Monthly Archives: October 2009

Hamsterland (A.K.A Descend Hamsterley)

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This Sunday Ian, Cat and I headed over to Descend Hamsterley to go downhilling. I haven’t really been on my bike for a while and a brief outing at Llandegla a few weeks ago had confirmed my rustiness. I certainly haven’t ridden anything steep since Les Gets / Morzine in summer 2008 so was a little apprehensive to say the least. 

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The uplift at Hamsterley is fantastic. For a mere £20 you and your bike get a lift from the bottom to the top 10 times so none of that nasty uphill peddling lark; It was even better for me as this was my birthday present from Ian, cheers dude. The weather was glorious although there had been rain overnight and there was a little moisture in the air when we arrived. 

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Les Gets – Summer 2008

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I’ve dug this up from an old blog of mine. Things have changed a little since then … we didn’t get to Les Gets, or anywhere else for that matter, mountain biking this year. Instead we had a baby who is very cute but not so downhill mountain biking friendly … wouldn’t change things for the world though ….

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Asterisk 1.6 on Ubuntu Server

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There is a lot of information on t’interweb about installing Asterisk on lot’s of different distributions of linux. However quite often they contradict each other and it seemed that most were written about version 1.4 rather than the lastest stable release 1.6. I don’t think I could have got to where I am now without this guide so fair play to Riccardo. So this is what I have done, it may not be the best way to do it, it may not be right, but it seems to work … or at least install anyway!

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Running Ubuntu in MS Virtual PC 2007

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To get the install to run

  1. At install screen press ‘F6′ for install options then ‘ESC’ allowing a direct edit of the install options
  2. Replace ‘quiet splash’ or ‘quiet’ with ‘vga=0×314 noreplace-paravirt’
  3. Hit ‘enter’ to start the install

To get Ubuntu to run first time

  1. At GRUB  screen press ‘ESC’ to configure
  2. Select the relevant kernel line, press ‘e’ to edit
  3. Select the relevant kernel line again, press ‘e’ to edit again
  4. Replace ‘quiet splash’ with ‘vga=0×314 noreplace-paravirt’
  5. Hit ‘enter’ to save
  6. Hit ‘b’ to boot

To get Ubuntu to run everytime

  1. sudo -i
  2. Edit ‘/boot/grub/menu.lst’ with your favourite editor
  3. Find the relevant kernel line
  4. Replace ‘quiet splash’ with ‘vga=0×314 noreplace-paravirt’
  5. Save the file