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The Jinx, Part Two
So, less than a week after the prior post, the machine hosting republic.org suffered a fatal motherboard failure. I purchased a new "el cheapo" machine to be the server (the previous server, a Dell, had cost ~$300, and replacing the motherboard would have cost over $200, not counting my time), installed Ubuntu (rather than stock Debian), and had the site back up and running again sometime in late September.
At least, the mail and static website portions. Fortunately I had backups of the data from the previous server, but getting the old database mined and b2evolution up and running again with all the old info seemed, well, a lot like work. So I put it off.
And put it off again.
Eventually my wife's demands for her own blog were sufficient to overcome my natural laziness, and in the event restoring the data turned out to be pretty simple. So, only with only five months dark, here we are again!
Now to figure out what books and movies I consumed since last July...