TipToeTurtle.com - neat concept, easy to do business with

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I ordered from BicycleTrailers.com a Baby Jogger Tailwind trailer that I ended up returning. I ended up returning it mostly because it had no storage room at all. I'm toting my son in the trailer and he needs his lunch, sometimes a change of clothes, etc. And it's nice …

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Kudos to Dell on making it easy to add parts - Dimension 9200

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I bought a Dell Dimension 9200 with a Quad Core processor. It hasn't helped a lot but I'm reserving judgment on that until I get a second hard drive into the box. I'm suspecting that things are more I/O bound. Anyway, I didn't want to pay what Dell wanted …

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Why I ride fixed - article from Bike Hugger

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I really liked this article from Bike Hugger called Why I ride fixed. It fits very well with why I ride a Redline 9-2-5. I've got fenders, which I need for the wet here in Portland. It's got brakes, which I need to slow Ben and I down in the …

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Breezer Uptown

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I read Sheldon Brown's article on Breezer Town where he says

The Breezer Uptown 8 is the best commuter bike available in the U.S.

There's a lot of things to like about the Uptown 8. I was able to test-drive one at Veloce Bicycles on Hawthorne.

Pros

  • Shimano 8-speed …
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Why I hate Ubuntu sometimes - crontab not enabled

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I'm trying to set up cron to run jobs for me. I have to go look up the weird syntax but OK. Found it. Everything looks fine but the jobs don't work. Go on vacation. Come back and try again. Syntax is OK. Everything looks fine but the jobs don't …

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Tact Filters - how to deal with nerds

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I thought this was a great explanation of why I've had trouble dealing with some excellent technical people. They had wonderful skills and cared about doing a good job but were very abrasive. Tact Filters has been around a long, long time but it's as true today as it was …

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Feisty Performance - “Fly Like A Butterfly” Ubuntu

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Haven't implemented all of the things here but this looked promising on speeding up Ubuntu: Feisty Performance - “Fly Like A Butterfly

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SSH your Debian servers without password - sftp

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I was looking to do an unattended backup of some important files and found this very helpful: SSH your Debian servers without password

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Web 2.0 how-to design style guide

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This seemed like a great article on how to develop modern-looking pages. I barely know some of the HTML tags but Web 2.0 how-to design style guide was clear with great screenshots.

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HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access

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Found this article on HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access very helpful as I continue to dig out from under the Feisty Fawn -> Gutsy Gibbon explosion ... er, upgrade.

The key thing here is the ability to mount the files so that they're readable and writeable by an ordinary …

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