My iPhone 4S battery replacement experience

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After one year of service the battery of my iPhone 4S started to show signs of weakness. When I used the data connection or the GPS more than usual, the device often ran out of power before the end of the day. I worked around the issue by disabled I few things including the Bluetooth and even the Wi-Fi. My cellular plan includes enough data per month and the 3G network is fast enough in Paris that I could update apps and download podcasts painlessly via 3G.

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Connecting a table football table to the Internet of Things

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This is my first Arduino project. The idea is to make possibly the first tweeting table football table to join the Internet of Things. You see the table at my company is in the kitchen that is in an annex of the office. The goal (pun intended) was to publish the availability of the table to potentially interested players.

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RAID 1 vs data corruption

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I am completely paranoid about backing up my data. I have a NAS server with a pair of hard drives in a RAID 1 array. I use software RAID to be independent of the hardware and I monitor the SMART reports of my drives regularly. So I thought that I was doing everything right and therefore that my NAS was bulletproof. But with three of my drives failing in the past 5 months, I started to question that assumption. So far I have been lucky that I never had two drives fail at the same time. I knew this was a risk but it seemed very unlikely. Now I am not so sure.

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