December 2004

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My backup script works

December 15, 2004 in General | No comments

Earlier I wrote about my home-rolled backup script. Yesterday, I got the unfortunate optunity to test for real if the script worked as inteded, as my home partition’s filesystem was corrupted.

I’m happy to report that the script worked perfectly. I got all my data back without any data loss :-D The thing that took the longest time was to convince myself that no data was lost and that the backup really was better than the filesystem that had been fixed by fsck.

The only thing which is nagging me is that the corruption appears to have happened right after I took the backup. I just hope that my script isn’t to be blamed. But how could it? I run it as an normal user…

That is the Xmas spirit

December 10, 2004 in General, Personal | No comments

Today Maria took care of most of the Xmas present for the children we know. We left the presents in the trunk of our car while we had dinner, so that Kamille would see them. After Kamille was put to bed I went out to get the presents. What I found was our car with the smacked window to trunk and no presents. Nice.

The burglars only got a bunch of children presents, mostly for younger children. Thus, they didn’t get anything of high value, they even left the car radio.

Now we properly won’t have time to go out an buy new presents and send them to our friends overseas in time for Xmas. Way, way, way annoying. We are not looking forward to all the insurance hassle and so on.

mGTK pre-release 0.93

December 1, 2004 in SML, mGTK | 7 comments

Tonight Henning and managed to make a release of mGTK. We call it a prerelease becase we have not written any documentation, the release has only been tested on my laptop (running Debian Sarge/Sid), and we have not made a Windows port yet. Still, now you can download it from Sourceforge and play with it.