Ryan Hellyer

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  • Home made protein balls

    I decided to make homemade protein bars this evening. I mixed up some rolled oats, dried cranberries, vanilla flavoured whey protein and chopped almonds. Then I got some peanuts which i turned into peanut butter and mixed that up with chocolate, honey, almond milk and some apple sauce which I nuked on high for 45 seconds. I then added the hot stuff to the cold stuff, mixed it up, then tried to them them into bars. It was too darned sticky, so I ended up making protein balls instead, as they were easier to form 🙂

    They taste awesome and are incredibly healthy despite their taste 🙂

    protein-balls

    If you would like to make your own protein bars/balls, checkout the video by NaturalGC on YouTube which I based my recipe on.

  • Don’t shop whilst hungry

    I was hungry whilst shopping on Amazon.de. A week later, 3.5 kg of peanuts arrive on my doorstep.

    peanuts

  • WTF Berlin?

    One minute it’s sunny, nekminit …
    berlin-rain

  • Berlin Mauerweg

    Berlin Mauerweg

    I decided it was a good idea to cycle the entire length of the Berlin Wall (Berlin Mauerweg). 160 km’s later, and I feel a tad wrecked, but it was definitely worth the effort 🙂

    Me (Ryan Hellyer) standing on my bike, in front of a guard tower on the Berlin Wall route

  • Laterjet procedure

    Laterjet procedure

    Almost three years on, and my shoulder feels great. My left arm will never have a full range of movement (I can’t point directly upwards with it), but it is at least stable and I don’t constantly fear it falling out of the socket any longer 🙂

    Here is a video of someone else receiving the treatment.

  • Elephants in Berlin!

    I’m just walking along, minding my own business listening to music in Berlin. Nekkminit, I look through a fence and see an elephant. It seems there are interesting things at every turn in Berlin!

    Elephant in Berlin

  • Giant fruit in Germany

    I saw this giant monstrosity of a fruit in a small stall in Berlin. I’d have bought one, but I don’t think I would have managed to finish it 😛

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  • Anyone able to help with my VIP Quickstart problem?

    If you don’t know what VIP Quickstart is then this post is not intended for you 🙂

    Edit: I’ve been reading the Varying Vagrant Vagrants page, which says that version 4.2.16 of Virtualbox is incompatible with Vagrant. That is the exact version of Virtualbox which I’m using right now, so I’ll try downgrading and see how it goes.

    Edit 2: Upgrading Virtualbox to 4.2.18 did not help with VIP Quickstart, but I tried VVV instead which seems to be working perfectly.

    I’m having difficulties getting VIP Quickstart running on my main Ubuntu machine. I ended up doing a complete OS reinstall in the hope that my clear out whatever was intially causing me problems (I’d been planning to reformat at some time anyway).

    I set everything back up and as per my normal procedure, I installed Nginx, MySQL and PHP to get my regular local server up and running. Then later, I attempted to install VIP Quickstart. I had the latest version of VirtualBox running, but it told me I needed an older version as the new one wasn’t compatible, so I downgraded to 1.2.x. That didn’t help, so I upgraded Vagrant to the very latest one (rather than the one provided by the Ubuntu software center).

    I now get the following error message when I attempt to run ./bin/vip-init:

     

    Timed out while waiting for the machine to boot. This means that
    Vagrant was unable to communicate with the guest machine within
    the configured ("config.vm.boot_timeout" value) time period. This can
    mean a number of things.

    If you're using a custom box, make sure that networking is properly
    working and you're able to connect to the machine. It is a common
    problem that networking isn't setup properly in these boxes.
    Verify that authentication configurations are also setup properly,
    as well.

    If the box appears to be booting properly, you may want to increase
    the timeout ("config.vm.boot_timeout") value.
    Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
    [default] VirtualBox VM is already running.
    [default] Running provisioner: shell...
    The private key to connect to the machine via SSH must be owned
    by the user running Vagrant. This is a strict requirement from
    SSH itself. Please fix the following key to be owned by the user
    running Vagrant:

    /home/ryan/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key

    damnit

    To try and help debug, I setup a blank Vagrant server without using VIP Quickstart and it seems to be working just fine. I can SSH into it and it is working as expected, whereas the VIP Quickstart installation won’t even boot the server.

    I guessed that my regular local server may be causing problems, so I stopped Nginx, PHP and MySQL, but that didn’t seem to help either.


    Today I tried to use my regular (non Vagrant) local server, and discovered that MySQL will no longer start. I’m assuming that is an unrelated issue, but am not certain (hopefully one of you will know more).
     – this was fixed courtesy of the super helpful Amy Hendrix 🙂

    Soooo … any ideas on where I should start debugging this?

    My only thought right now is that I could reformat the whole drive from scratch again and hope that running a local server alongside Vagrant was causing some sort of glitch, but that is a royal pain in the neck and I’d rather fix whatever is wrong if possible.

    wiley-coyote-help

  • Woohoo! We won the beer pong.

    My awesome team won at beer pong this evening 🙂

    SONY DSC

    SONY DSC

    SONY DSC

  • Arghhh! Frost!

    Darn it. Winter is coming! I took this photo on my way to work this morning.

    frost