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| Adventures in Diskland |
[Jan. 11th, 2012|02:32 pm] |
When ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.1) fullmetalomi noted elsewhere that her co-conspirator for the now defunct web comic Counter Culture had died, it was also noted that she no longer had a copy of the comics. While some of the strips were available from whatever keenspace has turned into these days, that didn't have the entire run. When the comic ended, I mirrored the site for posterity's sake, so I had a copy of it, but the machine that housed the mirror is no more. When its OS disk died, I took the opportunity to upgrade the machine. A new motherboard with a quad core 3GHz cpu to replace the single 1GHz toy. A pair of 1TB SATA disks would replace the collection of EIDE disks that accreted in the old machine. I never made a complete copy of the disk that housed everything important because most of the data was copied from elsewhere. Mail lived on another machine. The two dozen blog entries I made to the locally-hosted blog were moved, even though they are all in the wayback machine.
 Although I offered to search around for my mirror of the comic, and did a bit of digging around on everything that's currently running, I let this sit for some time without doing much of anything other than piling up a bunch of disks. Finally began the search this weekend when a disk in my desktop machine went from "S.M.A.R.T. reports imminent failure" to "I...M...M....I...*CHUNKACHUNKA*N...E...N...T... *CHUNKACHUNKA* FAIL......URE *eeee*". I keep multiple backups of everything worth saving on the desktop machine, so it's not a big deal to let this sort of thing linger. Swapped out that disk with a replacement and thought about other data that is sitting out there, not backed up, and... oh yeah, that disk. Sunday I searched the house for what I knew was the right disk. I was sure it was one of a pair of 320GB seagate EIDE disks, but digging around turned up a pair of 80GB WDs and a Maxtor 40GB. Was that what was really in that machine? Searched more, the disks kept multiplying, more were found, so I wound up with a larger stack. Then there was that one failing disk where I saved a disk image...
Went through the physical disks, which was a big stack of wasted time. Finally ended up at the disk image. It was also 1am by this time, and I needed to whip up a FreeBSD install to have the tools needed to actually handle everything. By 3am I had the OS ready to go, but I decided sleep was more important. This would have to wait until tomorrow, err, well, later in the day. After work, went home. Booted up, realized the disk containing the image was formatted as an xfs filesystem and not ext2 or ntfs, or something else FreeBSD can handle. Spent some time shuffling it around and eventually, it's on the FreeBSD machine.
The image didn't contain the filesystem I wanted, but it had a copy of the comic on it! I know this because there are bits and pieces of a Plone/Zope install and its logs indicate I stored a full and complete copy of the comic there. On the downside, it was stored in a Zope ZODB. Further on the downside, the image was a best-effort pull from a failing disk. Everything I would have wanted from the disk wasn't there. I will not be defeated. This data exists. I open up every single computer touched in the past year that could possibly have that disk in it. Nothing.
Still, I could have sworn I had used a pair of 320GB Seagate disks in that server... Let's see, what hardware help have I offered to others over the past year? Just before Valentine's day restored a laptop to working condition for a friend. The week before my birthday I visited my parents, with a pair of 320GB disks from an old machine, one of which was to be used in their machine. One had data I didn't care about, the other..! Now I remember. The disk is in a cardboard box on the floor of a closet! Without a doubt, I knew this would have everything. To the closet!
Ripped open the door, and there it was, a pile of computer junk in a cardboard box. I dig to the bottom, and nestled in an antistatic bag is a Seagate 320GB EIDE disk. One of a pair of disks from an old server of mine, just as I remembered. Scrawled across its top, obviously from a black Sharpie, "IMPORTANT!"
Back to the bedroom, I shutdown my desktop box, open the case, mount the disk in the case, cable it up, close the cover, and press power. The machine boots, a login screen, a shell prompt, a few mount commands and a tarball of the mirror is on two other disks, and is quickly uploaded to a machine at work. The world is saved. |
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| This Weekend |
[Jan. 8th, 2012|11:02 pm] |
Saturday, I did practically nothing. Ate a single meal, a sandwich at Newk's. Today I did a bit more, but failed in the primary goal, which was purchasing pants. I did manage to stop by Best Buy, pick up a replacement for a failing disk, an 802.11n router for my mom's house, and a Roku 2 XS.
Definitely enjoying the Roku, although it does highlight how shitty Windstream's network BUFFERING is BUFFERING BUFFERING. Somehow, 3.5Mbps dsl feels like streaming real video over BUFFERING dial up in BUFFERING 1995. |
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| Kaossilator! |
[Dec. 17th, 2011|01:01 am] |
KAOSSMM0001 by jhavard
After ghastly had way to much fun with his Korg Kaossilator, decided to buy one for myself. The Kaossilator, not a ghastly. I got lost in a game of Civ5, which delayed the music a little while. However, once I realized it was almost midnight, toyed around with the kaossilator to figure out how it works and then made a little music. |
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| Silly groove |
[Mar. 12th, 2011|09:48 pm] |
Silly Groove by jhavard
My tax refund is in, so it's time to buy some toys. I'm doing the music thing now, so I figured I should buy a pair of monitors. I had originally shot for the Yamaha HS80Ms, but my desk isn't large enough. I also wanted to buy a copy of Reason, and that combined with the HS80Ms would have put me well over budget. Fortunately Guitar Center has sufficiently nice alternatives in a slightly-smaller footprint. The obvious choice would have been the Yamaha HS50M, but they had only one in stock. The did have four KRK Rokit 6 G2s available, and they were on sale, putting them in competitive range with The Internet. Oh, and Reason was on sale, too. |
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| Accent meme |
[Feb. 20th, 2011|08:10 pm] |
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dossy and mendel posted this a while back, so I figured I'd get in on the fun.
Here’s the idea: record yourself saying the following things and answering the following questions. Then compare your accent with your friends. Fun for all!
Questions:
- Your name and/or username
- Where you’re from
- The following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, Direction, Naturally, Aluminium, Herbs.
- What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house? [on the night before Halloween?]
- What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
- What do you call gym shoes?
- What do you say to address a group of people?
- What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
- What do you call your grandparents?
- What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
- What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
- What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
Here we go:
Accent Meme by jhavard |
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| So I bought another camera... |
[Aug. 21st, 2010|10:54 pm] |
It's a Sanyo Xacti Somethingorother. It was cheap, had tolerable sound quality, and surprisingly decent picture quality.
Oh, and I got a haircut. |
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| Awesome phishing |
[Aug. 2nd, 2010|10:48 am] |
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