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Sunday

GluffiS — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:07:00 +0000

It’s been a while now. Well, stuff has happened. Started my new work last week, which seems interesting. Also I have been studying for the CCSA exam on Tuesday. Checkpoint got some strange answers like the purpose of hide-nat, ‘Hide behind an imaginary IP’. I would really like som imaginary IP’s, I guess it’s those from CSI.
Managed to attend two weddings and a couple of birthday parties in August so now I think that my wedding quota is filled for this year. Two swedish and one vietnamese wedding seems to be enough. And thanks to Olivia I got a flat decently close to work, thank you
I am also beginning to hate the software raid in Linux. Seems to be endless obscure problems like just dropping one of the disks randomly in a raid-5 set. This happened when I upgraded my filserver to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The only good outcome of that is that my laptop, running Windows 7, can talk to it over IPv6. But it smashed the raid-5, made my Popcorn hour not be able to use my old SMB mount and of course it took some fiddeling with VMWare to get it running. Feels more and more like Solaris is a good solution.

Stuffs

GluffiS — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:46:37 +0000

Today I got around to try to sell some shirts att spreadshirt.se. More exactly http://facehugger.spreadshirt.se. Just got two designs so far, more will come, trust me. They will all have some attitude At least that is the goal. Facehugger.net is my pet design project, haven’t happened much there so far, probably since I actually don’t have a decent computer to work on. Also I went to a trackday with some friends last week, didn’t ride anything though. Should have taken his KTM RC8 for a spin but he managed to bend both brake disks while trying to change front tyre. But now I really need to get me a streetbike

Summertime is here

GluffiS — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:37:55 +0000

Now the summer is here for real. It’s almost like Asia back home now, not that damp though. Pretty much like Hoi An. Hue was much drier and Kuala Lumpur was very damp. Almost got 34 degrees today and I am waiting for some thunder and rain. Got around to cut the grass today and realized that the guy at Electrolux that has designed my lawn mover has probably never owned a house. And is probably about 150cm tall. I got a collector to gather all the leftover grass which is so badly designed that you cant back up your lawn mover without holding the collector or else it will end up in the cutting knives. Way to go! And I guess everyone that has a Briggs&Stratton knows how ‘reliable’ something constructed in the UK is. Should get me a Honda based one instead. It will probably last forever. At least I got around to graphing the disk temperatures in my file server using smartctl. I got snmpd run the following script, and yes it is ugly as hell since it does not tell you the name of the disk. Doesn’t really matter for me, since I already know in the cacti snmp template.
#!/bin/sh for i in `ls /dev/sd[a-e] ` do smartctl --all $i |grep Temp | cut -c88-90|tail -1 done

Beach 2020

GluffiS — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:50:28 +0000

So, the plans for the beach 2020 has begun. Bought me a new pair of shoes at Löplabbet, and a pair of socks. Good shoes, unfortunatley I got some stomach cramps almost from the beginning of my test run today. Will give it a try tomorrow as well, then I won’t eat just before Todays laptime was roughly 40 minutes for 5km.

Another day in the swimmingpool of bitterness…

GluffiS — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:34:45 +0000

Today the typical summer weather came with rain and wind. Good that I spent the whole day at work. At least I didn’t have to go to the Muppet mountain today. Spent some time reading stuff on http://textsfromlastnight.com. It more or less confirms the stupidity of people. No matter how idiot proof you build stuff, someone will always build a better idiot. At least I got to toy around with some OpenID and noticed that Linked In had removed the ability to log on with OpenID. That kinda sucked. Now I am just waiting for some of the big sites to adopt this, like Google

Wooo haaa

GluffiS — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 16:20:59 +0000

So, switched jobs finally. I have not really noticed the economic downturn with at least three jobs to choose from, probably four. It took some thinking before deciding which one to choose, and I hope I did the correct thing. I guess it will show in this autumn. So now the studying begins to be able to pass the CISSP exam. Just need to find somewhere to live during weekdays, but that will probably solve it self. Things usually do somehow. Now off to watch Avatar on BlueRay.

Toying around with new stuff

GluffiS — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:45:18 +0000

The other day the Facebook developers uploaded the Hiphop php sourcecode to the Github. This is appearantly not built for Ubuntu, also their wiki says Ubuntu 9.04 build is experimental. I tried on 10.4 and ended upp with gcc dying with a compile error, “c++: Internal error: Killed (program cc1plus)”. I built good on Fedora Core 12 at least so I will have to do some testing on that. This machine will get an upgrade any day now

Qualifying

GluffiS — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 08:19:30 +0000

Yesterday I went to the Qualifying for the races. Oh, I went on a city tour as well. City tour was nice, seems to be building everywhere around here. Saw the new apartment complex called The Pearl, which will house about 45 000 people and the cheapest apartment goes for half a million US dollars. Nice to see that the two car dealers there were Ferrari and Rolls Royce. Also saw the horse tracks, including the horse swimming pool. Seems to be a lot of money in that business. Then it was time for the races. Checked in to the VIP facilities and got a beer and started watching the free practice. Went for some pictures on the balcony by the pits. The GP bikes are insanely loud I realized, and really really fast. My camera was a bit too slow unfortunately. Met the Norwegian 125cc rider Sturla just before the qualifying, actually got to speak to his parents for a while during the Moto2 qualifying. Really fun to see a guy from almost home doing well. He qualified at 16 position so hopefully he will get some points to night. Now it is time fore some relaxing bu the pool.

It came from the desert

GluffiS — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:19:23 +0000

Today I went on some desert safari. Which meant that we took a Toyota Landcruiser and went into the desert riding some dunes. The driver was a crazy Qatarian guy that drove the usual safe Middle East or Asian way. I is actually pretty impressive how much you can lean a Landcruiser before it rolls over. Went to see Saudi Arabia and then to the beach for some lunch. Now I am back at the hotel awaiting the dinner and then we are going to Losail to watch to nights free practice which I hope will be fun.

No more Asia

GluffiS — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 12:02:57 +0000

Left Asia this morning. I realized today that I am really traveling light. Everyone at the check-in in Kuala Lumpur seemed to have bought half the country with them back home. I think that I could have climbed down in some of the suitcases people were bringing. So what is the conclusion about Asia then? Houses pretty much look the same, at least in Thailand and Vietnam, and also Korea my host in Malaysia said. The chaos is pretty similar. Malaysia actually felt more laid back than Vietnam and Thailand At least when comparing big cities, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh and Kuala Lumpur. People differs a bit of course. Am I going back soon, probably not. I guess I will go somewhere else next time, like the US. First impressions of Qatar seems nice. Taxi from airport to the hotel was a Jaguar, really nice. When booking everything I seemed to have missed arrival date in Qatar, so my hotel was booked from tomorrow. Well, it’s just money. This hotel could charge my credit card without pin number which is good. That means stuff will be expensive but I will be able to buy stuff. I will need to get some clothes washed I think. But I think I will treat this as my birthday present this year. Here is a photo from yesterdays trip downtown.