Foam pirate ship
08:40 AM on Saturday 14 December 2013
A foam pirate ship that Ernest, Esther and I made. Not bad.
USB 3.0 transfer speeds on Linux
10:44 PM on Thursday 12 December 2013
Thinking that USB 3.0 might be a reasonable way to attach lots of drives, I got a USB 3.0 portable 2.5" 1TB drive from Seagate to test its transfer speed. The following is the bonnie++ output from the Seagate drive connected to USB 3.0 in Linux: This is the output from the eSATA connected ZFS pool: ...
Multiple connection command line downloader
10:38 PM on Thursday 12 December 2013
While wget is great, it lacks the ability to use multiple connections to the same host to speed things up. This is where aria2 comes in.
bonnie++ output
10:37 PM on Thursday 12 December 2013
As the data that I work with gets ever larger, the need for more and faster disks get ever more important. In the past, 1TB was a large amount of storage but in today's world, that is the amount you get in a small portable drive. For my work, we routinely need storage in the 10s of TBs and to get to ...
Breakfast at the courtyard@heeren
02:07 PM on Wednesday 11 December 2013
Everyone loves the breakfast at the courtyard@heeren. The spread might not be large but the food is nice and there is something for everyone. And it shows in the photos.
Rise and shine in Melaka
02:02 PM on Wednesday 11 December 2013
While Esther was sleeping away peacefully, Ernest and Pauline were deep in thoughts :-)
Melaka
01:57 PM on Tuesday 10 December 2013
After Port Dickson, we took a drive down to Melaka and had a night's stay at the courtyard@heeren which is a very nice boutique hotel with Peranakan charms. This is our second stay at the hotel and we still like it. Nice comfortable rooms, great service and low prices. Furthermore it is located near ...
Port Dickson Army Museum
01:53 PM on Tuesday 10 December 2013
There was an Army Museum nearby the Avillion resort that proved to be quite interesting with lots of military hardware on display. But try to avoid the sunny parts of the day as most of the vehicles are displayed outdoors and the heat really dampens the mood. Pauline is certainly in the mood with so ...
At the beach again
01:45 PM on Monday 09 December 2013
The kids loved the beach especially Esther so off we went again.
Kids looking out
09:32 AM on Sunday 08 December 2013
The kids were looking out from the balcony of the resort in a very thoughtful manner so I took out the camera for a couple of quick shots. They looked rather good converted to black and white.