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 :-)
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 ...