I sent my first public patches to a FOSS project \o/
(mailing list broke my pgp signature and archiver broke the patches, boo!) :
I try to get glade-3 to my ppa later this week.
Here’s a little sneak peek for you 
I promised to continue the story of my hard drive failure and I’m sorry for the delay. I’ve been just so busy with my studies [how does a BASIC interpreter that generates Solaris SPARC assembly sound to you?].
The original plan was to solder the cable directly on the hard drive. Fortunately I managed to attach the broken socket and cable with some hot glue (thnx Dartteri), and no soldering was necessary. Last weekend I finally copied all the data from the broken hard drive to my new RAID1 installation to safety. I really recommend everyone to have a SystemRescueCd at hand, because it can really safe your life and contains all the tools that standard distro install and live CDs are missing. It also has DBAN if you want to nuke some hot glued hard drives before you try to hit something with them.
So everything went well after all and now I’m extremely thrilled to wait next week and really to kick off my project.
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.
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…
Okay, this is my first blog (post) ever! I’ve never had a reason to start a blog, but hopefully now I have. Just installed WordPress and - most important things first - after cycling through some one-thousand-three-hundred-fifty-and-seven themes I finally decided to give this one a try.
As some people already know, I’ve sent an application for Kesäkoodi 2008, and if I get selected I will use this blog to keep you up to date about my progress. I will announce my project later when the deadline for applications has been closed.
btw, if anyone gets interested about Kesäkoodi, the window for applications has been extended. New deadline is at February 27th.
PS. This site might be a little sluggish.. Guess you can’t get proper webhosting with unlimited bandwidth just for 20 euros per year…
