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Comments (0) 全球找你找得好辛苦，終于在比利時一個鄉下小鎮的模型店找到了全新的你，几個星期后就見面了，難免心情有些緊張，哈哈。
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一幅很有感覺的70年代倫敦的照片
By admin, June 19, 2012 10:18 am
因為角度問題，剛開始的時候還真沒看出來，原來就是倫敦地標Big Ben旁邊的西敏寺 (Palace of Westminster / Houses of Parliament), Victoria Tower to be exact!
所以說同一個場景，由不同的攝影師從不同的角度就能演繹出截然不同的感覺。
西班牙黑毛豬扒
By admin, June 18, 2012 11:17 pm
太太的朋友做食材進口生意，所以今天有幸第一次自己煎正宗的西班牙黑毛(Black Iberian Pig)豬扒，口感很像廣東叉燒、很彈牙、而且有股以前的濃郁肥豬肉味道。
Justin Bieber “Boyfriend” MV 經典肌肉Show
By admin, June 18, 2012 12:32 pm
今天無意間看到加拿大小天王Justin Bieber的最新”Boyfriend” MV里竟然有大量的罕有American Classic Muscle Cars。Justin還特別梳了個50年代的Jeans Dean髮型，更坐在肌肉車上大彈吉他，化身成了個標準的南美拉丁情人。
“If I was your boyfriend…Keep you in my arm girl”
噢，突然發現小毛頭長大了。
Justin Bieber “Boyfriend” MV
幕後精選花絮
精美的Burago小冊子
By admin, June 16, 2012 10:17 pm
90年代中法拉利F50的光芒幾乎給兩位前輩288 GTO和F40完全蓋過了，同期更給同輩Mclaren F1以泰山壓頂的氣勢牢牢地騎在了頭頂，真是生不逢時!
但它極為誇張的Pininfarina設計反而贏來了不少蒙地卡羅公子哥兒的傾慕和支持，尤其以開篷版最受歡迎，所以近年來二手市場價格依然高企在700萬港幣以上。
印象中做工最好的法拉利F50車模是Hotwheels Elite的出品，但Elite只推出過硬頂的版本，開篷版本一概奉欠。而我收藏中那台少有的黃色開篷則是普通Hotwheels DIY的版本。
這星期盯上了拍賣場的另一獵物，就是1比18汽車模型界老祖宗Burago 12年前推出的黑色硬頂版F50。對于一個幾乎不收任何黑色車款的我來講，這次又是一個破例。
因為288 GTO、F40、F50是我那個年代的圖騰，Burago法拉利F50的做工一向了得，黑色油漆多年後完全沒有丁點兒問題，紅色的內飾加上這台好像是我的第一台Made in Italy的絕版Burago法拉利，所以幾乎沒有任何不收的道理。
意外的是在開箱子的時候，發現了本沉甸甸的Burago車模”聖經”夾在旁邊，這本2000年出版的精美小冊子記錄了當時Burago的驕傲。但我還是認同不少車模收藏家的看法，就是小冊子上的大部份Burago車型都不太準確，唯獨這台法拉利F50是少有的例外。
1/18 Burago Ferrari F50 Hard Top, Black
Burago車模手冊
Are You Looking for Help? Got Any Interesting VMware Project for Me?
By admin, June 14, 2012 7:18 pm
Currently I am also available as a freelance virtualization consultant in Hong Kong with more than 8 years of extensive hands on experience, from initial Case Analysis, to Architecture Design, to the actual Site Implementation and Post Maintenance.
If your company is looking for a guru in building your next virtual project (VMWare/Equallogic/Dell centric) or simply an additional helping hand, please do not hesitate to contact me.
The main reason is I am kind of bored with my existing client projects as most of them have been implemented, the rest is just maintaining stuff, so I am looking for some fresh challenges, oh…I prefer not to travel if possible. 
寶島車模分析師
遲來的緣份: UT Porsche 993 銀色的艦隊
By admin, June 12, 2012 10:41 pm
自己並不是德國車的發燒友，因為總覺得日耳曼人設計的東西跟這個民族一樣死板。但是凡事總會有例外的，如奔馳的W196R、Pullman長陣、300SL這些皆是流芳百世的經典!
對于徽章上有匹奔馬，但外型其實更像一只”青蛙”的Porsche來說，自己喜歡它的超級跑車959、928S和911系列。如果深入保時捷歷年最暢銷的911系列，自己最喜歡的型號首選993，然後到第一代60年代的901，接著是997、964，最後才是那難看的996。如果講款式的話，那麼一定是這個次序無疑: Turbo > Carrera > Targa。
UT Porsche 993系列是車模界公認車型做得最貼近真車的”極品”，我2年前已經陸續收藏到了4款UT 993，分別是銀色開篷版的911 cabriolet、棗紅色的911 Carrera S、棗紅色的911 Turbo及青色的911 Coupe (Carrera)。但內心其實最惦掛著的還是那經典的銀色系列，無奈本地拍賣場近5年都完全不見任何蹤影，另外國際拍賣場的價格也一直居高不下，更屢創新高，猶如香港的樓市一樣如脫韁野馬般瘋狂。
這次的緣份來得真巧，這3台銀色的UT 993開始的頭3天幾乎無人問津，難道新一代的收藏家們都不知道這堆寶物的真正價值嗎﹖就Carrera來講，我發現自己更喜歡沒S的Carrera，因為腰線和前臉來得比較簡洁和優雅，所以一見到這回有初版的銀色Carrera，馬上大喜!
在交易過程中我更了解到了原來這位和我年紀相當的賣家10年前竟然在我剛去過的溫哥華那間車模店Metrotown Autoworld打過工，也就是他介紹老板開始賣UT、AA的。後來更跟他談起Wilkinson這件歷史悠久的車模店，他印象中Wilkinson賣的車是最貴的，但我告訴他最新情況現在Autoworld的價格反而要比Wilkinson貴上一倍有多了，看來Autoworld的老闆根本”不憂做”，因為他以前是代理京商遙控模型的，一早就已經賺夠上岸了。
這匹珍貴的文物是他2002年回流時帶回香港的，一點問題也沒有，漆面光滑如鏡、最討厭車輪油漆融化的問題完全不存在。到底說怎麼都有10年了，看來賣家挺喜歡這3台同色的UT 993，保持得跟全新的一樣真不容易啊，希望這回千萬不要蹧蹋在我的手上。
至於他為什麼肯割愛，說到底這些也曾是他的心愛之一。據他所說因為上星期買了台1:1的銀色NSX(其中還有很多有趣的故事，聽完後，大開眼界!)，LP一定要他賣掉那些玩具和車模才准許他買NSX。其實類似的車模朋友放車的故事經常接觸到，大部份是因為有了小朋友的緣故，所以車模也就無奈地”被逼遷了”。
交收的當晚，大家話題投機，幾乎談了近1個鐘頭，最後這個新認識的朋友還給了我大特價:$400一台，另外更加免費贈送了一台絕版的Guiloy Aston Martin DB7英國綠給我，實在太感激了。
這次可真是個千載難逢一箭3雕的機會啊!從中更結識到了一位談得來的車模朋友。這絕對是緣份，我上個月才剛去過游玩的城市，竟然回來不足一個月撞到了這個曾經在那個城市車模店工作過的車友。
總覺得收藏這回事，緣份佔了極大部份，所以當機會出現的時候，就要好好把握才是! 還是那句”是你的跑不掉，不是你的、強求也沒用!” 現在只差GT2 (很可能下星期有)，我993銀色艦隊就全收齊了。
所以我說緣份這東西: Somehow, we are all CONNECTED!
1/18 UT Porsche 911 (993) Turbo, Silver
1/18 UT Porsche 911 (993) Carrera Targa, Silver
1/18 UT Porsche 911 (993) Coupe (Carrera), Silver
Dell Equallogic PS-M4110 and Firmware 6.0
By admin, June 12, 2012 12:18 pm
Total 14 drives per Equallogic PS-M4110 Blade, a nice way to utilize the existing investment (ie, M1000e blade enclosures), as usual there are XV and XS (for SSD) models to choose from. PS-M4110 starts shipping in August 2012.
Some of the new Equallogic Firmware 6.0 features:
- Syncronous Replication- Real time syncronization
- Volume Unmap – Thin Provision Reclaim, I would say this is the MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE after all! We have waited for so long.
- Volume Undelete – preserve for 1 week or until the space is required
To me, Equallogic is a great product really, just like Apple’s iOS, the coming iOS 6.0 will still backward support even 3GS. For EQL, you can always enjoy the latest feature with the latest firmware on your old EQL boxes, of course, if you have a maintenance plan.
Finally, EQL will also release SANHQ 2.5 in fall 2012.
Update: July 30, 2012
Dell customers not so keen on Blade Arrays concept
BOSTON — Dell Inc. still has to convince customers that the storage blades rolled out this week at Dell Storage Forum 2012 are a good idea.
When asked about the iSCSI EqualLogic PS-M4110 Blade Arrays that Dell launched Monday, several customers said they’re unsure about the storage blade concept. A few said integrating storage, servers and networking into a condensed system is too new of an approach, while others wondered if it would have the same performance as traditional rack-mounted storage.
“The performance is not there to stick everything in a single box. You would need to stack a ton of them together just to get decent high performance, especially if you have high I/O loads,” said Tibor Pazera, a senior technology specialist at Irvine, Calif.-based Advantage Sales and Marketing LLC and a Compellent customer. “Convergence is nice for ease of deployment, but there’s not enough spindle capacity to maintain high I/O performance.”
Other customers characterize Blade Arrays as unproven.
“We get concerned about risk, partly because it’s new,” said Alex Rodriguez, vice president of systems engineering and product development at Cleveland-based IT services company Expedient Communications. “If a blade chassis has a failure, it’s gone.”
A virtualization and storage architect at a major New York-based retailer, who asked not to be identified, said he “dabbled with the idea, but it’s a bit too new for us.”
