Avoiding the Heartbreak of Notebook Hard Drive Failure

Your notebook's hard disk drive will fail some time and unfortunately, there's nothing you can do about it. Here's an article that will tell you what you, hard disk designers and operating system architects can do to lessen the impact of drive failure.

"Most notebook drive failures fit into two categories: Heat and physical failure. First, heat is unavoidable, it is not possible to mount three 120 mm fans on a notebook and still have it be a notebook. Second, notebook drives are not designed for 24x7 operation, it's more like eights hours a day (8x7) typically."

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How to Crash Internet Explorer

Ever wish you could make your friends and family switch away from Internet Explorer? Perhaps the ability to make it spontaneously crash (and I mean totally crash) just by sending them a link might sway them...

While working with both JavaScript and Internet explorer, and a while back (probably about a year ago now) I was trying to debug a script to make it work in both Firefox and Internet Explorer.
As part of the diagnostics, I wrote a script to iterate through objects and print their properties. As it happens, I tried this on the 'document.write' method, used to output text to the document. I forget the exact reason, but I do remember the outcome.
Firefox handles the code perfectly - but Internet Explorer, on the other hand, throws an exception and unceremoniously quits. Considering the script in question is one line long, or 61 bytes (about 0.06Kb), and that it can be embedded into any webpage, it's rather worrying.

I was surprised to see that, even a year later, the problem persists - so I figured I'd share this little code snippet.
(script) for (x in document.write) { document.write(x);}(slashscript)
**Make sure that you put in proper opening tags of javascript

That's it. For your entertainment, you can find the code here, ready to run.
Be warned, if you are running Internet Explorer, your browser will most likely crash, taking all your currently open windows with it, and possibly rendering your system unstable.

I'd advise you to save your work.
If you're using Firefox (or anything other than IE), have no fear- you won't be affected. If your browser crashes with just 61 bytes of code, however - perhaps it's time to switch?