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Atomic Clocks Are Late in Leaping
Tweet Share on Facebook April 5, 2007 CommentBefore Congress moved it up three weeks, daylight saving time was scheduled to kick in on April 1. I know because a pair of my clocks finally leapt forward an hour. They were my radio-controlled clocks, which promised to make the change on time, no matter when Congress decreed it would occur.
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Rescuing Old Hard Drives
Tweet Share on Facebook April 4, 2007 CommentIt happens to almost everyone, even nongeeks who don't like to muck with the insides of a desktop computer: We end up with old hard drives sitting around. Maybe they're pulled from old computers, which is a good idea for protecting data when you send a PC off for recycling. Or maybe they're left from a hard-drive upgrade. And we keep them because we're not quite sure they're safe to pitch.
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