Was given a Knoppix-4.0 dvd to play with, that was awesome! Thought I'd try a couple of more up to date distros.
My PC had a primary master, secondary master drive with a slaved CDROM. Took the secondary master and made it as a slave to the primary, now there's 2x80 GByte hdd drives there, and put a 20 GByte hdd in as the secondary master.
Had to use a recovery disk (RIP) to fix lilo and the /etc/fstab file in the working distro which is still Mandrake-10.1.
Then started playing with two distros that came off the english "Linux Format" magazine. One was Debian sarge and the other was Fedora Core 4. Interestingly enough, even though both seemed to have different installers, both formated the hdd as an extened partition with an 18 GByte partition and a nearly 1 GByte swap.
The Debian distro gave me a bit of heartburn trying to get X to work, it was a bit like playing with Red Hat six or seven years ago! Anyway, after sorting that out it turned out to be fine. FC4 went on without any hassles and both distros used Gnome. After an exhaustive 30 second analyses of both distros, all I can say is I like both, but have a bit of a learning curve to crawl up before selecting *the right one* for me.
25.9.05
13.9.05
Dungog - 11 Sep 2005
The birds woke me again, gee it was nice. The coughing spree the night before seemed to be the zenith of the cold, it had moved out of my chest and well and truly into the sinusus. I was pretty listless, but we had to move on so loaded the bike up and again with company, rode into Dungog where day two events were about to begin.
I opted to do nothing but read the newspapers and bide my time till the bus to take us home turned up. left about 1.30pm and arrived back in Canberra at 9:00pm and in bed by 10:00pm.
So endeth a trip and a half, spoiled by a rotten cold. That's life I guess
I opted to do nothing but read the newspapers and bide my time till the bus to take us home turned up. left about 1.30pm and arrived back in Canberra at 9:00pm and in bed by 10:00pm.
So endeth a trip and a half, spoiled by a rotten cold. That's life I guess
Dungog - 10 Sep 2005
Woke to the sounds of rain forest birds. hadn't heard that for years. Breakfast and for some of us, a ride into Dungog (much easier downhill and without the panniers) for the start of the Dungog Pedalfest.
Although I had had my standard breakfast, Rotary were putting on one as well in the main street, so decided to eat up big, it was going to cure my rotten cold! Then the days events started with endless speeches and off we went for a kind of flat 22k circuit with a stop at the Williams river bridge.
Opening the Ride
After that there were other rides and movies and other things I'm sure, but again my life was predominated with this rotten cold so I opted to ride back to Wangat Lodge. This time with company, and no load. A much nicer ride.
That evening, a few went off to a bush dance but I just went to bed with my paracetamol after a violent coughing spree.
Although I had had my standard breakfast, Rotary were putting on one as well in the main street, so decided to eat up big, it was going to cure my rotten cold! Then the days events started with endless speeches and off we went for a kind of flat 22k circuit with a stop at the Williams river bridge.
After that there were other rides and movies and other things I'm sure, but again my life was predominated with this rotten cold so I opted to ride back to Wangat Lodge. This time with company, and no load. A much nicer ride.
That evening, a few went off to a bush dance but I just went to bed with my paracetamol after a violent coughing spree.
Dungog - 9 Sep 2005
My cold wasn't much better, but with a rendezvous later in the day up at the Chickchester dam, caught the train to Dungog and rode the 20 odd Ks up towards the dam. It was a hard ride for me and eventually arrived and recovered a bit. The place we were to stay at was called the "Wangat Lodge" and it is set in some beautiful bushland that has been restored over the last 20 years or so.
Had a walk and bit more of a rest and then my standard tea again, that can really get boring, and went to sleep waiting for the others to arrive which they did do at about 9pm. There bus had a trailer carrying the bikes and the rear spring on that trailer had snapped, which then resulted in the axle being wrenched from the trailer. All in all they were pretty lucky not to have overturned.
Possibly due to the competence of the owner and driver of the bus. He managed to reapir the trailer the following day, a Saturday when most trade shops aren't open.
So that was Friday, and I drifted off to sleep again.
8 Sep 2005
Didn't feel too bad, and after my porridgey breakfast caught the train up to Maitland and rode back to Newcastle. During this time the cold "got worse" again but it didn't seem to affect the riding too much. In fact was somewhat surprised to get back so quickly and so after a grilled fish and salad lunch, caught the train to Paterson and rode the 20 odd ks back to Maitland this time.
Not feeling all that bright, caught a train back to Newcastle, showered, went and bought a pasta dinner, more paracetamol and then bed.
The ride from Paterson had given me an inkling of what I could expect further up the Williams valley, and with my cold, was starting to worry about my fitness to ride.
Not feeling all that bright, caught a train back to Newcastle, showered, went and bought a pasta dinner, more paracetamol and then bed.
The ride from Paterson had given me an inkling of what I could expect further up the Williams valley, and with my cold, was starting to worry about my fitness to ride.
7 Sep 2005
My urti had gone another stage, but not much you can do other than buy some paracetamol.
What are these flowers?
En route to my daughters
Left my daughters place and caught the train to Gosford and went for a small ride up to Narara. There I met up with a friend of now some 46 years (yikes). He hasn't had much luck. First a divorce, and then the death of two of his kids, then his second wife, and then a daughter.
I suspect life has taken its toll of him, but he copes, and has a 14 yo son by the second marriage to keep him going. And then it was farewell, as in Julius Caesar;
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then, this parting was well made.
Rode onto Wyong before catching the train to Newcastle. My coughing was getting pretty bad and took a private room at the YHA, don't think anyone would have appreciated my wheezing.
Had a standard dinner, plus a few paracetamols and went to bed.
En route to my daughters
Left my daughters place and caught the train to Gosford and went for a small ride up to Narara. There I met up with a friend of now some 46 years (yikes). He hasn't had much luck. First a divorce, and then the death of two of his kids, then his second wife, and then a daughter.
I suspect life has taken its toll of him, but he copes, and has a 14 yo son by the second marriage to keep him going. And then it was farewell, as in Julius Caesar;
If we do meet again, why, we shall smile;
If not, why then, this parting was well made.
Rode onto Wyong before catching the train to Newcastle. My coughing was getting pretty bad and took a private room at the YHA, don't think anyone would have appreciated my wheezing.
Had a standard dinner, plus a few paracetamols and went to bed.
6 Sep 2005
I had registered for free exhibition "Storage Network World" http://www.snwaustralia.com so headed of to see all the latest and greatest in storage. Unfortunately the signs I followed led me to a course that would lead to certification as a network practicioner. So at the first break in an otherwise interesting presentation, excused myself and headed of to find the real display some 100 metres or so away.
So had a look there and then returned to my daughters place a went for a 30 K ride to the airport and back. You can actually get round on footpaths quite a lot and suspect if I lived in stinking smelly polluted Sydney, would get to learn all the non highway routes thru the place.
My throat was sore, blamed the city smog, but worse was to come as it turned into an urti.
So had a look there and then returned to my daughters place a went for a 30 K ride to the airport and back. You can actually get round on footpaths quite a lot and suspect if I lived in stinking smelly polluted Sydney, would get to learn all the non highway routes thru the place.
My throat was sore, blamed the city smog, but worse was to come as it turned into an urti.
4/5 Sep 2005
It rained and rained, so our bush ride was cancelled. Bundanoon has Sunday markets, bit touristy but I wandered round there before coffee across the road at the Bicycle Cafe. Not bad. Every one then left for home. Andrew had coffee with us as well, and then left to cycle of to Newcastle where he eventually arrived 7 Sep. What a ride.
I went back to the hostel and after checking the railway timetables too a trip to Picton.
There were a 100 odd people on the station platform waiting for a steam train. So I waited for them and got a number of shots.
3112 at Picton
Picton was pretty quiet, 20 odd years ago the main road to Sydney ran through it. You had to climb the razorback to get out of the place, a real bottleneck that the truckies used to advantage to blockade when they some grievance.
This was the first day of the "new railway timetables". Some of the locals weren't too happy as a number of train stops have now been replaced with bus services. I felt sorry for one poor bus driver as he copped a blast from a local. Shooting the messenger seems to be the only way out in an otherwise unresponsive government.
Do horses read?
The next day, the Monday, it was still raining and after a wet old ride to Moss Vale, dried out and waited for the weather to settle. At about 10am the sun sort of came out so rode on to Mittagong. On the way traveled partly along the Bong Bong trail which runs beside the Widgecarbee River. A very pleasant ride with no traffic to worry about.
The Bong Bong Track
At Mittagong, the weather closed in again, so I caught the train into Sydney and rode out to my daughters.
I went back to the hostel and after checking the railway timetables too a trip to Picton.
There were a 100 odd people on the station platform waiting for a steam train. So I waited for them and got a number of shots.
Picton was pretty quiet, 20 odd years ago the main road to Sydney ran through it. You had to climb the razorback to get out of the place, a real bottleneck that the truckies used to advantage to blockade when they some grievance.
This was the first day of the "new railway timetables". Some of the locals weren't too happy as a number of train stops have now been replaced with bus services. I felt sorry for one poor bus driver as he copped a blast from a local. Shooting the messenger seems to be the only way out in an otherwise unresponsive government.
The next day, the Monday, it was still raining and after a wet old ride to Moss Vale, dried out and waited for the weather to settle. At about 10am the sun sort of came out so rode on to Mittagong. On the way traveled partly along the Bong Bong trail which runs beside the Widgecarbee River. A very pleasant ride with no traffic to worry about.
At Mittagong, the weather closed in again, so I caught the train into Sydney and rode out to my daughters.
3 Sep 2005
The YHA at Bundanoon has a fine kitchen facility, so I was able to quickly prepare my standard breakfast, this is;
half cup of porridge
quarter cup sultanas
condensed milk to taste.
Then we all gathered to the fray for a briefing and off we went, through Exeter, and onto the Illawarra highway and down to Barrawang for morning tea. Barrawang is in the middle of nowhere, sports a few shops including a real estate office where we were staggered at the prices of land and houses.
Next stop was Fitzroy Falls, fantastic 1000 odd foot falls. The viewing platform extends into the void, my legs trembled as I went out to see them. had lunch there, a vegetable lasange but despite waiting 20 minutes, it was still frozen in the middle, though steaming hot on the outside. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Fitzroy Falls
And after 70 Ks we were back at the YHA and great social evening in front of a log fire and dinner at the local pub.
half cup of porridge
quarter cup sultanas
condensed milk to taste.
Then we all gathered to the fray for a briefing and off we went, through Exeter, and onto the Illawarra highway and down to Barrawang for morning tea. Barrawang is in the middle of nowhere, sports a few shops including a real estate office where we were staggered at the prices of land and houses.
Next stop was Fitzroy Falls, fantastic 1000 odd foot falls. The viewing platform extends into the void, my legs trembled as I went out to see them. had lunch there, a vegetable lasange but despite waiting 20 minutes, it was still frozen in the middle, though steaming hot on the outside. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
And after 70 Ks we were back at the YHA and great social evening in front of a log fire and dinner at the local pub.
2 Sep 2005
A ten kilometre ride to my lift and then a 2 hour, 160 K trip to Bundanoon.
On the way, at approximately 6pm, we passed Andrew riding there, he had left Canberra at 5pm.
Booked into the YHA sharing a room with Ian and Karen plus Larry. Cooked tea which was a simple meal;
2 Tblspns barley
2 Tblspns split peas
2 Tblspns brown rice
1 Tsp curry powder
Packet of noodles
90 gram tin of tuna
Boil the first 4 ingredients in water for about an hour, add noodles and boil for another few minutes then chuck in the tuna and after some stiring, eat the mush , it's really filling and tasty.
At 1am, I had to get up to go for a walk and there was Andrew, he had just arrived and the temperature was minus something. What a ride, and at night too!.
On the way, at approximately 6pm, we passed Andrew riding there, he had left Canberra at 5pm.
Booked into the YHA sharing a room with Ian and Karen plus Larry. Cooked tea which was a simple meal;
2 Tblspns barley
2 Tblspns split peas
2 Tblspns brown rice
1 Tsp curry powder
Packet of noodles
90 gram tin of tuna
Boil the first 4 ingredients in water for about an hour, add noodles and boil for another few minutes then chuck in the tuna and after some stiring, eat the mush , it's really filling and tasty.
At 1am, I had to get up to go for a walk and there was Andrew, he had just arrived and the temperature was minus something. What a ride, and at night too!.
1.9.05
And Now it's Spring
The first day of spring in Canberra was a fine and calm day. It did in fact follow a day of violents winds and rains as a front passed through.
Tomorrwow I am away for a 10 days visiting Bundanoon in the Southern Highlands. One 70 K ride for a cup of coffee, and on the Sunday, a 40 K ride for some pumpkin soup. There's gotta be easier of getting a cup of coffee!
And then during the next few days will wend my way to Sydney, stay a couple of nights with my daughter and visit a storage expo at Darling Harbour. After that on to Newcastle and Dungog for a folk festival and riding experience in the Hunter area of NSW. Be taking the train for fair part of the way, City Rail have good facilities for taking bikes.
Hopefully after a safe return, I shall be able to bring you all the gory details.
Tomorrwow I am away for a 10 days visiting Bundanoon in the Southern Highlands. One 70 K ride for a cup of coffee, and on the Sunday, a 40 K ride for some pumpkin soup. There's gotta be easier of getting a cup of coffee!
And then during the next few days will wend my way to Sydney, stay a couple of nights with my daughter and visit a storage expo at Darling Harbour. After that on to Newcastle and Dungog for a folk festival and riding experience in the Hunter area of NSW. Be taking the train for fair part of the way, City Rail have good facilities for taking bikes.
Hopefully after a safe return, I shall be able to bring you all the gory details.
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