Hard Disk Crash

I should have been paying more attention. I was cleaning up some mailing list I subscribe to and all of a sudden I get a bunch of errors. I go log into the file server and there are access errors on the screen. Reboot and the hard disk isn’t even mountable.
Seem the second disk in the mirror got kick out a couple weeks back. At the time I added it back but I guess the reason it got out so sync was the first disk was failing.
So I pulled the ide cable out of the primary hard disk and rebooted and the machine came up cleaning using the secondary hard disk. Other than my pride being hurt I am down 2 weeks worth of email that I had read and copied to my home drive and a few changes I made to my address book. Not a huge loss. I may try and boot the hard disk tomorrow and see if allowing it to cool down will give it a chance to recover. This hard disk is less than a year old so is still covered by the warranty.
I have dropped in a spare 120 Gig drive that I bought for just this situation and it has just finished synchronizing so I have working raid 0 set again.
If I had been looking at my logs I would have seen the errors going back a few weeks. Doh.

I am dialed in at the Microsoft Security security conference in DC after getting up at some silly time to get the MARC train to be in DC to 8:30. I listening to jesper johansson. He is a good speaker and fairly funny. He answer to the question what security patches are available for windows 98, his answer is just one its called windows XP. He Called Windows ME (miserable edition).

Is this spam or what?

Dear Ian,

JDG Associates, executive search consultants since 1973, is representing
the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) in their search for a Chief
Security Officer. I have attached a copy of the position announcement,
for your review. If you know of anyone whom you feel would be qualified
and interested in this opportunity, please let me know or feel free to
forward this email. Or ask them to contact me directly. I would be happy
to provide further information.

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Thank you, in advance, for your help.

Worked from home today while I waited for the directv installer. He was supposed to be here at 8am to 12 of course he turned up at 1:30. He finished about 3:30 so there wasn’t much point going into the office. Its only a 10 minute bike ride but it was pissing down with rain. So much so that I have now discovered why there were strange puddles of water next to the sink are coming from. I have a leak above the kitchen sink window. Will investigate when the weather becomes nicer.
So now I have Directv. Not quite sure what i will be watching since there are only a few programs I am watching at the moment and they have cancelled all the others I used to watch.
I spent the first part of the morning trying to convince my windows machine to start up the citrix remote client we use for remote conections. My work laptop is part of a test setup in another building from my office so I couldn’t use that to VPN in. I ended up using my apple to connect strange as it seams it works perfectly for connecting to the terminal servers at work. Then I stole one of my 17inch monitors for the latop so I could have a bigger screen, then stole the keyboard.
Spam and Virus mail on imacdonald.co.uk/iwasdot.com/imacdonald.com seems to be working well. I have caught well over 100 viruses and a similar amount of spam since I installed it on my gateway machine. I am using amavis-new to hook postfix, clamav, spamassasin and f-prot together. It works but the config file for amavis is hellishly ugly. I am guessing the previous owner of imacdonald.com was someone called dan since I am getting a lot of viruses addressed to him. Its strange you think that his name would begin with ‘I’