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Continue reading →: Error blog
a little ludwig goes a long way: Audit Blog?. Another great idea by ludwig. A blog makes much more sense than the system event log. Error should really be free form text rather than forcing things into fields that don’t mean much. Just look at the audit log of XP…
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Continue reading →: United Airlines — Not!
united.com. Yikes, after flying with them this week, I won’t do it again for a long time. It took us hours to get out of O’Hare but the scary thing is why given that it was clear and beautiful and it wasn’t about weather, but I think about minimum maintenance…
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Continue reading →: Campy 2004 and other cool hardware
Well, the Tour de France is about to start and delightful new gear is appearing. First there is the new Shimano Durace 10-speed coming out. No word on whether they are going to do a triple, but given that it is 1/3 less than Campagnolo Record, good to hear. Also,…
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Continue reading →: Ritchey Break-Away
Google Groups: View Thread “Ritchey “Break-Away” bike — opinions?”. Been looking at a bunch of custom bicycles with S&S couplings. Great in the $1300-1600 for the frame plus $400 for the couplings. The Break-Away is an $1,100 frame, but what about the quality. Here are some notes from rec.bicycles.tech. Great…
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Continue reading →: PTP and Information Hiding
While researching the latest move by the RIAA to “sue”:http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10195 individuals, I ran across some interesting papers: * CSC 8990 Seminars. The first paper is on how PTP actually works and a good description of how to use conventional digital signature techniques to hide who is talking to whom and…
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Continue reading →: Campagnolo Derailleurs Explained
CAMPAGNOLO 2003 RANGE – INNOVATION. _It’s been confusing which of the three different derailleurs you should get. Here’s a simple explanation_ The Campagnolo Record, Chorus and Centaur groupsets offers three models of rear derailleurs with short, medium and long cage. The rear derailleur with the short cage is for equipping…
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Continue reading →: Carbon Fiber: It's brittle too…
Well, as most folks know, I just love carbon fiber. It’s in just about every component that I have on my bike. Today though, I learned that it is a miracle material for sure, but it does have its downsides. Caveat Emptor. h4. Campagnolo Record Seatpost: Don’t overtighten even once!…
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Continue reading →: Singletrack Ezine
Singletrack – Home. A ezine from Britain. Got a good review from “Adventure Cycling”:http://adventurecycling.org as a place to look for mountain touring and other things.
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Continue reading →: Fishy, Fishy
_This is Peta-Jane, Alex’s teacher, favorite poem. Amazing that he could do a Haiku, but not surprising given how mathematical it is, you know, 5 syllable, then 7 then 5_ Fishy, Fishy Fishy in a tank Swimming in the water blue Swaying in the weeds Fishy fish My fish in…
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Continue reading →: Shuttle SB61G2 and DDR 400 Memory Hang
Google Search: shuttle sb61g2 problem. It took forever to figure out this problem becuase the answers are in a newsgroup and not yet indexed on the web. In short, when I assembled my Dad’s PC, I kept getting hangs when running at full 200MHz for the CPU. Turns out there…
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