Our first mistake was to enter the Bosnia on a Sunday afternoon without a Green Card. We crossed the border at Brod/Брод in the north, where the guard took our passports, looked at our registration documents and told us that the office to buy insurance was closed.
Connacht and more specifically the areas of Connemara in West Galway, Mayo and Sligo are rich in mountains, twisty rural roads and sheep - they're everywhere, especially in the Connemara so be prepared to stop.
Immediately to the south of Dublin yet almost unknown to its inhabitants, are the Wicklow Hills. Steep hills enclose a large area of raised desolate bogland.
Possibly the most rugged and least tourist infested area of the south-west Ireland. It's hard to go wrong for scenery anywhere south of the Shannon estuary but some areas suffer from tour buses more than others. This is the best preserved peninsula in the Cork/Kerry area.
We took the Derry Road out of Dublin, soon renamed to the Londonderry Road when we left Monanghan and entered the North. Some towns en-route had helpfully corrected the signs back to 'Derry' using spray paint. Other towns were flying big massive Union Jacks - this was July, the marching season... best head straight through
320km from Dublin, a 4 hour casual ride to possibly the most scenic area in the wildest county of Ireland. We're staying one kilometre to the east of Annascaul, in the Dingle Gate Hostel. Comfortable enough, we have a private en-suite room, there's a fire in the lounge and parking hidden from the road.
With some bash scripts it can be useful to have them exit as soon as a command fails. To accomplish this have the following just after the “#!/bin/bash” line:
set -o errexit
This will cause the script to…
On my previous laptop I suffered with repeated over-heating problems whenever CPU load went high for a prolonged period. After several emergency shutdowns (performed by ACPI) I discovered the problem: cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor returned the result: “performance” Inserting the following line before the ‘exit’ line in /etc/rc.local: echo "conservative" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor resolved the problem. For all
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