Persistance wins…
Well I’ve had a hugely busy week at work trying to get some testers completed with two weeks to go before I’m into this Full time and then….
My Computer starts having panic attacks! Well at first my RAID1 system took a dive. One Drive wouldn’t boot. Not a problem, I have Raid1 – which means I have two Hard Drives which are a mirror of each other. So in fact they are meant to be exact copies at all times.
So if one breaks (it’s more unlikely although not impossible to have them both break at the same time ) the other drive will get you up and running…
Well as Fate would have it, when the drive stopped booting, the 2nd “Mirrored” Drive turned out to have about… Oh over a years worth of missing files. Something happened a year back unknown to me that stopped it mirroring..”Oooops”! Red Face moment!
Anyway, got a backup drive to boot from (I’m using KUBUNTU 8.04 LTS) and got to talk to the faulty drive – HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF!…. So my Data wasn’t lost. Umm what happened to doing backups?
So after a bit if reading I got the “Non Booting” faulty drive up and running. Somehow the MBR got clobbered ( geek for it stopped booting) So I fixed that up and got up and running…. Then – the Video Drivers went AWOL. My Beloved Dual Screen was Kaput and my Video card wasn’t being recognised.
That was Tuesday… In the meantime, I’d come down with a mighty grand Flu/throat infection with a Fever so I was out of action for 3 days….
Come Saturday Morning and I’m trying hard to get my system back up. I eventually get it running well enough to hold my Class at InternetNicheLab and that was quite interesting with me attempting to do all the talking…
We did a bit of Database Design using DIA ( a free diagram program) and got into how to market a website and how to handle affiliates wanting to advertise on your websites. Hmm after all these years a lot of common sense came forth which I was quite delighted with. We also covered using Inkscape for performing Website Layouts, of which I had a few I had done and showed them to the group over the desktop sharing. Ahh technology, don’t you just love it…
See it does get in…. With just two weeks left before I’m doing this Fulltime and Fate wanting to throw it’s worst at me… One thing showed up and that is I am persistant! Giving up, hmm well that’s really just quitting. But taking a break and going onto something else to come back afresh on the problem. That’s just common sense and usually ends up solving the problem.
See, I got my video to work on one screen so I could at least hold my class.
After the Class, I got my dual Screen system up and running. Why it stopped… was due to a Kernal Upgrade which this time, wasn’t so smooth as usual.
Now just have to redo the Raid System and resynch it all…[Update] – All done. Both Raid Drives are up and running and synched with another drive on the side for occasional ( weekely ) backups, plus DVD backups of all my “stuff” I’ve created.
Fate tried it’s best…
Fate has tried it’s best to put a huge damper on things, but persistence must have made it decide to give me a break! If you believe in that stuff!
It’s true that great things happen when you are on the verge of everything going pear shaped.
Anyway, back to the planning, big things are afoot.
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Totally off topic but Sokule is going great guns. Check out my latest Sokule Page with all my affiliate links etc….I can even put up a Video and audio on it. But that’s for later on…
All the best
Tim Brownlaw
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