{"id":307,"date":"2008-12-29T16:18:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T16:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2008-12-29T16:18:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-29T16:18:38","slug":"physics-and-smart-programmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=307","title":{"rendered":"Physics and SMART programmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vttoth.com\/physics.htm\">programmers do physics<\/a>, for better or for worse. Sometimes, physicists do programming, and the result is not always disastrous, sometimes quite the contrary. Bruce Allen, for instance, is a gravitational physicist who developed an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/article\/6983\">extremely useful set of programs<\/a> for Linux, allowing one to monitor the health status of a hard drive using the drive&#8217;s SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) capabilities. He certainly needed it&#8230; his cluster has several hundred disk drives in operation. I only have a few, but nevertheless it is reassuring to know that they&#8217;ll send me an e-mail, presumably before a catastrophic failure wipes out all my data.<\/p>\n<p>Which of course can still happen. I&#8217;ve seen hard drives die a sudden death, with no advance warning whatsoever, becoming an expensive but useless boat anchor.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=307' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, programmers do physics, for better or for worse. Sometimes, physicists do programming, and the result is not always disastrous, sometimes quite the contrary. Bruce Allen, for instance, is a gravitational physicist who developed an extremely useful set of programs for Linux, allowing one to monitor the health status of a hard drive using the <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=307' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}