Once again the RIAA and MPAA are trying to limit the things you can do with the media you have already paid for. Check out this fun cartoon from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
E-mail is a great tool that is being used in the wrong way all over in American businesses today. Have you ever gotten an email from someone in the next cube asking if you want to go to lunch? I have. Have you ever asked someone to go to lunch with you and heard them say “I can’t. I am waiting on an important e-mail.” E-mail is a misused tool and like using a sledgehammer to put a nail in the wall to hang a picture, misused tools result in people getting hurt.
isnoop.net has an article on a potential cause for excessive heat on your Mac laptop. He dropped the CPU temp of his MacBook Pro from 170F to around 135F in a matter of minutes.
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So I have a server that was out of disk space. Since it held a database I did not want to have to rebuild it, plus I am lazy so there had to be an easier way. The drives were mirrored using the md driver under linux. This was my chance to figure out how to rebuild a mirrored drive.
“What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
- Herbert Simon, “Computers, Communications and the Public Interest”
[tags]quote,attention[/tags]
