netatalk on Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS
08:00 AM on Friday 27 February 2015
Did an installation of netatalk (AFP server in Linux) to support the macs at home. Wanted to setup network time machine for Pauline's computers so that she has a backup of stuff. I followed the instructions at: http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Install_Netatalk_3.1.7_on_Ubuntu_14.10_Ut ...
ZFS extended attributes
04:39 PM on Wednesday 25 February 2015
Apparently one can get better performance for ZFS by using the inode to store the extended attributes. http://www.nerdblog.com/2013/10/zfs-xattr-tuning-on-linux.html
Posing with the sheeps
07:19 PM on Sunday 22 February 2015
Being the Year of the Goat, there are cute little sheeps all over the Singapore. We found a couple of really cute ones at JCube and the family posed for a picture.
Trip to the Science Centre
11:31 AM on Sunday 22 February 2015
On Sunday, taking advantage that the kids have no classes, we went to the Singapore Science Centre. Here is Ernest posing with a sheep which is his Chinese Zodiac. We kind of like the food option in the Singapore Science Centre. They are priced very reasonably and they taste pretty ok. Here is Esthe ...
Kid's Chinese New Year decorations
06:50 AM on Monday 16 February 2015
The kids made Chinese New Year decoration items for the house. The following was made by Esther during her art lesson. And the one below was the one that Ernest made using his school art class.
Ernest enjoying his crab legs
07:39 PM on Sunday 15 February 2015
We had dinner at Sakura over in Tampines SAFRA. It was a buffet that had crab legs and Ernest totally enjoyed himself with it. And this being after his soccer training probably means that he was very hungry.
The way that Ernest eats pancakes
11:14 AM on Sunday 15 February 2015
Ernest took his pancakes, folded them and skewer through them with a knife and eats it like a satay. Apparently he does this with pratas too.
Esther's new stuff toy
11:04 AM on Sunday 15 February 2015
We had breakfast at McDonalds and Esther caught sight of a cute duck.
ZFS on USB 3
12:29 AM on Sunday 15 February 2015
The eSATA link to the external drive enclosures were still acting up. So I decided to switch them to USB 3 instead. It was quite easy actually, umount the drive, export using ZFS, swap the cables to USB 3, switch the enclosures to USB and import using ZFS. All these while the system was still up and ...
Esther's new earrings
11:07 AM on Sunday 01 February 2015
Esther got some earrings from etsy. They are really nice.