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Establishing the Maximum Speed of a CD-ROM Drive
UnknownSoldier writes "Ever wondered how fast CD-ROM drives can spin their CDs before the CD will self destruct due to centrifugal force? This person was too, and has his results. (So much for those 100x drives)."
Will the next computer snake oilish product be 'cd glue' to prevent you cds from falling apart, citing this paper? :)
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you could spin *both* the disc and the reading head (in opposite directions).
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python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
I only use my CD-ROM to 1) reinstall the system and 2) to play music. A 32x CD-ROM is plenty fast to accomplish both of these tasks.
I only use my CD-ROM reader to play MP3 CD-R. Where can I get a 0.1x drive?
My next GPLed project will involve CD-ROMs spining at 99x, and sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads.
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So this guy links to Google-Canada? What a friggin canadian nationalist.
something more exact then a laser reading pits and grooves burned into plastic that are invisible to the human eye? Pft...why would CONSUMERS have access to such technology.
I don't know ... you don't happen to teach shop class and have only 7 fingers do you?
Karma? Karma? I don't need no stinkin' karma.
What they need to do is put miniature black holes in the center of the spindle to cancel out some of the centrifugal force. Also, you could let the black hole out of the CD-ROM drive when you weren't using it and it would clean your room for you!
I bet you're the guy with a queue forming behind him at the computer store, arguing the fact that your 17" monitor is only 16" when measured diagonally, too :)
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thank you for posting that lovely story. I find the thought of eating another man's shit to be disgusting, though.
However, I enjoy eating out my girlfriend's asshole, and she enjoys it, too. She especially likes when I shoot my hot load of cum up her poop-chute and then suck it back out again. Sometimes, she sucks me off, then spits it back up *my* asshole - a move we learned right here.
Rob & Kathleen.
A use for all those AOL CD's that I have.
Cause after a while you have enough coasters.
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There was a noise from the next office like toast popping, and Steve the senior consultant yelled in terror. "Has your toast popped?" I shouted? "Someone just tried to shoot me!" he replied. I walked into his office to see the occupants crowded around an open CD-ROM drive with the shattered remains of about half a CD in it. As we watched, the drive attempted to shut itself, made it about half way, and then opened again. It repeated this process about twice a minute, shutting a little more completely each time. Eventually it fully closed itself, though it is still opening and shutting regularly. We didn't find the other half of the CD (at least some of it is presumably still in the drive and is what was preventing it from closing) but we did find the front flap of the CD-ROM drive under Steve's desk, where it had fallen having been blown clear across the room, past his head, and colliding with his notice-board.
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Seems to me that this would be an excellent way to ensure that your data is permenantly deleted...
*Condense fact from the vapor of nuance*
Did anyone notice that all the disks they destroyed except two were Corel products? Mostly CorelDRAW.
Now I've used CorelDRAW and I must say it's painful to use. So I fully understand wanting to destroy it.
But remember, Corel was an early Linux supporter, so I wonder if we should support such elaborate (one might say obsessive) distructive impulses directed against them!
Make all discs out of Kevlar, the we can go out and buy 32767x drives. And be cut in half by flying CD every now and then.
What cd-roms really need is an eject button which doesnt write home to it's manufacturer (at book rates) for permission to eject a damned disc!
How frustrating it is to push an eject button and watch a device deliberate for several seconds over SOMETHING before ejecting it's cargo!
Basically, that button means "Your work here is done", so give me the disc, OK??
...although there is fragmentation of CD-ROMs as they are spun faster and faster...
In your last sentence, you forgot to put "matters," "that," "survive" and "during" in all caps.