Monthly Archive for July, 2008
Today we spent our second day in Split until our catamaran to Korčula left at 17:00. The catamaran needs about three hours and just before 20:00 we arrived in Korčula. We took additional pictures in Split and thanks to my great photo album script I already uploaded all pictures we took in Split.
Today has been the first day of this years summer holiday. Our destination is (again) Croatia, and just like last year we will stay in Korčula. Today we arrived in Split and we wil stay in the Hotel Peristil.
I have never been happy with existing scripts/programmes to create an online photo album/gallery. For a while I used zphoto but a flash based gallery always seemed wrong. I also never liked all those dynamic php/mysql based galleries because I just wanted a simple static gallery. So, although there exist more than enough already, I wrote my own photo album/gallery. I called it album and it can be downloaded with git: git clone http://lisas.de/~adrian/devel/album
It is just a shell script but as I am mainly calling external programmes it felt like the right thing to write it in bash instead of any other language and doing lot of system() calls.
I used it for the pictures I took during the basketball game of Canada’s national team versus Germany’s national team (Germany won 84-74): http://lisas.de/~adrian/2008/basketball-2008-07-11/
By accident I am the lucky owner of a Sun Enterprise 450 CPU card/module. Of course I disassembled it; what else would you do with such an old piece of hardware (although… my wife thinks it is a strange idea).
Even better. I can use my new Canon PowerShot G9 to take a few pictures.
This is CPU module just like I got it and in the second picture with already a few of the heat sinks removed.
Removing more heat sinks:
Closeup of one of the chips and the next picture with finally all heat sinks removed:
I was surprised to see that the CPU is not soldered. Ultra SPARC II.
More closeups of the different parts:
Backsides:
Looks like it has been assembled in week 46 in 1997:
Just saw that the band The Hold Steady has released a new album (Stay Positive). I never heard of that band but I just saw an article with the new album cover and it looks like Fedora:
