Kylmällä esilämmitetty auto tuo etuja

Kylmä kangistaa – ja kuluttaa

Kylmänä käynnistetty moottori on polttoainesyöppö. Kylmän moottorin käynnistäminen esimerkiksi –15 asteen pakkasessa kuluttaa moottoria monen sadan kilometrin ajoa vastaavan määrän.

VTT:n tekemien tutkimusten mukaan nykymoottorien lämmittäminen kannattaa aloittaa energiatehokkuuden näkökulmasta katsottuna ilman lämpötilan painuessa nollan alapuolelle.

Ajasta oikein sähkökäyttöinen esilämmitin

Suositellut lämmitysajat sähkökäyttöisellä esilämmittimellä ovat:

0,5h–1h, ilman lämpötilan ollessa 0˚C–(-5˚C)

1h–2h, ilman lämpötilan ollessa -5˚C–(-10˚C)

2h–3h, ilman lämpötilan ollessa alle -10˚C

Suositeltavaan lämmitysaikaan vaikuttaa sähkökäyttöisen lämmittimen tyyppi.

Mikäli kyseessä on jäähdytinnestettä suoraan lämmittävä lohko- tai letkulämmitin, valitaan aikaikkunan lyhyempi lämmitysaika. Käytettäessä moottorilohkoa tai öljypohjaa lämmittävää säteilylämmitintä, valitaan annetun aikaikkunan pidempi lämmitysaika.

Ratkaisuna polttoainetoiminen lämmitin

Polttoainetoimisella lisälämmittimellä lämmitettäessä suositellut lämmitysajat ovat:

10–15 minuuttia, ilman lämpötilan ollessa 0˚C–(-5˚C)

15–20 minuuttia, ilman lämpötilan ollessa -5˚C–(-10˚C)

20–30 minuuttia, ilman lämpötilan ollessa alle -10˚C

Käytettävään lämmitysaikaan vaikuttavat lämmittimen teho ja auton moottorin sekä sisätilojen koko. Omaan autoon soveltuva lämmitysaika kannattaa hakea kokeillen annettujen aikaikkunoiden sisältä.

Why does Chrome take up so much space on my Mac?

Step 1: see what’s taking up space

What I found out was that the largest file was a 12GB Chrome application.

That’s weird because the chrome on all of my machines is like 200MB tops.

You can see what an app is hiding by showing package contents

You can do this by right clicking on the app and selecting “show package contents”

(if you don’t see that you’re probably looking at a shortcut, select “options” then “reveal in finder” and try again on the icon that pops up in finder)

The culprit here was the versions folder

Inside the “contents” folder is a “versions” folder and inside of that folder is where I found 3 YEARS of chrome versions!

Versions dating back to May of 2013

Over 11 GB worth at almost 200 MB each

Step 2: DELETE

Deleting all but the newest version gave her back over 11GB of space!

I don’t know why the old versions don’t get deleted or how common this is, but if you’re running chrome on a mac it’s worth checking out.

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Blogger domain ncr not found error 404

Fix: Error 404 at www.blogspot.com/ncr/ when using Custom Domain for Blogger

The Problem

If you have registered a blog in Blogger, you will normally have a blogspot subdomain e.g. yourdomain.blogspot.com. But you can also use custom domain name for blogger like paid TLDs like .com, .net, .info etc or free domains like .tk, .co.cc, .cc.cc etc. 

I had a problem with my domain and blogger, while I set up DNS from the Godaddy and everything was right in there, I had a problem with domain directing to www.blogspot.com/ncr 

Prevent Blogger from Redirecting your Blogspot Blog to Country-Specific URLs

Google now redirects Blogger blogs to country-specific domains. For instance, if you open example.blogspot.com in your web browser, you will be redirected to example.blogspot.in if you are located in India or to example.blogspot.co.uk if you are accessing the blog from UK.

Google does country-specific redirection for selective censorship – that means they can easily censor or block a blog post, or other entire blog site, in one country but still serve that page in other geographic regions. Blog redirection only occurs if you are on a blogspot domain and not if your Blogger blog is on a custom domain.

My traffic logs suggest that country-specific redirection in Blogger is live in at least 15 countries. They are India [blogspot.in], Australia [blogspot.com.au], UK [blogspot.co.uk], Japan [blogspot.jp], New Zealand [blogspot.co.nz], Canada [blogspot.ca], Germany [blogspot.de], Italy [blogspot.it], France [blogspot.fr], Sweden [blogspot.se], Spain [blogspot.com.es], Portugal [blogspot.pt], Brazil [blogspot.com.br], Argentina [blogspot.com.ar], Mexico [blogspot.mx]

If you are not happy with the idea of Blogger redirecting your blog to a different URL, you can add the following piece of code to your Blogger template and it will always serve the .com address to your visitors irrespective of their geographic location.

Go to your blog inside the Blogger Dashboard and choose Template. Then click the “Edit HTML” button followed by “Proceed.” Next, copy-paste the following code into the template after the <head> tag.

<script type="text/javascript">

  // Written by Amit Agarwal

  /* Get the full URL of the current blogger page */

  var blog = document.location.href.toLowerCase();

  /* Do not redirect if the domain is .com already */

  if (!blog.match(/\.blogspot\.com/)) {

    /* Replace the country TLD with .com and ncr switch */

    blog = blog.replace(/\.blogspot\..*?\//, ".blogspot.com/ncr/");

    /* Redirect to the new .com URL in the current tab */

    window.location.replace(blog);

  }

  // Source: http://labnol.org/?p=21031

</script>

Coinbase is sued

Coinbase is being sued by one of its users for failing to keep its customers’ accounts accessible in periods of high market volatility. The lawsuit alleges that the exchange “improperly and unreasonably locks out its consumers from accessing their accounts and funds” This, he alleges, goes against the company’s promise of providing customer technology.

This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

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Former crypto trader here

Former crypto trader here. All this says is that he made TRADES that add up to between 260k and 950k dollars. That doesn’t mean anything.

I never had more than about $25k invested in crypto (less, most of the time), but like many crypto traders, I traded the fuck out of that shit. We’re talking hundreds or thousands of trades per year, sometimes including my entire balance in a trade. I traded about $1.5 million dollars one year and made about $1000 profit.

Total amount traded means nothing and you can easily trade that much without having very much actual value in your account.

I know a guy who is really into crypto. Wrote a book in it, and discussed it in LinkedIn a lot.

His bio says he has traded £X million or something, so I assumed he was doing really well. He's been doing this for years, he advises others, I figured he must have made tons by now.

So the other day I see him asking for funding of about £50k for his business (some crypto consultancy I think), and I'm surprised because... Surely that's pocket change compared to what he must have earned.

But this makes sense now.

He may have done decent profit-wise as well and just doesn’t want to put his own money into a business venture, hard to say. The profit was definitely WAY less than however much he said he TRADED though.

This is how hte rich work, make enough money that it makes other people want to get in on your next investment and then you can risk their money rather than your own.

Rich people hit a certain point then can relatively easy become ultra wealthy because once you hit that point you can start leveraging the money you have rather than spending it.

Think Mullusk trying to buy Twitter and having investors. Leveraging the perceived value of Tesla to buy another company with basically not spending a cent himself.

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Dealing with mental health issues

Dealing with mental health issues means dealing with mental health issues. You deal with it. You don't sit around waiting for the right mood or a "good day". You work towards management and improvement every day. You have a plan, you act. You get help if you need it, you get medication if you need it, you recognize your triggers/weaknesses, you learn to navigate your episodes, you learn to build and develop good habits and mental balance and stabilization.

If you don't deal with your mental illness, you force everyone in your life to deal with your mental illness.

Reddit worships mental health issues more than anywhere I've ever seen. They practically masturbate over how much they're all victims. But unless you're taking responsibility for it, you're using your victimhood to make everyone else a victim of you.

It's not a pretty truth but it's a necessary one. Admitting your traumas and faults isn't what gets you there; it's just the beginning of the journey.

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14 Mac Hacks That Will Change The Way You Use Your Mac

#14 Use Command + Shift + V to paste text without formatting.

For some this picture may seem gibberish, but to many computer users this is actually a depiction of a solution of a problem that plagues many a Mac user. That’s why the letters are all in bold. It is also a screen shot of a Mac page relating to email. When resorting to text copy and paste into your email from an external area such as a website it can be really annoying due to pieces of text with mixed fonts not relevant to your mail. For acquiring text that is unformatted in word just use the option of command alongwith shift the option and again V maybe all in sequence.

#13 If you need to type a special character, the easiest way is to hold down the letter and a character menu will pop up.

The image is a screen shot of a Mac page for editing text similar to word. It describes easily how to work around a problem and glitch that faces users every time you try a certain task like working with special characters. So the best advice when you require a character which is a special one is to keep the key corresponding to that letter pressed down and the menu for characters will appear. This is shown in the image where a number of different ‘E” fonts are displayed. In this area just choose which character you require. Most helpful when using specialized words.

#12 Place your mouse cursor over any text and press Command + Control + D to get an informative pop-up menu.

A very helpful image pertaining to Mac text hacking options to make your typing documents easier. The image depicts a sentence with te picture of an interior décor in the background for emphasis. In order to get information of a word you may not be sure about. All you have to do is position the cursor over that particular word such as “rustic’ n the image. Then keep pressed the command, control and D key. Immediately the information menu will be displayed with variations of that word and its definitions and nature of use similar to what is shown in the image.

#11 Use Command + Delete to delete a file instead of dragging it into the trash can.

A picture of a silver trash can looks nice but this isn’t just that. It’s been put there to show just how efficient your work can become if you use the various tips depicted in such images. Exclusively for Mac users it teaches you quicker ways to manipulate your system to get things done faster. When deleting files through the drag system, it can be tedious dragging so many files into your trash bin. Simply follow the instructions on the image. Click on command and the ‘delete’. The file goes directly to the trashcan. It’s really as simple as that

#10 Invert the colors of your screen to make it easier to read if you’re sitting outside in the sun.

If you are sitting outdoors with your Mac then it could get difficult to read the letters due to the lack of contrast. The image here provides a great solution to beat this problem. All you need to do is get the screen colors inverted to enable easier reading. This screen shot is an example of this where the background colors are legible enough I daylight. All you need to do is use the following commands such as control, option, and command with the figure 8. This will get the colors inverted. In Mountain lion as mentioned in the image, you need to access the invert colors option box.

#9 The “Purge” command will free up memory when your computer starts to feel sluggish.

The image depicts the options and tools in your Mac that could be used to your advantage. The description outlined here will help your Mac to be rid of all the memory eaters in your system. It will literally purge your system of unwanted trash and free a good deal of memory as shown in the table below the image of the screen shot. The ‘purge’ option can be found in the application that says ‘terminal’, the activity monitor needs to remain onscreen similar to the picture, At least ,5 gb of memory can be released in the very first attempt.

#8 Get the date to show up in the menubar with just a simple checkbox embedded in your System Preferences

Your Mac can be used as a daily scheduler. Observing thins image closely, one can see the screen page of the date and time menu. Now in most cases, the date does not appear in the menu bar. According to this image you can do just that with the help of a check box hidden within your computer preferences. You need to go to the ‘system preferences’ option, then access the time and Date options which have check boxes at the side as you can see in the picture. Select the ‘show date’ option and immediately you will find the date visible on your task bar.

#7 If you have a couple different audio output sources that you toggle between, click Option + Volume Icon to get an input/output menu.

When one is working with a Mac, the interfaces are slightly different. In this instance, when the user wants to listen or record, they can choose their options right from the tool bar. Clicking on the speaker icon, one can choose headphones to listen to music or other programs. Other options available are input devices, internal microphone etc. This gives users the choice of doing it quickly instead of having to doing it through the Control Panel and System Preferences. Volume can also be adjusted using toolbar shortcuts. Depending on what features one need and uses regularly, there are quite a few shortcuts to give them visibility.

#6 To get the volume or brightness to your exact preference, you can fine tune the settings in smaller increments by adding Shift + Option.

Here’s another shortcut to adjusting screen brightness. On the Mac toolbar, quite a few of the functions are easily manipulated to get the most comfortable screen to work with. Fine tuning is quite easily done using the Shift button +Option to adjust volume or brightness to suit one’s surroundings. These adjustments are a good way to be considerate to those around them and also to save on battery. With universal icons which are easily understood without the need for language, they are becoming a part of everyday usage. Apple is known for its innovative practices in bringing small but important changes to the interface.

#5 When restarting your computer, keep it from making that notorious startup sound by holding down the mute button.

Yet another trick which is not known to many – hold down the F10 button on the keyboard to stop the laptop from beeping when it is restarted. When one is working with their laptop or computer for extended hours, many forget to turn the volume down after listening to some program or music. This is a useful tip to know especially when one can use the laptop to take notes in class or even at work. It can save one from being embarrassed especially if the office is really quiet or if one is in a meeting – even though the sound is a common one. It will also depend on how high the volume is when the computer was turned off.

#4 Along the same lines, press Shift + the volume button to turn the volume up or down without making noise.

On the same lines as a quiet start up of the laptop, users can avoid the pinging noise which is usually associated with accessing and using tools. Users can use the Shift key on the keyboard and press the speaker icon (which controls volume) to increase or decrease volume without the usual ping. It is not only a useful shortcut but a good one to use in a number of situations – while at work, in class or even when one is alone at home and trying to be considerate to others around. Programmers work hard and think of ways to introduce shortcuts – here’s the chance to find out use them effectively.

#3 Did you know that the Preview application provides a handy way to sign forms from your computer? No fax or scanner needed.

More and more people are using their email and Internet to send documents to speed up business and all kinds of other deals. Here’s a shortcut to add one’s real signature instead of a computer generated one. This helps to avoid the need to go to a Notary Public unless it is absolutely necessary. Click on the PDF document to open it and click on the Annotate button in the toolbar. From the available options, choose signature option. One can sign on a blank sheet of paper and hold it up to the camera in the iSight/Facetime window. The camera will take a picture of the document and allow the user to add it to the document which needs it and inserts it in the right place.

#2 You can select any text, right-click on it, and TWEET IT with one click.

With more and more people using the web to promote their businesses and make their opinions known, developers offer users ways to connect to the Internet without having to do an extra step. On the toolbar, one can post comments and even tweet on social media. Comments can be written in a document and then posted on Twitter by choosing the right option in the Drop down menu. As for other options, like creating and posting content to the web, it is now really easy to do great presentations thanks to embedded technology. With all the developments in different software packages, users can look forward to an ever more interactive experience.

#1 If you just converted to PC from Mac, this little shortcut will let you keep using the delete button the way you’re used to.

Many people find the transition from a PC or laptop based on Windows a little difficult to deal with especially if it is to an iMac. Mac users have access to all kinds of little tricks to make work easier – for instance one can use the Fn (function key) in combination with the Delete button to delete the letter in front of the cursor without having to hit the delete button multiple times. There are quite a few other little tricks that one can use to make work easier – one way to remember is to ask and use these shortcuts. 

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