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Friday, February 28, 2003
Technical Question 
| | Okay, so Drive 10 has taken seven hours to go through over a million steps to repair the volume structure of my 60GB drive. |
| | Now it's saying that it wants to rebuild the Volume Directory so it reduces from 34,618 folders to zero, increase the number of Volume Directory Files from 146,781 to 257,406, reduce the Volume Content Size from 21.5 GB to 1.4GB, change the Catalog B-Tree Leaf Record Count from 491,034 to 257,406, the Used Nodes from 11,949 to 1,525, and increase the Free Nodes from 5,075 to 15,499. In the Extents B-Tree department, it wants to change the Leaf Record Count from 234 to 94, the Used Nodes from 12 to 4 and the Free Nodes from 1,268 to 1,276. |
| | Some of these are "Favorable Changes" Others are "Unusual" and rendered in red. It's also saying I should back up the data. But I'm not even sure I can get *at* the data. |
| | Question: should I say "repair?" or quit, try to recover files, and then go through this seven-hour process all over again? |
| | [Later...] Right after I write tomorrow's blog, I'll try to back up again and run DiskWarrior. Thanks for all your help, everybody. |
Fund raising the blog way
| | Know anybody who wants to do A Good Thing with some money? Help our school finish buying its campus. |
DRM
| | Hal Abelson, MIT: Do not succumb to illusion that the public good is best served by forcing the strict alignment of practices with policy. |
| | Lucky Green: Why should you trust entitles that may not trust you? |
| | Dave Farber: Stop having religious discussions. |
| | Alex Alben: We need to maintain both personal use and copy protection in order to create a marketplace that works. |
| | Bob Blakey, IBM: Sum of all fears is redistribution. |
Downtime
| | Something is very wrong with my laptop. Anybody know what Norton Disk Doctor means when it says it can go no farther after encountering "Error 23019"? Of course, neither Norton nor Apple is available until after 6am, PST. It's 4:30am now. |
| | For reasons I also can't figure out, neither Linux box gets on the Net (at least they're alive... or one of them is). Only this old standby Mac seems to work. |
| | I was up early to get some work out of the way before I headed up to Palo Alto for the Spectrum thing tomorrow at Stanford. So it looks like I won't be going to the event, or to the big party on Sunday. There's just too much work left to do, and too much crap to sort out with the machinery. Major bummer. |
| | [Later...] I closed a heavy sliding door on the middle finger of my right hand, right behind the fingernail, making a mess and slowing my typing down considerably. Not my day. However, I've made *some* progress on the machine front. More details here. |
There are responses to this message:March 1, lou josephs, 2/28/03; 10:50:53 PM Re: Friday, February 28, 2003, Steve Mays, 2/28/03; 10:50:15 PM History, lou josephs, 2/28/03; 4:42:33 PM Re: Thursday, February 27, 2003, George Wright, 2/28/03; 2:39:56 PM Norton, lou josephs, 2/28/03; 2:29:32 PM
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