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Edit 2009-11-16: Use these instructions instead – much cleaner way of doing it In my day job, I help look after a pretty big VMware cluster (20 blades running 350+ servers, mix of Linux and Windows). On Linux, we use LVM for flexibility. Conventional wisdom on the subject of growing seems to have said that [...]

Following the armistice of 1918, the German Navy was moved to Scapa Flow, and moored there with their German crews while the greedy allies decided who would get what ships. Ze Germans however, wanted nothing of this, so despite the armistice, scuttled the ships, an act of war in and of its own. Some of [...]

A few weeks ago, I bought a Acer Aspire X1301 + LCD, since it was a great deal.. C$399 + tax + enviro fees. I then sold the LCD for $50, leaving me with a C$349 computer. The plucky little Acer had some problems.. its power for gaming was.. limited, to say the least, and [...]

I received news that my former boss at UWA Arts, Mike Neville, passed away sometime last night. There’s so much that could be said. I know he pretty seriously pissed off some people doing his job at UWA, but in the end he was a force for doing things right, and he was still there [...]

Autumn at UBC Originally uploaded by theducks Don’t the hours grow shorter as the days go by? It’s starting to be dark when I wake up, and when I leave for work. But the colours are pretty. Oh for a camera with the dynamic range of the human eye.

We had a fun roadtrip down to Seattle and Portland last weekend. About 1200kms round trip. No tickets, but we did have something fall off a truck and scratch our car. Will wait to see if Avis wants my kidneys for that. US Customs were nice and quick. Seattle was great, but a short visit [...]

It seems I never posted about this.. we both have jobs now, and an awesome 17th floor apartment in Richmond BC. I’m working for a Big University, looking after operations for their VMWare environment (299 VMs and counting). Elizabeth is working for a small software company that does something like cpanel, but for IIS. We [...]

Good morning Vancouver Originally uploaded by theducks Sure, I could avoid 3 hours of commuting per day (and transfer that task to elizabeth..) but we wouldn’t have these spectacular views. What a country.

Working at a University, as I for some reason continue to do so, you are exposed to a large amount of political material from various student (and staff) groups. I also know some people who are pretty interested in Canadian politics. I remember that at one point, I’d see this political speech and think “wow, [...]

Some of you may have noticed I like to make stuff. Or at least talk about making stuff. Regardless, the ideas are there. Being a sharing person, let me show you the sites of some people I admire for their skills and abilities, and why I admire them: Mike Harrison – http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/ Kenneth Maxon – [...]