OT: RE: Collecting, Hacking and the Spooks (was: Gulf War,

Bryan Pope wrote: Only one problem with that approach - isn't ethanol, er... highly flammable? i.e. if it gets spilt on the CPU, said CPU goes up in flames along with the methanol cooler and pretty much everything else in the system case... Speaking of naffed up PCs, I was given a Celeron 400 box to play with. The CD ROM was (supposedly) dead. And rattling - uh-oh... Opened up the drive and found out that some in-DUH-vidual put a badly cracked CD in there. The CDROM was a 48x. Can you guess what happened to the CD when the drive got up to speed? That's right. It shattered. I spent 25 minutes picking bits of CD out of the mechanism. And then I powered it up again. And it came up to speed and read a CD fine. Guess that says something about Samsung CD drives then... Unfortunately, the other Samsung 48x drive I was given really was dead - the spindle motor bearings seized up... Later. -- Phil. philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/