Ubuntu's performance : how to speed up ?

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On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:24:49 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> > Well the hard drive in my laptop died yesterday,
> 
> You make it sound trivial, that's a disaster !!! :-0   :-/  :o(
> I have never had a drive die, what happened to yours exactly ?
> I ma worried, 10/15 years ago I would hear frequently of faulty drives,
> but I got the feeling in the recent years that the quality/reliability
> had increased a lot. I am wrong? you all have me worried now. :-/
> Or is it just because you use a laptop so drive is much mor stressed
> than a desktop drive ? I hope so :o(

Oh I was plenty broken up about it when I first realized... I lost
about 4 and a half gig of mp3/ogg files, about 3 gig of tools, toys
and tech docs that I'd accumulated over the last 2 years in the IT
industry.. :-/

But most of those were windows based and I rarely use windows now,
plus I've always wanted to re-rip my mp3's into a better quality
selection..

What happened? I started getting "Bad Block" errors so I rebuilt twice
before I "got the message" and threw the towel in.


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