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• Learning Experience
• Why did I ever buy a computer?
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• Thesis Proposal

Tomoe is gone, so there is no shoulder to cry on (which is why I am crying here). I am sitting here alone fighting with my iBook wondering why I ever bought it. The dang thing just stopped today, no warning, no signs... just stopped and won`t reboot. I have searched all over the web and the only person who seems to have a similar situation was not able to fix it after tring Disk Utility (which just hangs) Disk Warrior (or something like that which is supposed to be the best recovery option). I can`t get into single user mode for some reason. I just hope I can get the things that I dont have backed up (such as my latest norway photos which I had not put on CD yet) off with the Target disk mode.

I'm really not looking forward to reinstalling and getting everything set up just how I like it all over again.... dang! dang! dang!.... dang!

And then there's that paper I was working on for my thesis today... only a couple hours work, but still....

Oh yeah, I noticed my bike has a flat today too. What a crappy day.

Here in london it just froze, rained, and finally snowed a nominal amount. Just enough for you to freeze your ass off and have to de-ice the windscreen if driving.

We went around the British museum today, missed the rain and had lunch in covent garden.

We're in Tokyo in 3 weeks and saving supposedly. I've never had to hit savings so hard before. The years cost more but pay remains constant.

Random tidings...;)

So, after many hours and many tries, I have been able to connect via firewire using a friends iBook and target mode. The only problem now is that sometimes it hangs in finder as it is fighting with my mangled hard drive. There are only a few files in Users directory which I really want to get, and when trying to go into that directory, sometimes I can get deeper than other times, and sometimes it frezzes the finder. Why can't this just be easy? Why don't I back up my data daily? Hope this doesn't take all night...

I have DiskWarrior downloaded and waiting on standby in the event that I am unable to at least back-up some of my data, I will have to just hope that Disk Warrior is as good as they say and it can rescue whatever is left.

Isn't there some unix command that can do daily back-ups from your notebook to your server and vice versa?

Yeah, but the stuff that I wanted to get off is the stuff that was too big that I don't want to keep backing up to the server (gigabytes of photos)

But I suppose in the end I should worry less about filling up the server and more about loosing the data.

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