Re: [Gnumed-devel] I get the Darwin Computing award of the year

[David Grant]

Thank you for this little story.  I will back up my mail right now!

Richard Terry wrote:

> Depressing aint it.
>
> I know you will all find this easy to believe, I'm almost too embarrassed to 
> mention it, but I'll need some info from some of you
>
> At lunch time I went to reformat a new drive to put on libranet (you've 
> already guessed why I get the award -right!). I have a pull in pull out caddy 
> system. I'd removed my office desk disk, put in the new caddy, then had 
> forgot to burn one of the libranet iso's, so rebooted, burnt it. Got 
> distracted by an avalance of patients/phone calls/secretarial demands/lunch, 
> and yes.. reformatted my main office disk which I forgot to swap.
>
> It's taken me a few hours to get up and running again. Fortunately Libranet 
> install is easy, and I quickly patched the kernel sources with the Win4LIn 
> patches in between patients, then compiled the kernel with Windows support 
> whilst working the afternoon surgery on another spare machine. I've spent a 
> couple of hours tonight installing windows/configuring printers etc, and not 
> yet finished.
>
> I was pissed off the Mandrake anyway, so this is a good excuse to finally 
> stick with Debian
>
> Despite daily server backups, I download my mail to my local desktop, and 
> hadn't backed it up since October!!!!!, so I've lost recent mail.
>
> So, could anyone e.ge Karsten (re vaccination) who has emailed me stuff in the 
> last week I havn't answered, flick me the email again. Also, I now have to go 
> throught the whole gnumed install thing again!
>
> Regards
>
> Richard
>
>
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