On Nov 26, 2007 4:11 AM, mickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > poor dude pbly cannot do adding proper in his disklabel... > MATH WORKS BITCHES!
The 'poor dude' is known for posting smart, mathy, and generally insightful comics. Try browsing through his comics some. As for me, the comic was perfectly timed. Last weekend I decided that rather than doing any of the actual work that I was supposed to be doing, I would set up my home workstation to dual-boot Windows and OpenBSD. It's got two physical hard drives on it, so piece of cake. I'd be done in a few minutes... Except, for some reason, at some point during the install -- almost certainly my fault, though I retraced my steps and can't figure out where -- the OpenBSD installer trashed the disklabel on the Windows drive. The MBR was still intact, NTLDR would come up, but then it couldn't find anything to boot. Even better, I didn't have a usable Windows disk to perform a repair on the file system (it's a second-hand system). The workstation was using a WG111 for its network interface, which OpenBSD doesn't have support for yet because Netgear are punks sometimes. Wouldn't've been a big deal, except I'd just donated my last five feet of cat5 to a job last week, and I didn't have the $$ for a network cable that weekend. It went on like that for a while and I ended up enjoying a very restful weekend instead of getting any work done. Monday morning, I was greeted by that XKCD comic. - R.
