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Re: DOS all platforms
From: Matt Burnett <marukka () mac com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:01:59 -0600
I doubt that was true. First off to do that they would have written drivers for a specific drive. Also if you open up a hard drive youll see that the heads cant travel that far. On 1/24/03 3:01 PM, "Mark Renouf" <mark () tweakt net> wrote:
Exibar wrote:Causing Physical damage to equipment???? Good luck.... although way back when there was a program that would set the refresh rate on your monitor very very high and it could cause the monitor to die.... Doesn't happen anymore though :-)I also recall rumours of a virus in the ~1995 time frame which would cause overexcursion of the r/w heads in the hard drive, causing the heads to crash into the side of the drive. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
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- Re: DOS all platforms hicks (Jan 21)
- Re: DOS all platforms Exibar (Jan 22)
- Re: DOS all platforms Mark Renouf (Jan 23)
- RE: DOS all platforms Brent Colflesh (Jan 23)
- RE: DOS all platforms Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Jan 24)
- RE: DOS all platforms Shawn Nunley (Jan 24)
- Re: DOS all platforms Exibar (Jan 22)
- Re: DOS all platforms Matt Burnett (Jan 23)
- Re: DOS all platforms hicks (Jan 21)
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- RE: DOS all platforms James Lay (Jan 21)
- RE: DOS all platforms James . Cupps (Jan 23)
- Re: DOS all platforms Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: DOS all platforms Matt Burnett (Jan 23)
- Re: DOS all platforms Frank Knobbe (Jan 23)
- Re: DOS all platforms Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 23)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms Jonathan A. Zdziarski (Jan 24)
- Re: Re: DOS all platforms Valdis . Kletnieks (Jan 24)