晨曦中的New York City
Comments (0) 這是豎立在紐約的Chrysler Building，清晨這張照片來的很有感覺，將來有機會一定要去NYC看看。
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CMC的”神物”?
By admin, August 2, 2012 3:14 pm
今天在網上看到這一眾所謂的CMC”神物”，原來是賣家自己DIY加工後以求賣得更高的價錢，其實跟CMC原廠的出品一點關係也沒有。
情況有點像現今香港那些所謂的假”豪宅”，經過豪華廣告的包裝後，再加以地產商瘋狂的洗腦宣傳，那些愚蠢的市民就這麼輕易地上當了，然後付出畢生的積蓄。原來上賊船是這麼容易的。
The Mercedes & Auto Union Racing Car Collection
CMC 1/18th scale Mercedes Benz 300 SL – silver with racing number 21 – 1st at Le Mans 1952 – drivers Hermann Lang and Fritz Reiss and Mercedes Benz 300 SL – silver with racing number 4 – 1st 1952 Carrera Panamericana Rally – Mexico – drivers Karl Kling and Hans Klenk – conditions are Mint including outer boxes and comes complete with wooden and glass display case.
CMC 1/18th scale Mercedes Benz Race Car Transporter complete with 1955 Mercedes W196 – silver with racing number 2 – 1st Argentinean Grand Prix – driver Juan Manuel Fangio and 1955 Mercedes Benz W196R “Streamlined Version” – silver with racing number 18 – 1st Italian Grand Prix – driver Juan Manuel Fangio – conditions are Mint including outer boxes and also comes with large wooden and glass display case.
天下之大、無奇不有!
第一次的糟鹵魚片失敗了
By admin, July 30, 2012 6:13 pm
薑、蒜、乾粉、正宗的上海糟鹵汁、雲耳，這次還特別買了紐西蘭的青衣柳而不選便宜的龍俐柳，最後竟然還是失敗了。
味道太鹹而且沒有酒香的味道，青衣柳也比較老， 看來各種材料的對比和火候應該出問題了，唯一滿意的是賣相還可以，哈哈。。。
稍後要再請教媽媽才成。
疑幻疑真、掩人耳目的摄影魔法
Dell spills its hot cache Fluid, hopes to beat off rivals (by theregister)
By admin, July 30, 2012 9:22 am
Dell recently lifted the lid on its “Hermes” project, named for the speedy chap from Greek mythology, at the Dell Storage Forum. The product, which Dell hopes will smack down EMC’s VFCache, will carry writes between flash caches in a Dell cluster to make sure they all carry the same data. That’s a big deal, so project “Hermes” has to be quick.
Caching is pretty straightforward; you put hot data from a slow storage medium in a small chunk of faster, and more expensive, storage in front of it. This procedure means that accesses to the cached data are faster than to data in the slow storage. We have flash caches in front of disk drive arrays or in in array controllers to perform this function. They cache data to be read from the array and data to be written to the array.
Currently there’s lots of activity putting PCIe flash caches in servers, such as EMC’s VFCache and Fusion-io’s ioDrive products, to accelerate applications by avoiding enforced waits for data to be fetched from slow disk drive arrays. When the servers have multiple nodes there is a caching problem with data writes. When one server writes data into its cache, such as an updated price for an XYZ dongle, that data is only in its cache. If an application in another server then looks up the price of an XYZ dongle, it gets a different price.
Typically this prevents write caching being implemented across multiple nodes, because the different caches don’t necessarily hold the same data; they are not coherent. Cache coherency problems generally prevent distributed write caches across a server cluster or a group of server blades in a single chassis.
Fast disk arrays with a very high speed controller inter-connect, like the VMAX’s virtual matrix, can solve that problem. But for ordinary x86 server nodes in a cluster it’s impractical, which is where Dell’s Hermes sprints into view. Carter George, Dell’s exec director for storage strategy, spoke about it in a keynote at Dell’s Storage Forum in Boston last week.
He said that a coherent distributed cache needs software technology to detect a write being made to one cache node and replicate it quickly to the other nodes (ie, so there will be a single XYZ dongle price across the cache).
In effect, a single virtual cache is formed from the individual ones. Dell acquired its virtual cache technology by buying RNA Networks [1] in June last year. Its Memory Virtualisation Acceleration (MVX) technology can pool server DRAM or flash into single virtual pools – with Ethernet or InfiniBand carrying the linking messages to ensure coherency across the physical instances of DRAM or flash.
Naturally Dell is calling this Fluid Cache, the “Fluid” tag being applied to most storage concepts on Dell these days, and says it will move its tier 1 storage from its arrays, the Compellent and maybe EqualLogic ones, and put it into the servers. Existing Compellent storage tiering software will be developed to place hot data into the Hermes physical caches for fast read access, and the RNA technology will be used to spread one server nodes’s fresh write data in its physical cache across the separate flash stores to provide a single version of the truth.
These caches will physically be PCIe flash cards. In this scheme there is no shared flash box sitting between the servers and the array, as is the case with EMC’s Project Thunder [2] and XtremIO technology. Dell would say that a networked flash box would not be as fast as a coherent server flash cache scheme because it still slows data access through network latency. This will provide Dell with a response to competition from networked all-flash arrays like those from Nimbus, Pure Storage and Violin Memory.
Dell could also use its RNA technology to aggregate a clustered server’s DRAM into a single virtual pool and so enable apps running in that cluster to use an in-memory database [3].
Going further, “Hermes” could then sprint between clustered X86 controllers in a storage array and give them either a coherent virtual memory pool or a coherent virtual flash pool, or both, and enable them to handle vastly more I/O traffic, meaning support more servers and more applications.
Dell’s RNA technology can support more than 100 server nodes in a cluster. The Hermes coherent distributed cache scheme has a first quarter 2013 target introduction date and should speed up applications significantly – especially those with a lot of write I/O which would not be so accelerated by read-only caching schemes such as VFCache. ®
90年代經典的M. Benz SL系列
By admin, July 29, 2012 5:00 pm
中午出門口經過停車場的時候，我被一台青蘋果顏色的奔馳吸引住了，隱約記得當年英國皇妃戴安娜也曾經開過同款的SL500敞篷跑車在倫敦市中心奔馳。
好奇心所致，我兜到車尾一看，原來是台1992-93年生產的300SL-24(R129 )。其實車主就是那個之前4月中買了那台棗紅色奔馳300SE (W126)的鄰居，似乎300SE已經轉手，之後買了這台SL跑車過過癮(二手車大概也就10來個CMC的價錢)，看來他還真對八九十年代的奔馳情有獨鍾。
幾乎可以和Exoto/CMC爭艷斗麗的BBR 法拉利375 Plus
By admin, July 28, 2012 1:30 pm
上星期才從那個意大利的法拉利車主那邊買到的這台合理價格的BBR 375 Plus街車版，
想不到不用一個星期今天就空運到港了。
又一次的驚嘆，這個車的做工幾乎可以和Exoto/CMC抗衡了，法拉利375 Plus美麗的
線條和那經典的紅讓我久久不能自拔。
1/18 BBR Ferrari 375 Plus Street Version (HE180002)
