From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 31 23: 8:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 551D21516C for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:08:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA53697; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:07:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:07:46 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199904010707.XAA53697@apollo.backplane.com> To: Darren Reed Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, mladavac@metropolitan.at, rb@gid.co.uk, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: another ufs panic.. References: <199904010648.QAA09525@cheops.anu.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> :> Maybe you should consider taking an Axe to that equipment. With it :> powered on. : :Funny, NOT. Makes me wonder more about the integrity, in general, of :running "high performance" h/w on pc's. I'm sure we all just *love* :how power cables and disk cables are almost always close together. : :oh, I get it now, it's an APril fools day thing. : :Darren *plus* be sure to feed it. A nice glob of boiling salted molasses poured on the motherboard while at the same time smashing it with the aformentioned axe. While powered on. Be sure to use rubber gloves and remember, you always get better results when you jumper your breaker box to avoid untimely shutdowns during this phase of debugging. Next week: The best ways to smoke a computer with an Arc Welder. Matt's top 5 picks! And, as a bonus from the archives and old reader favorite, Matt's 1986 article entitled "how to build a highly directional medium-range wave-guided EMP generator for less then five hundred thousand dollars". -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message