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Sun released the JDK 5.0 sources under Java Research and Sun Community Source License!! …already browsing through the code :o)

Looking at one of my recent blog entries this week hasn’t been too good in terms of data loss. Yesterday I renamed a group in Gaim …which trashed my contact list. All my contacts from that particular group were gone. Even on the server!
Gladly I could restore most of the accounts from the log files or ask other people. But for those I keep ignoring on ICQ/AIM …drop me a message. Maybe I just don’t have your account anymore.

So what’s the moral of the story? Do even more backups.

My fellow Americans …how in the world could you let this happen?
Don’t you see what he is doing to your country …and to the world?

…disappointed …frustrated …speechless

Update: yepp yepp yepp

It was a dark cold night. I was sitting in my kitchen polishing some code I have been working on for the last 3-4 nights. The moon was shining through the window. The TV was on. I started refactoring the most important part of the code and accidently …hit delete!
A scary howling goes through the night. “Don’t! Don’t be …gone!” A transformation into a wild animal happened …right in my kitchen. The creature was about to destroy my laptop …only the blessed shine of the Linux OS let it refuse to touch it. In a haste I searched for a tool to defeat the monster. As it turns out all you need is a grep.

It gave me back my little treasure and the creature turned back to normal.
So what’s the moral of the story? Do more backups!
Especially if you are about to refactor code that’s not yet under version control.

grep -a -A1 -B2000 /dev/hda1 | tr -cd '111240-176' | less

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