It has been a few years in a row now that we visit the Village Garden for our seasonal pumpkins. We just love the family feel to this pumpkin patch. Nothing commercialized about it and the pumpkins are always nice and fresh and reasonably priced. Highly recommended if you are looking for pumpkins in the […]
A friend’s mom was visiting from Japan and brought us some Japanese sweets. I think these are only sold in Japan as I have not seen them around here in Vancouver. They are excellent with Japanese tea :)
These photos were taken a while back in the summer. Got some catching up of postings to do :)
It is my first time trying to capture lightning. It does not happen a lot in Vancouver and therefore I don’t get a lot of practise. Tonight I just happened to be at home and the camera batter is charged so I played a little. It is a lot of fun. Setting the camera to […]
While having the Mediasonic USB 3.0 RAID enclosure connected to my Mac Mini via FireWire 800, I did a very quick benchmark using XBench to get some results. Sequential Read and Write tests got acceptable results. Random Read and Write tests were affected by block size. I am sure if I can connect it using […]
Managed to do some simple benchmarking of the Mediasonic USB 3.0 RAID enclosure a couple days ago. For better comparison, I decided to hook it up to the Acer h340 easyStore Home Server using the exact same eSATA port that the Sans Digital TowerRAID used to connect. And this time, I got to use the […]
I have been considering adding more storage to the Mac Mini to turn it into a media server. The Acer h340 easyStore Home Server only has a first generation Atom processor and is doing fine as a file server, but not a media server, especially for 1080p MKV videos that requires real-time transcoding in order […]
After having setup a RAID 10 array with Ubuntu 10.04, almost 2 years has gone by. It is amazing how solid the software RAID in Ubuntu was implemented. I have had no problem with Ubuntu and the same installation from September 2010 works very well in the Acer h340 Home Server hardware. The only thing […]