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    Red face Announcement

    I am an idiot.

    Plan: Reinstall my Linux box, which contains some stuff I've been working on for weeks.

    What do I do? I make nice backups of all my work, stick them into 3 .tgz files.

    What do I then do? Forget to copy them *off* the disk and onto a network share, then proceed to recreate the file system with the install disk...


    Needless to say, I had to do some hasty research into file recovery, and I now have R-Linux scanning the disk, oops.
    I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
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    You daft brush

    Welcome to the idiots club

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    Thanks, it's great to be here

    90% scanned so far. If it doesn't pick anything up I'll just get it to dump the entire disk surface into a file on my local machine so I can sift through it for my source code

    Hmmm, 100K of source in a 15gig disk...something about needles and haystacks springs to mind...
    I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
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    I have to admit you've joined our club with some style, I'm quite jealous

    Good luck with it anyway

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    I CAN'T FOOKING BELIEVE IT!!

    IT WORKED!


    Or, at least it's told me the directory structure so hopefully I can drag a couple of files out of it
    I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
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    Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    congrats mr P
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    writing haskell makes your life easier:
    reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
    To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.

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    YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

    Well, heart attack moment over, I have my files back


    Justin - I reformatted my disk having forgotten to copy the backup files off.
    I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
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    Talking yay parksie

    your hub is down when is it going up again?
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    writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
    writing haskell makes your life easier:
    reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
    To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.

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    I made an announcement that it was going down for hardware maintenance.

    Specifically, moving my DVD drive over to the linux box so I can read the install CDs. Due to the aforementioned idiocy, my timing's been set back a bit

    My master plan is move the net connection to the linux box, stick dns2go and the dc hub on there, and get it completely tightened up
    I refuse to tie my hands behind my back and hear somebody say "Bend Over, Boy, Because You Have It Coming To You".
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    Smile sounds

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    writing software in C++ is like driving rivets into steel beam with a toothpick.
    writing haskell makes your life easier:
    reverse (p (6*9)) where p x|x==0=""|True=chr (48+z): p y where (y,z)=divMod x 13
    To throw away OOP for low level languages is myopia, to keep OOP is hyperopia. To throw away OOP for a high level language is insight.

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    Thanks again Mike...







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