10K: 140-180 bpm

Sudafrica - British & Irish Lions tour: a game.

Yesterday I've watched this game played on Lions tour at 2009-07-04 (http://www.rugbydata.com/southafrica/lions/).

This is one of the most valuable game that I've never seen! Funny, fast,  tactically good and with the right

amount of agonism. If you can watch only a game of that tour, watch this. The highlights here.

End of experiment less 500 mb/month

Yes, I'm already tired of that All the log file is like gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/1/users/kickmule/less500mb

i.e. 7 mb for 6 days! Probably is understimate, but I can suppose ~ 15-20 mb/week.

The experiment  is successful.

Nerdtest

V. 1.0 

V. 2.0

vnstat files.

First graph from vnstat @ my gopher space. The things seems proceed

very well: the amount of byte is very low, so many low!

Yes, it's possible, for me, survive with less of 500mb/month (and 8 euro

Thanks to SDF: the use very intensive of its servers (and their applications) is

everyday more important (and help me with this trial).

Edit: seems to be enough also for download some podcast: 40-50 mb/week.

Start with the experiment. Less 500Mb/month.

Seems all ready for start. Vnstat is installed on all my pc.

The trial is: remain under 500Mb. I'll post the vnstat update here or in

my gopher space gopher://sdf.lonestar.org:70/1/users/kickmule/ in a

exemplificative directory.

My net life in less of 500 MB

This idea was born while I was looking a plan for connecting my netbook with my cell phone.

What seems the best choice is the option "8 Euro for 450 Mb/month." The challenge is: this amount

of traffic, may be enough for my net life? Can I condesate it in less of 500 Mb/month?

Obviously, I must put some rules:

• no video
• no p2p
• no download programs or update s.o.
• no podcast 

Now there is, if we want, a philosophical question.

Is clear that none, today, can hold a computer without update the s.o., download some programs (or, in case of

Debian the entire s.o.). For me, is sporadically necessary download some podcast (eslpod.com, for ex.). But, we must

consider that like a *normal* or *everyday* use of pc? Is an academic question, but I want try if can survive (not live)

with a less of 500 Mb traffic for month. From this point of view, when I need of more bandwith, I can ask to my friends

tha have a dsl line , but ONLY for this: updating or downloading s.o. or programs that I could need and some of pocast.

STOP. Anything else.

My daily use of pc include usenet, a little bit of irc, mail, ssh to sdf (obviously!), very little of www, gopher. 

The challenge start here, in the next hours.

Debian Netbook: manage files on Nokia N70

I've installed obexftp for manage files on my Nokia N70, connected via USB. This is the commands:

sudo obexftp -u --> detect the Nokia (USB)
sudo obexftp -u 1 -v -l E:/ --> ls command

sudo obexftp -u 1 -v -C E:/ --> mkdir command

sudo obexftp -u 1 -v -c E:/Songs -p /home/filetuput --> put command

sudo obexftp -u 1 -v -k E:/ --> rmdir command

sudo obexftp -u 1 -v -g E:/ --> get command

Debian netbook: cell modem work

With wvdial, my Nokia N70 works well as usb modem. But, I've made a fix: at first all seems work fine,

the cell was connected (with dns and ppp0 interface up), but I can't ping anything. The problem was the

ipv6 conflict. I've fixed:

• open /etc/modprobe.d/aliases, found "alias net-pf-10 ipv6", replace it with "alias net-pf-10 off #ipv6"
• insert alias ipv6 off
• open /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, insert blacklist ipv6
• reboot

Debian week: installing it on mac and my Acer One

Well, I have a really passion  (from more of 10 years, I belive) for Debian.

I love the cooperive nature of the project, the distribution (of course!) and I feel at ease with it.

So, in this week I have reistalled Debian on my Macand on my netbook, the Acer One. On mac, it was easy with Lenny.

On the netbook the things were most complicated. From the USB booting system. I have followed the wiki page at

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOn  but the procedure at #PreparingtheUSBflashdrive don't work for me. The installation

hang up or don't start. I have resolved following the procedure WITHOUT the mkdiskimage procedure and WITHOUT the

creation of debian_installer directory (why they have made this? what is its utility?), but installing everything on the root directory. 

The net install, then, have work well, and almost all its ok. Now, I must fix the hang at the boot with the SD insert in the card reader,

and verify that all other things works well.

Bass lessons

Well, for my new course of bass player, I started with some lessons that I found on the site

studybass.com. In particular, I've take a look at "bass tecnique" and "practicing"

sessions. I'm not so bad  

My problem is essentially the position of finger of the right hand, i.e. the 4 and 5 fingers. 

My first approach is keep it spread. The problem is, in this case, that, after some minutes,

 I stretch it! Especially the 5th. If I keep it collected on the palm, the 1st and 2nd finger seems

more free. But, obviously, I can't use they for stopped the chords.

I prefer the left-hand tecniques, however.

From slow to high rate: my climb to the 10k normal training

My climb to a normal training rate is on the road. After the right leg injury, I can't use the fast runs, but:

• 20' CRF (140)
• 40' CRLI (155)
• 10' CRI (165) <-- little pain in this case