Tuesday night my email machine (the one I couldn't find the cord to during all the flooding) died. As in "black screen, not even the bios logo, hard drive light blinks exaclty once when it's turned on". I have no idea why, but given what the house has been through the past couple weeks anything could have happened to it while I wasn't looking.
Since it was also the primary backup machine that I rsync my netbook to, I spent several hours digging through the piles of boxes boxes to find the terabyte USB drive, and left it running wednesday to make a fresh backup of all the netbook files. (It was time anyway, I do annual full tarballs and the previous one was last August.) I can take the dead machine to a repair place this weekend, but haven't got high hopes for recovering anything. I also have backups _of_ the email machine, but the most recent one's a week or so old, so I've lost some email and have more accumulating in the gmail box until I set up filters again. Right before all the flooding happened I bought a SSD to put in the netbook, and when I install that (probably this weekend) I can reinstall with the newer ubuntu version and make the netbook host its own email and avoid this mess in future. (I hope.) I got a little work done on the "install" command yesterday (implementing it as a third command in cp.c), and I'm still grinding through "mount", and I've got a window open with an mdev cleanup pass. After those I have a half-finished dd rewrite I need to finish, and after _that_ I should finally tackle sed. So code should be wandering into the repository, but I dunno how much I'll be posting here this week. Meanwhile I try to check in with IRC at least once a day, I'm on twitter. Rob _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
