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Memory Card Torture Tests

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

saikatguha266 writes "BBC is reporting that five types of memory cards were dipped into cola, put through a washing machine, dunked in coffee, trampled by a skateboard, run over by a child's toy car, given to a six-year-old boy to destroy, smashed by a sledgehammer and nailed to a tree. It was still possible to retrieve photos from the xD and Smartmedia cards while the others didn't survive just the last two tests. "

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  1. Re:Miss the old green slashdot? by FiReaNGeL · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wow thanks!

    Any way to put it back to this theme by default? The other color is.... yuck :|

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  2. Re:Miss the old green slashdot? by Shai-kun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now what is all this talk of new color schemes about? I still have the plain old dark green and gray scheme.

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  3. Re:Miss the old green slashdot? by Tore+S+B · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Well, as This post suggests, just put the following into your squidgard config file
    rew slashdot {
    s@it.slashdot.org@slashdot.org@
    }
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    toresbe
  4. Re:Miss the old green slashdot? by iantri · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    If you access links to the headlines through RSS (Opera, AFAIK Mozilla sidebar), all the links point to slashdot.org/storyurl instead of section.slashdot.org/storyurl.

    This results in Slashdot's usual poor, but passable green colour scheme.

  5. Squidgard? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, right, my squidgard config file...

    You know, I really don't think I'm going to bother setting up a proxy server just so I can correct the egregious aesthetic miscalculations of Taco and company.

    Is there a CSS answer?

    1. Re:Squidgard? by Tore+S+B · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, I and the poster I was shamelessly stealing from, assumed that you already have a proxy server (The network I'm on, a Skolelinux system (I'm a translator/tester) uses a proxy on the gateway)
      Other uses for the HTTP proxy is apt-get caches and so on.

      I completely agree that there is no point in setting up a proxy for this purpose.

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  6. Re:Miss the old green slashdot? by SirDaShadow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a way to override the colors and styles by using a css and switching to that alternate style on Mozilla Firefox? If so, how do you do it?