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Forscan is a software scannerfor Ford, Mazda, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles.  I used it to enable the reverse camera on my Mustang when I installed the NAV unit.  Here are some helpful links.

Standard and Extended licenses for Windows
Helpful links on As Built configuration and programming
Adding the OEM nav

In particular, for enabling the reverse camera, I used Forscan, accessed the ACM and changed the code from 80 to 90.

I've got 2 different sets of solar mounting rails.  The older ones use a Quick Mount PV Classic Composition Mount to attach to the roof and the newer ones use a Unirac mount.  Here are various links to the two systems.

Quick Mount PV
Classic Composition Mount
Quick Mount PV QMSE A > MILL E-Mount - Box of 12

Unirac
Unirac Flashkit Pro

I needed to do some hard drive management for a friend's computer and it had a UEFI boot partition.  In order to accomplish what I was after, I really needed to understand the UEFI boot process and this article helped tremendously.

UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then?

Here are some additional UEFI resources:

Ensure the correct EFI boot entries are created after switching from CentOS to Oracle Linux #70
Use Linux efibootmgr Command to Manage UEFI Boot Menu

This Ford VIN decoder is helpful to determine what specific options a Ford vehicle was manufactured with.

Our patio and walkways - particularly by the pool, are riddled with wide expansion joints which generally are filled with cracked and broken pieces.  I believe that the solution is a "concrete expansion joint" such as the SlabGasket.  It's pretty expensive and not the highest priority at the moment so I'm documenting it just for future reference.