My ThinkPad t42p is less than two years old, and today it became a paper weight — I hope temporarily.
Thursday Update: Yes, it seems that it was temporary!
“Fan error”
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Category Archives: PC
Parakey?
No, not talking butter.
Parakey: a service, a product, a platform to bring life to the web by Firefox wonderboys? A “Web operating system that can do everything an OS can do”? IEEE Spectrum article
Every hard drive will fail
The hard drive is a computer’s long term memory. It keeps all of the applications and your work and play on the computer.
It is also the mechanical part of the computer, and the part most likely to fail. Some fail within a couple of years and many do not last more than five.
Hard disk failures have caused myself, family and friends frustration and anxiety. Why do we entrust our work and play to something that is not made to last?
technorati tags:made to last, made to fail, pc, personal computer, pc, computer, computing, hard drive, drive, disk, fail, failure, i/o error, ioerror
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Clean hard drive
I replaced the hard drive in my laptop because the old one of 60 GB was full. It was mostly full of vmware images for testing Flock and various build environments of Flock.
The new hard drive is 100 GB.
I like things being structured, and there is something really appealing to a clean hard drive. This one is the most clean I have ever set up for my main computer. I did not create a partition for Microsoft Windows.
I will now go through the sickly enjoyable process of coping my settings from the previous drive and selectively reinstalling software.
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gmail Oops & Flickr Blog Post
In these last 36 hours I have been seeing the “gmail Oops” a lot! Most of the time it really does clear up “in a few seconds”, but there has been a few times where it has been much longer.
Kurt Cagle’s soapy post on Javascript
Kurt Cagle posted today with the title of “Is Javascript Dead?”. I considered stopping reading right then, because I think that crosses the line of journalistic good taste (oxymoron 
in a headline, but Kurt is often insightful and is a valued colleague of mine. Javascript is also something that I am interestd in. Having read the post, I know he can communicate more effectively than he does there.
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Upload to Flickr via Windows XP Explorer
Usability and communicating about usability are what QA (Qommunity and quality Assurance) is all about. At least once a week, I want to post about my non-Flock usability issues from “real-life” situations
On my new laptop running MSWin, I wanted to add a Flickr upload tool. Of the tools listed the one at the bottom of the page seems most elegant, “Upload to Flickr via Windows XP Explorer”. It does not involve installing another application, only (in Firefox) downloading a text file with an .reg extension, and then double clicking on it.