| Subject: austraLasia: good news |
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| Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:08:38 +0100 |
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austraLasia #2597
And now for the good news....:
ROME, SEOUL and elsewhere: 18th February 2010 -- Apologies for a minor break in service but the good news is... after a major Fastweb cable and service failure on this side of Rome two days ago which corrupted an entire hard disk of mine (250Gb worth of data) I have spent the last 48 hours or so recovering it all. Thank God for Linux on the one hand and a 'Lenten'* approach to backup and file management, I now have, I think, 99 if not even 100% of the material back. That's good news!
And speaking of Lent - Drop into the EAO Blog on www.salesio.org and you'll see a note there from our Regional Fr Andy Wong. Why this address? In fact here's you chance to take a look at the all new 'sdb.org' except that for one major reason it is currently sitting on a separate URL. We cannot move it across to the usual sdb.org address until the ANS and several other subsites are transferred to another server -. and that server is several weeks away from being ready! Just one point with 'salesio' though: it's advanced beta format, which means its 99% ready but we've closed off several things - Google search for instance (and the 'cloud' is connected with that) since we don't want Google indexing a temporary address only to have to do it all again shortly. and the 'registration', though it works, is only trial - you'll be asked to re-register when we transfer to the correct URL. But feel free! And please - let's know of any dead links, things not working....
Another item of good news, and thanks to Duoc Le for this: if you want to see Salesians 2010 but you don't have your own glossy paper version, then this link will let you see it just as easily....and maybe better! Spread the good word.
And finally - Korea. We reported just a few weeks ago on the untimely death of Fr (and doctor) John Lee, missionary to Sudan. His life and death has galvanised thousands of people into active interest in the missions and the Salesian missions in particular, and possibly southern Sudan even more particularly, and area that has suffered and continues to suffer and needs all the help it can get. One of the fruits of Fr Lee's life and death will almost certainly be a vocational one, and there is at least a 'fourfold' feeling in Korea at the moment on this. A few days after his death 4 novices made their first profession, 4 others followed up with perpetual profession and a further four began their novitiate. While the numbers are not high, they are steady. Good news!
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* What could a 'Lenten' approach to computers be? Probably the first is 'repentance' for not having been even more careful! But it also implies a rigorous approach with
(1) email, where (a) any important email is immediately extracted, with its attachments, to a normal folder (b) the two files which contain all the email, address books and accounts in Thunderbird are regularly pulled out and put elsewhere
(2) backup - I backup usually weekly, so there is only a week's work of material to recover if something goes wrong. Maybe I'll change that to daily and try it for forty days!
(3) Linux. Even in the worst of crashes it does its best at 'digital salvation' and throws everything into a 'lost+found' folder. It's not exactly in the order it once was and it might even be in bits and pieces - but some rigorous work at the command line will put most of it back together again.
Is there a lesson for the rest of us here?
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