Further aargh

Woke up, so thought I might as well do what I'd done all this to achieve, and play with my new CD rewriter.

In all the excitement, I had disconnected it while debugging the problem, and forgot to reconnect it before putting it back in the computer cupboard. Now I have tidied up and put away all my "fiddling-with-computer-hardware" setup and put the machine back in its inaccessible little hole.

Fuckety-fuckety-fuck!

Update And I can't work out what software I should be using to back my system up to CD-RWs. Minimum requirements:

• verifying a disk should not require comparing it to the filesystem, it should have proper CRCs or similar
• Each disk should be independently restorable
• supports incremental backups, without needing the previous backup to be present
• GUI absent or optional, supports unattended operation
• supports compression
• open source of course

It would be nice if it did a good job of preserving information as well, eg extended attributes, deleted files, /dev and so forth.

Further update: I'm giving DAR a go. U Works like a charm. Everything seems to work. Have made a backup of some stuff, and tested it. Haven't tried the soundcard yet though (a parecky is required first). Now to go for coffee with purplerabbits.

Free goth thingy at the Jekyll and Hyde

purplerabbits and I are off to the Jekyll and Hyde later tonight - apparently they have goth DJs on one floor from 8pm onwards and they're encouraging goths to go. Free entry - it's not really a club, more a "goth space" in a pub, but should be a laugh...

I don't know any more details, I heard about it in the Holyrood on Wednesday. I know at least cairmen also plans on going.

I should have said earlier really, I always assume I'm the last to know about things...