At Jutta there won't be any updates for now: both the iBook has a disk failure, as well as her Linux desktop. Somehow there's a problem here, first my desktop Mac and now Jutta's two computers.
Hopefully Apple will recover the disk contents during the repair, or I'll figure out beforehand how to save the disk contents, otherwise it's going to get really messy ...
Pretty strange story with the iBook: after a while the drive just keeps clicking, as if it's hammering the read head against the end of the platter. Sometimes it's not even recognized at startup. Sounds like it's done for ...
Small update: the Debian machine is still running after all, there was just a knot in the filesystem, possibly from an earlier crash. But the iBook drive is probably really done for, but we managed to copy down the most important files ...