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...

Darned KDE Upgrade: Fixing Dolphin

Lost my information panel during one of the last KDE upgrades. Do this to get it back

Rename or delete the following (dolphinpartrc may not exist):

~/.kde4/share/config/dolphinrc
~/.kde4/share/apps/dolphin/dolphinuirc
~/.kde4/share/apps/dolphinpart/dolphinpartrc

Tip found at the opensuse forums.

It's not Man's Work unless you shed a little blood doing it

Polished half my intakes. Before and after picture. Little difficult to see, but the insides are much smoother. The parting line from the casting is nearly gone now. Flapper wheel and injuries (from trying to get the upper seal off) below.

Before & After

Flapper wheel: 80 Grit

Looked real bad before washing off the blood

Might have hit a major piece of Good Luck

So, when I went to drain the carbs on the Valk today, nothing came out. So, it is entirely possible that at some point over the last several years, I did indeed drain the gas out of the carbs.

Gods that would save me a lot of time and trouble if I don't have to tear all 6 of those gorram things apart.

Will tear one down and see how it looks. If good, I'll hopefully be able to avoid all of that work, and can just dump in some carb cleaner for the first couple of tanks.

Helpful Manifold Tip #1

So, after removing the first two intake manifolds, I removed the two screws for the third (in my case, the third was the left side front). Turns out that if you remove all 6 of those screws, the whole carb bank pivots up, which makes removing the manifolds much easier.

Right side intake manifolds

I'm certain it will be easier to install them that way as well.

I'm also going to polish the insides as long as I have them off. Rumor Mill says that should improve mileage by about 3 mpg. Certainly can't hurt anything.

Note to self: Note the position of that little bent tab at the rear manifold. There is one of those on the left front manifold as well. Not sure what it does, but I want to make sure it goes back in the same position.

Valk Tear Down Day 1

2011-08-25:

Pulled the tank off:

test

pig

Clockwork Recovery on the 3G Xoom

Ref XDA:

Download Clockwork Recovery for the Xoom, then:

Linux:

$ ./adb reboot bootloader
$ ./fastboot flash recovery recovery-solarnz-XXXXXX-XXXX.img
$ ./fastboot reboot

After rebooting:

$ ./adb reboot recovery

Or install Quickboot from the market.

Unlock & Root 3G Xoom

Software needed:

-Android SDK: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

-Java SDK (use synaptic)

-fastboot (from HTC): http://developer.htc.com/google-io-device.html#s2

Linux:

Create this file (as root): /etc/udev/rules.d/51.android.rules containing:

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"

SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666"

Xoom: Make sure "USB Debugging" is on (Applications->Development)

Linux:

Open konsole in SDK/tools directory (ie: ~/Download/Motorola/xoom/SDK/android-sdk-linux_x86/tools):

$ ./adb reboot bootloader

$ chmod 777 fastboot

$ ./fastboot oem unlock

Wait....

Unlocked!!!

Enter info on Xoom...Make sure "USB Debugging" is on again.

Linux:

$ ./adb reboot bootloader

$ ./fastboot flash boot rootboot.img (From here.)

$ ./fastboot reboot

Wait...

Linux:

$ ./adb remount

$ ./adb push su /system/bin

$./adb shell

# ln –s /system/bin/su /system/xbin/su

# chmod 4755 /system/bin/su

# exit

Install Superuser from market

Install busybox from market

Install Titanium Backup from market (Do NOT install busybox from within Titanium Backup!)