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2008-04-29
got some hardware
Just came back from a local hardware store and got me self a couple of new babies. It’s time for some RAID1 love and a fresh Hardy installation.
2008-04-27
the day the disaster struck
On March 25th I had a major hardware failure. My desktop machine had a SATA hard drive. I were performing some maintenance when I discovered that the SATA cable was loose. I quickly noticed that the cable socket on the hard drive had cracked and the pins were pointing in arbitrary directions. Needles to say this is not something that could be easily fixed or circumvented. Now I’m crippled with my old IBM T20 running a fresh Hardy installation.
Of course all is not lost, because I naturally have backups, right… fail!
I’ve never before had anything important enough to be backed up. I use imap for emails so they are safe. And of course there was some random stuff I’ve written or created but nothing with true value, just sentimental. Still now when the data is gone I really hope I had done things differently.
Sounds very stupid now, but I was going to make my first backups on Monday. If you haven’t done anybackups lately do them now. Tomorrow it might be too late.
But still, all is not lost! …to be continued…
2008-04-10
Announce on networkmanager-list
I just made the following announcement on networkmanager-list:
Hello,
I am happy to announce that I will be developing mobile broadband configuration assistant for NetworkManager during this summer. The assistant will make configuration of mobile broadband, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, CDMA and etc. connections easy and as automated as possible.
My project[1] is a part of Kesäkoodi2008[2] (Summer Code Finland) and thus I will receive funding. Dan Williams mentors the project.
You can find more information through my blog[3]. I will be using the blog during the summer to share frequent updates about my progress.
Yours sincerely,
Antti Kaijanmäki
2008-04-01
Announcing trackErMACS
I’m proud to announce trackErMACS – a tracker extension for Emacs. I no longer want to work with anything that is related to mobile broadband because it’s so lame. Detailed describtion of the project can be found here.
