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del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since January 23, 2006 at 09:05 AM:

• ResponderInfo.com – Mailing Lists, Telemarketing Lists, Sales Leads
  Data mining of email click-through data — which sounds an awful lot like “people who are receptive and respond to spam emails sent to them.” Yikes. (via Greg Yardley)
  Tags: business, email, internet, marketing, privacy, sales, spam
• Alsoft – DiskWarrior
  “DiskWarrior is the safest, the most technologically advanced, and the most powerful utility to eliminate directory damage available for any computer.” Damn, why doesn’t an equivalent product exist for Linux ext3 filesystems? Argh!
  Tags: apple, disk, osx, repair, software, tools
• jwz – “and the worms eat into your brain”
  jwz links to a Straight Dope article about Toxoplasma gondii, a single-celled parasite lives in the guts of cats, which forms cysts throughout the host’s body, including the brain. Eww!
  Tags: blog, brain, health, parasite, science
• Brain Worms and Brain Amoebas: They Do Exist
  Pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) and brain-parasite amoeba (Naegleria fowleri). Yuck.
  Tags: article, brain, health, science
• The Return of the Puppet Masters. The Loom: A blog about life, past and future
  “Some scientists believe that Toxoplasma changes the personality of its human hosts, bringing different shifts to men and women. [...] Those infected, he found, show a small, but statistically significant, tendency to be more self-reproaching and insecure
  Tags: blog, brain, cats, health, news, science, weird
• Discover AOL: AOL High Speed
  Broadband and AOL service for as low as $25.90 a month — this could be huge.
  Tags: aol, broadband, business, news
• Re: lvm2 (sid) and pvmove – device-mapper targets
  For this error message, “mirror: Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel”, use “modprobe dm-mirror”.
  Tags: linux, lvm, raid, reference
• Hitachi Global Storage Technologies: Support | Downloads
  Drive Fitness Test (v4.05): “The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick, reliable method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, including Serial-ATA IDE drives.”
  Tags: computer, hardware, software, tools
• Hitachi Global Storage Technologies | Support | Knowledge Base
  “There are various noises that may indicate a failing hard drive.” Oh my god, these sounds used to haunt my nightmares! (via Digg)
  Tags: audio, computer, diagnostic, hardware

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