ROME, SEOUL and elsewhere: 18th February 2010 -- Apologies for a
minor break in service but the good news is... after a major Fastweb
cable and service failure on this side of Rome two days ago which
corrupted an entire hard disk of mine (250Gb worth of data) I have
spent the last 48 hours or so recovering it all. Thank God for Linux
on the one hand and a 'Lenten'* approach to backup and file management,
I now have, I think, 99 if not even 100% of the material back. That's
good news!
And speaking of Lent - Drop into the EAO Blog on www.salesio.org
and you'll see a note there from our Regional Fr Andy Wong. Why this
address? In fact here's you chance to take a look at the all new
'sdb.org' except that for one major reason it is currently sitting on a
separate URL. We cannot move it across to the usual sdb.org address
until the ANS and several other subsites are transferred to another
server -. and that server is several weeks away from being ready! Just
one point with 'salesio' though: it's advanced beta format, which means
its 99% ready but we've closed off several things - Google search for
instance (and the 'cloud' is connected with that) since we don't want
Google indexing a temporary address only to have to do it all again
shortly. and the 'registration', though it works, is only trial -
you'll be asked to re-register when we transfer to the correct URL. But
feel free! And please - let's know of any dead links, things not
working....
Another item of good news, and thanks to Duoc Le for this: if you
want to see Salesians 2010 but you don't have your own glossy
paper version, then this link will let
you see it just as easily....and maybe better! Spread the good
word.
And finally - Korea. We reported just a few weeks ago on the
untimely death of Fr (and doctor) John Lee, missionary to Sudan. His
life and death has galvanised thousands of people into active interest
in the missions and the Salesian missions in particular, and possibly
southern Sudan even more particularly, and area that has suffered and
continues to suffer and needs all the help it can get. One of the
fruits of Fr Lee's life and death will almost certainly be a vocational
one, and there is at least a 'fourfold' feeling in Korea at the moment
on this. A few days after his death 4 novices made their first
profession, 4 others followed up with perpetual profession and a
further four began their novitiate. While the numbers are not high,
they are steady. Good news!
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* What could a 'Lenten' approach to computers be? Probably the first is
'repentance' for not having been even more careful! But it also implies
a rigorous approach with
(1) email, where (a) any important email is immediately extracted, with
its attachments, to a normal folder (b) the two files which contain all
the email, address books and accounts in Thunderbird are regularly
pulled out and put elsewhere
(2) backup - I backup usually weekly, so there is only a week's work of
material to recover if something goes wrong. Maybe I'll change that to
daily and try it for forty days!
(3) Linux. Even in the worst of crashes it does its best at 'digital
salvation' and throws everything into a 'lost+found' folder. It's not
exactly in the order it once was and it might even be in bits and
pieces - but some rigorous work at the command line will put most of it
back together again.
Is there a lesson for the rest of us here?
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