New Handlebar

Recently after reading some bike-fitting articles, I found my handlebar somewhat too narrow (and I feel it has too shallow drop), so I just re-make it. ;)

The work involves some welding, making the drop wider, using longer middle part of handle (it's actually a cheap MTB handlbar I cut in the sides to make desired final length). The total length is about 41 cm.


Cheap drop handlebars found in bike shops are 35cm, cost IDR 15000, the flatbars cost IDR 10000, and welding service costs IDR 10000. Here you get a drop handlebar to your liking for IDR 35000, rather than 40 cm Ritchey's which costs IDR 125000.

Most people says, the proper drop handlebar length is around your shoulder length end to end, so here is my fitting. 1 cm difference won't hurt (unless you are professional rider). I am sorry I can't get better picture, I amn't used to self-timer camera.


This is how after it's installed to the bike, the taping is made from used inner tube. Quite satisfying I suppose overall. The next target is to install longer stem so I can accelerate better in hills.

Vuelta a Espana

I've always loved Grand Tours.

La Vuelta is starting tomorrow. There are some we (may) expect more from the tour.

First, Contador isn't racing. For sure his recent move to Saxobank needs him for some transition. Spanish couldn't have their own Hero in this tour. Second, neither is Valverde. His suspension due to doping allegation isn't over yet, so--let it be.

Yep, looking forward into the last Grand Tour of this year!

Go! Go, Schlecks!

Local File Transfers

I've been in this confusion for long time. How you should transfer your files in local area network is often painful thing to think about (or to do so).

My confusion starts when I was using my EZX phone, as it runs (GNU/)Linux it is (possibly) having ftpd, sshd, smbd on it at the same time.

The widely-used smbd was my liking, but before cifs fully implemented in my boxes. I can't anymore mount the share as it prefers cifs over smb. I once used lite configured (pro)ftpd to transfer movies to my phone to watch, but it was all pain. Then, until now I use smbclient to transfer files to my phone, despite sometimes it still throws silly errors.

Even more confusion's happened in transferring between boxes (and laptops) in lab (which I am lately accepted to join). The connection is still in fastethernet, so it won't bug me to have dedicated ftpd on them. Using Samba is surely a good idea.

The (likely to be) same pain is just growing again, the problem is still around cifs/smb issue. Arghr... I've lost the words to say how frustrating it is. I prefer doing file transfer between (GNU/)Linux equipped boxes with sftp(ftpover ssh), and transferring files between Windows boxes or Linux-Windows with SMB. But it's still not enough.

What I want is single reliable protocol, which would allow me to hit gigabit ethernet full-duplex (if the lab will take an upgrade on its networking devices), which works on multiple different OSs, and of course easy-peasy one.

Rie Fu: Life is Like a Boat

I just like this! Her English is just "best" (amongst another Japanese-based pop singers I've listened into), and the song brings back memories. :D

Listen: Rie Fu: Life is Like a Boat

Multi-boot: Ubuntu, Slackware, Windows, openBSD

This has been pain for around two weeks (per my ignorance about openBSD).

The story began when I was entrusted a box in the lab, there are two must-install OSs: Windows XP, openBSD 4.7. As a senior of mine is working on his thesis about rendering videos over clustered boxes, he had me to install an instance of Ubuntu. And my personal boot is Slackware. :D

First, installing them. It's pretty easy, just note that openBSD and WindowsXP must boot from primary partition. This is how the partitions look (the Slakcware is on another disk)
Name Part Type FS Type Size (MB)
sdb1 Primary W95 FAT32 (LBA) 19584.40 << WindowsXP
sdb3 Primary OpenBSD 1875.37
sdb5 Logical NTFS 189535.10*
sdb6 Logical Linux ext3 27431.31 << reserved
sdb7 Logical Linux ext3 10791.57 << Ubuntu
sdb8 Logical Linux swap 838.98

sda1 Primary Linux ext3 10799.80 << Slackware
sda2 Primary Linux swap 822.53
sda3 Primary NTFS 68401.43
this is from cfdisk on Slackware

As the harddisk containing Slackware is my personal belonging, I can't install the bootloader (LILO on Slackware) on it, so it comes to Ubuntu's GRUB(2). Straight to the point, here's the menus of grub.cfg

menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-21-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
set root='(hd1,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 06adfcab-1496-44e9-9370-7977e166d7c8
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=06adfcab-1496-44e9-9370-7977e166d7c8 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
}

menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-21-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd1,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 06adfcab-1496-44e9-9370-7977e166d7c8
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=06adfcab-1496-44e9-9370-7977e166d7c8 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
}

menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
set root='(hd1,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 06adfcab-1496-44e9-9370-7977e166d7c8
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}

menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
set root='(hd1,7)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 06adfcab-1496-44e9-9370-7977e166d7c8
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}

menuentry "Slack own-compiled (on /dev/sda1)" {
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2636da66-6dc5-4b4c-ad18-fc08cd30b761
linux /boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda1 ro vt.default_utf8=0 vga = normal
}

menuentry "Slack pre-compiled (on /dev/sda1)" {
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 2636da66-6dc5-4b4c-ad18-fc08cd30b761
linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro vt.default_utf8=0 vga = normal
}

menuentry "OpenBSD 4.7" {
set root=(hd1,3,a)
boot OpenBSD.bin
chainloader +1
}

menuentry "Windows NT/2000/XP (loader) (on /dev/sdb1)" {
insmod fat
set root='(hd1,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 944c-bc1f
drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
chainloader +1
}

openBSD 4.7 uses its own PBR to boot from (you could fetch yourself). And note that GRUB uses its own naming convention (depending on you HDD arrangement per install time). Installing the the Linux-es :) is easy, just put the kernel in the directory visible by GRUB (mostly on /boot on it's bearer) and set the correct root partition for it, initrds are optional (see, my Slackware doesn't use on on it)

The next project is to install Rocks on the reserved space. :D

Broadcast SMS

This is my personal record on broadcast short messages (by phone).
By the way, it's Indonesian. (anyway, there's not much visitor here)







I look so stupid sharing this kind of thing, no? :)

Anonymous

I hate the fact that packs of elegantly--beauty are anonymous on internet (while pornstars and gravure models bear their given name in their DVDs and photo books)

Like this one who has been my wallpaper (in the phone) for over than a year or two.