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| 6 | <FONT FACE="Arial Black,Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE="4">Diary (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">August
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| 9 | 31st, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 11 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">As
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| 12 | Kermit the Frog once said," It's not that easy being green,
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| 13 | having to spend each day the color of the leaves, when I think it
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| 14 | could be nicer being red, or yellow or gold, or something more
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| 15 | colorful like that." I am feeling pretty blue right now. A few
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| 16 | days from now, I shall be single again. To my horror, I realize that
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| 17 | at this moment in time no-one is in love with me. I guess I shall
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| 18 | have to find a Mondo user with a short skirt and a long jacket...</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 20 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">At
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| 21 | the moment, I am working on mondo-restore.c; some users have
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| 22 | reported bugs in the big file restoration phase but I am unable to
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| 23 | replicate said bugs. However, I am rewriting the C code to make it
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| 24 | easier to understand and to make it generated detailed feedback while
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| 25 | it restores, so that when users send me their log files I can figure
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| 26 | out exactly what is going on.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 27 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 28 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 29 | 30th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 30 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 31 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">By
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| 32 | the way - on November 26th, 2001, I shall start spelling in British
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| 33 | English. I use American English at the moment but once I'm back in
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| 34 | Britain y'all will have to watch as I practise my licence to colour
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| 35 | myself. :-)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 36 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 37 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Another
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| 38 | day, another Mondi/Mindi release. We are now up to Mindi v0.39 rel 6
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| 39 | and Mondo v1.13 rel 7. They are bugfix releases and they are fine. If
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| 40 | they were women and I were a male chauvanist pig, I would eye them up
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| 41 | and say, "Yo, baby got back!" (I would then be suspended
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| 42 | for subjecting innocent software to sexual harassment in the workplace.)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 43 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 44 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Yesterday
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| 45 | evening, it was my pleasure to present Mondo to the Nashville Linux
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| 46 | User Group. The audience was very interested, very appreciative and
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| 47 | very quiet! I had a great time and I gather they did too. Mondo
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| 48 | behaved iself when I wiped and restored my system, except for a
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| 49 | couple of cosmetic bugs which I have now fixed. My grandfather used
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| 50 | to say, "Go everywhere twice - once for a good time and once to
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| 51 | apologize." I hope I am at next month's NLUG meeting. Their
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| 52 | meetings are off the chain, dawg, for real. (In case you were
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| 53 | wondering, I don't front, nor do I play, although I have known to trip.)</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">I
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| 56 | am going back to England in under three months. It would be selfish
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| 57 | and short-sighted for me to allow myself to be attracted to a woman
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| 58 | while I'm over here. My divorce comes through in a matter of days, so
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| 59 | technically I could sleep with a woman if I wanted ('technically'
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| 60 | because I'm not looking hard and I'm not sure I'm particularly
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| 61 | appealing). However, I really don't think it would be ethical for me
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| 62 | to do that. As a good friend of mine put it to me recently, men say
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| 63 | they don't have a problem with one-night stands but they do; and, as
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| 64 | I said in response, I tend to fall in love with the women that I
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| 65 | sleep with. That is one reason I am so picky: it is a form of self-defense.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 66 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 67 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">If
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| 68 | I could avoid falling in love and if I could just find a woman who
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| 69 | found me attractive, then a one-night stand would be an interesting
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| 70 | experiment. You see, I've never had one. I have had two lovers; the
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| 71 | first was a mistake and the second one I married (draw your own
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| 72 | conclusions about that one!). I am not emotionally backward; I am not
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| 73 | frigid; I am not afraid of women. I love women's company. It's just
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| 74 | that until I met my wife, I didn't have the guts to come out and say,
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| 75 | "Okay, [your name], I think you're absolutely adorable, you're
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| 76 | so much fun to be with, would you like to go out with me [as
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| 77 | something more than a friend]?"</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 78 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 79 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Well,
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| 80 | as I said to that certain good friend of mine, I am dating a girl
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| 81 | but I am not <I>dating</I> her. That is, we go out to lunch, we see
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| 82 | movies together, we hang out... and that's it. Only today did I
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| 83 | muster the courage to say, "If I told you I thought you were
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| 84 | fascinating, intelligent, warm, kind and a lot of fun to be around, a
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| 85 | great person to be with,... what would you say?" She beamed but
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| 86 | said nothing. She has told me in the past that she loves my company,
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| 87 | that I am 'precious' and very sweet, and frankly I am content with
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| 88 | that. I am not looking for hot sex or passionate flings.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 89 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 90 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Of
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| 91 | course, hot sex would be nice but it, like a good Sly Stallone
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| 92 | movie, is hard to find; so hard, in fact, that often you'll settle
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| 93 | for something mediocre and pretend it's twice as good as it is, just
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| 94 | to try to satisfy yourself. Wait, did I just mention Sly Stallone and
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| 95 | sexual release in the same sentence? Eek, I need a vacation!</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 96 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 97 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 98 | 28th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 99 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 100 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">OK,
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| 101 | now it's August 28th. I've released yet another Mondo/Mindi set.
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| 102 | We're now up to Mondo v1.13 rel 6 and Mindi v0.39 rel 5. I've just
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| 103 | vaped and restored my entire system with them. They are looking
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| 104 | seriously good. I am very pleased with them.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 105 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 106 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">[Earlier]
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| 107 | Technically, it is late August 27th. I have been stomping bugs all
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| 108 | evening. There were a lot of silly restore-time bugs that did not
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| 109 | present themselves until I restored my Red Hat system in an
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| 110 | all-or-nothing, please-God-let-this-work restore over the very system
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| 111 | I had just backed up. I have stomped over 20 bugs in an evening. The
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| 112 | bugs never should have crept into the software in the first place, of
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| 113 | course, but oh well...</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 114 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 115 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 116 | 26th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 117 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 118 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 119 | v1.13 (final) is out. It is looking very good. Most of the
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| 120 | improvements and additions were made to the restore-time software,
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| 121 | stuff you never see unless you have an emergency or you decide on a
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| 122 | whim to wipe and restore your system.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 123 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 124 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Red
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| 125 | Hat's newt library is groovy. It is thanks to newt that I was
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| 126 | finally able to write an attractive restore-time interface <I>and</I>
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| 127 | a useful mountlist editor. The mountlist editor is particularly cool,
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| 128 | IMNSHO, because it checks the mountlist-to-be as you edit it. The
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| 129 | flaws and potential problems are displayed at the bottom of the
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| 130 | window, below the list of /dev/xxx's and /mnt/yyy's. If there are
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| 131 | lots of problems, there are lots of messages. Each time you resolve a
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| 132 | problem, one message goes away. Each time you create a problem, a
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| 133 | message is added. Simple.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 134 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 135 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Fran
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| 136 | Boon pointed out that it's a bit silly of me to post multiple
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| 137 | releases with identical filenames. Consequently, v1.13 release 4 is
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| 138 | also v1.13 (final). There were 3 beta releases prior to the final
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| 139 | (fourth) release. Incidentally, the mountlist editor was Fran's idea.
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| 140 | I have been talking with Fran for about a month, blissfully unaware
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| 141 | that Fran is a guy. Fran, in England, means Frances. A buddy of mine
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| 142 | read my web site and cringed with embarrassment: he had always
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| 143 | assumed Fran was a guy (which <I>he</I> was, it later transpired).
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| 144 | Oops. Sorry, Fran.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 145 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 146 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 147 | have been getting a lot of erroneous bug reports from users whose
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| 148 | kernels don't work with Mondo. Mondo creates boot disks, a
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| 149 | non-trivial task. Some kernels just do not work on boot disks.
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| 150 | Mondo's kernel-related requirements are covered in the Mondo FAQ,
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| 151 | Mondo's Download page and Mindi's Download page. In addition, Mondo
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| 152 | does offer the user the chance to use Mondo's kernel instead of the
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| 153 | user's own. If you have trouble getting Mondo to work, try saying 'N'
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| 154 | when asked, "Do you want to use your own kernel (Y/N)?".</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 155 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 156 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 157 | 25th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 158 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 159 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 160 | and Mindi get better with each release. Please try the betas if you
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| 161 | are feeling brave. I am doing my best to make Mondo support Red Hat's
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| 162 | "LABEL=" extensions to /etc/stab.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 163 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 164 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">This
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| 165 | latest beta includes a fancy-shmantzy mountlist editor. I'm still
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| 166 | testing it but I think it's groovy, baby.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 167 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 168 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 169 | 23rd, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 170 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 171 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 172 | v1.13 (beta 2) and Mindi v0.39 (beta 2) are out. They support Red
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| 173 | Hat's "LABEL=" extensions to /etc/fstab. OK, now be warned:
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| 174 | I have not tested this code properly yet. It seems to work just fine.
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| 175 | However, I have not yet run the backup/compare/restore cycle. I shall
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| 176 | do that tonight. If it all works, fine. If it doesn't, I shall know
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| 177 | in 24 hours or less.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 178 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 179 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 180 | 22nd, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></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 | fixed some minor bugs in the new 1.13 beta & uploaded fresh
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| 184 | packages. The latest backup matched my live filesystem; great. It
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| 185 | looks as if I have fixed the 'sorry, may I please have a CD that
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| 186 | doesn't exist?' bug.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 187 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 188 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 189 | 21st, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 190 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 191 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mark
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| 192 | Hannah found a bug in mondo-restore (the C program, not the
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| 193 | scripts). If you try to restore a really big file that was spread
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| 194 | across two or more CD's then sometimes mondo-restore will just sit
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| 195 | there: it won't move on to the next CD. Or, if you are comparing a
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| 196 | really big file, it will ask for a CD that doesn't exist. I am fixing
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| 197 | the code now. In the meantime, if you experience that particular
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| 198 | problem, please use the scripts instead. (See the ramdisk's README
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| 199 | file for details.)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 200 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 201 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Fran
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| 202 | Boon gave me a long list of comments and suggestions. Thanks, Fran.
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| 203 | Feedback is always appreciated. I'll implement 90% of the changes she
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| 204 | recommends. Do other users have wishlists they would like to send me?</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 205 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 206 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Oops!
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| 207 | The failsafe 2.4.7 kernel is compiled for the K7. My bad. I'll fix
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| 208 | that tonight... [Later] OK, I've released Mindi v0.39 and Mondo
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| 209 | v1.13; they're both in beta but I want to get these bugfixes out
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| 210 | there NOW.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 211 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 212 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 213 | 18th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 214 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 215 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">The
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| 216 | latest Mindi release - v0.38 - is out today, and includes a 2.4.7
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| 217 | kernel, so you don't have to recompile your kernel to make it sane -
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| 218 | er, I mean suitable for boot disks. Mondo v1.12 is out today, too.
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| 219 | Download and enjoy.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 220 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 221 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">As
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| 222 | usual, I am backing up my system overnight and restoring in the
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| 223 | morning to test the software. Fun. [Addendum] OK, Mondo works fine
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| 224 | but my CD writer is b0rken. It complains more than I do.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 225 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 226 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 227 | have bought my plane ticket back to England. What a pity my American
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| 228 | employer was unwilling or unable to sponsoer my work visa. Tell me
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| 229 | this: if there is an American out there who can do my job as well as
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| 230 | I do, how come 100 people were interviewed, 15 were hired and I was
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| 231 | the only immigrant? Hint: they believe in affirmative action; my
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| 232 | résumé mentioned Africa; they thought I was Black.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 233 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 234 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">It
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| 235 | is a good thing that I do not listen to criticism from strangers. A
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| 236 | lot of White Americans accuse me of hanging off my (Liberian) wife's
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| 237 | coat-tails. Bollocks. She and I are, or were, one flesh. If you speak
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| 238 | to me, you might as well be speaking to her. That is her view and I
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| 239 | have come to accept it.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 240 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 241 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">In
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| 242 | additional, she is not a Black American: she is Liberian. A lot of
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| 243 | Black Americans are jealous of that fact, she tells me. Indeed, a
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| 244 | (Black) friend of mine once said, "Oh yeah, those Africans, they
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| 245 | think they're so special, so much better than us." (Us = Black
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| 246 | Americans, I guess. I did not inquire. Nice to know racial prejudice
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| 247 | is crossing racial boundaries, isn't it?)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 248 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 249 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 250 | get stick from a few Black friends for trying to hard to "be
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| 251 | Black". My wife is not Black, she is Liberian. So, if anything,
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| 252 | I am trying to be Liberian... only I'm not trying, of course. Africa
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| 253 | is made up of several countries, each of which has different tribes
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| 254 | and languages. Black Americans are Black Americans because the
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| 255 | culture was homogenized after years and years of you-know-what.
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| 256 | Likewise, a lot of White Americans parade down the street once a year
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| 257 | dressed in green and call themselves Irish. Bollocks. My grandmother
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| 258 | was Irish and I do not call myself Irish, nor to I talk about my
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| 259 | "Irish roots". I was born and raised in England. I am
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| 260 | English. I love and respect Ireland as part of Great Britain but I am
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| 261 | not Irish. I am more Liberian than I am Irish, and you don't see me
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| 262 | wearing an "I Love Liberia" t-shirt.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 263 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 264 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Ironically,
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| 265 | the same friend that said, "Africans think they're all
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| 266 | that," also vilified me for saying Irish Americans aren't really
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| 267 | Irish. She said, "What do you know about culture? About what it
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| 268 | means to be away from your homeland? About how you define yourself by
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| 269 | where you're from, not where you are now?" Well, duh. I moved
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| 270 | 3000 miles to be with the woman I loved. I think I know the
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| 271 | difference between culture and nationality.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 272 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 273 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">She
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| 274 | was also the woman who accused me of looking at my customers (when I
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| 275 | ran a computer store) and judging them by their skin color. She said
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| 276 | I saw a typical Black man as "just another nigger."
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| 277 | Incidentally, she told me - as a compliment, I am sure - that I was
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| 278 | the only White man she had ever had at her house. To cut a long
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| 279 | story, short, it became apparent that I knew the difference between
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| 280 | being Black and being 'ghetto', and she didn't. My wife backs me to
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| 281 | the hilt on this point. (Jeanette and I are still close friends, by
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| 282 | the grace of God.)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 283 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 284 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">So,
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| 285 | on the one hand, I feel it is right and proper for me to embrace my
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| 286 | wife's culture. She feels the same way. However, I do occasionally
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| 287 | get in trouble for unwittingly using "Black slang". I am
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| 288 | not sure which slang is Black and which slang is White (or Hispanic
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| 289 | or whatever) and frankly I resent the idea that certain expression
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| 290 | are the preserve of one social or ethnic group. That smacks of
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| 291 | snobbery. I attended private schools for 10 years; I know about snobbery.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 292 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 293 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Sorry,
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| 294 | folks, but unless you've moved from one English-speaking country to
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| 295 | another, you have no clue how different the local dialects are. I
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| 296 | only found out last week that getting back <I>with</I> someone
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| 297 | was not the same as getting back <I>to</I> someone. I have been
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| 298 | in this country for 2 years. Okay?</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 299 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 300 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Besides
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| 301 | which, I am not White: I am English. The trouble is, certain
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| 302 | ignorant Americans of all colors and creeds cannot distinguish
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| 303 | between a White man and an immigrant. I am forever encountering
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| 304 | ignorance and prejudice, and the ironic thing is, because I'm White,
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| 305 | I'm assumed either not to care or not to be subject to it at all.
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| 306 | "Oh no, Hugo, we mean those <I>other</I> immigrants. You're
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| 307 | different." Or someone will tell me a racist joke. Do you have
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| 308 | any idea how much I hate <I>that </I>word? The funny thing is, some
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| 309 | of my friends would probably accuse me of hanging off my wife's
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| 310 | coat-tails for loathing <I>that </I>word as much as I do. Well, we'll
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| 311 | be divorced in under a month, so I guess everyone's happy.</FONT></FONT></FONT></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">The
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| 314 | White racists will be happy because another interracial couple has
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| 315 | split up. ("I do worry about the children," they tell me.
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| 316 | Well, maybe you should stop hitting your own children in the name of
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| 317 | God, before you worry about another couple's kids.)</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">The
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| 320 | Black racists will be happy because I'm just another White boy who
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| 321 | doesn't Black culture ... or maybe I do, maybe I just don't like it
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| 322 | as much as I like Liberian culture, and maybe the fact that I know
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| 323 | the difference (along with more history than most Black or White
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| 324 | Americans would like me to) scares the pants off certain people.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 325 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 326 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Some
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| 327 | of my English friends think I'm racist against White people, so I
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| 328 | guess they'll be happy I'm coming back into the fold of "us"
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| 329 | and leaving "them" behind. (I'm not sure if
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| 330 | "them" = Americans or what. I don't care.)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 331 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 332 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">The
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| 333 | bottom line: skin color means nothing to me. That is why America's
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| 334 | obsession with race was such a shock. Where I come from, you do not
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| 335 | ask where people are from or where their parents were born. My father
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| 336 | was born in the aftermath of WW2 and <I>you d</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">id
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| 337 | not ask where people were from.</FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">
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| 338 | You just didn't. People wouldn't have pulled half the stunts they
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| 339 | pulled in my presence if I were Black, which disgusts me because I
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| 340 | would have gladly suffered in my wife's place when she came to
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| 341 | America and was attacked by other Black kids for being 'different'.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 342 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 343 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Maybe
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| 344 | it's different in New York or California. Down here in Tennessee,
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| 345 | people are as ignorant and racist as ever, only now it's not just
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| 346 | White Americans that are that way. Never mind. I'll be gone soon. I
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| 347 | can go back to a country where I won't get in trouble for
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| 348 | "implying that a ghetto is a negative place". God forbid we
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| 349 | should remember the Jewish ghettos of Germany and Poland, or the
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| 350 | modern-day Hispanic ghettos of East LA, or the Black ghettos of South
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| 351 | Central. No, they're not negative at all.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 352 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 353 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Or,
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| 354 | as one White American put it to me, "Well, slavery was wrong
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| 355 | but a lot of the slaves were very well-treated. They must have been.
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| 356 | I mean, why would you damage your own property? That's what my
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| 357 | husband says. And when he holds his Civil War re-enactments, Black
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| 358 | people come and shout at him and call him 'cracker'. See, Black
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| 359 | people are racist too! There!"</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 360 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 361 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">God
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| 362 | save us all. I honestly hope the entire South moves to Mexico. I
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| 363 | think the one thing Mexico lacks is a bunch of tobacco-chewing, fat,
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| 364 | inbred, ignorant, sweaty White people. I can picture them running
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| 365 | across the border, looking for burritos and beer. Oops! Someone might
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| 366 | think I'm racist against rednecks. My bad, dawg. I guess rednecks
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| 367 | need to be protected. They do, after all, have a history of
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| 368 | oppression (or oppressing, anyway).</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 369 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 370 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">So,
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| 371 | as I said, it's a good thing I don't listen to criticism from
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| 372 | strangers, or I might have to write a great big diatribe against this
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| 373 | entire country. Oh, wait a minute... Um... Oh dear. Hmm. Maybe I have
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| 374 | some issues I need to work out. Please don't listen to me, sah. I'm
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| 375 | just a poor immigrant.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 376 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 377 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 378 | 16th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 379 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 380 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Please
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| 381 | try the latest beta & let me know what you think. I am slowly
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| 382 | but surely ironing out some long-term bugs which didn't rear their
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| 383 | ugly heads until now, for some reason.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 384 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 385 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 386 | 15th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 387 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 388 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 389 | have pulled Mondo v1.11 from the web site. Some silly bugs have
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| 390 | shown up and I just don't trust that version.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 391 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 392 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 393 | v1.12 beta is out. Please try it if you are feeling adventurous.
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| 394 | Otherwise, stick with v1.09 or v1.10, please.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 395 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 396 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 397 | released v1.11 in a hurry. I must not allow myself to feel rushed,
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| 398 | or I'll end up create some bugs in an effort to fix others.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 399 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 400 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 401 | 14th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 402 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 403 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 404 | v1.11 is out. Some silly bugs have been fixed. WARNING - this
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| 405 | version is incompatible with previous versions. Do not mix and match.
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| 406 | It saves the afio archives as 'N.afio.bz2'; previous versions saved
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| 407 | the archives as 'N.tar.bz2'.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 408 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 409 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">My
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| 410 | CD writer is not b0rken after all: it is just <I>i</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">nsane</FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">.
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| 411 | Sometimes it works. Sometimes it does not. Oh well, at least I have
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| 412 | one. Maybe I need more cooling fans. Right now, my computer sounds
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| 413 | like an old man that can't sleep.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 414 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 415 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Would
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| 416 | anyone like to coauthor an article on Mondo with me?</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 417 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 418 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">It's
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| 419 | official: I am going back to England on November 26th. WebMD cannot
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| 420 | persuade the INS to let them sponsor my work visa. I have no regrets
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| 421 | about my marriage or about moving to America. I do, however, think I
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| 422 | shall miss the cheap gas and free refills.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 423 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 424 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 425 | 12th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 426 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 427 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">There
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| 428 | were silly typos in /usr/share/mindi/mindi and /usr/share/mondo/mondo-archive.
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| 429 | I have corrected them. The changes are reflected in the new tarballs
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| 430 | and RPM's.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 431 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 432 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">If
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| 433 | you want me to support GRUB, please send me a copy of your grub.conf
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| 434 | file and instructions on how you run GRUB (e.g. install-grub
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| 435 | <foo> <bar>). People tell me, "Oh, GRUB is easy to
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| 436 | use, easier than LILO," but I cannot make it work at all. I have
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| 437 | been trying from time to time for several weeks. If you want GRUB
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| 438 | support, please help me to help you.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 439 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 440 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">The
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| 441 | "feedback" web page, the FAQ and the boot-time error
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| 442 | messages have been amended to remind users that the kernel, not
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| 443 | Mindi, is usually at fault when the CD will not boot; users should
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| 444 | copy their floppy disk images to floppy disks and boot from those. If
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| 445 | your kernel cannot boot from a CD, it means something is wrong with
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| 446 | the kernel; if you do not have the time or energy to fix your kernel,
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| 447 | please boot from floppy disks.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 448 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 449 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 450 | 11th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 451 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 452 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 453 | v1.10 came out today.The restore engine now uses newt instead of
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| 454 | ncurses. I think it looks much nicer now. You be the judge. The new
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| 455 | version includes some minor bugfixes. See CHANGES for details. Mindi
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| 456 | v0.37, which was released today, has some bugfixes of its own.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 457 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 458 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Please
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| 459 | try the new versions and e-mail the mailing list (or me) with your
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| 460 | feedback. The new restore-time engine is easier to use and prettier
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| 461 | than the ugly old ncurses-based interface. My thanks go to Red Hat
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| 462 | for their work on the newt and slang libraries.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 463 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 464 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 465 | 6th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 466 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 467 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Phillip
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| 468 | Deackes managed to get Mindi to work with the new OSS sound modules.
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| 469 | I'm not sure how important audio playback is during disaster recovery
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| 470 | but it's better not to get any weird kernel-related error messages,
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| 471 | that's for sure. Nice one, Phillip.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 472 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 473 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 474 | 5th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 475 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 476 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">A
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| 477 | friend suggested I should tell Linux Journal about Mondo.
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| 478 | Apparently, in November 2000, L.J. wrote a six-page article about how
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| 479 | to do by hand what Mondo does automatically. (At the time, Mondo was
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| 480 | in mothballs, so I don't blame them for not mentioning it.) I have
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| 481 | e-mailed one of L.J.'s associate editors in an attempt to hawk my warez.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 482 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 483 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 484 | am working on fixing Mondo's "Cuckoo Mode" (Windows-only
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| 485 | backups). Stay tuned.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 486 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 487 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">You
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| 488 | know, the funny thing about mailing lists is that people spend more
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| 489 | time bickering with each other than helping inquisitive newbies. This
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| 490 | leads me to believe that the loudest voices in the Red Hat mailing
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| 491 | list are not the wisest but the most insecure. It is pointless to get
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| 492 | into arguments with individuals in private if the bone of contention
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| 493 | is the accuracy of the information a person is giving; it is wiser,
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| 494 | surely, to tell the person asking the question, "Look, I think X
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| 495 | is wrong, I think I'm right," then everyone else can chime in.
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| 496 | Likewise, better to take long-winded, nit-picking discussions about
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| 497 | Dell to - oh, I dunno, um - <I>a Dell</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">-related
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| 498 | </FONT></FONT></FONT></I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>mailing
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| 499 | list?</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 500 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 501 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">If
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| 502 | I return to England after my divorce (which I shall have to, because
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| 503 | my visa runs out in 3 months) then the INS might not let me even
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| 504 | visit America for up to ten years. Well, fine, I never liked your
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| 505 | country anyway. You don't talk right and you can't spell. ;-) So
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| 506 | there. :-)</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 507 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 508 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 509 | 4th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 510 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 511 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Dave
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| 512 | Granz has sent me a couple of neat bugfixes for the restore scripts.
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| 513 | NB: These bugs are not present in the newer 'mondo-restore' C
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| 514 | program. However, a lot of people still use the shell scripts, which
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| 515 | is why I am so glad Dave found & fixed the bug. The bug did not
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| 516 | impede the proper restoration of data but it still needed to be fixed.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 517 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 518 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 519 | am looking for ways to polish Mondo, before I get to work on the
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| 520 | Windows-only side. It is pure procrastination.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 521 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 522 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Oh,
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| 523 | and the manual is doing nicely. I have been working hard to write
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| 524 | more documentation of Mondo.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
|
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| 525 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 526 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 527 | have updated the front page to include references to a few sites
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| 528 | that carry Mondo. I'm very excited to see that some sites are
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| 529 | automatically picking up new releases by themselves. High praise indeed.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 530 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 531 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">August
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| 532 | 2nd, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 533 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 534 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 535 | v1.09 contains a few minor bugfixes to v1.08; Mindi v0.36 contains a
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| 536 | couple of important bugfixes, too. However, both programs are
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| 537 | entering maturity. If you cannot make Mindi/Mondo work, it is
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| 538 | probably because your kernel is old, broken or esoteric.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 539 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 540 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 541 | have installed Mandrake 8.0 on my first hard drive, Slackware 8.0 on
|
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| 542 | my second and Red Hat 7.1 on my third. I have been testing Mindi and
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| 543 | Mondo on all three and the latest versions work pretty well.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 544 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 545 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">As
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| 546 | for being "Red Hat-centric", Mindi/Mondo would not be <I>anything</I>-centric
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| 547 | if the Linux disributions abided by a standard of some kind. If you
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| 548 | have ever tried writing a program that runs on a dozen different
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| 549 | distros, you will know what I mean. If you haven't, well, please
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| 550 | don't whine if Mondo runs okay on Red Hat 7.1 but not on Dinky Dorky 2.3r4.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 551 | <P>
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| 552 | <A HREF="gossip-til-July.html">Click here for pre-August gossip</A></P>
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| 553 | <P>
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| 554 | <!-- $MVD$:spaceretainer() --> </P>
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| 555 | <P>
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| 556 | <!-- $MVD$:spaceretainer() --> </TD>
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| 557 | </TR>
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| 558 | </TABLE>
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