Valery Buchinsky's Blog: May 2008

28.5.08

What happens in a cylinder? (video)

When someone tries to explain to you what exactly goes on in a car engine you probably won't understand much. The video below shows you the full process.

Intake

The valve on the right opens and fuel (+air) fills the cylinder

Compression
While the piston goes up it compresses the fuel mixture

Ignition
When the fuel is compressed the spark plug lights a... spark to ignit the fuel. This pushes the piston back down.

Exhaust
The valve on the left opens to let the "smoke" get out and free space for the next cycle

11.5.08

You have troubles parking? (video)

If you think you have troubles with parking or parking your car is difficult in many situations then you really need to check how this guy parks his... daily!

10.5.08

Matrix Breakdancing (video)

This guy is just awesome! I liked the move where he gets up after "the bullet went past him". Just incredible!

7.5.08

About a month ago I had a problem on my PC at work:

Opened programs were not minimized in the taskbar. Hard to imagine (and explain) but when I clicked the "minimize" button of a program it just dissapeared. I was looking for a solution until my collegue Emo Sokolov sent me a link to Kellys Korner. There I found a registry editting script which fixed the problem.

I wouldn't have linked to Kelly's site unless the same problem didn't happen on my home PC. Exactly the same problem: Click minimize, the window goes down somewhere and there is no window-button on the taskbar. When using Alt+Tab all the programs are available. So I found Kelly's site again and... again I fixed the problem with a script from the Tweaks page.

So... Thank you, Kelly!