The Wandering Wallihans: 2009

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009

Jessica's Language Arts Award

Jessica received an award for language arts. We are very proud of her.

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Jacob's Reading Award

Jacob was recognized by his teacher as an outstanding reader. We are very proud of him.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

I got spammed

For anyone subscribed to my RSS feed, I did not post the last message (it has been deleted) and it was obviously a fishing scam. Don't send the guy money or bank info. :)

Saturday, September 12, 2009

My actual ride
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/13164280

The planned ride
http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3185753

I think the only difference is the way through San Clemente. I was not paying attention to the route slip and just went the way I knew. I heard someone behind me and didn't realize my error until later. It didn't really matter since both routes end up in the same place.

Route slip

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Start of the on course reports
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After an early morning snafu I got rolling just before seven. Riding through Irvine. Mile 3.4.
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Mile 17.4 Mission Viejo. Some rolling hills. Feeling strong.
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Mile 28.1

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Mile 36

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Mile 43, San Onofre

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Freeway baby, Mile 50

Monday, September 7, 2009

Arch Linux

I set up Arch Linux to be the OS for my home server. I used the installation guide from www.archlinux.org. Arch was great because I learned a lot about Linux just from setting it up. You feel like an expert until you try to repeat the process without the guide. Here is a list of things my home server does.

1. mount raid 5 array
2. run 3dm2 to monitor the RAID array
3. ssh server
4. NFS server
5. Samba server
6. DHCP server using dnsmasq
7. getmail
8. dovecot
9. Apache
10. PHP
11. Dokuwiki
12. Squirrelmail

Outstanding Issues

1. fan speed control
2. netatalk
3. power management (stop spinning hard drives)
4. webmin

had to install rsync

#pacman -Sy rsync

to update the system

#pacman -Syu

Sunday, August 23, 2009

HB to La Jolla Century

My friend Jim and I went on a ride from my house in Huntington Beach to La Jolla. Total mileage was just over 100 miles. It is a beautiful ride if you ever get the opportunity.

Our planning map. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=3022350

The breadcrumb trail from my GPS. http://connect.garmin.com/dashboard?cid=12433

We left HB about 7:30 am.

Our only mechanical issue. Jim got a flat about 13 miles in.

We had some rolling hills (and two steep ones) through Lake Forest, El Toro, Laguna Hills and Laguna Niguel.

Lunch at 11:30, Laguna Niguel, Mile 45. Ate at Peet's/Quiznos.

Flew down the hill into Dana Point then had a nice easy ride on the beach access road for a few miles. The bike path from Dana Point to San Clemente was next to the highway but separated from the road by a barrier. The circuitous path through San Clement continually went up and down, but never too far. Then finally came the long straight flat sections that connect San Clemente with Oceanside.

San Onofre Nuclear Power Station mile 58.

Riding through Camp Pendelton Marine Corps Base miles 67 to 76.

Oceanside, Mile 76, 3:15

Carlsbad, Mile 80, 3:45. We stopped at a gas station to refuel (Gatorade and some snacks that is) then through the heavily trafficed town of Oceanside until we finally emerged the other side and ended up in...