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Well things have moved along since last month.

Engine is all back in one large lump after replacing all bearings, oil seals and gaskets. We only have a parts manual to assist in the re-assembly but I’ve been there before.

Engine is now back in the bike and the majrity on bits now back where they should be.

the new exhausts look very nice but only the left side fits weel. The right side pipe appears to be missing and bend to get it hug the fram a bit which results in the exhaust sticking out at an odd angle.

Bought a battery for it today, will test for spark tomorrow night.

Tank at the painters getting white applied to knee cut outs along with decals and a clear top coat.

Hope to fire up this weekend assuming we sort out the exhaust.

Pic below from a week ago. Updates to come.

I haven’t been to Bali for about 12 years but its changed.

Its a bit like a low rent Singapore (at least the shopping centres are).

The traffic is mad as always.

There are no mingy dogs.

There are no sidewalk watch sellers following you up the road.

No one has asked me for jiggy jig or drugs.

Its hard work with kids.

Bali has grown up. Food is about the same price as Perth (at the nice restaurants).

A few late nights this past week….

Rebuilt the wheels after the rims and hubs were polished. New stainless spokes and nipples (ohh err).

Fitted the rear suspension swing arm.

Restored the front and rear brakes (lots of cleaning of aluminium).

More work tomorrow painting nuts and bolts and other stuff.

New pipe and exhausts on there way from Italy. Other parts I expect will be posted to us mid to late next week assuming the supplier provides us with his banking details.

Frame has been stripped and powder coated Red as have most of the bits that would have once been painted Red (expect for the tank which will be painted still).

This week will be placing an order with a spares supplier out of Italy for the bits and pieces needed to finish the project including engine gasket kit and new set of pipes and mufflers.

Engine has been stripped down and appears to have had little use. This I expect was a result of the broken kick start shaft which I have replaced. New Piston rings required due to a broken one but no major damage to the bores.

Engine rebuild to start before Christmas then its full speed ahead once parts arrive to finish, get registered and ride to iron out the bugs before shipping it to Italy.

If something happens and its unable to go to Italy in time I have a back up ride for the MI-TA, it will be a Lamberetta TV175 (S3) that my father has riden in the rally for the last 2 years.

I’ve been a bit busy lately with exams at uni over the last few weeks taking up too much of my time.

They are all over now for me so this weekend was spent in the unit in Rockingham (just south of Perth). The picture below is from the balcony.

It 7am and the day is looking great.

Well well well, just got an email from an old favourite Aussie band TISM.

Quote….
“Hello. It’s been a while. Consider yourselves informed that TISM’s
entire back catalogue is, as of now, available via iTunes for your
digital purchasing pleasure.

That’s EVERY album.
EVERY single.
EVERY B-SIDE.
EVERY Compilation track, bonus edition and remix.
EVERY-F*CKING-THING.

PLUS, more than 100 minutes in previously unheard iTunes exclusive bonus
tracks: private rehearsals, live takes, alternate versions and rejected
songs from throughout TISM’s 23 year history. For the first time
anywhere, hear the complete “NO PENIS-NO GOD” sessions - the gospel
album recorded by TISM in a desparate final gasp for salvation,
following gargantuan sins like the 1996 UK Machiavelli tour.

All downloads include digital reproductions of TISM’s ridiculous cover
art. Choose whole albums or purchase track-by-track for $1.69. Ain’t no
record companies involved, so your money goes straight to the band - for
once.

INSTRUCTIONS:
1. iTunes is a free download. Check the google machine. install it.
2. type in ’tism’
3. buy the lot

PLEASE NOTE:
at this time, the TISM catalogue is only avaialable via the AUSTRALIAN
iTunes store. We have already received sad words from those in Europe
and America needing an online TISM fix. If this situation changes, you
people will be the first to know.

If you don’t want to be on this TISM mailing list, reply with ‘remove’
in the subject.

we love you.
TISM HQ”

I’ve long been a subscriber to the openID idea - I just think its a gracefull way of being able to prove who you are without the site owner actually having to do anything or actually being involved in the process.

This blog now supports comments being left by using your openID credentials - should make it quicker fro comments to be left.

Thanks to a few helpfull soles on the sipdroid site I have been succesful in getting sipdroid to register with my Asterisk server AND be able to make calls.

The trick is (thansk to Adrian)
In your sip.conf, comment out “secret = …”. Instead use the following: auth=username@password@host

I also made a change to the extension sipdroid runs on in asterisk and changed: qualify=no

Sipdroid registers to my asterisk box fine and is able to make and receive calls fine. As for the call quality - well that is another thing - keep in mind my testing to date is over Optus 3G.

The first issue I am having is that if I call someone’s mobile I loose the first say 10 seconds of the conversation, ie, I miss them saying “Hello” which starts the conversation off on a failry bad footing, the person I called is usually first heard by me saying” Hellllloooooo, any body there” or something to that effect - not great. Secondly there is still some lag. This is odd becasue I thought the lag I experienced using pbxes.org would reduce given the server I am regsitering to now is local and not in Japan.

Lastly, you need a very stable and good internet connection. I believe now that my data usage has doubled for calls I make as effectivley my asterisk box uploads and downloads from sipdroid AND it uploads and downloads to my VSP. Given the codec used in sipdroid is G711 data usage is high so keep that in mind - 80kbps up and down times two = 160kbps up and 160kbps down for a phone call.

Anyway, best of luck for anyone deploying sipdroid on their asterisk server. Let me know how you go.

Today I got interested in mucking about with emacs, it always facinated me and I thought I would mess about.

I logged into my web/mail server from work and prceeded to install emacs. I noticed that it had the ability to read my email which I thought would be very cool so I ran RMAIL. Before doing so I thought - eh, she’ll be right, I was wrong. It dragged all my email in my INBOX (I use IMAP thask to Dovecote) and dumped it into a file called RMAIL. In effect, it hossed my INBOX!!!!. Chnaging permisision, ownership and file name of this new RMAIL file didn’t help.

A few heart punding minutes later I realised my nightly backups will save me and I replaced the hosed INBOX with a backedup one.

Thank god for nightly back ups and scp.

I’m still interested in emacs.

The other day my laptop borked. I think it was a combination of a file system error and a dodgy stick of RAM. In any event, my arch linux installation didn’t work so I thought it a good oportunity to installa fresh one and completely change the way I use it.

To this end I have decided to go very light weight

Openbox WM (this thing is just great, bare minimum, customisable greatness)
Mutt (with side bar patch!);
Firefox (not light weight I know but elinks just doesn’t do what a browser I use needs to do);
Mktorrent;
Screen;
Urxvt (cos I want to be l33t);
No dock or pager or login manager bloat just unclutered goodness;
Moc;
Feh.

I think that’s it. It is now practically unuable by anyone but me which is in a way fun.

I’m at uni studying and am bored.