From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 17 11:40:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F9914ED9 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:40:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id LAA01242; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:40:27 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA05059; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 11:40:26 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn0.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA29411; Wed, 17 Nov 99 11:40:24 PST Message-Id: <383304A8.EB0CE8F4@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:40:24 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: cjc26@cornell.edu Cc: Jay Nelson , chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Nick Hibma Subject: Re: Support for USB floppies like Y-E Data FlashBuster-u ? References: <38324B30.F0BF613D@softweyr.com> <19991117081442.B24471@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Cliff Crawford wrote: > > * Wes Peters menulis: > > Jay Nelson wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > > > > >Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > >> > > > >> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:56:21 +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > > > >> > > > >> > If you ask the 3 IDE disks and ethernet hub that have gone pop this > > > >> > weekend, they would say no, but myself I was pretty firm that I was > > > >> > going to do something about it this weekend. Bastard things, they should > > > >> > be shot and they will be. > > > >> > > > >> Be careful about shooting hard drives. Specifically, get your angle > > > >> right such that you _do_ actually fracture the casing. The alternatives > > > >> are all unfortunate and mostly painful. > > > >> > > > >> We wouldn't want you hurting yourself, no matter how funny the story > > > >> might be. :-) > > > > > > > >Most hard drives are made of aluminum, aren't they? Aluminum doesn't > > > >deflect bullets, at least not the kind I shoot. ;^) > > > > > > Wad cutters or .22s might be a problem;) > > > > Neither of them seem to fit in my .308 rifle. Even the spindle that Phil > > Regnauld mentioned isn't going to do much of anything to a 180-grain > > full metal jacket bullet travelling at 2,400 fps; these rounds go straight > > through hardened steel padlocks. > > > > You should see what they do to 14" Fujitsu Eagle drives. Or old VT100s. > > Or jackrabbits. > > Or co-workers. Careful, you could get thrown out of any high school in the USA for writing that. Here, you just get a good laugh or two. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message