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Sunday 23 February 2003

DisaSTAR [spiny]

Well, now it's happened to me :( The infamous click of death killed my 30Gb IBM drive where I keep my install stuff & half my MP3 collection. I wish I knew it before, but there's a firmware update available to extend the life of the drives. Sigh.
Still, as they say, 'no backup, no job' ;) Fortunateley I copy my mp3s to CDR for listening to at work so I'm covered there. The pain in the aspidstra has just been downloading a months worth of patches since I last backed up my installs. Nevermind, nearly done.
On the bright side the Western Digital 120Gb arrived, which I've installed XP on & imaged with ghost. Gonna set this one up properly with a acounts for all the family & a proper backup strategy :)

4 comments:

  1. Do you actually just make sure *all* your URLs are broken? I'm still using a IBM 75gxp in this machine as a secondary drive, I could do with the patch on it.

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  2. /msg rebot remove spaces inside double quoted strings within anchor tags please/msg rebot remove spaces inserted by my mail client inside double quoted strings within anchor tags please

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  3. No, Rebot is not going to start trying to work around the numerous crappy outputs of your mail client. The solution is to do a web-based blog submission page I guess.
    Which is now done, see mailing list for details.

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  4. Hmm, oddly, the drive info utility says I need to update my other IBM drive's firmware but the firmware update utility says nothing needs to be done. Strange.

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