Green Tea Cleans Hard Drive Heads

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Green Tea Cleans Hard Drive Heads

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 1, 2004 @02:11AM from the heloise's-pc-found-to-be-spotless dept.

mprindle writes "Wired.com has an article announcing that a 'study of the use of green tea extracts for polishing the magnetic heads in hard-disk drives has yielded a compound that works three to four times faster than conventional compounds. If the findings can be reproduced in an industrial setting, the compound could reduce the cost and environmental impact of hard-drive manufacturing.' And you just thought that green tea was good to drink."

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Green Tea by Jane_Dozey · 2004-05-01 02:13 · Score: 5, Funny

I always knew green tea was meant for something other than drinking.
It's nasty stuff.

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1. Re:Green Tea by Pig+Hogger · 2004-05-01 02:26 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Go to China, sit in a cafe in a bamboo forest next to a stream and have a glass of green tea. The tranquility of that is something I'm sure I'll remember for some time :-)
  And then have the party ruined by the communist party goons who raid the joint because someone logged-on Slashdot...
Sssssshhhh! by TiMac · 2004-05-01 02:14 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't let this get too publicized or all those office morons (the ones of tech support legend: CD Tray==Cupholder, etc) might start pouring their morning tea on the computer after a crash.
This could only prompt me to ask them: One Lump or Two? [WHACK WHACK]

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1. Re:Sssssshhhh! by mst76 · 2004-05-01 02:28 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  > This could only prompt me to ask them: One Lump or Two?
  
  Side note: Chinese and Japanese don't drink tea with sugar.
2. Re:Sssssshhhh! by drinkypoo · 2004-05-01 02:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  You have it backwards. Publicize the shit out of this, so people start pouring their morning tea in their computer - and thus my job security is guaranteed.
  
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  "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
3. Re:Sssssshhhh! by sw155kn1f3 · 2004-05-01 03:01 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I, personally use and recommend Linux products for the same job security reason.
  
  Don't underestimate what your boss can do when you deploy few custom openldap schemes here and there, few not so obvious backups that wipe data entirely if the you didn't give the special sequence on the other hand of pipe.
  
  Ah.. not enough... few perl scripts I do can do even better.
  
  Yes, I'm BOFH, muahaha :)
  
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  - Well, you're just Smith, but my father is Aerosmith!
Not in my opinion. by Slayk · 2004-05-01 02:14 · Score: 5, Funny

And you just thought that green tea was good to drink.

No, not really.
1. Re:Not in my opinion. by nizo · 2004-05-01 07:01 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Actually I always thought it was pretty good when added to the big pile of sugar already in my cup.
  
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Green Tea Cleaner... by zaba · 2004-05-01 02:14 · Score: 5, Funny

And here I thought green tea was only to clean your...uh... "internal soft drives"...
1. Re:Green Tea Cleaner... by DrLZRDMN · 2004-05-01 02:25 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  off topic but A friend of mine claims that xbox is a computer and gamecube isn't. He mentioned the hard drive so I told him that a hard drive is not nessecary for somehting to be considered a computer so he says "A computer must have a hard drive and a soft drive" I spat green tea all over laughing.
green tea? by gusmao · 2004-05-01 02:15 · Score: 5, Funny

If green tea is all that good, just imagine when they try beer!
So? by Limecron · 2004-05-01 02:17 · Score: 5, Funny

What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?!

Oh... umm... Nevermind.
Wrong date! by rcotran · 2004-05-01 02:18 · Score: 2, Funny

Aren't these stories supposed to be for *April* 1st? :)
Re:Wikipedia on green tea by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-01 02:19 · Score: 5, Funny

Wikipedia on karma whoring

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_whoring
They should try hemp by lildogie · 2004-05-01 02:25 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, hemp, it's good for "heads."
this is what happens when by dncsky1530 · 2004-05-01 02:28 · Score: 2, Funny

computer repair people drink tea.
Well! by SeaDour · 2004-05-01 02:30 · Score: 2, Funny

Next thing you know, they'll be telling us green tea is good for your HEALTH, too.
Imagine what it does to your insides! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-01 02:33 · Score: 4, Funny

mouth-clean
throat- clean
digestive tract - clean
nasal cavity - clean if not swallowed properly.
teeth - green.
old news by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-01 02:34 · Score: 3, Funny

they have bee cleaning hard drives in china with green tea for a thousand years...
1. Re:old news by JamieF · 2004-05-01 04:07 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Thank goodness. I was really getting tired of finding that people had written "WASH ME" in the pollen that's all over my bees.
  
  I'm curious to see how a hard drive can clean a bee, though.
My BS meter just tripped by 99Percent · 2004-05-01 02:35 · Score: 2, Funny

I think this is a joke, some kind of May Fools day.
for best results, use... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-01 02:38 · Score: 1, Funny

Temple of Heaven brand china green tea "Special Gunpowder". Best way to make sure RIAA or FBI can't get your data! Good taste too! You drink now!
hello, China? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-01 02:42 · Score: 3, Funny

Thats right... All the tea!

(family guy, for the ones without humor)
Re:Wikipedia on green tea by drinkypoo · 2004-05-01 02:50 · Score: 1, Funny

Please, next time don't post as an AC. I want to add you to my friends list.

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"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Now we can have a HDD Cleaning Ceremony by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-01 02:59 · Score: 1, Funny

And charge a fortune for the privilege!

Of course one will have to be trained in the art of HDD Cleaning Ceremony by being taken on as an apprentice.

Oh HDD-Cleaning-Master san, when can I clean my own HDDs?

First you must learn the art of Master and Slave settings only then can you learn the art of HDD Cleaning.
Doesn't green tea have antiviral properties? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-01 03:04 · Score: 3, Funny

That could really help with hard drives.
regular or decaf? by whovian · 2004-05-01 03:06 · Score: 3, Funny

Does regular or decaffeinated matter?

On a humorous note, will caffeinated green tea make the hard drive faster?

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Sleep mode? by 2.246.1010.78 · 2004-05-01 03:09 · Score: 2, Funny

But wouldn't the teeine prevent the hd from going into sleep mode?
This is old news by Spatula+Sam · 2004-05-01 03:12 · Score: 2, Funny

but I've found that I can actually get better results by soaking my hard drive overnight in coca-cola.
Re:Wikipedia on green tea by JeanPaulBob · 2004-05-01 03:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Please, next time don't post as an AC. I want to add you to my friends list.

OK. This is really me again, not some karma-whoring credit-stealing bastard.

Really.
Totally organic experience by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-01 04:28 · Score: 1, Funny

I use green tea extracts for washing my head all the time!
Re:Doh! by slickwillie · 2004-05-01 04:49 · Score: 2, Funny

I should have RTFA first.
Oh, great. by MajorG17 · 2004-05-01 04:50 · Score: 2, Funny

Now they'll come out with a whole line of holistic tech support.

"Coming Soon -- a new Ginko Biloba extract to double your RAM!"
Reading and tea leaves by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-01 05:35 · Score: 1, Funny

Does this mean we can do away with the hard drive SMART technology and read those tea leaves instead, to predict when the hard drive will fail?
green tea benefits for hardware heh by Man+in+Spandex · 2004-05-01 06:26 · Score: 1, Funny

Green tea has so much health benefits (we all know about it) so now the scientists decided "hey... we're out of compound, lets try green tea!" and HURRAY! it does wonders on hardware also. is there anything tea can't do?
Priceless... by atomic-penguin · 2004-05-01 07:15 · Score: 2, Funny

Forty Green Tea bags from local Dollar Store, $1.

Five or six large capacity hard drives, $1,000.

Recieving a $100,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the project, priceless...

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Beer doesn't work by Julien+Brub · 2004-05-01 08:19 · Score: 2, Funny

I accidentaly poured a complete beer in a laptop... yeah, those things appends. It was ruined... The beer poured in was cold, but it was hot when it came out... I guess it touched some hot part of the laptop...
I also droped my Palm in a coffee... but it still works. Thanks Ford my coffee was not too hot...

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Re:Doh! by Cornelius+Chesterfie · 2004-05-01 08:38 · Score: 2, Funny

"I should have RTFA first."

I won't have that kind of talk in here, young mister!