Interesting. I pruned trees some time ago to keep the rats out but to no
avail. Then one evening I saw one running along the overhead telephone wire
like a tightrope walker. Amazing that they can keep their balance. I just
chuck a couple of opened packets of Rattex in the ceiling when I hear a rat.
Alan C
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From: David Mann
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 7:47 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: OT: Almost only counts ...
On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:41 pm, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
I've spent the last couple of days making sure I've got backups of
EVERYTHING and that I've made a list of all the product keys & activation
codes for the programs I use. I was planning to tackle the job on
Thursday.
Good luck :)
I just had to rebuild a machine from backups this week. My home Linux
server had a memory module go bad and it crapped all over the filesystem to
the extent it was completely unrecoverable. Fsck found so many problems it
had to expand /lost+found several times, and at the end I was left with a
big pile of filesystem spaghetti, eg /etc became a symlink to some random
file in /lib.
I realised there was technically no need for hardware anymore so I set up
another Virtualbox instance on my laptop, installed Debian and restored what
I could from my very limited backups. If I'd had a full backup it would
have been a lot quicker but it's probably for the best as I'm on a newer OS
version.
Today I had the pleasure of running DBAN on it and will take it to be
recycled at some stage. I was sure to return my good DIMM to the old
scanner machine :)
Later on I have the pleasure of crawling around the roof removing all of the
network cables as I'll no longer have a need for them once I move a phone
socket, which I'll do at the same time. I hope the rat in the ceiling has
either left or been tempted by the traps! (Last weekends job was to trim
the lemon tree so the bastards can't get up there anymore.)
Cheers,
Dave
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