Franks Blog: June 2015

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Chris fixes Marcus' i-phone battery

Friday, June 19, 2015

Calston St got a solar system installed.
They did a pretty poor job because they did not put all the panels up because they did not look at the roof properly and claimed to have not brought the correct brackets. So in stead of two rows of panels on the deck facing North we have one bank on the main roof and a single row on the deck.

I think 19 x 250 = 4750W. I wonder if there is actually that number of panels up there.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Chapel Gardens Emergency Call System

Tim Solomon and I had to fix up the emergency call sysyem in a couple of units at Chapel Gardens.

Monday, June 15, 2015

Hott chris

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Head Of The Tweed 2

I rowed 24? km in the Head Of The Tweed in a mixed eight with 4 Grammarians (Men) and 4 ladies from Toowong.

I awoke partially and opened one eye and noted the bedside clock showing 3am. My alarm was set at 4:20 but I figured I would wake at 4:00am. One minute later and the alarm went off.

5:25 dropped Chris at BGS.
Started to drive to the coast. Feeling a bit sleepy I figured on a coffee. Dropped into Maccas just on the South side of the Story Bridge. Absolutely terrible coffee. I had a couple of sips but gave up. Luckily half way down and I pulled into a service station and got a somewhat better coffee.

On to 11am
We were queued to launch. Launching is quite awkward and there was apparently only one place. Yet as we stood waiting our turn we wondered why we could not launch at the little beach beside us. Yes no bla bla and we went on got the oars. Luckily we did because we were the last crew to line up.

There was quite a lot of rowing up from where we were marshaled to the start line. And the mixed eights were off. Well we started rowing. No race start. It was take it away. The stroke rate was slow. Around 17 or 18. We were all concentrating on a good drive, a slight pause at the finish and then steady hands away, rock over, up the slide and in for the next catch.

The nice thing was that the boat sat up and felt good with run although with this rate were not going to get anywhere fast. The cox call for a rate increase and it was actually quite hard to get it to move up and keep any kind of timing and stability. A legacy of a last minute crew and one where we had only ever had one training session. (Last Wednesday). I think we struggled up to abut 18.

By now all the other boats in the race were in front of us.

The cox called for an effort of 20. This happened and went well and the rating moved up a point.

A bit later the next batch of eights (mens masters) including the Honey Badgers and the Shaddows from my Grammarians club over took us. The boat was sitting up, running well and generally feeling good right up until the Shadows were beside us. Then it began to flop and roll. In the Stroke seat, I can not see who is doing what but my bet is that someone decided to turn their had and look at the Shadows.

40 minutes in and our first drinks break. The way we do this is to drop out one pair of rowers at a time. Starting with bow pair they stopped and had a drink. There is quite a change to the dynamic feel to the boat when this happens. I suspect that means that in a way we are not actually in time but rather there is some compensation happening between rowers such that the whole thing feels OK. My bet is that having a coach outside the boat would be needed to work that out.

When it was my turn to have a drink I rummaged furiously through my bag of stuff and concluded I had inadvertently left my car keys behind. A big problem given the other guys stuff was in my car. oops!. F***^%%. Really annoying as I had held the keys in my hand while putting other useful stuff into the bag and had thought about it but obviously not followed through. Figured no need to distract others with this news.

Back on track and we were back rowing as an 8. There is a bridge that we row under that marks the half way point. We could hear the noise of a school girl boat. And we passed it. As we pulled away it was clear why a bunch of oldies could beat youth. Their cox could not steer a straight line. Maybe rowers were pulling hard and soft but when you weave all over the course and chatter and scream, you have no chance.

3/4 through the race and we over took another crew who had started in our race. My suspicion is that our slow and steady start and focus on timing had helped us. By now our rating was around 22. I assume the crew we passed had burned too much early on.

Under a second bridge. 2k to go. Someone called out were we going for a push. We tried to take it up with a bit more power down on the legs and a slight increase in rating. This seemed to last for about 5 strokes. I figured lets stick with whats worked and keep the rhythm. We continued on but with some increase in leg drive.

Over the finish line.
Landed.
Fessed up to Neil about the keys. Organised a lift for him back to Chininderra

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Dan Soccer Game at Night

At night. Dam cold game at Indooroopilly

Happy Birthday Callan & Dan

Hoggs Breath Cafe Indooroopilly.

Winter Racing Series

Malaney2

Andrew & Cathrine in Malaney

Head Of The Tweed 1

Samsung M268 series Printer

Updated 12-6-2017
Printer Model: Xpress SL-M2825DW/XSA
Manufactured: August 2013.
S/N: ZD52B8GD8B00C9D
Link to driver page: http://www.samsung.com/au/support/model/SL-M2825DW/XSA
I down loaded: Universal Print Driver 3 ver V3.00.13.00:03, Win XP/2003/2008/2012/Vista/Win 7/Win 8/Win 8.1/Win 10(32,64bit) (MULTI LANGUAGE)
The file was: SamsungUniversalPrintDriver3_03
Double Clicked
Install, accept license.
Existing Printer.
Search & Select M262x 282x Series 192.168.1.253
MAC Address: 00 15 99 0A 17 39

PROBLEM:
We have a Samsung laser printer. On our wireless LAN. This printer only has wifi and USB.
Various computers seem to be unable to print from time to time.

Last week I deleted the printer from Megan's surface and downloaded and reinstalled it.
Today doing the same thing to Dan's school tablet (Toshiba). Win 8.1

SOLUTION:
samsung.com.au
Selected the type (Mono Laser)
Samsung have a one driver suits all.
Downloaded V_2.50.06.00.03

Control Panel>Devices and Printers
Selected the Samsung M268 Printer.
Clicked "Remove Device"

Rebooted (Just for fun. This is Windows after all and you never reboot often enough)

In File Manager Explorer> Navigate to the downloads folder.
Double Click SamsungUniversalPrinetDriver2.exe
Choose Install.
Chose all the proposed defaults. It found our printer.

and now successfully printed.