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Ireland Tour 2008 (Part 3)
Wednesday 30th July View Larger Map Decisions, Decisions We did not sleep well and were glad to be getting up to leave. The breakfast was probably the Abbey Hotels saving grace. A standard buffet layout, simply walk up and point at what you want. In that case the vegetarian option was beans on toast with…
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Ireland Tour 2008 (Part 2)
Tuesday 29th July View Larger Map The Good, The Bad & The People Carriers We got up and headed for breakfast were we had good news and bad news. The good news was that they serve a full vegetarian option at the Premier Inn (though they overcooked the vegetarian sausages), the bad news was that…
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Ireland Tour 2008 (Part 1)
Monday 28th July 2008 View Larger Map In The Beginning: The bags were still being packed 10mins before we hit the road. I had got a set of Buell inner bags for the side cases & top case. Since we were planning to B&B it we took a side case each and used the top…
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Buell, Uly & I
Almost 1 month and 1 service later it is time for the first blog all about owning and living with my Buell Ulysses XB12XT. Her provisional pet name is ‘Uly’ as I can not think up anything else appropriate! First off this period has been all about breaking in the engine. This would sound like…
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Hello Hardy Heron
How appropriate this is, approximately one year after making the leap to Ubuntu I find myself finally upgrading to the latest release, 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron. This has been much applauded by many as being the best and essentially simplest version of Ubuntu to use and install. Many of the features within it will be…
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That Time of Year
People are running around, making their lists and checking them twice! Shaking our heads at which manufacturers have been naughty and nice…yes, over the next few weeks/months we will be treated to the 2009 model line-ups from the various motorcycle manufacturers. To give you an idea of what is in store here is a taster…
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A Letter To President Sarkozy
Dear Mr Sarkozy, You are due here on the 21st of July, so let me say welcome to Ireland, the current speed bump in your plans to ensure that a more cost effective, democratically redundant, easier access to EU customers & militarily integrated European experiment. So the NO vote on Lisbon has created a few…
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Help Make Motorcycling Better
Being a motorcycle rider usually goes hand-in-hand with having a rather subdued voice when it comes to policy making and how we are treated. But now here is your chance to have your say. First we have the annual Rider Power survey carried out by Ride magazine and the results should be available in their…
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Heron Soars
Ubuntu have released the first updated release to Hardy Heron LTS, this being 8.04.1. As with the last LTS (Long Term Support) version of Ubuntu there were releases along its life to include all relevant security updates and upgrades. Basically so that once you were finished installing your brand new OS you then do not…
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Intrepid Dates
Here are the dates for the testing & release schedule for the next release of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex. June 26th – Alpha 1July 10th – Alpha 2July 24th – Alpha 3August 14th – Alpha 4August 28th – Feature FreezeSeptember 4th – Alpha 5September 18th – Alpha 6September 15th – Beta FreezeOctober 2nd – Beta…
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