Due to a disk failure in an already degraded RAID array, the main melon.org server: ambrosia.melon.org went down at roughly 1914 EST (-0500) last night, and all the contents of /home were lost
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Your main server is ambrosia.melon.org? I think that's fabulous. Ambrosia is a nick name that some people refer to me as. Like those who didn't like Toronto around the turn of the century called it Hogtown while, in comparison, in was known as Paris by the Lake by many who lived here, I'll take Ambrosia over Ambo any day.
Well to be fair, it lingers from when I had the machine on a home DSL connection behind a firewall/filter. My machines are all named after types of melon (the laptop being water.melon.org owing to its having been obtained for the boat; though if I build a "ship's computer" into my boat at any point, I'll have to rename the laptop, since the most appropriate host for the name "water" will clearly have changed. The firewall was kiwano, since spiky and orange seemed suitable for a firewall, and ambrosia seemed to have really suitable connotations of desirability for application to the machine protected by said same firewall. (Feel free to interpret the mention of "connotations of desirability" as a veiled compliment
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