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How to Test Your Hard Drive with Smartmontools
Gentle intro to smartmontools
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If there is still reason for worry, and a couple of hours to do something else while the long test runs, then:
sudo smartctl -t long /dev/sda
HP Compaq nx6125 Notebook PC - Product specifications - HP Business Support Center
Despite the page name, this list actually includes several manuals for the nx6125
Intervals: web-based project management - Download Squad
Sounds like a useful timesheet service.
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All plans support web timers (to track how long you spend on a given project)
The 101 most useful websites - Telegraph
Backpack and several other collaborative web applications are on this English paper's top 101.
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6 Backpack
www.backpackit.com
To-do lists, notes, ideas and calendar. Excellent for juggling projects and much more versatile than a ring folder.
WE ARE *NIXED!: You only know good when you've seen bad...
this will make you laugh or cry
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One thing I specifically didn't do was install Wine, or even mention it existed. Given their amazing ability to attract malware, I think it is just too dangerous.
Cool Solutions: Compressed Drive Imaging over a Network
Michael Farrel uses bzip2 rather than dd and gzip. This might be a bit heavy on older processors, but if you have a narrow network pipe, go for it.
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netcat -l -p 12345 |bzip2 -d | dd of=/dev/hda
The -l switch tells netcat that you are listening for an incoming connection. The -p switch specifies which port you are listening on which is left to your discretion. The network input, when received is then piped into the bzip2 decompressor which in turn sends its data to the dd imaging utility and thus, the hard drive itself. The compression is used to save network bandwidth and is entirely optional. Additionally, you are welcome to use gzip in place of bzip2 if bzip2 is either unavailable or undesired.
A graphical overview of the receive pipeline can be seen on the right.
Setting up the host machine
Now that the destination machine is ready, its time to send the drive over the network to it from the host machine. This is done via the one-liner below
bzip2 -c /dev/sda | netcat 192.168.2.4 12345
Create reliable system images with dd | Network Administrator | TechRepublic.com
Ghost - over a network cable - without messing about with licenses and GUIs
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On Server B (receiving):
# nc �l �p 1010 | dd of=/tmp/image.dd
This will now sit and wait for incoming data and write it to the image file.
On Server A, you need to start sending that data:
# dd if=/dev/sda | nc 192.168.0.1 1010
LinkedIn: Answers: Hello network - I'm increasingly seeing a demand from my clients to use a project planning online diary. Has anyone come across a w
Some short sweet answers in this debate (free registration may be required.) There is a recommendation for Basecamp which I like for its simplicity, and offer it to my clients.
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Projectplace (see link below) allows you to create, store, manage and share documents with your clients and includes a 'project callander'
Seth's Blog: Really Bad Powerpoint
Speeches with powerpoint but without the death
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No more than six words on a slide. EVER. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
OpenProj | Projity
Critical path scheduling software - open source and apparently in Java.
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It even opens existing Microsoft or Primavera files. OpenProj shares the industry's most advanced scheduling engine with Project-ON-Demand and has Gantt Charts, Network Diagrams (PERT Charts), WBS and RBS charts, Earned Value costing and more.
Geeks and Nerds caught on film lacking geeky nerdiness | Channel Register
Bah!
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Of the 10 filmed, only three were able to diagnose the fault: a blown memory module which would cost just $25 to replace.
sourcefrog : Integrals and derivatives
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People have coped in CVS for years, though with some swearing and sweating and some bugs that accidentally came in through incorrect merges. The whole point of changing is to get something which will make development more efficient and pleasant. I think the point where changesets can start to pay off is pretty low.
Distributed vs. Centralized Version Control
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I think the private workflow so touted by distributed systems is a total non-feature, even an anti-feature.
A response to Tom Lord's "Diagnosing svn" by Greg Hudson, 2004-01-28
tree-oriented versus changeset-oriented - brought into relief
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What revision control is really about (archival, access, and manipulation of changesets) is subtle and _non_-intuitive." This is a subtle and important point, one which divides the centralized or tree-oriented version control systems (Perforce, Clearcase, CVS, Subversion) from the changeset-oriented ones (Bitkeeper, Arch). A full treatment of this issue could fill multiple journal articles, but one should recognize that it is an issue with two sides: * Changeset-oriented version control is more powerful, but it is power which is largely unnecessary in all but the most chaotic of development projects. * Changeset-oriented version control is harder to learn. In many environments, a shallow learning curve is the most important feature of a version control system. * Changeset-oriented version control is hard to get right.
Seven ways croquet is better than Second Life (and Croquet) - Just Looking: Luke Francl's Weblog
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Realistic rendering: Objects in the game world are made up of billions of individual atoms with various properties. When combined, these atoms create objects with different observable properties. The refresh rate and resolution is limited only by your optic nerve.
YouTube - Croquet Software Demo Movie (August 2007)
The demos given by the Croquet team are really sexed up now. This edited video captures the best bits in just 4 minutes.
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This is an edited screen capture from a Croquet demo given by Julian Lombardi
The Best Collaboration Tools | Tech Magazine
This is a long grab bag of web apps and downloads - I haven't read it but I bet there are some gems in here.
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The Best Collaboration Tools
Posted on October 1st, 2007 by admin
Business Productivity, Creative Collaboration, Mindmapping
alwaysBETA » The Tale of the Mechanical Virus
read the comments to this blog entry too - apparently people have experienced this with Firewire, SCSI, DVI, Compact Flash, A/V, Zip and Jaz cartridges ...
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It infects Mac laptops and speads via the DVI adapters. An infected adapter will infect any computer that uses it, causing that computer to infect any adapters that it comes into contact with in the future, etc. ... If a firewire cable is inserted upside down (easy on most any PC, or any G4 tower), it will kill the port on both the device and the computer.... The pin-bending virus has been around for a long time, though. I remember it happening with the 68-pin “Honda” connectors used on SCSI devices in the mid ’90s:...As for mini-DVI computers not being susceptible, true. The actual COMPUTER would be fine. But the mini-DVI-to-full-size-DVI adapter wouldn’t. (Although if you’re smart, you’d just use a mini-DVI-to-VGA, bypassing the bad DVI adaptor in the conference room.)
Sharepoint killers
Sharepoint could suck big companies into a vendor lock-in they hadn't planned on. Read the comments too.
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So Sharepoint is something that needs careful consideration. What are the alternatives?
Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Projects, both proprietary and open source, often use social software to help manage them. But people behave as groups, in interesting, surprising, and documented ways, when participating in a project, and when using the software (forum, mailing list, wi
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3.) Three, you need barriers to participation. This is one of the things that killed Usenet. You have to have some cost to either join or participate, if not at the lowest level, then at higher levels. There needs to be some kind of segmentation of capabilities.
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