I took this while out and about on my old bike near Calke Abbey just as a test really. Looking forward to using it this weekend if I can get over to a Tudor mansion I have been meaning to visit for a while.

I took this to just play with the depth of field and see how the light reflecting on the water would look in the bokeh.

I also found a great write up on it on the Ken Rockwell site, if anyone reading this is interested in getting a 50mm prime for their Nikon.

There is a command for yum which helps track down the parent package which contains the missing dependency which is: -

yum provides */libaudio.so.2

This will return something like: -

[root@castlenix ~]# yum provides */libaudio.so.2
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirrors.melbourne.co.uk
* extras: mirrors.melbourne.co.uk
* updates: mirrors.melbourne.co.uk
nas-libs-1.9.2-1.el6.x86_64 : Run-time libraries for NAS
Repo : atrpms
Matched from:
Filename : /usr/lib64/libaudio.so.2

So you then need to install the NAS package, so “yum install nas” and you will then have your dependent so file.

I think they were born and came to fame just at the point the US was at the height of it’s global power and influence and their fame and talent spread worldwide like wildfire.

‘Stars’ crop up and fade away in month these days and are often little more than karaoke singers that can help peddle some singles maybe an album or two if they can squeeze them out before the public get bored. This dross of current artists just makes the passing of true stars that much sadder for the world.

How far Whitney’s performance at the Super bowl in 1991 was from the clown who no one had heard of that was swearing at the Super bowl 2012.

I hope everyone will play Whitney Houston’s music loud for this week all over the world.

You will see the exploit in your logs looking something like: -

/wp-content/plugins/wp-css/wp-css-compress.php?f=../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

Clearly the developer that wrote wp-css-compress doesn’t stop attempts to move out of the web accessible directory and into the etc folder to pull back the system passwd file which will contain the user-names of users on the server making a brute force attack over SSH much more likely to succeed.

So ensure you disable this plugin and keep an eye on your eyes for this kind of activity, and while your at it why not install mod security it defeats a lot of the pleb level hacking you see on a regular bases.

Hmm it really helps when you actually put petrol in the tank! Although it was only showing 91 miles I had been running the bike stationary trying to diagnose the carb issues and had actually run it out of petrol ! Buffoon.

Once I’d filled up with a tank full of nice 100 RON V-power she was purring again, I even got a complement for running a great classic!

Well here’s a (rather long sorry!) video of how the old girl is running now, would be great if any motorcycle experts who happen to come across this page could leave a comment to say whether or not it sounds like it’s running well / lean / rich.

I think people are happy to go back to a more chilled out time, with great looking bikes that perform comfortably on the road but also give a real feeling of nostalgia. Something people can tinker with individualise but still use on a regular basis. Especially with so much time spent with technology it’s great to have that juxtaposition on a daily basis as you arrive at work on a bike made 40 years ago and work on the latest technology in the day.

Indian engine

http://bikeexif.com Bike Exif – Great blog and interviews
http://southsiders-mc.blogspot.com – Very artistic photographic motorcycle blog
http://www.dimecitycycles.com/ Great bike builders, making some gorgeous cafe racers
http://www.lossaengineering.com/ Again brilliant bike builder some great retro bikes and cafe bikes

Norton

Now I have to wait until next Saturday for someone to come and bring a replacement modem as apparently the flashing light is uncommon and means there is a fault with the modem.

So I can only write this offline and it will probably appear in a weeks time.

Today I thought I would just go and get a new plug spanner and check the plugs but while I was in the garage I thought I would just try and replace the one carb to airbox tube that had some small splits in it and see what difference it made.

Immediately after installing the new tube, I thought something had gone horrendously wrong as the bike would no longer turn over or if it did it would splutter and back fire and die within 10 seconds or instantly if throttle was applied.

However after 10 to 15 starts with the kick starter and various combinations of choke, throttle, fuel on / off (to burn off flooding) it finally started roughly and I held the throttle on at 2k rpm closing the choke and it started to run like normal again.

Once it had been left to warm I went on a bit of a ride in the freezing weather and the performance difference was massive, easily nipped up to 70 mph at 6k. Very pleased with that result .

Incase anyone else is having the same issue just thought I would run through how I got it sorted. Firstly you need to enable SSH access I think I mentioned it earlier on this blog, if you search it, or if not Google that part.

I then disabled Twonky, by running: -

/etc/init.d/twonky stop

Then moved the twonky startup script out of init.d and into root’s home, so it would no longer start on reboot.

Then I installed a more efficient but to be fair less attractive looking media server called mediatomb, using the following command: -

apt-get update && apt-get install mediatomb

Once it’s installed you need to tweak it’s config particularly if you have a PS3 you want to stream to. In this section of the config I changed the ui to be on, enabled an account and changed the port (had to add the port).

 <server>
    <ui enabled="yes" show-tooltips="yes">
      <accounts enabled="yes" session-timeout="30">
        <account user="userblah" password="passblah"/>
      </accounts>
    </ui>
    <port>50000</port>

The next important thing to change is the following, add caching=”no” to the storage element: -

 <storage caching="no">
      <sqlite3 enabled="yes">
        <database-file>mediatomb.db</database-file>
      </sqlite3>
      <mysql enabled="no">
        <host>localhost</host>
        <username>mediatomb</username>
        <database>mediatomb</database>
      </mysql>
    </storage>

I then searched through the file for all mention of PS3 and uncommented the lines that needed to be uncommented such as:

<protocolInfo extend="yes"/><!-- For PS3 support change to "yes" -->

And

<!-- Uncomment the line below for PS3 divx support -->
<map from="avi" to="video/divx"/>

Once you have done all that then you need to restart mediatomb as it will have started after you installed it. Do that by running the following: -

/etc/init.d/mediatomb restart

Now you can encourage mediatomb to pick up your data and start indexing it all. Open a browser and point it at the IP of your WD mybook live box, and use a :50000 if that is the port you are running mediatomb on, you will get an interface like this, once logged in using the username and password from the config.xml earlier: -

Mediatomb

The difference will be that you will have just one directory in the database part. So move to the file system and locate your media directory. On the right of the screen is a + icon with a arrow around it, click that to add the directory to be watched. If unsure set it to periodic checking, full initial scan and set the time to say 60 seconds.

In around 60 seconds it will kick in and start indexing all your files, once it’s complete you should be up and running and you should see all your content in that database view.

Though once I left, I started to realise that any site that makes you feel any guilt for leaving and also takes up a lot of your time is more of an addiction and they want it that way. The data collected will eventually become a finger print or analysis of your life, extremely valuable and marketable information which will be no doubt be available to marketing companies for many many years to come.

I don’t think I want to allow that kind of analysis of my life, or to try and condense it into a tedious linear timeline that attempts to sum me up. I especially dislike how it makes it easier for future employers, friends, partners to sift back through your history and believe they understand you.

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