Split Large MKV For Easy Transfer

Blu-ray rips are big.

I have a 16G USB thumb drive.

To split the large MKV up into usable chunks created a gzipped tar file, split, move it to the HTPC, join the parts back together, and uncompress it:
> tar -czvf movie.mkv.tgz Movie.mkv
> split -b 12000000000 "movie.mkv.tgz" "movieparts.mkv.tgz.part-"

Will create smaller files called:
movieparts.mkv.tgz.part-aa
movieparts.mkv.tgz.part-ab
etc...

To rejoin:
> cat movieparts.mkv.tgz.part-* > movie.mkv.tgz
> tar -xvf movie.mkv.tgz

And delete the part and tgz files.

Watch movie on HDTV with XBMC or OpenELEC.

Bags

As bad-ass as she looks naked, it's really impractical without the saddlebags.

I'm keeping the windshield off tho.

I Have GOT To Get Me One Of These!

Mityvac.

Bled the clutch in about 15 seconds.

Lifted

Got the front wheel up. Should he able to raise the back with the lift and put a 4x4 underneath to hold both wheels up.

Day Two

Day two:

• No more gas leaking from carbs. Looks like the o-rings did indeed swell up and reseal.
• Still runs rough.
• Idles at around 300 RPM
• It will die if I leave it running unchoked.

I'm sure once the Techron runs thru that will help with the rough running. Looks like I need to up the idle speed as well.

And We Have RUMBLE!

Oh  yeah.

Lucas the Inventor

Lucas invented a storage system for cleaning up a cluttered desk, while still keeping everything within easy reach.

It consists of a tablecloth clip, a spring loaded key ring, a short length of lamp chain, and a small plastic container with a screw on lid.

His original plan was to have a locking container, but given that it's due tomorrow, we made a few design changes.

He also planned on using a pulley to support the container, but I convinced him to change that approach, as the key ring is a simpler design, combining the pulley and counterweight into one nice small package.

Overall, he did quite well.

No power in the verse...

So some guy has a plan to build a fully functional USS Enterprise.

I say screw that.

I want my own Firefly.

Besides, warp drive would kill us all. Damn Trekkers.

Flowery Gasoline

That's kind of what my hands smell like right now after draining the tank and washing my hands with the soap bottle in the kitchen.

There was more gas in there than I realized. Almost two gallons.

Will shine a light in there this weekend to see how bad it is. Hopefully not too bad.

Then a couple of gallons of premium gas, along with some Techron.

Almost....

Coolant Drain

Drained the coolant tonight. Flushed with filtered fridge water. Might flush with some distilled water before adding new coolant.

That's a 10mm socket, tightened to ~7 ft-lb.

Nothing left to drain except for the gas remnants in the tank.

Horn Bracket Mod

Had Roy at work add a notch to my horn brackets. They don't quite fit with the air horn mounting holes towards the front of the bike. Also repainted them. They mount with the exhaust hanger bolts.

K&N

After around 20k miles it still looks pretty damn good. But as long as the tank is off, I'm cleaning and oiling it.

 

And of course, the K&N cleaning instructions.

Mothers Mag & Aluminium Polish

Holy shit on the Mothers.

Fixing Rusty Chrome

http://www.ehow.com/how_7689240_remove-rust-spots-off-chrome.html

Elbow grease.

Bleeding

Bled the brakes and clutch. Only fluid left in the bike is the coolant.
Had to drop the bag to bleed the rear brake. Hooray for the Rattlebars bag drop kit!
Also installed the new vacuum tubes from Redeye.

Bag removal:
   

Bleeding the front

Android Apps On Your Computer

BlueStacks App Player Enters Beta, Brings 450,000 Android Apps to Your Windows PC

Need a Linux version...

Jim Crow Invades Education

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/education/after-cheating-scandal-sat-and-act-will-tighten-security.html?_r=1&hp

If showing an ID will reduce cheating on tests, why won't it reduce cheating during an election?

Keeping An N-Band Router At N-Speeds

So, putting N and G clients on the same router is Bad, since everything connecting to a router runs at the slowest speed connecting.

So get a cheap second router and set it up as a wireless access point for all your G-clients. And then use a cable to hook the two routers together.

Earl

Oil drained.

Final Gear Oil: Drained

Got the final gear oil drained. Also got the right-side manifolds off, sanded, and put back on with new o-rings.

Note the clever use of the jack stand to support the bike upright for draining. +1 for me!

Also note that my luggage rack frame nearly blocks the drain plug.

Testing the Blogger Android App

Just testing the blogger app on the Galaxy Nexus.

Adding a picture of Kira. Can't place it within the text tho apparently.

Galaxy Nexus: Root & ClockWorkMod Recovery

Turn on USB debugging. Attach the phone to the computer.

‎./adb devices [just to make sure it's recognized]

‎./adb reboot bootloader [to get to the bootloader]

./fastboot flash recovery recovery-clockwork-5.5.0.4-toro.img

Press volume down till you get the "recovery mode" option, and press Power to select recovery. [reboots into CWM]

Select install zip from sdcard

Select "choose zip from sdcard"

Select the su.zip

Back on the computer, in konsole:
./adb shell
then run:
>mount -o rw,remount /system
>mv /system/etc/install-recovery.sh /system/etc/install-recovery.bak
(This part didn't work for me: "mv: can't rename '/system/etc/install-recovery.sh': No such file or directory"
>exit [to leave the adb shell]

So, either use root explorer to rename it if it shows up, or use ROM Manager to reinstall CWM.

Then reboot.

Mostly simplicity.

Links:

ClockWorkMod Recovery

Fastboot

su.zip

Original guide

Unlock the Galaxy Nexus Bootloader

Turn on USB debugging. Attach the phone to the computer.

‎./adb devices [just to make sure it's recognized]

‎./adb reboot bootloader [to get to the bootloader]

./fastboot oem unlock [unlocks the bootloader; select yes when asked on the phone]

‎./fastboot reboot

Simplicity.

Adding a Windows HD to an Existing Linux Installation

So I got Duke Nukem forever for Christmas, and unforuntately there is no Linux version. Which, again unfortunately, means I need to add a small HD to my computer that will run Windows (XP Pro, which I have lying around still).

I found a cheap, 40G SATA HD at newegg.

To make Windows install easily, I physically unplugged the main HD which runs PCLOS, then went thru the standard WindowsXP install. When I was done, I plugged the main drive back in, and booted into Linux.

So now I needed to make a Grub entry for the Windows drive. Unfortunately, the standard Grub GUI provided with PCLOS will not work in this case, because the Windows drive is the second drive in the system, and stupid Windows needs to be on the first drive in order to function (stupid Bill Gates).

So, in this case, you need to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst manually, and add a secton, mapping hd1 to hd0 and hd0 to hd1 in order to trick Windows into think it's really on the first drive:

title DukeNukem
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
And done.

And now everything works, and I can boot into either Windows or PCLOS just fine.

Only problem now is that I'm all out of gum...