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 Friday, February 28, 2003
started 2/28/2003; 7:24:59 AM - last post 2/28/2003; 10:50:53 PM
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Doc Searls - Friday, February 28, 2003 
2/28/2003; 11:24:59 AM (reads: 7464, responses: 10)
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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. |
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lou josephs - Norton
2/28/2003; 6:29:32 PM (reads: 578, responses: 0)
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I'll betcha it's your hard drive.
Looks like you'll have to work hard at getting into the latest edition of trival pursuit. A Jim Cutler promo made it in this time.
Details on the blog. www.myjamby.com/medianetwork.
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George Wright - Re: Thursday, February 27, 2003
2/28/2003; 6:39:56 PM (reads: 563, responses: 5)
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Doc,
Have any of your issues been addressed?
I don't use Norton so I can't answer that error message.
Were you able to compare your networks settings on the other boxes?
Need an in-house sysadmin?
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Doc Searls - Re: Thursday, February 27, 2003
2/28/2003; 8:29:30 PM (reads: 1610, responses: 4)
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The Linux boxes are back. In fact, I'm writing this right now on the Lindows MobilePC (which was a hit at the local LUG meeting last night, by the way). I got Dave Sifry to intimidate them. That's how it works with Dave. If a box knows Dave's around, it's on much better behavior.
I just got the spare TiBook back from the shop. That helps. It still has major hardware issues that may be too costly to repair (the trackpad button doesn't work and the battery charging curcuit is out); but it works with extenal keyboard and mouse, and AC power. Its contents are a clone of the rental I turned in two weeks ago. And it may help fix the main laptop, on which I'm currently running Drve 10. At the moment that program is busy repairing deely damaged volume structures. We'll see how it goes.
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lou josephs - History
2/28/2003; 8:42:33 PM (reads: 577, responses: 0)
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http://www.alinghi.com/en/index.php
Click the live webcast link. watching the boat go out. If they win it's over and for the 1st time in 152 years a European team wins the Americas Cup.
Check back at 830 or so EST 0130 UTC to watch the boat return and the party that's going to follow.
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George Wright - Re: Thursday, February 27, 2003
2/28/2003; 9:25:23 PM (reads: 828, responses: 0)
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Intimidation works!
Glad to hear your Linux boxes are back.
Almost brought tears to my eyes.
Those poor abused little boxes! :-)
Sounds like the collection plate may come in handy after all. ;-)
Oh! How's the Finger?
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gregory blake - Re: Thursday, February 27, 2003
3/1/2003; 1:20:54 AM (reads: 1392, responses: 2)
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I highly recommend DiskWarrior. This is what AppleCare recommended most to me the last time I had disc problems. It's never let me down at all. I have heard less than stellar things about both Norton and Drive 10 in comparison also.
I'm actually running it right now to fix a drive that has all sorts of crosslinked files (bah).
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Steve Mays - Re: Friday, February 28, 2003
3/1/2003; 2:50:15 AM (reads: 572, responses: 0)
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Famous techo-journalist's laptop goes missing. Turns up mysteriously some days later. Back to business as usual. Then, unexplained errors begin to appear. I'm not sure how to develop the story from there but it seems as though it would almost write itself. Maybe a hardware twist on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. It *looks* like my computer, but...
smays.com
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lou josephs - March 1
3/1/2003; 2:50:53 AM (reads: 586, responses: 0)
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No racing but we've got lots more live links including a webcast and a live radio station from Auckland (new talk and sports)
www.myjamby.com/medianetwork.
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Simon Lake - Re: Thursday, February 27, 2003
3/1/2003; 10:16:10 AM (reads: 970, responses: 1)
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Jeez Doc, whaddya doing? In fifteen years I only had one drive go on me and it was in a RAID pair. Three days later I had the replacement back from Singapore, slotted it in and away she went. Didn't even have to reboot. You must have a highly unstable aura :)
I think the clincher there with Drive 10 is its desire for reducing your directories to zero, which means the allocation table and its mandatory backup are both stuffed. In this situation you really want a utility that prompts you, file by mangled file, what to do and I can't recommend one for the mac.
But don't go ahead with what drive 10 wants to do unless you have a good backup.
You learned your lesson about backups after you got your laptop back, didn't you?
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Doc Searls - Re: Thursday, February 27, 2003
3/1/2003; 12:26:15 PM (reads: 1035, responses: 0)
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Thanks.
I last backed up about a week ago, but still, I'd hate to lose some of what I what I've done in the meantime.
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