Life changing event

Posted on Friday 3 October 2008

Today is a great day. Last week-end was already a great time, when I proposed to my girlfriend to marry me. She was crazy enough to say yes :) But today is just another level… We learned we had a baby on the way :-D It would be due approximately around end of May-beginning of June.

I am just on another planet right now :)

Cheers everyone!

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Fred Blaise @ 10:34 pm
Filed under: General
Abnormal memory usage? (No, it was cached)

Posted on Thursday 25 September 2008

I am now running opensuse 11 64bits on my machine at home, which has 4GB of RAM. We are usually 2 users having each a GNOME environment open. With maybe a firefox running, and another little app, the 4GB of RAM are gone, as shown below, with little memory cached (usually around 200MB)

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And effectively, opening apps (Eclipse, DBVisualizer, OOo) to actually get some work done, everything becomes sluggish (and I also have 3 disks in RAID 5)

It is looking like I would need about 2GB of RAM to load GNOME? Can someone explain to me why it is happening? Is it specific to 64bits?

Fred Blaise @ 10:15 pm
Filed under: SUSE-Novell
Repsol equipement

Posted on Thursday 4 September 2008

Today was yet another repsol day… Got myself the Dainese leather outfit, Pedrosa 2007 edition. Also ordered an Arai Jungle White helmet. Pictures below. Loving it :)

Fred Blaise @ 3:14 pm
Filed under: Moto
Could not resist for more than an hour or so…

Posted on Saturday 9 August 2008

There I am, on the beast :) Getting it Tuesday morning, too late for the week-end. The custom paint will come soon.

MY CBR 1000 RR

Fred Blaise @ 11:39 pm
Filed under: Moto
CBR 1000 RR - 2008

Posted on Saturday 9 August 2008

Just tried out today the Honda CBR 1000 RR, in black and white paint.

What a pleasure. Light and responsive, powerful, lots of sensations.

How long will I resist the temptation? Already got a nice offer from the dealer, with a custom repsol paint (2008 model doesn’t come in Repsol paint), as below found on the net:

CBR 1000 RR Repsol

My preciiiiouuuuussssss :)

Fred Blaise @ 3:50 pm
Filed under: Moto
Preparing for short round trip 1000km to CH

Posted on Tuesday 8 July 2008

At last, I got time to fix the side cases on my bike last week-end. Now I can leave to Switzerland. Top case (not shown) is the really easy part.

Ended up having to unmount part of the exhaust (not standard), which was a bit too twisted, as to avoid the mount brackets to touch.

Anyway, bike looks really different like that!

side cases rear side cases left side cases right

Going to update my european maps of my tomtom rider 2, and I should be set to leave this Friday. I won’t have the camcorder and embarked cam yet… too bad…

Fred Blaise @ 7:28 pm
Filed under: Moto