I got a big new disc for my Linux box, and copied over my home files from the corrupt old disc, apparently without problems.

I also upgraded from Red Hat 7.1 to RH 9 – and adjusting is a bitch!

Argh. My Linux box’s HD has somehow gone too corrupt to boot (or reinstall). I guess I need to find data-recovery service.

Meanwhile I’m using my old Mac – too old for MacOS X, and therefore too old for Mozilla. I’m stuck with Netscape 4.5, which cannot digest Unqualified Offerings.

Later: I got a new disk, installed Linux on that, and copied my old stuff over; the rot apparently did not affect the content.

QOTD:

I’ve seen a lot of science-fiction movies. Before now I never knew what a couple hundred thousand flying metal squid fighting a couple thousand heavily armed steel apes in a concrete hemisphere about a quarter mile across while occasional giant drill bits fall from the ceiling like deadly stalactites (pause for breath) looked like.

John & Belle Have A Blog: Matrix Revolutions

Incidentally, I wonder how many of you who write raw HTML take a secret pleasure in re-wrapping the lines to emphasize the phrasing, using EOL as an invisible demi-comma. (2004 Oct 26: That habit came back to bite me, when I converted my archives to WordPress which may be considered to have a bug when it comes to newlines.)

If you like my mathematical doodles you’ll like BIT-101 ActionScript Laboratory — hundreds of little exercises in Flash, by Keith Peters. (Found on Joshua Schachter’s muxway by Dan O’Neill)

One useful 404 notice:

The requested URL /~bthomas/vamp/vampecology.htm was not found on this server.

bthomas is not a current Leland user.

That saves me the trouble of climbing down the directory tree.

Jon Callas:

Remember, the truly evil thing about Microsoft is that because of them, we think of unix as the good stuff.

Google too is afflicted by spam. (Link from Gordon Joly.)