Mike
12-03-2006, 05:50 PM
Wonder of wonders. By what devious paths we manage to recover URLs
Explanation -- the evening of November 7th we had a house fire. We got out, the other animals got out, books and computers, alas, not so mobile. Only one room actually burned (one computer a melted pile, maybe 1000 books in the room) but the entire 2nd floor smoke and heat (the rest of the computers, another 1500 books) and water pouring down below taking out electronics there (but here the old fashioned sectional bookcases shed the water and protected the books). Backups were not in a fire safe, not on a shelf close to the floor, plastic melts. Having cut the power to the building, for a while the firemen (firepersons) were purplexed by hearing electronic beeping (the APC UPS was tougher than other electrical devices).
Yes we have insurance and our son is a building contractor who will not take the winter off as usual to hike the SW desert but will stay to handle the rebuild. And no, we don't yet know if any data can be recovered from the hard drives of the less affected computers (future backups WILL be kept in a fire safe -- locking the barn door).
So anyway, at the moment we have scant addresses because who remembers URLs except for the obvious. I managed to remember that I did know the URL for a forum where I once posted something recommending somebody seek help from this one so here I am. Out sitting in the "trailer" (the house kitchen and bathroom are operational but we sleep out here and have a "computer office".
New machine is an HP Pavilion with AMD dual Athalon 64 and a gig of RAM. I assume folks will tell me their opinions about suitable distros. But that's for the future as nowadays most of the time is spent trying to recover addresses and stuff like that.
Explanation -- the evening of November 7th we had a house fire. We got out, the other animals got out, books and computers, alas, not so mobile. Only one room actually burned (one computer a melted pile, maybe 1000 books in the room) but the entire 2nd floor smoke and heat (the rest of the computers, another 1500 books) and water pouring down below taking out electronics there (but here the old fashioned sectional bookcases shed the water and protected the books). Backups were not in a fire safe, not on a shelf close to the floor, plastic melts. Having cut the power to the building, for a while the firemen (firepersons) were purplexed by hearing electronic beeping (the APC UPS was tougher than other electrical devices).
Yes we have insurance and our son is a building contractor who will not take the winter off as usual to hike the SW desert but will stay to handle the rebuild. And no, we don't yet know if any data can be recovered from the hard drives of the less affected computers (future backups WILL be kept in a fire safe -- locking the barn door).
So anyway, at the moment we have scant addresses because who remembers URLs except for the obvious. I managed to remember that I did know the URL for a forum where I once posted something recommending somebody seek help from this one so here I am. Out sitting in the "trailer" (the house kitchen and bathroom are operational but we sleep out here and have a "computer office".
New machine is an HP Pavilion with AMD dual Athalon 64 and a gig of RAM. I assume folks will tell me their opinions about suitable distros. But that's for the future as nowadays most of the time is spent trying to recover addresses and stuff like that.