heh.. s'alright by me. None of their stuff gets onto my computer at home, legit or not! :)

Just to get things rolling - pun intended, you're welcome Dan - I was hoping to keep it a local-ish thing. But as the idea is to have fun, it is open to all - fixed or brok... I mean geared. And I did put up the flyer thinking that maybe a couple people might put them up in local bike shops. Then this week I've been thinking, "don't over do it. One week at a time." ;)

It's funny, I'm trying to keep it a managable size to start basically because I've never "run a race" or anything before and as I mentioned, I'm not really that competetive, but people are coming out of the wood works to try and sponsor this thing. That said, there is a distinct possibility that this could include prizing and whatnot in the very near future. What do you guys think of that?

Btw, there's no way in the world I can do much "organizing" of anything as I have a pretty busy work life that tends to bleed into spare time quite a bit, which is why I keep saying "it's all about fun". I fully encourage everyone to take part in molding what this sucka grows into.

A similar thing happened to me, I was downloading Final Cut Pro and rogers limited my bandwidth, so my connection was extremely slow and they gave me a call saying if I want my normal bandwidth back I'd have to delete the downloaded files, so I burned them onto a disk then deleted them, and my interwebs was back to normal. :p

ya I heard that about rogers...worst ISP ever!

The torrents work just fine but you cannot download them anymore as you cannot access the site to see what you want to download. Kind of a bummer.

Easy fix = encrypt all torrent data (usually an option in all torrent clients, I use uTorrent) - Rogers can't inspect the encrypted stuff, so they don't know it's a torrent and it's not flagged under their traffic shaping policy.

:)

get iphider or suttin for that...or set up proxy...

wtf. "Cyclocross, often called "the NASCAR of bike racing," is an on-road/off-road cycling discipline held on a looped circuit of about 1-2 miles."

http://buffalo.bizjournals.com/buffa...6400%5E1525566

Buuhhhhh? That's as nonsensical as calling rallycross the baseball of motorsports.

Fixed.

I wonder if his t-shirt says "moustache rides...5 cents" ?

They don't need to inspect the packets. As soon as they see encrypted traffic they just throttle everything. This is the way it's heading if it isn't already. Encryption is not the answer.

Yeah, my encrypted torrent traffic, using a non-default port, is definitely being throttled. I don't do a whole lot of downloading though anyway, so I haven't messed around with it too much.

Does anyone have an extra rectangular washer and screw for an SPD-R cleat? I'm giving my SPD-R pedals to my gf, and I seemingly have lost one washer and one screw to put in the cleats.

I'm more than happy to pay.

The closest picture I could find (I don't need the cleat):

http://brandscycle.com/merchant/278/...ll/SM-SH11.jpg

Not sure that's the case, but I don't know for sure... Throttling any encrypted traffic means peoples home office VPNs and SFTP/SSH/HTTPS would all be encrypted and therefore throttled, not sure if there are any games that encrypt their network data, but they'd be affected too...

Bottom line still is: it sucks :p

Damn. You guys are so computer savvy. Speaking of my hard drive, my hard drive is really old and only like 40 gigs. More importantly, I'm pretty sure it is nearing the end of its useful lifespan and don't want to risk using it for too much longer as the drive on which I store things. Should I replace it and/or get another internal hard drive or should I get an external drive?

edit: How come you don't hear the term "floppy drive" any more? I like the way that sounds. "Floppy drive". It sounds funny.

You're right - but it's easy to tell, non-legit torrent traffic usually consumes huge amounts of bandwidth. And you are also technically not allowed to run any servers per your rogers EULA so all of the above is also out.

It's been a red queens race since at least 2 years ago. Perhaps your area hasn't been throttled yet, mine has been since last year. The easy solution is to switch to DSL but alas it isn't available in my area. And i've been checking for the last 9 years.

Try calling urbane - Martin @ parts.

You need to replace your internal hard drive with another internal harddrive. You can pick up a 160gb for ~ $70 all in nowadays. You should always been backing up or raid'ing your drives to prevent data loss.

Unless yoru computer is fairly new that is - then you can pickup a sata external HD. Floppy drives are extinct thanks to removable flash drives although they still retain it's use.

So what, cyclocross races only turn left? ;)

Operator ftw! Four answers in one post!

Weird, in Safari the video won't come up. But in Firefox it was fine.

I want 2 minutes of my life back

lordfoo: bioshock, bioshock, bioshockkkkkkkk

Ha i watched two more after that one.

As per operator's comments, drives are cheap like borscht. And a small price jump gets you a lot more gigs. $60 for 180 G or $85 for 320. With an older 'pooter just make sure you buy an ATA (PATA) drive and not a SATA. They use different interfaces and aren't compatible.

So good!