more bike work, no job now!
No more pizza delivering! got fired last thursday morning, blasted internal politics, so looks like it will be foxers for a while just like my dad back in the 80’s. Also i have no excuse to not finish off some of my projects 🙂
I also got 6 new rags to clean my bike with, I’m sure I had seven of them just can’t find the last one..
Niki’s bike got some work done on it yesterday, procured another rectifier with the wrong connectors bit of poking and splicing made it fit nicely. So nicely it started to charge! but the battery was so dead it still wouldn’t run right, so off to ross’s to locate a second hand about to be thrown out battery and rescued it, had enough in it to make the bike behave. Starting and charging now sorted have to fix the headlights the choke and the intermittent indicators along with a few other things I’ve forgotten.
Note the wires are now much more tidy.
One of the many positive things about not delivering pizza is that i can now go a bit mad with my bike 🙂 only lowered the handlebars right now, but such a big change in the cornering attitude! i love it, can wait until summer and dry roads. Pity it looks ugly with 3″ of spare fork leg poking out the top 🙁 still function over form. I should make a list of things i like about being unemployed but it would be too long. i can’t think of a really solid negative, no free pizza’s might be one but then again pizzas are bad for you. Moneys not really a problem, money is time and I’ve got loads of time.
Playing around with a hopelessly slow laptop last night, found debris linux, based on ubuntu but with out the bloat it should be great, will be trying it out later.
Congratulations on losing the job 🙂 Bike’s shaping up nicely! I’d certainly recommend you try pclinuxos, http://www.pclinuxos.com, a fantastic mandriva-based distro
ya i tried lots of different os’s, i have loads of linux format dvds, tried loads and eventually found tinyme which is a much pared down version of pclinuxos, and while researching it i found debris which is a pared down version of ubuntu my favorite flavor of linux, and it’s apt-get based rather than rpm unlike pclinuxos (or was that mandriva?)
You should look at Slackware and Gentoo. For installing Linux on old hardware you should look at using the 2.2 or 2.4 kernel if you are finding it hard to get anything to run.
If you are not into doing some actual work to get your laptop running try: http://www.delilinux.de/ and http://www.zenwalk.org/