del.icio.us/dossy (RSS) links since January 23, 2006 at 09:05 AM:
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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)
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“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!
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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!
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Pork tapeworm (Taenia solium) and brain-parasite amoeba (Naegleria fowleri). Yuck.
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“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
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Broadband and AOL service for as low as $25.90 a month — this could be huge.
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For this error message, “mirror: Required device-mapper target(s) not detected in your kernel”, use “modprobe dm-mirror”.
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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.”
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“There are various noises that may indicate a failing hard drive.” Oh my god, these sounds used to haunt my nightmares! (via Digg)
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