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RAID6 using Linux Logical Volume Manager

  • Posted on: 15 November 2019
  • By: hapebe

Build a RAID6 LVM volume, then test failure and replacement of one (or two) of the drives

While learning about different RAID levels and their configurations, I wanted to mess with the RAID abilities of the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM), in my case using the Debian lvm2 package in SparkyLinux on a virtual machine setup using VirtualBox.

Ear training meets Java learning

  • Posted on: 30 December 2016
  • By: hapebe

Recently I've started a serious professional training course aiming to become a certified "Java Programmer" at ils, a German classic distance learning institution. Let's see how this goes; but while doing the first few lessons of that, I remembered having played with Java on my own before, a very long time ago: In 2000 I started to write an ear training desktop program, using Java / Swing as the technology.

Keeping VirtualBox hard disk images (VDI) nice and small

  • Posted on: 23 March 2016
  • By: hapebe

While moving some legacy web apps from a real Windows server (headed for retirement, to be somewhat euphemestic about it) to a virtual machine, I encountered the need to make back-ups of this whole VM - for the sake of simplicity, copying / compressing the whole disk images and the virtual machine definition file. Now here comes the issue: Churn on the VDI hard disk causes it to become bigger than necessary, and now I'm trying to reduce it back to the max.

Arien für die Wissenschaft

  • Posted on: 14 February 2016
  • By: hapebe

... interessanter Artikel der NZZ zur "Stimmphysiologie" - also zu den körperlichen Vorgängen insbesondere beim Singen: http://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/medizin/arien-fuer-die-wissenschaft-1.18449716

Ich selbst kämpfe immer mal und immer wieder mit mir, die blumigen und bildhaften Anweisungen meiner Chorleiterin oder auch solche in "Do It Yourself"-Gesangslehrbüchern zu verstehen. Mitunter sind sie wohl wirklich eher Metaphern für ihre konkretes Gegenteil... ?

Wordpress?

  • Posted on: 26 January 2016
  • By: hapebe

I've stumbled upon a marvellous website recently, which is neatly layouted and also animated. On a closer look; they are using WordPress, apparently along with:

  • Avia Framework (A layouting / layout component toolkit? It's obviously hard to find a link to a directly related site - maybe it's only part of theme packs?)
  • Enfold theme.

Hi, let's see if I'll take a closer look on this whole WordPress thing?

2015 Wrap-Up

  • Posted on: 17 January 2016
  • By: hapebe

2015 was a rather eventful year, for my standards at least. There was another impressive concert with The Melodetts, featuring a quartet three + me singers performing "Caravan of Love", which was of course especially thrilling for the four of us. I've also produced an audio recording of the event; and part of it has been published for the first time: "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen".

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