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Re: Re: How to View Mathematica and Hardcopy Books

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• Subject: [mg62521] Re: [mg62486] Re: How to View Mathematica and Hardcopy Books
• From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
• Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 02:39:57 -0500 (EST)
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On 26 Nov 2005, at 16:46, Chris Chiasson wrote:

> What about reading a book for too long, or writing for too long, or
> standing for too long, or laying in bed too long?

I suspect doing any of the above long enough is deadly. So is not  
doing any of the above.

>
> BTW, I have noticed there seem to be a dearth of stories about loss of
> data from hard drives that aren't in use (e.g. if the drive is left
> offline for a long time). How long does it take for hard drives to  
> lose
> data when they aren't operating?

I have one such story. The first hard disk I ever had was a 20  
megabyte one. When the average hard disk size was about 300 megabytes  
I turned it off and put it away. Several years later I tried to turn  
it on and it was as dead as a dead parrot. Obviously it was standing  
for too long that did it.

Andrzej Kozlowski

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