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A friend of mine put a rounded neodynium magnet on top of his laptop, right over the hard drive. he liked how the magnet started to spin on top of his laptop, he didn't like how his laptop was unusable after. He destroyed about 10% of his drive's sectors completely.
So my suggestion is open the hard drives, get the magnets out. power the drives up and drop the magnets onto the drive.
One of the strangest failures I've ever seen is a drive which will work perfectly when held vertically and do nothing when horizontal. I still use it, as a backup of backups... Just for fun.
But then you are still dependent on someone else. I prefer to host all my software on my own metal, so I have the control over my own data. I know this isn't possible for everyone but the only way I like SaaS is SaaStM, Software as a Service to Myself.
after having finished portal 2 yesterday, that sounds like an awesome idea. obviously you'd need a wiimote like controller for the portal gun. i'd really want that.
There is a simple solution, use noscript. The first days might be a pain to get it to work for you, but it makes firefox run good. The only problem is that you are now stuck with firefox.