Dust inside the Zip disks or dirty heads caused by oxide build-up could misalign the heads, but in newer devices it was due to poor quality control and manufacturing defects in the drive itself.

* Dust: miniaturised devices without direct HCI interfaces, e. g., Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems ( MEMS ), ranging from nanometres through micrometers to millimetres.

, and larger " COTS Dust " devices kicked off the TinyOS effort at Berkeley.

While humans cannot see Dust without the use of outside devices, creatures such as the mulefa are able to see dust with their own eyes.

Dust accumulation caused by static cling is a significant issue for computers and other electronic devices with heat generating components that need to be cooled by airflow.

Dust kicked up by the winds of the parent thunderstorm, heavy rain and hail, and the darkness of night are all factors which can reduce the visibility of tornadoes.

Dust is one sort of aerosol which can easily be seen

Dust devils are usually harmless, but can on rare occasions grow large enough to pose a threat to both people and property.

Dust devils, even small ones ( on Earth ), can produce radio noise and electrical fields greater than 10, 000 volts per meter.

Dust on the brakes may also cause squeal ; there are many commercial brake cleaning products that can be used to remove dust and contaminants.

Dust storms can carry large amounts of dust, with the leading edge being composed of solid wall of dust as much as high.

Dust can also have beneficial effects where it deposits: Central and South American rain forests get most of their mineral nutrients from the Sahara ; iron-poor ocean regions get iron ; and dust in Hawaii increases plantain growth.

These can be seen in the documentary movie Dust to Glory.

Dust masks can be worn to reduce inhalation of ash and mitigate against any respiratory health affects.

Dust can serve as food to grow molds on the wet coils and ducts and can reduce the efficiency of the coils.

Inspired by a series of unsolved murders in Namibia, this short was unfinished but footage can be viewed on the Subversive Cinema DVD release of the feature Dust Devil.

Dust can be removed with a vacuum cleaner, gas duster or compressed air.

Dust in the core can be linked to increased desert area or wind speed.

Dust mites can trigger asthma, eczema, and allergies in people sensitive to them.

* Dust ( Sooraya Qadir )-A shy girl from Afghanistan who can turn herself into a living whirlwind of dust.

Bester returns to Babylon 5 to track down a dealer of Dust, an illegal psychotropic drug that can be used as a weapon.

In August 2011, Pullman gave an interview to the magazine " Qué Leer " and said, that The Book of Dust will take " a couple more years before you can read it ".

Dust can also be controlled through dry air filtering.

As Hepzibah, Warpath, Bishop, and the student Nezhno fight the Sentinels, Dust appears and Cyclops orders her to enter the Sentinels to find out what is going on and stop it if she can.

Dust can transform herself into an explosive cloud of sand-like silicon particles and maintain control of her sand form.

By using graveyard dirt from a loved one of the practitioner, along with salt and pepper and other ingredients, the normally offensive functions of Goofer Dust become protective functions ( it also can be made protective by having it blessed by a Voodoo Priest with holy water as this creates a contradiction with the fact that the spirits in the graveyard dirt cannot cross running water, expelling them ).

Dust, pollen, pet dander, mold spores, and dust mite feces can act as allergens, triggering allergies in sensitive people.

Dust buildup between the metal fins of a heat sink gradually reduces efficiency, but can be countered with a gas duster by blowing away the dust along with any other unwanted excess material.

Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads ( 1940 ) is considered to be the first concept album.

As of 25 July 2010, the only known track name for the 7th album is " Rock Dust Light Star " which has been performed live and confirmed by Kay himself to be on the new album.

DJ Dr. Dust along with his DJ partner and cousin DJ Duran from the Bronx are considered to be the first Dominican DJs in Hip-Hop ( documented in The BX Factor magazine in 1996 ).

The album, titled Gold Dust, will be released in October 2012 through Deutsche Grammophon.

After attending a Queen concert in Los Angeles, Michael Jackson suggested to Mercury backstage that " Another One Bites the Dust " be released as a single, and in October 1980 it spent three weeks at number one.

Dust that forms a faint reflection nebulosity around the brightest stars was thought at first to be left over from the formation of the cluster ( hence the alternate name Maia Nebula after the star Maia ), but is now known to be an unrelated dust cloud in the interstellar medium that the stars are currently passing through.

No matter the distance, the Dust Bowl caused the proportion between migrants and residents to be nearly equal in the Great Plains states due to the high number of families which left their farms.

This picture captured the horrors of the Dust Bowl and caused more people to be aware of the crisis of the country.

Dust and debris could extend out to Rhea's Hill sphere, but were thought to be denser nearer the moon, with three narrow rings of higher density.

The cigarette turned out to be holding a lethal dose of the Skull's favorite poison, the Dust of Death, intended for Rogers-but the trap backfired against Schmidt when Walker suddenly hit him from behind with his shield.

Angel Dust is widely considered to be one of the most influential albums of the 90's.

Dust in homes, offices, and other human environments contains small amounts of plant pollen, human and animal hairs, textile fibers, paper fibers, minerals from outdoor soil, human skin cells, burnt meteorite particles and many other materials which may be found in the local environment.

Dust in such places may be suppressed by mechanical methods, including paving or laying down gravel, or stabilizing the surface with water, vegetable oils or other dust suppressants, or by using water misters to suppress dust that is already airborne.

In Look to Windward, the terror weapon ( which may or may not be a Culture citizen, but is apparently sentient ) is a nanoform entity formed of EDust, or Everything Dust.

A 2005 article by Paul Tingen about The Dust Brothers reveals that " most of the samples used on Paul's Boutique were cleared, easily and affordably, something that [...] would be ' unthinkable ' in today's litigious music industry.

Dust mite allergens are thought to be among the heaviest dust allergens.

The band's fifth album, Unsound is to be released on Fire Records on July 9, 2012, preceded by the single " Dust Devil "