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Esther on a Merry go round

05:12 PM on Monday 30 March 2015

Esther saw a Merry go round at Westgate and really wanted a go at it. Everyone thought that she was too big for it but she insisted and had a great time.

While Pauline was attending her class at the Singapore Art Museum, Esther and I took the opportunity to have some fun at a chalk board :-) It has been years since I last used a piece of chalk and it really brings back memories. I still remember the times where we would go early to school and decorat ...

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 ...