If it can perish, it will

June 15th, 2004 | by jg3 |

the primary disk in the primary machine started throwing SCSI errors today. A tense 35 minutes later and I’ve got what I believe is a solid dump(8) of the / and /usr filesystems to /backup which is on the mylex RAID.

I got the dying disk from Aaron P. like so many forevers ago. SCSI was so hawt then. It meant you weren’t screwing around with a workstation-class machine. No, there was real work to be done and you needed a server. Two procesors was also fairly new, but I mean if you see the SCSI cables (and notice the fact that the case is almost a meter tall of 5.25″ drive bays, well, of course it has two processors, let’s move on to the AGP.

Fortunately, I’ve now got a backup and another disk installed to dump(8) to besides the image on the RAID … and i’ll have space to put /usr/src and /usr/obj in /usr/src and /usr/obj again :)

But anyway, this isn’t about computers other than if and when something isn’t remembered, it is truly gone. On the way home I caught an article on NPR about the General Slocum ship going down. They interviewed the last survivor … she was 100 years old and died in January. Now nobody survived. Maybe some people watched, but they’re really old now. There is a monument somewhere in the NYC area the article described as being between the basketball hoops and tennis courts. I think a jogger wearing headphones just ran by and cursed because he thought it was a water fountain.

Everything you have is on loan and subject to being reclaimed by the universe at any given moment. Including, but not limited to, your consciousness.

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