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Going Too Fast [pano desktop background]
I found this on my walk with Jay. He has a trash pile tucked away in his property, left my many previous owners. Tires, TVs, old appliances, all covered over with blackberries and moss. Pentax K10D 50mm, 800iso, f3, 1/30-1/100 bracketed. HDR pano in Hugin; three layers in Gimp: gray, color enhanced.
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Molex, You Suck
When I was reassembling the drive cages in Beavertail, it was definitely plain that one set was more damaged than the adjacent set. The only two obvious flaws were heat, and grounding. I had been monitoring the heat off and on, and the drives never even got higher than 90F, and they are laptop drives,…
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Little Amonita
We went on a great hike, and we saw a lot of mushrooms. This was the prize of the bunch. Pentax K10D, 50mm, 1/8″ iso 100. Three layers in gimp: base, color enahanced, gray value.
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Replacing a Four Drives at Once
I would not have considered this tactic possible, but then I’ve often come from small raid setups or hardware raid setups that are unlikely to want to replace multiple disks at a time. Replacing four at a time!
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Two drives fail at once? Oh yeah…
Just as I thot I was all cool for having a sixteen drive NAS, today’s opening of it and trying a new network card (did not fit) left me with bad news on the next powerup. > dmesg | grep ata | grep error: [ 23.223221] ata13.00: error: { ABRT } [ 23.234448] ata13.00: error:…
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ZFS on Linux machine
Here is my ZFS on Linux story, and some of you might have seen these pictures when I started this project last year: I recycled an old Athlon system from work and placed an 35 Watt AMD A2 processor with 8GB 1600 ram on an Asus mobo in it. I name my home systems after…
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I have to go to Florida to get to Ferndale
From Bellingham, there is there really no peering point in Qwest’s backbone to Comcast? It seems preposterous that I takes me 102ms to ping 11 miles. I wish I could brag about biking that fast. But at least I do not have to bike to Florida to get to Ferndale: traceroute to firewall.candelatech.com (70.89.124.249), 30…
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Pedal cleats
These cleats have been with me for over a year. They got worn smooth from walking on them. The previous pair I left in for two years and I had to drill one of them out. Advice for cleats: use some white lith grease on the bolts when you apply them. Use a long handled…
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Beach Driftwood, Fisherman’s Spit, Lopez Island, WA
This was clearly a case of pre-visualization. Guilty as charged. K10D, 50mm, circular-polarizer, 100iso, 1/200. Gimp: 1 color layer and two contrast layers, not counting borders.
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Reynolds Album Cover
I saw this campground fireplace and I knew this would be the “Black Sabbath” album cover spot for all of Lopez Island. Pentax K10D, 50mm, 1/100, 400iso. Gimp.
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