Cycling Update

August 23rd, 2010

I’ve not been doing the Spinervals DVDs the last few workouts. Not because I don’t like them, just trying to keep things interesting.
I watched the first half of a movie on Sunday and finished it today. 3 hours on the trainer in total. Pretty happy with that.

I hope I can keep this up. Right now I’m pretty motivated, we’ll see how it goes in a few months.

Spinervals 16.0

August 16th, 2010

Spinervals 16.0 – Aero Base Builder I.

I did about 45 of the 80 minute DVD. My knee was starting to get a tiny twinge in it and my quads were pretty fatigued. Likely due to my lack of stretching before the workout. I could have finished but decided to live to fight another day.

I like this workout. It’s not too intense as its goal is increasing aerobic function, but I can tell it’ll help my legs too. Once I get disciplined to riding every day I can see this as a decent recovery or “Don’t feel like getting my butt kicked today” ride.

Spinervals

August 13th, 2010

Today I started using Spinervals on my cycle trainer.
I did Spinervals 1.0 “No Slackers Allowed” and it kicked my butt. It didn’t kick my butt fitness wise, just in the legs department. I ended up halving some of the sets because I wanted to be able to finish the DVD.

It’s been a while since my legs were jello after a ride. Felt good.

Fix Auto Update Problem

June 6th, 2010

Go here: http://www.rootninja.com/wordpress-automatic-updates-broken-asks-for-connection-information-fixed/

Excerpt:
The real problem is a php function called getmyuid() which “Gets PHP script owner’s UID”. Ok, so permissions and ownership may still be an issue for you, and you may not even have the right temp directory set up that file.php is looking for, but if everything else is correct, go edit wp-admin/includes/file.php and change the getmyuid() call to posix_getuid() instead. You can expect to have access to the functions, but to avoid any warnings or errors it checks if the functions are callable first, so you may as well change that one too. See below for the detailed change:

function get_filesystem_method($args = array()) {
$method = false;
if( function_exists(‘posix_getuid’) && function_exists(‘fileowner’) ){
$temp_file = wp_tempnam();
if ( posix_getuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
$method = ‘direct’;

OSX Login Loop

June 2nd, 2010

I installed the latest Java update for my Mac Mini this morning. I rebooted just because I hadn’t in a while. Upon restarting it wouldn’t get past the login screen, even if I gave it the right password. Frustrating.

Some google work found that I need to delete the files contained in: /Library/Caches/

Another reboot and I was able to log in again. All is good.

New Jersey Sucks

May 5th, 2010

As if New Jersey needed another reason to suck…

New Jersey scraps idea to host Formula One race in 2012. An event that would bring in millions of revenue.
I guess they’d rather continue to be known as America’s armpit.

pfSense on WRAP

March 23rd, 2010

I’ve been running pfSense on my WRAP board for a while now. Thus far its pleased me very well.
I had some problems getting the PPTP VPN working on 1.2.2RC1 and decided to take the plunge to 2.0-BETA.

In doing so you need to change a boot setting so that nanoBSD will boot on a WRAP board.
Fire up your favorite FreeBSD box (Or boot the pfsense LiveCD like I did) and find the device mapped to your CF card.
Then run ‘boot0cfg -o nopacket /dev/‘ That should do it.

If you’re like me an built your shiny new pfSense 2.0 install on an ALIX board, you’ll need to change the ‘vr0/vr1′ interfaces to ‘sis0/sis1′ in the pfSense config file.
The config file is located in /dev/s3/conf/config.xml.

Have fun.

Trek 7.2FX

March 18th, 2010

Head over to my gallery and check out some pictures of my new bicycle.
Trek 7.2FX Pics

Yowzas!

February 18th, 2010

Some of you will notice the girl.
Some of you will notice the glass.


Canon’s CPS room at the Vancouver Olympics….

Camera Lust

February 7th, 2010

Anyone want to donate ~$6000?