scammer

*sigh*
Still haven't sold the Honda Bros. Had about 5 people be interested in it, but no-one has actually bothered to turn up and look - even the two who said they were coming around :/
Today I received this email, obviously a scam:

From: Martin Laurence <martin_laurenceautos@yahoo.com>

I am MARTINS LAURENCE,i am located in the United State Of American,in Texas.I am hereby interested in purchasing your VAN in which you have advertised and i will be happy to know if the VAN is still available for sale and the best price of the VAN and the present conditions of the VAN and i am sure that this is in a very good condition,kindly let me know the best price and the payment will be made to you by a creditor client who is located in United Kingdom through the certified cheque drawn out a company in United Kingdom.And concerning the shippment and collection of the VAN,do not worry your self about the shippment,i have a reliable shipping agent who will be coming for the picking up of the VAN at your location in time.
Hope to hear back from you so that we can move on with the payment and shipping of the VAN.
Awaiting to hear back from you soon.
MARTIN

(The scam is that the cheque he'd give me would be a fake, and would bounce, whereas I'd already have sent off the bike *and* some cash with his agent.)
I've contacted the police via their fraud alert email address, but I doubt much will come of it.

carb tuning

no, this is not an atkin's diet related post!

I just wondered if anyone listening is good at tuning carburetters? There's four on my bike, and while it does go quite nicely, I think it could do with a little bit of balancing, esp at idle..

Reiser4 FS

The more I read about Reiser4 FS, the more it seems really nifty.

Eg. You could have your passwd file actually split into a bunch of files, one for each (traditional) line; these files then contain attributes for username, password, shell, and so forth. You could assign permissions on a per-file basis, so that a user could edit their own file, to adjust their password or shell or whatever. (ie. like the passwd or chfn programs do, only without requiring suid executeables). You could have a special aggregate file (ie. /etc/passwd) which magically loads the assorted little files, and presents a standard-looking passwd file - and takes the saved data and deconstructs it back into the relevant files - checking permissions as it goes - so that existing utils would still work.

From what I gather, not all of the plugins to do what I just described exist yet, but that the architecture is there.

...

I think it's cool, anyway. but I may be a little bit of a geek.