billy's blog

Month: March 2006

  • Whiterussian RC5 Released

    Our friends at openwrt released the Whiterussian RC5
    http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=4977

    A lot of bugfixes….. Time to do a backup of my WRT54GS and upgrade

  • Upgrading to FC5

    Time to upgrade to FC5…

    First we upgrade our system to the latest FC4 updates:
    yum upgrade

    Upgrade the fedora release:
    rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm

    Upgrade the yum:
    yum upgrade yum

    And now time for the full system upgrade:
    yum upgrade

    Wait……….do a reboot and you are up and running.

  • Fedora Core 5 Released

    Fedora core 5 released today.

    bofh waits for it upgrade, i will give it a couple of days for the mirrors to sync and then i will upgrade through yum

  • appending the bash history

    One common problem with the default settings of bash or the defaults settings of your bash_profile ~/.bashrc is the bash_history.

    When you logout from your shell all the commands you entered there are writteen to the bash_history. Hmmm what happens when you logout from 2 or more shells ? Yes the last history list is written = you loose what you typed in the others shells you closed.

    Instead of overwriting the history list to the history file you can append it.

    shopt -s histappend
    export HISTSIZE=4096

    We also change the default HISTSIZE from 500 lines to 4096

    Add the commands you your ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile and you are up and running

  • Cleaning the dosage head

    It is really important to have the write person for the job…

    1)Give him a call.

    2) Explain him that you need to clean your jet.

    3) Follow his instructions.

    Done. The flow from the 50% Jet is back to normal.

  • Intermediate pressure test

    What do you do when you want to check your first stage ?

    Option 1: Send it to GKAM

    Option 2:

    Step 1: Get the IP test guage from GKAM 🙂
    Step 2: Attach it to the low-pressure BC hose

    The IP pressure from the first stage of Ray is 10.5 bar. And has a fast response when you breath from the octupus. Looks ok to me….

  • Tank Hydrostatic test

    My 4lt tank just came back from the hydrostatic test.
    One step closer to dive the unit 🙂