Hi Brian,
Being on the hardware side I do not follow everything you say below but do
have enough understanding to appreciate the complexity and frustration you
are facing.  Just a couple of hours ago here at work they were going to
ghost a machine but it started beeping before they got to it, very annoying.
Guess what, we lost the hard drive in it!  Anyway keep up the great work
which we greatly appreciate.

Bill - The Watcher

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Cluff [mailto:brian@snaptek.com]
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 12:05 PM
To: listserv@azgeocaching.com

Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Is no one caching??
Actually, due to a major bug in the recent changes to the crawler by me, 
the crawler is now non-existent :)  It accidentally erased itself last 
Tuesday. (I forgot to test what would happen in something DIDN'T 
occur...DOH)
Now all the computer types are thinking, just restore from your backup. 
  Yes, of course we have a backup, but unfortunately, we hadn't run one 
recently, so the crawler and parser are all extremely out of date and 
broken.  So since I would have to do a ton of work on getting them up to 
date anyway, I decided to re-write the parser in perl.
I've now got a brand new shinny ripper that seems to be just as fast as 
the old one written in C, but easier to maintain.  I just have a couple 
more fields for it to rip, and then we should be back in business, and 
hopefully better than ever.  My first goal is to get us back to where we 
were, but I'm also trying to get the stats to be more real time.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek