A while back for my birthday, I bought a USB hard drive to back up my FreeBSD server to … one of those Toshiba portable drives … 320GB … rather nice. Anyway, I’ve been fighting with the server to get it to recognize the disk. Concluded Monday that the USB port wasn’t giving it enough power so I swiped a USB/Firewire card out of a computer we were discarding at work. I installed it tonight and lo and behold, it can see the drive. Unfortunately, when I did a newfs on the drive, it brought down the server (wow … I crashed FreeBSD!). I think I’ve had enough of things crashing today (yeah, work sucked this morning).
In other news, I’ve recently heard from a friend I hadn’t gotten an email from in several months, so that made me quite happy. She and her family are doing well. I’ve gotten in touch with some classmates and college friends as well via Facebook. Tonight, Liz and I attended the Dance Theatre banquet, and that was enjoyable. Afterwords I came home and crashed my server and renewed my domain name for 3 more years. Anyway, last night was a late night, so tonight we’re going to try to get into bed at a semi reasonable hour.
