On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 09:34:14PM -0700, Jacob Adams wrote: > > In one of my old jobs we maintained an aging fleet of Dells and home-builts, > and with management that would only buy new stuff if you absolutely needed > it, we used the manufacturer diagnostics not infrequently to prove the > integrity of a drive. I can see where this would come in handy for a certain > group, and I wouldn't mind having all of them so that when my > relatives/roommates ask, "Hey, my hard drive is making weird noises, can you > take a look at it?" I don't have to hunt down the diagnostics on a > manufacturer's site.
I must admit that I haven't used these diagnostic tools before. Are they similar to what is available with SMART, or do they have extra capabilities? > I heartily agree. I was ruminating the other evening on why the UUG hasn't > done an installfest this semester, and with the exception of 'roll-your-own' > distro's like Arch or Gentoo, the biggest problem with installations these > days is choosing which programs to install, or whether to try out ext4. > Sure, problems come up, but it's a lot more rare now, with all the attention > that has been given to the installers by Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, and even > Debian. I think perhaps a 'post-install-fest'/fragfest would perhaps be more > beneficial to the community. Maybe we could add a little blurb to our flyers like: "Bring your computer to the meeting for free help with Linux troubleshooting and configuration." That might get some extra people come out to meetings, and it would be a great way to help people out. It's an idea, anyway. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
