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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

The data drive that had all my stuff on it related to my sourcemage
mirror crashed.  Everything critical's backed up.  I just lost the
mirror and some digital camera pictures.  Suffice it to say, I don't
think It'll be back up any time soon.  I'm still acting as the primary,
secondary, and tertiary nameservers (btw, if anybody else wants to be a
slave nameserver for sourcemage let me know -- preferably international,
but any will do).  The keyserver wasn't on that drive, too, so it still
works.

I never knew that harddrives could die so quickly.  When I realized it
started getting errors I started the dd process to save everything --
the read errors caused linux to turn off dma, and by the time I got back
from work to investigate my stolen laptop, it was doing the mad
clickety-clickety thing that even a reboot wouldn't stop, so I cut the
power to it.  I was able to pull 44gigs gzipped off of a 120 gig drive
that had maybe that much compressed written.  I hope I got it all.

Please, remember, even new drives need to be backed up -- that one was
1yr 3wks old ... the warranty was one year.  Let's say I've learned not
to buy cheap low-warranty hardware.

Also, in case you didn't notice above, I just found out somebody stole a
laptop of mine from my desk at work while I was home sick.  Take that as
a lesson to not leave broken laptops laying around.  I had stopped using
it and was about to junk it because I broke it the week before making it
virtually useless as a laptop (pcmcia card slot and battery slot broke),
which is why I wasn't carrying it around with me.  I already changed my
perforce password, which was the only password unencrypted on the box. 
(If anybody knows how to get it to ask for the password instead let me
know.)  About six months ago I moved all my development over to another
computer anyways, and everything was backed up that was on it.  I wonder
what they'll do with a broken laptop that boots to "sourcemage login: "

I'm hoping they'll return it. ;) First time anybody's stolen anything
from me.  Then again, I don't have much anybody would want to steal.

So we could use more mirrors at Source Mage.  Right now Andrew's mirror
is down for the time being while he moves so we've got the slow NC, USA
ibiblio.org main site and Xenith's rocket-fast isurf.ca mirror up in BC,
Canada.  When we had four, now we have two.  I'd like to see more
redundancy and fault-tolerance than that, obviously.

At least, I'm starting to feel better and I think I'm over this
cold/virus (what you get for working at a medical clinic next to the
pediatrics department).

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