SIgN retreat at Bintan
08:33 AM on Thursday 26 March 2015
Our institute had its annual retreat at Bintan and I took the opportunity to take some pictures while there.
Hard disk down
08:15 AM on Sunday 22 March 2015
Had one of the internal 3TB drives fail on the new server which was part of a ZFS raidz. At least ZFS is working fine, the drive was marked as faulted but the system was still running in degraded mode. Took out the drive and replaced it with a 6TB and after 4 hours of resilvering, the system is back ...
Dinosaur Balloon Extravaganza
10:20 AM on Saturday 21 March 2015
We were walking in Marina Square when we noticed this big area filled with balloon sculptures. It was really amazing, the stuff that they could make out of simple balloons.
New server
07:25 PM on Tuesday 17 March 2015
So I was monitoring the buy and sell sections of local forums for a good bargain on a X99 or X79 system. I was interested in trying out virtualisation but for that, I will need more RAM and faster processors. The current system was built for low power and noise while having the ability to host a lot ...
eSATA cables
07:03 PM on Tuesday 17 March 2015
Still wanting to run eSATA on the external enclosure, I decided to purchase another eSATA card, but this time based on a Marvell 88SE9123 chipset instead. At the same time, thinking that it could be a cable issue, got 2 eSATA cables together from Amazon. Installation of the card was relatively painl ...
Lunch at Saizeriya
12:00 PM on Sunday 15 March 2015
The kids enjoying their lunch at Saizeriya. the food is good and the price is reasonable.
Esther's cute little car
10:48 AM on Saturday 14 March 2015
Esther took Pauline's beads and made a little car out of it.
Show Your Disney Side
07:47 PM on Tuesday 10 March 2015
Found this really cool app to turn yourself into a Disney character ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/show-your-disney-side/id945289759?mt=8 ). Here are the results for Ernest and Esther.
Esther's mini party
05:10 PM on Friday 06 March 2015
Esther has a mini party for 2 of her best friends on Friday. They came to our place, baked a brownie cake and had lots of fun. Esther thought it was really cool to make her own cake :-)