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The hard drive was connected to Redhat9 Linux via firewire and the hard drive had a reiserfs filesystem. It was supposed to be used for backups, but suddenly stopped working (it was not anymore recognized during system startup). Probably that had something to do with the external USB zip drive. Both are apparently visible to the system as SCSI devices and the zip drive might have (via automount) occupied the sda number that was manually added to /etc/fstab to enable the Maxtor hard drive. To check whether everything is OK with the drive itself, I connected it to my work computer.

Always when I logged into a Gnome session, automatically several application started up without me wanting them to start up (two terminal sessions and a nautilus windows). To get rid of them (at least I think so, I will see at the next login), you have to go to Main Menu - Preferences - More preferences - Sessions. Under the "Current Session" tab, one can remove the programs that are automatically started upon login and also specify in which order the programs are started that are started automatically.

Today I created a self-extracting, compressed file from a pdf document (disclosure.pdf). First I compressed the pdf file:

bzip2 disclosure.pdf

Then I create a text file (header.txt) with the following content: