Transportation as a service

This is where the industry is headed, will it remain affordable? It will happen simultaneously while the industry switches to Electric Vehicles. I’m concerned about how people will treat the vehicles. I’m thinking I will want to own and operate a few of these and have one car that is just for me and my family. Set the car-pods up so that they go to a detailer after every trip and then they get back on the road is what I’m thinking.

All Electric Houses

I was watching Belinda Carr’s latest video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1weD9ZvYxTw and while I like the diversification of energy idea, electric lends itself to that, it makes the most sense to me to have on-site storage via battery, flywheel, or something else. Couple that storage with renewable or zero-carbon sources and it seems that all electric is the right move now that we have the technology to make it work efficiently and reliably at an affordable price.

Loud Exhaust in residential zones

Several of my neighbors or people who drive past where we live now have vehicles that you can hear coming and going, even ones not perceived as powerful (even the “powerful” ones would be embarrassed by my electric minivan Tesla Model X P100D) it seems some are taking extra effort to make more noise at two and three in the morning. What is the point? Also seems they don’t understand the concept that every decibel you can hear is that much less power put to the ground.

ADFS Service failures

I had a few ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) Servers that would have various log on issues in event viewer as well as being unable to complete configuration after installing the AD FS Role. Thanks to Brian Reid ADFS Service Login Failures and a Simple Fix – C7 Solutions I was able to realize that blanking out the password in the Services MMC allowed me to start the service one time because the password was wrong due to my use of GMSAs (Group managed Service Accounts) GMSA passwords are handled by the domain controller similar to LAPS so whatever is in that properties box under the username and password is wrong. As Brian points out clearing that makes the computer ask the Domain Controller for the current password and lets you start the service.

The problem that Christopher Hinkle and I were having is that the same problem would happen at each restart of the system. Over on a SQL site Pinal Dave https://blog.sqlauthority.com/2019/02/27/sql-server-sql-service-not-getting-started-automatically-after-server-reboot-while-using-gmsa-account/ found tweaking dependencies worked for him, it did not work for me, but commenter Michael had a solution for his SQL system that I tweaked to work for my ADFS Servers the first one has been working for months but this week I ran into the problem again and found next to nothing online but remembered that I am obsessed with OneNote and my answer was right in there. The solution to ADFS Error 700 7000 7038 7034 and a host of net.tcp//localhost:1500/policy running in read-only mode errors was to do the following:

• Modify this registry value - Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\adfssrv

• Value: ServiceAccountManaged

• Datatype: REG_BINARY

• 01 00 00 00

• In PowerShell start-service adfssrv

• restart-computer

• After the computer comes back, in PowerShell again, get-service adfssrv

You should now see your service is running if you’ve already successfully configured it with the password blanking method.

If you haven’t done that then you can run start-service adfssrv and then run your ADFS configuration script or the configuration wizard from Server Manager or Windows Admin Center.

No more wondering “Why does my Windows Service keep forgetting its password?” Or staring at “The service did not start due to a login failure” filling up your event viewer.

Videos

Since the last post the following videos have posted

What if you get your finger caught in the Tesla Model X Ice Breaker?

After our previous video on the Ice breakers folks asked what happens if you get your finger caught in the mechanism. https://youtu.be/6cgSQM2yhEo

In this video we simulate a finger with a carrot, the results were not pretty unfortunately.

How does a car with no door handles do in ice or snow? Tesla has equipped each side of the Model X front doors with an Ice Breaker, to open the door with more force than the regular door motors offer.

Don't put your fingers or anything else inside the deployed icebreakers, they do not sense pressure or anything and retract with a similar force to their deployment, but if you or a child does get caught, don't panic. Press the door button or pull the door handle again and the car will re-deploy the Model X ice breaker mechanism and at this point you should quickly remove the obstacle (body part or foreign object).

What has your experience been with the Model X ice breakers? This was literally the second time my Model X P100D has deployed either of the icebreaker units.

Luna Spends a day with Maryland Tesla Club at Leonardtown Warf

My wife Luna and I went to a Meeting of the Maryland Tesla Club called Southern Maryland Tesla Takeover where we all met outdoors and kept our distance on this beautiful day. While I was goofing around with the 8K 360 camera Luna went on a stroll with the 5.7K 360 camera, and apparently almost dropped it.

Catch you on the flipside