Re: CVS machine status update

Martin Cracauer wrote on Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 10:15:09AM -0500: 
> 
> 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. 

My new parts arrived - dead.  So that plan didn't work work plus the
department of homeland confusion had a new surpsise for me (anyone
noticed that the front and back of the latest I-797 form contradict
each other?).  Ed Wang is getting me a harddisk tomorrow and I am
calling in an exorcist now.

Not sure what to say :-(

Martin
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