“The Google engineers just published a paper on Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population. Based on a study of 100,000 disk drives over 5 years they find some interesting stuff. To quote from the abstract: ‘Our analysis identifies several parameters from the drive’s self monitoring facility (SMART) that correlate highly with failures. Despite this high correlation, we conclude that models based on SMART parameters alone are unlikely to be useful for predicting individual drive failures. Surprisingly, we found that temperature and activity levels were much less correlated with drive failures than previously reported.’”

Via Slashdot.org

Laikam jau vairāk pašam piefiksēšanai. Jo līdz šim jau kādu brīdi ļoti nopietni sekoju līdzi SMART datiem…

Icaro Doria is Brazilian, 25 and has been working for the magazine Grande Reportagem, in Lisbon, Portugal, for the last 3 years. He was the author of the flags campaign “Meet the World” that has been circulating the earth in chain letters via e-mail

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Interesanta programmiņa, ekrāna tapetes vietā uzliek Zemes attēlu, kurš papildināts ar satelītuzņēmumu, kurš parāda šī brīža mākoņus. Rāda, kurā vietā šobrīd ir diena, kur nakts, utt. Pilns ar visādām opcijām. Pārbaudes laika versijai gan nesmuks uzraksts pa vidu, padzīvošu kādu brītiņu, kas zin, varbūt roka paslīdēs un iepirkšu, cena 19.95$.

EarthDesk replaces your Macintosh desktop picture or Windows wallpaper with a stunning dynamic image of our planet continuously updating in the background while you work.

EarthDesk mājaslapa

Izrādās, ka OpenOffice.org (NeoOffice manā gadījumā) nav daudziem tik ierastās MS Excel f-jas Text-to-columns, toties pateicoties iespējai veidot spraudņus labi cilvēki šo iespēju ir piesprauduši:

Unlike Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice.org 2.0 Calc doesn’t have a built-in “text to columns” feature, which is hard to live without once you’re used to it. OpenOffice.org has an extensible add-on architecture, and someone has written a “text to columns” add-on, but installation may be confusing. In this article I’ll explain how to install the add-on.

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