Archive for August 22nd, 2008
hyperbole and journalism
“The quartet smashed the previous world mark of 37.40…by a huge margin to set a new benchmark of 37.10.” BBC
“smash Michael Johnson’s mark of 19.32….” (with 19.30) BBC
Dear BBC, please educate your journalists - 0.8% faster and 0.1% faster are not worthy of those statements. By comparison the 100m report was accurate - he [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under Life Rants.
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SW RAID weirdness
Yesterday a disk dropped out of my RAID array at home:
ata3.00: exception Emask 0×10 SAct 0×0 SErr 0×4050000 action 0xe frozen
ata3.00: irq_stat 0×00000040, connection status changed
ata3: SError: { PHYRdyChg CommWake DevExch }
ata3.00: cmd ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0
res 40/00:04:14:d6:42/00:00:25:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error)
ata3.00: status: { DRDY }
ata3: [...]
Posted: August 22nd, 2008 under My setup.
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