[geeks] Christmas bonus

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 06:06:42PM -0600, Kurt Huhn wrote:

> I stuffed a jack adapter into the PSU port, ran a couple copper leads 
> off of it, and touched a wire welder to the leads.  Some magic smoke 
> did escape, but no visible damage...
> 
> And to be sure things were truly broken, I rapped smartly on the hard 
> drive with a rubber mallet.

You know the new ultra thin 2.5" harddrives in today's notebooks (like
from the past 3-4 years)?  I bet a good squeeze while running would be
enough to cause a head crash.  

And if not, I've found (accidently) that HDs seem to be particularly to
improperly connected power.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd