My new Yamaha C3 Scooter

-Hello 110mpg  Yamaha C3 Scooter!   Ever since I got my scooter it has been really fun to drive to work.  I can relate to why people have motorcycles (not that my top speed of 42mph is as fast as a motorcycle but I can relate).  It’s been really nice to ‘zip’ around town in a small simple transportation tool.  I’ve had my scooter for 3 months and it’s sometimes hard not having a car, but I’m struggling through it.  My goal is to have this ride through December.

I do use a helmet, gloves, a jacket, and of course cool shades.  I had 1 mishap, which was slipping in some wet grass (my commute was doing some off road, but I’ve since found a slightly faster way).  My commute to work is 3.1 miles in 6 minutes 30 seconds. I don’t take any major roads except when I go to Waterford Lakes and I’m on SR 50 for a few minutes.  Other than that I’ve found back roads to get to wherever I need.

Everyone asks, “What are you gonna do when it rains?”, and I say, “I have rain gear that I’m gonna wear!”  The cold weather at the beginning of the year definitely sucked, mostly because I don’t have a full helmet, it’s just a skull cap with some cool graphics on the side.   I hope to show off some video of me riding it and will add it to the post later.

For now it feels good to be this economical and enivornmentally friendly.  We’ll see how long it lasts….

So I’ve had to do this a few times because my Apple TV keeps ‘acting’ up. It kept freezing during tv shows I downloaded and converted via iSquint. The ATv would then restart and not recognize what was on the hard drive (Format not recognized by Apple TV). It was pissing Mandy and I off enough for me to try to do another ‘from scratch’ restore. I’ve followed these directions before referencing Smallnum’s directions and AwkwardTV’s Wiki. I’m saving them here, because it’s more concise and may help others. These are directions for a mac OS X Leopard 10.5.6 . Download the latest Apple TV image from here and find the full url of the dmg file to download. It doesn’t matter what size the drive is you want to do this with. Assuming, /dev/disk2 is your disk. All these commands are done from terminal unless otherwise noted.

1. Connect your hard drive to a Macbook using an IDE-to-usb/firewire dongle.

2. Clear any partition information and create a new partition table (you can also just format the drive with DiskUtil, you also need to run ‘diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2′ after each gpt command) :

gpt destroy /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
gpt create /dev/disk2

3. Create the partitions using ‘gpt’. There should be four partitions: EFI (200m), Recovery (400m), OSBoot (900m), Media (rest of the disk). The EFI and Recovery partitions can be completely blank, but those sizes must be exact.

gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t efi /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
gpt add -b 409640 -i 2 -s 819200 -t 5265636F-7665-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
gpt add -b 1228840 -i 3 -s 1843200 -t hfs /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
gpt show /dev/disk2  {*Review the next partition size and enter in the large value*}
gpt add -b 3072040 -i 4 -s 231369575 -t hfs /dev/disk2
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

4. Remounts drives with file permissions and names, this combines two things in one.

diskutil eraseVolume "Journaled HFS+" OSBoot /dev/disk2s3
diskutil eraseVolume "Journaled HFS+" Media /dev/disk2s4
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

5. Restore the image. Use disk utility, click on OSBoot, and restore the image you downloaded.

Note: I did not create and restore the recovery parition I have done this once and it was a pain. If I ever do it again I’ll document it here.