So I decided to see if I could figure out the dash problems that are stopping the K100 from starting.. – Waiting on the paint to set nicely before I hit it with cutting compound, so thought it was time to work on other things.. LOTS of mucking around later, I’d finally tracked it back to the first of the three sensor wires coming off the gear position sensor being faulty.. Thankfully I’m told that I don’t have to pull the gearbox down to pull the sensor off.. Seems that the neutral sense comes from that wire, hence not being able to start it.. *totally* disconnect the sensor, and at least I can start it with the clutch it – seems having just one wire wrong totally confuses the dash!
Nope that’s right.. I *only* have to remove the rear wheel, final drive, footpeg mounts, muffler mount, pannier mounts.. oh, the swingarm and rear shock.. But I guess that’s easier than dropping the gearbox 😉
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Dodgy Gear position sensor stopping the bike starting??
Diversity at last!
What a whirlwind couple of weeks it’s been! Relocating the office interstate, setting up colo’d servers in Sydney and Canberra, but it’s all settling down now! We’ve got a couple of big beefy compaq boxes in Sydney, running vmware with a bunch of virtual machines on them, as well as our primary DNS, and our secondary is sitting in canberra. Next step is to start migrating services currently hosted in the US down into Sydney, and decomission our US boxes.
Of course there’s some US services which will always stay there, such as email, as that just has WAY too much bandwidth overhead to be economical in aus, but the plan is to get all our webhosting servers migrated back here by the end of the year 🙂 Our colo provider likes the sound of that too 😉
And of course, I’d always rather be putting my hosting money into .au business rather than overseas!
Wooo, 1/4 of the cleanup done!
So I’ve just posted the last of the first batch of stuff I put up on ebay.. Not too bad, though i must have spent a good 15 hours photo’ing, and googling specs to build up the ads.. Still have an absolute bucketload of stuff, though most of it now is scsi cards, usb/firewire cards, scsi hdd’s, and old 8×4.5 and 8.9gb raid cabinets.. Oh, and ram, and motherboards, and old 4RU ATX rackmount cases.. Will put that that stuff up when I get back from the christmas break.. Would be *really* good to have everything gone, and the garage/server room basically just containing the stuff I’m keeping, by the time I head up for Sharree’s birthday at the end of jan..
Fingers crossed – there’s a lot of work there 🙂
Well that was easy!
So just finished upgrading the Law Foundation’s FirstClass server from 8.2 through 8.3 to 9.0. Seven and a half hours to back the bastich up (pointed out it needed a damned good defrag.. have fired that off..), then FIVE MINUTES to do the upgrade! Gotta say I was bloody impressed!!
Couple of hitches – most notable being it removed ‘WWW Client’ access from the ‘All Users’ group.. That would have caused a few hiccups, but sorted now.. Also, will be interesting, it remodelled all users desktops to force them to their group’s model desktop layout… Will see if we get any complaints about that!
Gotta say I love the automatic client upgrade feature.. Finished the upgrade, and then logged in with my 8.2 client, and bingo, it goes ‘you need to upgrade your client, click OK to continue’, and voila, 5 mins later it’s downloaded and upgraded me to V9.0!
You know, this month, it’s 13 years since I first started using Firstclass – originally on version 2.6 on a 300 baud manuall-dial modem using the IEAust’s EOL BBS!
Woohoo, done! (for now ;)
Well she’s all done (except the headlights/high beam takeoff, but that can wait for a week or so 🙂 ), and road tested!!