuff to share, I have picked up some vintage computer goodies. I am now the proud owner of a pair of functional Silicon Graphics machines (Octane 2 and O2) which I also haven’t really shared my new alarm panel but […]
SunFire V250 Power Supply Repair is complete!
Here is the video of the repair, I liked how fast the time lapse turned out, it’s really cool; SunFire V250 Power Supply Repair is complete!If you like stuff, rate it for us!
News and Blog for Thursday, May 7th 2012
Back after a very hard week! Some of you may have noticed that last week the icebox server was down and unavailable for use. This was actually a result of my boneheadedness in thinking that a 25watt PCI card is some how hot pluggable. Compound this with being sick at the beginning of the week, […]
Doing more work, more goodies coming!
Quick silly random update / preview of some stuff coming down the pipeline since I’m off this weekend, whooray! If anyone needs this done on their Sun Machine, please get in touch with me. This will also be added soon once I get the shopping cart all working and in order; Play safe, Doogie Doing […]
Power supply cap order list
So this is more my personal notes, buuuuut then I thought about it and this may actually be handy to someone else wanting to fix an expensive power supply. This is the list of Capacitors and values that one would need to order up when recapping this power supply. Use your ESR meter, you’ll likely […]
News & Blog for Tuesday, April 3rd 2012
Whats up everyone! Summer is getting closer, its nice to see it consistently warm outside. Then with yesterdays snow, I was reminded how much I REALLY like it when it’s warm outside. I really hope that it’s here to stay. Does anyone remember Pine, or alpine? This may seem a little weird but I’m still […]
March Video Blog! whaaa
That’s right, I’ve got a video setup that finally seems to work a treat, so I’ve been stepping it up. I figured it out, I could sit here and talk all day long in text that I can do this or that, or I can on the other hand film what I’m actually capable of, […]
News and Blog for March 29th, 2012
Whats happening? Lots! First off, I finally finished the tour and full video of the Motorola Mobile Work Stations / Carputers that I have available for sale. I will be using one in the van, and the Corrado. The difference will be that in the Corrado, I won’t be using the Motorola screen, its too […]
News and Blog for Tuesday, March 20th 2012
Whats up all! I have been pretty busy with stuff here at the shop. I have had a few repair jobs, and a couple of unforeseen projects. The first repair job is recovering or resetting the BIOS password in a Dell Inspiron 1000 series. Since there is no security chip on this particular machine, […]
Notes for Brad (v8jagnut) in troubleshooting his SV21 Camry issues
These are for for brad aka “v8jagnut” on you tube. For those who are unaware he is having issues with this car: Its sad that the shop he took the ECU to diagnosed it as bad. I took a good look at the code charts and diagrams after watching your video, I guess it […]
Comcast blows!
For any of you considering Comcast, you really should never consider it an option at all. I am a tech support guy of a different sorts, I don’t deal with the general population as a whole.. Frankly, in a tech support role I’m not sure I want to lol, that’s for another day. Where I […]
I wonder how posting from a mobile phone works
Testing out the android app that interfaces with the wordpress cms. This is pretty interesting I have to admit, I have never been able to construct an entire website so fast before, and be that satisfied with the results. I’m glad that its become as universally possible as facebook to host and maintain my own […]
What the whole thing changed again!
I decided to change up the site again to something a little more user friendly. I wanted a CMS that is flexible, popular, and multi platform. So I found word-press. The software seems really secure, and nothing is without its give and take. There are a couple of things that I have needed to adjust […]
Critical Mass
So I found out that more rent is owed at the shop than I was expecting since my partner backed out. I am ready to sign the new lease, but need to get this paid first. Time to kick it into high gear! I am a bit of a slacker in getting the tour video […]
Work goes on
Another Corrado has made its way into the shop, the motor was received new piston rings and bearings from me in 2008, was driven 20 miles and has sat ever since awaiting shift linkage and axles and some other details. The time has come to finish this one up, since its much closer than the […]