administrivia: server downtime

[Richard Welty <rwelty@domain.elided>]

the server was out of comission briefly this morning. the 7G maxtor disk i
bought about 9 months back seems to be a bit shaky.  given my recent
experience (every western digital drive i've ever bought - 4 of them over
the past 5 years - is still running in some system i own, while the one
maxtor i bought after i heard they'd improved a lot is flakey) -- i think
i'm going to go buy a big honking WD disk drive and start drifting critical
files over. there may be some mailing list downtime as i do this, as it's
easier to migrate server files from one partition to another when the lists
are offline.

i'd rather be running a DTP scsi controller with seagate drives, but that's
financially out of the picture right now.

now to find a good deal on a 7+G western digital disk drive...

cheers,
  richard