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                                 Lost pictures
                                        
Man, am I pissed.

I'm copying the pictures I took yesterday off the digital camera:

> [spc]marvin:/Volumes/NO NAME/DCIM/100OLYMP>scp * \
> 	/Volumes/WORKGROUP\;LINUS/images/2006/0806/
> 

And as I always do after transfering the images (I had assumed the pictures
copied okay):

> [spc]marvin:/Volumes/NO NAME/DCIM/100OLYMP>delete *
> 

(in this case, delete is an alias for /bin/rm and rm is an alias for echo
"This command doesn't exist"—don't ask).

[Good, but not as good as Alton's] [1] Only the copy didn't work out as
expected (okay, who's bright idea was to include semicolons in Mac OS-X
mounted volumes? Especially for those of us who like working at the command
line?). I ended up with one (1) picture, named /Volumes/WORKGROUP. The last
picture on the camera, which was of the cheeseburger I had yesterday after
the movie [2] (should have used cp but mistyped).

Lost: pictures of the 50s decorated Denny's [3]. Those of Gregory, Spring
[4], The Kids, Wlofie [5], some random customers at said Denny's. And two
reserved spots in a parking garage protected by two of those automated arms
that go up and down.

Sigh.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2006/08/07/cheeseburger-dennys.jpg
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/08/06.1
[3] http://www.dennys.com/
[4] http://www.springdew.com/
[5] http://wlofie.dyndns.org/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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