On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 17:31:23 -0700 Jos Laake <jos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Malcolm Baldridge wrote: > > > In contrast, my IDE drives have failed abruptly and without warning, many > > times before the warranty was expired. I have a bucket of such drives, > > which I intend to take the platters out to make attractive and very smooth > > drinks coasters. > > Those platters also make fine wind chimes, although it's > better to use several drives of different sizes as all those > precisely machined platters from the same drive play exactly > the same note. ;-) My favorite use was by an old client of mine. He'd take all the dead hardware up to a camp and blow the holy hell out of it with all different sorts of firearms. I have a drive here that he gave me that was shot with a .357 Magnum. It has a very neatly punched hole right through the platters! I keep it on my desk as a warning to the rest of the hardware. -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa