Yawn. It's 0:20 and I'm listening to old Cake MP3s off Suz's machine. I guess that 12 ounces of Mountain Dew at 23:00 might have been a mistake. Still got all hubs and most machines in the house pegged with the restore to Suz's new hard drive.

She actually describes it more elegantly than I can in her journal. We mounted her drive as a smb share on kindbud, and then tarred and compressed the mount directory to stdout and piped that over ssh to a cat on nitrous writing to a file. The result was a 5.5 gig gzipped tarball in /local/home on nitrous. We got everything copied over and I figured everything was fine.

Then yesterday, Suz wanted to get a certain file out during the Windows 2000 install. When I went to gunzip the file I realized it was too large for Solaris to handle. But it got on there somehow, I thought, so figured there had to be a way to get it out. Finally I realized that it worked because both operating systems were treating this big lump of tar as a stream rather than a file. So we just piped the cat of the tarball from nitrous over ssh to a tar process (and gunzip) on kindbud which is in the process of writing all the contents back to a shared restore directory.

Got all the way to the WINNT directory (alphabetically) before I had to stop the restore to go to work. The only thing left is her xix directory, which I think I can specify on the tar command line and not have to write over all the files again.

The kindbud.vees.net server was shut down tonight at around 21:45 after 53 days uptime and didn't boot when it was turned back on again. It appears to be just a dead hard drive issue, so if I can find another small IDE drive to replace it, I can get a machine like it back in service. Hopefully I can get the data off the drive that won't boot now, but I wouldn't bet on it. I'll try to get something else up and running soon, but things are a little right now so I'm not sure when that will happen. Let me know if you have a hard drive or something lying around that I could format for this purpose. Thanks!

Rep. Charles Rangel thinks that mandatory military service for United States citizens would make lawmakers and policymakers less likely to call for military action.

Federal government health care contractor TriCare had the data of 550,000 military service personnel stolen, including names, addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, claims data and other information. And the government is still trying to sell us Total Information Awareness?

December 29, 2002 - December 31, 2002

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