Started off the day with my cable modem being flaky and had to reboot it to get on the net. Stupid thing. As for work, the chkdsk finished, but Windows sucks and would just hang on boot as long as those drives were connected. Tried it on different machines, and worked fine to the point of importing a foreign disk, then kernel panic, memory dump, and no boot with the drives. Then came the last-ditch effort. Burn a Knoppix cd, drop it in the machine, and boot. Hmm. There's an icon on the desktop for each partition, click and there are all the files (well, most of them). Worked without any problems with the RAID controller, the dynamic disc partitioning, and NTFS format devices. Granted there's the little fact that 1/8 the data randomly selected from the array was missing (hey, when 2 drives "fail" in a RAID5 you get as much data as possible), and then with the windows chkdsk one partition was dead, but the home volumes were mainly intact. 30 seconds configuring an apache server to serve out to one other server, and a few minutes configuring a accesshandler for another apache to allow people to access only their files and lots of people are happy they can get to their projects. And why do I like linux so much again? Anyways, while this was going on the new machine came in so picked that up and brought it to Mike and he started building it. I don't know much of the specs since the papers aren't here and I have hardly touched it, but it's a cool box. Too bad we had to put windows on it. Anyways, lunch was C1 with Ross and Junk. Food was ready in like 2 minutes which is always good. After lunch was longer term planning, getting restores sorta planned, and scheduling for the next few days. Between the 3 of us there's gonna be someone there pretty much 24 hours a day. I get 1-10 tomorrow, so get to sleep in a bit, but that's gonna confuse me I think. I got to stay sorta late today and got the first restores going. We're getting the stuff that wasn't recoverable (big chunks at least) up first, and we'll deal with the rest later. It wants 3 different full backups, so the backup server is confused, and this will be an interesting process over the next few days. After work came home and watched The Core. About as good as people were saying... It was an interesting general idea, and they did throw a lot of technology at it and the visual and audio effects were well done, but the story and technical aspects were completely implausible. Hit a problem, make up a random answer that contradicts other things to get around it. Somehow manage to kill off almost all the main characters (don't worry if you haven't seen it, it's not worth worrying about spoilers) in those random answers or just because they're annoying (maybe George Lucas could learn something about what to do with a certain character here). Anyways, not worth watching unless you want completely mindless entertainment.