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- Make songbird look like spotify: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1440
- Got it, thanks Paul!
- Email me your email address so I can invite you Mike (paul@paulmwatson.com)
- Happy New Year to you, as well! I was stopping by to see if you would be willing to lend a reader a Spotify invitation. I am desperately hoping to be able try out the service. Thanks! Mike
- Nice one Jamie. Even more ironic is that that "mass production" is probably still underpaid, underage workers in some 3rd world country sweat-shop.
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I had forgotten how truly terrible the Windows command line is in comparison to any Unix-style command-line.
Then again, I’ve never had a hard-drive fail on me, in 16 years of computing, till yesterday when my MacBook Pro HD died (it is an Hitachi drive.) Mac OS X started loc ... Continue reading »
Then again, I’ve never had a hard-drive fail on me, in 16 years of computing, till yesterday when my MacBook Pro HD died (it is an Hitachi drive.) Mac OS X started loc ... Continue reading »
1 year ago
How long before your HD arrives?
1 year ago
1 year ago
Fortunately, you had a little warning some weeks ago and were able to take measures to prevent data loss.
It seems that, no matter what they do, the manufacturers of hard disks are always up against it as the increases in speed and capacity have to introduce some element of risk along the way.
You are correct though, it should not have failed after just one year - most disk drives have a far higher MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) than that. But then again, someone has to fall within the unluck spikes of those graphs too.
1 year ago
One of the drives in my server's RAID failed spectacularly last week, corrupting the entire data set until I isolated it. Thank God for ReiserFS and RAID 5. Rolled back the journal operating on 5 drives instead of 6 and continuing that way until I find a replacement on eBay.
Second time this year...