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Full ThrottleLatest Happenings At Misbehavin-RCBehind The Scenes Things here at Misbehavin RC have been moving along at a rapid clip. It's hard to believe it's already almost March and that warm weather is right around the corner. It'll be nice to be able to run outside and bash the trucks in shorts and a t-shirt for a change. Despite the colder weather, you'll find that I've managed to get some run time in, and with that some more video clips. More on that later. I'm also pretty excited about an upcoming project that I've been working on for around a month. I'm still reluctant to get my hopes up too much though. I also don't want to reveal too much yet, as it may not happen, but it will be big if it does. Although I may know something for sure in the next few weeks, it won't be brought to light for several months. However I'll keep everyone informed in the next edition of Full Throttle, as I find out more information regarding it. The site is continuing to grow and remains a big source for those looking for RC-related information. Last month's page views topped over 120,000 with around 40,000 visitors, and things are still growing steadily. It's real interesting to see the various places people visit from when I view the log files. Obviously the majority of the traffic is from the United States. However there's still quite a bit of traffic from overseas, some from countries you would have never guessed, where the pages are being ran through translation sites by the viewer so they can be read.
Regarding Recent Internet Viruses Recently the MyDoom virus starting affecting e-mail accounts and servers across the globe. Before MyDoom was released many other viruses preceded it as well. In recent months it has become more common for a virus to forge it's point of origin, making it seem as if it came from somewhere it did not.
I've recently received several e-mails regarding this, with the sender thinking the virus-borne e-mail came from one of my accounts. However I can assure you, that is not the case. This site, and all e-mail accounts I use, sit behind a firewall. All e-mail, and general traffic, entering and exiting that point is checked and logged before it continues to it's destination. This is the case whether the traffic is from me, or to me.
What is happening is that someone, who is infected with a virus, happens to have a one of my e-mail addresses stored in their address book. When the virus is active on their machine it randomly flips through their address book and uses an e-mail address it finds in the "Reply" and/or "From" fields. Then it chooses another e-mail address at random to be the "To" address. When this happens, it appears as if the e-mail comes from somewhere it really did not.
There are several steps you should take to protect yourself from being infected with a virus. First, never open any e-mail unless you know the sender. Secondly subject lines with poor grammar or incorrect spelling should be suspected as possibly being a virus. In addition to this, make sure you are running a virus scanner on your PC, and make sure the virus definitions are current. Virus definitions change several times a week, sometimes even on a daily basis. If you only update your definitions once a month, once a year, or never, you are no better off than someone who has no virus protection at all.
For more information regarding virus scanners and utilities check out common anti-virus vendors such as Panda Software and Symantec. Latest Updates I get a lot of requests for items to add to the site, and I make note of each and every one. I do my best to add everything that's suggested by others and things I think that will help the hobby in general. One of the biggest requests I encounter has nothing to do with tips and walkthroughs. That request would be more videos. If you fall into that category, you won't be disappointed with this current round of updates. There's two new videos that consist of us bashing while we were at the beach the beginning of this month. These videos are packed with jumping, rolling, and hard landings, and they resulted in quite a bit of carnage. During the filming of these two videos we managed to trash a front bulkhead, a suspension arm, a motor mount, and a Traxxas 2.5 motor. Needless to say, the spot we chose for bashing provided some thrills, but wasn't the best landing area when things went wrong. Both my wife and I spent some time behind the camera, but she captured some of the best footage. That includes a perfect filming of my cartwheels after I killed my motor. You may also notice that the videos have been changed somewhat. In reviewing the logs, I've noticed a large number of videos being played from desktop shortcuts, where each time it's started it has to pull the video from the server again. The problem with this, is that the viewer is using bandwidth each time they view the video, whereas others are just downloading the video and storing it on their hard drive for repeated viewings. So in an effort to better conserve bandwidth, I've placed all the videos in a .zip file. You'll need to download the zip file, and unzip it to your hard drive. Once that's been done you can then view the video. Links and instructions on how to handle .zip files can be found on the video page. While the new videos are indeed a big addition to the site, there are other updates worthy of checking out as well. You'll notice that two new reviews are up, the AJS Machine 180 Stand and one for the Art's Hobby Carbon Fiber T-Maxx chassis. Several tech articles have been updated as well. There's some information that should help you when setting up your radio if you happen to have one with advanced features such as dual-rate and exponential. The motor gearing section has additional information now, explaining what gear pitch is. In the section regarding metal gear servos, you'll now find information on coreless and poled servos, as well as some general information on using them. Also, thanks to razer's posts on the Traxxas forums, several metal gear servos from FMA have been brought to light as suitable replacements for those needing a heavy duty servo. Although there are several other smaller updates that you can check out below, there's one more I wanted to mention. That would be wallpaper. Make sure to check out the new addition to the wallpaper section, as I had the opportunity to shoot a few pictures in the snow several weeks ago It made for some really cool-looking wallpaper of my freshly painted T-Maxx!!! With all of that being said, I'm through with this issue of Full Throttle. See you guys in the next update!!!
Until next time, keep on bashin'!!!
Recent Updates
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