I booted with the Western Digital Diagnostics floppy that I keep handy, and when I did a quick scan it said it found a problem and asked me if I wanted it to fix it. I did. Then I did the full scan, and it didn’t find any problems. So I booted into Linux single user mode. Couldn’t figure out how to fsck the drives that way, so I booted with the rescue disk. It wouldn’t let me unmount the drives that way, so I booted back into single user mode so I could do a “shutdown -rF now”, which forced it to do a fsck when it booted again. It didn’t find any problems. So now I’m continuing to run my backup process every two hours, and keeping an eye on it. 36 hours later, still no more disk errors.
Category: Revelation
Not sure I believe that…
I put one of those “HitMap dealies down in the bottom right of my main blog page. Ok, I get big blotches in Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, New York City, San Francisco, etc. But WTF is with that big blob in what looks like Churchill Manitoba? Do I really have a cadre of loyal readers in the frozen wastelands?
Meme OTD
“If there is at least one person in your life whom you consider a close friend, and whom you would not have met without the Internet, post this sentence in your journal.”
Probably a fake, but still cool
This video. Watch it.
Half Life 2 progress report
After a few days hiatus I’m back as Gordon Freeman.
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