5 Aug
2006
5 Aug
'06
10:38 a.m.
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I've been a tech for coming up on four decades
now, most of that
time having
my hands inside of the hardware of one sort or
another, and the earlier
stuff had vacuum tubes in it, on up to current technology.
And I've *never* seen anything like what you describe here, or heard of such
a thing either.
You think YOU are suprised? Well, if you were to have open up a system
to find the CPU in fragments, and between the fragments be a dust
material of a similar composition as the CPU, I am pretty sure you would
have been shocked and declared it disintegration.
No it couldn't be from electrical overload -- it had sat for a year
without being used or pluggred in before this happened...
When it did work, though, I used to use it to play Zork II and
Planetfall... ohh, and some 8k Missile Command clone. I also imaged out
a Arkanoid disk (duct tape over the floppy HD hole, anyone? Instant 800k
disk!)
--
The real problem with C++ for kernel modules is: the language just sucks.
-- Linus Torvalds