Concours 14

PitStop over at Orlando Yamaha Kawasaki allowed me to try out his personal Kawasaki Concourse 14. While it is a big bike with saddle bags, it sure handles pretty amazing.




The power delivery is a little less snappy than I would like, but I'm used to riding a high strung 750cc bike, so its not surprising. This is not to say that the bike is slow, as that 1400 cc warms up like a jet engine.

I could see taking some very long trips on this bike. Excellent features such as a button actuated multi height windscreen and comfortable riding position have me thinking of just how far I could go without worrying about rider fatigue.

Concours 14 on Wikipedia

Ramdom thoughts episode 166 is amazing

Ramdom Thoughts Show 166 is available. I have to say this is some of Scotty's best work.

My favorite bit is the DJ's from mars mix at the end.

Great programming music.

GRR - segfault type day

It seems like today is all segfaults all the time.

I'm going to have to spend a little bit of time relearning how to use GDB.

Bram playing soccer

Normal life is a lot of work

I became single for the first time in nine years.

It never ceases to amaze me how much of my life Kelli took care of. Every day I find something new that I forgot to deal with, a bill, taxes, etc.

This is going to be a lot of work.

Configuring pvscsi module for centos

If you want to get some serious performance out of a virtual machine, using the paravirtualized disk controller in VMWare ESX server is the way to go.

configure pvscsi as initrd module

For me what it really came down to was this.

1) getting the VM running using a simple IDE controller.
2)Adding a second disk SCSI/Paravirtual controller.
3)Installing VMWare tools
4)I then used a liveCD to copy the first disk
5)Disable the original IDE disk.
6)Profit!

nautilus open terminal here

Similar in functionality to the Windows XP PowerToy "Open Command Window Here", is the nautilus terminal open addon.

This addon will let you right click anywhere in gnome and choose "Open Terminal Here" to launch a shell at that exact location. This lets you use the nautilus file manager to browse deep in a directory tree and launch a terminal, saving you lots of tedious typing.



Nautilus Open Terminal Here

svn-clean

handy script to clean all unversioned files from a source tree. Thankfully it also ignores svn:ignore settings.

svn-clean

Controlling windows services via pythong

I am going to be setting up a bunch of buildbot master processes to run on a windows host. To make restarting them easy I am going to script the service restart using python, perhaps with a web frontend.

Initial googling revealed this page describing a python script which can restart windows services.

Python Recipe for controlling windows services

colordiff to colorize svn diff output

I came across this awesome program the other day called colordiff.

You can pipe diff output to this program to get nice in-terminal diff coloring.

Nice article on colordiff with pictures describing its output.

To install in ubuntu 10.04

sudo apt-get install colordiff

When I use it with subversion I do the following

svn diff | colordiff