On Saturday 20 February 2010 15:48:53 Daniel Cheng wrote: > Dear list, > > As of 20th Feb, 2010 2pm GMT, my Samsung 80GB harddisk, after four > years of services, have finally come to dead.
These days I'm surprised if a hard disk actually lasts that long. For me they die after ~1-2 years usually. I use them in RAID5 with 24h uptime though? > I think this is the > right time for me to withdraw from the freenet community completely. > > If you have a good memory, around 1.5 years ago, my computer suffered > from a motherboard failure. Since then, I have much less involvement > in the development. --- The fact is, I was, at the time, struggling to > spend more time on reading bible and serving my Lord. I prayed my > Lord, and the motherboard fails. I took this as a sign for me to > involve less in this project. I would have taken it as a sign that its time to reward yourself with a shiny new computer for your hard work! No matter what religion one believes in, I think we all can share the idea that whoever god might be or not be, he/she/it probably would not want us to always see things/understand his messages in a destructive/negative way but rather a positive/constructive one. > Yesterday night, I was praying, again, for the forgiveness of my sin. > I said to my Lord that, if he see fit, take away the computer so I > won't have it as my idol. And, yea, the computer die. Now, I don't > have any computer powerful enough to run freenet. Then why didn't the AC/DC converter die and kill everything? Why just the hard disk? Maybe this is a sign that you should start with a new computer instead of throwing everything away? :) Think positive. > Sorry xor, I can't continue the freenet-git bot. I do have some backup > of that piece of code, but I don't have any spare harddisk for > restoring it. If you found that too important, I may ask my friends > help me to restore them. I would be very glad to get my hands on it as I consider it as a very good idea for development to be reviewed on Freenet by the community. In fact, we do not have public commit messages on the mailing lists anymore so we actually need something like it to get more reviewing. Lack of reviewing = bad code quality. I would probably host it on my node as the node is high uptime and high power anyway =) How did your harddisk die? Full mechanical, hearable failure? Electronical failure, i.e. not being recognized by the BIOS anymore? Or is it just dead sectors? If its dead sectors you should just try to copy all files from it and skip the ones with dead sectors... if its electronical failure: There's this "trick" which people say that it often works: Get a hard disk of exactly the same model which is still working and exchange the electronics. You might write the model number here so I can check my dead-HD stack for one. And you said that you don't have any other harddisk to use now: I can send you 2 disks from my harddisk stack in the cellar so you can run RAID1 =) You'll also get a German beer with them if there is enough room in the box maybe :) You might consider this as a sign for continuing as I normally would not do this because I'm rather short on money and hardware and stuff but if you continue I would :) Really, I would be sad if you really left, your code reviews have been of high quality and useful to me. I haven't read much of your commits but I guess they also were :) Greetings, xor -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100220/64c7ee00/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100220/64c7ee00/attachment.pgp>
