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Trek Project One Bike

7 February 2010
By jim
Trek Project One Bike

As I mentioned in a previous post, I ordered a Trek Equinox TTX 9.5 Time Trial bike.  I used the Project One Web site to configure the order, which means it had a custom paint job as well as some component options.  Last Saturday, I finally picked it up from the local bike shop...
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Harpoon Indoor Time Trial

3 February 2010
By jim

The Harpoon indoor Time Trial is billed as a 15K iTT to start the winter season.  It is the largest iTTs that I know of with 24 riders in each heat.  I signed up for the second heat which had a start time of...
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Homemade granola

24 January 2010
By jim

I like granola but any stuff I get always has something in it that I either don’t like or am not really fond of.  To solve this problem, I decided to make my own.  I first started looking for granola recipes and found this...
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Solaris 10 10/09 (update 8), unattended Jumpstarts, sysidcfg locations and Linux NFS v3 server

20 January 2010
By jim

At a previous job, we had a combined Solaris Jumpstart and RedHat Kickstart server to install new systems.  Now that I’ve moved on from that position, I decided I...
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Corn Bread

18 January 2010
By jim

I like corn bread, but most corn bread recipes are not low cholesterol, so here is my adaption.  The can of corn makes the cornbread moister when cooking. 1 C...
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IPsec, Solaris 10 and non-global zones

9 December 2009
By jim

I have been working on joining a data-center-only VPN to be able to talk to another data-center-only VPN other by creating a IPsec tunnel between a server in each...
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