Somehow, there is no opposition to the data reorganisation plan.Yeah!!

And I found out, from a post to the LUGS mailing list, 3+ Terabytes file sharing through SAMBA and NFS(v3) has already been done. So, no more drastic hacks, for now. Wee~

Anyway, I just did a Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 kickstart file. May be posting that soon.

Yesterday, my Sun Microsystems vendor pointed out something I didn't want to think about: as my data storage climbs into multi-terabytes, our current way of storing/distributing data is no longer feasible. Damn, multi-terabyte datasets are irksome...

Here's some idea of the problem.
1) Everyone needs to see all these data, across many different computation machines.
2) Each dataset may need to be "live" for years, as research can take years to fruit. Hence, multi-stage storage strategy may not be applicable.

Wah... Everything can be outsourced right? Somehow, even network infrastructure can be outsourced. Win...

So, since EU can write such nice blog entries on holiday trips, in a short time, maybe I should outsource this writeup to him.

So, presenting: the Johor Bahru Trip on Chinese New Year 2008 with EU and his real bro.

Wow! The best anti-war banner I've seen so far:

From Geeksaresexy.net: War Protesting Geek Style"

</war> </war> </war>

Someone's complaining that my blog is full of stuff she can't understand. Okay, more videos then.

From Sieghart's friend's blog:

[From Ruiwen] Frozen Grand Central:

[From Ruiwen] Wrong turn at Google Maps:

Recently, I'm starting to realise how much my vegetarian diet has changed me.

The smell of meat now smells very pungent, to the extent I sometimes have to avoid sitting close to people eating strong smelling bowls of meat. Things like cheeseburgers, or "lo mai gai" are especially bad.

Win. Can anyone be so dumb as to do this?!

[Gizmodo: How to win a Darwin Award: Float a live surge protector in a pool on flip flops]

Wee~, I have ported the old blog into this new one. It's still Drupal. The previous site layout and tags don't make much sense, especially since I started working, hence the makeover.

New features:

• Search now powered by Google
• Shoutbox!! Finally...
• Technorati tag cloud

It's the beginning of a new year!! And what a happening year 2007 was...

I graduated, for one. That's a big big thing!! After 4 years of very very hard work, I finally managed to graduate. Yeah!!

Then I got a job almost immediately at National Cancer Centre Singapore as a network administrator. Basically in charge of the computation servers and SAN for one of the bioinformatics group there. Wee~

And yes, got to travel twice this year, both to Malaysia (poor bloke, what to do?). Must try to post in the travel journal.

Hmm... Some new year resolutions are in order, I think...