Ubuntu hardware diagnostics

10Apr10

They’re surprisingly good!

When I boot up this laptop I get a warning saying something “Your battery capacity is low (41%). It may be old or broken. Blah blah blah.” How nice!

But far more impressive was the hard disk warning. (It’s nice to be forewarned of impeding doom…) You get a little icon in the notification area with a hard disk and a warning symbol. Clicking it gives you something like this:

Then “More information” gives you this:

I’ve never seen a more friendly way of finding out everything’s about to go a bit wrong. Luckily my new hard drive arrived yesterday.

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