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| 6 | <FONT FACE="Arial Black,Arial,Helvetica"><FONT SIZE="4">Diary (old)</FONT></FONT></P>
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| 8 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>December
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| 9 | 31st, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 10 | <P>
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| 11 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 12 | am hacking away at Mondo v1.35-preN. :) It will feature enhanced
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| 13 | tape support, complete with lots of fancy start/stop blocks, extra
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| 14 | checksums, etc.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 15 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 16 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>December
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| 17 | 28th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 18 | <P>
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| 19 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Cafeole
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| 20 | has created an IRC channel, #mondo, on irc.openprojects.net (or
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| 21 | irc.redhat.com, or..). It's groovy, baby. I'll try to be there most
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| 22 | weekends to answer questions and generally goof off.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 23 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 24 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>December
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| 25 | 25th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 26 | <P>
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| 27 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 28 | am trying Quanta out, to see if it is good enough to replace
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| 29 | WebExpress, a Windows application which I use to maintain Mondo's
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| 30 | website. It looks great. It is not a WYSIWYG editor but that's OK, I
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| 31 | can live without that. It is very groovy.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 32 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 33 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 34 | 24th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 35 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 36 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 37 | v1.34 and Mindi v0.51 are out. Mindi now analyzes the user's
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| 38 | keyboard mapping configuration and reproduces it at boot-time. Mondo
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| 39 | now lets tape users boot from just one floppy (plus the tape, of course).</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 40 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 41 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">BTW,
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| 42 | please bear in mind that Mindi and Mondo have to hit a lot of moving
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| 43 | targets. If you have even a tiny clue, you'll know that each distro
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| 44 | has its own sweet way of doing things. If you e-mail me with a bug
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| 45 | report, please bear this in mind.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 46 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 47 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 48 | am not a complete idiot. I don't release code which doesn't work. If
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| 49 | Mondo doesn't work on your PC then perhaps it works on almost
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| 50 | everyone else's. Did that occur to you? Oh good. The next user who
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| 51 | gives me attitude will get his or her ass kicked. Is that clear?</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 52 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 53 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">You
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| 54 | get this program for free. (God knows 99.9% of users never gave me
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| 55 | anything but static, certainly nothing that folds or jingles.) The
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| 56 | least you can do is be civil.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 57 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 58 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Ironically,
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| 59 | the most fucktarded of hapless users won't read the website at all.
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| 60 | They'll just e-mail me and say, "Hey, Mondo nearly wiped my
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| 61 | system. Please e-mail me soon!" It will inevitably transpire
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| 62 | that no, Mondo did not nearly wipe their system. Their Linux distro
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| 63 | didn't set their PATH environmental veriable correctly, Mindi
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| 64 | couldn't find mkfs.ext2 and it reported a Fatal Error (no, your
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| 65 | system is not going to die, dude).</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 66 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 67 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 68 | 22nd, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></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
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| 71 | am working on implementing some kind of boot-from-tape system. Well,
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| 72 | strictly, you're not booting from tape but you're booting from a
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| 73 | single floppy and using the beginning of the tape as an extended
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| 74 | 'data disk', instead of inserting additional floppies.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 75 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 76 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 77 | 20th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></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">Mondo
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| 80 | <B>v1.22-5</B> is out. It is identical to v1.22-4 except that it
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| 81 | permits the user to use Mindi v0.50, which is a good idea.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 82 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 83 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 84 | 19th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 85 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 86 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 87 | v1.22-r4 is out. Version 1.22 on the whole is considered stable but
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| 88 | I have added a little safety-check in case some users accidentally
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| 89 | run mondo-restore from the CD. It's not their fault if it happens; if
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| 90 | it does happen, however, Mondo will now warn them and tell them how
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| 91 | to avoid it in future.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 92 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 93 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 94 | v1.33-r8 and Mindi v0.50-4 are also out. The development branch of
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| 95 | Mondo can now handle disk partitions as images if that is desired. I
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| 96 | have backed up, wiped and nuke-restored my system, treating my
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| 97 | Windows partition as an unmountable 'image'. I added the switch:-</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 98 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 99 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">#
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| 100 | --image-devs /dev/hda1</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 101 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 102 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">to
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| 103 | my typical call to Mondo. Everything worked like a charm. I would
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| 104 | encourage adventurous users to try Mondo v1.33 and Mindi v0.50 to see
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| 105 | how they get on.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 106 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 107 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 108 | 18th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 109 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 110 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 111 | v1.33-r7 and Mindi v0.50-3 are out. I have backed up my Windows
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| 112 | partition as an image, wiped it, and restored it successfully with
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| 113 | this latest version of Mondo. However, I have not yet run a complete backup/wipe/restore
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| 114 | cycle with it. Approach the code with caution.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 115 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 116 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 117 | 15th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 118 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 119 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 120 | v1.33-r6 is out. It support disk imaging, kinda sorta. I have tested
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| 121 | it a bit and it works OK. (Wow, what a glowing endorsement!) I am
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| 122 | going to install Windows NT4 Workstation and run some harder tests
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| 123 | next week.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 124 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 125 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 126 | v1.22-r3 is out, too.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 127 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 128 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 129 | 14th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 130 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 131 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 132 | v1.33-r5 is out. So is Mindi v0.50. They support GRUB
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| 133 | experimentally. I am also implementing partition/device imaging support.</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"><I>December
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| 136 | 13th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 137 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 138 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 139 | <B>v1.33-r4</B> is out. It looks great. I have run two full backups
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| 140 | and one incremental, in that order. It supports GRUB, too!</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 141 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 142 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>December
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| 143 | 12th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 144 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 145 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 146 | am releasing Mondo <B>v1.3</B></FONT></FONT></FONT><B><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">3
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| 147 | </FONT></FONT></FONT></B><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">early.
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| 148 | It requires the latest Mindi, too. They look good. I have wiped and
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| 149 | restored my PC several times using 1.33/0.50 and I have yet to lose
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| 150 | data or get any weird error messages.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 151 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 152 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>December
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| 153 | 11th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 154 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 155 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 156 | <B>v1.22-2</B> is out. Bugfixes, yada yada. I finally have a job
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| 157 | (yippee!) which means I can't spend as much time on Mondo this week
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| 158 | as I did last week (boo!). However, v1.33 is nearly ready for release (hooray!).</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 159 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 160 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">[<A HREF="download/mondo-manual.html">manual</A>]</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 161 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 162 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>D</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">ecember
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| 163 | 9th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></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">Mindi
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| 166 | <B>v0.48-2</B> is out. It is very soon after v0.48-1, I know, but I
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| 167 | think it is worth it. There are a lot of changes - all good, none
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| 168 | bad. I have been testing the thing for hours, trying to make it
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| 169 | break. It hasn't.</FONT></FONT></FONT></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">I
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| 172 | am also releasing Mondo <B>v1.32-2</B> because I want people on the
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| 173 | mailing list to be able to see what I've been doing all this time.
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| 174 | :-) It is totally, 100% not to be trusted! I wiped and restored my
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| 175 | system with v1.31 a few days ago and it went more-or-less okay but I
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| 176 | have not tested v1.32 <I>at all.</I></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>STOP
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| 179 | PRESS</I> - I've just backed up and 'nuked' my system using v1.33
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| 180 | (unreleased). It worked perfectly. It even let me rearrange migrate
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| 181 | to RAID. Of course, when I rebooted I realized my kernel wasn't quite
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| 182 | suitable for RAID. That's okay. The point is, I can move from
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| 183 | non-RAID to RAID using Mondo. I haven't backed up and restored a RAID
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| 184 | system yet. That is the next test I want to run.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 185 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 186 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">When
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| 187 | I trust v1.33, I'll release it and announce it on the mailing list.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 188 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 189 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>Dece</I></FONT></FONT></FONT><I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">mber
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| 190 | 8th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 191 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 192 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 193 | <B>v1.22</B> and Mindi <B>v0.48</B> are out. I have wiped and
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| 194 | restored my system using 1.22/0.48 without error. Now, v1.31, on the
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| 195 | other hand, gave me a headache. Still, that's why there is a stable
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| 196 | branch and a development branch. I was bitten but you needn't be:
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| 197 | just stick to 1.2x and you'll be fine.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 198 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 199 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 200 | have updated the website to thank a few more people. Y'all are so
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| 201 | helpful. :-) BTW, Mondo sometimes does funny things if you restore a
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| 202 | Red Hat 7.2 system. The bug is in Red Hat 7.2, not Mondo: Mondo will
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| 203 | have to work around it. It only crops up if you back up from within
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| 204 | rxvt in KDE, wipe, restore and finally boot in runlevel 5. So, yeah,
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| 205 | it's pretty obscure. Oh, but the archives are good. :) Anyway, wait 5
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| 206 | minutes and reboot again; it clears itself up. Weird! I'm looking
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| 207 | into it.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 208 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 209 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>December
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| 210 | 6th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 211 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 212 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 213 | <B>v1</B></FONT></FONT></FONT><B><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">.</FONT></FONT></FONT></B><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><B>21-r3</B>
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| 214 | will be out in a few minutes. It has some important bugfixes, etc.
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| 215 | The bugs are obscure and have bitten only one or two people, which is
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| 216 | why it took me so long to find them. I did something like this:-</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 217 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 218 | <FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman,Times,New York">while(tmp[strlen(tmp)-1]<32)
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| 219 | { tmp[strlen(tmp)-1]='0'; }</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">It
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| 222 | should have been:-</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 223 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 224 | <FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman,Times,New York">while(strlen(tmp)>0&&tmp[strlen(tmp)-1]<32)
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| 225 | {tmp[strlen(tmp)-1]='0';}</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 226 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 227 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">The
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| 228 | former would cause an infinite loop under certain circumstances. The
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| 229 | latter wouldn't. Needless to say, the fix has been back-ported from
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| 230 | the 1.3x development branch to the 1.2x stable branch.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 231 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 232 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><I>December
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| 233 | 5th, 2001</I></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 234 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 235 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 236 | <B>v1</B></FONT></FONT></FONT><B><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">.21</FONT></FONT></FONT></B><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><B>-</B></FONT></FONT></FONT><B><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">r2</FONT></FONT></FONT></B><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">
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| 237 | is out. I forgot to add '/mnt/RESTORING' before the call to LILO. I
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| 238 | don't know how I missed it. I backed up and restored perfectly with
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| 239 | v1.21 last night and LILO ran fine. Oh well.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 240 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 241 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 242 | 4th, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 243 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 244 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 245 | v1.21 and Mindi v0.47 are out. I released them earlier than
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| 246 | previously discussed because they appear to be stable already. I
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| 247 | wiped and restored my PC using 1.21/0.47 today. Everything went fine.
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| 248 | There is nothing quite like a list of "Done"s followed by a
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| 249 | "All is well; please reboot."</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 250 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 251 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 252 | v1.31 is out, too, if you are feeling adventurous. It includes a
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| 253 | nice, new RAID editor but it has not been tested yet.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 254 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 255 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 256 | 3rd, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 257 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 258 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 259 | v1.21 (stable) is due out this Sunday. I look forward to wowing
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| 260 | y'all with its stunning lack of new features. :-) It is v1.20 plus
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| 261 | bugfixes. There were not many bugs in v1.20 anyway, BTW...</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 262 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 263 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 264 | v1.31 (development) has some groovy new code under the hood and some
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| 265 | spiffy new features on the dashboard. However, it has not been tested
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| 266 | as thoroughly as v1.21 (stable).</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 267 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 268 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 269 | 2nd, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 270 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 271 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 272 | have added a PayPal button to allow users to contribute financially
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| 273 | if they so desire. I am not doing Mondo for the money, as you know.
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| 274 | However, it costs money to develop and test Mondo, so I thought it
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| 275 | would be a good idea to offer users a way to contribute.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 276 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 277 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Incidentally,
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| 278 | BusyBox's author needs some money to help him buy www.busybox.net; I
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| 279 | plan on contributing (no, I haven't yet *g* but I shall) and perhaps
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| 280 | you should, too. Just a thought. Mind you, BusyBox is partly
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| 281 | sponsored by Lineo, so in a way he is already covered whereas I am
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| 282 | not. Still, he is a nice guy and his project rocks.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 283 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 284 | <I><FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">December
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| 285 | 1st, 2001</FONT></FONT></FONT></I></P>
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| 286 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 287 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">Mondo
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| 288 | v1.21 and Mindi v0.47 are nearly ready. Mondo v1.31 is waiting in
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| 289 | the wings with a kick-butt RAID-editing extension to the regular
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| 290 | mountlist editor.</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 291 | <P ALIGN=JUSTIFY>
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| 292 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK">I
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| 293 | have borrowed an older PC from my father, wiped it, put Linux on it,
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| 294 | and configured it as a fileserver. I plan to do funky stuff &
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| 295 | make Mondo support NFS-based backup/restore. The server is named
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| 296 | Wu-tang and my workstation is named Eminem. Do you see a pattern?</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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| 297 | <P>
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| 298 | <FONT FACE="Verdana,Arial,Times New I2"><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT COLOR="BLACK"><A HREF="gossip-Nov-01.html">Click
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| 299 | here for November's gossip</A></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
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