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Jerry McBride wrote: |
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> Hi Dale... |
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> Umm... where do you live? I'm in New Jersey... If you are state side, I'm |
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> willing to burn a few Gentoo cd's or dvd's for you if you wish. Won't cost |
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> you a dime. |
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> Just email me if you are interested. |
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> Jerry McBride |
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Well, everything is good to go over here right now. My hard drives are |
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only about 3 years old. I do have a backup of portage and a snapshot on |
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some CDs. I do this when a big upgrade like KDE comes out. I also have |
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a UPS connected and a surge protector as well. Short of me spilling tea |
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in my rig I should be OK. I'm not going to say I am completely safe |
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though. If I say that, I will find a hole in my plan. :-( |
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I do see the OPs point though. If I had to install and had no back-ups |
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at all, it would be tough. I have the latest CD, 2006.1 I think, that |
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is available but look at all the updates that have come out since then. |
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It would be a huge download and would take me over a week, if not |
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longer. Plus, I can't connect to the net from the CD. |
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As to where I live, I live about half way between Columbus and West |
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Point MS. I'm almost to the very end of the phone line and the big |
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telephone box is about 20 years old. As a matter fact, when they last |
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replaced that box, we got off of party lines. How's that for old? They |
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were due to replace the box a couple years ago but hurricane Dennis and |
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Katrina hit the coast and all the phone people went south, as a |
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geographical direction, not a figure of speech. That would have got us |
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DSL out here and I would have been on it with both feet, firmly. |
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I do plan to get a DVD burner soon. If I do that, I plan to do complete |
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backups then, the whole thing, not just a snapshot and distfiles. If |
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you follow the myspace link below, you may understand why I have not |
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done so already. My blog entries get a lot of reads. Divorces can be |
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nasty. May have a new blog entry in the next few days, waiting on the |
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call from a lawyer. |
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Thanks for the offer. If something did happen, I do have a plan. I |
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have not tested it but I certainly hope it will work if I have to test |
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it. May keep that offer in mind though. < Dale make a note of the |
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email address > I would gladly pay the costs of the media and mailing |
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at least. Paypal comes to mind to take care of that. ;-) |
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Jeez, I hadn't had a offer to help like that in a while. I thought I |
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was the only one that would do something like that. Your name is |
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familiar too. Where I know you from is unclear but we have spoke |
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before, some where. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 |
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Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. |
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