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After reading depesz’s great speeding-up-dumprestore-process blog post, I started thinking about how to securely transfer a file from one server to another in the fastest possible way. The problem being that scp/sftp is slow for various reasons.

So today I played a bit with some big cheap disks. I have 3 fairly old desktops each with 4*1TB disks, all exported via ATA over Ethernet to a much more modern sort of disk head.

So my gym is closed for 10 days for a refurbishment. They are going to replace all the cardio equipment with new kit. I’ll be able to check my progress online and I’ll be able to plug in a video iPod and watch on the screen.

I went to Tony and Grainne’s wedding on Friday. It was a lovely day and I wish them all the best in the future. Anyway, I learnt something while at the hotel that annoyed me: the name of the meal at the wedding reception.

I got back on Monday night after cutting it worryingly close to get to the airport; two hours in advance, try 40 min! Only for Ryanair to delay the flight by an hour and tell no one.

No Internet for 2 weeks, just as I catch up on my feeds too! $ psql -c "select count(*) from rssr.entries where read = false;" rssr count ------- 0 (1 row) $

I just found out that Cineworld have a public XML data source. It’s over in the syndication subdir of their main site. There are more technical details over on my CineworldScrape page.

I passed my foundation exam on Sunday. Big thanks to all the helpfull folk at SADARS. I am now M6TDS.

Today I found out where Linux exposes the extra routing information gathered from ICMP redirects. ip route show cache will show the entire cached routing table. It’s a bit hard to read so ip route show cache 1.

I learned over the years to read the old ide subsystem errors for Linux and generally am able to get a feel for the sort of hardware error that’s coming. However I have yet to really get a feel for the libata errors, I’m not really used to reading the errors.