Most Dangerous Object: Hitachi Spline-Shank Rotary Hammer

Earthlink DSL strives for 90% Uptime
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This graph shows the reliability of my Earthlink DSL line over the last couple of weeks. Every 20 seconds a script checks for access to the outside world, and records the status. I’ve aggregated the data here into hourly chunks, showing the % of time that the line is connected. As we see, Earthlink is hovering around that fabled "one-nine" level of reliability.

At least I’ve gotten to meet a number of nice and fairly robotic Indian tech support personnel over the last couple of weeks.

Most Dangerous Object: Hitachi Spline-Shank Rotary Hammer
With this device and its 5.9 foot-pounds of impact, you’ll never have trouble putting a hole in the wall again.
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Most Dangerous Object: Hitachi Spline-Shank Rotary Hammer
With this device and its 5.9 foot-pounds of impact, you’ll never have trouble putting a hole in the wall again.
Read more on Wired News

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