{"id":3172,"date":"2005-04-04T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T09:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ibm-shock-control.html"},"modified":"2005-04-04T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T09:17:24","slug":"ibm-shock-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/ibm-shock-control.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM Shock Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">I have an IBM T42p laptop and it comes with a shock protection program. I wasn&#8217;t sure why I needed such a utility as it is yet another application that takes memory and slows down my computer. I was on a bumpy flight to <city w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">San Jose<\/place><\/city> ysterday and I opened the application during turbulence to see what the program did. The application is called IBM Active Protection System and you can click on the Real-Time Status tab to see the laptop visibly shaking in a window. You can even see when the program pauses the hard drive. This is necessary as a write or read coinciding with a sufficiently large bump could damage the disk or the data on residing on it. I don&#8217;t know if other laptop vendors have such a utility and I have never lost data that I am aware due to a shock. Sill, there is an increased comfort level knowing there is a hard disk guardian angel under the keyboard keeping an eye on things as I type.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an IBM T42p laptop and it comes with a shock protection program. I wasn&#8217;t sure why I needed such a utility as it is yet another application that takes memory and slows down my computer. I was on a bumpy flight to San Jose ysterday and I opened the application during turbulence to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}