{"id":1447,"date":"2006-08-01T20:08:19","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T01:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2006-08-01T20:28:07","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T01:28:07","slug":"a-visit-to-rpath-and-a-pt-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/a-visit-to-rpath-and-a-pt-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"A visit to rPath and a PT Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpath.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rpath.com\/corp\/images\/corplogo_notrans.png\" alt=\"rPath\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTucker and I took a trip to Raleigh for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpath.com\/corp\/news-events-pr7-26-06-2.html\">the ribbon cutting, eating and drinking and talking and celebrating<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpath.com\/\">rPath<\/a>&#8216;s new space near I-40 and NC 55. Erik Troan (CTO) and Billy Marshall (CEO) have really grown an impressive company and have<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpath.com\/corp\/company-management.html\"> some wonderful folks working with them<\/a> including Michael K Johnson, Nathan Thomas and more folks I met tonight for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/bradmiller\/\">Representative Brad Miller<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/bradmiller\/images\/cd13lg.gif\">the 13th District<\/a> was there to help cut the ribbon and to congratulate rPath for having been chosen to receive a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rpath.com\/corp\/news-events-pr5-23-06.html\">$100K Small Business Innovation Research grant from the Department of Energy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The afternoon temperature was over 100 degrees. The drive over was about 30 minutes at 65 mph. As soon as we pulled off the Interstate, the PT stalled. After about 5 minutes, I could start it again and get to rPath World Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>On the return, we drove around Cary a little. All was fine. We got on the highway. Sure enough we made it off the ramp and to the first stoplight where &#8212; the PT stalled. After 2 minutes, I could restart it only to have it fail soon after. Then after 2 more minutes, I could start it again. By using the handbrake at the next light, I kept the rpms up over 1500 and kept the car working til we got the rest of the way home.<\/p>\n<p>Some how appropriate that RPMs were involved after visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Erik_Troan\">Erik Troan<\/a> the inventor of the RPM (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RPM_Package_Manager\">Red Hat Package Manager<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>But grrrr. We now know that these things don&#8217;t fix the PT stalling when hot and driven fast problem: anything in the 60K mile tuneup, cleaning the throttle housing etc, firmware upgrade, power steering pressure sensor, fuel pump, EGR (exhaust gas recovery), and multi-switch and shift cable (these last two not really a candidates)..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tucker and I took a trip to Raleigh for the ribbon cutting, eating and drinking and talking and celebrating of rPath&#8216;s new space near I-40 and NC 55. Erik Troan (CTO) and Billy Marshall (CEO) have really grown an impressive company and have some wonderful folks working with them including Michael K Johnson, Nathan Thomas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-general","category-pt-saga","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}