From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 9 09:10:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6870106568D for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:10:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from soralx@cydem.org) Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca [64.59.134.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BBE38FC1C for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:10:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pd6ml1no-ssvc.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.153.160]) by pd5mo1no-svcs.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 09 Oct 2009 03:10:52 -0600 X-Cloudmark-SP-Filtered: true X-Cloudmark-SP-Result: v=1.0 c=1 a=GsrDnNNj_KkA:10 a=0S1XfAVaquWMAfU7ho/htg==:17 a=dn9yiIkwJ5xdUOpwuqYA:9 a=Gp5-ulNvvMO_MmnN-CBUyZjMEOcA:4 Received: from unknown (HELO cydem.org) ([24.87.3.133]) by pd6ml1no-dmz.prod.shaw.ca with ESMTP; 09 Oct 2009 03:10:52 -0600 Received: from soralx (soralx [192.168.0.240]) by cydem.org (Postfix/FreeBSD) with ESMTP id 6B63B7F2B5; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:10:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 02:10:44 -0700 From: To: Message-ID: <20091009021044.44f46591@soralx> In-Reply-To: <4ACE9098.3040602@comcast.net> References: <4ACC7CE0.8070801@comcast.net> <4ACE5B3B.2050902@daleco.biz> <4ACE9098.3040602@comcast.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i386-portbld-freebsd7.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: GedankeZauberer@comcast.net Subject: Re: FreeBSD text based games - Dungeoncrawl - My test box X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:10:53 -0000 > Now, this thing turned out not to be a virus at all. Instead, it turned > into the ONLY ONLY ONLY .exe I've EVER come across that does PHYSICAL > damage to a machine.... I'm in no way kidding. > > I saw what I had done fast.... I had went to close the window and > accidentally double clicked on it instead and instantly hit for the > power switch to shut the machine off.... It was to late though. I saw a > DOS Prompt come up saying something or other, and when I turned the > machine back on, it wouldn't even boot. > > This machine ran Windows 95, had a lot of MP3s, and some movies and > pics. When that happened, I couldn't even get Windows 3.1 to install. > > A friend and I worked on it all the time, and I was shocked. I couldn't > do anything.... I managed to install PC-DOS on this thing, and then when > I tried to install Windows 3.1, it said the drive wasn't big enough! > > I the next day, went and bought my first paidfor computer, and used it > insted which I still have, but the fact that later in life when I > started using Linux, about a year later, I tried again to install Linux > on the drive that thing killed. > > Linux wouldn't install either, it said the drive was screwed up and > couldn't even fix it except for a small DOS partition which was like, a > few MBs. could it be that the program simply changed disk geometry in BIOS to something small, and you did not notice? [SorAlx] ridin' VN2000 Classic LT