rich manalang

aka @rmanalan
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Jul 10
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Hardrive Failure

Well... almost. Looks like I had some bad sectors which took the site down for a day. Why did I see this coming (and not do anything about it)? Time to pause and reflect on Murphy's Laws on Information Technology.
Law of Inconvenient Malfunction: A device will fail at the least opportune possible moment
Law of Bad Sectors: The probability that an untested disk will have bad sectors is directly proportional to the importance of the data written onto the diskette.
Now, I've got a choice to make... to fix or not to fix?