RIP Loonix (again!)

For the second time this year I’ve rebooted my Linux box only to have it “kernel panic” on boot with a load of unrecoverable disk errors, bah! (just as I got subversion up and running again too)

So I hopped on to Dabs this morning and ordered myself a new hard drive (taking the opportunity to sample Seagate’s latest offering, with perpendicular storage no less!). Every time I buy a new hard drive I’m amazed at how much storage you can get for your money, I went for a 320GB drive for a mere £70!

Of course with a new disk I’m greeted with a new OS install (and recovering what data I can from the old drive!). I think I’ll give Debian another run as that’s the distribution of choice at Evolving Media.

I also wanted to play around with Creole, having read up on code generation a fair bit recently I stumbled across Propel (which uses Creole as a DB abstraction layer). However with no Linux machine I’ll take the time to catch up with some reading while I wait for my new drive to arrive…

I’ll get down to actually writing some code again one of these days!