Saint’s Log
The log of someone struggling to avoid the use of non free software
When you know how it works…
Sunday my external HD crashed on the floor, a Bad Thing(TM).
Luckily, it hosted an ext3 file system -free with all the documentation available-, so, even if the hardware is broken (it works, then it fails, then it works again), you can recover the infos using dd (it’s what my wife is doing – she’s the Sysadmin).
If you know how it is made you can fix it!
(or at least salvage it 🙂 ).