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When I set out on my ride from Lake Placid to Toronto I was prepared for a ~270 mile journey, but that turned out to be wishful thinking. I'd not correctly plotted my intended route via Niagara Falls and so I found myself pulling through 450 miles which was really quite a long ride on a KLR650.

Did I mention the ride today was fantastic? Today was just day one of 30 something on my ride from NYC to SF and it really was a great day to get started with. The weather was fine and not too hot, the roads were good, the traffic was manageable and the sights through the Adirondacks were really something to write about.

Some months ago I made a plan to ride my moto from New York City through to San Francisco. Much as transpired since then and I now have a new upgraded route.

Currently my plan is to leave as-soon-as-possible but I have a few extra matters to look after before I leave - also my route is going to change in that my plan is now to go up to Toronto first and then down between Lake Erie and Lake Huron and then through to Kansas City and Denver etc.

I took a good long ride this weekend to load everything onto the bike and try a few things out along the way. I got up early on Saturday morning and was on the road by 6:00am. I had wanted to get an early start so I could get some good photos from the new camera mount now attached to the front of the bike.

After a good deal of experimentation and testing various solutions I've come up with a good and reasonably reliable method to track my location (and hence progress) on the NYC to SF ride.

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Complex systems are hard to secure. It's a statement that gets made time and time again and it makes perfect sense. If you have a system where interactions between various components is complex and difficult to describe or monitor then you can be sure that the failure of components within that system will have consequences that are hard to foresee or appreciate. No surprise.

Extending an ext3 volume on an Amazon Elastic Block Storage volume is fairly straight-forward if you are using it as a simple-straight-through block storage device (i.e. you are not striping across multiple EBS for the sakes of improving performance... apparently this is possible.)

To enable the built in USB based WiFi card on the FitPC under Ubuntu 8.10 make sure you have the rt73-common package installed:-