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Mountain Bike – News – Klein to replace Adept with Maverick-based design in 2003. The Klein design will be called the Palomino, and should hit stores for the 2003 season, and will replace the Adept platform. Klein’s Harry Spehar said there will be three bikes available, with kits based around…

Mountain Bike – Equipment – 2002 Cross-country gear. Ah the key list for building a bike from the frame up. I used to have the magazine but lost it somewhere.

Bicycling : Daily : Product Of The Day – Avid Ball Bearing. The best disc brake. Very affordable too.

Bicycling : Daily : Product Of The Day. Probably the right one to get 40 grams and $15

Bicycling : Daily : Product Of The Day Arundael Carbon Bottle Cage. Wow, $40 for a 26 gram bottle holder. Perfect for my HID battery, but will the batter work given that this thing needs a bottom, but this holds by friction.

Annoyances.org – Connect to a Windows XP or 2000 system with a Windows 95, 98, or Me system over a Network Bingo. Figures that what I want would not be on the Microsoft site. REad it and weep

How to Enable NTLM 2 Authentication for Windows 95/98/2000/NT. The start of my study on how to let Windows 98 machines access Windows XP Professional files without just opening everything up. I thought that Lan Manager authentication woudl take care of this, but apparently, it is more complex. There is…

VIA Arena Forums – Windosw 2000 data corruption on VIA Apollo266 with mirrored Promise This seems close to my problem. Data corruption with Promise RAID controller and some versino of NT. Appears to be some kind of bug with the 4-in-1 driver. Worked fine once it went all native XP.…

VIA IDE Driver Guide This is a great piece that explains what exactly is going on with the IDE drivers that you get from VIA and directly from MIcrosoft. Well worth the read.

Reviewmakers.com – VIA Promise Raid Performance Patch Effectiveness. Here is a note on VIA and Promise RAID performanceproblems. It appears that Promise doesn’t like the VIA chipset. There is a fix, but only for later chipsets that a 266MHz DDR. I have a Apollo Pro133a, so this doesn’t help me…