我最愛的棗紅色保時捷

By admin, January 16, 2012 6:43 pm

大清早樓下突然傳來一陣吸引人的引擎啟動咆哮聲,這回是什麼車我完全猜不中。等我用3秒的光速拿到相機到找著目標已經太遲了,所以這次只能拍得個速影。

如果沒猜錯,這輛極其搶眼的棗紅色開蓬Porsche應該是台993 Carrera來的。想不到20多年後居然還能保持著這麼漂亮的身影,真是難得,令人起敬!

昨天還在大閘前看到了台誇張的橙色的Lamborghini Gallardo SuperLeggera,鄰居開下坡的時候看來不正常地辛苦,可能是因為天雨路滑的關係,也可能是因為這是它送給自己的農曆新年禮物,所以看到他小心翼翼的開下來的時候,面部表情完全扭曲,雙手拼命地保持著方向盤的位置,感覺他好像正在極其力控制著一台笨重的大貨車一樣困難,真替他辛苦啊,差點兒沒把我給笑死。

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黑壓壓的Audi R8 FSI 5.2 Quattro

By admin, January 14, 2012 4:56 pm

吃完中飯,步出商場,突然發現眼前一黑,OMG! 這個超級跑車黑的可真Cool哎!

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一張令人驚訝的1比18場景

By admin, January 11, 2012 4:29 pm

今天在網上偶然看見的。如果作者把人偶拿走,這場景就真的可以以假亂真了,這樣的鬼斧神工手藝頭一次見,實在是厲害!

佩服! 佩服!

scene

Autoart coming soon in 2012

By admin, January 10, 2012 10:08 am

The followings are the ones I am interested in.

70207 1/18 ASTON MARTIN V12 VANTAGE 2010 (MATT BLACK)

76006 1/18 MCLAREN MP4-12C (ORANGE)

78263 1/18 PAGANI ZONDA R NURBURGRING LAP TIME RECORD EDITION (LIMITED EDITION OF 1,000 PCS WORLDWIDE)
78266 1/18 PAGANI HUAYRA (GREY)

74594 1/18 LAMBORGHINI REVENTON(MATT WHITE)
74628 1/18 LAMBORGHINI MURCIELAGO LP670-4 SV (VIOLA OPHELIA/PURPLE), Upgraded Version
74665 1/18 LAMBORGHINI AVENTADOR LP700-4 (ARANCIO ARGOS/METALLIC ORANGE)

73023 1/18 FORD GT 2004 (BLACK/WHITE STRIPES)
72916 1/18 FORD SHELBY GT500 2010 (GRABBER BLUE/WHITE STRIPES)

收藏車模帶給了我快樂﹗

By admin, January 7, 2012 5:14 pm

最近在MC論壇看見有一篇很有意義題目﹐那是關於車模收藏帶給了我們什麼的討論﹐以下是其中的一些精彩片段。

 又到了年根岁尾,想必许多模友和我一样,惦记着年终奖金到底能发多少,能否与心仪已久的法拉利牵手回家。昨天年终奖到帐了,比我预想的要多,心中暗喜,即完成了家庭年度收入预算,也圆了自己收藏的心愿。可是,当把能够收集到的CMC逐一已收入囊中时,我却突然产生一种莫名其妙的茫然——收藏带给我们什么?

    我曾把刚刚买到的车模晒到网上,是为了得到模友们的赞许;我也曾把朋友带到我的收藏室,向他们炫耀我的每一件藏品,以展示自己的品味;我也曾在网络中搜索、在书海中遨游,为的是寻找车模背后的故事。但我仍然在想——收藏到底带给了我们什么?

    读着模友们发的帖子,让我无不感慨,我深深体会到了“黄花油桃”的惊喜、“WP025”的快乐和“我不就饼”的感激。

    我忽然感到其实收藏已不局限于车模的本身,他已经融入到我们的生活,成为我们生命的一部分。收藏给生活带来一缕色彩;收藏给爱情带来一份浪漫;收藏让我们对未来充满一丝期盼!

胡大宝

  

 我收藏车模完全是出于对汽车的爱好 一个人很难有经济实力买到那么多超级跑车 车模在一定程度上让自己感觉到真正拥有了她们 算是一种心灵的抚慰和梦想的小实现 车模虽然无法跟真车相比 但也不用你像关心真车那样细心呵护 费心保养 同时又给你带来了精神上的愉悦 是件挺好的事情 总结一句 收藏是件挺私人的事情 只要自己高兴就好~

neco

 

每当我疲惫的回到寝室,看到柜子上的每台车车都安静的呆在展示盒里,那些热情的红色跃马、狂放的黄色蛮牛,心中顿时觉得被填得到满满的,那种豁然间的轻松与快乐,难以言表。

janmeeguo

 

这是一种心情,是一种寄托,AMG因为车模爱上了收藏,我因为车模爱上了摄影。

流浪☆猎人

 

模型的收藏一种可以贯穿一生的爱好,不问任何,只因对车的那份天生的挚爱 ,有时停下来,看看身边的车模,忘却的是烦恼,带来的是种充实和幸福。

ty5566

 

首先模型是一门艺术,车模是这门艺术中的一个品类,收藏车模就是源于对艺术品味的追求,不必介怀身边是否有人理解与支持;其次我理解收藏车模最大的价值就如车模背后的那些动听的文化渊源一样在于传承,我为我是这种文化艺术传承者之一而感到自豪。

CobraJack

 

收车模,常常要等待,这是很难熬的,因为好车模不是一下子收得到的,而收到一台意想不到的,心情是难于言表的,常常要激动很长很长时间,况且机会不是天天有的,我的车模已”车满为患”了,有非常喜欢的,有很喜欢的,也有很一般的,甚至于有争议的车,每当我有弃车愿望时,一拿起模型,就被其精致的工艺所折服,一台都难以割舍

陆道明

 

 

如下这段文字是我本人写于2008年6月:

也许多年之后,我们可能会面对着收藏了一大柜子的CMC模型突然感到些许茫然,但这些精品模型背后所负载的、更为重要的是对应这些模型历史及相关的汽车文化将伴随我们一生,会毕生收藏在每位CMC爱好者的记忆里;相比于物质的CMC精品模型,这些来自于精神层面的精彩记忆不占用丝毫空间不发生任何费用,它只专属于我们自己;而这些CMC精品模型,仅仅是搅动我们对于赛车历史的沉思以及回首往昔收藏岁月的助燃剂和催化剂而已。

下面这段文字是总版主LDY413也写于当时:

拥有CMC就像拥有了一部部汽车发展史,建议CMCer抱着长期收藏的心态进入这个精彩的领域,因为这样一部精湛工艺打造的金属,可能需要10年、20年甚至30年来将它升华为一种精神,一种信仰,这不单是对CMC来说,而是对整个汽车发展历史和文化而言,金属会随着时间流逝而老化,而精神将是永不磨灭的。只有这样,我们才有资本去和时间对恃,把乐趣不断放大并持续下去。

wubo

 

和大部分收藏者一样我也是小时候玩matchbox开始对车模的接触,通过这么小的车模从此开始我对车模的收藏之路。虽然后来读书以后几乎没怎么收藏,但依然对车模保持着一份热爱。工作很多年以后才重新拾起儿时的爱好,可能男人天生都喜欢汽车,喜欢机械的东西。看着车模所展现的机械之美,线条之美很令人心醉。最开始也喜欢现代车,后来慢慢对老车,老爷车越来越喜欢。因为随着收藏的深入不断去了解车模背后真车的历史和文化,包括很多品牌的渊源,觉得那些老车才是我的最爱。而且那些老车才能最完美展现车模之美,特别是那些赛车把那种机械之美展现到极致。收藏带给我更多的是种享受,满足感。包括一些小小的虚荣心,和点点占有欲。车模本身也是汽车文化的延续,或许国内起步比较晚,和欧美成熟的市场比较起来我们还很初级,或许以后会更深入的。发现像我比较喜欢老车的收藏者还比较少,还是又点小遗憾。

体会车模

 

引用我自己一篇影评的文字:
        人有诸多欲望,速度是其中一种。这种欲望,无目的性,完全先天生成。
  无欲则刚,但我难以想象,没有欲望的人,他活着的目的是什么。

  当我情绪低落的时候,我会看看我的车模,端详。我会出去骑车,飞驰。这不是逃避,这不是简单的发泄,这是感知生命的热度。有人摄影,在镜头中过滤尘世的繁杂,参悟世界;有人音乐,在音符中倾听着人类的情怀;甚至有人只是跑步,就像阿甘,万里路中经历世间冷暖,四季变化,也感知了自己。我们活着叫“生活”,平视周围的一切都是生活。而太多人被生活羁绊着,以致忘记了向上看,看到的是生命。生命本身,不困难,很纯粹,无可言喻的纯粹。

  兴趣,就是欲望的外化形式,是上帝赋予每个个体感知生命的礼物。上帝创造你的时候,把你和与你契合的兴趣一起抛向人间。有的幸运儿在去往人间的空中就能和其兴趣结合,永生不再分开。我是这样的幸运儿。兴趣的方式也许不同,但当我们对我们的兴趣爱得够深,就会自然的赋予其情感,将其拟人化,“它”就变成了我可以深爱、寄托的“她”。被欲望驱使,找到自己欲望的寄托,产生对生命和生活的情感,那便是探寻生命的方式。

Rally Art 

 

曾经我是个对车子一窍不通的人,因为认识了他,让我开始慢慢关注了车模。我也曾想过,他收藏这么多高档的车模到底是为了什么,本身不可能把这个作为投资,那么升值贬值也毫无关系,花这么多钱下去何必呢?我并没有他对车模的这般痴狂,但是正如我的签名——爱屋及乌。所以虽然嘴上会说,但我还是义无反顾的支持了他每一次买车模的决定,无论是何价值的,只要他认为值,他喜欢,我就支持。曾经还偷偷买了一个他心仪的车模,给了他一个大大的惊喜!那一刻,他的激动溢于言表,也就是那一刻,我知道了车模到底带给了我什么!于是我慢慢开始关注,虽然直到现在我还是搞不清很多车型和品牌,也不知道很多车子的历史,但是看到陈列在橱窗里的这些小东西,我会有种莫名的亲切感!感觉就像自己的孩子,需要我们的细心照顾一样!再看见出产的新品,我也有想带他们回家的冲动。我觉得它们一个个都很可爱!里面也不乏我和他之间的爱情见证!如今我跟他分开了,我再也看不见这些可爱的小东西了,心里有种莫名的伤心和失落!收藏带给了我什么,说得更确切的是车模带给了我什么?爱情、甜蜜、快乐、幸福、希望、伤心、失落、痛苦、失望……

angel_babypig

悠閑的1967年野馬Mustang Fast Back

By admin, January 3, 2012 7:02 pm

今天在網絡上看到了這張很有意境的照片,自己很喜歡的白色1967年 Mustang Fast Back加上後面平靜的湖面上划船的背景,極富詩情畫意,有意思,有意思。

1967mustang

Samsung DDR3 Low Voltage ECC RDIMM and DDR UDIMM

By admin, December 29, 2011 7:47 pm

Previously I’ve mentioned the followings regarding the latest DDR3L RAM:

It’s nice to have that 20% electricity saving, but when you add 2DPC (2 DIMMs Per Channel), your nice 20% power saving (ie, 1.35V) will be disabled automatically (ie, raise to 1.5V instead). However the good part is you still get that 1333Mhz bandwidth with 2DPC. DDR3L 1.35V will only apply when it’s in 1DPC mode.

What I’ve found out today during the server upgrade is the above may not be always true.

May be it’s related to the Poweredge BIOS that I’ve updated sometimes ago as it may contain the changes now allowing 2DPC operating at 1.35V Low Voltage. (may be even 3DPC)

The server is Poweredge R610 with 1 CPU Xeon E5620 (32nm, 12M Cache, 2.40 GHz, 5.86 GT/s, max supports DDR3-1066). After I filled up all the available 6 DIMMS, (ie, 3 Channels, 2 DIMMS per channel), I saw during the rebooting screen, it showed DDR- 1066Mhz and 1.35V, This is Great! I was expecting to see 1.5V as this happens to my R710 when putting 2DPC, it automatically raised to 1.5V, probably will go down to 1.35v if I upgraded the BIOS for that R710.

Finally, I located this interesting White Paper about Samsung’s DDR3L RAM, the result shows even with 3DPC at 1.5V, you can still save up to 50% of the total power consumption by using DDR3 Low Voltage RAM. There are also many other interesting technical insides regarding the benefits using DDR3L RAM.

 

The other thing is the RAM Upgrade KIT somehow did’t come with Heatsink, strange.

IMG_6328

What you are seeing in the above picture is a direct comparision of two ALMOST IDENTICAL 4GB RAM, even the IC chipset part number is almost identical except a single character difference. 

The one on top is used in Desktop (Optiplex 990 SSF), I bought it in a local computer shop for under USD20, and the other is for this server upgrade (ie, Poweredge R610).

As you can see there are two extra chips in server ram (hence ECC and Buffer), and note the “L” indicates this server RAM is a Low Voltage version.

IMG_6329

I also noticed the desktop ram label says it’s 10600U and server one says 10600R, ha…here is the fun part, I am sure this means U-DIMM (as Un-Buffered) and R-DIMM (as Registered & Buffered), so what does it mean or why this is so important?

Well, technically you can fit a cheap U-DIMM (about USD20 per 4GB DIMM)  into any Poweredge R2xx, R6xx, R7xx, R8xx, R9xx, of course, there is a limit when using U-DIMM, maximum you can use is 24GB, so that’s about 6 DIMMS x 4GB U-DIMM.

And the saving is Huge, for some may be (as USD120 for U-DIMM vs USD420 for R-DIMM), that’s USD20 for a 4GB U-DIMM that you can buy from any local computer shop as they are simply a desktop RAM, comparing to USD70 for the equivalent R-DIMM.

Of course, I will still choose R-DIMM, you may ask for maximum 24GB, why pay that extra  USD300-315 for ECC Reg RAM?  Well…RAS and reliability is the number  one factor in data center business, and not to mention the expandability, so Why NOT?

驚見金日成的喪禮上竟然出現了美國轎車的龐大身影

By admin, December 28, 2011 11:34 pm

今天中午看CCTV新聞的時候﹐突然發現了金日成的長陣靈車竟然是美國汽車改裝廠Moloney 70年代的傑作﹕Lincoln Continental Limousine。

真的不知道這個僅存的真正共產主義國家腦子裡到底想些什麼﹐難道金家王朝真的想跟全世界開個玩笑不成﹖

kim

Shrinking a Equallogic Thin Volume = Thin Reclaim on Dirty Blocks

By admin, December 22, 2011 10:28 pm

I thought it’s only available in FW 5.1 with ESX 5.0 or above (in fact, it turns out this EQL feature is not even ready yet till Q2/Q3 2012), and I am surprised to find out the following today somewhere on-line.

Still I do not have the courage to do this  in my production, it’s just too scary, better just Storage VMotion from one datastore (ie, EQL volume) to another datastore and then remove the old dirty volume to claim space.

Shrinking is only supported in EqualLogic firmware version 3.2.x or greater. Shrinking a Thin Provisioned volume is only supported in V4 or higher. For v3.2, you can however, convert a TP volume to a standard thick volume and then resize it, assuming there is space available to do so.

CAUTION: Improperly shrinking a filesystem can result in data loss. Be very careful about shrinking volumes, and always create snapshots to fall back to in the event of a problem.

To shrink a volume you must first shrink the file system and partition. While there are a few Operating Systems, like Windows 2008 for example, which support this natively, most do not. For Windows NT, 9x,XP, W2K3, you need to use a tool such as partition magic, partition commander, or similar tool. We do not test these tools in house, so we cannot make any statements about how well they work.

WARNING: be certain that you are shrinking the volume to slightly larger than what you have reduced the filesystem/partition size to. Shrinking a volume to be smaller than the partition/filesystem “WILL” result in data loss, i.e., if you reduced the filesystem to 500G, shrink the EQL volume to 501GB.

Always create a snapshot before attempting any resize operation. Shrink the file system & partition slightly more than you intend to shrink the volume to avoid rounding or other math discrepancies.

The volume will need to be offline to shrink the volume, og off or shutdown the server(s) connected to that volume first.

The Shrink command is a CLI only option. You have to first select the volume (covered in the CLI manual available on the FW download page).

GrpName> vol sel
GrpName(volume_volume_name)> offline
GrpName(volume_volume_name)> shrink
GrpName(volume_volume_name)> online

Another Great FREE Tool from Solarwind: Storage Response Time Monitor

By admin, December 22, 2011 9:47 am

Just found Storage Response Time Monitor 10 mins ago, downloaded and installed it and love it at the first sight! It correctly shows me the real-time break down of each Equallogic volume  latency and what’s more, it lists the top 5 BUSIEST VMs with IOPS number for that particular volume in one single window.

Having trouble with storage latency issues? Seeing your response times getting slower and slower? Download SolarWinds Storage Response Time Monitor and start tracking those sluggish VMs. Storage Response Time Monitor shows the top host to datastore total response times and a count of additional high latency offenders. Keeping track of your storage response times has never been easier.

Storage Response Time Monitor Highlights:

  • Get at-a-glance insight into host to datastore connections with the worst response times, and the busiest VMs using those connections
  • See a breakdown of the datastore including type and device versus kernel latency

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