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* Don’t wipe the `/system` partition unless you need to. Otherwise you will also need to reinstall the gapps package too and sign into your Google accounts again.

* Do the CyanogenMod zips have sequence issues with files being listed before their containing directories? Would explain why you need to double flash to a freshly formatted `/system` partition.
* Update: zip file specification doesn’t have a separate entry for directories, as tar files do, thus this can’t be the issue.

Instructions for building Ardour 2.8.12 using KXStudio. KXStudio is a media production distribution based upon Ubuntu and Debian.

**Install dependencies**

sudo apt-get install scons autotools-dev quilt patchutils cdbs debhelper scons \
dh-buildinfo libsigc++-2.0-dev libxml2-dev libasound2-dev libsndfile1-dev \
libsamplerate0-dev liblrdf0-dev ladspa-sdk libjack-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev \
libglade2-dev libpango1.0-dev libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-dev libgnomecanvas2-dev \
libglib2.0-dev libglademm-2.4-dev gettext intltool libboost-dev \
libsoundtouch1-dev liblo0-dev libcairomm-1.0-dev fftw3-dev libtool libaubio-dev \
subversion

**Get the Source Code**

svn co http://subversion.ardour.org/svn/ardour2/tags/2.8.12 ardour-2.x
cd ardour-2.x

Or, update and existing checkout to this version:

cd ardour-2.x
svn switch http://subversion.ardour.org/svn/ardour2/tags/2.8.12

**Build and install into ~/Apps/ardour2**

mkdir ~/Apps/ardour2
scons PREFIX=$HOME/Apps/ardour2
scons install

**Security Limits for Ardour**

This applies to installs from the package repository too.

To ensure good performance from Ardour and it’s Jack backend, you need to give members of the group audio some extra privileges. Better access to the real-time clock, ability to run higher priority tasks and essentially unlimited amounts of lockable memory. Lockable memory is memory that won’t be swapped to disk when you start to run out of the good stuff.

You do this by simply adding these three lines to your `/etc/security/limits.conf` file.

@audio - rtprio 99
@audio - nice -10
@audio - memlock unlimited

**Make sure you are a member of the group ‘audio’**

sudo usermod -a -G audio $USER

Logout of your desktop to make use of these new limits as they only get applied at login.

Yesterday afternoon I was up at Muddy Boots for the BMF North Interpark BBQ. Great fun. I shot some video on my Samsung Galaxy S II. To put the different videos together I used OpenShot for the first time. For what I needed it was perfect. Much simpler and more intuative than the last video editor I tried to use.

Must study harder next time. Or run faster so I have someone in front of me that I can follow. Also making sure that the hill I was shown is the hill I was supposed to climb. At least I won’t make that mistake again. Eventually found my way to the third checkpoint, but got lost trying to find my way again as I wasn’t coming down of the hill I was expecting. Eventually made it to the fourth checkpoint to find it was gone.

Three weeks later and I’ve finally gone through my photos for the Edinburgh Marathon. 802 photos in total. It was the battery of the camera that gave out first, rather than space on the SD card.

Didn’t set the camera up properly for the first set of photos, so there were quite a few duffers that had to be junked. There are a few that I’ve left in anyway.

Wolfram|Alpha has been around for a while. I’ve never really found much use for it before. Until now.

Say you wanted to predict how fast you would be at a given distance, based on how well you’ve done at another?

Given:

Wolfram|Alpha can tell you the following predictions:

What does Wolfram|Alpha predict for you? Find out here.

These are the races I have on my calendar for the next couple of months.

• Jun 19: The Seven Hills of Edinburgh

"… combination of road-running, cross-country, hill-running, and urban orienteering. The total distance is a little over 14 miles, and there’s about 2200 feet of ascent/descent."

• Jun 26: Dunfermline Half-Marathon

My second half. At least I’m used to the cycle-path that it uses for part of the route.

• July 1: The Black Rock ‘5’

Back again for a second year. I’ve done two recce’s for this alreay, with a third this Sunday. This was my first race last year, so looking forward to coming back. This one is the first BMF R.O.A.R. event, although I’ll be in my Carnegie Harriers top during the race as it’s a UKA event.

• July 27-31: The Tour of Fife

Five races in five days.

• Wed 27: Black Hill Race
• Thu 28: Tarvit Trail Race
• Fri 29: Up Hell Time Trial

Up the long road to the mast carpark down from East Lomond.

• Sat 30: Chariots of Fire

On the beach at St. Andrews.

• Sun 31: The Chicken Run

Twisted this year or not?

Here are some videos from the this weekends Deerstalker:

POV for the 5K:

POV for the 10K:

Going over the first obstacle: (skip to 0:47)

Coming over the first obstacle: (skip to 0:17)

The first water obstacle: (skip to 2:00)

A fantastic run with Mitch, Berit, Lucy, and Ann up the Seven Hills of Edinburgh: Calton, Castle, Corstorphine, Craiglockhart, Braid, Blackford, and Arthur's Seat. (Map/Stats)

It would be fair to say that I struggled with this one. Not only did I almost decide not to go on this run, but I really wanted to give up several times. Most notably at the foot of Craiglockhart. Unfortunately, as I felt at the time, but now I'm glad of it, the others were already half-way up the first big slope. So I had no choice. I couldn't just walk away without letting them know. I climbed the hill. I kept going. I made it to the end. At which point I very nearly pulled my right calf muscle after we had descended from Arthur's Seat. Thankfully I didn't and we were practically done by then.

The views from these hills just got better and better with each hill. That didn't make it any easier getting up the next one though.

Thanks to Berit for inviting me along and to everyone else for the support to keep me going when I really would rather have just given up and gone home. It was a great day, even if I didn't always think so at the time. Now I have a new record, this being me new longest run to date: 26.27km / 16.32miles. I have now covered the distance needed for the Half-Marathon and it had several hills. The Half-Marathon should be easy compared to this.