A couple of links which I know will come in handy later:
XEN resizing of file based disks,a nd moving a file based disk to and LVM volume
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Psychology of Achievement : notes
Having listened to Brian Tracy’s ‘Psychology of Achievement’ on audio CD, and thought it was packed full of great information. Personally to get the most of these audio materials, I need to listen to the material at least twice. Writing notes as listening also helps.
So I’ve decided to write notes on this audio series. Continue reading
Car Control School website
UPDATE: Scratch everything. I will do everything in a wordpress blog format.
UPDATE2: I am actually very impressed at how flexible wordpress is for designing websites… I’m thinking of doing all future web designs in wordpress.
I will need rollover images (at least for the 3 main images)
Features to implement:
– add blog section. Ability to edit blog. Excerpts of the blog (the first dozen words or so) get displayed on the side bar.
– Side bar displays news, and new/upcoming schools.
– Need to decide if the side bar will be present in all pages or just some. Upcoming schools should be visible all the time. Upcoming school should have a link to the school type page.
– Ability to edit the school schedule. School schedule page should be generate dynamically.
Changes to make:
– program a simple news/blog tool in PHP and integrate it.
Resizing a partion.
I had some difficulty figguting out how to resize a partion, so I thought I’d document it for future use (since I’m sure I will do this again). Continue reading
New XEN virtual machine management
So after installing OpenSuSE 11.2 on the server machine, I decided to take a step back nd decide how to manage all the current and future virtual machine.
For starters, I will use LVM for the disk space they use. I have created a template/minimal install of OpenSuse11.2 into a file based VM. The file disk it’s installed on is 1GB. gzipped, the file is only 250MB.
This will be the basis/starting point for all the new VMs. I have used dd to copy the virtual file based disk to an LVM volume on any size. Once that’s done, I can resize the partition to whatever size I want. (Note 1 on resizing) I can also make as many copies I want and run them as anything I want.
Sugar lowers immune system effectiveness
Wow, this is big!
Drinking a Coke or eating a candy bar can partially knock out your immune system for up to 5 hours.
How come nobody has ever told me this before? Continue reading
audio books to get
CRUSH IT!: Gary Vaynerchuk
Deep inner game concepts
Some ideas extracted from the Deep inner Game series that I found profound. Continue reading
Android Apps to get
50 Best Android Apps: Lifestyle and Productivity App
Some interesting choices which I should look at getting.
Lens selection thoughts
Just a thought on lens selection:
Zooms
Tokina 12-24 f/4 (3.01 at photozone.de) (around CND$500 used on ebay)
Sigma 24-70 f2.8 (2.67 at photozone.de) (around CND$500 used on craigslist)
Canon 24-70 f2.8 L (4.24 at photozone.de) (around CND$1300 used on craigslist)
Canon 70-200 f4 IS ( CND$1150 on craigslist)
This would cover quite a wide range with 3 lenses.
Primes
To get the really large apertures, primes seem to be the only way to go.
Canon 100mm f2.0 (4.19 at photozone) (CND$425 on craigslist)
Canon 50mm f1.4 (4.19 at photozone) (CND$400 on craigslist)
Sigma 30mm f1.4 (3.06 on photozone.de) (1/2 the price of the Canon 35mm f1.4 with arguably better wide performance then the canon, but sigma lens is only for crop bodies) CND$400-500 craigslist
Canon 35mm f1.4 (3.74 at photozone.de) (CND$1350 on craigslist)