Well, I got my hands on one of the fusion-io ioDrives a couple of weeks ago. unfortunately they do not work in the version of VMware ESX that we are using, though they are working on drivers for the 64bit ESX4. I did not have time to set up a physical »
I have just had a disk fail on my NAS, actually it happened ages ago but I was too broke to replace it. At the same time as one being faulted, another was degraded through having too many errors. Below is my interaction with ZFS to discover the extent »
Last weekend I went down to London again for a Christmas jolly with some great old uni friends, it was a lovely weekend, good wholesome fun. On the Saturday I went to see the Wallace Collection while some girlies shopped on Kensington Highstreet (where »
I was in London a few weeks ago and saw the wonderful exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts. I have been interested in Byzantine history since a historian friend at university described how they were essentially the eastern Roman empire, called themselves »
I have recently returned from Edinburgh, I caught the tail end of the Fringe festival. It was a good trip, and the first time I have had more than a day off work since February. I saw quite a few acts in the final 3 day.It’s been ages since I blogged »
I have been working really hard of late and have decided to block book a load of long weekends this summer and get outdoors a bit. I have been thinking about doing a long distance path for ages and have decided to do one in early August, probably the »