As a 40th birthday present to myself, I am now the proud owner of a new BMW F850GS. It comes complete with pannier boxes and a top case, and tyres suitable for gravel roads. I will not write a review of the bike, as I’m hardly an expert but with over 50% more power than

After 11 years and having toured through 29 countries, the Honda Transalp 700V, the first bike I bought new, has been sold and is on the way to a new life in Poland. I could not resist one final short tour into the Black Forest, and to take some video shots with the drone. A

WPA and WPA2 provide good WiFi security which is mainly susceptible to brute force attacks. Here is how such a brute force attack may be carried out.Using Debian and an Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 card:

The utility vainfo may be used to check the status of hardware video decoding, if it is enabled and working on Linux.

It should be run without arguments and, if successful, it will not output any errors…

DHCP (RFC 2132) allows for vendor specific data to be distributed to clients.

Example server configuration section from dhcpd.conf:
option space VendorName;
option VendorName.serviceName code 1 = text;
option local-encapsulation code 43 = encapsulate VendorName;
option VendorName.serviceName "data";

My bike has been shipped to Thessaloniki in Greece, three weeks before I fly there from Frankfurt. After a relaxing weekend, I collect my bike early Monday morning from the logistics company and ride immediately to Gelibolu in Turkey, across the Bosporus from Asia.

It's nearing the end of the tour and I'm on my final country before returning to Germany. I have two days in Czech which allows me to confine myself to the quiet country roads.

It's the third country today and I'm not really sure where I want to go. As part of my pre-trip planning I highlight interesting places, towns and cities on the map based on guide books and online sources.