That quote, my friends, is from the movie The People vs. Larry Flynt. (Oddly enough, it didn’t make my favorites list, although I did see it twice — in the theatre).
The quote is also symbolic of the fact that CherryStem.com is back online. Last Saturday, one of my hard drives hemorrhaged, bringing my computer to its knees. I meant to do regular back-ups. I promise. Some crucial filesystems on the drive were damaged beyond repair. After a week of becoming a bit more educated on data forensics, corrupted filesystems, and lost superblocks, all appears well again…. and, as far as I know, I didn’t lose anything important — data or, umm, media.
I’m very thankful for tools like a Live CD from Ubuntu and the open source GNU data recovery tool, ddrescue. One piece of advice to everyone is to keep a second hard drive installed, largely unpartitioned and unformated for emergencies like these.
On a more lively note, let’s all celebrate with a snack — deep-fried, bacon-wrapped, cheese dogs. An added thanks to MK for bringing this delicacy to my attention.
#1 by DrJ on November 4th, 2007
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Good to see the PDL is back up and running.
Can I change my dream day? Instead of a sandwich I would like to substitute above the mentioned hot dog (with gravy, of course). I’d like to see Mr. Kobayashi eat 50 of these!