. . . and this is exactly why the vast majority of the public (especially the female half) doesn't take geek complaints about DRM seriously.
Because you don't think groping is sexual assault?
It isn't the heat waves that matter, it is when the storm fronts move in and raise the humidity. Swamps can cool better in even the hottest low humidity days than in the normal heat, high humidity days in Alb. The clouds associated with the storm fronts also block the heat in really well, meaning that if you are using a swamp cooler, it will stay hot inside throughout the night. If cheap enough, this new AC can be put in alongside the swamp coolers so that it can be used in place of them when it is just too humid for them to do their job properly. The swamp coolers can still be used on normal dry days if they are still more energy efficient than the new AC.
Do you get any error messages from the kernel as it fails to see the hd? What is the hard drive make and model? I had a problem once after upgrading to a newer version of Ubuntu (intrepid?) not being able to see my sata cd-rom drive; apparently it did not respond fast enough to a polling for it to be detected or something like that. A firmware upgrade fixed that.
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein