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Around San Francisco Originally uploaded by theducks Have uploaded my photos from San Francisco. Had a good time, both being a tourist, and seeing some people I hadn’t seen for a while (including my step sister!) California Aquarium Alcatraz Fisherman’s Wharf Mixed photos of San Francisco

Many moons ago, we booked tickets for Canada, leaving Perth 24 June 2009, returning 17 Feb 2010. We couldn’t book them for the exact period of time we wanted.. plans were to stick around for a year, so we thought we’d just change dates. Well.. erm. We like it here. So we’re going to take [...]

Was going through some old digital photos (2002 :P) and came across one of a Qantas 767 with a white tail (instead of a red one). Did some reading up on it. They operated a couple of them after Ansett’s collapse in 2001. One in particular was frame 27909/591, built in 1995. Turns out this [...]

This is a great video I came across a few months ago, and was recently reminded of.

It occurs to me that this may be of interest to some people. My wife Elizabeth and I are currently in Canada on a working holiday, and have been for the last 6 months. Much like in Australia, I’m currently working in IT for a University, which is a lot of fun and gives me [...]

Moonrise Originally uploaded by theducks

A preface.. a week or two ago, Boeing rolled out the first 787-8f. I wasn’t a fan of the livery, and said so on twitter. The twitter rep for Boeing’s Future of Flight noticed this, and invited me down to have a look at it in person, and take the tour of the factory, for [...]

In my previous post on the subject, I expanded Filesystems on LVM without rebooting, by adding more partitions. As pointed out by Zanchey, there is a much cleaner way to do this, by just resizing existing partitions being used by LVM. # fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9790. [...]

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 [...]