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Garmin GCD firmware update files

Garmin Express sucks. While it works most of the time for its normal software functions, the really critical stuff such as firmware updates don’t work well.
I had to hunt for the GUPDATE file for my Garmin Edge 810 and install it manually.

I finally managed to find the file located at Garmin firmware files.

Just download the appropriate file and copy the GUPDATE into the /GARMIN directory of your device’s main memory. Unmount and Reboot the Garmin and you should see the file getting picked up and installed. The device might reboot a couple of times and finally, it should settle on the normal use screen.

I had to re-pair my iPhone in order to use the Garmin Mobile Connect app again. Language and certain metrics had to be re-set up too. But once its done, everything works fine.

Personal

77km Ride in SG

There isn’t much places to ride in Singapore that can get you enough speed and distance. But sometimes, we manage to find a way to clock the distance, and this takes me almost 1/2 way across the island.

Check out some route images. I managed to catch and F-15 Eagle flyby too.

I also managed to to test out stabilised versus unstablized recordings from footages on the GoPro using iMovie

77km_compare_480

General, Personal

Old Drawings

Moved to a new server hoping that wordpress would be easier to maintain. lots of old links are now broken due to the migration and lack of maintenance of the old server.

Hopefully, this shift would signal a beginning of a much more stable system to come.

In the meantime, this is a repost of the drawings i have done in my younger days. Only LOTR ones are not actually by me… i can’t remember where i got them from through. I believe it was submitted to me by someone such that i can host it.

General, Personal

Singtel Fibre Setup without PARC Router

Here is the link that helped me to set it up.
http://miniliew.blogspot.com/2011/05/bye-bye-singtel-2wire-5012nv.html

Architecturally, the Singtel Fibre modem provides a single Cat6 cable with 3 VLANs tagged to it. In order to make use of the network, VOIP and MIOTV separately, there is a need to split these 3 items into individual connections so that “dumb” routers or layer 3 routers can make use of them. Based on recommendations from friends, i made use of a CISCO SLM2008T which cost SGD$159 to do this. Cheap and relatively trouble free. However, i noticed that the above blog doesn’t map to my Layer 2 switch so i think the below steps would serve as a reminder to how i did it in principle. Continue reading Singtel Fibre Setup without PARC Router →