Re: Re: How to View Mathematica and Hardcopy Books
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- Subject: [mg62524] Re: [mg62486] Re: How to View Mathematica and Hardcopy Books
- From: Chris Chiasson <chris.chiasson at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 02:39:59 -0500 (EST)
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>Obviously it was standing for too long that did it. You gave me a good laugh with that one Andrzej. I wonder if the data on that disk of yours is unrecoverable (disk surface damage or demagnetization of the disk), or if the motor just won't spin up. On 11/26/05, Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl> wrote: > > 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 > > -- http://chrischiasson.com/contact/chris_chiasson
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- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris.chiasson@gmail.com>
- Re: How to View Mathematica and Hardcopy Books