Take Two

I decided to go into uni and update/reinstall my machine, because I wanted to have two root partitions on it. One for experiments (such as moving to devfs) and general bloat (to impress friends — they generally won’t be impressed by e.g. the blackbox window manager that is my preferred choice) such as kde/gnome etc. etc.

I had a lot of trouble getting online; pump didn’t have any problem obtaining an IP, but I simply could not connect to anywhere. I could not even ping the dhcp-server, nor, did I later discover, the IP it gave me! Something was fishy indeed.

I eventually tracked down the problem; the network address given to me was wrong, so either the University DHCP-server gave me the wrong network address — or the version of pump I was using that calculated the wrong one. Anyway, by using a static IP (using most of the info from pump) I was soon online and started updating things.

During all the updating and moving data back and forth I slipped and accidentally deleted much of my home directory. Ouch. Earlier, I had just realised that I had deleted my CVS repository. Double ouch. I think the time is ripe for a backup-strategy. Down the maelstrom went the sources for my web page, but since I have presented a small example of how my sources look like on the web and, more importantly, the macro-file used to make xhtml out of it was there as well, it was all recovered within an hour.