computer trials and tribulations 

Trying to rearrange scattered files and redundant copies so we have two pairs of drives with data instead of the current mess.

Two days in we're at a corrupted file system on one USB drive, a different drive with a USB controller that falls asleep if it stops being used, one fully functional drive of the latter type, and an Xserve that has been a faithful, dutiful companion through all of this. If only drives for it were cheaper and it weren't so loud.

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In happy news, upgrading the Mac mini's RAM from 2GB to 8GB has made it very usable. We should probably put an SSD in it eventually too.

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