Archive for March, 2009

www.google.com over IPv6

As some of the people know Google has an IPv6 only site but it’s kinda limited. They also claim that their www.google.com can be supported over IPv6 , it’s just that they have a scheme for ISPs to enroll to get AAAA records released to their DNS servers. Now when you are using your own [...]

New F1 Season

Yesterday and today I had an early start to my day, 5 am to be exact. This was due to new F1 season 2009 starting in Australia. It was a great show, with so much new stuff, new regulations, new technologies, new leaders. Brown GP which can out of Honda won and now Honda should [...]

It’s like a drug

What, it’s like a week since I had my first flying lesson and I am feeling really strong that I want to go back in the air! I so curse that I have to go abroad for a week or two before I can take another lessons. It’s bloody addictive, love it! I’m counting my [...]

Seagate Failure

It looks like S.M.A.R.T has told me that drive in my server is failing. Actually I’ve noticed that when my NFS server just stopped sharing data from it. Still, it was a bad sign, quick look at logs and clear failure messages. Cool. Short trip to a highstreet shop – Maplin and I’ve grabbed a [...]

From Zero to 0.5h

As mentioned in a previous post, I had a trial flying lesson booked for last Sunday. And it all went through, weather was really nice. It was kinda crazy fast pace ( faster than what I would expect ). I met my Flight Instructor and strait away he started telling me about the basics of [...]

IPv6 uptake on BT

I’m an IPv6 user. I also, from time to time, use BitTorrent. I was really surprised when I was downloading something recently. Surprise came from the number of IPv6 peers which I was connected to. About 10 of them IIRC. It’s great to see that I’m not the only one who has IPv6 enabled and [...]

Quick snapshot

Work wise : Companies which I work for recently decided to move into single location ( down from 2 ) , both sites have independent systems. The move date is set so early in time that there will be no time to integrate them at the time. I am recruiting a Senior IT Tech/Admin in [...]