Ordnance Survey trig point on the edge of Uffington Castle. More info in the Bench Mark database here

From under the water. Cool!

Playing with a 2 stop grad filter to stop the sky from being overexposed, seems to have done a ok job here.

Lovely view from the top of the hill, worth the effort climbing up it!

Seeing a few of these in the air took me back to when I was a kid!

It smelt amazing!

We found some lovely Autum colours while walking around the grounds of Audley End.

First day without the routemasters!

If you want to sync to a time server other than the default apple provided ones you can enter the address into the box in the ‘Date & Time’ preference pane. To enter multiple servers seperate them with spaces as show in the image below. All this actually does is write the information out to /etc/ntp.conf and restarts the ntp daemon. Remember that the file will get overwritten when you access the preference pane though.

If you need to initialise a raid1 volume with linux software raid but you currently only have a single disk available, use this:

mdadm --create /dev/md1 --level 1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/hda1

You can then mkfs /dev/md1 and then mount and use it as normal. When your second disk is available you can add it into the raid with this command:

mdadm --add /dev/md1 /dev/sda5

Now the raid will begin to sync, cat /proc/mdstat to check the sync progress