I bug has been confirmed where Feisty and Gutsy versions of Ubuntu are allowing hard drives to spin down to conserve power and causing excessive wear. In short a drive has an average number of load/unload cycles before it wears out. If the drive isn’t allowed to spin down during use, then there are less load/unload cycles which extends it’s life. It’s not clear whether desktops are affected or not since it’s the Advanced Power Management that is allowing the drive to spin down, and thus extending battery life. I’m not sure why one would put trust into a “Mechanical”
Hard disk Drive to archive data, so as long as you make frequent backups it shouldn’t be a huge deal. But it’s nice to be aware that your Hard disk may not last as long as one would expect.
Ubuntu Causing Unnecessary Drive Wear
Comcast is blocking BitTorrent
Just ran across this post and found it interesting since there are many people who use torrents. It seems that Comcast isn’t playing nice and is blocking people from seeding torrents. There are a few workarounds however, one of which is changing your ISP completely. If I had Comcast I would definitely be switching, and not recommending them to others. And I will switch from Verizon, if they decide to pull this shit on us, or decided to filter any traffic at all that is wanted. But what happens when all ISP’s decide to filter traffic? Maybe it would be time to get out of the internet realm altogether and say fuck it, I will do my banking over the telephone, and pay my bills via snail mail. Naahh, I don’t think that could ever happen. Or could it?
Airbag Jacket Saved A Motorcyclist’s Life
A company by the name of Impact Jackets have been making this Jacket and selling it for a nominal $400. Ok, well it’s nominal when you consider it life insurance. As an Avid Motorcycle rider myself, I’m always screaming at riders “Where’s your helmet”!? Now, I can scream “WHERE’S YOUR INFLATABLE JACKET”?! Here’s the story on the guys life that was possibly saved. I can’t wait for the idiots that spend the money on this jacket and then don’t wear a helmet. This may be a future addition to my riding gear, because you never know when you may drive your motorcycle into a lake! 
Halo 3 Stats Info
Here is a link to the game faq site that has info on what it take to achieve a certain rank or specific achievements, armor permutations, multiplayer medals and more. Thought it could be useful to some. Halo 3 info
Gaming Console Timeline Video
I ran across this video and would like to share it with others. If you are a gamer and grew up with in the last 30 years this will bring back memories.
Problems With Marathon Man Achievement Halo 3
So I have been playing H3 With the Wife and my buddy Bill, and trying to get the Marathon Man Achievement by accessing all of the terminals located in the campaign mode. First off to access the terminals all three of us Would have to be near the terminal to activate it, Which We already understood. We got to the final level, and got the final terminal and activated it, reading through every page and Waiting 10 seconds., going past the red blinky screen and reading the final pages. Nothing happened, no achievement! So What happened? We thought maybe We missed one, so We Went back and did them all again, and again nothing happened. Were We not going through all of the pages? Well, I researched on the Web and found others having the same issue, people Were saying to hit them all in order and to complete each level that have the terminals in at least Normal hardness. This is all complete BS, here is the secret. Everyone in your party has to activate the terminal and read ALL of the pages. Be sure to wait for the red blinky screen and read the following few pages to the very end. You do not have to view them in order, nor do you have to complete the level after accessing one. There is no particular level of hardness you have to play campaign to get the achievement as you do with the skulls. The easiest way to get the achievement is to play single player, so you don’t have to wait for everyone in your party to view the terminal, and play in easy mode. Be sure after viewing the last terminal in each level, to save and quit. Don’t worry so much about getting terminal 8, as it doesn’t count towards the achievement.