S.M.A.R.T hard drives are capable of monitoring all of your hard disk activities. One feature that is crucial enough is to monitor temperature when it is running. There is a simple tool to get the value from your hard drive using S.M.A.R.T functions. 
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Hard Drive Temperature Monitoring using S.M.A.R.T
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Hard Drive Monitoring using S.M.A.R.T on Ubuntu
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009Hard drive monitoring is a crucial thing to do to measure the performance of your hard disk and to get early detection before it fails. It also can be used to let you know when to buy a new hard disk before your current hard drive fails. S.M.A.R.T has some useful function to monitor hard drives, although this feature comes with the purchase of the hard disc, but some people just can’t enable this function or even use this functionality on Ubuntu.
How to Install Wine on Ubuntu
Friday, July 31st, 2009How to install wine on Ubuntu? I found it pretty easy, and find a nice tutorial out there. Basically it is used to run Microsoft Windows programs on Linux machine. A lot like emulator you probably find on games.
Install Wine Program
It’s very easy to install wine under Linux Ubuntu, all you have to do is just clicking the add remove programs just like Windows application programs. A word of note, the emulator is very inefficient and can’t be used as a replacement as the real Windows OS like XP or Vista.
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