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Gone, But Not Forgotten: A Farewell to Mopar1973Man

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The Server Room

One Reminder, One Long Day: Forum Upgrade, File Cleanup, and a Network Card That Vanished

One Reminder, One Long Day: Forum Upgrade, File Cleanup, and a Network Card That Vanished It started with a simple reminder: the forum software needed updating. It turned into a full day of server housekeeping. Here's what I ran into and the commands I used. Anything in ALL CAPS is a placeholder, so swap in your own values. Back up before you change anything. 1. The upgrade that always failed The one-click Invision upgrade never worked for me, so I'd been uploading updates by hand. The cause was
The Server Room

When the Website Runs Out of Seats

When the Website Runs Out of Seats: Diagnosing a Slow Site Like a Sick Diesel Tonight the site went down on me. Anyone who has chased a Cummins that "runs fine, then doesn't" knows the feeling. Everything looked healthy, but something was wrong. How I Caught It: The Dash Gauges I didn't find out because a member emailed me. I found out because of the gauges. I run Linux on my desktop, and I use a little monitoring panel called Conky that sits right on my screen and shows the health of the websit
Site News

Gone, But Not Forgotten: A Farewell to Mopar1973Man

Friends, forum members, and fellow grease monkeys, we are gathered here today to say goodbye to a name. Mopar1973Man has been with me a long time. The name goes back to at least 2004, when I hand-coded a little HTML4 website during the Cloud 10 Computers years. On October 4, 2007, it became Mopar1973Man.Com, which started as nothing more than my own notes for fixing Dodge Ram Cummins diesels. I never planned for it to grow. People found those notes, and they kept coming back. Folks have called m
Titanium

Live It Your Way: Music, Titanium and No Labels

November 2, 2026 People like to ask what kind of person listens to what kind of music. Goth, emo, alt, metal, country, pop. Pick a box, wear the shirt, learn the rules. I never did fit one, and the older I get, the less I care to try. Titanium came from the same place. A good friend told me to go listen to the song, and it stuck, because it was about getting knocked down and not breaking. I wasn't the same person anymore, and I didn't want to keep wearing the name of someone I used to be. So I p
Titanium

Moving the Water Heater Closer to the House: Why It Matters

November 2, 2026 Winter is coming to New Meadows, and the garage doesn't forgive cold water lines. The old spot for the water heater was too far from the living quarters. That meant long runs of pipe sitting in a space that gets well below freezing, and every cold snap was a gamble. So today Mark and I moved it. The new home is against the white wall on the house side of the garage, as close to the living quarters as I can get it. It's a 40 gallon electric unit with 2500 watt elements, and it no
The Server Room

Maintenance Oct 30 2026

Fixing Email and Spam on the Server: What We Repaired Today Today was a long maintenance day on the live mopar1973man.com mail server. The main problem was a flood of spam hitting one of my mailboxes. While chasing it I found and fixed several other things, and I'm writing them down in case it helps someone else running their own mail server. 1. Spam filtering wasn't working properly SpamAssassin was tagging most incoming mail with a "URIBL_BLOCKED" warning. That means the server couldn't use th
The Server Room

Give Each Section of Your Invision Site Its Own Look

Invision Community has no built-in way to give each section of a site its own colors. A little custom CSS can do it. Here's how I gave the Titanium and Cloud 10 areas of this site their own look. The idea Every page on an Invision site is tagged with its section and its ID number. A blog page, for example, is tagged as the blog app with the blog's number. Pages that sit inside a section, such as a post or a forum topic, link back to their parent section in the breadcrumb at the top. CSS can look
Site News

New Member Profiles: Tell Us About Your Truck and Your Tech

The member profiles have been rebuilt. You can now list your truck and your tech setup so other members know what you're working with when you ask for help. Why the change The most common reply to a question on this site used to be "what truck do you have?" or "what are you running?" Now that information can sit right in your profile, so the answers you get back can be better and faster. My Truck For the Dodge Cummins side of the site, you can add: Generation, year and model Engine and transmis
Thor

Thor Gets New Headlights

Thor, my 2006 Dodge Ram 3500, is getting new headlights and LED bulbs. They're ordered, and I'll document the swap with photos. What's Coming I ordered [the headlight assemblies: brand or type] and [LED bulbs: which positions]. They're on the way, and I'll put them in as soon as they arrive. Why [What's wrong with the old ones: hazy, dim, cracked, or something else.] With winter coming and a plow possibly going on the truck, I want to see well on dark roads. What I'll Cover Before and after phot
Site News

Where the Site Is Headed

An update on Mopar1973Man.Com: what happened, what's changing, and what's coming in diesel, Linux and servers, Titanium and Suzanna's jewelry. The landslide on May 29, 2025 took my shop, and it took over my life for much of the year since. Nearly all my time went to cleanup and keeping the vehicles running, and the website got left behind. Thanks to everyone who stuck around and kept checking in, including the guys who called nearly every day. You know who you are. A New Name Mopar1973Man is ret
The Server Room

Cloud 10 Is Back: Getting the Servers in Shape

Cloud 10 Computers is back as the home for servers, networking, Linux and security. Here's the first project: a full security check-up on my own servers. Cloud 10 Computers started in 1994 as my custom PC building business, and it's returning as the home for everything computer-related on this site. The first project was my own backyard. While the site sat untended, I did a full security check-up and cleaned up the servers. In general terms, here's what that meant. Updates The forum software, PH
Site News

Winter's Coming — Time to Move Back Inside

Winter's Coming — Time to Move Back Inside Hey everyone, If you've been anywhere near my neck of the woods lately, you know the good warm weather isn't going to last much longer. Fall is creeping in fast, and it won't be long before the days turn cold and rainy for good. That means my outside work is on borrowed time. I've been putting in as many hours outdoors as I can while the weather holds, but once the rain and cold move in for the season, I'll be shutting that down and heading back inside.
Site News

Progress!

Landslide Cleanup — Progress Summary The Slide (May 29, 2025, 8:15 AM) The first photo captures the immediate aftermath of the landslide that came down off the hillside behind the property. A section of the slope let go, taking several large pine and fir trees down with it — they're shown lying flattened across the debris field, still rooted at the base but toppled toward the yard. The slide plowed straight through the diesel shop, leaving it sheared apart and tipped at a steep angle, its wood s
Site News

Kubota failed and failed again.

Yesterday I was raking through the pile and separating lumber and debris. FedEx shows up and shuts down the tractor. Took care of FedEx, and then the tractor would start. After probing the internet looking for information. I gave up and quit for the day. Got up this morning and tore all the stuff apart and found the problem: the solenoid lead was pulled and hidden, could see it. Plug it into the starter worked. Then put it all back together. Now I'm repiling the debris, and the belt breaks, and
Site News

Kubota M62 - Serivce

Finally got my materials together to do a service on the new-to-us but 2018 M62 Kubota backhoe. Since I was pulling all the body off the engine finding out that the doghouse panels are missing clips and are tie-wired on. I upgraded to racing zipties. I replaced some old-looking Kubota filters on this machine. I dumped the little 9-quart engine, which actually has 2 drain plugs, because the front driveshaft is running right up the middle of the oil pan. Boy, it's tough to spin off the filter when
Titanium

Busy Man - Titanium

Beast got his new VP44 injection pump. Been a long while since I've done long work like this, wow! I can feel it all through my shoulders and arms from hanging upside down over the tappet cover and injection pump. Few flaws I did on that job. I got sidetracked by people coming and going, and then forgot to tighten the 1,2,4 injection lines at the pump, and couldn't figure out the diesel fuel smell. D'Uh! 🫣 Tighten all that up, and Beast came to life. To test Beast out, I packed up the next da
Beast

VP44 Injection pump - 505,363 Miles - May 23, 2026

Our last trip down to Boise ID we were going to dry camp with the RV as @Tweety Bird had medical appointments. While down in Boise / Eagle area Beast just died and jumped back to life.I called it and was the VP44. Fast forward we get home and park Beast beside the RV. Fast forward again yesterday i went to start Beast and move.Nope no start. Bummed I was going to have to work out in the yard. This morning I figure to try starting Beast again. Long crank but it started. Quickly move over the gara
Titanium

Where is Titanium Hiding Now???

It was awesome to just take time away from the mess in my own yard. Even though both of us were worn out and really didn't do anything much while out here. The weather got cold and is snowing. We were up near Lost Valley Reservoir at an elevation of roughly 4,800 feet. The first two days were spent sitting at the dining table, looking out the windows at the storm rolling in and then rolling out and clearing up. Titanium was in hair and super simple, just black eyeliner and black eye shadow, then
Thor

We return home!

We are still currently living in the RV as we start to unpack into the house again, @Tweety Bird and I enjoyed the dry camping we did up at Lost Valley Reservoir. We needed the break so badly that we never went fishing at all. We just enjoyed the quiet and lack of cell service. My phone had just 1 bar, which barely would work, and I was able to text a few friends and communicate with them. We had two days of a very cold and windy snowstorm. Even back home, I was able to catch the Mopar1973Man we
Thor

Gone - Weekend rest!

@Tweety Bird and I will be heading out to Lost Valley Reservoir. We are going to get away from the house to give us both a break. Time to go fishing! It's been a rough spring with weather issues and attempting to keep vehicles running. We are just both burned out. The new injection pump for Beast will be here on Monday. The owners of Mopar1973Man.Com are going to disappear to the lake. Take a weekend and rest and be free for a while.
Titanium

The change that became permanent

So, as I was packing up on my first trip, I was doing a lot of back and forth, loading stuff in the RV. For 2 days, I didn't wear any makeup at all. When I got going and realized I needed to stop at the local hardware store for a chunk of chain, like 6 feet or so. This was purchased to lock the generator to the truck or RV. When I walked into the store without makeup on, everyone kept coming up to me and asking, "Are you OK? Are you sick again? Cancer coming back?" Nope, just was super busy and

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