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Original post removed on 7/5 due to threat of legal action by the owner of the Curves franchise but I don’t like being censored so I have decided to put the original post back and reopen comments.
I have a new policy: I will not remove posts because people don’t like them
After speaking with the owner [...]

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White Elephant Gift

by Adam on December 19, 2007

Going to a Christmas party tonight and there is a white elephant gift exchange - someone is going to get 6 8GB IBM SCSI hard drives with their covers removed. Interestingly all the hard drives (same model) have an X mark (looks to be sharpie) on the top plater. The only information I could find [...]

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How does one defrag their computer?

by Adam on November 29, 2007

A friend sent me an e-mail, in it he asked:
How does one defrag their computer?
My reply back:

Well…
You remove the hard drive from the system and using an electron microscope you need to examine each individual hard drive cluster (there are 180,000 of them) and using a special de-fragment tool (looks like a kitchen knife but [...]

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