Category: Geekery

Last update on the hard disk problem (I hope)

Ok, hopefully last but hopefully not least:

  • I took the disk that was failing (call it “A”) and the disk that normally lives in a USB external drive case (call it “B”) and put them in my Windows box and booted with Knoppix, and copied all the files over.
  • I put “B” into my Linux server, and it’s working perfectly. Unfortunately a few hundred songs on my mp3 collection are stuck in /mp3s/lost+found because of various Reiserfs problems along the way.
  • I put “A” into the external USB drive case, and IT WORKS PERFECTLY.

Now all I have to do is figure out how to read the ID3 equivalent information on AAC (m4a) files, so I can restore all the files in /mp3s/lost+found to where they belong.

I’ve extended an offer to Alan Cox to ship my “A” drive to a kernel developer if any of them want to see what’s going wrong there, since as I’ve said before the drive passed WDC’s diagnostics, works fine in the 2.4 kernel, and fails in the 2.6 kernel no matter which machine, cable, motherboard chipset or IDE controller I try it on. He hasn’t responded yet.

Eerily accurate


Are you Addicted to the Internet?

78%

Hardcore Junkie (61% – 80%)
While you do get a bit of sleep every night and sometimes leave the house, you spend as much time as you can online. You usually have a browser, chat clients, server consoles, and your email on auto check open at all times. Phone? What’s that? You plan your social events by contacting your friends online. Just be careful you don’t get a repetitive wrist injury…



The Are you Addicted to the Internet? Quiz at Quiz Me!

Man, Taco Bell is getting tougher

This job ad seems pretty typical for a fast food restaurant manager, until you get to the requirements section:

Minimum Requirements:

    * Aircraft is a Challenger 601-3A.
    * Minimum of two years college or equivalent technical training.
    * Must hold a valid Airline Transport Pilot certificate
    * Hold a valid FAA First Class medical certificate
    * Have a minimum of 2,500 hours total pilot time.
    * Minimum of 250 hours multiengine.
    * Have a minimum of five years aviation experience, some transport category experience preferred.
    * Have no violations recorded with the FAA and be able to demonstrate his/her piloting ability to a high standard
    * Be a leader and confident in decision making.
    * Bilingual is a plus.

In other news, my test last night without the CD-ROM didn’t help – it still failed accessing /dev/hdc4. And my Knoppix disk was pooched so I couldn’t boot a non-Fedora 2.6 system to test it.