Eric Ravenscraft
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This Video Explains How To Use SMART To Monitor Your Hard Drives For Failures
Your hard drive failing is one of the worst things that can happen to your computer, since you lose a ton of data. Fortunately, most drives include a tool set called SMART that can monitor your drive and let you know when you’re about to have a problem.
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The Five Second Rule Only Works Because Your Kitchen Floor Is Relatively Clean
The five-second rule — the idea that you can safely eat fallen food if you pick it up within five seconds — is as controversial as it is popular. While technically it’s not really true, it works because your kitchen floor is pretty clean.
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Narrow Your Goals Down To A Couple Of Areas You Actually Care About
As the new year kicks off, it’s a great time to set new goals. If you’re hoping to lose weight, work out, learn more, get a promotion, be more confident and finally organise your sock drawer, maybe you should just pick one or two at first.
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CyanogenMod Is Dead, And Its Successor Is Lineage OS
CyanogenMod was the biggest, most widely used custom Android ROM. Now, it has been discontinued, due in part to internal conflicts within Cyanogen Inc. Don’t worry, though: A new fork of CyanogenMod called Lineage OS is taking up the mantle, and it will keep most of what you loved about CyanogenMod.