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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The dealer wanted me to give it a go since this specific version of the Lightning is being discontinued for 2009, being superseded by the lower XB12Scg version and longer…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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Advent 4211 SD Card…Solved!
SD Card proudly displayed on screen If you read my previous post on setting up the Advent 4211 you would note that the only little problem left to fix was the issue with the SD Card reader not mounting the the media when inserted, well with a bit of tinkering I have finally put this…
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