Day 1 - Paris to Compiegne
Day 2 - Compiegne to Amiens (fancy dress day!)
Day 3 - Amiens to Le Touquet
Day 4 - Le Touquet to Calais
I'm hoping day 5 (Calais to Chatham) and the Hero Ride will be up soon
Friday, June 07, 2013
#BBBR13 - the official videos
I'm publishing a few videos of my own here, but Help For Heroes have the official ones on youtube, so - here they are!
#BBBR13 Day 0 - London to Paris
Rising rather early for a bank holiday, it was into the car and down to the station; hoping all the while that FCC and National Rail would not conspire against us and put a replacement bus service (no bikes!) at the last minute.
Hurrah! No!
So on board, and soon exchanging texts with friends to see how their journeys were going - all well. A good sign (along with the bright sunny weather).
Arriving in Kings Cross just under two hours later it was a short walk round the corner to the meet up point where upon our first surprise awaited us - our bags were to travel with us. Damn! Wish I had brought the back pack straps for the main bag - it would have made life a bit easier.
Not surprisingly, the meeting point seemed to be the Champagne Bar at St Pancras. So, there I headed where in short order I bumped into loads of fellow riders from last year, and of course my team mate, Keith
Within 20 minutes of entering France we (all of us - not Keith and me!) had drunk the train dry :-)
A coach transfer, a briefing, a shopping trip to the WoundedWarriors.CA cycle store (an impromptu popup store from kit bags outside the bar!) and dinner.
The plan was for an early call and then on the bikes after breakfast to head down to the L'Hôtel national des Invalides for the official start. However the diggers on the site outside the hotel window (see below) decided to do that for us a few times in the night. Damn!
Hurrah! No!
So on board, and soon exchanging texts with friends to see how their journeys were going - all well. A good sign (along with the bright sunny weather).
Arriving in Kings Cross just under two hours later it was a short walk round the corner to the meet up point where upon our first surprise awaited us - our bags were to travel with us. Damn! Wish I had brought the back pack straps for the main bag - it would have made life a bit easier.
Not surprisingly, the meeting point seemed to be the Champagne Bar at St Pancras. So, there I headed where in short order I bumped into loads of fellow riders from last year, and of course my team mate, Keith
Within 20 minutes of entering France we (all of us - not Keith and me!) had drunk the train dry :-)
A coach transfer, a briefing, a shopping trip to the WoundedWarriors.CA cycle store (an impromptu popup store from kit bags outside the bar!) and dinner.
The plan was for an early call and then on the bikes after breakfast to head down to the L'Hôtel national des Invalides for the official start. However the diggers on the site outside the hotel window (see below) decided to do that for us a few times in the night. Damn!
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
A sudden reminder
Of why I was out for a 78.61 training ride on the bike. Just passing into St Ives. Some CWGC headstones for local RAF men. I guess they came back on board planes that survived attack.
I'll investigate anon.
I'll investigate anon.
Monday, April 15, 2013
#NetGear, #ReadyNAS, virtualisation and it's support penalties (a draft from a few months ago)
I'm writing as a technician in the US is fixing a NetGear ReadyNAS. At 2:28 in the morning.
We don't yet know what went wrong, but we do know it stopped talking to the LAN for management and the Private SAN about 21 1/2 hours ago.
I got it working again by lunchtime, but then about 90 minutes later it dropped out. Permanently it seemed, so it was time to call out the big guns.
A tech support call later had someone on the phone from Holland to help sort things out, but that introduced some fun.
As the NAS supported the infrastructure at this site, including the gateway server, and email - there was to be no email, and no remote control sessions in the normal course of events,
And, as the ADSL links are in the other building a physical link into the back of the router was not possible.
This is what I needed to have working:
-1. A tablet working and connected to the Internet without using the main LAN
0. An email account (outlook.com at the moment) through which I can send and receive emails outside the infrastructure to the support team.
1. A laptop connected to the DMZ directly (which is physical, not virtual) and able to connect to the Internet.
2. A wireless connection to the internal LAN that could attempt to talk to the management interface of the ReadyNAS.
3. A serial cable to plug into the ReadyNAS for telnet connection and direct management.
4. A USB to serial UART converter
5. The drivers for the converter!!!
6. Network cables that would reach from the laptop to the ReadyNAS, from the laptop to the DM'S Hub, and from the ReadyNAS to the DMZ hub.
7. Patience (there was a nearly 4 hour break in communications with support when they did not answer my updates or emails #fail
8. Access to http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_use_the_boot_menu for instructions on how to reboot the ReadyNAS into different modes (watch out for factory reset!!!)
So, would you be able to get this running in under an hour?
Do you even have a serial cable in the office now?
If you do, do you have a computer (that you can then connect to the Internet) with a serial port on it?
Thankfully I did, but I might easily not have.
We don't yet know what went wrong, but we do know it stopped talking to the LAN for management and the Private SAN about 21 1/2 hours ago.
I got it working again by lunchtime, but then about 90 minutes later it dropped out. Permanently it seemed, so it was time to call out the big guns.
A tech support call later had someone on the phone from Holland to help sort things out, but that introduced some fun.
As the NAS supported the infrastructure at this site, including the gateway server, and email - there was to be no email, and no remote control sessions in the normal course of events,
And, as the ADSL links are in the other building a physical link into the back of the router was not possible.
This is what I needed to have working:
-1. A tablet working and connected to the Internet without using the main LAN
0. An email account (outlook.com at the moment) through which I can send and receive emails outside the infrastructure to the support team.
1. A laptop connected to the DMZ directly (which is physical, not virtual) and able to connect to the Internet.
2. A wireless connection to the internal LAN that could attempt to talk to the management interface of the ReadyNAS.
3. A serial cable to plug into the ReadyNAS for telnet connection and direct management.
4. A USB to serial UART converter
5. The drivers for the converter!!!
6. Network cables that would reach from the laptop to the ReadyNAS, from the laptop to the DM'S Hub, and from the ReadyNAS to the DMZ hub.
7. Patience (there was a nearly 4 hour break in communications with support when they did not answer my updates or emails #fail
8. Access to http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_use_the_boot_menu for instructions on how to reboot the ReadyNAS into different modes (watch out for factory reset!!!)
So, would you be able to get this running in under an hour?
Do you even have a serial cable in the office now?
If you do, do you have a computer (that you can then connect to the Internet) with a serial port on it?
Thankfully I did, but I might easily not have.
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