Crash

So I crashed. I'm a lucky guy, just broke my fibula at the ankle even though I hit a tree and flew a couple of meters ..

Windows 7 bugs

So far, Microsoft have released the best Windows yet with Windows 7. Still, it suffers from the regular irritating annoyances. I'll post them here and update as I discover them.

2009-10-02
Sleep issue: pressing sleep logs off the user, flickers screen, but remains at the login prompt. Repeatable behaviour.

Desktop gadgets right click menu doesn't work - Gadgets subsystem hung ? One of the gadgets is dead, not all (the weather gadget)

Cracking noises in the loudspeakers without doing anything with multimedia. They appear randomly, and when playing music. Creative driver problems or audio subsystem problem. I'll try the beta driver from Creative released in august 2009 to see if that fixes the problem.

2009-10-26

3D: While in a game the following screen was displayed, failsafe graphics mode initiated, and the game terminated:BUT AT LEAST IT DIDN'T KILL WINDOWS! THIS IS A BREAKTHROUGH! A graphics problem that doesn't produce the Blue Screen of Death! It was about f----n time ...






























Sound: cracking noises in both idle mode and when playing sound, as in mp3 or games, with both Microsoft's own Audigy4 drivers, and Creative's two sets, the stable and the beta (SBAX_PCDRVBETA_US_2_18_0001 and SBAX_PCDRV_LB_2_18_0011 and SBAX_PCDRVBETA2_US_2_18_0011).

This is caused by the driver selecting DVD Quality(48000 Hz) in the Advanced tab, even though it's probably not supported. Reset to 44100 Hz (CD Quality) and it works better, BUT it still gives in-game white noise and cracking sounds.

Power functions: new sleep issue: you select sleep, it flickers, turns off the screen, and comes right back - sleep doesn't work

2009-10-26 Media Center crashed on clicking "Movies". I think I'll stick to XBMC

Urban Street Bike Warriors 3

Marat Kankadze

Marat Kankadze from mozartrujr on Vimeo.

Michael Jacksons death

You've probably heard that Michael Jackson died recently, but you haven't heard how. I hear two different stories:
1. His nose fell in his mouth and he choked on it
2. He bent down to pick up a small child and his head fell off

I'm wondering which one is true ...

Trafikzoner

Många undrar vilken trafikzon de bor i när de ska kolla i försäkringstabeller

häckeberga ring

NationalDagsRundan 2009 med MCK Vilse

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Helmet visor fog

So who drives a motorcycle and hasn't had problems with a foggy visor ? I thought I should sum up the best solutions here. It's all about reducing the surface tension of the minuscule waterdrops which the fog is made of. When this surface tension is reduced, the fogging effect is reduced.

1. Shaving cream: apply a thin layer of shaving cream to the inside of the visor. Be sure that you don't push it into the vents. Wipe clean with a dry cloth. It's actually possible to get a clean visor, without smudges. Use the inside of a sweats
hirt (soft). Works, but when standing still the damp builds up to an oil-like film in parts of the visor. The damp dries quickly when driving away. Not as bad as fog, but still. This is still a good solution for glasses, even though it creates a slight lens flare effect. Works in speeds from 30 km/h upwards.

2. Dish washing liquid: apply to inside of visor and let it dry. Wipe clean with dry cloth. Should be as effective as the shaving cream. Haven't tried it myself.

3. Pinlock: damp absorbing plastic that you need to screw on to your visor. Seems like a more permanent solution. You need to drill two holes in your 100€ visor which can scare some people. Check out the WebBikeWorld review for this piece of kit.

4. Fog City or ProGrip visor inserts. See the WebBikeWorld review. Some say that damp builds up like an oil film when breathing heavily (read: not perfect, might as well stick with shaving cream)

5. Respro Foggy Mask: Neoprene breath guard, comes recommended. Just bought a couple of these babies. I hope this saves me the trouble of using butter on my glasses.

6. There are a number of other sprays, impregnated cloths, etc, of which a small number work more or less. Try on your glasses before you buy ;)
Picture: Respro Foggy mask

Radu the desert lizard

My friend riding his bike in the desert in South America

Problem solving flowchart

Who is this woman ?

True Love

cannot be expressed in words .. Saeco12 , member of sporthoj.com shows you what true love is:

Linux: Apache and SVN with mod_dav and mod_dav_svn

This shows Apache2 and SVN with basic authentication. Digest didn't work for me. If you have it working with Digest authentication, please comment on this post.

The following lines need to be enabled in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:

LoadModule dav_module modules/mod_dav.so
LoadModule dav_svn_module modules/mod_dav_svn.so

Then the following section needs to be created:

Now you need to create the /etc/svn-auth file and add users to it with:
htpasswd -c /etc/svn-auth

Restart Apache, and you should be able to browse your repository

Install frame sliders Yamaha FZ6 S2

Installing frame sliders seems just a bit more tricky than assembling something from IKEA.

the bolts are steel, the frame is aluminium, you don't want to tighten it too hard. You might want to apply some locking agent so the engine doesn't fall off because the vibration loosened the bolts. I'm planning on taking some screenshots of the bike and manual, write down some figures for torque tightening, locking agent, and so on.

First of all, go get a torque wrench, and Loctite locking agent Loctite 242 Blue which specifically should resist vibration or Loctite 222 blue ( Loctite® 222 Low strength threadlocker for fasteners up to M36. Allows disassembly with normal tools. Approvals; P1 NSF Reg. No.: 123002 Thread size: up to M 36 Strength: low; Functional strength (average at 22°C): 6 hours breakloose torque determined in accordance with DIN 54454: 6 Nm)

... (Nagging wife, gotta go)
UNDER CONSTRUCTION

VMware tools Linux - Inapropriate build environment

So in Debian one needs to fiddle a bit with the system to be able to install VMware tools. Usually people get compilation errors saying that the compiler has the wrong version, and that for building the modules you need gcc-4.1.3 (error : Inapropriate build environment), and here's how you fix it:

/usr/bin/gcc is a link. Check out what it points at before you proceed:
$>ls -al /usr/bin/gcc
rename the link to something appropriate. Mine points at the latest gcc-4.3.2
%>mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc.old
remove it, and recreate it:
$>rm /usr/bin/gcc ;
$>ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.1.3 /usr/bin/gcc
NOTE: change the gcc link back when you're done

rerun the configuration perl script /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl, and everything should work (provided that you have downloaded the kernel header files, fixed that awful problem with the file that made everything break ... hmm, I can see that I didn't really prepare for writing a howto. However, I got things running with VMware Workstation 6.5.1, and VMware tools on kernel 2.6.26-1 so if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them

To get the guest OS to stretch and fit the window, run vmware-user script. A good idea would be to save your session after you run this script, or to run it as an init daemon.

My new bike

It's a 2007 Yamaha FZ6-N S2, 98HP, and I love it

10 commendments of IT

Thou shalt not have any other programming languages/OS before Java/Linux
Thou shalt not make unto thee any golden image, since there is no such thing
Thou shalt not use the name of the root in vain
Remember the backup day, to keep it holy
Honour thy sysadmin and warez supplier
Thou shalt not kill -9
Thou shalt not commit cyber-adultry
Thou shalt not steal media online
Thou shalt not play with false negatives when tuning your spam filter
Thou shalt not covet every new CPU model and GFX card

Constantin