Rising Above Mediocrity
by Benjamin Geiger

After many years of faithful service (and a few months of finicky service), “sleight-of-mind”, my Linux box, gave up the ghost recently. One of the hard drives failed. Luckily, the drive that failed was not the drive that held /home.

For the past year or so, sleight-of-mind has been serving as a router/firewall and file server. Since it died, I’ve been using the internal modem on my Powerbook to access the net. (I’m on dialup. Pity me.)

Soon, I’ll get a replacement drive and rebuild the box that was once sleight-of-mind. I’ve been saying that I wanted to replace Gentoo with Debian, and that I would do so as soon as I was forced to reinstall Linux, either due to my own stupidity or an external impetus. Hard drive failure is a sufficient impetus.