The hard disk in my new IBM X40 started misbehaving around 2am last night. Some time earlier it was making rather loud noises. And then two commands (ps and smartctl) locked up the machine and I have to used sysrq magic keys to reboot it. It’s too soon for the harddisk to fail because the notebook was bought in October last year, so it’s about 5 months only. My original plan was to buy a new harddisk, transfer data from the failing one to the new one as much as possible, and then take the failed one to an IBM repair center for a replacement. But the sad news is I could not find a 40GB 1.8″ harddisk (which the IBM X40 can only use, it can’t use the 2.5″ ones) in Beijing’s Zhongguancun(中关村)! Zhongguancun to Beijing is what the Golden computer center to Hong Kong, you go there for any kind of computer hardware and parts. For all the shops I asked which sold 1.8″ harddisk, they only had 20GB. Once again, it proves that if you want to play with the newest electronic toys, your best bet is to try your luck in Hong Kong :|
So bear with me if I’m a bit slow in replying your emails or such, I think I’ll not be back to full force until I can work on my notebook again.
It’s so uninteresting…
Your Brain is 40.00% Female, 60.00% Male |
You have a total boy brain
Logical and detailed, you tend to look at the facts
And while your emotions do sway you sometimes…
You never like to get feelings too involved |
Mozilla China officially launched today, which is backed by the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS) and the Sun China Engineering and Research Institute (ERI). Well, isn’t it funny to see that ISCAS’s website doesn’t render properly in Firefox 1.0?
After reading Tollef Fog Heen‘s blog, I tried to do a similar statistics on ftp.hk.debian.org from Dec 2004 to Feb 2005. Results are as follows (only include successful requests, that is HTTP 200 responses). Hmm, I think some archs can be cut to save some disk space…
Dec 2004
192207 |
i386 |
64539 |
all |
6264 |
powerpc |
352 |
sparc |
174 |
hppa |
142 |
arm |
112 |
mipsel |
21 |
alpha |
9 |
mips |
8 |
m68k |
4 |
s390 |
3 |
ia64 |
(ignoring requests from Googlebot)
192195 |
i386 |
64486 |
all |
6255 |
powerpc |
339 |
sparc |
167 |
hppa |
133 |
arm |
104 |
mipsel |
12 |
alpha |
Jan 2005
221980 |
i386 |
70907 |
all |
2072 |
powerpc |
1044 |
alpha |
611 |
mipsel |
456 |
sparc |
298 |
hppa |
272 |
m68k |
252 |
mips |
250 |
s390 |
238 |
ia64 |
214 |
arm |
(ignoring requests from Googlebot)
221751 |
i386 |
70753 |
all |
1807 |
powerpc |
812 |
alpha |
398 |
mipsel |
205 |
sparc |
45 |
hppa |
1 |
ia64 |
Feb 2005
177502 |
i386 |
63081 |
all |
3431 |
powerpc |
214 |
sparc |
174 |
mipsel |
102 |
alpha |
40 |
m68k |
38 |
mips |
33 |
hppa |
28 |
ia64 |
26 |
s390 |
18 |
arm |
(ignoring requests from Googlebot)
177470 |
i386 |
63035 |
all |
3400 |
powerpc |
188 |
sparc |
148 |
mipsel |
71 |
alpha |
1 |
m68k |
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