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Tuesday, November 11

108,671 to go. Or thereabouts. Then I just have to reformat the external drive and copy all of those files back again. I hope that runs a bit faster than the file recovery process. Stellar Phoenix seems to be thorough and reliable, but it is not fast.
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I'm getting prices on upgrading or replacing all of my main computers. Although the individual parts are nice and cheap, when you add them all up the number is surprisingly large. Particularly when you start specifying RAID-5 with a hot spare as the standard storage configuration...
But it would be very nice to have everything working properly for a change. Or at least, to have enough parts around so that anything that plays up can get swapped out and sent back without having to juggle things endlessly.
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Monday, November 10

Another dead drive. IBM GXP-27 leaves behind the other three members of its RAID-5 set and all of its files. Thank G-d.
Look, you laws of physics/evil spirits/karma/planned obsolescence (delete where not applicable) this isn't funny anymore!
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Friday, November 07

The first release of the Fedora Project, the new home for the free version of Red Hat Linux, is out. I'll be giving it a whirl as soon as I've backed up the remaining 2.5 million files currently scattered around Pixy Central.
But from a quick scan of the package list, it would seem that Fedora suffers from one of Red Hat's major flaws: No Nethack. Dudley will realise how much of a problem this is, even if no-one else does.
There is good news on the Nethack front to be found here, at least.
Speedy and fearsome Q's, eh? What are they going to do, steal my K-Rations and throw up on my boots? Aiee! The worst attributes of nymphs and rust-monsters combined!
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Monday, November 03

Warlords IV is out. It uses the (very cool) Warlords Battlecry II graphics engine, but with good old Warlords-style turn-based play.
There's a new X-Com game out too. It's like 1990 all over again, only with better graphics.
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