Category Archives: misc

Truck Specifications (From Ronnie)

2012 Truck or earlier (to avoid newer rules that make maintenance more frequent)

  1. Look for rust under and around vehicle
  2. Silicone around the transfer case
  3. Oil leaks- check front and back seal
  4. Cobwebs or other artificats that show it hasn’t been driven much
  5. check dipstick, then remove top of it and have someone crank truck to see if smoke comes out (indicates compression is being wasted)
  6. Brown rust evidence in radiator overflow tank

Most important thing for an older vehicles is oil changes. If the oil is changed consistantly and it isn’t in a rust environment miles and age should not be a problem.

How to Get Past SSL-based Errors on Chrome Family of Browsers

Many websites have their SSL encrpytion certificates setup incorrectly. Most of the ones I’ve encountered were DOD sites, who seemingly can’t figure out how to setup the certificates to allow both the www prefix and no prefix or other similar problems. I recommend you download the certificate and check before considering the work-around that I’m going to share.

In fact, I recommend you don’t do the work-around but if you feel so inclined…

When your chrome– based browser won’t let you continue due to a ssl certificate mismatch, you can type 

thisisunsafe

and it will bypass the logic that doesn’t allow you to access sites with ssl mis-configurations.

I don’t recommend this but it will work on chrome, chromium, brave or any other browser based on chrome.