Dying SATA's & Learning Python...

The SATA drive in my linux box is starting to die. It started with just dropping into read-only mode in linux. Now, it's getting hardware failures from the on board controller. I think JEA cut my power a little to often for it and my UPS isn't keeping itself up anymore. :-(

On a more positive note, I've just about finished learning Python. It an object oriented scripting language that uses line indentation to delinate code blocks. I used to think that was a crap cobol-like idea. Now, I kinda see how it helps. I decided at Usenix that I wasn't getting enough done to be useful in the internet, so I decided to fix a feature in yum where it randomizes the mirror list so that you often will get a mirror but not necessarily the closest one. So I'm teaching myself python that hopefully I can make it work in a more 'better' way.