Today was a short, great day! And here is a quick note on my climbing experiences: Today I climbed the first time without top rope. While top roping you are always secured to an anchor on top of the climb. Today I secured myself (the first time) with quickdraws. In the (usual) worst case you could fall twice the length to the last quick draw you clipped the rope in. But there was no need to fall ;) it was an easy climb (16).
Archive for September, 2007
Taking the lead!
Sunday, September 30th, 2007Week fifteen
Saturday, September 29th, 2007Saturday: I had to get up early, but it was not easy. The weather was good though. I went to Uni to finish up some firewall configuration. “Set up a head office and two branch offices and let them communicate via IPSec tunnels” G – R – E – A – T – !
I spend s i x hours configuring those Firebox machines… SIX hours… Windows… well, at the end it all worked -sort of- and we found some dead hardware… a hub, a serial port, one port on another hub, and those typos, the manual wasn’t any good either… of course the sun was gone, when I got the hell out of there. crap.
Oh well, back to work.
Week fourteen
Friday, September 21st, 2007Well, am I keeping right track on the weeks here? It feels like week thirteen…
Two records for today:
I took a look at the UC “super computer”. It is supposed to be the fastest computer in Australasia.
The UCSC system is comprised of two systems. The first is a tightly-coupled, high-performance computer system composed of ten of IBM’s p5-575 high-end compute nodes. The second is a two rack Blue Gene system with 4096 compute nodes.
Each p5-575 node contains 16 IBM Power 5 processors with 1,9 GHz and 32 GB of Ram, together 160 CPUs. The 4096 processors in the other system run at 700 MHz with 512 MB ram for each (two?) CPUs.
Here are some pictures:
More information on the UCSC (University of Canterbury Super Computer) website.
Then I was involved into a flat fight (well rather argument) on flat-sharing-casualties-issues. Rules on doing dishes, disappearing Korean noodles and washing powder…
My premise: Ignore rules that ain’t working out…
And here again, are some pictures:
Dubai – Christchurch – Greymouth
By the way, I have uploaded all pictures in full size to a secret place on the web, mail me for details ;-)
Week XI, XII, XIII
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007It has been a while… I finally developed a few pictures: From before my flight to New Zealand until now… So I will post a few digital copies every week :)
Camping at the west coast was great. We had luck with the weather. I was prepared for cold weather, but the only night I felt cold, was the night we spend at a friends house… no insulation here. In winter: wear more clothes, no joke!
Climbing outside was a great experience too. Unfortunately one of our travel mates got hit by a falling rock. A few stitches on the head, but she could leave the hospital right away. So: wear a helmet and don’t stand close to the rocks!
I have tons of assignments to do in the next month. Also my project in Bremen is finishing up and I am writing some pages for the final project report.
These are just low resolution pictures, drop me an email if you would like to see them in a better resolution. I also like letters and I do reward them!
I am also looking for a car… but I can’t make up my mind, on what kind of car I should buy. A Subaru 4WD station wagon or smaller car for the city?