Author Archives: Joc

Everest the Hard Way, Nepal, 02/10 – 24/10, Part 1

Posted on 31 October 2010

Saturday 02/10 I left the UK on my birthday, 02/10/2010, to take on KE Adventure’s Everest the Hard Way trek. Flew Air India from Heathrow T3 via Delhi departed about 2130. Plane was surprisingly empty given the Commonwealth Games were … Continue reading →

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Herts Photos

Posted on 8 August 2010

Took some photos whilst on a short walk in the Hertfordshire countryside. The photos were taken with the camera in RAW mode, so had a play with the various options for processing them in Linux. The wheat (?) fields were … Continue reading →

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Le Tour de Alton

Posted on 18 July 2010

Not quite the Pyranees… Brought my saddle closer to the handlebars to reduce how far I was reaching. Seems to have worked somewhat because neck not quite as sore as last week.

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Track 8…

Posted on 9 June 2010

A map showing my latest bicycle ride recorded using Google MyTracks on my Android phone:

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tftp on ubuntu …

Posted on 27 May 2010

via David Sudjiman: 1. Install tftpd and related packages. $ sudo apt-get install xinetd tftpd tftp 2. Create /etc/xinetd.d/tftp and put this entry: service tftp { protocol = udp port = 69 socket_type = dgram wait = yes user = … Continue reading →

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Mr Nonchalant…

Posted on 2 April 2010

… smooth!

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La Plagne, Saturday 13/03

Posted on 23 March 2010

Up at 0510 for transfer back to Grenoble. Slept all the way, took about 2.5 hours. Grenoble check-in queueing a complete mess again, place seems unable to organise that amount of people turning up for flights. At least got bags … Continue reading →

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