I’m still here at work.
I would like to take this moment to praise Spiralcom Communications for two reasons:
1) WinTAR-SCSI - A beautiful piece of software that makes it stupid easy to restore GNU tars from a tape on a Win32 box.
2) Their tech support. I apparently misplaced my serial number. Figuring it would be a shot in the dark, I fired them an email about an hour ago. Within 10 minutes, I had my serial. Bravo.
It is this kind of service and response that makes people like me ( you know, the sysadmin that stays up all night and day to get things back up and running ) happier and reassured.
So, my Gentoo Linux box is re-compiling, and my tape drive is in a Win32 box, having all the data restored from it.
Oh, and you other Gentooers out there - Here is a great resource for tried-and-true stable Stage1 CHOST and CFLAGS options, based on your proc.
And dammit, I’m hungry. Grrrbiscuits. New word - use it.
January 3rd, 2006 at 8:14 am
ick, all nighters suck if it’s for work. grrrbiscuits and grrravy sounds good to me. get some sleep :)
January 3rd, 2006 at 9:55 am
Yeah, well, my work is going to be 9am yesterday straight through to 5pm today.
That’s a 32 hour workday. Wheee!