Ignacio Torres Masdeu

Well, it's funny that exactly six months ago I was talking about how MacOS was getting into my nerves.

This weekend I achieved to install Ubuntu Dapper into my laptop. The reason for the switch was because after a software update MacOS didn't want to start, and I thought "if I have to tinker with an OS, I better do it with one that makes me free".

This was possible even though the CD drive doesn't work. My issues with Apple Support did end up badly, the reason being there was no track of my AppleCare contract in Apple. It's funny, for a few months before there was no issue about with a hard drive replacement. After sending the AppleCare documentation several times to Ireland I surrended and thought that buying a replacement on eBay would be cheaper in the long run. This experience didn't improve my feelings about Apple.

It's funny also that today I saw John Gruber's article about Mark Pilgrim's switch out of MacOS and how Tim Bray is following him. There's more than one geek who feels that something's rotten in Apple. The last post by Pilgrim depicts my experience with Mail.app word by word. Thanks $DEITY I am using IMAP now.

Now it's a matter of time for me to get everything I have on the iMac into DVDs, and test if it plays ball with Ubuntu too.

Yet another backup script. There exist a gazillion like it, but this one is mine and do things my way.

I run this one from my 24/7 EPIA box at home every 6 hours. The first step it does is synchronize my hosting data to a local directory inside my $HOME and then sync $HOME with a remote fileserver, I use StrongSpace.

I could improve it (use functions, etc...), but I'm a dog.

http://ignacio.torresmasdeu.name/stuff/SSbackup.txt

OK, it's time to make it public. My relationship with my current partner has run for several years but... you know how things are. Little nuisances develope into great arguments. Those little mistakes that made it special now make you feel tired. And so on.

And in the other side everything is new. There's a whole new world to explore together. Every step feels as new. For God's sake, even everyday words and actions acquire a new significance.

We met a couple of years ago, but in that moment I was so infatuated I wasn't open to others. How time changes things.

Soon we will live together and I'm sure it will work. I will have to find new places to store my things, but it will be for the better.

And I will not lose contact with my current SO, I am lucky, for neither of them is jealous. Though they will have to learn to communicate between themselves for this to work.

A few days ago I rediscovered Plan9, and I'm in love.