So, I've taken a copy. It took ages.

vagabond% du morty.tar
4174618 morty.tar

That's just shy of 4 gigs. Guess what I found?

vagabond% ls /mnt/data/spool
alt             humanities      news            sci             talk
comp            misc            rec             soc

WTF? Some kind of snapshot of Usenet from 2003? LOL.

I couldn't resist it. Shouldn't have bothered.

Script started on Fri Oct  3 12:42:42 2014
vagabond% ./gdmcore
Can't locate /usr/local/news/lib/innshellvars.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.20 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.20 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.20/mach .) at ./gdmcore line 13.
vagabond% exit

Script done on Fri Oct  3 12:42:46 2014

Prolly just take a copy and forget about it.

Well blow me. I haven't heard from Mortimer Hebblethwaite since he left MCC and disappeared back in the noughties. I feel quite nostalgic.

This must be the source for that bot Morty wrote. Naughty Morty.

Script started on Fri Oct  3 11:48:48 2014
vagabond% c ^H^H^[[Kcd /mnt
^[]0;vagabond::/mnt^Gvagabond% ls
bin conf    data    etc     log     run     sbin
vagabond% ls -l
total 14
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec 17  2003 bin
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec 18  2003 conf
drwxr-xr-x  4 mortimer  staff  2048 Dec  9  2003 data
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec 17  2003 etc
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec  4  2003 log
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec  4  2003 run
drwxr-xr-x  2 mortimer  staff   512 Dec  7  2003 sbin
vagabond% ls bin
BotArchal.pm        BotFlonk.pm     BotPhrase.pm    inews           gdmcore
BotCrime.pm BotFortune.pm   NewsStalker.pm  nhdr            sockpost
BotDaisy.pm BotMarkov.pm    botchan         polybot
vagabond% more bin/gd^Gvagabond% more ^H^H^H^H^H^[[5P^[[Kmore bin/gdm^Gcore
^[[?1h^[=#! /usr/local/bin/perl -w
# This is the bot, bot, and furthermore, bot.
# *** Copyright (C) 1996 Mortimer Hebblethwaite, XenoPsyche Inc., England. ***

# *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
#
# THIS SOFTWARE IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. IT CONTAINS ALGORITHMS WHICH ARE
# PROTECTED BY LAW THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN AND
# AUSTRALIA.
#
# *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***

require '/usr/local/news/lib/innshellvars.pl';

use strict;
use Sys::Syslog;
use Getopt::Std;

my $DEFAULTEDITOR = "/usr/local/bin/emacs";
my $MYDIR = "/usr/local/news/bothaus";
my $DATADIR = "$MYDIR/data";
my $CONFDIR = "$MYDIR/conf";
my $BINDIR = "$MYDIR/bin";

my $INEWS = "/usr/local/bin/inews";
my $SM = "/usr/local/news/bin/sm";

# command line parameters

ESC[7m--More--(15%)ESC[27mESC[KESC[KESC[?1lESC>You have new mail in /var/mail/ip
vagabond% ESC[Kexit

Script done on Fri Oct  3 11:52:58 2014

I brought the drives. Owen isn't even here today. This place sucks.

Owen wants his drives back. They've been sat there for fuck knows how many years and suddenly he wants to use them. Arsehole. Just 'cos he's mentioned in Wikipedia and I'm not he thinks he's right.

I was planning to have another go at getting the mirroring working before I disconnected them. I had a peek at the layout on the drive which wouldn't work, and found a partition which had been hidden. It's a concatenated disk layout, mirroring done the old way. I force-mounted the single plex, fsck'ed it, and had poke around.

Like I said, it's not fair. And yes, I am drunk.

Wasting my time,
Resting my mind,
And I'll never pine
For the sad days and the bad days

I give up. I can't think of any use for a Raspberry PI. The Study is overheating, so I've switched off a whole bunch of computers, including the build servers, all the PIs, the Wandboard and the Beaglebone.

Work is as soul-destroying as usual. The worst part of the day is being pressed into a corner on the bus by young women during the commute home.

And I've been sent another of these weird emails which purport to be from the future. They're kinda disturbing. I'll ask the email guys to block them.