For the longest time, I've been looking for a way to securely store a backup of my files off-site. I'm already using BackupPC to backup the files to another harddisk and keep a number of revisions to secure against harddisk failure. But, you never know what happens in the future. I really don't want to loose all my digital pictures, documents or e-mail in case of a fire.

Today on Slashdot I read about the new release of Enlightenment, DR16.7.1. I have used Enlightenment in the past and it looks amazing. Check the Enlightenment website for screenshots.

We have spent the past two weeks on vacation in Fuerteventura. Fuerteventura is a part of the Canarian islands. Though the islands are in the Atlantic Ocean off the westcoast of Africa, they are officialy part of Spain. We spent our two weeks on the beach and around the swimmingpool here as seen on the picture on the right. Spending two weeks away from the internet and computers is really not so bad if you're in a sunny country.

Well, my computer is finally up and running with Fedora Core 1. In order to get it working, I had to install Fedora on a different machine, boot from a custom Fedora rescue cd with the medley module and then copy the installation from the cd to the RAID partition.

Well, after lots of trying, I have gotten a bit further. I can boot the fedora installer dvd, then switch to a shell, load the necessary modules and create the device nodes using this script. Unfortunately, the driver then wants to continue installing on /dev/hdg and not on /dev/ataraid/d0. So, I temporarily remove /dev/hdg and link it to /dev/ataraid/d0 to fool the Anaconda installer. Once it figures out that it should use /dev/ataraid/d0, I move the files back before doing any partitioning. But.... Anaconda crashes on a KeyError: ataraid/d0 when I try to modify the partitioning. However, I can use fdisk to partition the disk. Now, I need to figure out how to trick the installer into using ataraid devices.