You’ll have to forgive me for writing about something serious for a change, but a couple of things have been hitting way too close to home lately. I was planning on writing this a few days ago, but had a server outage and couldn’t.

By now, I shouldn’t have to tell you about the Virginia Tech shooting. As a college student myself, and specifically an engineering major, you can imagine that that was fairly unnerving for me. But, even more shocking for myself was something that happened in my home town of Lexington last week.
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So, in the process of moving my server’s OS to a different hard drive, I managed to completely destroy my Ubuntu installation.  I didn’t have a Dapper disk handy to reinstall from, so I had to use a Feisty disk to get my server back up and running.

For a while, I thought I had lost my entire archive of posts here, but fortunately, I was able to restore the SQL databases manually.  However, anything else that this server handles is currently out of commission.  Mail, FTP, whatever: it’s not working.  This means that if you try and email me in the next 24 hours or so, there’s a good chance I won’t get it.  I hope to have this issue resolved as soon as possible, but I’m headed to sleep now and won’t get a chance to look at it until morning.

Hopefully this Summer, I’ll get a chance to rebuild my desktop computer. I haven’t had a desktop in a little over a year now, but lately I’ve been wanting to rebuild one. I’ve got two options, and I haven’t decided on which one I want to go with, or how to pay for it. Birthday money is always a possibility, or I could always get a part time job for the Summer.
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