Now onto the truck.
I had my whole day scheduled on Saturday. I was going to drive down to Salem to check out a 49 chevy pickup bed that someone was selling and then pop in and watch FattiKop on the big screen. My wife informed me that she had a quilting class from 9-1 (because 47 books on the subject just isn't quite enough) and would need the car. No problem... I'll take the truck.
The trusty 71 let me down. It's not getting fuel into the carb. I had to wait until my wife got home at 1 and then started the parts run. Fortunately, a new carb and fuel pump cost about the same as having the fuel filter replaced on most new cars so I wasn't hurt too hard. But the day was shot.
Sunday, I decided to work on the truck as soon as I installed a MS hotfix that I'd been putting off for a bit. The download and install went fine, but the computer didn't automatically restart. I've had a problem with this box that the "shutdown" and "restart" from the OS don't seem to communicate with the box and vice versa. I decided to do a hard shutdown. Imagine my suprise when it was stuck in a reboot loop because the boot sector was trashed. I spent the rest of the day Sunday trying to recover the HD and the server to no avail.
At least I work with a bunch of geeks and they were completely understanding when I explained that I had a sick computer at home and would need to take some time off. 2 HDs and 3 days later, I have it back up and running. I am amazed at some of the recovery programs from MS and MySQL that helped immensely with this.
Anyways... the
FDB BBS is back up.
