Trail tech dash review

Particular to your installation

• Bike: GS500 2k no oil cooler
• I connected the power of the dash to one of the already existing “light plugs” for the old cluster
  • use a tester to check polarities on cables(although the unit doesn't care about how you connect the cables)
• Magnet screw
  • making use of a space on the rotor in case no magnet screw works for your particular case
  • Please do not use a regular allen (L one) on the rotor bolts (if this is your case), it's highly probable you'll damage the bolt, use an allen socket
  • Use thread lock to put back again the bolt
  • Evaluate locating the sensor on the rear wheel vs the front wheel
• Tire size
  • 17 inch, 57 cm diameter from tire to tire side across the rim, in mm*3.14 = 1790
• High temperature set to 195 celcius, damage one to 210
• First shift light set to 6000, second one to 11000
• First trip reported 8.5 km, tracing a path on google maps trowed 8.4km so I find it very accurate.

Functions

• air temperature
• engine temperature, max engine temperature
• speed, max speed
• distance
• running time, moving time
• rpm, max rpm

Hard Data

• wheel magnet pickup cable length from connector to connector: 139cm
• kit contents
  • two different mounting brackets depending on your handle bar diameter
  • dash unit
  • dash to mounting bracket part
  • speed, temperature and spark sensors
  • power cable
  • 3 different bolts and a magnet to put in a rotor empty space, check provided instructions or on the website
    • Magnetized Bolt size
      • first: length 2cm, socket size 10mm
      • second: 2.4cm, socket size 10mm
      • third: length 2cm, socket size 12mm
• Kit version, differences between versions
  • please check as there are different versions of the kit, depending on if it is a air cooled vs water cooled and the mounting options for the dash
• spark signal cable
  • Lenght: almost 2 meters...
• spark plug heat (air cooled model)
  • Internal diameter of the air cooled: 11.7mm
  • Lenght of the cable including sensor and connector: 60cm
• wall width for the plastic pieces to hold the dash on place: 3mm

Tools you will need

• Phillips screwdriver (the + one)
• Thread lock for the different screws
• 3/32 allen for the screws on the back of the dash

The good and the nice

• Made in the USA
• USA based support: Thanks to Jack Ashby for the support and quick email handling.
• Fair price
• power for the dash is independent of how polarity is connected (I do still prefer to connect the red to 12v, black to ground)
• nice conectors, seem to be waterproof
• lot of functions
• nice backlight
• four different magnet options for the wheel pickup signal

The sad and the ugly

• Spark heat sensor cable on the small side
• The screw for the piece that mounts to the handle bar is on the small side... while trying to get into the bolt the bolt went out and fall into those “you'll never see again” places (just like under the fridge)
• no trail tech or vapor sticker for your bike :(
• The mounting bracket could be more sturdy
  • piece that attachs to the back of the dash destroyed by the own bolt, seriously those pieces could use some extra plastic
• “I'm not sure” connection between the wheel pickup signal and cable
  • exposed cable

The “I'm extremely picky” that actually doesn't matter (or it does?)

• Spark signal cable (tachometer)
  • My max rpm registered where 13,700 rpm when I know the redline of my motorcycle is around 11, I will play with the connection to the spark cable.
  • resistor cable was not provided on my kit
• Just two of the connections that go out from the dash are labeled in my particular unit
• magnet sensor and wheel speed
  • a more flexible cable so you can wrap it around the brake hose
  • a better way to put on place the magnet sensor for the wheel speed
• Temperature sensor
  • the temperature sensor cable is too small
  • I might switch it from the spark plug to another position... I don't know how much it will last if you change the spark plugs often... e.g. if you are troubleshooting; as as least in my case it bent a lot under the spark plug
• Ammount of time for the dash going blank is not configurable
• this is my fault, just be cafeful: Connector should slide in easy, watch out you can bend a pin if you slide the connector into the receptacle in angle
• a way to attach a screen for daylight visibility under the sun would be nice (and to prevent the unit from overheating)
• replacement sensors are expensive
  
  
  Some photos about the kit contents 
  
  
  Please use a Allen socket if you are removing an Allen screw, normal L Allen will just damage the bolt, put thread lock after replacing.
  
  
  
  
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  dash and supporting bracket
  
  
  
  temperature sensor on d7ea9 spark plug
  
  
  
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  a little bit of sanding prior to add JWeld to hold the magnet on place, please consider locating the sensor and magnet on the rear wheel.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  orange light that turns on selected temperature or first shift rpm
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Nomenclatura química inorgánica iPhone

Características

Es una aplicación para iPhone o iPod que se puede adquirir en la app store de Apple, es una aplicación unicamente en español.
La aplicación permite ingresar los elementos y los indices de un compuesto químico inorganico y obtener los nombres del compuesto en uno o mas de los siguientes esquemas de nombramiento:

• Clásico
• Stock
• Estequiometrico

La aplicación simplifica los compuestos y calcula las valencias que esta utilizando el compuesto para nombrarlo, de modo que los siguientes compuestos todos serán nombrados como oxido ferroso:

• Fe1O1
• Fe2O2
• Fe100O100

Las valencias usadas por los compuestos son incluidas en la respuesta para todos los binarios.
La aplicación del mismo modo si un compuesto cumple con ciertas condiciones indicara el nombre para el compuesto; si tiene la forma que utiliza cierto compuesto pero no cumple con todas las reglas procedera a indicar el motivo por el cual no es un compuesto valido.

Binarios
La aplicación tiene capacidad de reconocer los siguientes tipos de binarios:

• Oxidos
• Peroxidos
• Superoxidos
• Anhidridos
• Hidruros
• Sales haloideas
• Hidracidos
• Sales de no metales

Ternarios

La aplicación tiene capacidad de reconocer los siguientes tipos de ternarios:

• Hidroxidos
• Sales Acidas
• Oxacidos
• Oxisales neutras
• Sales neutras
• Sales de amonio

Casos especiales
Nombre de compuestos que tienen un nombre particular, ejemplos:

• H2O Agua
• H2O2  Agua oxigenada
• AuAg  Oro blanco
• Etc

Tomas de pantalla

Para futuras versiones

• Cuaternarios
• Incluir valencias usadas para los ternarios

Simple oracle cursor loop example

Intro
The script will create all the needed objects for this example, I assume you have a user with the proper permisions to execute the example.

Script

/*This anonymous pl/sql block is to drop the table, so anytime we want to run the script it will run without problems*/
BEGIN
  --drop the table
  EXECUTE IMMEDIATE ('DROP TABLE number_text_pair');
  --if there is some problems like it is the first time so there is no table to drop just do nothing
  EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN NULL;
END;
/

/*create the table*/
CREATE TABLE  number_text_pair
(
  number_value  integer,
  text_value    varchar2(4000)
);


/*create some test data*/
INSERT INTO number_text_pair (number_value, text_value) VALUES (1,'one');
INSERT INTO number_text_pair (number_value, text_value) VALUES (2,'two');
INSERT INTO number_text_pair (number_value, text_value) VALUES (3,'tree');

/*anonymous pl/sql block for iterating number_text_pair's data with a cursor*/
DECLARE
  --declare the cursor
  CURSOR cur_example is
    SELECT  *
    FROM    number_text_pair;
  /*create a record to store the data of the table,
  note the datatype of the record as row type of cur_example*/
  rec_example cur_example%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
  --open the cursor to iterate it
  OPEN cur_example;
  --loop until there is a condition to stop
  LOOP
    --fetch a row data from the cursor and store it in rec_example
    FETCH cur_example INTO rec_example;
    --if there is no more data in the cursor then exit
    EXIT WHEN cur_example%NOTFOUND;
    /*output the values of the cursor to the console
    note the use of . to access the fields of the record*/
    DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('Number value is: ' || rec_example.number_value || ' text value is: ' || rec_example.text_value);
  END LOOP;
  --close the cursor
  CLOSE cur_example;
END;
/
/*the slash is to instruct the program running the script to continue after a pl/sql block,
it is not necessary when you are executing a DML statement*/

Script output
After executing the script you should see

Number value is: 1 text value is: one
Number value is: 2 text value is: two
Number value is: 3 text value is: tree

A simpler and more robust version
There is another construction to iterate over cursors, it is the for construction, a simpler more robust pl/sql to iterate the cursor is:

/*anonymous pl/sql block for iterating number_text_pair's data with a cursor*/
DECLARE
--declare the cursor
CURSOR cur_example is
  SELECT  *
  FROM    number_text_pair;
BEGIN
  /*note the simpler construction, there is no need to open and close the cursor,
  also there is no need to declare the record*/
  FOR rec_example IN cur_example LOOP
    DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line('Number value is: ' || rec_example.number_value || ' text value is: ' || rec_example.text_value);
  END LOOP;
END;
/

Replace on file with another in other directory in linux

Story

It's a long story, the thing is that my documents filesystem became corrupted and there were a lot of song that were not able to be reproduced.
I didn't know which songs were until I played them so do it by hand was not practical.
I get to create to scripts that allow me to replace all my favorites songs in my music folder with a backup of the song in a different folder.
There were some restrictions

• The songs had to have the same name
• The song to be replaced and the copy can be in diferent folders

The scripts

the solution is composed of two parts, a command that I run in console and a script, the command is

find -type f -exec ./replaceFiles "{}" \;

the script with name replaceFiles is

cp "$(find /another/directory/ | grep $basename "$1")" "$1" -v

How they work

When you first execute the command, for every file in the directory it is runned in it calls the script replaceFiles passing as parameter a file in the directory, the script search for the file within another directory by its name (basename "$1"), if it founds it then it copies over the original file "$1".

The future of cell phone

Is taking some time to people to realize that the social networking applications are not adds to their cellphones and computers but that the latter are the medium to former.
And as computers (that is a cellphone) continue to shrink the medium will become invisible and everybody will be connected.
An universally society universally connected, always...

Intel i7 turbo boost

People at marketing are genius or the average buyer is stupid.
So instead of selling a 3ghz processor that can run at 2ghz to save power they sell a 2ghz processor that can operate in turbo mode at 3ghz and everybody drops their jaws.
Tell me is just me.

Slackware 13 rc1 review (32 and 64 bits)

It's been a long time since my last slackware review, this time I've been tempted to do a review of the rc1 of slackware 13 because of x86_64 support, I'll try to do a comparative between booth versions.
Booth versions will be installed as virtual machines on vmware server over kubuntu 8.04 64 bits (I had some freeze troubles with booth versions of slackware and I don't know if they are related to the fact that they were running on vmware).

Machine specs

• Intel Q6600 quad core processor overclocked at 3.0 Ghz
• 4 Gb of RAM
  
• intel dg35ec motherboard
• Kubuntu 8.04 64 bits
• VMware-server-2.0.0-116503.x86_64
• WD 250Gb SATA hard disk
  

Virtual machine specs

• 1gb of ram
• 2 processors asigned
• 8 Gb hard disk pre allocated optimized for performance (not security)
  

Slackware isos

• slackware-current-30_Jun_2009-DVD.iso (1,747MB) ftp://ftp.slackware.no/linux/slackware/slackware-current-iso/slackware-current-30_Jun_2009-DVD.iso
• slackware64-current-30_Jun_2009-DVD.iso (1,682MB) ftp://ftp.slackware.no/linux/slackware/slackware-current-iso/slackware64-current-30_Jun_2009-DVD.iso

Installation process

1. Wellcome screen: press enter
   
2. select your keyboard: press 1 to select keyboard, hit enter to use the US keyboard (I selected the spanish layout)
   
3. login as root: write root and press enter
4. partition your hard disk: write cfdisk at the console, hit enter and make the partitions on your harddisk, for this test the hard disk will be partitioned 8250 mb single partition for / filesystem and a 337 mb for a swap partition
5. begin the installation process: write setup on the console to run the good old slackware installer
6. select the swap space option: the swap partition you have created should appear, press ok, the installer it's going to ask you to check for bad blocks, I choosed no, the installer it's going to show you a resume screen, press enter
   
7. select linux partitions, in my case there is only a root partition, press enter, the installer it's going to ask you for the format mode, I selected quick format
8. Select filesystem for your hardisk..... mmmm...... let's try ext4 :), the installer shows you a resume screen
9. select the slackware 13 installation source, in my case a slackware cd or dvd, option 1 and press enter, select auto for the scan of the medium
   
10. In my case I would make a full install of slackware, I select everything and press enter, in the prompt mode for packages installation I selected full
    
11. and... and... ... it's freezed (for x86_64) version, try again with reiser fs and freeze, again with huge.s kernel and ext2 and it worked...
    
    test for 32 bits version will be with the huge.s kernel and the ext2 filesystem... and... and... it's freezed, well, let's try with ext4... freezed... reiserfs... freezed, hugesmp.s and ext4... and it worked...
    
    
    
12. make usb flash boot, selected skip
    
13. install lilo, selected simple
    
14. frame buffer, selected 800x600, 256 colors
15. extra kernel parameters: pressed enter
16. selected no for utf-8 console
17. lilo destination: mbr
    
18. mouse configuration: imps2
19. gpm configuration, selected yes
20. configure your network: yes; hostname: slack; domainname com; ip address setup, selected dhcp; dhcp hostname: pressed enter; confirm setup: yes
21. startup services: press enter and select the defaults (netatalk, fuse, hald, innetd, messagebus, pcmcia, syslog, sshd)
    
22. try custom fonts: no
23. hardware clock set to utc, no, selected my country
24. desktop manager: kde
25. select password for root: no (you should do it, and don't forget it)
26. selected exit to reboot
27. write reboot on the console and press enter

slackware 32 vs 64 times

• installation time (only packages from the moment it install the first A section package to the make usb flash boot screen): 64 -> 20.5 min; 32 -> 27.55 min
  
• first boot time (from lilo to login): 64 -> 38 secs; 32 -> 43 secs
  
• second boot time (the first time it do some process that it only does the first time): 64 -> 30 secs; 32 -> 33 secs
  
• first startx time (from enter to akonadi report): 64 -> 30 secs; 32 -> 64 secs
  
• startx after logout from first startx (from enter to akonadi report): 64 -> 20 secs; 32 -> 20 secs
  

Default desktop
The default desktop is KDE version 4, kudos to kde team.

Curiosities:

• new bootup image
  

• The welcome screen of the installer iso for the 64 bits version of slackware says version 12.34567890 instead of 13 rc1 (although I found the numbers of 1 to 0 a nice detail :P), also it says that the machine has to be at least pentium pro :P