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Spinning disks have enough rotational momentum to keep spinning (which keeps the heads floating) for long enough to park the heads via a weak spring, with zero electricity. A head …

That bug was not as prominent as you make it sound - I was unable to reproduce the issue (or any other issue) across tens of thousands of reboots on the buggy firmware (running Lin…

The "super capacitors" (almost nobody uses actual super capacitors after early models discovered that super capacitor lifetime at server temperature was inadequate) are just a low-…

And also make sure no UPS is ever loaded over ~40%, so when one of the pair fails the other can handle the full load. And always set them up in isolated pairs, with no equipment pl…

I've seen a few different models of 2.5" Enterprise SAS drives go through a similar test (as a control,) and they were perfectly fine with no corruption after around 2 weeks of reb…

Sounds like you might be interested in this function that I keep in my bashrc, which prints a random line from Uncyclopedia (note, output may contain NSFW language and mangled unic…

My issue with this is that the pit stops will be so long and variable (it's not mentioned in the article, but the driver must sprint 100m to switch cars, and a 6 point harness is n…

You seem to have ignored my "All other things the same" qualifier - that means you have to assume that power, weight (except for the difference between the gearboxes,) suspension, …

Actually VW sold a dual clutch DSG transmission in the 2003 R32, years before the GTR hit the market, and for a fraction of the price. All other things the same, a dual clutch is n…

Yep, these kept going off on the (crowded) train this morning, and I thought they were some sort of fire alarm. It didn't help that everyone assumed the noise was not coming from t…

In California, it doesn't matter, since it's already illegal to give speeding tickets from a manned airplane (even though they still have plenty of signs to warn you that they migh…

Crucially (at least on my device,) there's no granularity to this opt in - I cannot choose to backup my application data but not my WiFi passwords. Now my options are to either acc…

If you release multiple copies of the document, each with a slight variation, then keep track of who got which version, you can (potentially) figure out who leaked the document.

Or data like this could simply be released before the market opens or after it closes, like most quarterly and annual reports.

I find that many desktop websites are entirely unusable on mobile, because I can't hover over menus without a mouse. Plus, I dislike waiting for 5MB (or more) of webfonts, ads, and…

Baking and candy making regularly specify temperatures in Fahrenheit up to 500 degrees in America. As for engineers, it largely depends on the policies of their employer. For most …

Another advantage to Shapeways (and similar services) is that they offer significantly better printing technologies than the affordable hobby printers. SLS Nylon produces very nice…

I obsess about lighting plenty (more than just color temperature - florescent flicker that most people don't notice irritates me to no end,) but I don't subscribe to the idea that …

In my experience, Android multitasking still doesn't work like a desktop (or even my old n900.) Certain applications (those registered as services) can continue to work in the back…

To add to that list, I viewed the page on my (rather slow) phone, and my User Agent wasn't sufficient to get me to a mobile version of the page (assuming one exists.) That dismissa…

But Linux servers require root access (or physical access, which frequently amounts to the same thing) to modify the bootloader. If you've already got root, then you don't really n…

Note: Lead (and dense materials in general) are not known for their abilities to absorb or slow neutrons - typically shielding is composed of materials composed of a high proportio…

When you've got thousands of dollars worth of tools at risk, you don't let software guess what to do - you can program most machine tools to damage themselves without a complaint. …