miscoranda: by Sean B. Palmer

Manxome

The hard drive of the server that miscoranda.com was previously hosted on, vorpal, hit a slight technical snag recently causing it to grind itself into dust. It has seriously quite pulverised itself. All of the newly recovered material is, therefore, temporarily being hosted courtesy of the eleemosynary Christopher Schmidt on his server athena, which he also let me name.

As for poor vorpal, the name has been retired and The Benefactor is naming its replacement manxome, for obvious reasons. Though the name is rather good and there's really not much other choice (such a shame we're not up to galumphing in the poem), it's a bit hard to remember. Indeed, the person who wrote the server's MOTD seems to have thought it was called "manxone". I'm currently using the mnemonic of a house on the Isle of Man.

The sites inamidst.com and swhack.com were also hosted on vorpal—along with aaronsw.com, notabug.com, blogspace.com, zpedia.com, and probably others that I don't know about—so there's been quite a bit of hmming all round. For the sites I maintain, I've managed to recover all of the important parts from plenteous local backups, Google Cache, and the Web Archive, but I think Aaron's having a much more difficult job with his. There's a plea on his newly restored NYTimes Link Generator that you can check out if you want to help.

This is the first drive that Aaron's ever had fail, and though I doubt that's any consolation, it's pretty impressive given the number of drives he's got.

Anyway, there may be a little miscoranda.com downtime as I migrate from athena to manxome, though that won't happen for a while yet as Aaron's still setting up the box. Having vorpal go is rather a sad event, but it's reminded me that having practically unlimited space and bandwidth for free from friends is something I really should be thanking them for more often, hence the following very public thanking: Thanks Aaron! Thanks Christopher!

by Sean B. Palmer, at 2005-05-14 16:08:41. Comment?

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