Recently, I won an ebay auction for a wheelset that came off a Cannondale hybrid bike. I was mainly interested in the SRAM Dual Drive hub, since I’d like to use it with my Tikit. When I got home today, I finally got a change to play with it. At first, when I tried spinning the cassette, the movement wasn’t smooth, and something didn’t seem right. After taking the hub apart, I found a metal piece on the edge of the hub’s shell.
SRAM’s website and parts list shows this as “Assy Planet Gear Carrier Dual Drive” and part number 65 0372 111 100 . I’m not sure how much this part costs, but I’m not really in a hurry to install it. Maybe tomorrow I’ll give the bike shop in College Park a call to see if they can find out how much it’ll cost.
Today I drove back from PA with four cases of water, one 27″ CRT Television, two backpacks, two boxes of bike parts, one Bike Friday Tikit, one Downtube 9, one dvd player and speaker system, and four cases of water (for my brother). Impressive isn’t it? I can’t believe how much weight the water added, but everything (including my brother) made the handling of the car much different.
I recently tried registering my Bike Friday Tikit with Bike Friday but they can’t seem to help me find the frame number (serial number?). The location the website lists is either the folding stem or the bottom of the bottom bracket shell. I checked both locations and don’t see any frame number. The stem was replaced prior to my purchasing the bike (it was retrofitted with the new cable, clamp, and stem).
I just send another email inquiring about the location of the frame number. If anyone can send me a picture of it’s actual location, that would help me out.
I uploaded pictures of the bottom of my bottom bracket shell here:
Tikit
Dear E-mail Users,
The new NASA™ Webmail is a fast and light-weight appliction to quickly and easily access your e-mail. We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail center. We are deleting NASA™ Webmail to create more space for new email.
To prevent your email from closing you will have to update it below so that we will know that it’s a present used email.
***********************************************
CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
User ID: ……… …..
E-mail Password : ……………
Secret Question : ……………
Secret Answer : ……………
***********************************************
Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently
Thank you for using NASA™ Webmail!
Access Number: 859480KBM
Thanks,
NASA™ Webmail Center
https://webmail.nasa.gov <https://webmail.nasa.gov>
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The above was a phishing email being circulated at work. I think if an employee fell for that email, they weren’t paying attention. Why is NASA a trademark? What is the supposed secret question and answer? The web address is correct, but that’s probably because they forwarded the plain text version of the email. People really do need to pay more attention to the details!
p7zip is a unix command line version of the 7-zip program. Generally, the algorithm used by 7-zip to compress files (LZMA) produces smaller files than zip, gzip, and bzip2. Recently I tried installing it on my work laptop, an Apple MacBook Pro, by downloading and compiling from source (version 4.57). Compilation finished just fine but whenever I tried running the command line utility, it would crap out and give the following message:
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: lazy pointer not found
dyld: lazy pointer not found
Trace/BPT trap
After searching for a little bit, the fix for this is simple: just remove the -s flag from the ALLFLAGS=${OPTFLAGS} line in makefile.machine. Recompile the code, install it, and it works fine. According to the gcc man page, the -s removes “all symbol table and relocation information from the executable”. This is probably just a problem with the compiler on OSX Tiger.
make
sudo make install
For a year or two, I’ve kept a water filter pitcher on my desk to filter the water from the water fountain. At first, I did it because I didn’t like the way the water tasted. I’m not sure when they put the signs up, but within the last year or so they put this sign above the water fountains:
I’m not sure what’s in the water, or whether the sign was put there because someone complained, but I don’t think I’m going to be drinking any unfiltered water at work.
I graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from UMBC in December, so now is a good time to update this site and start doing something with it. I mainly used it as an email address, and occasionally posted pictures in the gallery but I rarely use it for those purposes anymore (because of gmail and flickr).
I found a theme I maybe sorta liked and modified it slightly. It was originally too colorful for me so I dumbed it down a little! My goal now is just to write about anything. My life, my cooking adventures, my awesome guitar skills. Maybe I’ll try to create some useful web applications, but I’d have to think of an idea first. Sooooon, I’ll make some more additions to this site.
Tonight, I searched for a method of forcing the Wordpress installation to switch to a SSL connection for the login (at the very least). I was pleasantly surprised that someone created a plugin to do exactly what I wanted!
Admin-SSL plugin
