Tracks: Endomondo, ZR

TEMPO RUN IN 2 INTERVALS 32M:36S

Tempo Intervals x2. A new style of training. 2 reasonably hard pushes, with a minute recovery and a 10 minute warm up/cool down either side. Ran 5.92K in 36:53mins

A pretty miserable start to 2014. Wind, rain, and a boiler which keeps cutting out because of the wind….

Current weather: 6degC, showers, wind @ 22mph. Tomorrow: 8degC, mostly sunny, wind @ 12mpg.

Some information I found off the web:

First type:

cat /sys/power/state

If the result line contains “mem”, you can use this to suspend to RAM: sudo pm-suspend

If the result line contains “disk”, you can also use this to suspend to disk (hibernate): sudo pm-hibernate

If you have both results, you can use this to suspend with a hibernate backup. In other words, your system will prepare for hibernation, but only suspend, not turn off. This will use a bit of power, but means that it’s faster to resume, and if your battery runs out, it’ll use the hibernate image as backup. sudo pm-suspend-hybrid

You can pipe the hibernation into a timed job using the at command. This will hibernate in one hour from now echo ‘pm-hibernate’ | sudo at now + 60 minutes

And you can confirm the job is present: sudo at -l 10 Wed Jan 1 12:38:00 2014 a root

Suspend/Hibernate requires root access, hence the reason I did sudo before the at command

Happy New 2014 everyone :)

Life's not always going to be easy, and there will be days when you feel like giving up, but just keep your head up. Remember that tomorrow is another day and it can always get better.

Just because you have a “Baby on Board” stuck to your rear windscreen does NOT mean you can get away with doing stupid driving manoeuvres. Remember, it’s “mirror-signal-manoeuvre”, and NOT “manoeuvre-signal-mirror”

Had my first encounter of Linux, or specifically, a linux-like environment in a corporate environment. The IT peops were trying to setup an environment on Xenserver, and they had setup a storage space to copy a virtual machine image onto. But they kept running out of space. It took me a while to figure out what they were doing (wrong), though.

They were trying to copy onto the PV partition, and Xenserver had setup its environment to use LVM, so the PV partition was already allocated to the LVM system, and therefore had no space to copy onto.

After figuring out which LV was the one they wanted to use, I had problems mounting, with mount saying I had to specify the filesystem. After trying various switches with mount and specifying a filesystem (only NFS, ext, ext2 and ext3 were supported by Xenserver. No vfat, ntfs or btrfs. Admittedly, however, the Xenserver version the IT people were using was an older version), I soon found out that the IT people had created the storage space, but not done anything else. Therefore, that would explain why I couldn’t mount it – it hadn’t been formatted. So a simple mkfs.ext3 (remember ext4 wasn’t supported) on the block device in /dev/mapper/ meant I could mount it without specifying filesystem. scp’ing into the server and copying into the path proved it worked.

Related articles

• Optimising Xenserver (aedwardsitblog.wordpress.com)
• Installing Citrix XenTools 6.2 on CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final) from command line (gunnalag.com)
• Xen Launches The Mirage Cloud OS (techweekeurope.co.uk)
• Xenserver - RAID monitoring (community.spiceworks.com)
• Lvm (wiki.archlinux.org)
• Difference between ext2, ext3 and ext4 filesystem in linux (adarsh5388.wordpress.com)
• File Systems (wiki.archlinux.org)

Tracks: ZR, Endomondo

Target: EASY RUN WITH 6 STRIDES 4.11 KM

Achieved: 4.41 KM

First run of the 10K retraining. Interval training x6. A comfortable run with 6 short bursts. Felt the burn at bursts 5 and 6. The 10 minute cool-down helped.

After the Christmas and (upcoming) New Year celebrations and obligatory over-indulging of food, I, like many people will be trying to shift the extra weight in the new year. So, with the help of Endomondo, I’m going to train up again for a 10K – not a 10K race this time, just try to get up to the 10K distance again, then take it up to distance Half Marathon for the second half of the year and/or early 2015. The training plan is over half a year and I stretched it out to its maximum length deliberately to allow me as gradual work up to 10K.

I know I can do 10K, I did a race earlier this year (Chickenshed 10K), but after slacking off because of weather, I need to get back into it.

10K Training Plan

Related articles

• Tips To Run Your First Half Marathon (rsmarketingblog.wordpress.com)
• Half Marathon (twowheelerpro.wordpress.com)

youtu.be/ESmeEAJ13… in case the video doesn’t show up

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“240”] Skoda Fabia Greenline (Photo credit: Bradphoria)[/caption]

Interesting morning today. My brakes seized up on my car (Skoda Fabia Greenline), with an ABS system warning light, meaning I was fighting my brakes trying to move my car. Pulled in 200 metres down the road, turned my car around and went back up the hill, and reparked it. Turned the engine off, restarted it and the light disappeared, proceeded to work without much further problems. Whether or not it pops back up again when I drive home is another matter….

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• Bleeding ABS Brakes (autorepair.answers.com)
• How ABS Brakes Make Driving Safer (autorepair.answers.com)
• ABS Repair for Brakes (autorepair.answers.com)
• Know All About ABS Brake Service Melbourne (autoelectricianmelbourne.wordpress.com)
• ABS: The anti-lock braking (sebastienramassamy.wordpress.com)

Merry Christmas

youtu.be/iBJdRsA-J…

Dying Girl, Laney Brown, Serenaded By 10,000 Christmas Carollers And Speaks To Taylor Swift (VIDEO).

When you sit down to your Christmas Dinner, take a moment to remember those families who will not be able to spend it together. And remember that sometimes, wishes really can come true.

Beer or Gator, Beer or Gator….

It’s Monday. But cheer up, it could be worse…

A nice short video describing the difference between Empathy and Sympathy and why it’s better to be empathetic rather than sympathetic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw

RSA Shorts - The Power of Empathy - YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9BOTXFCpQA

Chicago's Magical Piano - YouTube.