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Adam Bosworth’s Weblog: More on the same. hard to imagine adam with writers block, some good comments on dusconnected apps. hat tip to satoshi.
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Clausewitz Study Guide.
Bibliomania: Free Online Literature and Study Guides. Bibliomania is a great free study guide. Don’t understand the business model, but am sure glad it is there. Here’s useful quote for someone defending their turf: Not only reason but experience, in hundreds and thousands of instances, show that a well-traced, sufficiently manned, and well-defended entrenchment is,…
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Quotes from Sun Tzu, Clauswitz and others
Like Zagula, I’ve been collecting quotes and thoughts like mad. Here are some good sources: * Library Sun Tzu The Art of War and Strategy Site by Sonshi.com.. . Besides Sun Tzu, he’s got most of the other classic military thinkers like “Clausewitz’:http://www.sonshi.com/clausewitz.html * “Web Wargaming”:http://www.webwargaming.com/. While doing this, I found someone who wrote a…
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Awesome Headphones
Well, I’ve tried lots of headphones and have been married to my 20 year old Sennheiser 424s, but I have to say after three hours of writing a “book” (that’s another story), I’m completely hooked on the Ekymotics ER-6. Not their most expensive, but simply awesome in sound, I can hear things I never thought…
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Lance Wins #5 and new fans
The Seattle Times: My take: Tour works wonders to rejuvenate biking interest. He did it! And, in the course of winning made lots of new biking fans including me of course. Interesting that at the two parties we went to last night, the Tour de France came up. Folks were interested and even the average…
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Mini-PC Recommendations
Tom’s Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: The Mailman Has Arrived: Four Mini-PCs on the Test Bench – The First Car: A Motorized Carriage. Jennie and Adrian asked me about updating their computer “brain”. They have a five year old Northwest Computers machine that I recommended, but it won’t run the latest Apple MP3 player software…
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Super useful networking FAQ
: Small Net Builder : Real Help for Your Small Network from Tim Higgins FAQ. Super useful frequently asked questions from Tim. Includes a good section on wifi repeating and “WDS”:http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/FAQ-16-Wireless+Networking-0.php#426
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Belkin F5D7130 802.11g Wireless Router
Tom’s Hardware Guide Networking: Review: Belkin F5D7130 802.11g Wireless Network Access Point – Other Features. I need some access points around the house, the Belkin has some good features for “meshing” together multiple access points. Something called Wireless Distribution System allows various APs to use others as repeaters. Pretty cool. Belkin for including both WDS…
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Really Low Gear Cranks.
RoadBikeRider.com. _Yet another great tip from Ed and Fred about how to get really low gear ratios_ Dear Uncle Al: I read that Tyler Hamilton was running 52/36-tooth chainrings for the climbing stages of the Tour. I’m wondering if I could set up my road bike like that. It seems to be a great way…
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Carmichael commentaries are great
“Chris Carmichael”:http://www.olntv.com/tdf03/carmichael.html has some of the best commentaries about what is going on with Lance I’ve seen. Here are few key ones before the Time Trial tommorrow. Good luck Lance!: * Lance needs a kick. Basically says that at Luiz Ardiden, Lance was cool, but not on fire, the fall gave him a kick in…
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Latest Trek and Dura-Ace News
For all you equipment geeks, here’s the latest from www.cyclingnews.com: * US Postal has been campaigning new forks from the Trek/Bontrager line-up at the Tour, as well as the new Madone 5.9 frame. According to Trek teams liaison guy Scott Daubert, the Bontrager XXX fork is lighter than the previous 5900 fork by dint of…
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GIF to EPS Conversion
My buddy Robert wanted to convert a GIF to EPS. Thanks to Google, here’s how to do it: * GIFWorks! Free Online GIF eTools. A cool online utility that is a basic GIF editor. * “ACDSee”:http://acdsee.com. I have used this before, but it appears to be a general tool. Can’t seem to find a dedicated…
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Sony DRU-120A becomes a Ricoh DVD MP-5125A
Sony firmware is not that great. Release 1.51 blows away your ability to read double density DVDs (e.g., DVD9’s). Also, with Sony firmware, you can’t use the bitset compatibility trick to make DVD written with it work with many players, so it is better to switch it to Ricoh firmware. Since the firmware update (Rflash…
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Wifi hotspots…
Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: WiFi hotspot business. The usual smart thoughts from Satoshi. Glad to know that he wouldn’t fund a wifi subscription service (since we haven’t :-). It is interesting to ask what folks will want with all these hotspots and will there be an opportunity to monetize them. Low…
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Good pair of headphones
Zagula spells trouble: Headphones. Zagula is on the headphone hunt as I was not too long ago. As usual, it depends on what you want and where you want to use them. Presuming, this is mainly for the airplane. There are the echo cancellers like the Bose which a big a bulky. Turns out you…
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Kazaa, PeerGuardian and RIAA Blocking
Emocium: Forum – 2 Kazaa Programs Try to Block RIAA. So, it has begun. Now folks are going to have a public list of RIAA IP addresses at something called Public Guardian and you can block addresses with some Kazaa derivatives. “Banned IP Addresses”:http://methlab.tech.nu/. So it goes. Shows that technical solutions are always out there.…
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Ultimate Travel Bikes
OK, after studying the market pretty carefully, here are the two bikes I would get for “have fun while traveling use”. I said two because one would be for speed and the other for rough road and touring: h4. Ultimate Road Racing Bike Ritchey BreakAway Bike. I still need to test ride one, but low…
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At Last… Java Phone Benchmarks
Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Java benchmark. Hattip to Satoshi for finding a benchmark site. Amazing to see how different performant is at “Jbenchmark”:http://jbenchmark.com. There is a 10x difference in performance. For instance the Motorola 720i is at 500 utils while the Sharp sh53 is at 1500 and the Nokia 7650 is…
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Trek 560 Delight
Welcome to Our Site!. Hey, my blog is the #1 hit for Trek 560, here’s someone else using an old bike the right way. _BTW, I just updated my template so that “Sitemeter”:http://sitemeter.com collects information on all my pages, not just the home page. Wow, hits are rising. I used to estimate 1,400 page views…
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Saving vs. Spending…
a little ludwig goes a long way: Living Below Your Means. John found a great piece about living below your means. I actually learned quite a bit from the “Millionaire Next Door”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1563523302/qid=1059019860/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/103-8871901-9475810. They call it playing good defense. I’m sure glad Connie is a good defense player đ BTW, a good test of your below…
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Mini-PCs coming
a little ludwig goes a long way: Mini PCs. Despite my headaches with these Shuttle boxes, they clearly are the way to go. So much lighter, but also much faster. John is right about the heat problem. There are nearly 90 watts alone from the processor plus the video system. If we are willing to…
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SB61G2 Solved and Comcast Redux
Eureka, that last post about loose connectors finally tipped me off. When I installed a wireless LAN card in the Shuttle, there is a header behind the card that got disconnected. This blew away the front USB ports and also the audio on *both* the front and the back. Now it is reseated and everything…
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Shuttle SS51 FAQ
SFF TECH SS51 FAQ. Hey, here looks like a good source of information on the XPC. Most complete that I’ve seen. Here are some tidbits: * “Lost Circuits on BIOS”:http://www.lostcircuits.com/advice/bios2/1.shtml. Reportedly the most complete explanation of what all those BIOS settings mean. * “Trouble Burning CD-R, CD-RW or DVD”:http://www.sfftech.com/showfaqs.cfm?fid=18&fcid=13. If this doesn?t solve your problem,…
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Comcast Woes and Shuttle Woes
Just spent a frustrating day trying to get my Dad’s Comcast broadband internet connection to work. Spent an hour with a very nice woman at 1-800-comcast, but the thing didn’t work at all. Seems that you have to use the Comcast installation CD otherwise, you get incomplete activation. So, it worked for a short time…
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Landing School 26 Weekender
The Landing School: Boats For Sale – LS 26 Weekender. What a beautiful boat that “Lewis”:http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/llevin/default.asp told me about. He’s looking for one that he can use in Maine. Also a nice one for around here. Also he finally explained to me why a sailboat actually moves forward. Let me short circuit this by saying…
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Trek 560 Uses Short Reach Brakes and Long Bolt
Harris Cyclery Brakes for Bicycles. I got my BR7301 Tektro 521AG Long-Reach Dual-Pivot Calipers from Harris no problem for just $50 and they only weight 350 grams. Not much given the cost. I had assume my Trek 560 was long “reach”:http://sheldonbrown.com/gloss_r.html#reach with a “recessed”:http://sheldonbrown.com/gloss_r.html#recessed mount. But, interestingly, this is one of the few bikes I’ve…
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Threading Rear Derailleur Cable
Well, I’m almost done with this bike. I’m short a barrel adjuster, but the most important problem right now is how to thread the rear derailleur cable. Here’s the response I got from Skip who runs the vintage Trek site: Hello Richard – I have wondered about that myself. Hmmmmm – Perhaps you can use…
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WMD Not Found
Cannot find Weapons of Mass Destruction. The funniest site I’ve seen in a long time. Someone did a spoof of the “Web Page cannot be displayed” message that Internet Explorer shows and change it to “Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed.” Hilarious. Ludwig says I missed it and this went through the blog world…
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Lance lost 6 Kilos at Stage 12
VeloNews: Chris Carmichael on Lance and the Time Trial. _Wow, hard to imagine someone who weighs 158 pounds dropping nearly 13 pounds in one day!_ Lance Armstrong lost about 6 kilograms of fluid weight between the morning of stage-12 and the end of the stage-12 time trial, and also lost 1:36 to Jan Ullrich during…
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Stage 15: Lance Wins, Still Great Sportsmanship in Biking
Velonews on Stage 15. _Proving that there is still great sportsmanship in professional cycling. Lance falls, but Hamilton and Ullrich tell the race leaders to wait for him_ Armstrong was sent toppling to the ground just as he was accelerating away from Ullrich and the lead bunch of riders with about 10km to go. Armstrong…