From 8e3b1304a748cfbc1b47be32655efd0f6f87ef9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:22:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Tuesday, week 7. --- content/blog/wk7day2.md | 94 ++++++++++++++++++- static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1177.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1180.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1182.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1183.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1184.JPG | 3 + static/img/headline/chillmusic.png | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1177.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1180.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1182.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1183.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1184.JPG | 3 + 12 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1177.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1180.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1182.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1183.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-09-10/IMG_1184.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/headline/chillmusic.png create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1177.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1180.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1182.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1183.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-10/IMG_1184.JPG diff --git a/content/blog/wk7day2.md b/content/blog/wk7day2.md index e41f567..767ca58 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk7day2.md +++ b/content/blog/wk7day2.md @@ -1,7 +1,95 @@ --- -title: "Week 7, Tuesday:" +title: "Week 7, Tuesday: Packing for NL" date: 2024-09-10T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/chillmusic.png" alt="Credit: Chill Music, YouTube" >}} + +When I got up this morning, I first published my +[[sFlow](https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/09/08/vpp-with-sflow-part-1/)] article to Mastodon and +Twitter. I really wanted to talk to the folks from [[inMon](https://inmon.com/)] beforehand, to make +sure we're on the same page about the project - which clearly we are! Overnight, Neil implemented +the first of two improvements to the plugin. Rather than sending RPCs to the main thread, it'll now +create one PSAMPLE writer _per thread_, and do the write directly inline in the sampler. And what an +imnprovement that brought! + +I spent most of the morning and afternoon loadtesting this new approach. I'll leave the details for +a followup post on the IPng website, but the good news is that there is no longer a real bottleneck +in the plugin, it scales linearly with threadcount, can easily send samples at 250K/sec, and when +one thread is overloaded, other threads do not regress at all. Great work overall. I send an +elaborate e-mail with the findings. + +I have only three goals for today, and all of them are very simple: +1. Grab all the schwag for the FrysIX barbecue, including a few (eh, 72pcs) of disk for my buddy +Tim and his association in Amsterdam. If it's all for a good cause, I'm happy to give these disks a +second life. +1. Cut some vinyl IPng.ch logos for the car, which will go on when I reach my parents' place in +the Netherlands (and probably get removed again before we go home) +1. Pack for our one week roadtrip, and have an entertaining debate if our car's trunk is big +enough. + +Marina and I will first drive to Best, in the provice of Noord Brabant in the Netherlands. Then +onwards to Jubbega in Friesland to visit Arend and the [[FrysIX](https://frys-ix.net/)] crew, and +on the way back we'll drive to Brussels to visit my buddy Andrew from Cisco, finally driving home to +Brüttisellen, Switzerland, next week Tuesday. That's seven days to pack for. + +My packing is rather adhoc/simplistic. Got passport? Driver's License? Credit Card? GO! Marina +however is a bit more ... methodical in her packing style. Stacks of stuff are laid on the bed, +compared, questions asked about clothing, stuff to put in the toiletbag, what sttuffed animals to +take (Hey and Uhi, of course!). + +As I'm doing the loadtests for sFlow, I grab Silhouette Studio and wrestle with it a little bit. I +can't seem to find the right cutting settings for _infinite_ cutting on a roll of 12" Oracal vinyl. +It turns out (and I think this is a bug?) if I turn the canvas in landscape mode, I am limited to +12x12, while if I set the canvas in portrait, it becomes 12" x ∞. Heh, thirty minutes down the +drain! Eventually we find the correct settings, and shortly thereafter I have two beautiful 30x60cm +logos printed in Grey. If you do a poll on +[[Twitter](https://x.com/IPngNetworks/status/1821179665928560873)] (inconclusive, quelle surprise, +grey is a tie for red), and [[Mastodon](https://ublog.tech/@IPngNetworks/112921027967806983)] (grey +clearly wins), then you have to commit yourself to the result _even if your own choice would've been +different - superior - and decidedly_ +{{< rawhtml >}} more pink. {{< /rawhtml >}} + +I send a wrap-up report to the ongoing developer mail thread and the news is good. So good in fact, +that I decide to celebrate with a drop of the 50%-off ice wine. We do still have eight bottles after +all. Marina is not opposed to this type of celebration, so we go sit outside. In my field of view, I +see the cuttings of _Hydranchea_ (also known as _Hortensia_), which are looking really great despite +having been in a bucket of water for a while. I inspect them. There is absolutely no root starting +to grow out the bottom. Off to the internet I go, reading up on howto and tweaking my green thumbs. + +It turns out, the experts say I should remove most of the leaves and cut the ones that are left, as +lots of water evaporates through them, and the stress inflicted by chopping off their appendages +will make them want to grow more roots. Uhm, okay, but only because the experts say so, I take some +scissors to the cuttings while Marina prepares a few pots of soil. We push the cuttings in the +correct length and orientation. It'll be fun to see if these things are still alive or if they've +completely given the ghost, when we get back next week. + +I'm making meatloaf! This needs 90min or so in the oven, and we got fresh baby potatoes which do not +need to be peeled. Marina likes red cabbage, and I'm more partial to pickled white cabbage +(Dutch: _Zuurkool_). "Por que no los Dos?"; the dinner is easy to make and just takes a little bit +of patience, which eventually runs out before the 90min mark, but I guessed right: the meatloaf is +pretty great. + +The last task for the day is packing, but before we do that: two episodes of _Black Mirror_ are +watched. "The Entire History of You" (memory imlants suck), and "The Waldo Moment". But then, we get +to work. I schlepp seventy two 3.5" hard disks from IPng's stash, and put them in the trunk of our +car. There's also our travel bags, and some other schwag for the barbecue. In case anybody wants a +beer mug, I took 24 of them with me, and they are most certainly _not_ coming back home with me. + +At 21:00 I'm done, somewhat ahead of schedule, but I decide to go to bed. That's because I have put +my alarm on an _illegal_ time tomorrow morning: 06:00. This is not a normal time for me, and my +body reminds me of it. I lay in bed until 01:00, and eventually doze off. + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1177.JPG" caption="Cutting the Oracal vinyl IPng logos - in Grey because that's what the Twitter and Mastodon survey suggested." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1180.JPG" caption="I don't know why I took this picture, as it has nothing to do with today. But: An ASR9001 router and three Celestica DX010 switches." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1182.JPG" caption="We are listening to some music on my fancy bluetooth speaker; we do this while drinking a lovely white wine." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1183.JPG" caption="Marina and I tended to our Hortensia cuttings, and ended up potting them. Wish us luck! We're both absolutely terrible at gardening." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-10/IMG_1184.JPG" caption="Dinner - meatloaf, boiled new potatoes, saurkraut and red cabbage. 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