{"id":736,"date":"2005-07-20T18:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=736"},"modified":"2005-07-20T18:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T13:06:00","slug":"slow-and-low-that-is-the-tempo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Slow and low, that is the tempo…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less brutally hot today. Actually about the same temperature, but lower humidity.<\/p>\n

I boned my computer. I tried to get it back from Server to normal OS X by upgrading. No dice. The client disk that I’ve got doesn’t like that at all. So I went ahead and made a backup to a firewire disk, and then repartitioned the laptop and tried to install. The client disk then informed me that I needed to have OS X in some form or another installed on the machine, or it wasn’t going to install. It was happy to do a full install, mind you, but only on a machine with some partition already containing OS X. <\/p>\n

So I set redmed<\/a>s laptop to firewire “Target Mode,” attached it, and was able to proceed. Nyah nyah.<\/p>\n

So then I get to the part where OS X tries to “discover” user account info on an attached disk. I plugged my backup in, and it found my stuff … well sort of. About 20 minutes in, it barfed. Hard. Had to reboot. Okay, so start the process over, except this time go all the way through to a stable reboot before trying to “discover” user data. Found it again, and managed to copy most of my stuff over, but then barfed again. <\/p>\n

So at this point I reboot and run all the software updates. Wheee. Machine keeps barfing as I do this. Then I run a disk check on my backup firewire disk. No good. The “B tree” is “corrupted.” I read that as “You’re boned”. So, now I’m all like “but, my collection of all my pictures! My emails! My crap! I want my crap back!” Disk utility can’t do anything about corrupted b-trees. Apple support suggests hitting the “repair” button over and over in case something changes. <\/p>\n

I go ask the internet, and the internet says (as with one mighty voice) “Buy DiskWarrior”. So I plunk down $80 and get a program. That program has been running since about 9:30 this morning. It’s occupying 80 – 90% of the CPU (full time), and slowly increasing a number of errors it’s tested \/ corrected or something. That number is currently 167,086. I have no idea how long it plans to do this, or whether it will work at the end. <\/p>\n

If it fails, my next move is to not “discover” my crap, but copy it over wholesale…in the hopes that I can dance around whatever corruption is going on.<\/p>\n

Other than that, it was a low energy day. Did some support, debugged some code. Finished the new Harry Potter book. It’s pretty heavy stuff. Left me feeling sad. I didn’t need to read a book that would make me feel sad today.<\/p>\n

I saw a dead baby bird and a snake out by the garage. The snake had a green top and a yellow belly, and he was about three feet long. He had a red tongue. <\/p>\n

My parents had their stuff moved today. I should call them. That’s a rougher day than me. Same house for 20 years, and now they’re moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Less brutally hot today. Actually about the same temperature, but lower humidity.<\/p>\n

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