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I just love Nathalie Portman: innocent girl.

 

For now I am giving up the geom + gmirror + ggate setup to create a set of redudant fileservers. I'm running into some strange troubles somewhere between ggate, gmirror and nfsd which might have to do something with buffers here and there. My next experiment is going to be "enhanced network block device" + "software raid1" under linux.

yeey! I got my Apple MacBook Pro 1.83 Ghz Intel Duo Core with 1.5 GB DDR2 Memory and a 80 Gb SATA disk, a 15,4 Inch Display. SupaDupaCoolAwesome!

Palm TX + Wifi + pssh + fullscreen modus + stylus + screen + irssi = Cute PDA image (large)

I got a new piercing, in my left ear: something like this.

And Marina and I went to the Lush, we bought some nice things:


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Long live my iPod! The battery lasts forever.. It helped me survive moving my server from Grafix, Rotterdam to Telecity1, Amsterdam.

I spent a couple of hours figuring out why the heck gmirror/ggate was acting so weird. Problem was that normal write&read activity was okay, but a "burst" e.g.
dd if=/dev/zero of=./test bs=1024 count=1M would hang the whole system and render it unusable.

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Last night in Brandon, I had a really interesting talk with Martijn (MacTijn) about setting up a redundant network with BGP4, border routers, core routers, core switches and a glass a couple a lot of beer.


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