Bruce Rea

690hp BMW M3!

Bruce — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:12:44 +0000

I would love to drive this M3. This is a great test drive video by Matt Farah, host of The Smoking Tire.

Detroit Auto Show 2012

Bruce — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:26:05 +0000

It was a great show this year! Check out my gallery of the best of NAIAS 2012

How to Vinyl wrap your car

Bruce — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:26:43 +0000

It is becoming very popular to wrap cars in vinyl rather then painting it the old fashion way. I found this article over at bimmerpost.com. The owner decided to try to wrap his car in vinyl himself rather then paying someone to do it. He found that for a small fraction of the cost for a new paint job he was able to successfully change the color of his car. You can check out the article including all his tips @ e90post.com

Have you ever wondered what effect different size wheels and tires have on your car?

Bruce — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:29:13 +0000

I have wondered what what the differences would be for different size wheels and tires. I knew that increasing the width can easily increase grip. Check out this test that car and driver did with a VW Golf.
Caranddriver.com/features/10q1/effects_of_upsized_wheels_and_tires_tested-tech_dept

Another painting sold!

Bruce — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:56:56 +0000

I have sold another acrylic on canvas painting. The remaining paints in the series will be posted here on my website for sale soon.

What is BitTorrent

Bruce — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:28:51 +0000

I was looking up How Bit Torrents work and I thought I would describe what I found. I knew basically how they worked but I waned to find out more, so I went to Wikipedia for the answer.

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files. The protocol works as an alternative data distribution method that makes even small computers with low bandwidth capable of participating in large data transfers. First, a user playing the role of file-provider makes a file available to the network. This first user’s file is called a seed and its availability on the network allows other users, called peers, to connect and begin to download the seed file. As new peers connect to the network and request the same file, their computer receives a different piece of the data from the seed. Once multiple peers have multiple pieces of the seed, BitTorrent allows each to become a source for that portion of the file. The effect of this is to take on a small part of the task and relieve the initial user, distributing the file download task among the seed and many peers. With BitTorrent, no one computer needs to supply data in quantities which could jeopardize the task by overwhelming all resources, yet the same final result—each peer eventually receiving the entire file—is still reached.

You can read the entire description at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29

New MCLUS site lunched

Bruce — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:48:21 +0000

I am proud to announce that the new redesign for Monteverde Conservation League US site is live. You can check out the new design at http://mclus.org/.

First Painting of series 1 sold!

Bruce — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:17:06 +0000

Over the last 2 years, I have been working on my first series of acrylic paintings. I have sold the first one. Soon I will get the remaining paintings up on my site.

Using sed to remove whitespace

Bruce — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:30:21 +0000

I found a good way to search for files in SVN that are “!” and remove them. svn st | grep ! | sed ‘s/\! *//’ | xargs svn rm

2012 Tesla Model S

Bruce — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:51:23 +0000

Tesla fans all over the world rejoiced on Thursday, March 26, 2009. The Model S luxury sedan was revealed in Los Angeles at the x factory. Tesla’s second model promises to be be amazing.