RocketDolphin

Well I was sort of busy for the past couple of months. Here’s a synopsis:

My SO had a baby! It’s a boy, named Bryn Youguang. Yes, he’s probably the only Celtic/Chinese named child on the planet. My SO was disappointed on two counts: 1) He was a he not a she. 2) He doesn’t look Chinese at all. He looks like my Aunt Sandra and Grandmother and me. Red hair and fair skin. In other words my Chinese SO gave birth to a German baby.

Before the baby was born I was busy making sure that my SO’s nesting instinct was satisfied. For the past few weeks I’ve been sort of busy lately learning to deal with a baby and still remain sane. It’s been easier than I thought it would be. Bryn is remarkably calm and easy going. He doesn’t even cry unless he’s hungry and that’s only every three or four hours.

So to wrap up, new human in the house. I sort of have a schedule again so I can blog more…

I (I think) turned off trackbacks. Even though all the spammy trackbacks got swallowed by my spam killer plug-in it seemed like just too much trouble to have it turned on. So there!

Here at casa RD we suffered a catastrophic hardware failure. The root drive on the server went south in a big way and was unrecoverable. I tried different rescue live-cds, different machines, combinations of the above. I even put the dang thing into the freezer for a few hours to see if that’d help, it didn’t.

The end result is that no machine or OS would boot with the drive (a 7 year old 20 GB IBM) connected.

So…I took the memory from the server and put it, with another 512MB, into the SO’s machine, built a new server with that box, and presto, back again.

The biggest problem actually wasn’t the fact that the drive died it was the fact that I couldn’t find the backups I’d made of /etc and other important directories (databases, etc.). That’s the “ooops” part of the story.

Now, for those that’ve read this far you may be wondering how I managed to confiscate the machine belonging to my SO. The SO said “Use my machine, my employer is giving me a new machine to bring home.” Cool!

Good: I’ve got this blog back up. Bad: I lost all the previous content.