VCF server crash

[Sellam Ismail]

Sorry for the lame intrusion :)

Last week my server hard drive crashed mysteriously and I've been 
recovering ever since.  Although my websites don't yet reflect it, I've 
recovered most of my important files and data; I just need to put 
everything back into its proper place.  This would have been a much easier 
process had my last full backup been more recent than August 8 :(

At any rate, I apologize if you tried to contact me and couldn't (my 
e-mail was down for almost 3 days).  Also, if you were waiting for me to 
get back to you on something, please know that I've basically lost the 
last four months of my e-mail (it's on my hard disk, somewhere, but 
finding it will be a manual block-by-block process), and I'd appreciate it 
if you could send me a reminder message of what you were expecting from 
me.  I had about 800 messages in my inbox going back to 2000 that I was 
determined to eventually address (obviously not all of them were people 
waiting for replies...I use my inbox as sort of a to-do list ;) so until I 
recover my mbox file I pretty much don't remember what was in there.

Going forward, I'm now situated on a fault-tolerant server with RAID, and 
am implementing a more regular backup process.  Whoopee for me.

With my new server come some minor changes (initially), specifically with 
my e-mail addresses.  I've retired siconic.com as my primary domain and 
have now adopted vintagetech.com as my primary domain.  My primary e-mail 
address is now <vcf at vintagetech.com> or <sellam at vintagetech.com>, with the 
latter likely to become my defacto e-mail address for all things VCF and 
VintageTech (currently, my outbound mail comes from <vcf at vintagetech.com>).
Anyway, while <vcf at siconic.com> will not be going away anytime soon (if 
ever) you should update your address book with <sellam at vintagetech.com> as 
my primary e-mail address.

Finally, with the new year will come a renewed and intensive effort to 
catch up on long-promised projects.  I have re-organized and re-focused my 
life so that I can get back to the things I've been wanting to get done, 
including FutureKeep as well as some so far unannounced projects (ooh, the 
suspense!)  I started a blog on the VCF website (currently unavilable due 
to crash but coming back very soon) where I keep people posted on VCF 
happenings behind the scenes plus my usual obnoxious commentary, so you 
can follow that to keep abreast of what's going on in my realm (I should 
be so flattered).  I also have plans to start hosting more content from my 
server, once I've upgraded my internet pipe to handle way more bandwidth 
than I currently have.  And of course the VCF will continue, with VCF 
Europa 7.0 being the next stop closely followed by VCF East 3.0 (hosted by 
Evan Koblentz and the rest of MARCH).

I remain unsubscribed from the CC list but occasionally follow it in the 
archives just to see what's going on.  That doesn't mean I'm cut off from 
the community.  As ever, if anyone needs anything from me or if I can be 
of assistance with something, please do drop me a line.

Now back to your regularly scheduled meditations on vintage computing...

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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