2009h – over

Earlier this year I enrolled into the university to become a computer scientist. Not sure that is a real title, but you get the point. The first semester is now behind me. One of the subjects I had this semester is called Introduction to Informatics (IT1101). I gotta say it was boring, partly becasue [...]

I’m dreaming again

it seems that i have regained the capacity of dreaming after spending three days doing little besides studying math. it has been a while since ive had a dream as vivid as the one just now. im wondering what triggered this. it could of be because ive been laying off lamb’s bread for a while, [...]

a problem never comes alone

id like to modify this proverb:
problems manifest in clusters.
…perhaps not as nice as the original one, let me try again:
a problem always calls for backup
…thats just weak (perhaps more in tone with the current domain (genja.org)). lets try sth a bit more to the point:

tryggve ~ # cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid0]
md5 [...]

new driveZZZZ

2 x western digital re3 (half tb each)
1 x velociraptor 150gb (in exchange for raptor the broken 74gb) .

Raptor finally failed

WDC WD740ADFD-00NLR1  (2007-02-27 – 2009-03-06)
It used to do everything faster than lightning, but now it’s crippled and fails even to initiate a filesystem.
Thank you for the service.
RIP
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months prior to this it was obvious to me that a backup policy of sorts is needed. I did copy my gentoo partitions to safe storage, but not the [...]

hda on genja failing

I’m noticing that my /R/tmp is not what it used to be.
genja ~ # mount |grep /R/tmp
/dev/mapper/wdc-tmp on /R/tmp type reiserfs (rw)
genja ~ # pvdisplay /dev/md0
— Physical volume —
PV Name /dev/md0
VG Name [...]

back online (32 -> 64 bit)

well im back from roskilde now well over four months ago, not so long till the next one now. hawhahwwh. six months?  i remember the coputer with the webserver went down for some reason. the drives probably – since i got new ones the day before i left. oh, i remember. one of the mobos [...]