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How to clean your PC

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

By Rick Broida, CNET.com and Jamie Bsales on 28 February 2007 

Blurb:

Are you squinting to see past the dust on your monitor? Does your keyboard hold more food crumbs than the bottom of your toaster?

Is the fan on your PC so clogged with dirt that it sounds like a plane taking off? Then maybe it’s time to clean your PC — for the sake of its health as well as yours.

Read more at cnet.com How to clean your pc

Good for those who’re handy with a can of compressed air… useful information - more people should be reading this and cleaning up.

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Opinion: Real-world disk failure rates offer surprises

Tuesday, June 26th, 2007

By Valerie Henson. Article from Computerworld.

Excerpts:

Their first major result was that the real-world failure rate was much higher than manufacturers’ estimates: an average of 3% vs. the estimated 0.5% to 0.9%.

… for an individual user for whom losing his disk is a disaster, replacing the disk at the first sign of a SMART error makes eminent sense.

Read more at Computerworld:  Real-world disk failure rates offer surprises

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