Engineer-Poet's Journal: Mathtah, it'th ALIVE!

I finally got around to backing up 38 GB of data (as a precaution, and a long-overdue protective measure) and loaded the latest Mandriva Free.

Pluses:

• It got the ethernet port working again (no idea how I screwed up the old config).
• I didn't have to use the backup.
• It didn't mess with /etc/hosts, so all my ad-site blocks still work.
• My passwords and everything are just fine - I can be myself on /. again!

Minuses:

• It no longer mounts USB devices under /mnt, df doesn't show them, and I haven't yet found where it puts them.

But in the mean time, just about everyone else seems to have drifted off. Where is everyone? Multiply?

Multiply

[Randle_Revar]

It is always nice to have nice new install with everything (or almost everything) working correctly :-)

Most everyone went to Multiply [multiply.com]. Some, like myself, still track Slashdot as well, but a fair number completely abandoned it. A few people didn't like multiply and stayed here, and others felt that /. is now pretty empty and disappeared altogether.