I found this video by Adam Sacks on Youtube tonight.
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Category: Geek Stuff
What are hard disk platters made of? At first I thought it was aluminum alloy or some other light weight material. And to be honest I never gave it much thought – until today.
When we take a hard drive out of service at work, we destroy the disk. Usually we bust out the TORX screwdriver (size T8 and or T10) and remove the outer case. Then we remove the circuit board, the magnets for the actuator arm, and then the actuator arm. Finally you are left with a stack of platters which you can leave in the bottom of the case or remove them.
So this afternoon I was on the phone with my wife and playing with the platters I removed from a drive about a week ago. I dropped on the floor and to my astonishment it shattered! So after cleaning up my mess I was curious and needed to know. Click the link from Wikipedia and scroll down to Manufacture.
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Using Real VNCViewer
This was a busy week at work. Usually is when you come back from vacation. Every month we generate a report which displays which PCs are out of our 95% compliance for all Microsoft patches. Usually we are at or just over the company compliance of 95%, which is amazing considering we have three times as many PCs as other sites in the U.S.
In order to get the PCs up to date and complete my work at my desk, I am using Real VNCViewer to connect to the PCs who need a little manual love for one reason or another. I am connect to 2 PCs on the production floor using Real VNCViewer and using No Machine for access to my Ubuntu Linux box (which I am using for this entry). Plus Windows Vista (YIKES!!) is busy doing it’s own stuff such as connecting to the Ticket Monitor System, running Outlook 2007, checking e-mail at home, and a separate Citrix connection that I forgot to disconnect from.
If you have never took advantage of using VNC, No Machine, Terminal Server Client or Remote Desktop Connection, you should try it. The only thing you need to be careful of is which PC you have displayed. You don’t want to be deleting something from PC X when you thought you were in PC Y.
Now, if I can only figure out why this Vista image won’t load.
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Subnet Calculator
I was catching up on some blogs at Planet SUSE and came across OpenSUSE Linux Rants, a blog I followed for several years when I was using openSUSE instead of Ubuntu.
Scott wrote about iptables and how to block hostile machines at the kernel level. He then mentioned a cool little tool called Online IP Subnet Calulator. It would have been nice to have when I was studying for my MCSE back in 1999.
This has been around for a while, I just happen to come across it tonight on YouTube.
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Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock
I saw this episode when it first came out on Big Bang Theory. I forgot about it until someone mentioned it to me the other day. So this is more of a test post with YouTube stuff. Enjoy!
Drahusz 