Brisbane POTN Coffee Club Rev. 4

Greg_C wrote in post #6646614
Well we didn't end up meeting this arvo. I stayed at home added the 1Tb disk to my Windows Home Server (WHS) system today.

Nice! Although I'd be jumpy about relying on a) single drives rather than mirrors, and b) Samsung hard disks (personal opinion only).

I managed to get out and shoot some people this arvo.

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DAdeGroot wrote in post #6646825
Nice! Although I'd be jumpy about relying on a) single drives rather than mirrors, and b) Samsung hard disks (personal opinion only).

I managed to get out and shoot some people this arvo.
And the other shot I've got up is in the PotNAC thread, here.

Nice work Dave.

This is my first Samsung disk so we'll see how it goes. On the mirror side of things, I have duplication switched on for all of my shared folders so this means there are automaticly two copies on the server and these are always on different HD's. This is part of the reason I went with Samsung this time, so I have a different manufactuer. To my network I can't see the drive I've just added, all I see is the increase in available volume on the share. It's kinda a Raid 1 but implimented at the OS level. The neat thing about the Drive Pool is I can add any type of disk and the mirrored data is not encripted in any way. I can remove one of the drives and place it into another machine and see all of the files as they are just on a standard NTFS patition.

Greg_C wrote in post #6649176
Nice work Dave.

Thanks Greg

That's pretty much how Linux software raid1 works too. i.e. I can take half the mirror and plonk it in another linux machine and read it, but as an added bonus, I can reconstruct the raid in another machine with a spare disk, using that half of the mirror.

DAdeGroot wrote in post #6649276
Thanks Greg
That's pretty much how Linux software raid1 works too. i.e. I can take half the mirror and plonk it in another linux machine and read it, but as an added bonus, I can reconstruct the raid in another machine with a spare disk, using that half of the mirror.

Yeah, seems like this is the Windoze version. I can reconstruct the duplication only in the WHS box. To any other machine the drive is a standard HD.

Scott H wrote in post #6640335
Im all in...

-Scott

Edit: BTW anyone enjoy a hand or 2 of poker? I would be interested in hosting a friendly game at my place some time in the near future. Good excuse for a little meet?

Nice shot. Oh, and I may be interested in a game or two.

NerdyNigel wrote in post #6651458
Oh, and I may be interested in a game or two.

That means we have 4 interested so far (Greg, Nigel, Nick, and me) sounds like a game. I found its always best with a min of 4 players, my table seats 8 but thats a bit pokey.

Let me know when it suits everyone to meet? Possibly can turn it into an afternoon thing after a bit of shooting somewhere?

-Scott

Scott H wrote in post #6651558
That means we have 4 interested so far (Greg, Nigel, Nick, and me) sounds like a game. I found its always best with a min of 4 players, my table seats 8 but thats a bit pokey.

Let me know when it suits everyone to meet? Possibly can turn it into an afternoon thing after a bit of shooting somewhere?

-Scott

I wouldn't mind just meeting up, and learning about poker heheh I am VERY bad at it

wakko wrote in post #6651575
I wouldn't mind just meeting up, and learning about poker heheh I am VERY bad at it

Hey Feng! Long time no speak. I am always up for any excuse for a meet. BTW, I dont claim to be any real card shark either. I know the rules, and I can play. Thats about it.

If we do this game here at my place, the little Gaggia will get a flogging! I assume everyone would be drinking coffee? .

-Scott

wakko wrote in post #6651575
I wouldn't mind just meeting up, and learning about poker heheh I am VERY bad at it

Add me to that list, on both counts

-spam- wrote in post #6651618
Add me to that list, on both counts

Nice. Sounds like a shindig.

Just add beer.

-Scott

I have processed a few photos from Saturday nights works...

Despite the 3:30am start, I got to get up close and personal with some massive toys. Not massive on some scales, but for this game, these are about as big as they get. One crane was a 220t and the other is a 350t. Mid air transfers of 60-70t concrete beams over a railway. Just cool. And planned down to the last inch of movement.

Photos to come...

-Scott

Scott H wrote in post #6651661
I have processed a few photos from Saturday nights works...

Despite the 3:30am start, I got to get up close and personal with some massive toys. Not massive on some scales, but for this game, these are about as big as they get. One crane was a 220t and the other is a 350t. Mid air transfers of 60-70t concrete beams over a railway. Just cool. And planned down to the last inch of movement.

Photos to come...

-Scott

Cool, we've used cranes this big a few times with some of our bigger transformers in the 60-80t range but I've never been about for the landing.

I'd love to shoot these with the 10-17 fishy.

Scott, they are some seriously cool photos with some seriously cool toys. Had noticed there had been a bit of change when we drove down past that to go to work this morning.

Oh, Dave! Are you on photophlow? If you arent, Ill try and send you an invite. You should recognise one of the photos in the intro video