While building-up and restoring a few bikes I realized that I would
have a need to install bearing race cups into the headset, This
operation requires even force applied to the headset cups, which must
be installed evenly into the headset tube to prevent damage to the cup
and the frame. Being a cheapskate who would rather spend money on
components than tools, I decided to take a stab at building my own
tool rather than shelling out $50-$100 for the appropriate tool from
Park.

Dan from MonkeyLetric (maker of those awesome POV Spoke devices for
displaying video on your spoke) posted a great design on Instructables
(http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-make-a-bike-headset-press-%26-install-....
The idea was pretty sound: buy some all-thread, washers, nuts, and pvc
pipe to squeeze the headsets together. Not wanting to buy a hacksaw
and not trusting my ability to cut a piece of PVC flat and smoothly I
went with a copper pipe fitting which fits perfectly into the cups. I
also put a rubber washer in-between the fitting and the cup to prevent
the race from getting scratched or pitted.

This setup is very simple and straight forward but with one caveat: it
is very difficult to get the cups in straight. You will not get them
in straight perfectly the first time. After some fiddling I discovered
that the easiest thing to do was screw the fitting in until there was
no play between the washers then use a rubber mallet to gently knock
the copper fitting around to level it and it should stay pretty
straight.

- 1 copper pipe fitting $6.59
- 1 bar of 3/8" all-thread: $3.00
- 5 nuts: $0.50
- 4 steel washers: $0.40
- 1 rubber washer $0.10
Sub-total: $10.59
+ 8.75% sales tax: $0.92
Total: $11.51 (ish)

Not bad compared to the $50 Park HHP-3 which is basically the same
thing (nuts with handles spinning a piece of allthread) or the $110
HHP-2 which is awesome, but would eat into my component budget.

While tuning up an old bike for a friend I ran into a threaded
free-wheel cassette, which I had never worked with before. In order to
remove it I had to purchase a Park FR-2 lockring tool. When I tried to
remove it I discovered that it was quite seized up, so after some
struggling I pulled out the hammer to tape on the bolt and try to
break the threas free. This failed, so I had to resort to bringing out
the butane torch then put my back into it. I love old bikes!

If you're like me, between bank accounts, utility accounts, and web
services you have at least 50 different passwords to manage and
sometimes forget them or find that they didn't make it into your
password manager properly. I frequently find myself using password
reset forms, and frankly I've discovered that most web developers are
morons. More and more people are implementing draconian  "security" measures
suchas indecipherable captchas, and requiring you to
answer questions like phone phone numbers, addresses, and answers to
"security questions" like "what street did you grow up on?" This is
quite problematic because now instead of managing 50 different
passwords I have to manage several hundred bits of data around these
invasive questions.

A password reset form should ask you for one and only one piece of
information, your email address. If you ask for anything else, you suck.

from:    Prateek Kad prateek@nextgentechinc.com via craigslist.org

to:  4x8tw-2878833004@res.craigslist.org

date:    Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:10 AM

subject:     System Administrator:- Puppet,Splunk, Bay Area, CA

mailed-by:   craigslist.org

 

Hi,

 

I saw you resume on craigslist.com and would like to submit to Ebay for the ”System Administrator Position:-Puppet, Splunk”. Please send me your updated resume for the below position in word format & provide the following info.

 

Date of Birth:-

SSN (Last 3 Digits):-

Hourly Rate:- W2, C2C & 1099

Ph:-

Email:-



System Administrator:- Splunk

Location:- Bay Area, CA

 

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Data analysis using Splunk
• Splunk administration
• Splunk dashboard & report creation
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Possess initiative to identify and propose potential system and process improvements

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Previous experience supporting a distributed, 10 GB+/day Splunk infrastructure
• Previous experience managing Splunk using the Splunk deployment server
• 3+ years experience managing Unix-like systems
• Experience administering heterogeneous server environments
• Experience installing and configuring Windows 2003/2008 and Unix-like systems
• Previous experience monitoring e-commerce web sites

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Active participation on Splunk Answers/Splunk Base
• Experience configuring web servers such as IIS, Apache, or Tomcat
• Shell scripting experience, both under MS Windows and common Unix-like shells such as bash and csh
• Experience with configuring systems via Puppet
• Familiarity with Perforce, including admin responsibilities

 

 

Best Regards,

Prateek Kad

Ph:- 408 854 7861 * 1105

Fax:- 509 757 2271

Prateek@nextgentechinc.com

www.nextgentechinc.com

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