Our inline skating instructor organised a ice skating session for everyone and the kids loved it.
We had fun painting Esther's nails and she loved the final results. Not too bad for a first attempt :-) We painted little flowers as that was easy to do and it looked great. Esther has really small nails so there is not much of a surface to work with.
We did a bit of face painting together which is rather fun for the kids. They loved it.
Ernest is rather good with smaller kids and babies apparently :-)
A foam pirate ship that Ernest, Esther and I made. Not bad.
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: ...
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.
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 ...
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.