archlinux pacman helper

I don't always follow pacman updates output. I believe this behavior was the reason I was left with an unbootable system. Mainly because of a long time due change for /bin/systemd to be removed, /bin/init being the sole entry point for the bootloader to continue. Anyway, as for LFS (Linux From Scratch), logging things could help, so as for now I'll use :

pacman -Su | tee pacman.dash.Su.`date +%d%b%G_%H%M%S`.log

in order to be able to read useful information later on.

sansa clip+ hazardous resurrection.

My little sansa clip buddy just crapped itself real good today. That's the second time I see that, my mother's one died out of the blue. These things are tiny and sturdy yet their internals seems very fragile. Fortunately, or not, mine resurrected, a definite proof that god exists, is digital and supports music sharing. I'm letting him charging on usb as if he needed some juice to warm itself back from the freezing cold trip to the trash bin we were getting back from. Pardon my grammar.
I was already thinking on grabbing a cheap android phone on ebay, I'm now one step closer. After all, it's only twice the price of this limited device to get a pocket computer/gps/mugmagnet these days. And I love jelly beans. Tribute to Busy Phillips.

[198002.235827] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, device number 15
[198680.723585] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 16 using ehci_hcd
[198680.856683] scsi9 : usb-storage 1-5:1.0
[198681.863414] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     UNDEF    storage          1.0  PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[198681.866267] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] 8265 512-byte logical blocks: (4.23 MB/4.03 MiB)
[198681.867897] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[198681.867906] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 04 00 00 00
[198681.868894] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[198681.868902] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[198681.875921] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[198681.875929] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[198681.885107]  sdc: unknown partition table
[198681.893907] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[198681.893916] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[198681.893923] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[198723.408062] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, device number 16
[198796.486921] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 17 using ehci_hcd
[198811.593537] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[198826.803586] usb 1-5: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[198827.013588] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 18 using ehci_hcd
[198835.743723] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
[198887.830541] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5
[198889.163561] usb 1-5: new high-speed USB device number 20 using ehci_hcd
[198889.294648] scsi10 : usb-storage 1-5:1.0
[198890.297786] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Sansa Clip+ 4GB  v01. PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[198890.299140] scsi 10:0:0:1: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Sansa Clip+ 4GB  v01. PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[198890.299750] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] 7683072 512-byte logical blocks: (3.93 GB/3.66 GiB)
[198890.301475] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[198890.301485] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 04 00 00 00
[198890.302146] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[198890.302155] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[198890.305781] sd 10:0:0:1: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[198890.306345] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[198890.306354] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[198890.309471]  sdc:
[198890.311724] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
[198890.311733] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[198890.311741] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk