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Hi LJ, remember me?
Last night I started using X-Plane, a flight sim, and because I'm a chump, I didn't start with the easy aircraft, no, I started with something big..
Fast forward a few minutes to loud buzzing noises. Elizabeth goes "Can you turn that off? It's annoying"
"You think you have problems? I'm about to crash a 747!"
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In other news..
It's still raining here, but at least there's sunlight when we go to work, and when we come home. There was a time there when we were only getting sunlight during lunchtime. That was annoying
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I made two blag posts on the internets about cool stuff I've done at work. Basically setup an easy way to recover any of our VMs, or any file from any of our VMs. Will save us a _lot_ of time, and it's far simpler than the recommended method from the storage vendor. Vmware + NetApp + NFS = ♥
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Also on the work front, we upgraded 32 servers from 72GB of RAM to 144GB of RAM. This involved taking out 576 pieces of RAM, and putting in another 576 pieces. I'm just lucky I have a large and co-operative team. It took ages. Also, we did it to servers running vmware, and vmotion is awesome, so no-one noticed any impact.
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One final work thing.. the Australian count at UBCIT is now at 5 - up from one when I started. I approve. A Business Analyst from Tasmania has started in the office next to ours. Liz and I did lunch with her yesterday.
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Went to a Centre for Inquiry (CFI) "Skeptics in the pub" meetup at the prompting of co-worker Fred. They're good people - I enjoyed myself. For an added bonus, it was held here in Richmond.
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My right index finger is sore for unknown reasons. I hope it feels better soon.
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Canadian Election has been called. I don't hold much hope that people will vote any differently to the last few times, I only hope that the other parties form a coalition straight away, rather than waiting and letting the government pull the proroguing trick it did the last time they tried.
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Co-worker pointed me to this writeup by a Professor from Wisconsin who is being harassed by the Wisconsin Republican party with an open-records request for all his email following a critical blogpost by him. The professor hopes the Republicans will see sense about why they should withdraw their FOIA request for his email. I don't share his hope - watching Wisconsin from afar, it seems the Republican party there is a cross between the know-nothings and fascists.
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I have of late become interested with the idea of building a virtual pinball cabinet, like these guys. The thing is though, I haven't played pinball in years, so I'm not sure spending $2000-3000 on it would be a good idea... but have I note played it because I can't, or because I don't want to? It's fun to dream though, right? :)
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That's it for this update of LJ!
Last night I started using X-Plane, a flight sim, and because I'm a chump, I didn't start with the easy aircraft, no, I started with something big..
Fast forward a few minutes to loud buzzing noises. Elizabeth goes "Can you turn that off? It's annoying"
"You think you have problems? I'm about to crash a 747!"
--
In other news..
It's still raining here, but at least there's sunlight when we go to work, and when we come home. There was a time there when we were only getting sunlight during lunchtime. That was annoying
--
I made two blag posts on the internets about cool stuff I've done at work. Basically setup an easy way to recover any of our VMs, or any file from any of our VMs. Will save us a _lot_ of time, and it's far simpler than the recommended method from the storage vendor. Vmware + NetApp + NFS = ♥
--
Also on the work front, we upgraded 32 servers from 72GB of RAM to 144GB of RAM. This involved taking out 576 pieces of RAM, and putting in another 576 pieces. I'm just lucky I have a large and co-operative team. It took ages. Also, we did it to servers running vmware, and vmotion is awesome, so no-one noticed any impact.
--
One final work thing.. the Australian count at UBCIT is now at 5 - up from one when I started. I approve. A Business Analyst from Tasmania has started in the office next to ours. Liz and I did lunch with her yesterday.
--
Went to a Centre for Inquiry (CFI) "Skeptics in the pub" meetup at the prompting of co-worker Fred. They're good people - I enjoyed myself. For an added bonus, it was held here in Richmond.
--
My right index finger is sore for unknown reasons. I hope it feels better soon.
--
Canadian Election has been called. I don't hold much hope that people will vote any differently to the last few times, I only hope that the other parties form a coalition straight away, rather than waiting and letting the government pull the proroguing trick it did the last time they tried.
--
Co-worker pointed me to this writeup by a Professor from Wisconsin who is being harassed by the Wisconsin Republican party with an open-records request for all his email following a critical blogpost by him. The professor hopes the Republicans will see sense about why they should withdraw their FOIA request for his email. I don't share his hope - watching Wisconsin from afar, it seems the Republican party there is a cross between the know-nothings and fascists.
--
I have of late become interested with the idea of building a virtual pinball cabinet, like these guys. The thing is though, I haven't played pinball in years, so I'm not sure spending $2000-3000 on it would be a good idea... but have I note played it because I can't, or because I don't want to? It's fun to dream though, right? :)
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That's it for this update of LJ!