Some more links for this week that I need to catch up on in my spare time, with a slight transport theme for some reason:

Wired News: World’s Most Expensive Cars, 2006: “      

Of course it has the Bugatti Veyron in there. And if you are interested in cars, do a search for “Audi R10″ in google; A mad turbo diesel Le Man race car. And if you are really bored here some overloaded vehicles: http://www.ezprezzo.com/crazypics/overloaded.html

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/ is an interesting coding and .net blog.

On the transport side again, the stealth boat. The things kids dreams are made of.

This guy, craig, does some awesome artwork of games. Even if you are not into games at all the artwork is stunning. http://www.goodbrush.com

Miss those Starbucks frappuccinos? http://thekurths.com/2006/03/roll-your-own-frappuccinos.html Its worth checking out the comments on this one, because I don’t think what they have pasted is quite a frappuccino, more of a flavoured cold coffee, I am going to try the frozen expresso variation I think.

And finally, a Web 2.0 reality check. I am sure it is too much to ask all the journalists currently peddling Web 2.0 as the big thing to read this. Theres a good article along the same lines by Catrina entitled “it’s a bad time to start a company”. In case you don’t know she was involved in flickr.

This is quite an amazing feat, even if you are not into video games this collection is quite possibly the biggest in the world. I wish he commented a bit more though.

Probably doesn’t get out much.

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Nice site by Oxford English Dictionary, with some answers to frequently asked questions. I really think this is a great idea, and while wikipedia can answer a lot of our wants, a focused site like this still has plenty to offer, and in this case more so.

They are openly asking for submissions so if you have a questions about English usage, origins of words or are just looking to settle an argument about English Language history look no further.

Got some more links that I want to blog to keep from reading on netnewswire.

First off an amazing portfolio site done in flash, this one is really good with nicely done flash video: Dave Werner which I got from here: John Nack on Adobe: Mind-blowing design portfolio. It makes other portfolios, including my own look really stale in comparison.

ASP.NET on a roll apparently. So says Tim O’Reilly.

And finally something not so important: A Lego aircraft carrier. Want one.

Great, as we have seen with some interesting US based mapping technologies recently opening up state-collected geographical data is in everyones interest. After all we paid for it to be done in the first place and so it should be available to all.

Sign this petition:

Petition - Public Geo Data:

Well NetNewsWire is definitely the best News (RSS) reader that I have used period, so I didn’t have much trouble coughing up the small amount that it cost to get a license for it. If it had the Camino HTML rendering engine built in it would be perfect.

As I have written about before the fact that you can flag items that are of interest is excellent, and presents an easy way of coming back to content later, plus it has features that every other RSS reader would love to have whether on Mac or PC > Tabbed Browsing, Searching, Podcast, Smart lists, Bloglines syncing, Search engine subscriptions, scripting, HTML difference tracking, finding feeds that haven’t been updated in a long time. In fact a lot more, download the trial for more information.

And secondly its integration with MarsEdit was excellent, so I got the bundle deal. I think I slightly prefer Ecto for dealing with weblogs and publishing - it just seems easier to use, but what I really needed was the integration.

Adding images and other things isn’t obvious straight away, but it is under the HTML tags drop down, likewise the custom tags option isn’t that obvious.

So if you care about your news, I can recommend both and I also wish their was a similar product on Windows and Linux.

It looks like the SATA cable connector specification isnt up to much. At first I couldn’t believe it when it broke off with no force whatsoever, but after looking into it and a couple of google searches later it looks like it is a problem that can happen all too often.

Luckily the really nice people at Hitachi storage are looking into it at the moment. The drive is a 400Gb Hitachi, one of the biggest they offer. I will let you know how I fair with them.

Other links to the same problem are here as well as else where on the web: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=27&threadid=1799750

Friend, and one time radio collaborator Minusbaby has just got into Odeo. You need to check it out!!

Odeo Mío: “My latest semi-obsession is ODEO . I made a channel.

Vocal Intros and Breaks in Popular Music
‘I’m recording sections of songs and transcribing them. Voice(s) in a song which are without musical accompaniment and don’t reference the song they’re a part of harmonically, rhythmically or melodically.

They’re just talking.’

That’s what the channel is about. Maybe you’ll dig it.
There are 21 clips up there as of this writing.

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(Via ?.)

As part of my media server, one of the things that I need to be able to do is to add disks when I need them. I decided to run the server from an 80Gb drive that I had spare, but knew the first drive I would add would be a 400Gb SATA drive so I installed my debian system with LVM2 support.

The latest kernel (2.6.8.15) has good SATA support for my Maxtor card, so I upgraded through debian and wanted to increase my /assets LVM logical drive.

I had already created a volume group called volume1 and I had create a logical volume called assets which I mounted at /assets

Adding the drive was easy, just plug in the hardware and start the system up.

dmesg will show that it has seen the new harddrive after it has booted, just look for a device that is the same size as the one that you have added. If the device doesn’t show up it may mean that you have installed it incorrectly or that there is some problem supporting the device that you have installed.

The fdisk the new drive. Being a SATA drive it is seen as a SCSI device, and as it is my first SCSI device on the system it will be at /dev/sda

fdisk /dev/sda

Create as many partitions as needed, I created one primary partition.

See what has happened with all the partitions by issuing the following:

fdisk -l

Extend the existing Volume group by:
vgextend volume1 /dev/sda1

Now take alook at the exist volume groups:
lvdisplay

Unmount the logical group that you wish to expand:
unmount /assets

Now checkout how much space that you have on your volume group so that you can determine how much you can add to your existing logical group.
vgdisplay
It will show the Free PE / Size - this will be the amount that you can resize by.

Resize the logical group:
lvextend -L+372.6G /dev/volume1/assets
Check the filesystem is ok (I am using the ext3 file system, you will need other tools for other file systems):
e2fsck -f /dev/volume1/assets
Now resize the data in that logical group.
resize2fs /dev/volume1/assets

On my 400Gb drive this resizing took some time. Finally remount the drive and continue using it.

mount /assets

And check that you have all that space added.

df

There has been many interesting articles, products and discussions on the web in the past week and I have been cutting and pasting them into this blog entry. Seeing as they don’t seem to be stopping perhaps time to post them up.

Amazon launches S3 - Simple Storage Service. At the moment its part of their AWS (Amazon Web Services) platform but it looks great. Its currently using SOAP and could take the crown from Google Drive, but more importantly opens up all sorts for nice web app mashups.

The Cost of Bootstrapping Your App: The Figures Behind DropSend (part one) - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals). Ryan Carson offering interesting information as usual.

What techcrunch,the source, on web2.0 news wants to see in the future.

ORA talking Entrepreneurial proverbs.

Why Ruby, I am trying to learn python at the moment I am inclined to agree with this article - Ctrl-C from the web formating problems and the lack of decent reference is not making it as easy as it should be.

Pixoh - Edit pictures online before putting them in flickr or the new competitors that are coming out.

“Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace - A fantastic look at why MySpace is proving so popular particularly with the under 20s. Of course there are up and coming spaces that seemed to be doing very well as well. Perhaps a new app will come out soon that will stitch them together.

Treehouse magazine. New webbie mag, looks nice but I can’t actually remember why I blogged this!.

Vast A new search service that uses its data in a different way. At the moment they are showing a beta with cars for sales, job ads and peoples profiles but the real interesting thing is this just touches on what it can do. It has some very clever search functions, can go behind logon screens and has an excellent open API. Read more at techcrunch.

Rick Segal says watch this. I am not from Microsoft but perhaps I should too.

Anti-marketing design, or why ugly apps win some of the time. Not sure whether I believe everything here.

DIY Kite camera This would look great on top of the mountains around Bergen.

9 tips for productive meetings.

And thats about it for now. Sorry for the lack of pictures recently, but I haven’t had time in between my network overhaul and work.