Monthly Archives: January 2004

Now the next Disk can fail…

Posted on 2004-01-28 [Wednesday] by [maven]

I also got the replacement harddisk for my RAID5 array and installed that before I went on to my laptop. It is currently rebuilding the array (which takes quite a while when Azureus is running ).Maxtor changed (in addition to … Continue reading →

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Laptop Arrival

Posted on 2004-01-28 [Wednesday] by [maven]

Got my notebook yesterday (Tuesday), as UPS (on instructions from Dell) refused to hand it over to my neighbours as I had instructed on Monday.There was a tiny problem with one of the lower metal “claws” of the keyboard which … Continue reading →

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Which way up?

Posted on 2004-01-25 [Sunday] by [maven]

Didn’t Blogger once have an option to order the posts in chronological order within a day? The current (other) way really screws up my logic!

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Thank God for RAID!

Posted on 2004-01-25 [Sunday] by [maven]

While doing all the defragging and partition-resizing, one of the disks in the RAID-array now tells me that a “S.M.A.R.T. failure [is] imminent”. Great. I have now ordered a new hard-disk from Alternate to replace the fudgy one. Of course, … Continue reading →

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(Pre-)Linux woes

Posted on 2004-01-25 [Sunday] by [maven]

As I’ve now been using GNU/Linux at work, I thought I might as well install it at home. I really liked Knoppix which works well with all my hardware. The problem now is that when you do a hard-disk install, … Continue reading →

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Tracking makes impatient

Posted on 2004-01-25 [Sunday] by [maven]

Ordered the laptop on the 18th, it was shipped on the 21st and should be here tomorrow. Knock on wood.

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Taking the plunge

Posted on 2004-01-18 [Sunday] by [maven]

Then ordered myself a really nice laptop (the price-range of which my parents do not entirely agree with…). I just hope that Dell‘s build quality is nice enough, in particular the keyboard – which according to reviews has not always … Continue reading →

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Gunslinger Girls

Posted on 2004-01-18 [Sunday] by [maven]

I also watched (big surprise there) 8 episodes of “Gunslinger Girls” in two days (which at my current rate is a whole lot). After hearing of it first, I thought it was made for me. Then I had fears, fueled … Continue reading →

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A proper Sub!

Posted on 2004-01-18 [Sunday] by [maven]

Kudos to AonE for picking up “Mezzo DSA”. Sometimes I feel that I don’t get the humour (either because it’s a difficult thing to translate or because I suck), but that doesn’t make it any worse; although their decision to … Continue reading →

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Mezzo DSA

Posted on 2004-01-10 [Saturday] by [maven]

I now have to catch up on nearly 5 days of anime-torrents… :S Having been a big fan of Yasuomi Umetsu’s “(A)Kite” and “Mezzo Forte”, I put the first “Mezzo DSA” episode at the very top of the queue, and … Continue reading →

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New Job

Posted on 2004-01-09 [Friday] by [maven]

Started my job unexpectedly early (Tuesday) and I only got a web- (and all other sorts of) account(s) today. Seems interesting so far, actually went to Goettingen by train today to hear a talk, so it was quite an adventure.This … Continue reading →

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More Snow

Posted on 2004-01-06 [Tuesday] by [maven]

[time-travelled post] This is the view from the DLR parking space near the building where I work onto the Braunschweig airport’s runways. The weather on the drive there from Hannover was abysmal (icy rain which froze up my wind-shield while … Continue reading →

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