I don’t know how many of you remember The Maxx (comic book & later a cartoon on MTV in the 1990s); but I just read a thing where Sam Kieth (the guy who wrote & drew it) nonchalantly mentions drawing mostly with his right hand, but occasionally drawing with his left because it is better at certain things. WTF? That’s right up there with seeing Lee Renaldo switching from playing a guitar right handed to playing another guitar left handed in the middle of a song.
Got the final draft & first layout done for Built & sent it over to Joe Badon. Trying to solidify some bits about the fonts. I wanted to have the human character in the issue use a different font than the “robot font” I use for the lead character & there’s debate on the legibility of it (I used one of those emulated cursive fonts) & I’m thinking about changing it over to something like Curlz.
Here’s an episode from the 1980s version of The Twilight Zone that is significantly darker than any other episode of the series I can think of.
& I found this way more bizarre video that is definitely worth a few minutes of your time:
Hey Brian, after my old HD died I installed GSmartControl to determine the health of the new one from time to time. It doesn’t run in the background nor it has any sort of autorun or whatever, so it does not consume system resources.
It’s also free application (GNU GPL), check it out: http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/en/About
Cheers,
Nic
I probably should get something like that. To be honest I never really think to scan a drive unless something squirrelly is happening. I suppose I should do it as routine maintenance.
It doesn’t need any scans to check drive’s health, Brian. It simply reads S.M.A.R.T. data from your HD – just in case, check S.M.A.R.T. on Wikipedia.
When you open the program, it immediately collect all the info about your HD’s health.
If you move the mouse over a value it shows a balloon tip with its meaning.
It can also do drive scans (quick or complete) on demand if something wrong is shown from the S.M.A.R.T. data analysis, but that’s not the program main purpose nor the normal routine.
It doesn’t even add any registry key to Windows – so you can uninstall it completely without issues.
It’s a safe application – The only problem I ever heard is about using GSmartControl with Samsung F4 EcoGreen drives (HD204UI, HD204UI/Z4, HD204UI/UZ4, HD155UI, HD155UI/Z4, HD155UI/UZ4):
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
Thanks Nic!