Cycling items for this year

Posted by joel on February 19, 2010

For 2010 I will be using a Niner Air 9 as the chassis of choice. I have been slowly gathering the parts over the past couple of months. I recently acquired the wheel set, seat-post, brakes and rotors, stem, seat post clamp, headset, and a few other key ingredients. Two out standing items remain: a bar and chain guide.

I also decided to replace my road R-Sys wheel set with hand built wheel set consisting of Power Tap hubs (SL+ rear), DT Swiss RR415 rims, and DT Swiss Revolution 2.0/1.5/2.0 spokes. I ended up ordering the spokes from an E Bay vendor and saved about $100. It is counter-intuitive that spoke vendors only sell in lots of 60 – that’s great for a bike shop, not so great for an individual wheel builder! I am still waiting for the hubs to come off back-order (somewhat impatiently). For a backup wheel set I picked up a set of Rolf Vector Comp’s for $130!!

I decided to ditch the roof racks and save on fuel economy by switching to a hitch mount system instead.

Most, if not all these items were purchased through my new sponsor for this year: [ Bikeman ]

Two known events on the calendar for this year include: The Horribly Hilly Hundred and the Dairyland Dare. As always the 24-9 will be added as well.

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How to swing WSUS 3 to a new server

Posted by joel on February 5, 2010

After doing some amount of research, I found the best approach for swinging WSUS 3 to a new server.

http://exchangeserverpro.com/how-to-move-wsus-30-to-a-new-server/comment-page-1

Interestingly enough, the site is exchangeserverpro.com

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Dealing with fragmentation on Server 2003

Posted by joel on January 14, 2010

With the advent of Windows Server 2008 and Server 2008R2 the troubling fragmentation issue has gone away for the most part. In the past with Server 2003, I’ve dealt with the fragmentation by scheduling a task to run on off-hours that handles the defrag process. After being given the task of updating servers I’ve run across some systems that are somewhat outdated/unpatched, not defragged, etc. Here is a screen shot of a recent system I started working with.

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Titletown Mashup – 2009

Posted by joel on January 11, 2010

Here is a mashup of riders from the 2009 season, pretty cool! This is courtesy of Gary Smits at [Extreme Photography]. I’m row two, five in from the left.

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New Desktop – Enigma 2

Posted by joel on December 19, 2009

After spending some amount of time configuring my desktop, I’m happy with the final result.

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