Sandwich finish

This year's Giro d Italia: stage 18 finish was exhilarating.


Here is the photo finish.

1-3 finish for Etixx Quick-Step (Matteo Trentin and Gianluca Brambilla) with Moreno Moser on the sandwich. Other than manly victory salute of Trentin, we can also highlight Brambilla's genuine and honest smile.

So here is how the final sprint unfolded:

• Brambilla and Moser were cooperatively pulling on damn 20% climb away from the break,
• Brambilla was pulling hard to the (second-to-last?) final bend with Moser trailing right behind, Trentin was like 5 seconds behind,
• Moser opened up his sprint, Brambilla followed. Moser took over to lead the sprint,
• Brambilla didn't really push on the sprint and pulled a bit, Moser was little bit confused as...
• Trentin simply surged to the finish line.

Moser was pretty much like, "Damn, they got me!"
Brambilla was like "Aha, yay!"

EQS played their (Italian) cards right, unlike Spain on 2013's UCI World Elite Men RR.

映画『ちはやふる』主題歌「FLASH」（Perfume）PV

Chihayafuru's anime series is one of my favorite despite I have never read its original manga. Poetry as main theme was strong at the time of its release, I was also wathching Utakoi at that time. For quite a while I was waiting for 3rd season, then lost interest, and now we are having Chihayafuru live action adaptation.

Perfume did well for theme song, it serves you ample dose of optimism and melancholy at the same time, to the flavor of the anime.

Despite being currently in Japan, watching its premiere is still no-go for me as things may got lost in translation (my Japanese sucks, literally like a black hole). I'll just wait for D-Addicts for English subtitle and re-watch in Japanese later on.

 
Too bad the pronunciation is closer to "flush" rather than "flash".

GPT for good

Just tonight, my friend and I were tinkering with two new hard drives (4TB each) on Dell PowerEdge T320. The box was already configured with 4 500GB drives on RAID5 for system parititons (boot, swap, root for Centos) and 2TB drives for data.

Putting in the new drives was pretty self-explanatory: open the bay, plug them in, open the system setup (press F2 upon system boot), and make your way with virtual drives. I configured the two 4TB drives in RAID0 as a single drive. This was just the beginning...

1. initialized the 8TB drive with DOS partition table,
2. ran cfdisk, made a single LVM2 partition with "100%" capacity (I was just hitting 'Enter' repeatedly :D ) and didn't bother to double check its actual size after partitioning,
3. pvcreate,
4. vgextend,
5. lvextend (to the 2TB 'data' partition),
6. found out that the resulting partition is only 4TB,
7. found out that additional LVM physical volume was only 2TB big,
8. vgreduce: failed,
9. ...
10. ...
11. more screwing up
12. ...
13. ...
14. yanked out the new drives,
15. reboot: broken volume group,
16. removed the broken logical volume from broken volume group,
17. realized that only GPT can handle partition larger than 2TB
18. redoing everything with GPT: disklabel with parted, pvcreate, vgextend,  mkfs,
19. ...
20. working 10TB partition

online shell ftw

These guys at tutorialspoint are just great. The site has free programming courses, and free shell!
--the online bash shell also has gcc on it (too bad they won't give us network access, though :D)

Definitely worth frequent visit.