Author: Keith
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Wireless Computing
The ‘Mugen Power’ 9-cell battery pack arrived for my Advent 4211 (MSI Wind ‘clone’) just over a week ago. I had to wait until the weekend before getting to try it out since I wanted to put her though at least 3-4 charge/discharge cycles…which I did! Over the week I have been using daily and…
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Buell is Back
My Buell XB12XT Ulysses is back! For the earlier part of this story Click Here! What did Dublin Harley-Davidson do? A new wiring loom, new fuel pump & they replaced anything damaged in the off. All under warranty, so they did not charge me a cent. One of the dealers had been riding the bike…
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Pilgrimage 2008
Flights Booked…CHECK!Show Ticket…CHECK!Hotel…CHECK! Everything is in place for the 2008 NEC Motorcycle & Scooter Show being held in Birmingham, UK. Last year they changed the layout and squeezed more in and it was GREAT, but we did not have enough time to get around and get as many photos as we wanted…or deals…or see the…
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If I Didn’t Have Bad Luck…
Well, there has been a drought of blog posts lately, mainly due to me hoping that things would improve or sort themselves out, but alas they have not. So what is the story? Well here is the long version: Tuesday 21st October I left the house as per normal in the early hours of the…
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AAI 2008, Year End
Meeting up at Xtreme45 So what began with the mini fun run earlier this year and registration for the Annual Across Ireland main run on the last weekend of August has finally been wound up with a presentation on the 19th October with details of the final funds raised. So how did we do? The…
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Lightning Strikes
While my Buell Ulysses XB12XT was in the dealer for some tweaks I was given the Buell Lightning XB12S to keep me on the road. The dealer wanted me to give it a go since this specific version of the Lightning is being discontinued for 2009, being superseded by the lower XB12Scg version and longer…
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Power for the (Mobile) People
All images form Lion Battery Well the good news is in, a 9-cell battery for the Advent 4211 has been made available by the very good people at Lion Battery. Earlier last month (September) they became resellers of the official MSI Wind 6-cell battery, this 9-cell creation they have developed themselves and in theory should…
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Farewell Feisty Fawn
Has it been 18 months already? Seemingly so, as Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn reaches the end of its supported life. This may not be a huge deal as the releases that have come since have just been better and better. Now we are just a few weeks away from the release of Intrepid Ibex at…
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Ubuntu Remixed
Maybe it is because I am bored? Maybe because I have not had a decent nights sleep in over 2 weeks? Maybe I just want something to tie me over until Intrepid Ibex goes into the RC period? Whatever the reason a few mornings ago I added a two new repos and downloaded the required…
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Royal Aspirations
Royal Enfield Bullet Electra Well, I must confess that I have always had royal aspirations, do not get me wrong I have no problem with what everyone else is into but for me there are times when I just want that little bit more and in this case I find myself very excited by the…
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