CVS machine status update

Status update on the CVS machine.  I picked up the machine at Paul's
and ITA is ready to host it.

With regrets I have to inform you that the harddisk died when I was
running software updates at home on Friday.  I waited for a few days
to maybe have it turn out to be a transient problem, but I still got
boot-preventing hard read errors yesterday.

I ordered a new harddisk yesterday.  Or rather I plan to exchange
things so that my 37 GB IBM goes into it which is running without
hickup for years now, so that we don't put a brand-new harddrive into
our CVS machine.  No sure what we will do with 37GB of space, but
whatever. 

Data loss will not be a problem.  After the last incident I tightend
up the remote syncing of things to cover things we lost when Wind
River (who I understand also screwed up the Mars Rover) pulled the
plug out of the last machine.  For the delay I can only apologize.
I'm not sure I did something horrible to the harddisk but I was
speeding up things by using softupdates and loading the thing with all
kinds of long-lasting procedures all at once and bang off it goes :-(

Martin
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