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Crash/Highway bars for my Honda VT750C Shadow 2008

gfdsa — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:21:37 +0000

It is a common knowledge that bikes are made for an average height person so when your legs are slightly longer than ones of an average Joe biker you are destined to get less comfort. At least on a cruiser or a custom. It is not an issue on short rides but at least speaking for myself I start to get some painful discomfort after 100km or so. There are several solutions including moving the feet controls more towards the front wheel or adding some “highway pegs” on top of the standard ones. Both of these are pretty expensive and I don’t feel like fixing myself to a solution I didn’t try and would have hsrd time to change. So I’ve decided to add some crash bars and put easy removable pegs on it or otherwise find some bars that work as pegs as well. I will not describe the week of googling, calling US manufacturers to check the Honda models compatability.
Will mention only one I’d really want to have, Linbar by Lindby Custom Inc. This could satisfy me the best but the manufacturer said it won’t fit my bike. So back to options av available in EU. At the end of the story I’ve got to a conclusion that if you want a cruiser/custom and it is not an HD, then you’d better off to relocate to US first.
But anyway, I’ve found that Hepco & Becker German manufacturer makes crash bars also for cruisers and not only for touring bikes as I thought before. Checking their models I’ve seen that there is a model fitting at least half of what I want. Literally it should not touch the ground even with driver’s peg pushed up to the top. So I’ve contacted them to check the compatability as they did not list my model/year but only the Shadow Spirit (vt750dc 2008) and they aswered “should be these ones”. Placed the order with local Italian dealer and got them in 3 days.

I’ve just finished to mount them and did only a couple of kms to test drive the curves. So far I am pleased by the result and have no complains. Obligatory blurry photos below and stay tuned for the pegs story

Photos on picasaweb

Download from Oracle directly with wget in a remote shell

gfdsa — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:22:18 +0000

1. Browse downloads in browser and select the one you need

2. Get the login screen

3. copy redirectUrl param from the address bar of your browser

4. get back to terminal window

5. type:

wget \
--post-data='redirectUrl=
&username=&password=' \
https://profile.oracle.com/jsp/reg/loginHandler.jsp

hit Enter and watche the download progress

Hope it helps.
And don’t forgret you have downloaded a software from a company that in 2010 still does not provide links for direct downloads without logging you in through a form.

$ wget
--post-data="redirectUrl=http://download-llnw.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle10g/xe/10201/oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.0_i386.deb&username=gfdsa@gfdsa.org&password=secret"

https://profile.oracle.com/jsp/reg/loginHandler.jsp

--2010-08-06 17:11:29--  https://profile.oracle.com/jsp/reg/loginHandler.jsp
Resolving profile.oracle.com... 141.146.8.116
Connecting to profile.oracle.com|141.146.8.116|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Moved Temporarily
Location: http://download-llnw.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle10g/xe/10201/oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.0_i386.deb [following]
--2010-08-06 17:11:30--  http://download-llnw.oracle.com/otn/linux/oracle10g/xe/10201/oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.0_i386.deb
Resolving download-llnw.oracle.com... 87.248.199.27, 87.248.199.20
Connecting to download-llnw.oracle.com|87.248.199.27|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 262440214 (250M) [text/plain]
Saving to: `oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.0_i386.deb'
2010-08-06 17:18:05 (650 KB/s) - `oracle-xe-universal_10.2.0.1-1.0_i386.deb' saved [262440214/262440214]

Destination Selected 2: September 24, Milan – Munich

gfdsa — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:19:00 +0000

Riding on a bike. 500km to catch some friends on Oktoberfest.

Anyone to join?

Destination Selected. September 3rd we start the engine.

gfdsa — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:49:45 +0000

First Ride

gfdsa — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 07:49:41 +0000

First Ride

Our skilled staff are always on hand to help you

gfdsa — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:56:45 +0000

via b3ta.com

Guinness Record at Monza

gfdsa — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:45:47 +0000

What an experience ! more than 1000 bikes all together not to mention I’ve been first time on a track

Guinness Record at Monza

When A Fly Flies Into Coffee

gfdsa — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:33:14 +0000

When A Fly Flies Into Coffee

The Italian:

throws the cup and walks away in a fit of rage

The Frenchman:

takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee

The Chinese:

eats the fly and throws away the coffee…

The Russian:

drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge

The Israeli:

sells the coffee to the Frenchman, the fly to the Chinese, buys himself a new cup of coffee and uses the extra money to invent a device that prevents flies from falling into coffee

The Palestinian:

blames the Israeli for the fly falling into his coffee, protests the act of aggression to the UN, takes a loan from the European Union for a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Italian, the Frenchman, the Chinese, and the Russian are trying to explain to the Israeli why he should give away his cup of coffee to the Palestinian

How do you know the network is outdated?

gfdsa — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:21:02 +0000

Or should I say the business is outdated?

Just spoke today with some salesman that was at Fastweb (one of the largest Italian MAN providers that also gives NATed access to Internet) to offer some software solutions. Skipping over the jokes and technical staff, here is the sentence important in this context:

And then I say:

- Yes, of course, but you see, this is the newest technology on the market, bleeding edge, one of a kind!

And then he goes:

- But we at fastweb, we don’t need any bleeding edge stuff, it all works for us as it is now.

And tonight a client contacts me to complain that he had to receive some important mails and he didn’t. Well, I take these things seriously, email should work (unless the client messes it up , checking the logs and see this:

DEFANGING MAIL: WARNING: contains virus INetMsg.SpamDomain-2w.fastwebnet_it.UNOFFICIAL

Oh gosh, a really good spam domains database has included all the fastwebnet.it as spam origin!

So, quickly, removing the pattern from database (thank you clam av team for sticking to plain text!), scripting a junk mail mover back to inbox and contacting the database maintainer.

In a couple of minutes he replied that he has whitelisted the fastweb domains. Thanks Bill Landry for what you do!

The conclusion? Well, an Email services provider that accepts email from “authorized” networks, that doesn’t monitor the blacklist ( sanesecurity is a pretty popular service ), that doesn’t authenticate and doesn’t sign, doesn’t SPF … It is sooo 2002 … it doesn’t work like this today and it means you don’t care about your clients email. At all.

Though, I don’t blame anyone here, the larger network (organisation) is the less flexible it becomes but some of these are not capable of being challenged and should disappear with time.

Extract audio from compressed swf

gfdsa — Tue, 11 May 2010 10:36:26 +0000

Just a tip to remember:

#get it
wget http://some.net/some.swf
#decompress it
pyvnc2swf-edit -o some1.swf some.swf
#get audio
mplayer -ao pcm some1.swf
#play it
aplay audiodump.wav