by rose4emily » Fri Apr 30, 2004 11:29 pm
Unfortunately, it seems Murphey paid me a visit and threw some shit into the fan today - my hard drive (which already had one fatal partition table corruption so bad that Windows and serveral versions of Linux refused to be installed) decided to once again put me in my place. Consequently I spent the day scrambling to salvage as much data as I could, re-install Fedora, finish my CS project, and re-install all my apps.
Good news - that FTP server I set up for this project just saved my ass data-wise, as it was still running along with limited rescue-disk-based command-line functionality, giving me the power to get most of my school work, media collections, and project data off of my computer and onto my roommates so I could reformat. More good news, Linux is back up.
Bad news, it'll probably take until the end of the weekend to restore all my apps (including the FTP), and some of the project files were corrupted in the crash. I lost the PNG and HuffYUV versions of my video, leaving only the compressed versions (which fortunately are very clean in the parts where I've polished them, and can still be polished in the rest once I have CinePaint back up). When I do get the FTP back up, everyone should check their folders to see if something important is missing. Old versions aren't that big a loss, having been replaced, but it'd be nice to know whether I got all of the new ones off successfully. I do think I got all of the music off successfully, but didn't have a list, so once again am not really sure.
I do wonder if anyone got Anubsx00's or my video off of the server before the whole thing went down. There were a few hours of availability wedged in there.
DWP - 640MiB Huffman, not bad. Mine was 2.1 Gigs before I lost it.
And I still have a guide to write for the Linux-based video editing folk. Already asked AbsoluteDestiny about it, so I should probably get to work - starting with the installation guides that I conveniently get to walk myself back through.
Fun.
may seeds of dreams fall from my hands -
and by yours be pressed into the ground.