I’m in Austin, TX on business. I’ve been here since Wednesday night. Thursday was all work. By the time I got back to the hotel, it was time for a online meeting of the BSD Certification group. By the time that was over, it was too late to get to Home Depot. I needed something to cut the cable ties used to pack up the bike. Friday morning was bike assembly. Then I […]
I’m in yer Austin, ridin’ yer trails! Read More »
I bought a Garmin nüvi 250. For someone travelling in or to a new area, a GPS navigation device is wonderful. It allows you to concentrate on driving and let the GPS unit do the navigation for you. Today I decided to upload some new vehicle icons. I grabbed a bunch, downloaded then to my computer, and then extracted them from the ZIP files onto the Garmin unit. It was attached to my
Garmin’s POILoader and the Garmin nüvi 250 Read More »
At 4:30 on Thursday, August 30, Lynne and I headed north in her Honda Element, with two mountain bikes tucked into the back of the vehicle. Along for the ride was camping gear. We were head to North Carolina to ride at Tsali. About an hour or two into the trip, we stopped at a service plaza to meet up with one of Lynne’s friends, Robin, who was travelling the other way with
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The new bike has arrived. A green Santa Cruz Heckler. The background: Death of a bike: http://one2ride.org/bulletin/index.php?topic=1355.0 Choosing a new fully suspended bike: http://one2ride.org/bulletin/index.php?topic=1357.0 I drove down to Elite Cycling & Fitness (Pinecrest, south Miami) on Wednesday. It is about two hours south from Jupiter. I arrived about 2:30. They attached my pedals. Swapped the brake levers around, so the front brake was on the right. They pumped up the shock for me.
I’m considering implementing a multi-platform regression testing box. This would be used to run regression tests on each of the platforms. My first consideration was install each OS on a different partition/HDD, then boot into each OS for each test. Then I considerered something like VMWare, or Xen. The pros/cons I thought of were: Pro Con Multi Boot Each OS will have direct access to the hardware Via code, can I get
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I’ve found my Santa Cruz Heckler at Elite Cycling and Fitness. It should be ready for me on Wednesday. The RP23 rear shock upgrade has been ordered on a 3-day delivery. The price is $2200 (If memory serves). That’s $1999 + $85 upgrade = $2084 plus tax. Another place I’ve been talking: http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=329438.
Found: Santa Cruz Heckler Read More »
I’ve been asking around about a replacement bike. Here are the threads I’ve been involved in: http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=328743 http://one2ride.org/bulletin/index.php?topic=1357.0 So it looks like I want a Santa Cruz Heckler, with a D kit, and a rear shock upgrade to the Fox RP23. Unfortunately, my local bike shop J-Town Bike does not have it in stock. There is a shop in south Miami that has it, Elite Cycling and Fitness for $1900 without the shock
I bought my ProFlex 957 in December 1996. At the time, I was living in Wellington, New Zealand, and I was visiting Maureen in Santa Barbara, California, USA. The bike has been great. It’s been to Moab a few times. It’s done trails all over New Zealand, and around Ottawa, Canada, and more recently, Southern Florida, USA. It’s always been a great bike. I think the end of life has arrived. Yesterday, as
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I was at OSCON 2007 this week. I was there to present my Nobody Ever Regretted Making a Backup talk: In the past few years, Bacula has been gaining ground on more established solutions, both open source and proprietary. This talk will introduce you to Bacula, show you the main components, give you an outline of how it works, and illustrate why Bacula is becoming so widespread. My talk was scheduled for the
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I am staying in the Hampton Inn at Jonesville, NC. This morning I was in Ottawa. That’s about 1400km north of here. My friend on my journey was a Garmin Nuvi 250. And there are about 1165km to go. The conferences are over (BSDCan & PGCon), all the gear is packed up, and stored at Willie’s place, ready for 2008. I’ve torn down my rack, packed it into the car, and headed south
Half way to Florida Read More »