I've managed to score a 4 day weekend!

We worked til 4:30 AM on Friday morning on a cabling job. So I took the rest of Friday off.

On Saturday we put up Liam and Emily's new swing set. We had some issues to start with. Toys R Us sold us a box that had been opened. One of the seats was missing. They supplied us with a new one when we went into the shop though. Still, I could have done without a trip in there. Next Liam ran off with a few screws, so it was a trip to the hardware! I eventually got it all set up on Sunday morning (in the rain). Liam loves it though!

Today we set up the pool on the patio for Liam and Emily to play it. What a hot day it was!

Emily loved it, she was content to sit there and splash with her feet - usually nothing keeps her occupied long. Kel found a cute pink hat for her to wear.

Liam stayed there for hours hopping in and out. He got pretty upset when it was time to go inside. Big, big Tantrums!

I bottled my Pilsner - I'm not sure how well it's going to go. It does taste a bit odd. Hopefully the yeast hasn't gone into autolysis... It was in the fermenter a week extra. Very very cloudy too - probably due to me dropping the spent grain from the flavor pack into the boil. The sieve I was pouring the steep mix through fell into the fermenter.

Another really heavy week... I've taken today off...

Lots of yard stuff to do and some more photos to take for Kel's cloth nappy selling spree.

I took the day off today. I had acrued extra hours last week.

We bought Liam a little Roary the Racing Car toy that came with a DVD. That DVD has been on repeat for hours!

I bottled my APA (American Pale Ale) - It should taste really good. It's still a bit cloudy though. I started off a Pilsner as well. It's bubbling away nicely now.

I came across a weird file on the server. 78 PETA Bytes! Yes. 78PB. 87,806,822,618,104,772. Pretty impressive since the partition is only 800GB.

Inode 30375975, i_size is 87806822618104772, should be 24576. Fix<y>? yes

Oh Yeah! New Drives and New U320 Cable.

Target 0 Negotiation Settings
        User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|QAS, 16bit)
        Goal: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|QAS, 16bit)
        Curr: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|QAS, 16bit)
        Channel A Target 0 Lun 0 Settings
                Commands Queued 40885
                Commands Active 0
                Command Openings 4
                Max Tagged Openings 4
                Device Queue Frozen Count 0
Target 1 Negotiation Settings
        User: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|QAS, 16bit)
        Goal: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|QAS, 16bit)
        Curr: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz RDSTRM|DT|IU|QAS, 16bit)
        Channel A Target 1 Lun 0 Settings
                Commands Queued 43304
                Commands Active 0
                Command Openings 4
                Max Tagged Openings 4
                Device Queue Frozen Count 0

1TB Mirror of j0r

# mdadm --detail /dev/md5
/dev/md5:
        Version : 00.90.03
  Creation Time : Sat Aug 30 19:10:28 2008
     Raid Level : raid1
     Array Size : 976759936 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
  Used Dev Size : 976759936 (931.51 GiB 1000.20 GB)
   Raid Devices : 2
  Total Devices : 2
Preferred Minor : 5
    Persistence : Superblock is persistent

    Update Time : Sat Aug 30 19:10:28 2008
          State : clean, resyncing
 Active Devices : 2
Working Devices : 2
 Failed Devices : 0
  Spare Devices : 0

 Rebuild Status : 10% complete

           UUID : a09dbd93:faf5d9d1:abf542e5:d7389fec
         Events : 0.1

    Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
       0       8       81        0      active sync   /dev/sdf1
       1       8       97        1      active sync   /dev/sdg1

So, what am I supposed to do when I fill 1TB of drives?

...

That's right! Get more. 2TB more. Well 1. It's going to be mirrored.

I've also got myself a new U320 cable so that I don't have to stretch it over the top of the CPUs. In fact. I think I will move the U320 boot mirror to another lower bay. Photos Later.

I'm currently brewing an APA with a 3Kg ESB APA kit, a BMBS Lager & Draught infusion pack and extra cascade. I'm also using US-05 yeast which is better for APAs. Should be yummy. The last one was!

Blog?! Where! - I see no blog...

A customer had changed their code before it was under version control. So, it was different to the snapshot of it that I had.

This nifty command saved me

Skips all the ".svn is only in svn/blah/"

diff -r --brief current svn | grep -v "\.svn"

http://www.lanshack.com/fiber-optic-tutorial-termination.aspx

http://www.datacottage.com/nch/fibertermination.htm