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Taking Care of Your Hard Disk Taking care of your hard disk is important because this is the place where all the data is stored and once the hard disk crashes, data in most cases is not recoverable. There are data recovery software and programs which recover data from crashed hard disks but that is not for normal computer users. But why do hard disks crash and what can be done to prevent them from crashing?. At the same time how can a hard disk be made more efficient? Here are the answers. Hard disks crash due to many reasons. Voltage fluctuations, physical impact, improper alignment and of course mechanical failure due to wear and tear of internal parts. Let us start one by one and get the answers to the above problems. Voltage fluctuations or spikes as they are called can be prevented by using voltage stabilizers or spike guards. This will limit the damage to the hard disk to a great extent. Physical impact can be prevented by handling the hard disk carefully when installing/ ...

Taking Care of the Troops The State Department Way Back in March, I posted a first person account of an FSO in Mexico amidst that countrys shooting war. (see US Mission Mexico: First Person from a Border Post ). I also did a follow-up post, In a War That Must Not Be Named, Leadership and Security On the Line.  This is what I wrote then: I supposed we may think of life in the Service as if it were a scale -- the national strategic and security priorities on one side and on the other side, the acceptable personal risk of the employees.   But not everyone will get to look at that scale. And not everyone will get to make the judgment call.  Employees do not get to vote, diplomatic missions are not democracies. That might as well apply to the mothership of diplomatic missions. Thirty-two years ago, our diplomats were taken hostage in Iran. Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr. who served as an economic and commercial officer in the U.S. embassy in Iran during the hostage cri...