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I have owned this Sachs for roughly for years, daily average is 30 kilometers. I have clocked about 15,000 KM on it. Over this period following are the problems I have to address. If you are in to this bike, be prepared to get your hands dirty and be patient!

Following is the order in which these problem started appearing in. I have not mentioned the general maintainance i.e lube chain, replacing brake pads, oil flush, air filter cleaning etc.

Clutch push rod seal leak (Common known issue)

Halogen light bulbs failure. LED bulbs do not have enough resistance to blink at slower rate

Lost thread on rear swing arm bolt holding engine

Gears stuck and slipping out

Rear and front bearing replacement

Side stand breaking chain

Sticky throttle cable

Clutch cable snapped

15 amp fuse blown

Gear shifter oil seal leak

Side stand spring assembly broken

Front fork seals punctured due to rust on forks

Neutral light stopped working

Exhaust springs broken

Clutch lever return spring broken

From my limited travel experience, I am going to document some of my findings here and keep them updated. This is not the usual bullshit ‘tips’ such as check you have visa, passport, online checkin etc... 

Ensure seat allocated to you on boarding pass can recline

Queue at the end of first boarding call

When in transit lounge, look for massage chairs

Check seat allocated can recline

This may be not true for all airlines. However, from recent experience I have learned that some aircraft seats do not recline. Specifically the ones infront of emergency exit row. The aircraft I experienced this in was a boeing 737-800 and row number 12.

Queue at the end of first boarding call

Normally boarding calls are made in a way so that rear of the plane gets populated before the front so that least amount of obstruction is caused within the plane. Therefore, the first boarding call could be from rows 15-30 for example

Wait for everyone to form a queue to board and when you notice that queue is no longer growing, feel free to queue if you are seated in row that does not fall between 15-30.

By the time you reach the front of the queue, the second boarding call will be made for rows between 1-15.

Mind you, you can still queue up on the first boarding call even if you do not meet the criteria. It is really not a big deal.

Look for a massage chair

This may be not true for most airports / transit / boarding lounge. However, if you can find a massage chair then these are the best chairs for waiting in. Not only they offer comfort but also they need electricity to operate and you can tap in to its power source for powering or recharging your other devices.

More updates soon! ...

Notes for me:

- Rooted android phone or tablet is a MUST

- Take a photo of boarding pass

- Always save offline copy of iternary

- Having a power bank is a must

- Buy a portable weighing machine

- Buy bags that weigh less

- Travek with SIM conversion frame

- Avoid wearing a metal belt if possible

- Pack bags in even weights e.g. 15kg x 4 bags = 60kg makes it easy to transport and reshuffle contents

- Ensure hand-carry is around 5kg to allow for duty free shopping.

- Either carry predominant currency or avoid exchanging money. If paying by debit or credit card always pay using home currency

- Checking online 48 hours prior and look for upgrade options

Shoaib@machine:~/Node/nodetest1$ npm start

> [email protected] start /Users/Shoaib/Node/nodetest1 > node ./bin/www

{ [Error: Cannot find module '../build/Release/bson'] code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND' } js-bson: Failed to load c++ bson extension, using pure JS version

To solve you do this ...

I've been trying to look for a solution so that my seal of truth remains active. The worst thing when in arenas charging a target and discovering that you cannot judge and changing your attention to figuring out why you can't. 

I would suggest using the following macro when mounting up, because you always mount up before the arena gates open. This will ensure you have your seal/aura up!

Feel free to change the name to your preferred mount. 

#showtooltip KeepSealAlive

/cast !Seal of Truth

/cast [nocombat, nomounted] !Seal of Truth; [mounted] !Seal of Truth;

/cast [nocombat, nomounted] Golden Gryphon;

/cast [nocombat, nomounted] Charger;

/dismount

I've just downloaded sargraph_version2.tgz. You need to sign up to get the download file.

This is a free version has many errors in scripts. 

First of all create a user called sargraph using the following command on ubuntu

adduser sargraph

Then su sargraph and generates its dsa ssh key

ssh-keygen -t dsa

Now, exit out of sargraph user and before running the adduser script change the add_user.sh script in the scripts folder 

Remove if [ $pass1 == $pass2 ] and replace it with if [ $pass1 = $pass2 ] and then run 

sudo ./add_user

It will create the user correctly.

Now add the server using addserver script

If you are running SSH on a different port then open the addserver file using a text editor find and replace all occurances of "ssh" with "ssh -P 2222" if 2222 is the port you are using. Also there is a call to "scp" so make sure you replace that too "scp -P 2222"

You also need to update another script file called updatesar.sh and do find and replace of ssh with ssh -P 2222  as well. 

Another thing wrong with this script updatesar.sh is that it looks at the wrong location for sar log files so find and replace /var/log/sar/ with /var/log/sysstat/

This is how the updatesar.sh should look like http://pastie.org/5344467

Now you can run the following.

sudo ./addserver localhost

I've been wanting to set up a youtube-cache for a while now, just to save me on some bandwidth. As I use youtube heavily for music. I have it running really well now, although I think it has some issues when videos are in 480p 720p and 1080p. Works fine with 360p.

I would suggest setting this up in a VirtualBox machine.

This setup uses 

Ubuntu Server 12, Nginx, Squid3, Ruby1.8.

Most of the code is used from here https://code.google.com/p/youtube-cache/ with some modifications.

- Install nginx, ruby, squid

sudo apt-get install nginx ruby squid

- Backup your existing nginx and squid configuration

mv /etc/squid3/squid.conf /etc/squid3/squid.conf.backup

mv /etc/nginx/nginx.conf /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.backup

- Put in new squid and nginx config

wget -O /etc/squid3/squid.conf https://dl.dropbox.com/u/44518415/youtube/squid.conf

wget -O /etc/nginx/nginx.conf https://dl.dropbox.com/u/44518415/youtube/nginx.conf

- You also need a re-director script a ruby app that will do the youtube downloading for you

wget -O /etc/nginx/nginx.rb https://dl.dropbox.com/u/44518415/youtube/nginx.rb

- Create the cache directories 

mkdir /usr/local/www

mkdir /usr/local/www/nginx_cache

mkdir /usr/local/www/nginx_cache/tmp

mkdir /usr/local/www/nginx_cache/files

mkdir /cache1

- Set the appropriate permissions and ownerships

chmod 755 /etc/nginx/nginx.rb

chown www-data /usr/local/www/nginx_cache/files/ -Rf

chown proxy:proxy /cache1

chmod -R  777 /cache1

- Make sure squid and nginx is not running

service squid3 stop

service nginx stop

- Now generate the Squid cache directories

squid3 -z

- Now start nginx and squid3

service squid3 start

service nginx start

- Nginx will be running on port 8081 and Squid3 will be running on 8080 as transparent

- Change your browser proxy settings to point to your youtube cache server or squid server on port 8080 and load a youtube video. Make sure it is in 360p. You can experiment with 720p etc later.

- Recently youtube has made a change with their streaming. They send video data in chunks of 1.7 Mb. So, you should end up with lots of files like this in /usr/local/www/nginx_cache/files directory. 

-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 1.7M Mar 15  2011 id=0e095c881c062079.itag=34.range=10690560-12472319.algo=throttle-factor

-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 1.7M Mar 15  2011 id=0e095c881c062079.itag=34.range=12472320-14254079.algo=throttle-factor

-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 1.7M Mar 15  2011 id=0e095c881c062079.itag=34.range=13-1781759.algo=throttle-factor

-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 291K Mar 15  2011 id=0e095c881c062079.itag=34.range=14254080-16035839.algo=throttle-factor

-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 1.7M Mar 15  2011 id=0e095c881c062079.itag=34.range=1781760-3563519.algo=throttle-factor

-rw------- 1 www-data www-data 1.7M Mar 15  2011 id=0e095c881c062079.itag=34.range=3563520-5345279.algo=throttle-factor

If you are getting errors after pulling or pushing a git repository created for the first time, maybe specific to assembla? You might want to run your first push like so

git push -u origin master

Usually if you do cat *.log or cat file.log it will dump the output very quickly to stdout... if you would like to slow down the dump lets say 1 line every 10 seconds, then you can use this one-liner shell code.

-bash-3.2$ cat *.log | while read line; do echo "$line"; sleep 10; done

All sorts of fancy stuff that you can do now by piping it to other tools will leave that to your imagination.

Hint 1: Simulate traffic

Hint 2: echo $((RANDOM%10+1)) # Generate random number between 10 and 1 (seconds)

I had to go a lot further then that! lol.

I had to create a custom gem with some patching to windows version of ruby-opengl

then once that was installed, I had to change the gl_tail.rb in the lib directory. Removed line 28   #gem 'opengl', '~> 0.7.0.pre1'

and just added require 'opengl' instead.

Then I had to install gem install net-ssh-gateway and gem install file-tail, because the gl_tail.rb in lib directory kept on giving LoadErrors.

Even after installing gem install chipmunk. I was getting Missing Chipmink C extension.

Going in to irb and typing in require 'chipmunk' gave this error of missing msvcrt-ruby18.dll.

Thanks to this post, the version to download chipmonk.so was for older version of ruby. I should have not downloaded that. So what I did instead was go in C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.9.1\gems\chipmunk-5.3.4.5-x86-mingw32 folder and grabbed the chipmonk.so from there and stuck it in that folder sites_ruby. Now require 'chipmonk' returned true. Remember the reason why I have that folder is because I did gem install chipmunk.

Lastly, I was left with this error

C:/ruby/gltail/bin/gl_tail.rb:98:in `trap': unsupported signal SIGHUP (ArgumentE

rror)

        from C:/ruby/gltail/bin/gl_tail.rb:98:in `<main>'

I ended up commenting out all the trap's that were no longer support in ruby1.9.

This included HUP, QUIT and USR2 looks like USR1 was already commented out. 

This is around line 98 in gltail\bin\gl_tail.rb

And  .. finally! gl_tail loaded :)