No, not in a tool. I mean - pop-up warning "Hey, your hard drive is failing" without your intervention. Like the battery warning.
After my first HD failure I installed smarmontools ( http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ ). The next time I got advance warning about the oncoming failure. I had dropped my laptop from about 1 meter and less than week from that incident, I got the popup. About week from that my system would not boot any longer. There are other smart monitoring software also, but this one is open source, thus you are getting good bang for the buck.
Can't bring liquids on board? Sure, but you can bring freeze-dried watermelon that you've reconstituted with a liquid of your choice onboard.
Nope, no can do. During Christmas time, one of the Finnish traditions is to eat ham. Not just a slice, but 10-20 pounds of big part of pig that is then cooked at home. Some buy their ham fresh, some buy it frozen (Cheaper). You are not allowed to take frozen ham onboard, it's considered as liquid.
Ref: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kauppalehti.fi%2F5%2Fi%2Ftalous%2Fuutiset%2Fetusivu%2Fuutinen.jsp%3Foid%3D2008%2F12%2F16969%26sort%3Dfalse%26request_ahaa_info%3Dtrue&sl=fi&tl=en
(Article translated from Finnish to English)
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fi&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kauppalehti.fi%2F5%2Fi%2Ftalous%2Fuutiset%2Fetusivu%2Ftulostus.jsp%3Foid%3D2008%2F12%2F16969%26type%3Detusivu
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I don't like what the US government is doing itself in the area of human rights abuse, but I have to admit that I support it on this matter.
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The US government would have more credibility if they'd start with US companies and then go after the international ones. Or at least target both at the same time. And besides there are many countries with questionable record in human rights. One of the lesser known, but incredible bizarre is Turkmenistan, a mall country with lots of oil & gas. The previous leader came up with Ruhnama, which is an absurd government propaganda book disguised as mandatory religion. Foreign companies get advantage in Turkmenistan if they translate the book to their language and Turkmenistan gets another propaganda victory. The US version was translated by John Deere (the tractor company). There are other big US companies in Turkmenistan, againt the companies' own ethical rules.
Have a look at a documentary 'Shadow of the holy book'.
The whole thing is so unreal that it's absurd..
Ps. Yes, you can find Siemens also from Turkmenistan...
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