Has American Airlines Gone Bad?

Airline experts say it's so bad that they're recommending not flying on American unless you have to be there.

As American works through its bankruptcy proceedings, labor strife between the pilots and management is starting to heat up --and passengers are beginning to pay the price.

If you have plans to fly American Airlines this fall you may want to reconsider.


The airline expects to cancel up to 2 percent of its total flights through the end of October because of the disputes. Pilots and crew are calling in sick or delaying fights by getting into a fight with one another, and last-minute maintenance calls are mucking up schedules.

The Allied Pilots Association, the union that represents the 11,000 pilots of American Airlines, says the pilots are not to blame for these mishaps. It blames the cancellations on company mismanagement and problems with old planes.

 American Airlines and American Eagle say they will cancel 300 flights this week to cope with a high number of pilots reporting sick and an increase in maintenance reports filed by crews.That's 1.25 percent of the 24,000 flights that were scheduled by the two airlines, which are owned by AMR Corp.
The two airlines had already canceled 249 flights this week by Wednesday afternoon, a flight-tracking service said, suggesting that cancellations might far exceed American's estimate.

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Apple iPhone 5, Is it worth it?

For  iPhone 5 retail sales appear to be living up to the hype as Apple stores were inundated with customers ready to snap up the company's latest model.

Outside the Upper West Side Apple store in New York City store early Friday, hundreds are lined up around the block as blue-shirted Apple employees walk around the line, answering questions and handing out coffee and water.

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How to Fix a Plasma , LCD and LED TV

You were watching TV then the screen goes black.  The most likely is that a capacitor blew on your TV's power supply board. Not to worry. It can be easily fixed.

Do you know what a bad capacitor looks like? A capacitor will bubble up on the top. See images to get a better understanding.  you know what bad capacitors look like. Your first step is to unplug the TV then remove the back cover and access the power supply. Now you can get a visual of the capacitors in order to see what shape there in; I say to unplug the TV first not just because of the electrical hazard but also the newer TVs sometimes have a kill switch installed. If you try to open the back with it still plugged it will shut the TV down indefinitely; and you will only be able to turn it back on with a special field service code. YOU DID WHAT!!!. Some Pioneer plasma TVs are known for this.

Just so everyone knows I’m not an electronics tech, but I would say I’m an avid troubleshooter/tinkerer. I’m the type of person that has to know why something is broke, and what the reason is.Im also a firm believer in the right tools and the proper approach to fixing anything.There is always a right way.Dont take short cuts.I also can’t stand to see perfectly good items tossed or thrown aside because of a possibly simple fix. Perhaps if it isn’t so simple as long as it doesn’t cost a lot of money, why not fix it? Also at the time of this article the state of the economy does not seem to be getting much better;and it seems like more and more people are holding off purchasing new items in exchange for fixing what they have,or just going without non-essentials altogether.It also appears we have enough electronics and appliance in the local dumps around the world why unnecessarily ad to it?

Piles of TVs

Anyhow I have ran across this problem many times and have fixed several electronics items such as TV and computers just by knowing the symptoms and going right to the problem.People have tossed some really good items away thinking they were broke or unfix-able and I have taken them home and fixed them for less the 5 dollars, most of the time. Here is a short video that I thought was well done showing the condition of bad capacitors. Some are barely noticeable while others are leaking and decomposing.

 After the back panel is off, look at the capacitors in and around the power supply. Mark all those with a marker that need replacing. Now look at the side of the capacitor to see what type it is. There are many types and strengths. The type you will be replacing is “electrolytic capacitors” these are usually made of aluminum casing that have a small amount of fluid in them to allow them to hold a charge. They will have two small wire stems coming out of the bottom that will be used to solder it to the board. The important numbers are the UF and the voltage; for example I just replaced some capacitors that were 820uf and 16volt. Yours will more than likely be different.

 After you know what you need to purchase, buying online is usually the only way I found what I needed in the area of electronic components. I have gone to radio shack for capacitors in the past and they have never had what I needed off the shelf. They usually carry very general, low capacity items,such as you would find inside a radio...imagine that Radio Shack carrying components for radios... preposterous!!!
Or you can try www.Newark.com they have fairly inexpensive components.
Capacitors don’t cost very much, for this type of thing it is usually a dollar or two each, plus shipping.

Tools you will need

	J&L 60 Watts Soldering Iron, UL listed Amazon Price: $5.41 List Price: $14.99
	Solder Sucker- desoldering pump Amazon Price: $0.51 List Price: $5.85
	Lead-Free Solder 5' Roll Amazon Price: $0.99 List Price: $1.70

Jargon Virus

Jargon.vbs  is a  virus like the other viruses
1) the replication code
2) the payload

The job of a virus is to go forth and multiply (replication code)
and do something (payload)

So essentially, if your calculator software makes copies of itself onto different directories. it can technically be referred to as a virus.

There are thousands upon thousands of computer viruses in the wild. Since Man is an OC animal, he tends to categorize them.

1) virus - generic term for a program that makes copies of itself

2) trojan - a virus that pretends to be a different program.

3) worm - a virus that actively looks for computers to infect. yes, by itself.
It's like well, a worm..

4) adware - a virus who's payload is to show/popup ads

5) malware - trojan version 2. it does something useful but does harm in the
background. they should've called it politician.

6) jokeware - a vius who's payload is a prank.


Sooner or later, your PC will be infected by a virus. The damage will depend on the payload the virus has. It's not an IF, but a WHEN. No antivirus can block every virus since the disease must come before the cure (unless it's a conspiracy. See Outbreak movie).

Always always always have a backup of your important files. It's not the technician's fault if your files are gone. The only virus proof computer is the one that you don't turn on.

Here’s how you can remove JARGON.VBS from your computer and your infected flash drives.

• Download: Flash Disinfector | Mirror
• Run the Flash_Disinfector.exe. Explorer will close (your desktop will disappear leaving you with windows of currently running programs) and restart. This will have stopped the script.
• Now you’ll have to delete the malware files so your system won’t get infected again, to do this you need to display hidden files.
  • Open My Computer.
  • Select the Tools menu and click Folder Options.
  • Select the View Tab.
  • Under the Hidden files and folders heading unselect Do not show hidden files and folders.
  • Browse your flash drive (DON’T CLICK AUTOPLAY or you’ll run the malware again) and remove the following files:

  autorun.inf
  jargon.vbs
  wscript.exe
  

  Repeat this step for all infected drives.
  
  • Go to C:/Windows and delete

  jargon.vbs
  

• Congratulations, you’ve removed that annoying malware

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Verizon Free Tethering / HotSpot

ireless Tethering is one of the main things I searched for in a smart phone. I specifically bought a wifi only Xoom because I knew I could just tether it to my phone. When I switched to the droid 3 believing it would come unlocked it was like a kick in face.

Recently I came across a thread from Team Black Hat describing a way of enabling free tethering on Verizon without root. In their write up they provide . Useless for us as we don't have root, or a recovery, but it got me thinking. All credit for this goes to Team Black Hat. They rock, I really hope they are working on rooting the droid 3 because they are android gods.

I'm not going to go too in depth here, because if you screw up you have the possibility to brick your pretty new device. Also, It goes against your TOS with Verizon, and who knows one day they might work out a way to tell who is doing this. The more people who know and use this trick, the more likely it is they will find some way of detecting and or closing the hole.

But I couldn't help but make an  instructable out of this loophole!  So with the standard disclaimer (I'm not responsible for anything you do, anything that comes of something you do, blah blah, you know the deal) I will outline the steps required to enable free tethering on our wonderful Droid 3s and possibly other phones too!

Step 1: Step 1

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1st. You need the most recent drivers for your computer so that your computer can see your phone. You can get them off the Motorola website, same as if you were going to use adb or RSDlite. The file I downloaded from the moto support site was called MotoHelper_2.0.49_Driver_5.0.0.exe. and its free!

Step 2: Step 2

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2nd. You need a copy of Radiocom. Radiocom is a piece of software thats supposed to be for moto employees only and allows you to read and write data directly to your software radio. You need to search the internet for it, because its a copyrighted file I can't post it for you. You need to find the latest version. The best version I found was RadioCOmm_v11.11.11_Install.msi - You also need the .net framework installed on your computer. You can get that from Microsoft's site for free.

Microsoft gives free updates and software for Framework

Step 3: Need a USB cable and your phone ( mine is a droid 3 )

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step 2-A. You need a droid USB cable and a droid 3.

Now... crack a beer or soda if your under 21 and lets get down to business.

1. Install the moto drivers and the .net framework. Install Radiocom. It will give you all sorts of errors, but it will install.

2. Next, find it under your start menu. Right click on it, and select "trouble shoot compatibility" I just ran with the suggested settings. Basically what this does is run the application under XP compatibility mode. Now take a sip of beer, you are gonna get some error messages but don't tweak.

a. You will still get the first screen that says do you want ot the following program from an unknown company to make changes on your computer - check yes.

b. it will say Motorola data-card drivers 1.5.9 : this installation is intended for 32-bit os versions only.please use the 64bit version on this machine. click okay.

c. Installation incomplete: the installer was interrupted before moto data card drivers 1.5.9 could be installed. You need to restart the installer to try again. hit close.

d. Warning: Motorola Datacard Driver installation package version mismatch. the version supplied with this tool does not match the installed version on the machine. WE cannot guarantee proper radio enumeration unless you install the latest version. the installation package will start again the next item this tool is started. Click OK

e. This version of RadioCOmm is more that 2 months old. This version may be out of date. Please visit the PDO compass webpage and download the latest version of RadioComm. - Click OK.

Step 4: Here come the tricky part ,depending on the 32 bit or 64 bit version of windows 7

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This part varies depending if your running windows 32 bit or 64 bit version of windows 7

Radiocom will start you will have to select the Chipset at start: I selected CDMA 1x (MSM 7500) w/ Android. I don't know if this is the best or most accurate one. I actually spent 45 minutes trying to search for exactly what our chipset base was... but I decided to be brave (or stupid) and went with this one and it worked. after it boots, Under settings in radiocom, USB, Select PST USB Driver.

Just to note\-I tried it first on a 32 bit version and was unsuccessful , then I tried it on 64 bit version and it worked and really fast

Here's a link to what the radio comm software should look like  http://www.mydroidworld.com/forumimages/RC_Tether_1.jpg

Step 5: PLEASE! be careful!(If u dont u can brick ur phone,so i heard!)otherwise its super easy

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Now, Connect your droid 3 to your computer and put it in PC mode. If you installed the drivers correctly you should get this cool little screen showing your phone and telling you some info about it that pops up from motos software. in radiocom software in the upper right of the screen right under the RC logo, the lgiht should turn green to show the phone is connected. You can test by pushing the GET button under the SW version. It should return your Android software version. DON'T PUSH ANY OTHER BUTTONS. YOU COULD REALLY SCREW SOMETHING UP.

Now a little background, you can read TBH's awesome explanation, but the quick and dirty one is that moto's software radio uses three different 128 char string identifiers for data requests. Thats how they can tell the difference between your phones web browser asking for data, and a laptop or Xoom connected to your phone asking for data. We are going to use Radiocom to make all three strings match the first string - so all data appears to be just for the phone. After doing so - your verizon installed hotspot app will work and the usb tethering option will too! ta da

Step 6: If you have any questions or cant find the software i can help you out al little

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If you have any questions or cant find the software i can help you out!

PS This SH*T works and its saving me 20.00 a month and I didn't even have to root my phone to do it !!!!

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