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6 | <FONT FACE="Arial Black,Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE="4">Diary (pre-August)</FONT></FONT></P>
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7 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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8 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">July
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9 | 27th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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10 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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11 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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12 | have received some very interesting patches, one of which will wean
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13 | Mindi off the /dev/loop devices. I am evaluating <A HREF="http://www.bearshare.net">BearShare</A>
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14 | as a way to test-drive new music for free. No news is good news. I am
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15 | not releasing a new version of Mondo (or Mindi) for another week or
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16 | so, just in case something comes up. I also want to learn more about
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17 | ncurses-type interface. I would like to make Mondo's 'restore'
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18 | interface prettier.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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19 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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20 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>July
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21 | 2</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">5th,</FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I> 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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22 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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23 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">If
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24 | you are running a Lin/Win system, your restored Windows partition
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25 | with very little free disk space. If you run Scandisk after rebooting
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26 | into Windows, that will fix the problem.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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27 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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28 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Good
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29 | news: I have backed up my non-RAID system and restored with my /usr
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30 | partition as RAID-5 (XFS disk format). It worked, too.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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31 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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32 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>July
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33 | 22nd, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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34 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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35 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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36 | is behaving perfectly. I've just backed up, vaped and restored my
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37 | RAID-based dual-boot Lin/Win system (for the 5th time this week) and
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38 | I haven't lost any data at all. I am a happy bunny.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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39 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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40 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">(4
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41 | hours later) OK, I've done it (backup/wipe/restore) again.
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42 | Everything went splendidly. The thing is, either Mondo does its job
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43 | or it doesn't: the trick is to make it do its job 99.9% of the time.
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44 | If it doesn't work on your distro, I want to know about it.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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45 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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46 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Here's
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47 | something cute. I've just been told by a French user that
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48 | "Mondo" sounds like the French for my back ("mon
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49 | dos", with a silent S). So, Mondo is a pun in Italian and a
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50 | homophone in French. I just wish it would be reliable in Debian...</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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51 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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52 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>July
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53 | 19th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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54 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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55 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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56 | supports software RAID. I have backed up my system in non-RAID,
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57 | fabricated /etc/raidtab, restored to RAID, backed up again and
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58 | restored again. Everything worked fine (after I fixed a lot of bugs).</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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59 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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60 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>July
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61 | 1</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">7</FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>th,
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62 | 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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63 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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64 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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65 | am close to offering RAID support in Mindi/Mondo. Things are going
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66 | very nicely... and surprisingly quickly. I am waiting for a problem
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67 | or drawback that never comes. Mondo might even support RAID by the
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68 | end of July.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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69 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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70 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>July
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71 | 16th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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72 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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73 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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74 | v1.05 and Mindi v0.31 are out today. Again, I fixed some silly bugs.
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75 | Feedback would be appreciated. This release includes DoJ's devfs patch.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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76 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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77 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>July
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78 | 15th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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79 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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80 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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81 | v1.04 and Mindi v0.30 are out today. I fixed some silly bugs. Oh,
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82 | and <B>stop press</B> - DoJ has submitted a very cool patch to make
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83 | Mindi work with devfs-only kernels/distros. I'll look at that this week.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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84 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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85 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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86 | think my CD writer has been overheating. Anyway, Mondo v1.03 and
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87 | Mindi v0.29 are behaving well. I have backed up and nuke-restored my
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88 | system twice without any problems. Well, there was that one Out Of
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89 | Memory error reported by the kernel, which struck me as odd because
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90 | the computer has 256MB of RAM. Be that as it may, the new releases
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91 | look good to me. If you have any comments or questions, I would love
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92 | to hear them. Now I need to test these releases on other distributions...</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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93 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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94 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Debian
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95 | has been a boil on my butt since the first time I tried to use it.
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96 | It doesn't like Mindi, it doesn't like Mondo and it refuses to play
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97 | nicely with either. It generates bizarre errors that do not occur on
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98 | any other distros. It doesn't even come with <I>gawk</I>, for God's
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99 | sake, not even a shortcut to <I>awk</I>, so goodness knows what else
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100 | is wrong. If the Debian team spent less time acting all superior over
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101 | their .deb packaging format and more time making their distro a
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102 | little more accommodating to applications written by mere mortals
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103 | like me, they would be a lot more popular... and so would their distro.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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104 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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105 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>July
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106 | 14th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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107 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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108 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">The
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109 | new releases - Mondo v1.03 and Mindi v0.29 - include a lot of minor
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110 | bugfixes. Mondo now has a new interface to the restore engine. In
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111 | fact, I ported almost all of the restore-side code to C. I have found
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112 | the new program - 'mondo-restore' - to be fast and reliable. However,
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113 | if you have any problems, the old scripts (prep-me, restore-me, etc.)
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114 | will be on the ramdisk at restore-time if you need them.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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115 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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116 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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117 | have been getting a lot of feedback from users, which is helpful and
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118 | gratifying. I am trying not to be grumpy when users report bugs. :-)
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119 | However, please bear in mind that there are a dozen mainstream Linux
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120 | distros and over a hundred (deservedly) lesser-known ones. If you
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121 | want to help me chase these fireflies, your help would be most welcome.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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122 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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123 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Finally,
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124 | a cautionary tale. Either my CD writer malfunctioned or the CDRW
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125 | disk became damaged. Either way, I was unable to restore my system
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126 | from the most recent backup: there was a bad sector on the CDRW disk,
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127 | I think, which caused one of the tarballs to be irretrievable. So, I
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128 | restored from an older backup and downloaded the changed files from
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129 | the Web (the changed files being Mondo and Mindi *g*). So, folks, do
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130 | run that Compare Mode cycle, just to be sure your backup is good.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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131 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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132 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>July
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133 | 12</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">th,
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134 | 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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135 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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136 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo-rescue.c,
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137 | my replacement for Mondo's restore-time scripts, is coming along
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138 | nicely. It is stable, informative, much more attractive than the old
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139 | "Let's vomit our progress onto the screen and hope the user is a
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140 | speed-reader" presentation format. I hope to release something
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141 | next week.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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142 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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143 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Yes,
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144 | the "Support for GRUB" line in July 9th's notes was indeed
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145 | a typo.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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146 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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147 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>Ju</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">ly
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148 | </FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>9th,
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149 | 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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150 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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151 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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152 | have ported the Nuke Mode restore-side scripts to C, rolled them
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153 | into a single program and given said program an 'ncurses' interface.
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154 | It looks good. I'm still testing it and I shan't release it until it
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155 | is definitely stable, and even then, I will keep the old scripts
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156 | around just in case the executable goes nuts at the moment of truth.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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157 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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158 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">The
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159 | new interface is very basic: no colors, no fancy boxes, just a
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160 | checklist with "percentage done" next to each. It has
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161 | worked well in tests. Eventually, I want to write something a bit
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162 | like 'Disk Druid' so that the user can prep, format, mount and
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163 | restore interactively (and selectively). This is the beginning.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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164 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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165 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>Ju</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">ly
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166 | 7</FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>th,
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167 | 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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168 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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169 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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170 | v1.02 and Mindi v0.28 include some minor bugfixes - minor unless
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171 | you're the person who experienced the fatal error, anyway.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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172 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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173 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">This
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174 | weekend, I shall be testing Mondo and Mindi on different Linux
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175 | distributions. Mondo and Mindi appear to be stable; now is the time
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176 | for me to test them to within an inch of their life (as we say in England).</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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177 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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178 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>Ju</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">ly
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179 | </FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>5th,
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180 | 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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181 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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182 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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183 | have just backed up and restored my system using Mondo v1.01 and
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184 | Mindi v0.27; everything ran smoothly. Soon, I shall look at adding
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185 | RAID and LVM support to Mondo. At the moment, I am concentrating on
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186 | making Mondo as stable as I possibly can, especially at restore-time
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187 | (when "Syntax error" is the <I>last </I>thing you want to
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188 | see). I also want to add support for GRUB.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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189 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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190 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>Ju</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">ly</FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>
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191 | 4th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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192 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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193 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Okay,
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194 | this has been a long night. A silly bug turned up in Mindi v0.25
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195 | yesterday and I have been rewriting Mindi to formulate its boot/data
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196 | disks in a more reliable fashion. I have also been backing up and
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197 | restoring my system again and again (using Mondo), just to make sure
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198 | it behaves itself in a mission-critical situation. It <I>is</I>
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199 | mission-critical because I only have one hard drive, which means if
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200 | Mondo eats my data then I am screwed. You are reading this;
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201 | therefore, Mondo works, even on Lin/Win systems.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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202 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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203 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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204 | am intensively testing it, just to make absolutely sure there are no
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205 | sneaky bugs hiding in the restore scripts (i.e. Mindi) or in the
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206 | backup program (Mondo). However, there are no showstoppers left. Enjoy!</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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207 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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208 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>June
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209 | 30th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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210 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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211 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">My
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212 | sincere thanks go to Maciej Kulasa, Bruno Cornec, Jeroen van Pelt
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213 | and everyone else that stuck by Mondo (and me) through the last few
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214 | months. My personal life has been unpleasant at best. I am now
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215 | getting divorced. However, (a) my wife and I are still friends, and
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216 | (b) I am now in a position to resume Mondo's development.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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217 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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218 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">v0.99
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219 | is out and has been for some time. Thanks to Bruno, Maciej and
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220 | others, the project has not petered out. Now that I am back, I can
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221 | fix some bugs and release v1.00.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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222 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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223 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><I>March
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224 | 1</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">6</FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><I>th,
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225 | 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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226 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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227 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Well,
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228 | tomorrow will be my last day at Ingram, so I am making the most of
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229 | it by releasing a new version of Mondo. Please try v0.981 <I>and</I>
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230 | v0.99, to see which behaves better on your system. If you have any
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231 | problems, please e-mail the mailing list with a detailed bug report.
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232 | Tell me which distro of Linux you're using, which kernel, the exact
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233 | command with which you called Mondo (e.g. mondo --bkpath /
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234 | --exclude-paths yak yak yak) and the last 20 or 30 lines of your
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235 | /var/log/mondo-archive.log; or, if the problem is with the restore
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236 | side, describe what you see on the screen as best you can. The more
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237 | information you give me, the better equipped I am to help you.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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238 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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239 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">If
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240 | you are using CD-RW disks, or you are creating multi-CD backup sets,
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241 | your feedback would be particularly welcome.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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242 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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243 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">March
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244 | 12th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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245 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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246 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">v0.99
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247 | is nearly ready. The latest kernel (2.4.2) is broken and will not
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248 | run Mondo properly. However, v2.4.1 is OK.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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249 | <P>
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250 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">A
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251 | member of NLUG (www.nlug.org), the Nashville Linux User Group, has
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252 | alerted me to their existence. I've been living near Nashville for
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253 | almost two years and yet somehow I managed to remain oblivious to the
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254 | existence of NLUG. Sucks to be me. Oh well, now that I know they
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255 | exist, I am looking forward to attending. See, my head has been stuck
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256 | so far up my INS that I've not been getting out much. :-)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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257 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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258 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">March
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259 | 9th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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260 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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261 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">v0.981
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262 | is being re-rolled. (/proc wasn't being excluded from backup.) A new
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263 | tarball and a super-duper RPM should be available soon.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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264 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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265 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">v0.99,
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266 | Bruno Cornec's 2.4-compatible version of Mondo, looks <I>great</I>
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267 | and will soon be released. I'm asking Maciej Kulasa to make sure his
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268 | restore script-related bugfixes are present in v0.99. If they are,
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269 | the release is good to go.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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270 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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271 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">March
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272 | 7th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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273 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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274 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">My
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275 | wife was in surgery yesterday. She's fine, she's at home, she's
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276 | dosed up with painkillers and I'm keeping a close eye on her. She'll
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277 | be back at work on Monday. This has nothing to do with Mondo: I just
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278 | wanted to share. :-) I love her very much and I wouldn't be the man I
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279 | am today without her.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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280 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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281 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">OK,
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282 | on a Mondo-related note - v0.981 is out. Art Wells has done some
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283 | sterling work re-rolling the tarball. He also added 'dd', which was
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284 | missing for some reason. (My bad.)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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285 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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286 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">More
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287 | good news - Bruno Cornec has been working to make Mondo compatible
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288 | with the Linux 2.4-series kernel. He is also looking at making it RAID-compatible.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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289 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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290 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">February
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291 | 23rd, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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292 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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293 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Art
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294 | Wells has re-rolled the tarball for me. I'm releasing v0.98: it's
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295 | basically the same as v0.977 with some cosmetic changes. It still
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296 | says "v0.977" in some places but Art & I will fix that
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297 | before Monday, with a bit of luck.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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298 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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299 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">February
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300 | 20th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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301 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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302 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I'm
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303 | thinking of releasing v1.0 soon. It will be almost identical to
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304 | v0.977. The thing is, no-one has reported a serious bug in Mondo for
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305 | many months, so I am thinking that perhaps I should declare v1.0 in
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306 | order to get people's attention. Think about it: what is v1.0? It is
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307 | the first stable, feature-rich version of a program. Mondo has been
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308 | stable and feature-rich for months, with no reports of data loss.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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309 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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310 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">February
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311 | 19th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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312 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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313 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">To
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314 | the thugs dissing Mondo, y'all better stop hating on my boo or I'll
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315 | get heavy with my nine. I'm 'bout it and I ain't afeared of cocking
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316 | my gat and spraying you. See you at the crossroads. (Did I mention my
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317 | pants are 3 sizes too big?)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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318 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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319 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">OK,
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320 | so no news is good news.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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321 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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322 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Febuary
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323 | 12th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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324 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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325 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Angelfire
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326 | took down Mondo's tn2/hugo web site. Weird. I've set up a new site
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327 | athttp://www.angelfire.com/tn2/mondo;
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328 | let's see what happens.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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329 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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330 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">February
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331 | 9th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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332 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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333 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Mondo
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334 | v0.977 is out. It is a bug-fixing release. Special thanks are due to
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335 | Maciej Kulasa and Petre Scheie for their bugfixes. Also, my wife's
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336 | 1991 Ford Probe is back from the shop after nearly two months in &
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337 | out of there. Neill Sandler Body Shop, Murfreesboro, TN has charming
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338 | management but breathtakingly inept technicians.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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339 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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340 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">February
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341 | 7th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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342 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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343 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">If
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344 | you boil a frog slowly enough in a pot of water, it doesn't notice
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345 | the change in temperature and will die without a struggle. Voters are
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346 | the same way, I think. The last thirty years have seen significant
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347 | legal and social progress towards equal rights for women, homosexuals
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348 | and people of color. It would be a pity if the new President saw fit
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349 | to undo some of that progress.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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350 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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351 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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352 | never understood the Democrat/Republican thing anyway. In England, I
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353 | was considered right-wing because:-</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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354 | <UL>
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355 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P">
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356 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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357 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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358 | am not opposed to hunting</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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359 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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360 | think the Government should interfere as little as possible in
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361 | people's lives</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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362 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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363 | am OK with civilians owning guns (although <I>I</I> don't want one)</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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364 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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365 | do not think abortion should be used as a form of contraception</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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366 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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367 | don't think throwing money at a problem will solve it</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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368 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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369 | don't have a problem with private school education</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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370 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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371 | support religious education in schools</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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372 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Conservative
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373 | != Fascist, IMO</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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374 | </UL>
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375 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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376 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">However,
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377 | in America I am considered left-wing because:-</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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378 | <UL>
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379 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P">
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380 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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381 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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382 | think Affirmative Action is an excellent idea whose time has come</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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383 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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384 | believe in cheap, affordable healthcare <I>for all</I> (and I'm not
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385 | against insurance, just against being ripped off)</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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386 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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387 | don't want to interfere with a woman's reproductive system, whether
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388 | I agree with her decisions or not (assuming she told me, which of
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389 | course she wouldn't because it's none of my business)</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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390 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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391 | don't trust the Christian Coalition</FONT></FONT></FONT><BR>
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392 | <LI CLASS="mvd-P"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Socialist
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393 | != Communist, IMO</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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394 | </UL>
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395 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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396 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">And
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397 | what's with this Electoral College thing? They say that if we
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398 | abolish it then Presidential candidates won't bother campaigning
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399 | anywhere but California and Florida. <I>So what?</I> I hope the
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400 | candidates don't campaign at all; I hope that, instead, they stay
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401 | home and publish their views in their respective puppet newspapers so
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402 | that I know where they stand and therefore who I should vote for.
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403 | However, if I'm wrong and people do in fact vote for a familiar face
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404 | rather than a good heart, God help us...</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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405 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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406 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">The
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407 | only rational attitude I have found is to regard the American left-
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408 | and right-wing ideologies as economic in basis, and that anything
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409 | else is done to win votes. The Democrats get the black vote because
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410 | most people think the Republican party is racist. The Republicans get
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411 | the Christian vote because most people think the Democrats are a
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412 | bunch of godless pedants. (I wonder who black Christians vote for?
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413 | Maybe they don't...)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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414 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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415 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">February
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416 | 6th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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417 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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418 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Mondo
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419 | v0.977 is about to be released. Maciej Kulasa has built a new
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420 | hboot.img file (the floppy disk image) with some important bugfixes.
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421 | Outstanding! This will be incorporated in a new RPM/tarball release shortly.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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422 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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423 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">The
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424 | bad news is I can't ftp-upload or telnet from this PC: the firewall
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425 | is just too strict. Sheesh. I guess I had better not try using </FONT></FONT><A HREF="http://www.nmap.org"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Nmap</FONT></FONT></A><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"> then...</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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426 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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427 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">February
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428 | 1st, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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429 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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430 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">Ever since I
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431 | got to this country, people have been trying to screw me (in
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432 | business, not in my personal life; I mention that in case my wife
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433 | reads this). Two car repair companies, my first employer and now my
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434 | local karate club have tried to screw me. To be fair, the club's
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435 | sensei had no idea his credit people were doing what they were doing:
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436 | they had kept it from him, for some strange reason.</FONT></FONT></P>
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437 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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438 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I have no
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439 | doubt that most Americans and therefore most American businesses are
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440 | charming, honest and respectable. However, I do have to wonder if
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441 | "Please fsck with me!" is written on my forehead in an ink
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442 | which only rednecks can read.</FONT></FONT></P>
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443 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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444 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">January
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445 | 30th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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446 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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447 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I'm
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448 | ba-ack! Lots of bugfixes to roll into the next release. I want to do
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449 | something with 2.4 because it allows for a variable-size ramdisk,
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450 | specified at boot-time. That would mean 2.4 users could use their own
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451 | kernel, modules, tools, etc. when creating Mondo's boot disks. It
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452 | could even open the door to a multi-floppy mini-distro based on the
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453 | user's own system.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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454 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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455 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I'm
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456 | very excited to be 'back on the case'. Anyone who wants to
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457 | participate, would you please join the mailing list.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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458 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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459 | <I><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">September
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460 | 1st, 2000</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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461 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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462 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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463 | am releasing v0.976 (alpha) early. I can't test it, so I'm hoping
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464 | some brave souls will do it for me. Ain't I a lazy bum? :-) Check it
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465 | out & send me your feedback, please.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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466 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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467 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">This
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468 | new release uses only 25-30MB of each CD for overheads, compared to
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469 | 60-70MB previously. It should support ReiserFS. It won't support GRUB
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470 | yet: I need some intrepid GRUB users to help me. It has a few minor
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471 | bugfixes, too.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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472 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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473 | <FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2">I
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474 | have no clue if it'll work for Windows... but if it does, the
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475 | requisite ISO (without archives - you know, 'mondo-archive
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476 | --no-bkpath') would be small enough to be put on the web site. That
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477 | way, non-Linux users could still backup their Windows PCs. Neat, eh?</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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