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Subject: Re: [9fans] kernels
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 07:55:21 +0000
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> I had all kinds of creative ways of disposing of these boards when they
> fried. My favorite was to take an 8" long piece of railroad rail I had
> (approx weight 25 lbs) and do a competition: if the L440GX+ was dropped on
> the rail, or the rail was dropped on the l440GX+, who won? Also, of
> course, angle of entry of the rail could be investigated, as could drop
> height, ... the possibilities were endless.

i took a similar approach with travelstars, latterly preemptively, but i'd got
nothing as classy as that for the test drops.

just a moment: was that the original inspiration for ruby on rails?