And to celebrate; the obligatory screenshot. Note the apps: tomboy, wp_tray, an “alltray’d” terminal, and networkmanager in the top panel; and deskbar-applet in the bottom panel. Oh yeah.

Yeah, dist-whiprushed upgraded to breezy last night on my FujiP. Even though I rsync’d my shit to my firewire disk, the upgrade went perfectly. Now I’m just getting the last couple of differences between RC and release; that way I’m not hammering the mirrors on release day. Yay!

Congrats to Jorge on the release of The Fridge. Nice job, man!

Also kudos to all those Breezy developers – the upgrade from Hoary to Breezy went without a hitch on this goofy old Crusoe-powered FujiP, and things that didn’t work on Hoary (networkmanager, deskbar-applet) are working like a champ on Breezy. You guys rock!

I’m testing a palm-based blog client – U*Blog – while I’m waiting for the doctor. Not that I’m terribly sick today, but I’m not feeling all that well either. Last time I ignored these symptoms; I came down with pneumonia. That’s an experience I don’t care to repeat… Ick.

Anyway, U*Blog appears to be a pretty nifty blog client. It supports image attachments, multiple blogs, and all the Movable Type XML-RPC stuff (one day I’ll get around to migrating from MT 2.661, but not today…)

Using this in conjuction with the lifedrive and the Palm Wireless Keyboard is pretty nice as well. I can type almost as fast on this as I can on my fujip, and the whole setup disappears into a couple of cargo pockets. I have used the lifedrive, keyboard, and bluetooth enabled cellphone to ssh into work systems in a pinch, now I can blog from this setup too. Nifty.

But this one’s funny if I put #linux regulars (and ex-regulars) in there.

You get the idea….

Wow, three posts with “fuck” in the title. I think that’s a new record. If you read this; sorry Mom, but I am REALLY pissed about this.

I already ranted about my first 200GB Maxtor disk having trouble. I was able to bring it back from the dead, though - and started getting ready to RAID it and the 250GB Maxtor disk I have. I fired up the RAID util in OS X last night and went to bed with the happy “RAID Rebuilding” message…

This morning, I checked the RAID status. “RAID Online” was what I got. All right. I double-clicked on the array, and what do my shocked ears hear? Click-click-clunk-whirrr… click-click-clunk-whirrr… over and over from the 250GB disk. Deep sigh from me, but I’m not too freaked – all my data is finally safe on the 200GB disk and on the 160GB RAID-5 array my Linux server has.

Fast forward to 2pm today, when I finally get around to calling Maxtor. I go through their phone tree and finally get a warm body after about 40 minutes of messing around with the retarded auto attendant. She asks for the serial number of the drive and I happily give it to her, thinking I’m on my way to a refurb’d or replaced disk. She puts me on hold… then about five minutes later comes back and asks, “Where did you buy this disk?” I reply with, “From an auction at my daughter’s school - it was new in the shrinkwrap and everything.” She reponds, “That explains it. This serial number is shown as donated – there’s no warranty for this item.” I immediately go apoplectic… “I bought the thing in MAY!!! I have DATA ON THIS DISK!” She says, “Well, we can’t warranty it because our company donated it.” I go into full fuck-it mode, and reply, “Well, if I can’t talk to a supervisor or someone who can help me, this will be my last Maxtor purchase.” She replies with, “That’s OK sir. I hope you have better luck elsewhere.” THEN SHE HANGS UP.

I am DONE with Maxtor. What they don’t know is I manage ~200 servers, and each one has several disks. As they fail, I will be replacing them with anything BUT Maxtor disks. Who wants to join my Maxtor boycott?