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Do celu tam się wysiada. Lec Stanisław Jerzy (pierw. de Tusch-Letz, 1909-1966)
A bogowie grają w kości i nie pytają wcale czy chcesz przyłączyć się do gry (. . . ) Bogowie kpią sobie z twojego poukładanego życia (. . . ) nie przejmują się zbytnio ani naszymi planami na przyszłość ani oczekiwaniami. Gdzieś we wszechświecie rzucają kości i przypadkiem wypada twoja kolej. I odtąd zwyciężyć lub przegrać - to tylko kwestia szczęścia. Borys Pasternak
Idąc po kurzych jajach nie podskakuj. Przysłowie szkockie
I Herkules nie poradzi przeciwko wielu.
Dialog półinteligentów równa się monologowi ćwierćinteligenta. Stanisław Jerzy Lec (pierw. de Tusch - Letz, 1909-1966)
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.In the PC realm, several software products are offered that assist in diskmaintenance and disk health monitoring.ExecutiveSoftware (www.exec-utive.com) offers two products that assist in these routines, Undelete andDiskeeper.Undelete If you work in Windows, no doubt the first time you had thebad luck of erasing a file you had not intended to lose, you went looking forthe undelete function and found out it wasn t available.An icy chill ran upyour spine as one part of your mind quickly calculated the amount of workyou would have to redo, while another part started scripting bizarre dead-line excuse scenarios.Executive Software s Undelete operates quickly andeasily in all Microsoft OSs to easily find and restore lost or accidentallyerased files. 03_200505_Avg_ch03 9/5/03 11:28 AM Page 121Investing in the Necessary Equipment121In the Mac world, you have somewhat better built-in protection thanWindows, because anything put into the trashcan will remain recoverableuntil something has been written over it.Once you ve written over it, how-ever, your chances of recovery, even with the Mac version of Norton DiskDoctor, are remote.Cool Air Is a Drive s Best Friend If you want a nice little shock someday, go read the technical specifications of your favorite hard drive on theInternet.Under the section on optimal operating temperature, note whatis written.Then place a thermometer in the wheezing flow of air comingfrom the back of your computer (which is not as warm as the insides of yourcomputer).How many degrees above the hard drive s optimum specifica-tion is your thermometer reading? Get this.For every degree higher, you recutting about six months off the lifetime of the drive.Chances are the drivewon t send you a postcard before its flush-me bell rings.Heat is even worse for CPUs, although they tend to warn you of over-heating by crashing and when you cool them down a bit, they restart as ifnothing was wrong (a good symptom to remember when you re callingApple or Microsoft to diagnose a crash that only seems to occur after thecomputer s been on for a while).Drive Fans To eliminate any possible heat problems, take out the flat,plastic covers that hide your hard drive behind the front panel of yourcomputer.Go out and buy those little front panel inserts that have two¤'little fans mounted behind a bit of foam air filter.These are no-brand¤'items selling for about $15.They blow fresh air directly over the driveand into your computer.Chassis Fans You can also install another exhaust fan in your computerfor about $25.Find a strategic place on the back wall of your chasis wherethe resulting airflow will pass from the drives, over the CPU, and out theback.If air holes aren t already on the back wall, you ll have to drill yourown using a quarter-inch metal drill and creating a pattern of holes match-ing the diameter of the new fan.Be aware, however, that the small metalfilings from the drilling, if allowed to fall on your motherboard or periph-eral cards, can cause disastrous short circuits.Before drilling be sure toremove all components from the chassis and wipe the chassis clean beforereinstalling the circuit boards.Cleaning Fans Another simple way of helping your computer to stay coolis to regularly clean the fans themselves.Take a peek at the fan blades of 03_200505_Avg_ch03 9/5/03 11:28 AM Page 122Chapter 3122your computer, unless you just bought it this week, and you ll notice clumpsof dust that significantly reduce the efficiency of cooling.Clean those fans!In my midtown Manhattan studio, this is a quarterly duty, resulting inwads of black tissue paper and ear swabs, because city air is so dirty.But even the cleanest environments, such as the regularly inspectedcadet quarters of the U.S.Military Academy at West Point situated in thecrystal-clear air of the upper Hudson River valley are not immune.Mydaughter, a cadet, asked me to install a modem in her computer and theinterior of this machine would definitely not have passed a white gloveinspection (see Figure 3-2).Don t Frag Your Hard Drive Calm down, Vietnam War vets, this does-n t have anything to do with fragmentation grenades.Although not fatal, afragged or fragmented hard drive can certainly ruin your evening andmake you wish you were dead.Because animators are prone to creating files on a hard drive and thenerasing them to make room for more files, the problem of disk fragmenta-tion can arise rather quickly, even on a relatively new machine.One symp-tom of fragmentation is when your hard drive (or entire computer) beginsto operate very slowly.Large programs like Adobe Photoshop may sud-Figure 3-2The interior of mydaughter sdeskstation aftertwo years at theU.S.MilitaryAcademy at WestPoint.Althoughshe always passedher white gloveSaturday morninginspections, nowhite glove evergot inside the PC. 03_200505_Avg_ch03 9/5/03 11:28 AM Page 123Investing in the Necessary Equipment123denly stop functioning or no longer provide warnings relating to scratchdisks, virtual memory, swap files, or temporary disk space.If you searchyour drive s contents and there appears to be lots of free space, you mightbe fragged.Sometimes a drive might suddenly disappear from your software or itmight crash until a reboot is made.It might start losing essential files andcorrupting others
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