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Recently I had a power failure last 3 seconds past the life of my UPS and now my most crucial server will no longer POST. Naturally.

Luckily I had all data backed up to another server (which still powers on) but what if this wasn't the case? Is the data gone forever?

Of course not. It's just a little more complicated since the data consisted of a RAID 5 with 3 SATA drives and LVM on top of that. How'd I get my data back? A little help from KNOPPIX, mdadm, modprobe, …

Cutest, nephew, ever!

Wow ... long time no post.

Since the site got a facelift, I've decided to try and be more proactive about making posts, adding projects to the Projects space, etc. (Oddly enough I recall saying this to myself a few other times before). Who knows, maybe this time will be different now that I've retired Drupal and Gallery for good, and am sticking to Confluene for content and http://gallery.me.com/nickragusa for pictures.

And so on to the content. …

pick a disk. any disk.

a catchy phrase, along with many others on bullet #4 of apple's new-features-for-leopard website. perhaps this should be rephrased to "pick a disk (and by any we mean either USB of Firewire attached locally, or connected to an AirPort Extreme™ and shared via Bonjour, and formatted with HFS+)". i guess the later wasn't as cool.

ok. so what about those who don't have a USB of Firewire disk lying around? granted, …

can't think of anything to get me this year? i made an amazon wish list!

over thanksgiving break, i was lucky enough to take a trip to the future home of the new york yankees. mr permahos (better known as amanda's papa) is a project manager for the new stadium and invited mr. rackover (amanda's dad), booty, and myself to take a tour with him around the construction site. …

i've posted a few more photos of the office. still plenty more to come.

last week we finally got to move in to our new space at work. the ground level 'basement' of my building was recently renovated to allow my department were the only ones to inhabit it. here's a picture of my new cube with amanda.

Ok, so since I'm a total nerd, I have to show support for my fellow nerdians. I've been using Linux for only about 5 years, but they were 5 years of non-stop usage. After touching just about every distro available (Gentoo, Ubuntu, Slackware, Debian, CentOS, RHEL) I must say, Ubuntu has finally done something right. Community support rocks, and it's the closest thing to 'it just works'. Granted, I'm glad I had my Linux career start with Slackware, and then on to Gentoo, …

it's not too difficult to justify the title. is he not the most adorable baby you've ever seen?

curious how i made the photo? i'll post a how to shortly.

want to see other black and whites?