Ghana

Panicked e-mail I sent: (relevant)

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Sorry you’ve been sick, E*: I feel like this is the last thing you need.

Here’s the deal: I’ve spent so much time on this project that my grades are seriously starting to suffer. Everyone is telling me to stop working on it cold turkey and focus on my classes, but frankly I don’t see that as an option. If I’m not there, the drives won’t get copied.

I think the mistake here was not to have more people working on the project who were familiar with Linux. Thankfully S* Y* has offered his services for hours on end without complaint. I spent all of 2:30 to 11 last night working on this thing, when at last my girlfriend got pissed at me for this. He was there from 8 on, I think.

I really can’t afford to do any more on the project this weekend. I have two friends coming who have been trying to come for months. I literally will have no time this weekend, and still I know my grades are going to suck as a result.

Today’s game plan: I won’t be free until 3. At that point I can spend an hour and an hour only on this.

Game plan:

Purging script is finished except that I should add a line to clear the WINE temp directory. Easy. Five minutes of testing. Then we move the script into the shutdown folder and make sure it runs OK.

We will be using the Disk Utility on my MacOS install. We will plug in the external hard drive, save it to an image on my local hard drive, create a new HFS+ Journaled partition, plug in the golden client drive, save it as an image on the HFS+ partition, and copy to the other 11 from there.

After the copying is done, C* will boot each laptop from Windows, install Dell’s BIOS update, which will serve as a hardware test for each unit.

If I don’t get all this done in an hour, you guys are on your own."

This has got to stop. I need to work.