2023 - what's up

 20 years of this blog... 

what's changed? - nothing - ah wait -  past, present and future its all here simultaneously - new exotic idea and some evidence courtesy JWT

total full vac India % by Dec 2021

 35% 

2025

the end.  

Beginning of the End!

 This is it.. 

Rajasthan and Rann of Kutch Ride 

So here it is after so long a real long ride.

Awesome ride, 11 days 5125Kmts. Hard riding and vising places. Will upload photos in a while


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Route and Places Visited:
Bangalore (KA) - Solapur (MH)- Sendhwa (MP) -  Sirohi ( Rajasthan) - Pokhran, Rajasthan - Jaisalmer, Rajasthan - Sam, Rajasthan - Vav - Gujarat, - Ekal Rann (GJ) - Dassada (GJ) -  Daman and Diu, India, Belgaum, Karnataka - Bangalore

Riding time is back

December it is.

XMas Holiday Ride (Bangalore - Munnar - Trivandrum - Conoor - Bangalore)

Adhoc unplanned ride, Had taken two days off after xmas on 26th and 27th. Parvez said he will start early morning from chennai and will meet me at krishnagiri and then decide where to go. Morning it looked like Parvez overslept and did not get a call from him till 8am. I had no clue where to go, Jo and Mooosai had already started towards kerala early morning. I called up jo and said he is some 150kmts off bangalore and on the way. I told him ok I will try to catch up and started towards mysore. 

Parvez Dude! at Munnar

8:30 I get parvez's call, he said dude I overslept where are you? turn back come to Krishnagiri. I turned back from Mysore road towards Krishnagiri. Waited at krishnagiri for Parvez to join, and we started from Krishnagiri towards Marayur. We started at 2pm and reached Marayur at 9:30pm. No food no beer there (had some crappy food road side and crashed ) 

Myself!

I did not want to go back to Bangalore the next day. I tried to persuade Parvez to go to trivandrum and then come back the next day. But due to some office matters he could not join me, instead he turned back to Chennai and I turned to kerala (tvm) Started at 10:30 and made it by 3:15 for lunch, mom had made mutton biriyani chicken fry etc ... good that I came home I had some good food and wine. and could spend some time with bumble bee. 
I had to be back in office on 28th, so next day at 11am started towards GK's place at Vaikom where Jo and Moosai would join me and carry on the Bangalore. GK's mom had made some wonderful lunch for all of us. After lunch we started towards Bangalore at sometime 3:30pm. Just made it to Mettupalayam by 11:30 and crashed there. 

Somewhere before Chinnar

 
Next day by 8am we started towards Bangalore via conoor. Ride was really excellent.  ( after almost more than a year so much riding in 4 days makes my arms ache and fingers swollen, not sure what is it, probably because of the different motorcycle or probably I getting old? but I am happy strangely no aches on the back or butt :) )
All together, the ride was excellent indeed. 

At GK's place after Lunch ready to go!

 

Updates after a long pause

Its been a long pause in my blogs, mainly due to not many travel trips recently. Had been busy with personal stuff and a job role change at work. Wondering how things can get busy and time becoming so precious. I have to do something to squeeze the best out of the available time.

cheers

Blue Screen of Death with EpiValley Photon+ USB Modem

Address: 1000007E, {c0000005, 804e13d5, b40a49ec, b40a46e8}

Well I was getting this BSOD from the day I got the Photon+ USB Modem. I tried calling the Indicom customer support, but I got a standard answer that 'If the card works on my laptop then We cannot help you' hmm the usual answer from any developer. "Hey It works on my environment/system"

I had been quiet busy these days debugging AIX and mainframe dumps, so was living with the BSOD. Finally today I thought to spend some time on the Blue Screen.

Symptoms:
1. BSOD as soon as one plugs in the USB Modem.
2. Well actually this is how to recreate the dump.
Plug in the USB Modem on a running computer and you get a BSOD after the modem is initialized. and before the drive letter is assigned to the USB (Data portion on the same device)
3. If the USB modem is plugged in the computer while restarting then there is no blue screen.

So the suspect was some driver which emulates a CD ROM drive on USB.

Here is the dump what I got. you can use the standard windows WinDbg for debugging crash dumps.
DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: COMMON_SYSTEM_FAULT

BUGCHECK_STR: 0x7E

LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from 804e13d9 to 804e13d5

STACK_TEXT:
WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following frames may be wrong.
b40a4af0 804e13d9 86791020 86c7ed01 00000000 nt+0xa3d5
b40a4b24 ba6db6c5 86791020 0004d014 b40a4be4 nt+0xa3d9
b40a4c30 ba6dcc0f b40a4cd8 00000006 b40a4cb4 drvmcdb+0x56c5
b40a4c8c ba6dd5b5 b40a4cd8 00000006 b40a4cb4 drvmcdb+0x6c0f
b40a4ce4 ba6db3a8 ba6e6cf4 ba6e6df2 ba6e6dfc drvmcdb+0x75b5
b40a4d0c ba6d643c ba6e6db0 ba6e6db2 ba6e6db4 drvmcdb+0x53a8
b40a4d5c 804e1be8 8670a658 ba6dbbab b3c94474 drvmcdb+0x43c
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 nt+0xabe8


FOLLOWUP_IP:
drvmcdb+56c5
ba6db6c5 ?? ???

SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 2

SYMBOL_NAME: drvmcdb+56c5

FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner

IMAGE_NAME: drvmcdb.sys

STACK_COMMAND: .cxr 0xffffffffb40a46e8 ; kb

BUCKET_ID: WRONG_SYMBOLS

Followup: MachineOwner

The problem seems to be with the Drive Letter Access module, since the carsh happens after the modem is initialized and before the drive letter is assigned the the USB drive.

WorkAround.
1. Remove the provider software for drvmcdb.sys :) on my computer it was IBM DLA, others might have it on a different software.

Cons.
Once the driver software for the Photon+ modem is installed you dont need to access the drive. so I am planning to live with not using the data USB feature of the Photon+ for the timebeing.

But, ofc there is no more BSODs :D

Weekend Ooty-GSbetta Ride

Bangalore - Ooty and places around

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It was quiet some time since we were out on a ride, this time we thought to go on a small 2 day weekend ride to Ooty and places around. Ooty had off and on drizzle like rains this time.

Ooty-khty-gbette

Trivandrum - Bangalore

Nothing great with this ride! just another TVM - Blr jaunts. cochin - blr just took me 8 hrs this time (I bought a beemer F650) :)

From My Beemer

Somewhere on the Palghat - Kovai bypass.

From My Beemer

This one @ home with my niece trying out the beemer

Its been quiet time since I have been on a ride :( Hope to some rides and travel blogs once the summer is over!

cheers..

Year Ending Solo Ride 08

As usual Dec is the time to ride home, as I had to miss the RJ ride this year. Starting early foggy morning and I am riding down south destination (TVM) and have 2 days to ride. Decided to ride via Munnar so that I can ride those ghats again, I remember being in Munnar that was almost 10yrs ago on a ride with Venu and Pradeep.

Reached at Chinnar (which is the foothills of Munnar from the North) at around 1:30 pm, took a long break there since it was too early to reach Munnar and I had no plans to reach TVM the same day.

Was trying to get some place to spend the night and finally got a decent one at the top station, I carshed out early watching TV and woke up quiet early the next day. Did a small trek on the munnar - kodai jungle trail. Started out around 8am from Munnar towards Adimali/Erumeli, roads are really awesome and nice weather complimented the riding experience.

Had a silly fall on the way down from Munnar, nothing much happened except for my crash bar which broke off. Then after that It was a straight ride to TVM. reached TVM at 6pm and Home.

On second Jan 09 started back to Bangalore, (I remember doing this same ride now for the 3rd year) kind of boring roads from tvm-cochin-kovai-blore. reached blore by 4:30pm.

and that starts the 09 riding season :)

some snaps from the ride

Munnar

cheers
jsr

Valpari 2008. Ride

Weekend ride to Valpari, nice get together after a long time. Overall the ride was excellent except for few hiccups nothing serious. Weather was just perfect for the ride overall one surprize we had was a small stretch in the map which looked like 10kmts of ghats turned out to be 70kmts :) so total distance stretched to 475kmts.

some snaps from the ride

Valpari 2008

Kemmangundi Ride

So after four weeks of compiler and linker issues when things are sorted out, makes me fell happy. and that is calling for a ride. This was a nice small ride.

Good things: Nice scenic route to ride, Roads were good to no roads, Weather was really cool, Campfire at night was great (after the disappointment at Kgundi of no beer and no campfire) so we did not stay at Kgundi instead we rode back 30kmts downhill and stayed a small guest house.

No so Good things: Traffic from Kunigal to Bangalore was horrible, lots of *&$#@ heads driving like crazy.

some of my clicks

Kemmangundi Ride

relocation R_X86_64_PC32 Error

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Editing post with more information, since I quiet some page visits around 350 for this issue.
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I was stuck with this error for amlost weeks, till we figured out the solution. Here are some Links that would help to analyse the issue.

Error: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against 'symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/local/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value

This could be a nature of ELF visiblity where global symbols don't resolve locally unless it is made hidden.

OR It could be the infamous bug-7221, which is still open.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37473 (see this link on how to fix the issue of no linkage for typedefed un-named class/struct )

//issue

typedef struct
{
 int check ();
} A;

//fix

struct A
{
int check();
};

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7221

OR look at some useful links below.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=3

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility

http://bugs.gentoo.org/108872

http://www.nedprod.com/programs/gccvisibility.html

cheers!

Tvm-Blr Combined Ride

Trivandrum and Bangalore folks planned for a combined ride this time. Overall nice ride! except for some motorcycle issues with meppa's and Parvez's bike ridden by Boodie, things kept falling off that LB500 first the chain, then the battery cover and then finally the battery.
End result of the ride was most of them got funny nick names and we ended up planning for the next ride! Another nice ride.

Our man Jo has a narration of the ride
http://ridelogs.blogspot.com/2008/07/kalhatty-revisit.html

And lots of pictures this time by most of the riders.
my clicks, not many this time!

kalahati again

clicks from the rest...
http://picasaweb.google.com/antulika/Kalhatty
http://picasaweb.google.com/jovision/KalhattyRevisit
http://picasaweb.google.com/kartik.ayyar/KalahattySBRide
http://picasaweb.google.com/muralidharan.ramamurthy/Kalhatty2008

Kalahati Revisit

A weekend trip again to Kalahati! Looks like Kalahati has become the SB adda for weekend rides.
Not elaborating the ride much since Jo has already written a nice trip log

My snaps from the trip

Kalahati Again

Where is Kalahati

Bangalore - Kalahati (Ooty) weekend getaway

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RM 08

Rider Mania 08.
Bangalore - Hyd dry ride wasn't fun, just a boring routine ride. Silver-Bullets participation was not so big in number but still we think we did mark our presence this year. Return ride was on on 3 stops, that was fun. Some pics from RM 08.

RM 08

Project rebuild

My old lady! Enfield 500 rebuild!

500 Rebuilt