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I want to ride my bicycle bicycle

wattsup Post in Mountain Bike，Tags: Blue Sky, Devil's Backbone, Laramie Enduro, Lory State Park, Mill Creek, mountain bike, Tower's Road

30 July 2010

Im going to have to rock some Queen tomorrow on my way to work. Im too excited not to. I got an HD mountable camera called the Hero. It is water proof and mountable just about anywhere. Here is a short video I pieced together from my pilot run last Saturday.

1and1 and WordPress

wattsup Post in IT，Tags: automatic upgrade failure, freezes, hange, http error, image upload, installing theme, pluggin

28 July 2010

automatic upgrade failure… http error on image upload… hange and freezes when installing theme or pluggin. Now that I’ve got your search engine, this one took me a lot of googling to track down.

If you are hosted with 1and1 and have setup a MySQL database and are manually installing WordPress this will save you a few steps.

I’ve setup several WordPress sites on 1and1. Occasionally I’ll find that during the automatic theme install it freezes or hangs on “Downloading package…” The fix is quick and easy but not found on the 1and1 FAQ.

1. Create a file named php.ini in your wp-admin directory.
2. Add the following line no quotes “memory=30MB”
(30MB is the max amount of memory 1and1 let’s you allocate)
3. Save and close.
4. Open your .htaccess file in your root directory.
5. Add the following lines no quotes
“AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php”
6. Save and close.

Now you can auto-upgrade, auto-install themes and pluggins, and upload directly into post. BTW, I’ve only had to do this with 1and1 hosting.

1/2 Enduro Training Day

wattsup Post in Mountain Bike，Tags: enduro, laramie, mountain bike, race

26 July 2010

The Laramie Enduro is a week away. 70~ miles of mountain biking in the Happy Jack/Vedauwoo area of Wyoming.

mtbguru.com has shared this map of last years race:

Looking at the map was about all the training I did last year. This year I have been training on road and mountain with proper nutrition. My “1/2 Enduro Training Day” took place last Saturday. Starting at Devil’s Backbone, through Blue Sky to Soderberg, following Towers Trail to Mill Creek, taking Lower Valley back to Blue Sky, and finally back to the Devil’s Backbone trail head. This is a 30.5 mile ride that I would recommend for an Enduro prep or just a good way to kill a Saturday morning

How and to Virtualize Windows 95

wattsup Post in IT，Tags: converter, player, virtualize, windows 95

08 July 2010

I’m not joking, although just the thought of using Windows 95 after using Windows 7 or iOS 4 does make me laugh.. and cry a little bit

If you have a legacy application that only will run on Windows 95 first check to see if you can simply copy the program folder over to a newer system. Many older programs never required registry changes and have everything they need to run in that folder. If that is not the case proceed to virtualizing your old Windows 95 machine.

The general steps are to take an image of the Windows 95 drive. Run VMware converter to make it a virtual machine. Install VM Player or similar virtualization software and run the 95 VM.

More detailed steps:

1. Remove the Windows 95 drive from the old computer.
2. Slave it to a newer computer.
3. Using cloning software such as Acronis or Norton Ghost create a backup image of the VM and save it to the newer computers disk.
4. After taking the image start the newer computer.
5. Install VMware converter
6. Start converter and choose Convert Machine.
7. Specify the source as a backup image and point to the image you took earlier.
8. Specify the destination and type (ESX, VM Player, VM Workstation, VM Server). Both Player and Server are free.
9. Finish the wizard, keeping the defaults.
10. Install VM Player or your virtualization product of choice.
11. Start VM Player and open the VM you just created.