A while ago, I wrote about loops of dental floss in a blog entry. Flossloops, a company that sells loops for flossing, has a product that I thought would be worth trying. I found it being sold on eBay recently, and I bought two packages of each of the three flavors — Cherry Berry, Mint, and Very Berry. I tried them last night and found they are extremely elastic, like rubber bands, and consequently, are not as easy to use as loops of normal (non-elastic) dental floss. I broke one while using it under tension in my mouth. My biggest issue with them is they don't fit between my teeth very well, in part because my teeth are very close together. Another minor shortcomming is the flavor not being very noticeable. I don't recommend the product.
This morning at around 5:25 A.M., Dave sent me a message that he couldn't reach my website. It was up, since I could reach it on the LAN, but when I logged into a machine a Stanford, I was not able to ping www.anderoid.com. It turned out that our IP address, which as been constant for the last couple years or so, changed yesterday around 4:30 P.M.
They agreed to provide us with a static address a couple years back. I hope it won't change again any time soon.
We initially bought three Western Digital 120 GB PATA IDE drives for the Linux machine, and one of them failed after a few months, so we bought a couple Western Digital 120 GB SATA drives of the same size to add redundancy. One of them died several months ago, and another of them (or the replacement) died last month. They were all under warranty fortunately, so we replaced them for only the cost of shipping. Instead of giving us a new 120 GB drive, they provided a 160 GB.
Needless to say, I've been disappointed with the reliability of these Western Digital drives.