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  • Trek 5900

    . Serdar, asked me to post photos of my main bike. It’s really not a 5900 technically, but a builtup OLCV 110 frame, but its easier to explain it to folks as a 5900 with totally different components. It is a nice bike, although I like the 2002 colors quite a lot. Main thing is…

  • Darn it…network gone on Shuttle SS51G

    Rats, my great new Shuttle SS51G has a problem. It’s network card seems to have given up the ghost. Nothing like spending two hours trying to figure it out. Checked the network cable with a good machine and that works fine. Behaves as though there is no connector there at all. Can’t see any packets,…

  • Drafting to Decrease Wind Resistance

    Thanks to Road Bike Rider. They have a great news letter. Here are some interesing factoids I learned. It explains how the pros can travel at 25 mph for days on end. Of course they produce twice the wattage (200 watts for a mortal vs. 400 watts for a pro), but being in a big…

  • Video Conferencing

    Paul Maritz and Eyal both want to do video conferencing over at Ignition. This seems like a classic opportunity for Rich “The Geek” Tong to learn another inane subject. I certainly don’t think we should spend $2,000 for some hardware when we don’t understand all the issues (like why can’t we just use a PC…

  • Paul Krugman

    The Unofficial Paul Krugman Web Page. I had a chance to meet him last summer. Incredibly smart guy. Amazing to be in the same room with him, Voelcker and Blinder.

  • Secure blogging by email

    Sam Ruby: Secure Blogging by Email. How sad, Sam tries to do blog by mail with comments and the next thing you know, you get spammed because of all those spyders looking for addresses. The address to send a comment to his blog entry is blog-1172.

  • Building A New PC

    I’ve already covered building a small Shuttle machine. Here’s the specification for a traditional desktop machine that is state of the art right now: ASUS P4PE. Tom’s Hardware confirms just how great this board is. The 845PE is the chipset and includes on board RAID and just about everything else. 2.53 or 2.66 GHz Pentium…

  • Gamer Hardware

    Now that I’m back into gaming, you kind of really need that high end hardware. Interesting to note that I’ll spend about 10x more for gaming stuff as I would personal productivity and about 5x more for digital photography and movies. Maybe that’s a hint about where the consumer business really is. In any case,…

  • Ximian Connector For Microsoft Exchange

    Ximian Connector : Buy and Install. Now that Ignition has Exchange 2000, I can try the Ximian Connector. This will let my Linux machine access Exchange. Wish me luck. Now, if only I could figure out why attachments in Ximian always show up as unknown, I’ll have made this a useful machine in a Windows…

  • Trackbacks

    tima thinking outloud. : The Next Generation of TrackBack: A Proposal. Amazing that trackback is only 6 months old. This is some great thinking about their future directions. They are very fundamental I think. It is the equivalent of a 2-way hyperlink which is just great. Thanks to John for pointing out Tema and all…