funkymonkey
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Wrote a python script after years. Used VIM to do it. Feel like a ninja that scored with a fat chick. I know I'm awesome, yet I feel dirty.
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Today's culinary experiment: garden salad with sardines pan-fried with garlic and chilli, with a french dressing. http://instagr.am/p/Hbq4-/
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Might have to distribute this before every design brief we get handed: Where Are My Rounded Corners? http://j.mp/ofu4y6 via @boagworld #neo
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Oh FFS! I just realised the drives I got don't support TLER. FUCK. Guess I'll just have to run the SMART util on a cron to stop em spinning down. Gonna be fun booting it up though. Alternative is to use the onboard sata controller with the drives in a ZFS config and use the SAS card to drive a JBOD setup later down the track. edit: actually it seems like most of the guys complaining about the drives dropping out of RAID are because they drop out under heavy load or during startup. Both of those events trigger a high power draw, and looking at the drive specs, average power draw is 5.8W but when I hooked up my multimeter, on heavy load (random data written to HDD on all platters) and during bootup it was drawing around 22W. 4 x 22W = 88W power draw, which most of their NAS' would struggle to supply. The microserver should be OK since it has a 200W supply. Ah well, guess I'll find out shortly.
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Ended up buying 4x2TB Seagate ST2000DL003's. Got them hooked up to an HP P400 in RAID 5... not the most secure RAID ever, but meh. Got the 512mb cache version with battery backup, so I can change drive RAID type and array number on the fly. Got ESXi running off an 8GB USB stick inside the server, with an Ubuntu VM doing the fileserving and torrenting. I'm also trying out Solaris and FreeNAS in VM's too, but so far Ubuntu's probably the one that both easy and feature rich to use. Solaris is feature rich, but it's a PITA and regresses me to Uni days. FreeNAS is great for fileserving, that's about it. Really wanna try ZFS though, but running ZFS on top of a RAID is retarded. Also ordered a HP N350T dual gigabit pci-e ethernet card so that I can dedicate the onboard port to interwebs, and two others to serving/streaming data over LAN if I ever need to.
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HP Proliant Microserver getting VMWare ESXi for some sweet server virtualisation. http://instagr.am/p/HNyJu/
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Ship completed. Now we need to run the "Digital Future and Magic Team" colours and coat of arms. http://t.co/B0Wx32B
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Lamb n ricotta pizza in front of a faux fireplace to get out of the cold wet Melbourne weather. @ Pepperoni's http://instagr.am/p/HHiuF/
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actually... the newish Samsung F4 2TB drives are 3x666GB platter configs as well. And they're only 4 bucks more than the WD's from PC Case Gear.
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Not sure, I did read about people complaining about them dropping out of RAID, but they were usually running some ghetto soft-RAID, not a hardware one. As with most manufacturers they don't gurantee the safety of the data on their consumer HDDs on anything other than RAID 0 or 1. It'd be lucky to even break a sweat with a 4 HDD striped RAID. No need for 7200RPM when there's that much buffer and cache available. This is a budget setup after all and all up it's costing about $600 for a bulletproof setup. I'm not buying into the "green" marketing BS. It's just a better price and lower power consumption cos it's lower RPM. I only have peak 200W at my disposal, 50W of which is used by the board.
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Art vs. Science covers Daft Punk. As awesome as being fellated by a velociraptor (in a good way)! http://j.mp/kBefJd via @thelastlunatic
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So my HP Proliant Microserver rocked up today. Immediately turfed the onboard micro SAS and plugged in my HP P400 controller out of an HP SB40c Storage Blade for hardware RAID 5 sexy times. Tomorrow I've gotta go to MSY and pick up 4x 2TB WD 5400RPM drives and 8GB RAM to finish my setup. Haven't decided on the OS to run though. Still thinking ESXi with 1 Ubuntu server VM. Altho OpenIndiana and FreeNAS all seem nice too.
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Seriously? This kind of muppetry passes for journalism in "Asutralia"? FFS. http://t.co/XSnnemd Nice one @theage! http://t.co/SALLPcE
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Ugh. This is the 2nd time I'm watching "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields", and it still makes me feel sick, sad & lose faith in humanity #4corners
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w00t! Trending in Australia! Wait... is that Pearson the company or Sally Pearson the athlete? #redgrouppearson
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Work... Yay! Documentation... Booo! #neo @ Penguin Books Australia http://instagr.am/p/G6mIH/
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I have a Kinect, and an iPad2. I need to make this happen. Then I can pretend to be Princess Leia. Wait... What? http://youtu.be/R8tiHXDiqsw
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A bug in the Penguin website, as discovered by @dchanter. iPhone safari detection fail. #neo http://instagr.am/p/Gy7_d/
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Seriously @facebook why is the Send Button 23px tall and the Like Button 20px tall when they render in individual iframes?
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Had an intricately detailed dream about shaving using my cut-throat razor for a smooth clean shaven face. Then I woke up with stubble. #FML!
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I got a ticket to parklife! I'm goin to paaarklife! And you didn't get none. Cos you're on the weeeelfare!
