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Clarkson injured in head-on crash during filming

Autoblog

- 16 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag"Celebrities/a/pa href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/12/jeremy-clarkson-injured-in-another-top-gear-car-crash-115875-20797110/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/jeremy_clarkson_250op.jpg" //aAccording to a report by the UK's emMirror/em, Jeremy Clarkson has been injured during filming of the BBC version of a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/TopGear/"Top Gear/a. The story doesn't divulge the circumstances of the crash or what the presenter was driving during the incident, but according to Clarkson, the head-on collision was his first serious crash in 31 years. Top Gear's front-man described his injuries in typical Clarksonian style thusly: "My right index finger looked like a burst sausage, my left shin was fatter than my thigh and my back felt like someone had driven over it with a pile-driver." Clarkson's wife took a call from the emMirror/em on Saturday and told the tabloid that her husband was fine. We wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/11/top-gear-series-12-officially-starts-november-2nd/"Top Gear team's triumphant return on November 2nd/a. emTop tip Lee!/embr /br /[Source: a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/12/jeremy-clarkson-injured-in-another-top-gear-car-crash-115875-20797110/"Mirror.co.uk/a]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/12/jeremy-clarkson-injured-in-another-top-gear-car-crash-115875-20797110/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/clarkson-injured-in-head-on-crash-during-filming/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1339975/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/clarkson-injured-in-head-on-crash-during-filming/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=gf5zH1"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=gf5zH1" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=V8LKm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=V8LKm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=In9Hm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=In9Hm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/419458048" height="1" width="1"/

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Krugman Wins Nobel Prize for Economics (Associated Press)

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ASUS all-in-one touchscreen PC up for pre-order... in the UK

Engadget

- 34 minutes ago

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/653/860/-/7728112/Asus-Eee-All-In-One-Touch-Screen-PC-ETP1602-WT-X0010-Intel-Atom-1-6GHz-1GB-160GB-15-6-Wide-Panel-Touch-Screen-Windows-XP-Home-Desktop-PC/Product.html?searchtype=genre"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/10-13-08-asus_eee_all-in-on.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Oh sure, there's absolutely a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/leaked-eee-pc-roadmap-shows-23-models-redefines-brand-dilution/"no viable reason/a for ASUS to slap an Eee moniker on this all-in-one desktop, but it's there, so we just couldn't resist the mention. Now that we're beyond that, this touchscreen-based desktop -- which was a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/05/asus-intros-the-eee-monitor-all-in-one-pc-says-more-eee-models/"peeked way back in June/a -- is finally showing signs of life courtesy of a formal pre-order page hosted up at emPlay.com/em. The all white machine packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, 15.6-inch LCD, Windows XP Home, a 1.3-megapixel camera, built-in stereo speakers, WiFi, a slew of ports and an integrated graphics set. The current release date is set for November 20th, though we wouldn't bet the farm on that or anything. At any rate, those unable to resist can plunk down pound;399.99 ($685) right now and look forward to free delivery in just over a month.br /br /[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/653/860/-/7728112/Asus-Eee-All-In-One-Touch-Screen-PC-ETP1602-WT-X0010-Intel-Atom-1-6GHz-1GB-160GB-15-6-Wide-Panel-Touch-Screen-Windows-XP-Home-Desktop-PC/Product.html?searchtype=genreRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/asus-all-in-one-touchscreen-pc-up-for-pre-order-in-the-uk/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1340200/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/asus-all-in-one-touchscreen-pc-up-for-pre-order-in-the-uk/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=sGUtGH"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=sGUtGH" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=W9s9m"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=W9s9m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=VNBhm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=VNBhm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/419446030" height="1" width="1"/

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On the Internet, Age STILL Beats Youth (or why Paris Hilton won’t surf the web like Hugh Heffner)

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- 43 minutes ago

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/10/freelance_money.jpg" width="179" height="150" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" align="right"/Freelancer Collis Ta'eed makes about $200 each month from work she mostly did years ago and hasn't touched. From putting his (admittedly clumsy) illustrations up for sale on stock photo sites, she steadies her freelance income and makes better use of her time between projects:br / blockquoteWith the holiday season coming up, work usually slows down and it’s a good time to do some side work to build for the future. So that years down the road you also are watching residual royalties accumulating every month./p/blockquote pHave you regularly sold work through stock media sites? How do you ensure your work gets actual use? Tell us what works and what doesn't in the comments. div class="related"a href="http://freelanceswitch.com/money/how-i-make-2000-every-year-without-doing-very-much/"How I Make $2,000 Every Year Without Doing Very Much/a [Freelance Switch]/div/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=8913914e71536d77613e1520a0b68df8" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=8913914e71536d77613e1520a0b68df8" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?a=qzFvsL"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?i=qzFvsL" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=zz8VM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=zz8VM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=aP1cM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=aP1cM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=e9Aam"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=e9Aam" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=KAPmm"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=KAPmm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/419483752" height="1" width="1"/

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Caspar Clemens Mierau: My (unofficial) package of the day: 3ware-cli and 3dms for monitoring 3ware raid controllers

Planet Ubuntu

- 59 minutes ago

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/ccm.png alt= pHaving a real hardware raid controller is a nice thing: Especially in a server setup it helps you keeping data safe on multiple disks. Though, a common mistake is, having a raid controller and not monitoring it. Why? Let#8217;s say, you have a simple type 1 array (one disk mirrored to another) and one of the disks fails. If your raid systems works it will continue to work. But if you did not setup a monitoring for it, you won#8217;t notice it and the chance of a total data loss increases as you are running on one disk now./p pSo monitoring a raid is actually the step that makes your raid system as safe as you wanted it when setting it up. Some raids are quite easy to monitor, like a Linux software raid system. Some need special software. As I recently got a bunch of dedicated (Hetzner DS8000 and other) servers with 3ware raid controllers, I checked the common software repositories for monitoring software and was surprised not finding any suitable. So a web research showed me that there are Linux tools from 3ware. Of course they don#8217;t provide .deb packages so you need to take of this yourself if you don#8217;t want to install the software manually./p pBut there exists an unofficial Debian repository by a href=http://blog.brachium-system.net/Jonas Genannt/a (thank you!), providing recent packages of 3ware utilities under a href=http://jonas.genannt.name/http://jonas.genannt.name//a. Check the repository, it offers 3ware-3dms and 3ware-cli. 3ware-3dms is a web application for managing your raid controller via browser, BUT: think twice, if you want this. The application opens a privileged port (888) as it is not able to bind on the local interface and has a crappy user identification system. As I am not a friend of opening ports and closing them afterwards via firewall I dropped the web solution./p pThe #8220;3ware-cli#8221; utility is just a command line interface to 3ware controllers. Just grab a .deb from the repository above and install it via #8220;dpkg -i xxx.deb#8221;. Aftwerwards you stark asking your controller questions about it#8217;s status. The command is called #8220;tw_cli#8221;, so let#8217;s give it a try with #8220;info#8221; as parameter:/p div class=wp_syntaxdiv class=codepre class=bash bashspan# tw_cli info/span Ctl Model span#40;/spanVspan#41;/spanPorts Drives Units NotOpt RRate VRate BBU span------------------------------------------------------------------------/span c0 span8006/span-2LP span2/span span2/span span1/span 0 span2/span - -/pre/div/div ptw_cli told us, that there is one controller (meaning a real piece of raid hardware) called #8220;c0#8243; with two drives. No we want more detailed information about the given controller:/p div class=wp_syntaxdiv class=codepre class=bash bashspan# tw_cli info c0/span nbsp; Unit UnitType Status span%/spanRCmpl span%/spanVspan//spanIspan//spanM Stripe Sizespan#40;/spanGBspan#41;/span Cache AVrfy span------------------------------------------------------------------------------/span u0 RAID-span1/span OK - - - span232.885/span ON - nbsp; Port Status Unit Size Blocks Serial span---------------------------------------------------------------/span p0 OK u0 span232.88/span GB span488397168/span 6RYBP4R9 p1 OK u0 span232.88/span GB span488397168/span 6RYBSHJC/pre/div/div ptw_cli reports that controller c0 has one unit #8220;u0#8243;. A unit is the device that your operating system is working with - the #8220;virtual#8221; raid drive provided by the raid controller. There are two ports/drives in this unit, called #8220;p0#8243; and #8220;p1#8243;. Both of them have #8220;OK#8221; as status message meaning that the drives are running fine./p pYou also ask a drive directly by asking tw_cli for the port on the controller:/p pre# tw_cli info c0 p0 Port Status Unit Size Blocks Serial --------------------------------------------------------------- p0 OK u0 232.88 GB 488397168 6RYBP4R9 # tw_cli info c0 p1 Port Status Unit Size Blocks Serial --------------------------------------------------------------- p1 OK u0 232.88 GB 488397168 6RYBSHJC/pre pSo you might already got the clue: As tw_cli is just a command line tool your task for an automated setup is setting up a cronjob checking the status of the ports (not the unit! the ports - trust me) regularly and sending a mail or nagios alarm when necessary. I just started writing a little shell script which, right now, just returns an exit status - 0 for a working raid and 1 for a problem:/p div class=wp_syntaxdiv class=codepre class=bash bashspan#!/bin/bash/span nbsp; spanUNIT/span=u0 spanCONTROLLER/span=c0 spanPORTS/span=spa