March 18th, 2008
For those of you who’ve listened to Zappa’s Overnite Sensation and been mystified by his references to “Zircon Encrusted Tweezers”, wonder no more:
“…by placing a pair of zircon-encrusted tweezers in the hands of his dental-floss-farmer-to-be in `Montana’, Zappa is displaying an intimate awareness of the culture of the Wild West, now vanishing under a carpet of fast-food joints and auto dealers.”
Read the full explanation in this Usenet post by Dan Rabin.
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March 16th, 2008
My server suffered a complete hard drive failure, and I didn’t have a backup of the SQL database, which included all my blog posts. Oh well.
I hadn’t backed up my dpkg list, either, so reinstallation of all the services was a bit of a nightmare. (mysql and postfix somehow ended up switching uid’s, which played mayhem on the existing config files.)
Everything seems to be back to normal now, though. I have now implemented MySQL backups and performing a “dpkg –get-selections” to a remote site, nightly. This should shorten the recovery time should a failure like this occur again.
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