Trip to Science Centre
11:26 AM on Wednesday 25 December 2013
We went to the Singapore Science Centre on Christmas day and had lots of fun there. The place never fails to get the kids excited. One of the new things there was the Laser Maze which the kids absolutely loved. They had lots of fun with that, rolling and ducking all over the place. And they were not ...
Kids ice skating
08:53 PM on Sunday 22 December 2013
Our inline skating instructor organised a ice skating session for everyone and the kids loved it.
Pauline's new glasses
08:15 AM on Saturday 21 December 2013
Esther's painted nails
07:59 AM on Friday 20 December 2013
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.
Face painting for the kids
08:34 AM on Sunday 15 December 2013
We did a bit of face painting together which is rather fun for the kids. They loved it.
Ernest with Andrea
08:44 AM on Saturday 14 December 2013
Ernest is rather good with smaller kids and babies apparently :-)
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 ...