http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2007/01/29/a-bad-way-to-start-the-evening en-us 40 Quality rants on programming theory and stuff geeks like <p>I just checked my inbox and noticed the following urgent message from the <span class="caps">SMART</span> daemon on my laptop:</p> <pre><code>The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/hda, FAILED SMART self-check. BACK UP DATA NOW! For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages). </code></pre> <p>Crap.</p> <p>Luckily, I recently ordered a new laptop, and it should be arriving tomorrow. Good timing.</p> <p>Once it arrives, I should be able to transfer my dying laptop&#8217;s personality to the new laptop from the back-up copy on my development <span class="caps">RAID</span> system. Still, getting things set up just right will probably eat half a day.</p> Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:08:00 -0500 urn:uuid:ec677cd4-2dd9-49bb-a16f-aa2e18b36289 Tom Moertel http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2007/01/29/a-bad-way-to-start-the-evening hardware life smart failure backup hard_drive http://blog.moertel.com/articles/trackback/357