Christmas is tomorrow and here in Steamboat Springs it’s always a white one. This morning at 7:00am it started dumping snow hard and in the last three hours six inches have fallen and I don’t think its stopping for a while! This is great, however I have not purchased anyone a gift yet and I need to get food for a Christmas dinner and to top it all off I have to dig out the driveway and make room for the guests that will be arriving tomorrow. Looks like I will have to get my snow blower fixed here real soon!
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Well I just got back from the mountain and what an awesome, awesome powder morning. Better than knee deep everywhere with ass deep spots all over the place. Lets hope this weather keeps up!
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Well after ten years of skiing on used boots my good friend Pete over at Backdoor Sports here in the ski town of Steamboat Springs Colorado tempted me with a great new boot that I just could not pass up. The Garmont Endorphin alpine touring boot.
I ski Steamboat exclusively and if you have ever skied here you know that Steamboat is known for two things, champagne powder and tree skiing. Unfortunately, when the mountain is in full season and the tourists are all over it the best runs are a hike out to the very top where the chairs don’t take you. The Garmont Endorphin MG makes these hikes a pleasure to deal with. The liner is heat molded the day you purchase them to fit you perfectly without pain your first day skiing them. They have a stiff feel while freeriding and a tremendous amount of comfort while in hiking mode. One lever to flick and the boot becomes soft and compliant hiking boot. The bottom line is.. If you hike out when you alpine you want these boots. Thanks for hooking me up with an amazing boot Pete!
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Well another day here and all the things I wanted to do aren’t getting done.. Debugging a bunch of stuff instead. I was up late with our friend Dave over at ComputerCures.Biz setting him up with a slick OpenWRT router setup and when we finished at 2:00am he gifted me a brand new Western Digital 400 Gig USB hard drive. Of course this hard drive is quite slow to deal with when you only have USB1 handy, however I do have USB2 on my server in the closet we all know as “hugh” that runs gentoo and honestly has never been updated since put into use.. Well it’s not going well something is choking on it and dmesg is just spitting out repeated errors.
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/8, error -110
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/8, error -110
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/8, error -110
usb 1-5: device descriptor read/8, error -110
If I Remove the USB2 driver with “rmmod ehci_hcd” the ohci_hcd module works just fine but its USB1 slow. So I’m updating the kernel in hopes that this is some bug in the ehci module that will be fixed up good in the newer kernel.
I’m into the world of “emerge” and this could take a while to get the stuff I need updated. I kinda wish “hugh” was like the rest of my computers here, running Debian so I could just install a pre-built kernel quickly to test my theory.
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