You will notice the tractor with a manure spreader on the back parked on the main street outside the news agents.

This was the first stop on the first day of biking, it has since been complimented by wine at every meal, a visit to a vineyard for lunch and wine tasting, then some more biking and dinner and wine tasting.

Yes we are biking, but not very fast. (day 1) (day 2)

So now I need to build a bar and find a keg of good beer.

Good prospects include

Norms in Vienna
Arlington Market
Total Wine in Mclean

Now apple never does anything out of the goodness of their heart, so either Best Buy has a huge stock of iphones they need to clear from their books from Christmas or Apple is coming out with a new model and this is a way to clear some stock.

Either way I think I will skip for the moment. I need to be able to tether my phone to be able to do call duties.


header LOCAL_MEDIACOMM_MUA X-Mailer =~ /Mediacomm Communicator/
score LOCAL_MEDIACOMM_MUA 0.1
describe LOCAL_MEDIACOMM_MUA Sent from Mediacomm Communicator MUA


header LOCAL_BAT_MUA X-Mailer =~ /The Bat!/
score LOCAL_BAT_MUA 0.1
describe LOCAL_BAT_MUA Sent from The Bat!


uri LOCAL_URI_SPACES_LIVE /spaces\.live\.com/
score LOCAL_URI_SPACES_LIVE 0.1
describe LOCAL_URI_SPACES_LIVE contains link to spaces.live.com


meta LOCAL_SPACES_MEDIACOMM (LOCAL_URI_SPACES_LIVE && LOCAL_MEDIACOMM_MUA)
score LOCAL_SPACES_MEDIACOMM 20
describe LOCAL_SPACES_MEDIACOMM contains link to spaces.live.com and Mediacomm MUA


meta LOCAL_SPACES_BAT (LOCAL_URI_SPACES_LIVE && LOCAL_BAT_MUA)
score LOCAL_SPACES_BAT 20
describe LOCAL_SPACES_BAT contains link to spaces.live.com and BAT


Hopefully that will catch the spam for the moment.

Then went round back to find this…..

I am a little scared of what I am going to find when they start on the main roof.

Host:~$ sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 8 MB in 3.72 seconds = 2.15 MB/sec


so it looks like it has the same issue as my other machine

so I did
Host:~$ sudo lspci |grep -i ide
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
Host:~$ lsmod |grep -i ^libata
libata 159344 4 pata_acpi,pata_via,ata_generic,sata_via

and added the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

blacklist ata_generic


and the following to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules

pata_via
blacklist ata_generic

then rebuild initramfs


sudo update-initramfs -u -v


After a reboot I now get

sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 164 MB in 3.02 seconds = 54.38 MB/sec


Amazing what this little tweak will do for performance.

I have watched this twice and my response is awww cute, then huh, Je ne comprends pas

I have met Louis in real life….