did some light digging in discmaster as @textfiles recently suggested and found these spiffy #PenPlotter icons from a 1996 SiliconGraphics IRIX install disc:
Always amazes me when people who are in the queer community, or consider themselves an ally run Brave browser.
Brave is run by Brendan Eich, former CEO of Mozilla.
Never forget, he opposed gay marriage, and donated Prop 8 to limit marriage to heterosexuals in California. He held this belief firmly and after much outrage he resigned and then went on to form Brave.
Surely, the browser is named "Brave" because he believes he was "brave" for standing up for bigotry.
@mavica_again thankfully, sounds like.
@mavica_again It wasn't the DOS version running in DosBox or something?
Connection -
Not much worse than getting home to find out my home ISP's out. The only thing I can think of that is, greeted me Friday night.
I wish the ISP I work for could serve my home. Instead, my only options are a 4G on the edge of a shadow, a 5G that wants me to pay a $60/mo surcharge for a phone I don't need, fiber that wants me to pay a $60/mo surcharge for a phone I don't need, a satellite ISP so draconian you can't update Windows, & a techbro satellite angering the world's astronomers.
Darl McBride was the most hated man in tech thanks to his plan to sue Linux users to generate revenue. 15 years ago today, his company, SCO, fired him. And a little over a month ago, he died in relative obscurity at age 64. https://dfarq.homeip.net/when-sco-fired-darl-mcbride/
* Searches "Seagate ST1000DM003 MTBF"
* Every seagate dotcom datasheet says or implies don't use it more than 2,400 hours per year. That's 6 hours/day, or 8-9/day if you skip weekends.
Yeah, this drive came free with cereal^W this PC, & I should've replaced it with a WD as soon as I got it. Oops.
Please make backup copies of your PC, folks, if you aren't already. Don't forget to test your backups. Don't forget to write down your PC recovery & backup restoring procedure. And don't forget to save that procedure somewhere you can get to if all your data gets wiped out.
Losses:
* An HDD apparently failing at 0.5 MTBF.
* This weekend.
* All data between final backup & failure: more or less 2 hours, the most consequential of which was mail.
Gains:
* Bigger HDD.
* XP in installing anything in FreeBSD's USB images.
* XP in restoring ZFS snapshots.
* Learning my backup procedure needs slight tweaking, but fundamentally everything was right.
Net:
I have now experienced ZFS disaster preparation, disaster, & disaster recovery!
I got another toy picture of Nova, meant to be in sort of a princessy pose. As always I love how this artist draws really shiny and reflective textures.
Art by https://funnyhat12.carrd.co/
I lost my home PC's ZFS pool to a kernel panic-inducing bit of corruption. The lone disk in the pool has spent nearly 21,000 hours (2.4 years) of its 3-year life spinning rust, & SMART tests passed.
The kernel panic on `zpool import` means I basically lost everything on the disk.
But my USB backup disk is fine (I tested) & current enough. I should be able to install a new disk, install FreeBSD on it, & zfs send/recv my snapshots, I think.
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