Triathalon Calculator!!

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http://www.triathloncalculators.com/#

Weekend Athlete!

i'm doing my 1st triathalon april 25th. it's a sprint and i've been training hard to stay out of the bottom fourth.

to lug my bike around, i'm using a 2002 lexus is300 sportcross. i have really enjoyed this car, but i'm always apprehensive to transport the bikes (especially the mountain bike) since i feel like the carpeting is getting trashed.

i'm thankful for the hatch and fold down seats, but loading/unloading the bike (or bikeS for that matter) is never a task  i look forward to. so--i'm seriously considering a Honda Element.

while doing research, i found the most rad site. cars.com has a guy that reviews sport utility vehicles from the perspective of the weekend athlete. check it out here.
of course he found the element THE most weekend athlete friendly car. here's what i love about it:

1) the interior is hoseable--rubber mats are there to handle muddy tires
2) you can stow your bikes vertically inside
3) it has a tailgate
4) it handles like a car
5) if you lay down the front and back seats, they form a nice impromptu bed to chill out on.
6) supposedly the seats are comfortable for long distance treks.

oh and my favorite--a crotchrocket will fit inside!!  (one of my dreams is to race a motorcycle around a proper track)

without further adieu--here's the review!

"error sending" or "authorization error" scanning from a Brother MFC 8480

installed the 3/2010 firmware update and beat my head against trying to get it to scan to a UNC path for an hour. you never know what kind of funky syntax the different vendors want. one time on a Canon Aficio, i had to enter the domain name in ALL CAPS. so i tried all kinds of combinations of slashes after the path, before the path, yada yada yada.

i gave up and called support. turns out that Brother is aware of this issue and that they are working on a patch.

in terms of features, i like what this unit offers. it has a nice and large LED panel which provides intuitive access to up to 10 SCAN TO destinations, and provides the standard copy/fax functions of course.

You can assign any of the 'scan to' slots to a respective UNC path or FTP server.

simple & straight-forward scanning to a share--the only way to do it. HP--you guys should learn a lesson from these other guys.

The system image restore failed. No disk that can be used for recovering the system disk can be found (0x80042412)

Lesson learned from this one:

The key to this one is to keep in mind that it doesn't matter that the size of the image may be less than the drive you are restoring to.

What does matter is that the drive you are restoring TO has enough space to house the partition sizes of of the imaged OS.

In my case, the original OS looked like this:

Partition 0 100MB
Partition 1 575GB
Windows 7 Backup image 433GB

attemping to restore to a 500GB physical disk will throw the error stated in the title. I ended up procuring a 1TB disk and the restore is moving forward.

What to do when your computer gets infected with Malware?

*Here's SBIT's recipe for spyware removal. I should mention that once compromised--one can never be 100% sure that your system is completely free from hidden ghosts that will one day wake up silently "all your base are belong to us". but if you're willing to assume the risk, here's the recipe we use for 'cleanups'.

Install, get the signature updates, & perform a scan using all of these (they are all free btw):

1) Malwarebytes

2) SuperAntispyware

3) ComboFix

How to Install Windows 7 on a Dell XPS M2010

First, I would like to pass on some knowledge about this Unit from the Dell gentleman.

1) this video card in these units suffer from the manufacturing defects that affected those NVIDIA GPUs

2) if and when these cards go out, dell is sending out the same defective units as there was never a replacement

3) when the unit will not POST. dell support will send a replacement motherboard, but it is not the motherboard--its the video card, so expect a second trip from your repair guy.

With that said. Some nice fellow posted a step by step guide on installing most of the drivers for Win7 on this unit. Dell's website has no Win7 specific drivers listed nor do they plan on ever releasing them as I understand it.

Here's info on how to get it done. Specifically look for at northernlights.me.uk

Cheers

Get some good out of your Passwords

"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me." - Stuart Smiley

If you're like me and required to enter passwords all day--why not get something out of it? For example, if you made a new year's resolution to work out--entering something like:

quitB3ingaFatass

MustStayTheCourse

25x a day might give you the extra push you need to stick with it.

Perhaps you've just found Jesus:

JesusL0vesMe

Thou5haltNotCovet

Or, if you're a member of the Bildeberg Group:

ToH3llWith3very0n3Else