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From Lindesnes to Nordkapp with bicycle

Sport

Ok, the title being a bit misleading, I will not actually ride my bike from Lindesnes to Nordkapp, but to keep track of how much distance I have covered riding my bike back and forth from work I use that distance to compare with.

For now I have done ten days, about 360 kilometers, so now I’m passing by Drammen. What is there to say about Drammen? Anders and Eivind are from Drammen. Herodes Falsk, one of the members of Prima Vera is from Drammen, they also made a song about Drammen (…for jeg ble født i en jævla by, ja jeg snakker om Drammen…).

Another ambition is to write something about the things I see when cycling to work. So, the first thing worth mentioning which I pass by would be Tveitablokkene. Three big tower blocks housing no less than 819 apartments. Not the biggest cooperative in Norway, but I’m quite sure no other have so many apartments with only three buildings.

@Update: And as my best man Espen pointed out…he is born in Drammen…

Commuting is hard for the equipment

Sport

Commuting with my bike has created the first system malfunction today. One of my barends broke when I applied to much pressure on it. Might have been caused by the accident I had last week in the parking house at Lysaker.

A bit funny, when using Google to search for barends one of the hits was this

Takket være sin konsekvente tro på ny teknologi, holdbarhet og attraktiv design fortsetter Nakamura, det anerkjente canadiske MTB merket, å gjøre suksess …

(Google translate)
Did not feel that today I must admit, durability when the barends are made of rubber and plastic…but, ok, the bike is Nakamura, but the barends are made by Specialized…

Cleaning up my backpack

Leisure

Using an old backpack when using my bike to work. Opened one of the pockets and had a thorough look yesterday and found this document from the vacation me, Loy and Espen had in 2004. Remember the sleeping directly on the floor as the most extreme thing, or maybe the elephant ride was most extreme…extremely boring…

Tractor fail and forest tending

Leisure

Out at Vestreng this weekend, been out and doing forest tending and preparing for next winter, cutting down fire wood. Had a tractor fail on my way back one time. Not a hard thing to fix, just had to put in reverse then the tree was freed from the wheel.

This is the result of 1 1/2 days of work, ten more and I should have taken out enough for next winter.

Installing VmWare-player on Ubuntu 9.10

Work/Geek

Quite simple to install VmWare-player, just follow the guide available here http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-install-vmware-player-in-ubuntu-9-10. But note, if the installer hangs like it did for me, kill the installer (I did a reboot), then follow this steps http://my.opera.com/titzesan/blog/ubuntu-9-10-installing-vmware-player-2-5-3 Voila, installed and running flawlessly.

How to get hold of the admin console

Work/Geek

I thought I had created a blog post about this issue already, but was not able to find any information when I desperately needed to find the port number used to access the admin console of my local WAS installation. Anyhow, the trick is the file serverindex.xml

You will find the file in the directory located at
<AppServerRoot>\profiles\AppSrv01\config\cells\<cellname>\nodes\<nodename>\

So I found my console at http://localhost:9060/ibm/console/

See the InfoCenter for more information

Nice day for a bike ride – and cars collision

Sport

Pictures taken when I arrived at work this morning around eight o’clock.

And on my way back home I stopped at a pedestrian crossing. The first car stopped, no problem, but then came one up behind it – way to fast and then bang!!! No one got hurt at least and I could go on, passing the spot where I crashed yesterday, this time without any incidents…

I hit the ground

Sport

On my way home today I had an accidents with my bike. Out at Lysakerlokket the fastest way it through the parking house. At first there is a bit downhill with a sharp left turn at the bottom. I did not think of it at all, but realized when trying to use the breaks that wheels with spikes and polished concrete is not a good combination at all. Luckily just a graze wound and a bracket for my rear light broken, apart from that nothing to complain about.

Can’t get it all – Polar s725x and Linux not best friends

Work/Geek

Have been struggling quite hard (at least on my level it was hard (Jackass på lavt nivå )) to enable my installation of Linux to read from my Polar 725x heart rate monitor but now I have raised the white flag. Since I’m not a c-programmer or a hardcore Unix/Linux administrator I must admit that I find really hard to struggle with low level IR-issues combined with the need to run make to install the software that should read the exercises. And when that is done, I must install another application to view the data.

I think my next option will be to try out Windows XP running on a VmWare-image, or worst of it all…dual boot…annoying because it would just be because of the Polar SW not running on Linux.

…a bit angry since I actually got to install s710, and by using irdadump I know that my laptop and the watch are communicating. But running the Polar Protrainer on Linux using Wine enables all features except the use of IR…doh! I’ve seen some postings of people who has managed that as well, but that is far beyond my level of knowledge. Sometimes Open Source is not as open as people say it is…ok, I know how to read the code, but my God it is a long way before I can do anything with it…