{"id":358,"date":"2005-11-21T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T07:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2005-11-22T02:01:11","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T07:01:11","slug":"my-disk-died-and-im-in-intech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/21\/my-disk-died-and-im-in-intech","title":{"rendered":"my disk died, and i&#8217;m in intech"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Caught <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0116259\">Extreme Measures<\/a>; not too bad a show.<\/li>\n<li>My disk on the Thinkpad (potter) died. Taking with it, some recent work, and lots of mail from mid-August till now. So if you sent me something important, don&#8217;t hesitate to send it down my way again, thanks. I probably lost a bit of ~\/Desktop\/Downloads for certain as well. But I don&#8217;t think there was much &#8220;real work&#8221; in recent times that I&#8217;d have lost (seeing that everything real, tends to sit on the Net somehow). R.I.P. No more Samsung disks for me, ever. 5,400rpm\/80GB.<\/li>\n<li>Downloading FC-4\/i386 now. Its about time I head out for a hair cut, and get a new disk as well. Point to note is that disks are <em>cheaper<\/em> in Melbourne than they are in KL.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, yes, thanks for all the SMSes telling me I was in today&#8217;s Star <a href=\"http:\/\/star-techcentral.com\/\">In.Tech<\/a>. Yes, it is me. Well, it was me, like seven years ago. I don&#8217;t look anywhere near that young any longer. Article in question is the &#8220;Protecting our borders in Cyberspace&#8221;, yes that&#8217;s xearth running on my desktop, with PGP freeware, and the other one has a blank terminal that may have had gpg running.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20my%20disk%20died%2C%20and%20i%27m%20in%20intech&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2005%2F11%2F21%2Fmy-disk-died-and-im-in-intech&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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