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In an utterly fascinating paper (only if you’re a Geek that is.  And if you’re not, what the hell are you doing reading this blog?) titled Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population [PDF] Google researchers discovered that self-monitoring data isn’t useful for predicting individual drive failures and that temperature and activity levels do not [...]

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In my experience, finding a job through an online job bank is largely useless.  Especially for technical positions.  Many companies, because they don’t pay for the damned postings, put up notices for positions that don’t exist.  It’s shameful and I don’t much care why they do it (networking, making it look like they’re a growing [...]

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